{"id":8168,"date":"2022-04-26T19:18:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T19:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/?p=8168"},"modified":"2022-04-26T19:18:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T19:18:07","slug":"lauren-haynes-is-hired-as-leading-curator-of-the-queens-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/lauren-haynes-is-hired-as-leading-curator-of-the-queens-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Haynes Is Hired As Leading Curator Of The Queens Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lauren Haynes has been hired to serve as the director of curatorial affairs and programs at New York\u2019s Queens Museum.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For over 15 years, Haynes has created quite the name for herself as a leading curator in the United States. She began her journey at the Studio Museum in Harlem, where she worked for nearly a decade. There, she organized standout shows for artists such as Stanley Whitney, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Alma Thomas, the Spiral collective, and curated an exhibition that examined the influence of Ebony<\/em> and Jet<\/em> magazines on today\u2019s artists.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haynes has also worked as a curator at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, and served as the institutional curator for Crystal Bridge\u2019s exhibition \u201cSoul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power.\u201d Before joining Queen Museum, she was the senior curator of contemporary art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now at Queens Museum, Haynes\u2019 senior leadership position will allow her to work in curation and also with the museum\u2019s education department as part of a vision of merging all of the institution\u2019s activities into one team.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe siloing of curatorial and education is something that we\u2019re really working to collapse at the museum,\u201d said Queens Museum\u2019s executive director Sally Tallant in an interview. \u201cIt\u2019s not just an exhibitions-focused role. It\u2019ll be working with the team to make sure that everything we do makes sense, so whatever experience people are having of art\u2014whether that\u2019s through a school visit, a tour, visiting a major exhibition, or having a year-long residency as an artist\u2014there will be a curatorial oversight to that.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe\u2019s going to bring her own kind of energy and approach,\u201d Tallant continued. \u201cBecause she\u2019s work in a range of different contexts, I think she\u2019s going to bring great leadership qualities and diversity of experience to the table that will really help nurture our team and give them an opportunity to grow.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haynes, who grew up in New York, is excited to return to her hometown and sees this new role as a way to envision the museum\u2019s growth in the future<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI love building things,\u201d Haynes said. \u201cI love working with colleagues and working with people to think about: Okay, where we are now is great, but where do we want to be? And not thinking that we stick with the status quo. This position is about thinking globally about the museum and about what content can be across exhibitions, public programs, and education.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her focus is primarily on the artists, forming a connection with the audience, and the museum\u2019s purpose on a global scale.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll of the museums that I\u2019ve worked at have also been thinking about their particular audiences,\u201d she said. \u201cSo for me, thinking about the audience of the Queens Museums: people who live in Queens, in the tristate area, in the world. How do we push those conversations and try to engage deeply with a core audience while growing other audiences?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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