Sarah E. Kleinman

art historian and curator
Programs and Talks

2025


Panelist: “Reimagining Minimalism: Kynaston McShine’s Contributions to Mid-1960s British Art and Architectural Narratives in ‘Primary Structures,’” New Directions in British Art and Architectural History, sponsored by the Historians of British Art, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, scheduled for February 13, 2025.

Panel chair: Narratives of Exile, Migration, and Movement in Contemporary Art, sponsored by the Society of Contemporary Art Historians, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, scheduled for February 14, 2025.


2024


Invited speaker and roundtable discussant: Around the Globe in 40 Careers,” Young Professional Global Careers Networking Event, cosponsored by the University of Denver, World Denver, and the Colorado Fulbright Association, May 21. 


2023


Museum tour guide and discussion facilitator: The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, November Project Denver, February 1.


2022


Museum tour guide and discussion facilitator: Dyani White Hawk: Speaking to Relatives and Eamon Ore-Giron: Competing with Lightning/Rivalizando con el Relámpago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado Fulbright Association, May 7.


2021


Museum tour guide and discussion facilitator: Citizenship: A Practice of Society, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado Fulbright Association, October 3.

Seminar participant: "Ethics and Labor in Art History: Where do we come from? Where are we? Where are we going?" James Gallery, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, April 8–9, online.

Invited speaker: "Making Matters: American Women Artists," Women's History Month: Women in the Arts, Debra Gardner for Virginia House of Delegates, March 20, online.

Panelist: "Kynaston McShine, Auteur-Curator?" Fifty-First Annual Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art, Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art and University of Maryland, March 6, online.


2020


Invited speaker: “From Hammam to Fountain: Depicting the Bathroom and Bathing through the Ages," Art is Everything, Aaron Miller and Rose Guterbock, July 21, podcast.


2019


Invited speaker: "Exploring the Intersections of the Arts, Literature, and Secondary Education in Trinidad," Education Beyond Borders: Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges, Schools of Education Biennial Conference, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, February 20.

Invited speaker: "East Talks: Sarah Kleinman and Kevon Foderingham in Conversation," with East Yard founder Kevon Foderingham, Arima, Trinidad, February 17, webcast.

Invited speaker: "Trinidad and Tobago Carnival: Continuity and Change in Masquerade," Diversity as a Driver of Prosperity and Innovation, Fulbright U.S. Student Enrichment Seminar, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State, and the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala City, Guatemala, April 10.

Session co-organizer: "Exploring the Intersections of Culture and the Arts in the Western Hemisphere through Comparative Analysis,” Diversity as a Driver of Prosperity and Innovation, Fulbright U.S. Student Enrichment Seminar, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State, and the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala City, Guatemala, April 10 (co-organizers: Greisy Genau, Fulbright Fellow to the Dominican Republic; Abigail Ramsey, Fulbright Fellow to Jamaica).


2018


Invited speaker: “Theresa Pollak: A Retrospective Exhibition,” presentation and discussion previewing the exhibition Theresa Pollak: The Wonder of Life, VCUarts Dean’s Office and the Pollak Society, Virginia Commonwealth University, 19 July 2018.


2016


Invited speaker and discussant: "A Direct Means of (Re)Presenting the World: The Art of Hans Haacke" and "Hans Haacke and Sarah Kleinman in Conversation,” presentation and interview coinciding with the exhibition Dreams that Money Can Buy (Update), Maier Museum at Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia, October 2.

Reviewed In Lynchburg News and Advance 

Symposium participant: "Hans Haacke's GERMANIA, Venice Biennale, 1993." Second Annual Virginia Art History Graduate Research Forum, Virginia Commonwealth University, held at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, March 25.

Symposium co-organizer: Virginia Art History Graduate Research Forum, Virginia Commonwealth University, held at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, Spring 2016 (co-organizer: Kate Sunderlin, VCU).


2015


Panelist: "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's Voz Alta: The Sound of a Collective Memory," Warpolitics in Art panel, Seventy-First Annual Conference, Southeastern College Art Conference, Pittsburgh, October 23.

Museum tour guide and discussion facilitator: “Life After Death: Funerary Guardians in Imperial China,” thematic tour focusing on five artworks from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts permanent collection, Richmond, Virginia, ARTH 694 Art History and Pedagogy (focus on Museum Education), Virginia Commonwealth University, May 4. 

Authored tour writeup; statement of educational philosophy; description of and rationale for teaching method; evaluation criteria; dialogic labels and didactic information for each artwork; reflection about tour facilitation; bibliography. 

Poster presenter: “Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's Voz Alta: The Sound of a Collective Memory,” Eighteenth Annual Graduate Research Symposium, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, April 21.

Symposium participant: "The National Council on the Arts and Curatorial Practice, 1966–68,” First Annual Virginia Art History Graduate Research Forum, Virginia Commonwealth University, held at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, March 20.

Symposium co-founder: Virginia Art History Graduate Research Forum, Virginia Commonwealth University, held at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, Spring 2015 (co-founder: Owen Duffy, VCU).





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