Curator Beth Jackson and Artist Donna Davis during the curatorial development of  Bimblebox: art – sceince – nature.  photo Jill Sampson, 2013.

Beth Jackson curated the currently touring Bimblebox: art – science – nature, exhibition and will be one of the panelists at the Curating Feminism Conference in Sydney, which starts today.

Curating Feminism Conference

Curating Feminism: a Contemporary Art and Feminism event co-hosted by Sydney College of the Arts, School of Letters, Arts and Media, and The Power Institute, University of Sydney

Conference dates:  Thursday 23rd to Sunday 25th October, 2014

Here is the Saturday program of which Beth is a part of:

10am-4 pm Saturday 25 October
SCA Auditorium, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, Kirkbride Way, Rozelle

Panel 1 – Curating feminism: Speaking to the exhibition

10:00 – 11:45am
Chair: Catriona Moore, Art History and Film Studies, University of Sydney

• Co-Directors of LEVEL (Courtney Coombs, Caitlin Franzmann, Rachael Haynes, Anita Holtsclaw, Alice Lang, Courtney Pedersen)
• Kelly Doley, artist/curator
• Elvis Richardson and Virginia Fraser, artist/curator
• Brigid Noone, curator

Panel 2 – Curating public space

11:45am – 1:15pm
Chair: Jacqueline Millner, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney

• Bianca Hester, artist and postdoctoral research associate, SCA
• Jo Holder, Director, Cross Arts Projects
• Sophia Kouyoumdjian, Director, Parramatta Artists Studio
• Gillian Fuller, Design and Art Australia Online (DAAO)

Panel 3 – Curating regionalism

2:30 – 3:45pm
Chair: Jo Holder, Director Cross Arts Projects

• Beth Jackson, Bimblebox, Queensland
• Meryl Ryan, Lake Macquarie Regional Gallery, NSW
• Jasmin Stephens, freelance curator
• Alana Hunt, Warmun Arts Centre, Western Australia