Jessica Bell Brown Named Contemporary Art Chief at BMA

The Baltimore Museum of Artwork (BMA) today uncovered that it has promoted Jessica Bell Brown to curator and head of its up to date artwork department. In her new purpose, Brown, who arrived to the BMA in 2019 as an affiliate curator of up to date artwork, will handle the museum’s rapidly escalating selection, manage presentations, and oversee two affiliate curators, two curatorial assistants, and a fellow.

“Since becoming a member of the BMA, Jessica has positioned artists’ voices at the core of her curatorial perform, building new platforms to experience art as envisioned by its makers and bridging institutional and creative visions and techniques,” claimed main curator and interim codirector Asma Naeem in a assertion. “Her eyesight, eager insights, and dedication to artists will be integral as the BMA continues to diversify its collections and extend the narratives of art by way of its exhibitions and packages.”

Among the the exhibitions Brown has had a hand in because joining the BMA are “A Movement in Every single Path: Legacies of the Great Migration,” which she co-arranged with Ryan N. Dennis, chief curator and creative director of the centre for art and public exchange at the Mississippi Museum of Artwork (MMA). Showcasing newly commissioned works by a dozen artists exploring the effects of the Wonderful Migration on social and cultural life in the United States, the show released at the MMA on April 9 and opens in Baltimore on Oct 30. Past year, with BMA affiliate curator of modern artwork Leila Grothe, she cocurated “How Do We Know the Earth?,” a diverse reinstallation of the museum’s present-day artwork galleries investigating the techniques artists interact with historic, social, political, and environmental constructs. Before arriving to the Baltimore institution, Brown, who earned her BA in art heritage at Northwestern and her MA in the same matter from Princeton, was consulting curator at Gracie Mansion Conservancy in New York. She has on top of that worked  at the Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Resourceful Time.

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