February 13, 2025

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Jessica Bell Brown Named Contemporary Art Chief at BMA

The Baltimore Museum of Artwork (BMA) right now discovered that it has promoted Jessica Bell Brown to curator and head of its modern day art department. In her new function, Brown, who arrived to the BMA in 2019 as an affiliate curator of up to date artwork, will deal with the museum’s swiftly growing collection, organize shows, and oversee two affiliate curators, two curatorial assistants, and a fellow.

“Since signing up for the BMA, Jessica has positioned artists’ voices at the core of her curatorial operate, making new platforms to expertise artwork as envisioned by its makers and bridging institutional and artistic visions and approaches,” explained chief curator and interim codirector Asma Naeem in a assertion. “Her eyesight, keen insights, and dedication to artists will be integral as the BMA continues to diversify its collections and grow the narratives of art as a result of its exhibitions and systems.”

Amongst the exhibitions Brown has had a hand in because becoming a member of the BMA are “A Movement in Each Course: Legacies of the Good Migration,” which she co-structured with Ryan N. Dennis, chief curator and inventive director of the center for art and community trade at the Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA). That includes newly commissioned operates by a dozen artists exploring the impact of the Wonderful Migration on social and cultural daily life in the United States, the show introduced at the MMA on April 9 and opens in Baltimore on October 30. Final calendar year, with BMA associate curator of modern artwork Leila Grothe, she cocurated “How Do We Know the Planet?,” a diverse reinstallation of the museum’s present-day artwork galleries investigating the techniques artists engage with historic, social, political, and environmental constructs. Before arriving to the Baltimore establishment, Brown, who gained her BA in art heritage at Northwestern and her MA in the identical topic from Princeton, was consulting curator at Gracie Mansion Conservancy in New York. She has on top of that worked  at the Museum of Modern Artwork, New York, the Brooklyn Academy of New music, and Innovative Time.

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