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Rebecca McNamara

Rebecca McNamara

Arts & design curator & scholar

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I am a curator and scholar, specializing in 19th-century through contemporary American arts, design, and material culture. Learn more about my curatorial projects, books, magazine & journal writing, blog writing, and speaking.

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“Beauty & Bite” closes this Sunday. More than thirty @skidmorecollege classes from across many disciplines visited for discussion and assignments. Kara Walker’s “The Emancipation Approximation” (1999-2000) offered space for some really intense, provocative, and challenging conversations on race, gender, identity, truth & misinformation, storytelling, sexuality, history, formal composition, and much more... I am so grateful that this portfolio along with the stellar work of art all-stars William Kentridge, Nancy Grossman, Nayland Blake, Nan Goldin, Glenn Ligon, and Frank Moore (whose Beehive project with Jim Self I am forever posting about) are part of the Tang collection so that I could hang out with them all semester. 🙏🏻 . . . #beautyandbite #tangmuseum #tangteachingmuseum #curatorlife #karawalker #museumexhibition #museumcollection #museumcollections #teachingwithart #theemancipationapproximation #contemporaryart #accessandinclusion #5womenartists
Work bulletin board detail. Poster from #fiercepussy exhibition at @icaphiladelphia last fall. LADIES, USE YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE! . . . #2020 #votesforwomen #womenwhovote #suffragettes #womenssuffrage #democracy #activistart #agitprop #historicalarchives #contemporaryart #armsacheavidaeon #nancybrooksbrody #zoeleonard #joyepisalla #carrieyamaoka #useyourrighttovote #historymatters
2019 was a good year for me & finishing cross-stitch projects for friends 💛🧵💛🟦💛 . 1: Leia: Pattern by Rainbowstitchcross (Svetlana) on @etsy, with modifications to remove background graphics and replace gun with light saber 2: Friends: Frame pattern by @HugsxStitches via Etsy, with font modifications following style of “Friends” logo 3: Boo Bees: Thanks to @ragingstitches for this free pattern; modified with my own font. 4: Horse: Pattern from rucnipeaze.cz, made for my first @fibreshare partner, who loves horses 5: Yoda: From Star Wars Cross Stitch kit published by Becker & Mayer, modified with a saying I found online in my own font . . . #crossstitchersofinstagram #crossstitch #crossstitchpatterns #fiberarts #xstitch #xstitchersofinstagram #finishedproject #carriefisher #princessleia #starwars #friends #friendscrossstitch #yoda #yodacrossstitch #starwarscrossstitch #2019yearinreview #boobees #beckerandmayer #fibreshare #fibreshare2019 #etsypattern
In the museum late, and this Joan Snyder is kind enough to wave good night. . Detail of Joan Snyder, Waiting for a Miracle (for Nina and John), 1986, #tangcollection . #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #joansnyder #fivewomenartists #5womenartists #americanpainter #abstractart #narrativeabstraction #tangteachingmuseum

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