Gallery Opens Student-Curated Show “Embodied”
February 27, 2011
The news Exhibition "Embodied: Black identities in American Art," is part of an ongoing series of student- curated exhibitions with the help of the David C. Driskell Center.
The news Exhibition "Embodied: Black identities in American Art," is part of an ongoing series of student- curated exhibitions with the help of the David C. Driskell Center.
By Katerina Karatzia, Yale Daily News
Student-organized art exhibitions are not the norm at the Yale University Art Gallery, but a rare one did open there this past Friday.
The gallery is currently hosting a new exhibition titled “Embodied: Black identities in American Art,” the result of a collaborative curatorial effort with the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park. The show is part of an ongoing series of student-curated exhibitions — a five-year-old effort that is part of the gallery’s educational program. A team of six students — three from each university — worked to develop the show, which first opened in September at Driskell.
Pamela Franks, the deputy director for collections and education at the gallery, said the themes for such student-curated exhibitions are selected after the permanent curators determine which areas of the gallery’s collections are “particularly rich and asking to be shown.”The current exhibition is centered around the representation of African-American culture in art and includes a variety of media such as painting, photography and sculpture.
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