Curating the Here and Now: Talk with Aileen June Wang

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Charlotte Street introduces Curating the Here and Now, a 4-part series featuring exceptional curatorial voices in the Midwest.

Kemper Library @ Charlotte Street Foundation

As a part of the &quot;Curating the Here and Now&quot; series, selected curators will visit Kansas City to speak about their recent exhibitions and curatorial practice.Join us on Saturday, August 6 from 4-5pm at the CSF Kemper Library to hear from Aileen June Wang, Curator at the<a href="https://beach.k-state.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art</a> in Manhattan, Kansas. Since joining the Beach Museum in 2015, her research interests have evolved toward a socially engaged curatorial practice. Considering ideas of cultural mixing, Wang curated a 2017 exhibition titled Ubiquitous: Enrico Isamu Oyama, the first American museum exhibition of the artist’s work. She will speak in depth about this exhibition, as well as her more recent exhibitions of Gordon Parks: Homeward to the Prairie I Come (2021-2022) and Doug Barrett: Find Your Voice (2021-2022).Masks required indoors. For more information about Charlotte Street’s COVID-19 Protocol, visit charlottestreet.org/plan-your-visit.

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