July 17, 2010: Opening Night
Segments on Curatorial Practices

Live THT broadcast at the Miami Art Museum as part of New Work Miami 2010, an exhibition conceived to highlight Miami's artistic community, including THT radio. Due to the importance of curators in the art field today, THT plans to have a segment dedicated to the curatorial practices on July 17th from 7:30 - 9:00 pm at the Miami Art Museum.  We are interested in having an informative and open exchange with museum visitors. Their expertise on this academic discipline will help us clarify doubts, perhaps explain how their role in this decision-making-position impact the world of art, as well as answer questions.

First Segment: Curating the BOOM: puttin' sum place in dat space

Fredo Rivera is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at Duke University.  He is currently serving as a Research Affiliate at the School of Architecture at the University of Miami, where he is conducting research on his dissertation on 1950s and 1960s Havana.  He is also blogging for the Miami Urban Think Tank (MUTT) - a virtual forum dedicated to metropolitan Miami - where he writes about art, architecture, globalization and urban visual culture.

Alfredo Rivera

Live Broadcast

Second Segment: Q&A / What will they tell?
Curious about curators? Their practices? How they think? What they eat?

Peter Boswell

Assistant Director for Programs/Senior Curator Miami Art Museum

Peter Boswell has been Assistant Director for Programs/Senior Curator at the Miami Art Museum since September 1999.  He has oversight of all activities of the curatorial and education departments at the museum, including exhibitions and public programs. He has curated numerous exhibitions at MAM, including Yinka Shonibare: a Flying Machine for Every Man, Woman, and Child (2008) Vik Muniz: Reflex (2006) which toured to 5 venues in North America, Power of Ten: Gifts in Honor of Miami Art Museum’s 10th Anniversary (2006), Wangechi Mutu – Amazing Grace (2005), New Work: Teresita Fernández (2002), Miami Currents: Linking Collection and Community (2002, with Lorie Mertes and Cheryl Hartup), and many permanent collection installations.  Prior to coming to the Miami Art Museum, Mr. Boswell served for three years as Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome and for 10 years on the curatorial staff of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.  Among the exhibitions he curated at the Walker are 2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story, Part II (1999, with Bruce Jenkins and Joan Rothfuss), The Photomontages of Hannah Höch (1996, with Maria Makela) and Krzyzstof Wodizcko: Public Address (1992). He has a BA with a major in Art History from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA in Art History from Stanford University.   

Carol Damian

Professor + Director and Chief Curator, Frost Art Museum

Dr. Carol Damian is Professor of Art History in the School of Art and Art History and Director of the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University. She is a graduate of Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., and received her MA in Pre-Columbian Art and her Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of Miami. A specialist in Latin American and Caribbean Art, she teaches classes in Pre-Columbian, Colonial, Spanish and Contemporary Latin American Art, Modern Art surveys and Women in Art.

Rina Carvajal

Independent Curator

Recently pointed as co-curator for the 29th Säo Paulo Biennial.

Silvia Karman Cubiñá

Executive Director and Chief Curator, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach

Silvia Karman Cubiñá has served in the past as the Director of the Moore Space since 2002 and has worked as an Independent Curator since 1997. Previously, she held the position of Adjunct curator at inova, the Institute of Visual Arts; University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; and held positions at The Mexican Museum in San Francisco and the Cuban Museum of Art in Miami. 

René Morales

Associate Curator, Miami Art Museum

René Morales is Associate Curator at Miami Art Museum, where he has organized several exhibitions including Space as Medium,Objects of Value,Mark Dion: South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit,and Miami in Transition. Publications include contributions to Cabinet Magazine, the monograph Pipilotti Rist: Wishing for Synchronicity, and a forthcoming monograph on Katharina Grosse. Prior to MAM Morales worked at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Morales received a BA in Biopsychology from Swarthmore College and a Master’s degree in Art History from Brown University.

José Antonio Navarrete

Independent Curator
(Interview in Spanish)

Actualmente se desempeña como investigador y curador independiente de artes y cultura visuales. Estudió Historia y Museología en La Habana. Entre otras, ha desarrollado las actividades siguientes: Editor de la revista ExtraCámara, Venezuela (1997-2006). / Gerente de Investigaciones, Curaduría, Educación y Biblioteca del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofía Imber (2003-2004). / Profesor de Teoría Museológica en la Maestría en Museología de la Universidad Francisco de Miranda, Coro, Venezuela (1997-2002). / Asesor de la Gerencia de Pintura y Escultura del Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas (1995-1997). / Curador general del Encuentro de Fotografía Latinoamericana, Caracas, 1993. / Curador del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana (1982-1991).

Ricardo Viera

Professor of Art and Director/Curator of the Lehigh University Art Galleries/Museum Operation, where he has established a visual laboratory with the university teaching collection and exhibition program. 

Professor Viera teaches courses in museum and curatorial studies, public art and visual thinking strategies. Last semester he taught a freshman introductory course, “Art & Nature: Museums,” alternating in situ between the Lehigh Valley Wildlands Conservancy and the LUAG galleries.  For Spring 2010 he is doing a cross-referenced course for Art, Architecture, Design and Latin American Studies: “Latino Visual Arts and Culture in the USA,” utilizing a component from the teaching collection of Latin American works, including photography, video and new media.
He has been consulting curator for the Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives, including the traveling exhibition, ‘Our Journey, Our Story.”  Since 1992 he has been a reviewer for Fotofest Houston Biennial and was invited for the first China Fotofest Beijing 2006.  His photography reviews included Photo Lucida, Oregon, SPE National Annuals, Center for Photography, Woodstock and FotoWeek DC in 2009.  He received the Philadelphia Photo Review 2007 Award for Service to the Field of Photography.  In 2007 and 2009 he was named a Cultural Envoy of the US Department of State International Education and Cultures Division to the Dominican Republic, where he conducted workshops for the Secretaria de Estado de Cultura throughout the country as well as serving as consultant for the reorganization and re-design of the permanent collection of El Museo del Hombre Dominicano in Santo Domingo.
Ricardo Viera is a noted lecturer, panelist and consultant for government arts and cultural agencies, non-profit community organizations and private enterprise/visual art projects.