Ruth Arts Mary L. Nohl Alumni Award Jurors
The Ruth Arts Mary L Nohl Alumni Awards program is designed to reactivate all components of the Nohl Fellowship program, from former fellows to former jurors. A panel of former Nohl jurors will select four awardees, up to 50% of whom can live outside the greater Milwaukee area. In making this selection, they will take into account each applicant’s current artistic practice and their demonstrated commitment to contributing to the artist support network created by the 2023 Alumni Awardees.
The 2024 jurors are:
Kimi Kitada, Gallery and Programs Manager at Charlotte Street, Kansas City, Missouri
Astria Suparak, Artist and Independent Curator
About the 2024 Jurors
Kimi Kitada is a curator based in Kansas City, MO. Currently, she is the Gallery and Programs Manager at Charlotte Street, where she oversees exhibitions and public programs such as Movement Lab, the Art Writing Intensive, and The Guest Curator lecture series. Previously, she was a Curatorial Assistant at MOCA Los Angeles (2019-2020). From 2014 to 2018, she was Public Programs & Research Coordinator at Independent Curators International in New York. Her recent exhibitions include: Ways of Listening (2024); Potential Futures: Prototypes (2023); Handiwork: Art, Craft, and the Space Between (2022); With Liberty and Justice (2021) at Charlotte Street, Kansas City, MO; and where we came from & where we are going at Transformer, Washington DC (2019), among others. Kitada received a BA in Art History and Classics from Bucknell University and an MA in Museum Studies from NYU. She served as a Nohl Fellowship juror in 2023.
Astria Suparak is an artist and curator based in Oakland, California. Her cross-disciplinary projects address complex and urgent issues (like institutionalized racism, feminisms, and colonialism) made accessible through a popular culture lens, such as science fiction movies, rock music, and sports. Straddling creative and scholarly work, the projects often take the form of publicly available tools and databases, chronicling subcultures and omitted perspectives.
In recent years, Suparak’s creative projects have been exhibited and performed at the Museum of Modern Art and the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York; Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; ArtScience Museum, Singapore; and as part of the For Freedoms billboard series. She has curated exhibitions, screenings, and performances for the Liverpool Biennial; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; The Kitchen and MoMA PS1, in New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; and Expo Chicago, as well as for unconventional spaces, such as roller-skating rinks, sports bars, and rock clubs. Suparak is the winner of the 2022 San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Award. She served as a juror for the Nohl Fellowship in 2012.
Past Jurors
2023
Ashley Stull Meyers, Horning Chief Curator of Art, Science, and Technology at PRAx at Oregon State University in Corvallis
Thomas F. James, Curator & Executive Director, The Last Resort Artist Retreat, Baltimore, Maryland
