Socially Engaged Practice in Art and Curating

The New Media Art Program presents

Visiting Curator
Leah Abir

will speak about:
Socially Engaged Practice in Art and Curating

Thursday Nov. 3rd, 2011 @ 5:30 pm

Leah Abir is the inaugural Artis Curatorial Fellow at Creative Time, working in the Programming Department on the exhibition LivingAs Form (September 24 to October 16, 2011). A curator and writer in the field of contemporary art, she completed her B.A. in Art History and postgraduate studies in Museology at Tel Aviv University and is currently writing her M.A. thesis in the Modern Art department at Haifa University. Over the past 3 years, Abir worked as the Associate Curator and Director of Programming for MoBY - Museums of Bat Yam, and has independently curated exhibitions at various galleries and museums throughout Israel. She has written extensively on contemporary art for various international publications and exhibition catalogs, and has taught courses on the history of curating and modern and contemporary art in academic and private institutions.