Feb 28
Lunch with a Curator: Natalie Bell, Curator at MIT List Visual Arts Center
The Perlman Teaching Museum and Art and Art History Department at Carleton College invite you to 'Lunch With A Curator', a professional development talk by Natalie Bell, Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge and originating curator of the Perlman Teaching Museum's current exhibition by Basel Abbas and Ruane Abou-Rahme.
In this one hour session, Natalie Bell will give insight into her curatorial path, how she got started in the museum field, and share a selection of exhibition projects which have been especially meaningful for her. She will speak for 30 to 40 minutes followed by a question and answer period. This session is ideal for students with an interest in pursuing a career in the museum sector!
Lunch will be provided. Please contact event organizer scluggish@carleton.edu with any dietary restrictions. 48 hour advance notice is appreciated.
About the Speaker:
Natalie Bell is Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, where she has organized recent solo exhibitions of Steina, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Raymond Boisjoly, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Leslie Thornton, Sung Tieu, and Sreshta Rit Premnath, and co-curated the group exhibition Symboints: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere. From 2013-19, she was Associate Curator at the New Museum, New York, where she curated and co-curated over a dozen solo exhibitions and several major group exhibitions, including Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon; The Keeper, and Here and Elsewhere. Prior to her work at the New Museum, Bell was an assistant curator for The Encyclopedic Palace, the International Exhibition of the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013.
