Through case studies drawn from his previous exhibitions, McCarthy will consider the elements that make a good exhibition: the relationship between artists and curators, the role of drama and display in visual argumentation, interpretation, and how to look at the overlooked.  He will discuss his work organizing the traveling exhibitions Women Artists in Paris: 1850-1900 and Anila Quayyum Agha: Interwoven, as well as Inspired Encounters: Women Artists and the Legacies of Modern Art,  Q&A will follow.

Jeremiah William McCarthy is presently chief curator and curator of American art at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers.  Previously, he was chief curator at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art and consulting curator for The Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, where he co-organized “Inspired Encounters: Women Artists and the Legacies of Modern Art,” the inaugural exhibition of the campus’s new David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center in Tarrytown, NY. Before his work for The Fund, he served as curator at the National Academy of Design and associate curator at the American Federation of Arts. Additionally, he has worked in the curatorial and education departments of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and he was an inaugural teaching fellow at The Frick Collection.