Lecture:  Not just pretty pictures: Curating an art museum exhibition

Maureen Warren, UIUC Krannert Art Museum

Wednesday, December 11, 2024. 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Location: Osher Classroom and Zoom

Ever wonder what happens behind the scenes at your local art museum? Why are some works of art forever in storage and others put on display in perpetuity? How are exhibition topics chosen? What are some of the obstacles and secret joys of this sort of museum work? Learn this and more from curator Maureen Warren, who will reveal the methodology, concerns, and ethics of creating fine art exhibitions.

Lecturer:  Maureen Warren is curator of European and American art at Krannert Art Museum.  She is a specialist in early modern (1500-1700) European art, especially seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art.  She has curated exhibitions at KAM about medieval manuscripts, Dutch political prints, Chinese ceramics, the ink paintings of Shozo Sato, and more.