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Day Two Program: Tuesday, April 9, 2024
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Welcome
Christa Clarke
Organizer and Event Moderator
Independent Curator
Senior Advisor at the Center for Curatorial Leadership
Panel 3: Reframing African Art
(90 minutes)
Moderator
Julie Crooks
Art Gallery of Ontario
Panelists
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Andrea Achi
Mary and Michael Jaharis Associate Curator of Byzantine Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Perrin Lathrop
Assistant Curator of African Art
Princeton University Art Museum -
Ernestine White-Mifetu
Sills Foundation Curator of African Art
Brooklyn Museum
Break
Panel 4: Contemporary Artists in Dialogue with Collections
(90 minutes)
Moderator
Smooth Nzewi
The Steven and Lisa Tananbaum Curator
Department of Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art
Panelists
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Paul Davis
Curator of Collections
The Menil Collection -
Natasha Becker
Curator of African Art
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Henone Girma
Curator of the Arts of Global Africa
Newark Museum of Art
Panel 5: Conclusion … What’s Next for Museums?
(90 minutes)
Moderator
Christa Clarke
Organizer and Event Moderator
Panelists (panel moderators)
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Sarah Clunis
The Amistad Center for Art & Culture
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art -
Silvia Forni
UCLA Fowler Museum -
Julie Crooks
Art Gallery of Ontario -
Smooth Nzewi
Museum of Modern Art
Final Remarks
Tracy Fitzpatrick
Director
Neuberger Museum of Art
Dr. Susan R. Harris
This virtual convening is organized by Christa Clarke, an independent curator and consultant, for the Neuberger Museum of Art as part of the Museum’s 50th anniversary celebration.
Generous financial support for this event is provided by the Mellon Foundation and Dr. Susan R. Harris in honor of her late husband, Thomas Molnar, a collector of African art and a long-time docent at the Neuberger Museum of Art.