2019 Prospectus Curators:
Dana Bishop-Root and Hannah Turpin
Dana Bishop-Root
Dana Bishop-Root maintains expansive collaborative practices with Transformazium and General Sisters and is the program Director at Braddock Carnegie Library. Her collaborative work grows alongside local systems of communication, exchange, resource distribution and how we use language together. The process and work of Tranformazium is embedded in the Braddock Carnegie Library and General Sisters can be found in the building on the corner of Kirkpatrick Avenue and Robinson in North Braddock, PA. Both practices take on context based forms as they are shared in museums, classrooms, dinner tables and journals.
This is Not Romantic (February 21 – March 23, 2019)
Hannah Turpin
Hannah Turpin’s curatorial practice focuses on the relationship between art and contemporary social issues surrounding identity, community, and representation. She is currently the curatorial assistant for modern and contemporary art and photography at Carnegie Museum of Art. Recent exhibitions include Shaping a Modern Legacy: Karl and Jennifer Salatka Collect (Carnegie Museum of Art) and The Seen and The Unseen: Three Artists Visualizing the Boundary of Space and Place (Neu Kirche Contemporary Art Center). Turpin earned a Master’s in Art History at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts and a Bachelor’s in East Asian Studies at Denison University. Past institutional experience includes the Brooklyn Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, and Columbus Museum of Art.