She also organized FLY | DROWN, a solo exhibition and performance series with choreographer Jennifer Harge at the Detroit Artist Market (2019).įrom 2016-18, Aldridge served as an assistant curator of contemporary art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. At the Cranbrook Art Museum, she provided research for the exhibition “Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy and Materiality” and co-curated Material Detroit, the show’s public programming component (2019). Both curators bring unique backgrounds to the African American museum, where art and history presentations focus on the “critically important role African Americans have played in the American West’s cultural, economic, and political development.”ĪLDRIDGE HAS CURATED EXHIBITIONS and programming at a variety of institutions. CAAM Deputy Director and Chief Curator Cameron ShawĬAAM was established in 1977 and opened its doors in 1981. “At this moment of great uncertainty for many cultural institutions,… it is all the more meaningful that we are able to welcome onto our team these extraordinary curators.

“At this moment of great uncertainty for many cultural institutions, when museums have had to close their doors to the public, and some are facing layoffs or reckoning with institutional racism, it is all the more meaningful that we are able to welcome onto our team these extraordinary curators,” Cameron Shaw, deputy director and chief curator of CAAM, said in a statement. CAAM has been temporarily closed since March 13, due to COVID-19. Both Aldridge and Anderson are working remotely along with the rest of the museum’s staff.

The news was released July 23.Īnderson officially started at CAAM in July. Anderson, a public historian and curator from San Francisco, is the new history curator and program manager. Detroit-based independent curator and writer Taylor Renee Aldridge is joining the museum as visual arts curator and program manager. IN LOS ANGELES, the California African American Museum (CAAM) announced two key curatorial appointments.

The Museum by Susan Verde