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May 17, 2016 | Artists, Learning and Engagement

Experiments in Engagement with Wafaa Bilal

Posted by Henry Murphy, Fellow, Public Programs MoMA/Studio Museum in Harlem

As the fellow for public programs at MoMA, part of my focus is working with artists to develop experimental programs that position the Museum as a resource for the public, artists, and “non-artists” alike. This season, I worked with artist Wafaa Bilal to develop a two-day public workshop, Dynamic Encounters: Experiments in Engagement to develop, execute, and present what Bilal calls an “open-ended performance” workshop that became a space for experimentation not only for participants but for Bilal and the Museum as well.

Creating from Erasing: A Workshop Inspired by Marcel Broodthaers

Posted by Henry Murphy, Fellow, Public Programs MoMA/Studio Museum in Harlem

Diane Bertolo, book artist, leads participants in an erasure.

Artist Diane Bertolo leads participants in an erasure. All images: Erasures: A Poetry Workshop Inspired by Marcel Broodthaers, March 22, 2016, The Museum of Modern Art. Photographer: Beatriz Meseguer/onwhitewall.com. © 2016 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective bursts at the seams with text in all forms. Given Marcel Broodthaers’s interest in language, it’s fitting that MoMA’s second-floor bookstore is where, every Tuesday for the next four weeks, visitors have the opportunity to explore the artist’s work in a workshop led by Elizabeth Zuba, a poet and translator of the artist’s work, and Diane Bertolo, an artist and Broodthaers enthusiast.