School of Art Welcomes Charlotte Street Foundation Executives to Lecture Series
Charlotte Street Foundation Executive Director Amy Kligman
The School of Art in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences welcomes Charlotte Street Foundation executive artistic director Amy Kligman and gallery and programs manager Kimi Kitada to the school's spring Lecture Series. Kligman and Kitada will present their work and insight into the Charlotte Street Foundation at 5:30 p.m. tonight, Thursday, March 7, in Hillside Auditorium 206.
Charlotte Street's mission envisions Kansas City, Missouri, as a dynamic home for artists in various career stages and disciplines to thrive, while serving as natural catalysts for an exciting, innovative and culturally rich city.
Kligman has been the executive artistic director at Charlotte Street since 2015. Her career and experience as an exhibiting artist and grassroots curator and arts administrator spans 20 years of studio and exhibition work, independent curating and organizing and artist-run projects.
In 2011, Kligman was one of a team of five artist-curators who established Plug Projects, an artist-run project space in Kansas City's West Bottoms that hosted a robust and nationally recognized calendar of exhibitions and artist-centered programming.
She is a painter and installation artist represented by Sherry Leedy Fine Art in Kansas City, and her work is in the collection of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Hallmark Cards and numerous private collections across the country.
Kitada is a curator based in Kansas City and is currently the gallery and programs manager at the Charlotte Street Foundation. Previously, she was curatorial assistant at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and served as public programs and research coordinator at Independent Curators International in New York.
Her recent exhibitions include Potential Futures: Prototypes and Handiwork: Art, Craft, the Space Between, With Liberty and Justice all at Charlotte Street in Kansas City, in addition, where we came from & where we are going at Transformer, Washington, D.C. She co-curated Postscript: Correspondent Works at artQ13 in Rome, Italy, 7×8 Curatorial Conversations at Budapest Art Market in Budapest, Hungary and (in)complete at TEMP Art Space in New York, New York.
Kitada received a B.A. in art history and classics from Bucknell University and an M.A. in museum studies from New York University.
Learn more about the work at Charlotte Street Foundation and Kligman and Kitada at 5:30 tonight, Thursday, March 7, in Hillside Auditorium 206.
Contacts
Kayla Crenshaw, director of administration and communications
School of Art
479-575-5202,
kaylac@uark.edu
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