Ask a Curator Day!

The Hammer is excited to be among 350+ museums from 34 countries participating in Ask a Curator Day on Wednesday, September 18 via the microblogging site Twitter.

Hammer curatorial staff will be live tweeting from 11AM to 3PM PDT.  Tweet your questions to @hammer_museum and make sure to use the #AskaCurator hashtag.  We can't wait to hear from you!

11AM-12PM

Aram Moshayedi | Curator

Aram recently came to the Hammer from the gallery at REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater). His first exhibition for the Hammer is Pentti Monkkonen: Selected Works from the Baldwin Hills Space Association and he is currently organizing a selection of works from the Hammer Contemporary Collection. His area of expertise is projects and exhibitions.

12-1PM

Emily Gonzalez | Curatorial Assistant

Emily has worked on many Hammer exhibitions including Mark Leckey: On Pleasure Bent, LLYN FOULKES, Made in L.A. 2012, and All of this and nothing. She is also our resident expert on the institutional history of American museums.

1-2PM

Leslie Cozzi | Curatorial Associate, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts

Leslie’s areas of expertise include Feminist art, contemporary Italian art, and prints/drawings/works on paper.

2-3PM

Allison Agsten | Curator, Public Engagement

Allison can answer questions about collectives, collaboration, intimacy at museums, museum as a civic space, Los Angeles as the ultimate place to develop PE-type programming, and kids + art. She’s also a car enthusiast.