Since the Hammer received a James Irvine Foundation grant to start Public Engagement at the museum in 2009, the scope of socially…
The title of the Hammer’s recent conference on public engagement — ENGAGE MORE NOW! — expresses the…
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…
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…
No one is asking for it: this is a natural response when questioning policies around…
I first encountered the Hammer’s Public Engagement program when I convened a panel on alternative curatorial practices…
Emily Zimmerman, Associate Curator of Programs, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington
