Trudy Wilner Stack
Trudy Wilner Stack is interested in working with mentees as they approach editing and use of text in considering their photographs for the wall, the screen, and the page. She invites fresh visions and ideas as you explore authentic and effective concepts for public presentation. Common topics will be project clarity, engaging edits, brainstorming diverse platforms as notions of scale, materials, image and text, and viewer engagement shift. Wilner Stack is especially eager to work with mentees subverting or working outside traditional genres and in response to current social and cultural issues across a range of approaches — from abstract to studio to documentary.
Bio
Writer and independent curator Trudy Wilner Stack has originated, organized, and consulted on photography, contemporary art, and cultural projects over four decades.
After holding curatorial posts at numerous museums, she now works with artists, estates, and organizations with a focus on post-1945 American photography, unconventional and popular contexts for art and vernacular photography, and current social and economic issues mediated through imagery.
She has curated, edited, and authored a wide array of projects and publications including over fifty exhibitions. Some include Christenberry: Reconstruction, Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography, Art Museum: Calle, Lawler, Misrach, Neumaier, and Struth, Winogrand 1964, Paul Strand/Southwest, and Lauren Greenfield's Girl Culture, THIN, Generation Wealth and most recently The Queen of Versailles. Original undertakings by Wilner Stack were supported by the Getty, Lannan, and Warhol Foundations, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
She is currently a consulting curator for the foundation Working Assumptions, where she co-curated Showing (work x family), a multimedia photography installation exploring intersections between work and the American family as seen by art and documentary photographers, photojournalists, and high school students on assignment. Wilner Stack was a member of the Society for Photographic Education National Board and developed Indivisible, a $2.4 million photography and oral history commission on grassroots civic engagement and social change sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Links to her work
Mentorship
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