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Darrel Ellis: A Curatorial Conversation (off-site program)

An ink wash drawing depicts two men in a bedroom, with text at the bottom.
Darrel Ellis, Untitled (Please Stay Home Tonight, Please Stay Home Today), c. 1981–85. Graphite, pen, ink, and ink wash on paper. Courtesy of Candice Madey, New York. Photo: Adam Reich.

Special Event

In-Person
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join us at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts for a conversation with curators about the exhibition Please Stay Home: Darrel Ellis in Dialogue with Leslie Hewitt and Wardell Milan. Centered on a less recognized body of Ellis’s work and featuring new commissions by Leslie Hewitt and Wardell Milan, this special exhibition is guest curated by Makeda Best, the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums.

Speakers:
Antonio Sergio Bessa, Chief Curator Emeritus, Bronx Museum of the Arts; Visiting Faculty, Bennington College
Leslie Cozzi, Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs, Baltimore Museum of Art
Kyle Croft, Programs Manager, Visual AIDS
Allen Frame, Artist, writer, and curator

Moderator:
Makeda Best, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums

This Carpenter Center event is free and open to the public; registration is optional. Reservations may be arranged online through this form.

The conversation will take place in the Carpenter Center theater on the Lower Level. Please contact the Carpenter Center front desk for assistance with elevator and wheelchair usage at 617-496-5387, or at ccva@fas.harvard.edu with any questions ahead of the event.

Generous support for Carpenter Center programming is provided by the Friends of the Carpenter Center. Lead support for Please Stay Home is provided by the Harvard Art Museums Photography Committee. Additional support for the exhibition is generously provided by the Jeffrey and Leslie Fischer Family Foundation. The Harvard Art Museums’ modern and contemporary art programs are made possible in part by generous support from the Emily Rauh Pulitzer and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art. Special thanks to Allen Frame.