Allison Glenn Named Senior Curator at Public Art Fund

New York’s Public Art Fund currently introduced that it has employed Allison Glenn to serve as senior curator. Glenn, a curator and author with in depth knowledge in the public-artwork sector, received broad acclaim for arranging the pathbreaking 2021 exhibition “Promise, Witness, Remembrance” at Louisville, Kentucky’s Pace Art Museum in honor of Breonna Taylor, who was killed by Louisville law enforcement in her possess apartment all through a bungled raid. In her new role, which she will undertake on May 16, Glenn will be dependable for shaping General public Artwork Fund’s creative method and for mounting exhibitions in general public areas throughout the 5 boroughs of New York Town.

“Among her era, Allison Glenn has emerged as a top curatorial voice,” mentioned Nicholas Baume, Public Artwork Fund’s inventive and executive director. “Allison provides the resourceful and important thinking of a visionary curator alongside one another with a highly effective perspective on our creative second that is also grounded in scholarship. She’s a champion of artists—and of public art—with deep interactions and a wealth of experience. Her contribution to Public Artwork Fund and to the discipline of public artwork guarantees to be extraordinary.”

Glenn, a cocurator of the 2023 edition of the Saint Louis multivenue triennial Counterpublic, was earlier curatorial senior curator and director of community artwork at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston associate curator at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, in which she spearheaded advancement of the musuem’s out of doors sculpture program and curatorial associate and publications manager for the fourth edition of the New Orleans triennial Prospect.

“Public Art Fund has been at the forefront of commissioning artists to make dynamic public art for New York City for more than 4 decades,” stated Glenn, contacting the organization’s heritage and legacy “immense and impactful.” Lauding General public Art Fund as “charting a new route toward deeper engagements with artists, colleagues, and audiences,” Glenn asserted, “It’s an absolute honor to be a part of this sort of an outstanding staff at this remarkably pivotal moment.”

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