Laura Mott to Lead Cranbrook Art Museum in Detroit
Detroit’s Cranbrook Artwork Museum has named Laura Mott, who joined the establishment in 2013 as senior curator of latest artwork and design, as chief curator. In her new capability, she is going to play a serious position in shaping collections, mentoring curators, and organizing and overseeing exhibitions.
“Laura Mott has been integral accomplice in Cranbrook Artwork Museum’s growth of its programming in recent times, together with bold site-specific tasks in Detroit and growing new scholarship by exhibitions and publications,” famous Cranbrook director Andrew Blauvelt. “We’re thrilled to have her lead the curatorial imaginative and prescient for our subsequent chapter as a museum as we proceed to diversify our collections and broaden the attain of our programming each regionally and nationally.”
Since arriving at Cranbrook, Mott has curated and cocurated greater than twenty exhibitions, together with 2019’s “Landlord Colours: On Artwork, Economic system, and Materiality,” for which she was named a Warhol Curatorial Fellow. Among the many different exhibitions she has organized are “Nick Cave: Right here Hear” (2015), “Maya Stovall: Liquor Retailer Theater Efficiency Movies” (2017), “Allie McGhee: Banana Moon Horn” (2021–22), “Olga de Amaral: To Weave a Rock” (2021–22), and upcoming exhibitions of the work of Tyrell Winston and Sonya Clark. She moreover led the multiyear challenge “Tunde Olaniran: Made a Universe,” which is able to open on the museum in June and can function a movie, an set up, and a efficiency by the Flint-based Nigerian American musician and performer.
Previous to coming to Cranbrook, Mott held numerous curatorial positions at Gothenburg Konsthall, Sweden; IASPIS, Stockholm; Mission 17, San Francisco; and the Whitney Museum of American Artwork, New York. Mott holds a BFA/BA in artwork historical past and studio artwork from the College of Texas at Austin and an MA in curatorial research from the Middle for Curatorial Research, Bard Faculty, in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
