Studio Visits

Susan Cross is Senior Curator at MASS MoCA, where she has organized solo exhibitions, major commissions, and performances by Sarah Crowner, Alex Da Corte, Liz Deschenes, Marcos Ramirez ERRE, Spencer Finch, Liz Glynn, Katharina Grosse, Allison Janae Hamilton (co-curated with Larry Ossei-Mensah), Steffani Jemison, Ledelle Moe, Richard Nonas, Gamaliel Rodriguez, Cauleen Smith, and Simon Starling, among many others. Group exhibitions include Ceramics in the Expanded Field (2021), The Lure of the Dark: Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night (2018), In the Abstract (2017), The Dying of the Light: Film as Medium and Metaphor (2014), Invisible Cities (2012), and The Workers: Precarity/Invisibility/Mobility (2011), co-curated with Carla Herrera-Prats. Cross edited the first monographs on Da Corte, Crowner, Finch, and Glynn and is the co-editor of Sol LeWitt: 100 Views. Previously, she was a curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. She has been a visiting lecturer in the art department at Williams College and serves on the board of the Williamstown Art Conservation Center and on the advisory board of the Journal of the Archives of American Art, Washington, DC. She received an MA from Williams College and was a 2019 Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow.

Paul Efstathiou is the Director of Contemporary Art at Hollis Taggart Gallery in New York City and CT. Efstathiou is a second-generation art dealer and curator with 20 plus years of experience. Efstathiou has developed a well-trained and prescient eye, making him a successful dealer and curator of contemporary art. Paul is on the board of directors at the MoCA Westport Museum in CT. He has worked closely with 60 plus emerging and contemporary artists to date. Efstathiou is based both in New York City and Connecticut. He currently resides in Southport, CT with his wife and two children.

Samantha Hunt is the author of five books. The Unwritten Book, a non-fiction investigation into our relationships with the dead; The Seas, about a girl who might be a mermaid; The Dark Dark, a collection of short fictions; Mr. Splitfoot, a ghost story; and The Invention of Everything Else about Nikola Tesla. Hunt is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bard Fiction Prize, the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Prize, the St. Francis College Literary Prize and a blue-ribbon winner of the Montgomery Place Pie contest. She has been a finalist for the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner. Hunt teaches at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She is mother to three, sister to five. She is a gardener and beekeeper; a singer and forest enthusiast in upstate New York.

Marshall N. Price is the Chief Curator and Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and serves as adjunct faculty in the university’s Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies. He received a Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Before joining the Nasher Museum, Price was Curatorial Assistant at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and from 2003 until 2014 held the position of Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Academy Museum, New York. He has organized numerous exhibitions including Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1960, Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush, Colour Correction: British and American Screenprints, 1967-75, Jeffrey Gibson: Said the Pigeon to the Squirrel, and John Cage: The Sight of Silence, among others.

In 2010, Douglas Turner began writing art journalism, beginning with his culture blog, “The Architecture of Tomorrow”. His art and culture writing has appeared in numerous independent print and digital publications. His essays can be found in catalog essays, collections, and in the form of book introductions as well. In 2014 he launched AOT Project Salon and began curating salon-style exhibitions in his home in Brooklyn, New York, and the Lower East Side until 2019. Douglas is a Resident Curator with Standard Space, a contemporary gallery in Sharon, CT, exhibiting contemporary works by emerging and mid-career artists across diverse media. His most recent project is the creation of the Black Femme Residency. The Spring 2021 residency was hosted by Wassaic Project in historic Dutchess County, upstate New York. He serves as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the M. Spencer Foundation.

Carolina Wheat (b.1974, Detroit, MI) received her BFA in textiles from University of Michigan Stamps School and MFAW from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has written extensively about art, politics and culture, and has curated numerous socially conscientious large-scale exhibitions and events in Detroit, Berlin, London, Chicago, and New York. Wheat is co-founder and director of Elijah Wheat Showroom and is one of the founding members of the Nasty Women Exhibition movement. Her curatorial work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Artforum, The New Yorker, Vulture, Hyperallergic, Fast Company, MAAKE Mag, The Brooklyn Rail, The Guardian, and China Daily, among others. Wheat has assisted The Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark, liaising with institutions on reproduction of Garbage Wall, 1970. As Director of Recruitment and Admissions at Parsons (NYC and Paris), SAIC, University of Michigan, Oregon College of Arts and Craft, Cornish, etc., Wheat focused on strategic enrollment management, portfolio development, art-writing and professional practices. As radio producer and activist for Low-Power FM, Wheat collaborated with WCBN, FreeRadioSAIC, Chicago Independent Radio Project (CHIRP), and the online platform Artfare where she broadcast 80+ weekly artist interviews. Carolina is now also Director at Fridman Gallery on the Bowery in NYC. In her role, she manages the gallery's program, liaising with incredible artists, and leading art-fair presentations.

Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy (b. 1992, Puerto Rico) is a curator and writer of contemporary art and craft interested in advocating for underrepresented communities, stories, materials, and approaches. She has curated and juried exhibitions across the United States, including at the Crocker Art Museum, CA, Mindy Solomon Gallery, FL, the Center for Craft, NC, Jane Hartsook Gallery, NY, and the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), NY, among others. Vizcarrondo-Laboy has written for multiple exhibition catalogs and publications such as Cultured, American Craft magazine, and the Journal of Modern Craft. She is the creator and co-host of the Clay in Color podcast. Her upcoming exhibition Funk You Too!: Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture, opens in March 2023 at MAD Museum.

Jeffrey Yang is the author of the poetry collections Line and Light; Hey, Marfa (winner of the Southwest Book Award); Vanishing-Line; and An Aquarium (winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award). He is the translator of Bei Dao’s autobiography City Gate, Open Up; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies; Ahmatjan Osman’s Uyghurland, the Farthest Exile; and Su Shi’s East Slope. He is the editor of the poetry anthologies Birds, Beasts, and Seas and Time of Grief, a volume of Walt Whitman’s poetry and prose, The Sea Is a Continual Miracle, and an expanded edition of Mary Oppen’s Meaning a Life: An Autobiography. Yang has received fellowships from the DAAD artists-in-Berlin program, the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Omina Freundeshilfe Foundation. He edits books for New Directions Publishing and New York Review Books.