Glenn Adamson is a curator, writer and historian based in New York and London. He has previously been Director of the Museum of Arts and Design and Head of Research at the V&A.
Dr. Adamson’s publications include Thinking Through Craft (2007); The Craft Reader (2010); Postmodernism: Style and Subversion (2011, with Jane Pavitt); The Invention of Craft (2013); Art in the Making (2016, with Julia Bryan-Wilson); Fewer Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects (2018); Objects: USA 2020; and Craft:...
Olivia Ardui is an art historian. She specializes in the Brazilian arts from the 1960s onwards. She is interested in the performative and visual arts and currently teaches at UCLouvain in Belgium.
Horace D. Ballard (he/they) investigates the art, ideas, and visual cultures of the United States and the Americas. His research interests include the legibilities of gender and race in 18th- and 19th-century portraiture, colonial men’s fashion, and the visual and material cultures of religion. Before arriving at the Harvard Art Museums, Ballard held positions in the curatorial, education, and interpretation departments of the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA); Yale University Art Gallery; the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD...
Ferran Barenblit, who was born in Argentina, is a renowned curator and museum director with an extensive career, having led three prestigious art institutions in the last twenty years.
His first position as director was between 2002 and 2008 at CASM (Centro de Arte Santa Mónica de Barcelona), a laboratory for experimentation and new artistic productions. This was followed, in the period 2008-2015, by the direction of the CA2M of the Community of Madrid, a museum located in the metropolitan area of the capital that combines an ambitious program with an intense...
Artist/Filmmaker, Inventor, Journalist, Writer, Designer, Educator, Creativity Cheerleader, and Founder/Director of Center for Creative Sustainability
JD Beltran is an award-winning creative, journalist, and policymaker with extensive experience in design & technology, sustainability, culture, and art. She is the Founder & Director of the Center for Creative Sustainability consultancy in San Francisco and is a professor in Design at San Francisco State University.Beltran's work has won myriad awards, having been exhibited worldwide including at the Walker Art Center, the San Francisco MOMA, Ars Electronica in Austria, The Getty Center, The Kitchen, New York, and the MIT Media Lab. Her work was...
Sabine Breitwieser is an international curator and museum director, currently based in Vienna, Austria, as independent scholar. She was a 2020/2021 Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Center in Los Angeles, a prestigious research program she continued in 2022. From 2013 until 2018 she was the Director of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Previously, from 2010 until 2013 she served as Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and headed one of the six specialist departments and collections. From 1988 until 2007 she was the...
Filmmaker, Senior Curator of Time-Based Visual Art at EMPAC
Vic Brooks was at EMPAC for over a decade and served as co-Acting Director with Jonas Braasch from fall 2022 to spring 2024.
Brooks frequently publishes and consults on the production, infrastructures, and exhibition of the time-based arts, and is editing the bilingual book Tuning Calder’s Clouds (Athénée Press: Bogotá, 2024) on the interdisciplinary intersections of Alexander Calder’s Acoustic Ceiling (1954) at the Central University of Venezuela’s Aula Magna. In 2023 she co-curated Shifting Center with Nida Ghouse, which was named as Artnet’s...
Independent Curator, Organizer, Art Journalist, Web-Media Producer
Joseph del Pesco is an independent curator, organizer, art journalist, and web-media producer. He has realized curatorial projects at Artists Space in New York; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco; Galerie Analix in Geneva, Switzerland; the Rooseum in Malmö, Sweden; Articule in Montréal, Canada; the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada; the Nelson Gallery at the University of California, Davis; and most recently at the The Berkeley Art Museum in Berkeley California. He has contributed interviews, reviews and other texts to Flash Art, X-Tra, Proximity, Fillip...
Derrick Duren is a senior transfer student at UC Berkeley completing a double major in Media and American Studies. Derrick has dedicated much of their extracurricular time to social justice education and advocacy through their experiences as Multi-Cultural Awareness Chair and as a curator for Multi, their inaugural art showcase for students of color at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Derrick currently serves as a Development Assistant & Honorary Student Committee member at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. As a summer fellow,...
Adrienne Edwards is a curator, scholar and writer whose work concerns visual, performance and cross-boundary art as well as histories, concepts, modes and methods of blackness.
Currently the Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Edwards has realised a number of interdisciplinary projects and commissions with a wide range of artists for Performa, where she was previously Curator (2010–2018). She has worked with Jonathas de Andrade, Yto Barrada, Chimurenga, Teju Cole, Kwani Trust,...