The Department of Craft/Material Studies presents a visiting speaker lecture by Rachael Arauz entitled “The Craft & Materials of Curatorial Thinking” on Wednesday, October 25 at 12:30 P.M. at the Institute for Contemporary Art’s auditorium (601 W Broad St, Richmond, VA 23220).
ABOUT THE SPEAKER–
M. Rachael Arauz is an independent curator of modern and contemporary art, with a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Pennsylvania. She has organized exhibitions and contributed to museum catalogues in the United States, Mexico, and Europe, on a wide variety of topics. She has also written about her museum experience as a “minority intern” in the 1990s, and served as juror and visiting critic for various organizations. Arauz was co-curator of the 2019 exhibition In the Vanguard: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1950-1969 for the Portland Museum of Art, Maine.