Curator Conversations

Installation view of "Surroundings: Video Encounters of Nature" (July 27, 2024 – January 26, 2025) at the Norton Museum of Art. Photo: Ashley Kerr.

Norton curators provide insight and context to exhibitions they have organized and art and artists they have studied and admire. 


Curator Conversation / Surroundings: Video Encounters of Nature

Friday, September 20 / 6PM

Stiller Auditorium

Surroundings: Video Encounters of Nature links three contemporary artists creating environmental portraits through moving imagery and film. Join Sarah Bass and Pamela Solares, exhibition curators, in a discussion about Donna Conlon’s From the Ashes (De las cenizas), a closeup encounter with a hummingbird, and Carolina Caycedo’s Esto no es Agua/This Is Not Water, a work about Las Damas waterfall in southern Colombia that comes to life in a kaleidoscopic dance.

Space is limited; online registration required.

Cost: Museum Admission/Members FREE

Support for this program was provided by the Gayle and Paul Gross Education Endowment Fund.