Members Only Tour & Lecture Angela Chaine and Dr. Joel Hollander

Join us for a unique and intimate experience at our upcoming members-exclusive after-hours event featuring an in-depth tour and lecture surrounding . Led by the exhibition's curator, Angela Chaine and Dr. Joel Hollander, delve deeper into the art and the story of the wider acceptance of printmaking as an art form.

Angela Chaine is an independent curator, art historian, and arts worker, bringing over a decade of experience in both the public and private sectors of arts education and the art industry. Chaine holds a Bachelor of Art History with a minor in Arts from Florida International University and an Associate of Arts in Art and Art Education from Miami-Dade College. Her thesis, Unveiling the Layers: An Analysis of Manuela Ribadeneira’s Intricate Art and Its Socio-Political Context in Ecuador (2023), offers an in-depth exploration of the contemporary Ecuadorian artist's work and its socio-political implications. She has curated exhibitions including Uprooted Memories: Echoes of Our Past (2022), We Are The Places We Left Behind (2023), EARTHBOUND (2024), and The New York Collection for Stockholm Portfolio (2024). Angela has collaborated with various institutions, including the Houston Independent School District, PTA, the Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, El Espacio 23, Pinta Miami, DORCAM, the Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College, and Deering Estate.

Dr. Joel Hollander, Ph.D. was trained in the Big Ten, having earned his undergraduate degree in Art History at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where he wrote an Honors Thesis on the contemporary British printmaker Anthony Davies’ linocut suite The Wasteland (1985-86); Master’s Degree in Art History at The University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana where his thesis about Ford Madox Brown’s Work (1865) was published in The New Hibernia Review (1997); and doctoral degree from The University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) where his dissertation was published as the book Warrior Artists and the Battle for Home Rule: Coloured Political Lithographs as Irish Propaganda, 1879-1886 (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007). Dr. Hollander has made contributions to chapters in books, articles, and reviews published for online journals, as well as delivered numerous papers at museum and university symposia and conferences, along with experience curating exhibitions and serving on panels at international art fairs. Throughout his career, Dr. Hollander has developed on-line curricula for institutions of higher education in the United States and Asia where he has taught abroad. Along with excellence in research and teaching, he has also served on initiatives that designed educational programs funded by local, state, and federal agencies, as well as received awards for interdisciplinary and new course development.

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