Curating Exhibitions

Activity: Short talk with questions
Date: Friday 6th February 2018
Host: Moray House Trust

Grace Ali [Photo courtesy of Michael Lam]
Ms Ali is a Guyanese-American curator. Her main area of focus is Caribbean social art practices within the region and among the diaspora, specifically at the intersection of art and politics. She is a faculty member in the Department of Art & Public Policy, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She is also the founder/editorial director of OF NOTE Magazine — an award-winning online nonprofit journalism initiative focused on the intersection of art and activism and the founder/curator of Guyana Modern — a hub for Guyanese art and culture hosted on Medium.com. Grace holds a M.A. in Africana Studies from New York University, where she was awarded the Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship. She received her B.A. in English Literature with a concentration in African Diaspora Literature and a certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park where she graduated magna cum laude and was awarded the university’s Goddard Medal for academic excellence. She is a Fulbright Fellow, an Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Curatorial Fellow, and a World Economic Forum ‘Global Shaper.’ Grace was born in Guyana and is an alumna of Queen’s College.

Section of the audience [Photo courtesy of Michael Lam]