Jessica Bell Brown Named Contemporary Art Chief at BMA

The Baltimore Museum of Artwork (BMA) as we speak revealed that it has promoted Jessica Bell Brown to curator and head of its up to date artwork division. In her new position, Brown, who arrived to the BMA in 2019 as an affiliate curator of latest artwork, will handle the museum’s quickly rising assortment, arrange shows, and oversee two affiliate curators, two curatorial assistants, and a fellow.
“Since becoming a member of the BMA, Jessica has positioned artists’ voices on the core of her curatorial work, creating new platforms to expertise artwork as envisioned by its makers and bridging institutional and creative visions and approaches,” stated chief curator and interim codirector Asma Naeem in an announcement. “Her imaginative and prescient, eager insights, and dedication to artists will probably be integral because the BMA continues to diversify its collections and broaden the narratives of artwork by means of its exhibitions and applications.”
Among the many exhibitions Brown has had a hand in since becoming a member of the BMA are “A Motion in Each Path: Legacies of the Nice Migration,” which she co-organized with Ryan N. Dennis, chief curator and creative director of the middle for artwork and public change on the Mississippi Museum of Artwork (MMA). That includes newly commissioned works by a dozen artists exploring the impression of the Nice Migration on social and cultural life in the USA, the present launched on the MMA on April 9 and opens in Baltimore on October 30. Final yr, with BMA affiliate curator of latest artwork Leila Grothe, she cocurated “How Do We Know the World?,” a various reinstallation of the museum’s up to date artwork galleries investigating the methods artists have interaction with historic, social, political, and environmental constructs. Earlier than arriving to the Baltimore establishment, Brown, who earned her BA in artwork historical past at Northwestern and her MA in the identical topic from Princeton, was consulting curator at Gracie Mansion Conservancy in New York. She has moreover labored on the Museum of Fashionable Artwork, New York, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Artistic Time.