Alice Gray Stites On Taking Risks, Respecting the Public, and Curating for 21c Museum Hotels — Colossal



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Stroll into 21c Museum Lodge in downtown Chicago, and also you would possibly encounter a drugs cupboard full of felted merchandise by Lucy Sparrow, a photograph from Carrie Mae Weems’s Kitchen Desk collection, and Angela Ellsworth’s unsettling bonnets fabricated from pearls and pins, all throughout the foyer alone. The works had been a part of OFF-SPRING: New Era, a touring exhibition curated by Alice Grey Stites that considers how rituals affect id. They had been additionally uncommon sights for a venue that welcomes friends toting unwieldy baggage and grabbing a drink on the bar.

Stites is chief curator for 21c Museum Hotels, a boutique hospitality chain throughout the Midwest and South that has carved a singular area of interest as each an area for world-renowned artworks and on a regular basis tourism. I spoke with Stites in February 20204 through Zoom about curating for a multi-venue museum of this type, why she values being articulate over being accessible, and the unbelievable belief and respect she has for the general public.

Read the conversation.

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