Common Ground#783
Aesthetic Confessions: Locks Gallery
Featuring Sueyun Locks, Chloe Stagaman, and David Carrier, with Kelly Corinda
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Locks Gallery Director Sueyun Locks joins Rail Director of Programs Chloe Stagaman and Rail Editor-at-Large David Carrier for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Kelly Corinda.
In this talk
Sueyun Locks

As director of the Locks Gallery since 1989, Sueyun Locks is committed to promoting the work of contemporary artists in Philadelphia as well as presenting exhibitions of established, internationally known artists. She currently serves as a trustee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, on the Director’s Council of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and on the Board of Managers at Pennsylvania Hospital. Previously she served on the Board of Overseers of PennDesign at the University of Pennsylvania, the Board of Trustees at the Curtis Institute of Music, where the Locks Foundation endowed a scholarship fund for promising musicians, and as a Chairperson of the Board of Moore College of Art and Design, where she established the Locks Career Center for Women in the Arts.
Chloe Stagaman

The Brooklyn Rail’s Director of Programs Chloe Stagaman is a curator working with artists in public spaces. Prior to her time at the Rail, Chloe was a public art curator in London where she collaborated with artists to deliver site-specific commissions, artist-in-residence programs, and cultural partnerships in the US and UK. Chloe has also held stints at Van Alen Institute in New York, where she created international public programs on topics in architecture and urban design, at Judd Foundation and at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in Chicago. She has an M.A. in Art History with a focus on documentary photography and contemporary art from The Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
David Carrier

David Carrier, a former professor of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University and Champney Family Professor in Cleveland, has been Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Class of 1932 Fellow in Philosophy, Princeton University; a Getty Scholar; and a Clark Fellow. He has lectured in China, Europe, India, Japan, New Zealand and North America. In Spring, 2009 he was a Fulbright-Luce Lecturer in Beijing, and he lectured also in Taiwan. His recent books include A World Art History and Its Objects (Penn State. 2008) and Proust/Warhol: Analytical Philosophy of Art (Peter Lang. 2008). He has published catalogue essays for many museums and art criticism for Apollo, art critical, Artforum, Artus and Burlington Magazine. He has been a guest editor for Brooklyn Rail.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we’re fortunate to have Kelly Corinda reading.
Kelly Corinda

Kelly Corinda is a poet who lives in Brooklyn. She is a graduate of the MFA program in Poetry at Brooklyn College, where she worked as a Contributing Editor for The Brooklyn Review. She also holds degrees from New York University and Rutgers University, where she was awarded the Julia Carley and Edna J. Herzberg Prizes for Poetry. Her most recent work can be found in The Journal of New Jersey Poets, where it was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is also a Registered Nurse.
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