Jessica Bell Brown Named Contemporary Art Chief at BMA

The Baltimore Museum of Artwork (BMA) right now unveiled that it has promoted Jessica Bell Brown to curator and head of its present-day art section. In her new purpose, Brown, who arrived to the BMA in 2019 as an affiliate curator of up to date artwork, will deal with the museum’s rapidly escalating collection, arrange displays, and oversee two affiliate curators, two curatorial assistants, and a fellow.

“Since signing up for the BMA, Jessica has positioned artists’ voices at the main of her curatorial function, building new platforms to practical experience art as envisioned by its makers and bridging institutional and artistic visions and methods,” mentioned main curator and interim codirector Asma Naeem in a assertion. “Her vision, keen insights, and commitment to artists will be integral as the BMA carries on to diversify its collections and develop the narratives of artwork as a result of its exhibitions and programs.”

Amid the exhibitions Brown has had a hand in considering that signing up for the BMA are “A Motion in Every Way: Legacies of the Great Migration,” which she co-arranged with Ryan N. Dennis, chief curator and artistic director of the center for artwork and public exchange at the Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA). That includes newly commissioned functions by a dozen artists checking out the impression of the Fantastic Migration on social and cultural existence in the United States, the present released at the MMA on April 9 and opens in Baltimore on Oct 30. Very last year, with BMA affiliate curator of present-day artwork Leila Grothe, she cocurated “How Do We Know the Planet?,” a diverse reinstallation of the museum’s modern artwork galleries investigating the approaches artists have interaction with historic, social, political, and environmental constructs. Ahead of arriving to the Baltimore establishment, Brown, who gained her BA in artwork background at Northwestern and her MA in the very same matter from Princeton, was consulting curator at Gracie Mansion Conservancy in New York. She has moreover worked  at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Brooklyn Academy of Tunes, and Resourceful Time.

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