Graphic Designer: Rebecca Hoyer
Curator
Stacy Switzer is artistic director of Grand Arts in Kansas City, Missouri. At Grand Arts, Switzer is responsible for organizing ambitious contemporary art projects by emerging and established artists. Her curatorial projects include upcoming exhibitions by Sanford Biggers, William Pope.L and Laurel Nakadate; recent exhibitions by Nadine Robinson, Sissel Tolaas, Michael Jones McKean and Rosemarie Fiore; and group exhibitions such as "From the Fat of the Land: Alchemies, Ecologies, Attractions" featuring work by Fritz Haeg, Tavares Strachan, Adam Zaretsky and others. Before joining Grand Arts, Switzer was Arts & Education Curator at the Salina Art Center in Salina, Kansas. Switzer received her AB in art history from the University of Calfornia at Berkeley, and did her graduate work at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.Curator's Statement:
The River City Biennale represents a new kind of biennial exhibition in a moment when the idea of Biennial-ism is being debated across the art world. The artists who are organizing this project in true DIY (do-it-yourself) fashion are proposing a new and exciting model for collective art engagement at the regional level. At the same time, the River City Biennale isn’t just a regional exhibition. It is a vision with great energy behind it that seeks to engage artists and audiences in Wichita with national and international conversations about contemporary art, by inviting critical voices from the outside to reflect on, among other things, how smaller cities can be vital art centers.
Visiting Critics
David Cateforis, an associate professor of modern and contemporary art from KU and prolific author.
Mike Odom, a painter and critic from Texas who writes for Art Forum and Art Papers.
Dana Self, past curator of the Kemper Museum in Kansas and the Knoxville Museum of Art in Tennessee, currently writing for the Kansas City’s Pitch weekly magazine as well as various freelance projects.
Royce Smith, an assistant professor of modern and contemporary art from WSU who writes for Kansas City's Review magazine.