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Talking Exhibitions with Marnie Burke de Guzman, Marketing Specialist

Posted by Nicole Steinberg | May 20, 2013

“Exhibitions are some of the most dynamic ways of presenting art at this moment because they exist as open-ended platforms for engagement,” Marnie Burke de Guzman says. She distinguishes exhibitions from time-based performances that demand considerable, uninterrupted time for their consumption. In this video, the San Francisco-based marketing strategist points out how this “open-ended” experience—echoed by the non-linear way we generate and receive content in the digital realm—provides rich opportunities for marketing and audience engagement.

 

Marnie Burke de Guzman has more than 20 years of experience in strategic branding, marketing, user centered design, program and content development, and community relations for cultural organizations. She was the director of marketing and audience strategy for SFMoma and director of external affairs at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. She is a founding member of the steering committee of the Art Museum Marketing Association and a member of the executive committee of the board of directors at the Headlands Center for the Arts.

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Labels:  audience engagement  audiences  exhibitions  interview  marketing  marnie burke de guzman 

Center Rewind, 5/10/13

Posted by Jordan Shue | May 10, 2013

Boston ICA Chief Curator Helen Molesworth sits down with us to chat about co-authorship in the arts >
Philadelphia Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art Carlos Basualdo tosses a Braindrop our way > 
We get down to business with 1812 Productions’ “It’s My Party: The Women and Comedy Project” >

Image: 1812 Productions' It's My Party: The Women in Comedy Project. Pictured, from left to right: Melanie Cotton, Drucie McDaniel, Bi Jean Ngo, Cheryl Williams, Cathy Simpson, and Charlotte Ford.

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Braindrop: Carlos Basualdo

Posted by Peter Nesbett | May 6, 2013

"To be imagined: an exhibition that functions like a rendezvous--a meeting that is unexpected but becomes nonetheless revelatory, so that it is perceived by the members of the audience as happening exclusively for each of them, subjective, irreversible, and unrepeatable."

--Carlos Basualdo, writing in The Exhibitionist No. 7 (January 2013). 


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Helen Molesworth: On Authorship

Posted by Nicole Steinberg | May 1, 2013

Because issues of authorship and co-authorship have been on our minds recently—see our Push Me, Pull You series—we asked Boston ICA Chief Curator Helen Molesworth to tell us what these terms mean to her. Molesworth says, “I’m really aware when I’m speaking publicly that a lot of other people’s energies reside in my thinking and that it is important…that the power that accrues to my name is not a power to fall in love with.”

 

For more from Helen Molesworth, see our interview clips with her and Paul Schimmel on the relationship between curating and historiography.

Helen Molesworth is the Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, where she has organized one-person exhibitions of artists Catherine Opie (2011) and Josiah McElheny (2012), as well as group exhibitions such as Dance/Draw (2011). Madeleine Grynsztejn, director of the MCA Chicago, recently described Molesworth as “among the very, very best curators in the country—in fact anywhere.”

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National Poetry Month: Day 30: Sonia Sanchez

Posted by Nicole Steinberg | April 30, 2013

National Poetry Month comes to an end! We hope you've enjoyed our month-long feature on Pew Fellows and their poetry. The final poet is Sonia Sanchez (1993).


Sequences

1.

today I am
tired of sabbaths.
I seek a river of sticks
scratching the spine.
O I have laughed the clown's air
now my breath dries in paint.

2. 

what is this profusion?
the sun does not burn
a cure, but hoards
while I stretch upward.
I hear, turning 
in my shrug
a blaze of horns.
O I had forgotten parades
belabored with dreams.

3.

in my father's time
I fished in ponds
without fishes.
arching my throat,
I gargled amid nerves
and sang of redeemers.
                       (o where have you been sweet
                               redeemer, sharp redeemer,
                        o where have you been baroque
                               shimmer?
                        i have been in coventry
                        where ghosts danced in my veins
                        i have heard you in all refrains.)

4.

ah the lull of
a yellow voice
that does not whine
with roots.
I have touched breasts
and buildings answered.
I have breathed
moth-shaped men
without seeds.
(O indiscriminate sleeves)

                      (once upon an afternoon
             i became still-life
             i carried a balloon
                       and a long black knife.)

5.

love comes with pink eyes
with movements that run
green then blue again.
my thighs burn in crystal.

 

from Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems, Beacon Press (1999); originally published in I've Been a Woman, Third World Press, Inc. (1978)

 

Sonia Sanchez is the author of over 16 books, most recently Morning Haiku (Beacon Press, 2010). In addition to being a contributing editor to Black Scholar and The Journal of African Studies, she has edited an anthology, We Be Word Sorcerers: 25 Stories by Black Americans. Her many honors and awards include the PEN Writing Award, the American Book Award for Poetry, the National Academy of Arts and Letters Award, the National Education Association Award, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has received the Peace and Freedom Award from the Women International League for Peace and Freedom, the Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Humanities, the Langston Hughes Poetry Award, the Robert Frost Medal, the Robert Creeley Award, the Harper Lee Award, and the National Visionary Leadership Award, among many others. In 2011, Sanchez was selected as the first Poet Laureate of Philadelphia.

Read more:
Sonia Sanchez's website >
Sonia Sanchez at the Poetry Foundation >
Sonia Sanchez at Poets.org >

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