{"id":2474680,"date":"2022-09-14T11:20:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T15:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visartscenter.org\/?page_id=2474680"},"modified":"2024-07-08T13:53:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T17:53:45","slug":"2023-emerging-curator-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.visartscenter.org\/2023-emerging-curator-program\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Emerging Curator Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: left top;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:20px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two gallery_title\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><h2 class=\"title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\">2023 EMERGING CURATOR PROGRAM<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><a href=\"\/x\/lc-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Fahamu_headshot.png\"><img class=\"wp-image-2474681 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"\/x\/lc-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Fahamu_headshot.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visartscenter.org\/x\/lc-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Fahamu_headshot-100x150.png 100w, https:\/\/www.visartscenter.org\/x\/lc-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Fahamu_headshot-160x240.png 160w, https:\/\/www.visartscenter.org\/x\/lc-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Fahamu_headshot-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.visartscenter.org\/x\/lc-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Fahamu_headshot-267x400.png 267w, https:\/\/www.visartscenter.org\/x\/lc-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Fahamu_headshot-400x600.png 400w, https:\/\/www.visartscenter.org\/x\/lc-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Fahamu_headshot-420x630.png 420w, https:\/\/www.visartscenter.org\/x\/lc-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Fahamu_headshot-500x750.png 500w, https:\/\/www.visartscenter.org\/x\/lc-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Fahamu_headshot-600x900.png 600w, https:\/\/www.visartscenter.org\/x\/lc-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Fahamu_headshot-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/www.visartscenter.org\/x\/lc-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Fahamu_headshot-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/www.visartscenter.org\/x\/lc-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Fahamu_headshot-800x1200.png 800w, https:\/\/www.visartscenter.org\/x\/lc-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Fahamu_headshot.png 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mentoring Curator: <span class=\"s1\">Fahamu Pecou<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Fahamu Pecou received his BFA at the Atlanta College of Art in 1997 and a Ph.D. from Emory University in 2018. Dr. Pecou exhibits his art worldwide in addition to lectures and speaking engagements at colleges and universities.<\/p>\n<p>As an educator, Dr. Pecou has developed\u00a0<em>(ad)Vantage Point<\/em>, a narrative-based arts curriculum focused on Black male youth. Dr. Pecou is also the founding Director of the\u00a0<a class=\"link-color sbm-text link accessible-link\" href=\"https:\/\/adamatl.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">African Diaspora Art Museum of Atlanta (ADAMA)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pecou&#8217;s work is featured in noted private and public national and international collections including; Smithsonian National Museum of African American Art and Culture, Societe Generale(Paris), Nasher Museum at Duke University, The High Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Seattle Art Museum, Paul R. Jones Collection, ROC Nation, Clark Atlanta University Art Collection and Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Pecou was one of 6 artists selected for Emory University&#8217;s groundbreaking\u00a0<a class=\"link-color sbm-text link accessible-link\" href=\"https:\/\/news.emory.edu\/stories\/2020\/08\/er_art_social_justice_fellows\/campus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arts &amp; Social Justice Fellowship<\/a>. Additionally, Pecou was the Georgia awardee for the 2020 South Arts Prize. In 2017 he was the subject of a retrospective exhibition &#8220;Miroirs de l&#8217;Homme&#8221; in Paris, France. A recipient of the 2016 Joan Mitchell Foundation &#8220;Painters and Sculptors&#8221; Award, his work also appears in several films and television shows including; HBO&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Between the World and Me<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Blackish<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>The Chi.\u00a0<\/em>Pecou&#8217;s work has also been featured on numerous publications including Atlanta Magazine, Hanif Abdurraqib&#8217;s poetry collection,\u00a0<em>A Fortune for Your Disaster<\/em>\u00a0and the award-winning collection of short stories by Rion Amilcar Scott,<em>\u00a0<\/em><a class=\"link-color sbm-text link accessible-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/books\/in-the-world-doesnt-require-you-a-fictional-town-delivers-essential-truths\/2019\/09\/09\/3e08c6d2-d320-11e9-9343-40db57cf6abd_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The World Doesn&#8217;t Require You<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:25px;margin-bottom:25px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"medium\"><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #999999;\"><strong>About the VisArts Emerging Curator Program:<\/strong> The VisArts Emerging Curator Program pairs an emerging curator with an experienced mentoring curator to produce new exhibitions and related programming. The program is generously funded by the Windgate Charitable Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"medium\"><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #999999;\">Learn more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visartscenter.org\/emerging-curator-program-details\/\" style=\"color: #999999;\">VisArts Emerging Curator Program.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-aligncenter\"><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-button.button-1 {border-radius:2px;}<\/style><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat fusion-button-default-size button-default button-1 fusion-button-default-span fusion-button-default-type button-lca_custom_3 align center\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.visartscenter.org\/emerging-curator-program-details\/\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text\">MORE INFO<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-fullwidth.fusion-builder-row-2 { overflow:visible; }<\/style><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2002091,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":[],"_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.6.2 - 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