Cecilia Wichmann curates major exhibition at Baltimore Museum of Art, "Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams"

Cecilia has curated a must-see exhibition for our region. See it soon!

Cecilia Wichmann, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art and a PhD candidate in the Department, has curated the exhibition "Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams," which recently opened at the Baltimore Museum of Art, where it will be on view until mid-July, when it will travel to the Seattle Art Museum for the second leg of the tour.

Cecilia, who co-curated the exhibition with Catharina Manchanda, SAM Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, together with support from Leslie Rose, Joyce J. Scott Curatorial Research Assistant, has long been interested in Joyce Scott's work, and it is the focus of her dissertation work as well. The exhibition is a 50-year retrospective of the work of Ms. Scott, a Baltimore-based artist whose textile work ranges from wearables to tapestries and quilts. Her work "comes from a long line of makers in her family who created beautiful, functional objects in their quest for freedom out of slavery, sharecropping, migration, and segregation."

Cecilia also curated a companion exhibition of Scott’s mother’s work, Eyewinkers, Tumbleturds, and Candlebugs: The Art of Elizabeth Talford Scott, which has been on view at the BMA since November 12, 2023, and will run through April 28, 2024.

Congratulations Cecilia!