This workshop will demystify what a curatorial studio visit entails and offer some practical tips for a productive experience.
About the Host: Erin Dunn is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Telfair Museums. Since joining the curatorial department in 2014, Dunn has curated numerous exhibitions including the first full-career survey of American painter Phillip J. Hampton, a retrospective of the photographer Bruce Davidson and solo exhibitions with artists Sonya Clark and Noel W Anderson. In addition, Dunn has spearheaded several exhibitions for Telfair’s #art912 initiative, which raises the visibility and promotes the vitality of artists living and working in Savannah. Dunn’s writing appears in the exhibition catalogue Feels like Freedom: Phillip J. Hampton, Late Night Polaroids: Photographs by Emily Earl, and Seven Rivers, a monograph of photographer Ansley West Rivers. She has served as a juror for art shows and call to artists, recently the Gertrude Herbert Institute for the Arts 2022 annual exhibition A Sense of Place. Dunn holds a BA from Emory University and an MA in art history from the University of Georgia.