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#Alice Grey Stites
April 3, 2024
Grace Ebert
Stroll into 21c Museum Resort in downtown Chicago, and also you would possibly encounter a medication cupboard crammed with felted merchandise by Lucy Sparrow, a photograph from Carrie Mae Weems’s Kitchen Desk collection, and Angela Ellsworth’s unsettling bonnets made from pearls and pins, all throughout the foyer alone. The works have been a part of OFF-SPRING: New Era, a touring exhibition curated by Alice Grey Stites that considers how rituals affect identification. They have been additionally uncommon sights for a venue that welcomes visitors toting unwieldy baggage and grabbing a drink on the bar.
Stites is chief curator for 21c Museum Resorts, a boutique hospitality chain throughout the Midwest and South that has carved a singular area of interest as each an area for world-renowned artworks and on a regular basis tourism. I spoke with Stites in February 20204 by way of Zoom about curating for a multi-venue museum of this sort, why she values being articulate over being accessible, and the unbelievable belief and respect she has for the general public.
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#Alice Grey Stites