Tour and Discussion

ACTIVIST OBJECTS: ART AND POLITICS IN THE WOLFSONIAN – COLLECTION

The Wolfsonian, 1001 Washington Ave, Miami Beach | Transportation Options

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The Wolfsonian – FIU is a collection built, in part, around difficult histories. Founded by collector Mitchell Wolfson, Jr, the collection is activist at its core, bringing to the forefront art and objects that reflect political propaganda, conflict, and trauma while charting the industrial, social, and political forces that transformed Europe and the United States between 1850 and 1950. Moreover, the collection and museum ask questions about modernity. How do nations, communities, and individuals define themselves and others in a global age? How do objects and art shape, reflect, or push back against those definitions?
 
Lead by Amy Galpin, Chief Curator of the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum–FIU, and Shoshana Resnikoff, Curator at The Wolfsonian–FIU, this session will delve into the Wolfsonian’s collection, focusing on the intersection of art and politics. This session will take a material culture and object-focused approach, providing participants with an opportunity to engage directly with complex objects as well as ideas.

Amy Galpin is the Chief Curator of the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum-FIU. Before then she served as curator at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College and as associate curator of art of the Americas at the San Diego Museum of Art. She has curated exhibitions at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago and the Pasadena Museum of California Art.
 

Shoshana Resnikoff is the Curator at The Wolfsonian-FIU. Before then she served as Assistant Curator for exhibitions and research at the Peabody Essex Museum, and before then she was the curatorial associate at the Terra Foundation for American Art. She specializes in American decorative arts and design.