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EVANSTON ART CENTER

Director's Statement

Paula Danoff

CEO & President, EAC

The Evanston Art Center is honored to present the

inaugural Curatorial Fellows of 2020-2021 and Co-

Curators, Alpha M. Bruton, Curator of Phantom

Gallery Chicago Network, and Adero Knott,

Disability/Accessibility Curator, and founder of AK

Prosthetics. This major exhibition features works by

Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Women,

LGBTQIA+ and Disabled artists from the Chicago

metropolitan area and nation. The Evanston Art

Center Exhibition Committee developed the

Curatorial Fellowship to center BIPOC and

intersectional voices by creating diverse, inclusive,

and accessible opportunities for underrepresented

curators and artists.

Over the course of Alpha Bruton and Adero

Knott's 15-month residency at the Evanston Art

Center, we have seen powerful and thought-

provoking programming including Creative

Conversations, a lectures series with artists,

curators, and art professionals examining the

ways in which the city influences art; Ceremonial

Teas in the Context of African American Social

Life, a hybrid virtual and in-person program

presenting the history of the tea ceremony in

African American culture and featuring guest

presenter, Larissa J. Akinremi, and speaker,

Taurean J. Webb; a series of Art Talks exploring

ways artists examine their environment through

Racism, Spirituality, Documentation and Art as

Wellness; and culminating final exhibition, Cara Feeney

Examining the State of Our Environment, on Director of Exhibitions, EAC

display in the Evanston Art Center’s Nelli Bar &

Paul Wieghardt Gallery.

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