Guest Speakers 2017

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Elizabeth Grady:

Elizabeth Grady is the Programs Director of A Blade of Grass, a curator, critic and scholar of socially engaged art. She was Program Manager of smARTpower, a U.S. State Department program that sent artists to fifteen countries to do projects that engaged local communities (2010-2012). She served in the curatorial departments of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and San Francisco MoMA. Sh has completed projects for the Moscow Biennial, the Biennial of the Canary Islands and the Havana Biennial. For the latter, she curated Proyecto Paladar, a participatory food-based project at the Wifredo Lam Center (2012). She taught at FIT-SUNY in Art History and the Graduate School from 2002-2013. She holds a Ph.D. in art history from Northwestern University.

Emily Nussbaum:

Emily Nussbaum is the television critic for The New Yorker, and in 2016 won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism. She has written about “The Good Wife,” “Girls,” “Mad Men,” and “Scandal,” among other shows. Previously, she worked at New York for seven years, editing the Culture Pages (and creating the Approval Matrix) and writing both features and criticism.