Dr. Curtis Carter on "CHINA: Then & Now - Jan Serr" at The Warehouse

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Please join us in welcoming Dr. Curtis Carter, scholar, curator and director of contemporary Chinese art in Beijing, China & the U.S.

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Dr. Curtis Carter received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Boston University and was the founding Director of the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, opening in 1984. After serving the Haggerty Museum for over 20 years, Dr. Carter now serves as honorary director and international curator for a contemporary Chinese art museum in Beijing. In recent years Dr. Carter has been invited to write and lecture on aesthetics at various universities including Peiking University, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Chinese Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts and other universities throughout China. Some of his scholarly contributions include “Globalization and Contemporary Chinese Art” and “Then and Now: Globalization and the Avant-Garde in Chinese Contemporary Art”. These undertakings led to projects to promote cultural exchange between China and the USA. Among these, was a conference at Marquette University in 2012 featuring 8 western and 8 Chinese aestheticians on the theme, “Unsettled Boundaries: Art, Philosophy, and Ethics”. Many of these engagement with Chinese aesthetics and artists has been profiled by the Beijing Review, which can be accessed here. In addition to his previously mentioned roles, Dr. Carter is an Associate Professor at Marquette University’s Les Aspin Center in Washington DC. and was the President of the International Association for Aesthetics (2010-2013, previously First Vice President and Secretary General), Executive Director of the American Society for Aesthetics (1996-2006), President of the Dance Perspectives Foundation in New York (1998), Board of Directors Directors of the International Research Center for Aesthetics and Art Theory (IRCA), based in Rome, Italy at the University of Rome, and Member of the Milwaukee Art Museum Fine Arts Society Board of Directors.For a full bio on Dr. Curtis Carter, please visit the Haggerty Art Museum’s site here.

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