Brainard Carey & Christine Kuan , Interviews by Brainard Carey

Christine Kuan

04 Sep 2021 • 23 min • EN
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Before joining Creative Capital as President and Executive Director, Christine Kuan was CEO/Director of Sotheby’s Institute of Art-New York. With twenty years of experience in both nonprofit and commercial sectors of the art world, Kuan has expertise in art education, museums, and digital strategy across cultural institutions and the art market. She was formerly Chief Curator and Director of Strategic Partnerships at Artsy, where she oversaw the organization’s museum and institutional partnerships, digital collection strategy, open access policy, educational initiatives, and auctions. Prior to Artsy, Kuan was Chief Curatorial Officer and Vice President of External Affairs at Artstor, a nonprofit image library founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Art Online/Grove Art Online at Oxford University Press, where she significantly expanded access to scholarly information on women artists and artists of color. Kuan has also worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and has taught at the University of Iowa, Peking University, Rutgers University, and Stanford University’s pilot program of Arts Leadership. Kuan holds an MFA in Creative Writing Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a BA in Art History and English Literature from Rutgers University. Kuan serves on the History of Collecting Advisory Committee at the Frick Collection in New York and the Steering Committee of The Brooklyn Rail. The Jumpsuit Project by Sherrill Roland. Photo credit: Christian Carter Ross. Roland wears an orange prison jumpsuit and stands in front of the Capitol Building in Washington DC. Descent (Flying) by Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson of the ensemble Kinetic Light. Photo credit: Jay Newman/ MANCC. Sheppard and Lawson perform in wheelchairs on stage. Sheppard is on her back with Lawson balancing on her raised legs and wheels. On her belly, Lawson lifts her own wheels and arms towards the air.

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