Taking Turns Artists and Curators Engage the Museum Discussion and Reception with George Ciscle, Maryland Institute College of Art Sarah Tanguy, Art in Embassies Thursday, May 18, 2006, 6 – 8 p.m. 500 Fifth St NW, Room Keck 100 Free
Join the Office of Exhibitions and Cultural Programs for a discussion of the ways in which artists and curators utilize and are inspired by museum collections. The program will include a discussion, followed by a reception, with George Ciscle and Sarah Tanguy. George Ciscle founded and directed The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore from 1989 to 1996. He organized and/or curated numerous exhibitions at The Contemporary including Mining the Museum, Catfish Dreamin’, Going for Baroque, and Ignisfatuus. Ciscle’s experience at The Contemporary provided him with inspiration for the unique multi-semester Exhibition Development Seminar he developed at MICA, subtitled The Curatorial Experience. Sarah Tanguy is a curator for the Art in Embassies Program as well as an independent curator and critic based in Washington, DC. Her current projects include Vanishing Boundaries, a joint US/Lithuania photography exhibition, Taken for Looks, an all-photography, food-inspired exhibition, Breaking Bread, a Cuba/Russia/US exhibition, and an ongoing exhibition series for the American Center for Physics. Since 1983, Tanguy has developed over a hundred exhibitions, including Sandy Skoglund: Enchanting the Real, a 30-year survey of Skoglund’s food-related installations and photography. RSVP recommended; please call (202) 334-2436 or email arts@nas.edu. This event is held in conjunction with Museum Muses: Barton Lidicé Benes and Justine Cooper

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