[Art-mfastudio] Seeking artworks around “Art and the Ethics of Care” for student-curated Fall Exhibition at WJB Gallery

[Grace Aneiza Ali]

Dear Students,



Professor Kristin Dowell (Art History) and I are co-teaching the Art History course, The Museum Object this semester—where our students will organize an exhibition from curation to installation in the WJB Gallery<https://mofa.fsu.edu/fsu-galleries/wjb-gallery/> (see recent student exhibition Treasured Cloth<https://arthistory.fsu.edu/treasured-cloth/>), allowing them to research and reflect on lessons intrinsic to the particular objects to be displayed, gain a working knowledge of literature on museum theory and contemporary curation, and have the invaluable experience of curating, designing, installing, and hosting public engagement activities in a gallery setting.



Given the year we’ve endured because of the pandemic and in an effort to be responsive to the critical issues we are collectively facing, we are curating an exhibition around the idea of “Art and the Ethics of Care” with the notion of “care” broadly defined. We are reaching out to the FSU artist community as well as the local Tallahassee artist community for works that may engage this theme. And we thought of you.



With the guidance of myself and Kristin, our students will be responsible for selecting objects, visual materials, installation work, and/or social/community engagement activities that align with this theme. If there is work within your practice that might fit this theme, we’d love to share it with our student-curators for consideration for the exhibition. The exhibition is set to be on view in the WJB Gallery from November 4th to November 30th, and will include (hopefully!) public programs/engagement activities, including an opening on Thursday November 4th 5-7 PM.



Please do email me (gali at fsu.edu<mailto:gali at fsu.edu>) your work (image, website link, video file etc.) and a few sentences on what it is about and your thoughts on its connection to “care” by Monday, September 20, and we will bring it to our student-curators for discussion and consideration early next week when we meet with the curatorial team.



If you would like to chat with us about any of the above, we’d be happy to set up a Zoom with you soon! And thank you for considering this project and helping us prepare the next generation of curators and museum professionals.



Warmly,

Prof. Ali





Grace Aneiza Ali

Assistant Teaching Professor

FSU Dept of Art & Art History

Office: William Johnston Building 3019
Email: gali at fsu.edu<mailto:Email:%20gali at fsu.edu>

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