Intro

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ready sure

What is curating

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curation or curating within the context

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of an art gallery museum

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is the work that people do to conserve

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and preserve objects of heritage

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whether they’re works of art or other

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types of things and other different

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types of museum collections

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so it really the root of it is to

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actually to to take care of

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but in contemporary world today we use

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curating to refer to the work that

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people do when they create exhibitions

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so that would be working with artists

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working with museum collections to

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create exhibitions and i would also say

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that recently um the word curating has

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expanded even more and to focus on

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working on things like programs or

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community outreach

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basically things that create programs

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that help to both interpret the art that

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we see in exhibitions

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so one can have a curator of education

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as an example who

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works with

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audience members and schools and

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educational groups

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and it’s kind of curating the content of

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those educational programs

Who become curators

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most people who become curators or go

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into the world of curating are people

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who start out loving something loving

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some form of collection and you know

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within the context of their claim

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alberta is people who love art and so

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most people who become curators in an

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organization such as ours are people who

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have either gone to school to study to

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be an artist perhaps they studied art

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history

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uh and or perhaps they kind of come came

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up through a community grassroots

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organization but most people love art

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they love to hang out with artists they

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talk about art they go to museums they

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read about art and that sparks their

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interest in actually becoming to work in

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the field

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working to work with museum collections

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and curate exhibitions

How did you become a curator

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interestingly i didn’t actually go into

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this profession intentionally i didn’t

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start off you know going into university

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to be a curator but i did love art and i

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went to my undergrad studying

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studio art so as a practicing artist but

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also art history

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and it became clear to me over the

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course of my undergrad that

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i was not so great at being an artist i

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didn’t actually um make very good

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artworks but i was really interested in

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talking about it really interested in

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studying the history of i’ve been really

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interested in

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working with artists and so that really

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is what took me on the path to being a

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curator

How do you engage the community

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the art gallery has lots of education

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programs that are geared towards

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children and youth

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so we are trying to actively engage

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children not just through um

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hands-on art making but also kind of

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critical thinking about art we have a

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really robust transitional school school

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tour program art classes and the other

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thing that’s really exciting for us is

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we do have a youth council which i

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believe we’re recruiting for members

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right now so having you be involved in

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actually

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the creation of programs and ideas

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through the active pga youth council is

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another way we’re trying to engage you

Surprising facts

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i think there’s two surprising facts

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maybe that the art gallery of alberta is

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the oldest cultural institution in the

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province uh we were founded in 1924 so

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we’ll be having our 100th anniversary in

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2024 uh which is a kind of i don’t know

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how well known fact that is but the

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other interesting thing about our

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building uh which opened in 2010 is that

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although it’s perceived by everybody to

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be in a brand new building in fact we

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preserved 65

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of the old evident archaeology building

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in this new construction

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trying to explain humanity to aliens i

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think is an enormous task and i really

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wonder what senses the aliens would have

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that would be the same or different than

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ours but assuming they have a sense of

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sight

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i think i would use the camera i think

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the camera is something that now in our

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21st century

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we rely on to represent ourselves in the

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world in all sorts of different ways and

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i think with a camera

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we could try to explain the kind of

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huge depth and diversity of humanity to

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you

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you

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