Curators Tour

Thursday, November 21, 2024

6:00PM - 7:30PM

Join Smart curators Galina Mardilovich and Laura Steward to take a guided tour of The 50th: An Anniversary Exhibition and Robert Paige: Give the Drummer Some! Free, register online. 

Galina Mardilovich (co-curator, Theaster Gates: Unto Thee) is Curator at the Smart Museum of Art. Mardilovich is a specialist in works on paper and has over fifteen years of professional experience. Prior to joining the Smart, her museum experience included the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has published widely, including in Print Quarterly, Art History, and The Burlington Magazine, as well as in several edited volumes. Her research has been supported by grants from the Getty Research Institute, the American Philosophical Society, and the Association of Print Scholars, among many others. She holds a Ph.D. in History of Art from the University of Cambridge and an MA in Humanities and Social Thought from New York University.

Laura Steward is Curator of Public Art at the University of Chicago and Smart Museum. Her recent projects include Ruth Duckworth: Life as a Unity in fall 2023. A specialist in commissioning works of art, she joined UChicago in 2017. Previously she served as Phillips Director and Chief Curator of SITE Santa Fe and founding curator of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). She is the author of many exhibition catalogues, occasional lecturer at UChicago, and a graduate of Harvard College and the Williams/Clark Program in the History of Art.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Smart Museum of Art, 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue, Chicago, United States