Colleagues & Friends: Helen Molesworth and Meg Onli
Monday, January 11, 7:00PM EST
Helen Molesworth, curator and writer, is joined by Meg Onli, Andrea B. Laporte Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. These colleagues and friends will share their expertise and career paths towards curatorial work.
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Helen Molesworth is a curator and writer. Her major exhibitions include: One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art; Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957; Dance/Draw; This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s; Part Object Part Sculpture, and Work Ethic. She has organized monographic exhibitions of Moyra Davey, Noah Davis, Louise Lawler, Steve Locke, Anna Maria Maiolino, Josiah McElheny, Kerry James Marshall, Catherine Opie, Amy Sillman, and Luc Tuymans. She is the author of numerous catalogue essays and her writing has appeared in Artforum, Art Journal, Documents, and October. The recipient of the 2011 Bard Center for Curatorial Studies Award for Curatorial Excellence, she serves as the Curator-in-Residence for the Anderson Ranch in Aspen. She recently hosted a podcast series called “Recording Artists” with The Getty and is currently at work on a book about art, love, and freedom.
Meg Onli is the Andrea B. Laporte Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania. She has curated the exhibitions Speech/Acts (2017) and Colored People Time (2019). Onli is the recipient of a 2012 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant; a 2014 Graham Foundation Grant; a 2019 Transformation Award from the Leeway Foundation; and is currently a Warhol Foundation Curatorial Fellow. In the summer of 2020, she founded the initiative, Art for Philadelphia, which raised over $100,000 for community-led abolitionist organizations. Currently, she is working on the solo exhibition Jessica Vaughn: Our Primary Focus is to be Successful (2021); co-curating, with Erin Christovale, a retrospective of Ulysses Jenkins work, Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation (2021); and is a Visiting Professor at Williams College.
*Left image by Brigitte Lacombe, right image by Marcus Maddox