Curator Talk: Anthony Elms

Join the School of Visual Studies for a curator talk, "More of a bad mood than a practice," with visiting artist, Anthony Elms, on Thursday, Oct. 22, 4 p.m. in Swallow Hall 101 on Mizzou's campus. Event is free and open to the community. Anthony Elms is Artistic Director at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh. Recently he organized Rodney McMillian: Neighbors for the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Wa, and the TD Bank Curated Spotlight for New Art Dealers Association, New York. Formerly of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, he organized the exhibitions Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal (with Ars Nova Workshop) (2021), Karyn Olivier: Everything That's Alive Moves (2020), Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It (2018), Endless Shout (2016–17), Rodney McMillian: The Black Show (2016), Christopher Knowles: In a Word with writer Hilton Als (2015), White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart (2013), among others. Elms's writings have appeared in many catalogues, edited collections, and periodicals. His independently organized exhibitions include Whitney Biennial 2014; Interstellar Low Ways (with Huey Copeland); A Unicorn Basking in the Light of Three Glowing Suns (with Philip von Zweck); and Sun Ra, El Saturn & Chicago's Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954–68 (with John Corbett and Terri Kapsalis). He is a member of the New York Art Critics Association.