Critique and Conversation

Local curators, artists, and art educators facilitate conversation centered upon works of art in the Museum's collection followed by focused, critical dialogue about ideas relevant to contemporary creative practice. Join creative colleagues for dynamic discussion and generative workshopping of concepts.
This session facilitated by Lynne Harlow and Sarah Ganz Blythe will explore the practice of critique and discuss its relationship to criticism and conversation. Discussion will examine the roles of the critic, the artist and the subject being critiqued. Consider the qualities of productive critique and collaboratively develop best practices to test out in the museum galleries.
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Lynne Harlow lives and works in Providence, RI. She exhibits regularly in the U.S. and internationally, with 2016 solo exhibitions at MINUS SPACE, Brooklyn, NY; Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX and the St. Gaudens Historic Site, Cornish, NH. Lynne's work has been reviewed by Artforum, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Providence Journal and ArchitectureBoston. In 2010, Lynne was awarded a MacColl Johnson Fellowship of the Rhode Island Foundation, a $25,000 grant to support new work. In 2002, she was a Visiting Artist at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX, where she lived and worked onsite with unrestricted access to its resources. Collections include The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art, Library Special Collections; The Phillips Collection; The RISD Museum of Art; The New York Public Library. She holds an M.F.A. from Hunter College, CUNY.
Sarah Ganz Blythe is Deputy Director for Exhibitions, Education, and Programs at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence. She collaborates with scholars, artists and designers to realize exhibitions, programs, and publications. Her current work focuses on exhibition culture, landscape and exploration, pedagogy and interpretation practices. She was previously Director of Interpretation and Research at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. She teaches in the graduate programs of Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University, Providence. Her PhD in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University focused on painting and utopianism at the close of the nineteenth century.
Critique and Conversation is supported, in part, by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and by Dr. Joseph A. Chazan. To find out more about how NEA grants impact individuals and communities, visit arts.gov.