Keely Sarr is the Assistant Museum Educator at the Mead Art Museum, where she coordinates community and K-12 education and manages the student ambassador program. Previously, she co-curated (non-digital) exhibitions at the Mead and the Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca, NY. Her research explores relationships between “non-Western” art, popular culture, and the history of collecting.
Ivy Vance is a student at Hampshire College where she completed the Institute for Curatorial Practice the Summer of 2015. She is pursuing a degree in museum studies with an emphasis on curation. Her interests include art history and the textile and fiber arts. She is from Seattle, WA and currently lives and works in Northampton, MA.
This exhibition was organized in conjunction with the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College and the Institute for Curatorial Practice at Hampshire College.
Thank you to Mila Waldman, Stephen Fisher, and the entire staff at the Mead Art Museum;
the Institute for Curatorial Practice; Amanda Gilvin; Jocelyn Edens; Karen Koehler and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for making this all possible.