RACHEL ADAMS
CURATOR TALK
Thursday, March 12th at 7PM
117 N Sycamore, Santa Ana, CA 92701
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Grand Central Art Center, in collaboration with the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA), invites you to join us on Thursday, March 12th at 7:00pm at OCCCA for a curatorial talk by Rachel Adams, Chief Curator and Director of Programs at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.
This event marks the first program in a curatorial lecture series that brings together industry professionals from diverse institutions to share insight into their curatorial processes and research, while highlighting ongoing projects, exhibitions, and programs.
ABOUT RACHEL ADAMS
Rachel Adams has served as Chief Curator and Director of Programs at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art since 2018. Previously, she held curatorial positions at the University at Buffalo Art Galleries, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center (now Oregon Contemporary), and Arthouse at the Jones Center (now The Contemporary Austin). She holds an MA in Exhibition and Museum Studies rom the San Francisco Art Institute and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Adams’s practice is centered on fostering meaningful relationships with artists and advancing projects at the intersections of photography, installation, sound, performance, video, new media, and architecture. At Bemis, she has organized exhibitions including From the Great Lakes to the Great Plains: The Visible Current of Climate Change; Synchronicities; Carmen Winant: The last safe abortion; Jennifer Ling Datchuk: Eat Bitterness; Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers (co-curated); Paul Stephen Benjamin: Black of Night; Maya Dunietz: Root of Two; Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Drop Scene; and Claudia Wieser: Generations (co-curated), among many others. She also directs programming for LOW END, the Bemis Center’s Mellon Foundation–supported sound venue, which has presented a wide range of experimental performers. Forthcoming exhibitions include projects with Miatta Kawinzi and Ezra Masch.
Adams has worked with artists such as Ekene Ijeoma, Amie Siegel, Ragnar Kjartansson, Stephanie Syjuco, Kambui Olujimi, Jordan Weber, and Julia Rose Sutherland. Her writing has appeared in numerous catalogues and in publications including Afterimage, artforum.com, Art Papers, and Modern Painters. An alumna of the 2016 ICI Curatorial Intensive and the Artis Curatorial Research Trip to Israel, she has lectured widely at universities and arts institutions across the United States.
ABOUT BEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts supports artists by fostering experimentation, dialogue, and the creation of new work, while connecting
