Thursday, April 4
in Highpoint’s gallery
7-8pm, FREE!
Casey Riley (image credit: Mia)
Please join the 2023 McKnight Printmaking Fellows Natasha Pestich and Carolyn Swiszcz as they speak about their artistic practice, their fellowship year, and their exhibition in Highpoint’s galleries. The conversation will be moderated by Casey Riley (Chair of Global Contemporary Art and Curator of Photography and New Media at Mia). This event will be held at Highpoint and is free to attend. Seating is limited.
About Casey Riley: Casey Riley is Chair of Global Contemporary Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), where she leads the research, exhibition, and publication of the museum’s renowned collection of art after 1970. Her curatorial practices are rooted in collaboration and informed by the principles of inclusion and equity. In 2023, her projects at Mia included "The last safe abortion," a site-specific installation by the artist Carmen Winant, and "In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now," a critically acclaimed survey of over 150 works by First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and Native American photographic artists.
Riley was the assistant curator at the Boston Athenaeum and consulting curator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. She has published widely on American art and photographic history and has most recently co-organized, in partnership with the Gordon Parks Foundation, "American Gothic: Gordon Parks and Ella Watson," on view at Mia from January to June of 2024. An experienced educator, Riley is a graduate of Yale University, holds master’s degrees from Brown University and Middlebury College, and earned her PhD from Boston University. She is a member of the 2023 class of fellows at the Center for Curatorial Leadership in New York City.
