Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within

Glenn Adamson is a curator, writer, and historian based in New York and London. He has previously been Director of the Museum of Arts and Design and Head of Research at the V&A. Dr. Adamson’s publications include Thinking Through Craft (2007); The Craft Reader (2010); Postmodernism: Style and Subversion (2011, with Jane Pavitt); The Invention of Craft (2013); Art in the Making (2016, with Julia Bryan-Wilson); Fewer Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects (2018); Objects: USA 2020; and Craft: An American History (2021). Dr. Adamson is editor of Material Intelligence, a quarterly online journal published by the Chipstone Foundation, and curator-at-large for LongHouse Reserve. His next book, A Century of Tomorrows, will be out with Bloomsbury in December 2024.

Leilehua Lanzilotti is a Kanaka Maoli composer, multimedia artist, and curator. A “leading composer–performer” (The New York Times), Lanzilotti’s work is characterized by expansive explorations of timbre. Lanzilotti’s practice explores radical indigenous contemporaneity by integrating community engagement and ways of knowing into the heart of projects. Lanzilotti was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Music for with eyes the color of time, which the Pulitzer committee called, “a vibrant composition … that distinctly combines experimental string textures and episodes of melting lyricism.” Dr. Lanzilotti also served as the Curator of Music at EMPAC from 2019–21.

Kate Wiener is a Curator at The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in Long Island City, New York, where she is involved with exhibitions, public programs, and publications. Recent curatorial projects at The Noguchi Museum include A Glorious Bewilderment: Marie Menken’s ‘Visual Variations on Noguchi’ (2023–24), and the co-organized exhibitions Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within (2024), Noguchi Subscapes (2022–23), and Noguchi’s Memorials to the Atomic Dead (2021). She has contributed to numerous publications, including Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within (Yale University Press, 2024), Looking Up: The Skyviewing Sculptures of Isamu Noguchi (Giles, 2022), and Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon (New Museum, 2017).

Christina Yang is an independent curator, writer, and scholar based in New York. She specializes in experimental genres, spectatorship, politics of the image, and feminist care. She has been a curator at The Kitchen, Queens and Guggenheim Museums, as well at Williams College and UC Berkeley. She is a Ph.D candidate in performance studies at NYU. Her essay “Hung Liu: Seeing and Unknowing” on the Chinese-born artist is forthcoming for RYANLEE in May 2024.