Curators of the Exhibition at Brown – Art+History

Here is the long-awaited tidbit of information about the two incredible women behind the ideas we’re all working with.

This is Rosie:

Rosie Branson-Gill, Co-Curator of Art+History

Rosie says:
I am a second year masters student in the public humanities at Brown University. I am interested in the role the visual arts play in our communities, and I study public art, artist residencies and visual arts organizations. Last summer I completed a practicum at the Wanas Foundation, an outdoor sculpture and installation park in the south of Sweden. This Spring I am working at the Harvard Art Museum. The focus of my internship is on the relationship between art museums and healing.

Coming to Providence last fall was actually a return. I graduated from Brown University in 2003 with a concentration in Latin American Studies and contemporary Cuban politics and art. After college, I moved to New York for two years before returning home to Boston. In New York I worked at the museums, as an art critic, and for a non-profit dedicated to fostering artistic exchange between the United States and Cuba. Back in Massachusetts I worked with the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, the Somerville Arts Council, The Berwick Research Institute, and for Errol Morris.

Please feel free to contact me about the Public Humanities Program. My email is: Rosemary_Branson_Gill (at) brown.edu

This is Meg:

Meg Rotzel, Co-Curator of Art+History

Meg says:
I am a masters candidate in Brown University’s Public Humanities program. I graduated with my Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Museum School/Tufts University along with a Diploma from the Museum School. I have been an exhibiting artist, curator, collaborator, lecturer, panelist, artist-in-resident, and community service provider at national and international organizations and institutions. I founded the Berwick Research Institute, a nonprofit in Boston that supports individual artists, through residencies in studio and public art, and supports artistic research projects. I directed the Institute from 2002-2006. Now I work at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), where I coordinate the Fellowship, and Visiting Artist programs and manage the Public Program. I received a grant from the MIT Arts Council to travel and work as an archivist with “Lost Highway Expedition,” a three-year project based in the Western Balkans.

If you have any questions about this project or any of my others, I’d be happy to answer them when we meet at New Urban Arts or at Brown!

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