We are honored to host curators Sarah Darro and Patricia Restrepo for a zoom lecture on Monday, November 2, 12-1pm. If you would like to join, please email Anthony Sonnenberg for zoom link: apsonnen@uark.edu
Sarah Darro is a curator and writer working at the nexus of contemporary art, craft, and design. She has established an intersectional curatorial vision that is invested in reinvigorating museum spaces as forums for discourse, innovation, action and engagement through experience. Her research interests range from architecturally-influenced design and the agency of objects to artist communities, socially engaged practice and relational aesthetics. Darro was named the 2019 American Craft Council Emerging Voices Awards Scholar and is the forthcoming 2022 Jentel Critic at the Archie Bray Foundation. She is the Curatorial Research Fellow of Modern and Contemporary Glass at the Corning Museum of Glass and in 2018 she completed a Windgate Curatorial Fellowship at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.
Most recently, Darro curated Total Work of Art at 2020 Spring/Break Art Show New York and Tense Present for the American Craft Council. Darro is a regular contributor to publications on contemporary craft and has juried international exhibitions including Meta-Formation, which is currently on view at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, and the 2020 Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show. Darro holds a Master’s degree in visual, material, and museum anthropology from Oxford University and Bachelor’s degrees in art history and anthropology from Barnard College of Columbia University.
Patricia Restrepo is a curator, writer, and researcher based in Houston, Texas. She is the Assistant Curator and Exhibitions Manager at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), where she has worked for six years. At CAMH she has recently curated Slowed and Throwed and Will Boone: The Highway Hex.
She manages and contributes to the institution's publication production and has orchestrated the digitization of all of CAMH's catalogues to increase accessibility to the museum's prolific and significant scholarship. Restrepo has curated exhibitions and performance programming at Alabama Song, Hardy and Nance Studios, Houston Center for Photography, and Northset Residency. Fostering exhibitions as laboratories, her curatorial interests include the generative potential latent in archives, museology, and performative work.