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August, 2023

Raven Halfmoon Tour with Chief Curator Amy Smith-Stewart

17aug5:00 pmRaven Halfmoon Tour with Chief Curator Amy Smith-StewartThe Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

Event Details

Thursday, August 17 | 5 pm Member Reception | 5:30 pm Tour
Free for members; $12 General Admission; $8 Students/Seniors

Please join us for an evening tour of Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers led by Chief Curator Amy Smith-Stewart. The tour will cover an overview of the exhibition, highlighting a selection of Halfmoon’s stoneware sculptures from the past five years.

Members and supporters are invited to attend a special reception at 5 pm. To RSVP for the member reception, email Jerusha Wright, Development Assistant, at events@thealdrich.org by Wednesday, August 16.

Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers is on view at The Aldrich through January 7, 2024.

Amy Smith-Stewart is Chief Curator at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and the founder of Smith-Stewart, a nomadic curatorial project, previously located on the Lower East Side. She has curated more than sixty exhibitions in museums, galleries and temporary spaces. She was previously a curator at MoMA PS1, a curatorial advisor at Mary Boone gallery, and a guest curator for the Peter Norton Collection. Notable exhibitions at The Aldrich include Genesis Belanger: Through the Eye of a Needle; Harmony Hammond: Material Witness (which traveled to the Sarasota Art Museum); Objects Like Us (organized with artist David Adamo); Suzanne McClelland: Just Left Feel Right; David Brooks: Continuous Service Altered Daily (which traveled to the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts); Jackie Winsor: With and Within; and Xaviera Simmons: Underscore. Other noteworthy exhibitions include Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City at Socrates Sculpture Park and The Noguchi Museum; Campaign at C24 Gallery; Remmber Who You are at the Mary Boone Gallery and Day Labor at MoMA PS1. Her writing has appeared in books and catalogues published by Taschen, Gregory R. Miller & Co., Revolver Publishing, Bates College Museum of Art, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Charta, among others. She has served on faculty in the MFA Fine Arts Department at the School of Visual Arts, New York and the MA Contemporary Art program at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York.

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Time

August 17, 2023 5:00 pm(GMT-04:00)

Location

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

258 Main Street, Ridgefield CT 06877

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