NO. 8: JULIEN ROBSON - GREAT MEADOWS FOUNDATION
release date July 11, 2023
release date July 11, 2023
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Episode No. 8 of the Art Throb Podcast features Julien Robson who talks about the Mary Nortan Shands and Al Shands Collection, the exhibition of their work Rounding the Circle currently at the Speed Art Museum, and the Great Meadows Foundation that today has awarded more that $850,000 in grants to over 300 artists in the region.
Julien is an Independent Curator who shares his time between the US and Austria. Educated at art schools in the UK, he began his curatorial career in the University Gallery system in England, and subsequently spent ten years working in private galleries in Vienna.
Moving to the US in 2000, for eight years he served as the curator of contemporary art at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, and then at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia organizing many solo and group shows at these museums.
In 2012 he moved back to Louisville and began curating the collection of contemporary art collector couple Mary and Al Shands and, in 2013, edited and contributed to Great Meadows: The Making of Here, a book about the Shands' house and collection. In 2015 he helped found INhouse, an initiative of Kentucky contemporary art collector and philanthropist Brook Smith that supports residencies and special creative projects. In 2016 Robson was appointed the director of the Great Meadows Foundation, an initiative of Al Shands that supports the growth of artistic activity in the Kentucky region.
Additionally since Al Shands' passing in 2021, Julien now holds the position of Director of the Mary and Al Shands Art Preserve.
Moving to the US in 2000, for eight years he served as the curator of contemporary art at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, and then at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia organizing many solo and group shows at these museums.
In 2012 he moved back to Louisville and began curating the collection of contemporary art collector couple Mary and Al Shands and, in 2013, edited and contributed to Great Meadows: The Making of Here, a book about the Shands' house and collection. In 2015 he helped found INhouse, an initiative of Kentucky contemporary art collector and philanthropist Brook Smith that supports residencies and special creative projects. In 2016 Robson was appointed the director of the Great Meadows Foundation, an initiative of Al Shands that supports the growth of artistic activity in the Kentucky region.
Additionally since Al Shands' passing in 2021, Julien now holds the position of Director of the Mary and Al Shands Art Preserve.
The Speed Art Museum will present Rounding the Circle: The Mary and Al Shands Collection, a major exhibition celebrating the extensive and significant collection assembled by the late Alfred R. Shands III (1928-2021) and his wife Mary Norton Shands (1930-2009), until August 6, 2023.
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