The Holland Project’s Curator Series invites regional & national artist-curators to organize art and humanities programs in collaboration with HP Galleries. The series aims to expand the scope of conversations presented by curators and exhibiting artists beyond our gallery walls through programs that engage all departments of our organization: art, music, workshops, and community.
We are thrilled to announce the 2020 Resident Curators:
Jump to info: Alisha Funkhouser | Alberto Garcia R. + Krystal Ramirez
This series is made possible in part through a grant from Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities
Alisha Funkhouser
July 1 – August 8, 2020
Alisha Funkhouser is an interdisciplinary artist and photographer based in Northern Nevada. She earned a BFA from the University of Nevada, Reno and currently works as the Director of Education + Youth Programs at the Holland Project, a nonprofit, community-driven organization dedicated to providing all-ages access to art and music programming. She formerly served as the Holland Project Art Director where she led Holland’s gallery and visual art arm for six years, and has also worked as an educator teaching art foundations to preschool – 12th grade students as well as teaching photography for five years at UNR.
Alberto Garcia R. + Krystal Ramirez
September 1 – October 23, 2020
Alberto Garcia R. is a Reno-based independent curator and arts educator whose research is engaged in gender, race, and identity. He has interned at the Nevada Museum of Art, where he served as an Education Intern, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, as a Video and Film Curatorial Intern. Alberto is a long-time Holland member, having participated in programs as a teen at Hug High School and later as a Gallery Committee Member, volunteer, and collaborator. He also worked with Dean’s Future Scholars, Brooklyn Museum, the Nevada Museum of Art as a guest curator, fashion label Barragán, and is also working on his Masters Degree in Counseling. He served as the Holland Project Gallery Manager between 2020-2022.
Krystal Ramirez is a Las Vegas-based artist working across media, utilizing photography, found materials, and found text to engage in motifs of race, gender, and physical/emotional labor within the framework of her Latinidad. She received her BFA in Studio Art from the University of Las Vegas, Nevada, and a Master of Fine Arts in Art Practice from Stanford University. Ramirez has shown in museums and galleries throughout the United States, including the Nevada Museum of Art (Reno, NV), Barrick Museum of Art (Las Vegas, NV), NMSU Art Museum (Las Cruces, NM), SOMArts (San Francisco, CA), and Gallery 400 (Chicago, IL.)
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