Alum Allison Glenn Appointed as Senior Curator of Public Art Fund

Allison Glenn. Credit: Jenny Risher. Image courtesy of Public Art Fund

Allison Glenn. Credit: Jenny Risher. Image courtesy of Public Art Fund

Alum Allison Glenn (MA 2012) was recently announced as senior curator of Public Art Fund, an organization that stages public art installations across New York City. Previously, Glenn curated the critically acclaimed 2021 exhibition Promise, Witness, Remembrance for the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. The show brought together the work of 23 artists to honor the life of Breonna Taylor. Throughout the process of creating the exhibition, Glenn worked closely with Taylor’s family and established local and national committees to advise on the show. “I’ve always been the kind of person who likes a lot of feedback in the work that I’m doing,” Glenn shared. “That kind of collaborative engagement and close listening made the exhibition stronger. There were many voices in the room raising issues that not one decision was made in a silo. It’s my hope to work in that same way at Public Art Fund.”