Contributor

Shannon Stratton is the William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator at The Museum of Arts and Design (New York). For twelve years she was the Director and Curator of Threewalls in Chicago, a contemporary art space that she co-founded in 2003. Threewalls founded the Hand-in-Glove Conference and later co-founded the Common Field Network for grassroots arts initiatives as well as publishing PHONEBOOK, a guide to grassroots and alternative artist resources throughout the United States. Current exhibitions include Atmosphere for Enjoyment, the first exhibition to deal solely with Harry Bertoia's sounding sculptures, and the traveling exhibition, Faith Wilding: Fearful Symmetries, the first retrospective of the work of Wilding, a key figure in the feminist art movement. Other curatorial projects have included Resonating Bodies at The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN (2013), and Gestures of Resistance: The Slow Assertions of Craft at The Portland Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR (2010).