In conjuction with the opening reception, 062 and TUSK co-presents, Conversations: Building Support Systems on Oct. 1, 2023, 4-5 PM at TUSK.

Join Allison Peters Quinn, Director of Exhibition and Residency Programs at the Hyde Park Art Center, and Jodi Throckmorton, Chief Curator at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center at Tusk. Quinn and Throckmorton will discuss how to build care and support systems for under-recognized artists. Quinn and Throkmorton will also talk about Kong’s work and recent acquisition.

Allison Peters Quinn is a curator, educator, and writer based in Chicago. Her work over the past 10 years has been focused on projects that address intersections between art, public space, and civically-minded practices. Her essays have appeared in art anthologies including Service Media: Is it Public Art or Art in Public Space (2013), and The Artists Run Chicago Digest (2009) in addition to Proximity Magazine and artists’ monographic publications on Cándida Alvarez, Susan Giles, Jefferson Pinder, William Steiger, and Rodrigo Lara Zendejas to name a few. Quinn has served as juror for national art organizations including the Artadia Award, Efroymson Award, Nohl Award, Oklahoma Visual Arts Fellowship, and the Ragdale Foundation, among others. Awarded the Ramapo College Curatorial Prize, she has organized significant exhibitions for emerging and established contemporary artists such as Candida Alvarez, Theaster Gates, and Karen Reimer. She studied a MA at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and a BA at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Quinn is currently the Director of Exhibition & Residency Programs at Hyde Park Art Center and Adjunct Faculty at Columbia College Chicago.

Jodi Throckmorton is Chief Curator at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Before joining JMKAC in 2022, she was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she earned accolades for curating a retrospective exhibition and publication on the work of Joan Semmel titled Joan Semmel: Skin in the Game. She also organized the exhibition and publications for Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World (2018) with Lauren Dickens and, at the San Jose Museum of Art, Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India (2015).

During her over seven years at PAFA, she added transformational works by contemporary artists to the collection, including purchases of work by Mequitta Ahuja, Joan Brown, Chitra Ganesh, Ebony G. Patterson, Marie Watt, and Dyani White Hawk, among others. Throckmorton also partnered with Paulson Fontaine Press to make PAFA the East Coast archive of prints by African American artists from the press.

Among her other past projects are Nick Cave: Rescue (2018), Paul Chan: Pillowsophia (2017), Melt/Carve/Forge: Embodied Sculptures by Cassils (2016). Alyson Shotz: Plane Weave (2016), Bruce Conner: Somebody Else’s Prints (2014), Questions from the Sky: New Work by Hung Liu (2013), Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting (2013), Ranu Mukherjee: Telling Fortunes (2012), and This Kind of Bird Flies Backward: Paintings by Joan Brown (2011).

Previously, she held curatorial positions at the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University and the San Jose Museum of Art in California.

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