“Oh, you’re a curator too?” My friend’s comment caught me off guard. \u00a0I don’t find this activity unusual because I work in academia and there’s always another person in the building who is bringing in a visiting artist or putting together an exhibition. I don’t consider this to be\u00a0a separate part of my identity as an artist; it simply is an act of\u00a0learning and creating\u00a0another aspect of professional practice. Barring an extraordinarily full plate, I enjoy the challenge of curating-selecting and corresponding with artists, collaborating\u00a0with venues, a ton of organizing and scheduling, working with hard and soft deadlines, writing press releases, hunting down information, and, sometimes, writing catalog copy. It’s a funny combination of needing to be organized and simultaneously flexible. These are the task-based challenges. Conceptual development is another ball of wax-selecting a single thought\u00a0from\u00a0a sky full of idea-dirigibles can be even more daunting\u00a0than having half of your artists running behind deadline. That is still happening\u00a0and I am\u00a0following up on\u00a0each person’s status. One of the artists appropriately referred to this activity as ‘herding cats’.<\/p>\n
There are multiple ways to begin curating an exhibition-if you start with the idea, you can look for artists whose work fits the theme. If there are artists you want to exhibit, you can develop a concept that serves as an umbrella for the work. Should the venue be unique, you may select\u00a0work to fit with that gallery\/space’s mission or architecture. Once in a while you will ask artists to recommend other artists. Being invited to exhibit is a compliment, and I enjoy being complementary.<\/p>\n
The Elegant Statement<\/em> opens on\u00a0March 5th at Asheville Bookworks<\/a>\u00a0and runs through April 15th. I hope we’ll see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Oh, you’re a curator too?” My friend’s comment caught me off guard. \u00a0I don’t find this activity unusual because I work in academia and there’s always another person in the building who is bringing in a visiting artist or putting together an exhibition. I don’t consider this to be\u00a0a separate part of my identity as… Continue reading On Curating<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-process-thoughts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisabethpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisabethpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisabethpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisabethpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisabethpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lisabethpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/lisabethpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisabethpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisabethpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisabethpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}