Who is engaging whom, and why?

The title of the Hammer’s recent conference on public engagement — ENGAGE MORE NOW! — expresses the…

Open Access to History: The Brockman Gallery Archive

Crowding the Conversation

When the Public Engagement program staff at the Hammer invited me to contribute to EXCHANGE, I decided to turn the assignment on its head a bit by creating a platform for a group of people who attended “Engage More Now!” There was a convergence of leading artists, educators, and…

Institutional Trust

Emily Zimmerman, Associate Curator of Programs, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington

Teaching the Practice

I first encountered the Hammer’s Public Engagement program when I convened a panel on alternative curatorial practices…

David Wilson, Arrivals

In 2013, for the SECA Art Award exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, I installed a framed drawing in the woods, sixteen feet tall by eight feet wide. It lived out in the foggy eucalyptus-thick cliffs above the Golden Gate Bridge for three months as part my show Arrivals…