EMILY ZIMMERMAN APPOINTED NEW DIRECTOR OF THE JACOB LAWRENCE GALLERY
Seattle, WA — The School of Art + Art History + Design is pleased to announce Emily Zimmerman as the new Director of the Jacob Lawrence Gallery. She begins working in the Gallery on January 16, 2017. The Director oversees all Gallery operations and provides curatorial guidance for exhibitions and events, as well as teaches and mentors the Gallery’s student interns.
Professor Ann Gale chairs the School’s Jacob Lawrence Gallery/Exhibitions Committee, which served as the search committee for the new Director. "The gallery committee was impressed with the diverse and highly qualified pool of applicants for the position of Director of the Jacob Lawrence Gallery", Gale remarked. "We look forward to working with Emily Zimmerman as she brings her unique interests and energy to her new position."
Zimmerman has a bachelor's degree from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study with a focus on art history. Her master’s degree is from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. She has worked extensively in the context of universities, most recently as the Associate Curator of Programs at the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, and, prior to that, as the Associate Curator at the Experimental Media and Performing Art Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. During her time at EMPAC, Zimmerman commissioned new pieces from artists such as Melvin Moti, Gordon Hall, and Marie Sester, and curated the exhibitions Uncertain Spectator (2010) and Slow Wave: Seeing Sleep (2009).
Zimmerman received the 2011-2012 Lori Ledis Curatorial Fellowship at BRIC Contemporary Art and served as a 2013 curator-in-residence at Residency Unlimited. Her writings have appeared in BOMB, Big, Red & Shiny, and Contemporary Performance. She has served on a number of review panels including the New York State Council on the Arts and the Herb Alpert Awards. She is a board member for Wave Farm.
From Zimmerman: "I am thrilled to join the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, with its commitment to Jacob Lawrence’s visionary legacy. The Gallery vitally continues the tradition of university art galleries as a site for experimental practices. It is an honor to join the School of Art + Art History + Design with its extraordinary faculty, students, and alumni, and the rich possibilities for collaboration that such a context presents."
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