Since 2008, I’ve hosted a series of talks at Rutgers University Camden Campus called Finding Your Voice. The talks are an inspirational series of informal presentations by young professionals about keeping a sense of purpose, creativity and committed integrity in today’s work environment. This year’s talks include Troy Herion (experimental musician), Kate Kraczon (Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art),Jason Musson (visual and perfromance artist) and Nato Thompson (Curator at Creative Time).
The first talk this year is by Kate Kraczon, Assistant Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. She will discuss her past and future projects at the Institute of Contemporary Art, where she has worked since August 2008. She is currently co-curating First Among Equals (spring 2012), a group exhibition that considers the various platforms that contemporary artists use to extend their individual practices and to work with their peers, and is a receiving curator for Jeremy Deller: Joy in People, which will be on view at ICA in fall of 2012.
I hope you’ll join us. The event is free and lunch will be provided.
Here are the details:
Wednesday - February 2, 2012
12:15pm
Executive Dining Room
Rutgers Camden
FREE!
Find directions here.
Here’s more about Kate:
Kate Kraczon will discuss her past and future projects at the Institute of Contemporary Art, where she has worked since August 2008 after spending several years in the Curatorial Department at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. She is currently co-curating First Among Equals (spring 2012), a group exhibition that considers the various platforms that contemporary artists use to extend their individual practices and to work with their peers, and is a receiving curator for Jeremy Deller: Joy in People, which will be on view at ICA in fall of 2012. Recent curatorial projects include One is the loneliest number (spring 2011), featuring artist duos based in Philadelphia and elsewhere that work in a variety of media; Summer Studio with Anthony Campuzano, a month-long free art school and working artist’s studio in the ICA galleries (July 2010); Touch Sensitive: Anthony Campuzano (winter 2009), the first museum show of an artist whose work is largely text-based; Asking Not Telling (fall 2009), a video show presenting works that use the tropes of documentary filmmaking to capture, record, (re)record, and represent cultural memory; Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: A History (fall 2009) (receiving curator at ICA); and ICA’s annual Open Video Call, a juried exhibition of work by Philadelphia-area artists and filmmakers. Kraczon received a degree in English from Oberlin College and is currently enrolled in graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
