2011 Nohl Jurors to Speak at Inova, Oct. 27
For immediate release: 17 October 2011
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MARY L. NOHL FELLOWSHIP PANELISTS SELECTED
Panelists to Give Public Talk at Inova October 27
The ninth cycle of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists program continues with the appointment of a panel of recognized visual arts professionals to select seven Fellows from among 143 applicants. Xandra Eden, curator of exhibitions at the Weatherspoon Art Museum and adjunct faculty in Art History at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Tumelo Mosaka, curator of contemporary art at the Krannert Art Museum, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois; and Elizabeth Thomas, Phyllis Wattis MATRIX Curator at Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, where she directs the MATRIX series of contemporary projects by international artists, will arrive in Milwaukee on Thursday, October 27, 2011 and will be welcomed at an informal reception at 6 pm at UWM’s Inova/Kenilworth gallery, 2155 North Prospect Avenue. The panelists will offer brief overviews of their home institutions and curatorial interests beginning at 6:30 pm. The event is free and open to the public.
Funded by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund and administered by the Bradley Family Foundation, the Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists provide unrestricted funds for artists to create new work or complete work in progress. In addition to receiving an award, the Nohl Fellows will participate in an exhibition in the autumn of 2012. An exhibition catalogue will be published and disseminated nationally. The program is open to practicing artists residing in the four-county area (Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington counties). The program also includes a Suitcase Fund for exporting work by local artists beyond the four-county area.
The panelists will spend two days reviewing work samples and artists’ statements and visiting the studios of up to seven finalists in the Established Artist category. The three Established Artist awards, worth $15,000 each, and the four $5,000 Emerging Artist awards will be announced on Monday, November 7, 2011.
About the Jurors
Xandra Eden is curator of exhibitions at the Weatherspoon Art Museum and adjunct faculty in art history at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her recent thematic exhibitions include Persona: A Body in Parts; Our Subject is You (co-curated with Lee Walton); The Lining of Forgetting: Internal and External Memory in Art and Uneasy Nature. Eden has organized solo shows of the work of Allora & Calzadilla, Janine Antoni, Dike Blair, Christian Jankowski, Judy Pfaff, Dario Robleto, and many others. She is currently working on Global Borders/Zones of Contention (2012) and a solo exhibition of the work of Diana Al-Hadid (2013). Eden has held positions at the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Women and Their Work Gallery, and was assistant curator at The Power Plant, Toronto from 1999-2005. Eden holds an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College and a BFA in Studio Art from SUNY Purchase. http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu/
Tumelo Mosaka is the curator of contemporary art at the Krannert Art Museum, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. He has curated OPENSTUDIO 2011, LIDA ABDUL 2011, Baggage Allowance 2010 with Pamela Z, BIKERIDERS: Danny Lyon 2010 and On-Screen: Global Intimacy 2009, at the Krannert Art Museum. Prior to this, he was the associate curator of exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum where he curated the exhibitions Infinite Islands: Contemporary Caribbean Art 2007, Passing/Posing: Kehinde Wiley 2004 and was co-curator of Open House: Working in Brooklyn 2004. He also organized the presentation of Petah Coyne 2008 and co-organized @ Murakami 2008 and Alexis Rockman’s monumental mural Manifest Destiny 2004 at the Brooklyn Museum. Previously, he worked for Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina where he co-curated the exhibition Evoking History 2000-02. Mosaka has organized several national and international exhibitions for other institutions such as the National Center for Afro-American Arts 2004, and St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum 2003. Mosaka was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and currently lives and works in Champaign, Illinois.
Elizabeth Thomas is Phyllis Wattis MATRIX curator at Berkeley Art Museum, where she directs the museum’s acclaimed MATRIX series of contemporary projects by international artists, including recent and upcoming exhibitions with Silke Otto-Knapp, Desiree Holman, Futurefarmers, Jill Magid, Emily Roysdon, Brent Green, Ahmet Ogut, Omer Fast, Mario Garcia Torres, Martha Colburn, Tris Vonna-Michell, Trevor Paglen, Tomas Saraceno, and Allison Smith, among others. Previously, she was an independent curator and writer based in Pittsburgh, PA, organizing The Believers, a collaboration with Nato Thompson at MassMoCA, North Adams, MA; The 'F' Word at The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; and Empathetic at Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia. As associate curator of contemporary art at Carnegie Museum of Art, she worked intensively on the 2004-5 Carnegie International, as well as overseeing a series of project exhibitions with artists such as Cory Arcangel/Paper Rad, Edgar Arceneaux, Jesse Bransford, Omer Fast, Christian Jankowski, Zon Ito/Ryoko Aoki, and Paul Wood/John Harrison. She also served as curatorial fellow at the Walker Art Center, was a founding editor of the Chicago arts and culture magazine, TenbyTen, and was program coordinator at the Washington Project for the Arts. She received her MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Theory and Criticism from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her BA in Anthropology and Art History from George Washington University, DC. Thomas has written for numerous catalogues and publications, and lectures often to audiences in museums, universities, and other public venues, and teaches at California College for the Arts, San Francisco. She has served as nominator or jurist for many national awards and grants, including Creative Capital, Anonymous Was a Woman, and the Heinz Endowments, among others. She recently received a Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Grant to study sites all around the world whose engagement with exhibition, production, and research related to contemporary practice provide models for the rethinking of the solo project-based model of MATRIX.
The Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s mission is to strengthen communities through effective partnerships. It is made up of over 1,000 charitable funds, each created by individual donors or families to serve the charitable causes of their choice. Grants from these funds serve people throughout Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee and Washington counties and beyond. Started in 1915, the Foundation is one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the U.S. and abroad.
For further information about the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists program, please visit http://lyndensculpturegarden.org/nohl.
