2023 Curatorial Forum

Taylor Renee Aldridge is the visual arts curator and program manager at the California African American Museum (CAAM). 

Sheridan Tucker Anderson is a Chicago based, independent curator, art historian, and arts advocate.

Selam Beleke is Interim Director of Exhibitions, MoAD SF, San Francisco, CA.

Tyler Blackwell (he/him) is Curator of Contemporary Art at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, KY, where he recently organized a major new reinstallation of the contemporary art collection.

Kate Bowen is Executive Director of ACRE, Chicago, IL.

Laura Burkhalter is a Curator at Des Moines Art Center.

Antawan I. Byrd is the Weinberg Fellow at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.

Isabel Casso is the Assistant Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

Yi Cao is a curator, writer, and art administrator based in Chicago and Beijing.

Erin Christovale is a curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the cofounder of Black Radical Imagination.

Jadine Collingwood is Assistant Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Alison Coplan is Senior Curator and Head of Programs at Swiss Institute.

Emily Edwards is the Assistant Curator at Dallas Contemporary.

Georgia Erger is Associate Curator at the Frye Art Museum.

Taraneh Fazeli (she/her/they) is an Iranian-American curator and cultural organizer.

Currently the Director of the Neddy Artists Award at Cornish College of the Arts, Melissa E. Feldman is a Seattle-based independent curator and writer.

Pujan Gandhi is the Jane Emison Assistant Curator of South & Southeast Asian Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN.

Andrea R. Hanley is the chief curator at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Andria Hickey is Chief Curator at The Shed, New York.

Brian Holcombe is the curator at the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA.

Ashley Janke is the Assistant Curator at Wrightwood 659.

Jamillah James is Manilow Senior Curator at MCA, Chicago, IL.

Nolan Jimbo is the Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Stephanie Koch is a facilitator, curator, and writer based in St. Louis and Chicago.

Jared Ledesma is Curator of 20th-Century Art and Contemporary Art at the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA).

Lauren Leving is Curator at MoCA Cleveland, Cleveland, OH.

Emily Liebert is Curator of Contemporary Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.

Jova Lynne is Director, Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA.

Srimoyee Mitra is a curator and writer whose work is invested in building empathy and mutual respect by bringing together meaningful and diverse works of art and design.

Katie Pfohl is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Artist, writer and curator, JULIE POITRAS SANTOS’ site-specific practice includes video, installation, texts, and public projects.

Abigail Satinsky is Head of Public Programs at Tufts University Art Galleries, Boston, MA.

Stephanie Seidel is a curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami).

Adia Sykes is an arts organizer and curator based in Chicago.

Sally Tallant is the President and Executive Director of the Queens Museum, New York.

Asha Iman Veal is Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography.

Dr. Manuela Well-Off-Man is an art historian and chief curator at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Juana Williams is the Associate Curator of African-American Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Jasmine Wilson is an independent writer, curator, and scholar from Atlanta, GA.

Leslie M. Wilson is Associate Director for Academic Engagement and Research at the Art Institute of Chicago.