Dec 10, 2019, 6 PM – 8 PM

Artist Conversation: with Timothy Curtis, Chief Curator Claire Gilman, and Community Leader Dawan Williams

Join us on Tuesday, December 10, 2019, 6:00pm, for a conversation with Chief Curator Claire Gilman, Artist Timothy Curtis, and Community Leader Dawan Williams.

The Drawing Center’s Chief Curator Claire Gilman, artist Timothy Curtis, and Dawan Williams, Program Coordinator for the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Restorative Justice Guild program, will discuss art making in the context of the modern US prison system.

This conversation was recorded.

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Timothy Curtis

Timothy Curtis (b. 1982) is a self-taught artist from Philadelphia, who lives and works in New York City. Since establishing a focused studio practice in 2015, Curtis realized his first solo exhibition in November 2017 at Kaikai Kiki’s Hidari Zingaro gallery in Tokyo, Japan, curated by Takashi Murakami. His work was debuted publicly in the U.S. at the Brooklyn Museum as part of the group exhibition Coney Island Is Still Dreamland (To a Seagull) by the artist Stephen Powers (2015-1016). In 2018, Curtis’ work was included in Beyond the Streets, curated by Roger Gastman, a follow-up to Los Angeles MoCA's successful Art in the Streets exhibition. Curtis has also led a prison-wide mural program, creating large-scale projects throughout the prison campus, and leading a team of inmates, many of whom were serving life sentences and now practicing art for the first time.