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 27 / 6PM
RESCHEDULED FROM 9/20/24
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
Meet the Curators
Pamela Solares
Pamela Solares is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and curator based in South Florida. She served as the Norton’s 2022-2024 Sophie Davis Fellow for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access where she managed and co-organized various programs, festivals, and exhibitions, including Art After Dark, Nuestra Cultura Community Day, Juneteenth Community Day, Rose B. Simpson: Journeys of Clay and most recently, Surroundings: Video Encounters of Nature. She is now the Education and Public Programs Coordinator at the Coral Springs Museum of Art, where she oversees classes, workshops, summer camps, tours, artist talks, and the Coral Springs Art Guild.
Sarah Bass is a museum professional, curator, and creative. She graduated from the University of Florida in 2021 with a BA in Art History and a BA in Visual Art Studies. She began working at the Norton Museum of Art in August 2021 as a Visitor Experience Associate, transitioning to the Curatorial Department in December 2022 as Curatorial Operations Assistant. Most recently, she was promoted to Curatorial Research Associate.
While at the Norton, she has supported the daily operations of the Curatorial Department and aided the development of exhibitions, including Past Lives: Performance Art through the Camera, Ellen Graham: Unscripted, and The Paper Trail: 500 Years of Prints from the Jonathan “Jack” Frost Collection. Now, she takes on the role of curator with Surroundings: Video Encounters of Nature and continues to work on upcoming Norton exhibitions, such as Sorolla and the Sea and Artists’ Jewelry: From Cubism to Pop, the Diane Venet Collection.
Support for this program was provided by the Gayle and Paul Gross Education Endowment Fund.