“Bearing Witness” presented by 2009-2010’s Exhibition Development Seminar

During my sophomore year, I was in the Exhibition Development Seminar for two semesters at MICA. I was part of the curatorial team in a class full of many talented, smart and dedicated students. As a team, we developed a 7 venue city wide exhibition in Baltimore showcasing the most important works by artist couple Bradley Mccallum and Jacqueline Tarry. To learn more about their work, please visit http://www.mccallumtarry.com/. Check out our class site for more info here.

Press:

MICA Press Release 

Washington Post Review on “Bearing Witness”

Baltimore Sun

Maryland Morning show

The Marc Steiner Show

Explorehoward.com

What’s Up Annapolis?

More pictures of the exhibition 

Review by the City Paper Baltimore  9/22/10

Best Big Show  Bearing Witness                                                                            ”For his contribution to the Contemporary Museum’s Project 20 series, the museum’s founding director George Ciscle, now the curator-in-residence at MICA, suggested the undergraduate Exhibition Development Seminar that has been responsible for some of the more enervating local exhibitions in recent years. And with MICA art history, theory, and criticism faculty member Jennie Hirsh as the EDS instructor, a group of 18 undergraduates and seven professional mentors coordinated a sprawling, head-spinning exhibition of the mixed-media/installation work of husband and wife duo Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry involving five local institutions. McCallum and Tarry’s work dives straight into the heart of race, identity, and economic disparity with a deeply personal component, and spreading the work around Baltimore—no stranger to those issues—made for an acutely resonant poignancy.”

Myself and artist Jacqueline Tarry at the opening of Bearing Witness, Contemporary Museum May 7th, 2010.Opening night, May 7th, 2010 at the Contemporary Museum