{"id":267,"date":"2019-04-02T18:39:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T18:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/art\/?p=267"},"modified":"2019-04-02T18:39:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T18:39:35","slug":"sam-curator-participates-in-living-art-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/art\/2019\/04\/02\/sam-curator-participates-in-living-art-series\/","title":{"rendered":"SAM Curator Participates in Living Art Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/carrie-dedon-45718117\/\">Carrie Dedon<\/a>, Assistant Curator of the Seattle Art Museum participated in a Living Art short term residency in our department on March 11-13, 2019.\u00a0 A specialist in contemporary art, Dedon gave talks in several studio art and art history courses, held individual meetings with art history majors to talk about career prospects, and conducted critiques with studio art seniors in preparation for their upcoming senior show.\u00a0 Her public lecture, held on March 12 in Kittredge Gallery, addressed contemporary curatorial practices of the Seattle Art Museum by focusing on two exhibitions, <a href=\"http:\/\/figuringhistory.site.seattleartmuseum.org\"><em>Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas<\/em><\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/gibson.site.seattleartmuseum.org\"><em>Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer<\/em><\/a>, on view till May 12, 2019.\u00a0 Dedon\u2019s talk explored how the museum creates its own exhibitions, like <em>Figuring History<\/em>, and how it approaches the display of exhibitions organized by other institutions, such as <em>Like a Hammer<\/em>.\u00a0 She emphasized the importance of displaying the work of artists of color in order to highlight questions regarding who has the power and authority to write history, and who is represented in history.\u00a0 These are particularly pertinent issues given the Euro-centric canon of art history and the colonial legacy of art museums.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_269\" style=\"width: 1510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-269\" class=\"wp-image-269 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/art\/files\/2019\/04\/CarrieDedonImageSmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/art\/files\/2019\/04\/CarrieDedonImageSmall.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/art\/files\/2019\/04\/CarrieDedonImageSmall-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/art\/files\/2019\/04\/CarrieDedonImageSmall-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/art\/files\/2019\/04\/CarrieDedonImageSmall-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/art\/files\/2019\/04\/CarrieDedonImageSmall-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figuring History exhibition, Seattle Art Museum<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-268\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/art\/files\/2019\/04\/CarrieDedon1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/art\/files\/2019\/04\/CarrieDedon1.jpg 630w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/art\/files\/2019\/04\/CarrieDedon1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/>Carrie Dedon, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Dedon, Assistant Curator of the Seattle Art Museum participated in a Living Art short term residency in our department on March 11-13, 2019.\u00a0 A specialist in contemporary art, Dedon gave talks in several studio art and art history courses, &hellip; 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