Ingrid- "There's a dual story being told nationally: that the arts don't matter and at the same time, there's this huge effort to ban books.”

Chris- “When I finished that book, a Brazilian congressman named Jair Bolsonaro was just considering running for president and had a tiny cameo at the end. I finished thinking: 'Man, this has been way too dark. I was just too bleak in the picture I painted here.' That was 2018. Looking back now, eight years later — I probably wasn't bleak enough.”

By Kelly Jean Egan

By Liz Goldner

By William W. Sokoloff

By Scott Snibbe

“…had I not really immersed myself in what was going on in that center, I don't think I would have done what I'm doing — I'm certain of it. The other part is really personal. I walked into Creativity Explored for an opening and met my wife of eighteen years. She was a donor. We got married four months later. It was great. It's still great.”

By Shrey Purohit

By Olin Marcus Johanssen

By Robert Brokl

As we navigate technological change, I think there will be an even greater need for people who genuinely care. A lot of my curatorial practice is rooted in care — care for artists, care for community, care for viewership. It's about stepping out of the binary of "I know" or "I don't know" and into "I care."

By Erik Barrios-Recendez

By Laura Hines

By Greg Niemeyer

“First of all, if I were starting now, as well educated, after Baltimore, I'd have a hard time getting a job — I'm white, male, and straight. Three strikes. They might say, "You're really good, but we have too many male curators, too many white male curators."

By Hugh Leeman

By Ani Moskovyan

By Matt Gonzalez

By Kelly Jean Egan