The Princeton University Art Museum is building a bold and welcoming new building, designed by the world-renowned Ghanaian-British architect Sir David Adjaye and planned to open in Fall 2024. Just as an interest in contemporary life sent the plein air painters of the 19th century into the countryside to develop new painting techniques and experiment with new ways of seeing, contemporary concerns and values shape the curatorial vision for the new building. Important landscape painters—from Robert Duncanson, Albert Bierstadt and Alfred Sisley, to Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Josephine Meckseper—will be presented in new ways that cross media, cultures, and time. In this talk, Juliana Ochs Dweck, Chief Curator at the Princeton University Art Museum, will describe the boundary-crossing plans for the future collections galleries.

ABOUT Juliana Ochs Dweck Plein Air Plus, Juror
Juliana Ochs Dweck is chief curator at the Princeton University Art Museum. At Princeton, the exhibitions she curated and organized include Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States (2019), Time Capsule 1970: Rauschenberg’s Currents (2019), Picturing Protest (2018), Surfaces Seen and Unseen: African Art at Princeton (2016), and By Dawn’s Early Light: Jewish Contributions to American Culture from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War (2016). Dweck’s career spans art, history, and identity museums, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, and the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York. An anthropologist BA Yale University, PhD University of Cambridge, she is the author of Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel (Penn Press, 2011), and has written about materiality, memory, and museum practice.