Colored Criticism

A fresh take on art.

Projects

Audience Outlook Monitor

As part of the founding communications team for the Audience Outlook Monitor initiative, we evaluate and share how audiences feel about going out again and what will make them feel safe in order to stage a successful comeback. WolfBrown’s Audience Outlook Monitor is an international collaboration between top researchers, funders, service organizations, and hundreds of cultural organizations that want to make informed decisions about how and when to re-start programming based on rigorous research data. 

Watch the Deep Dive: “Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Audience Attitudes about Covid-19”

April 5, 2021

This 60-minute session foregrounds research findings through the lens of race/ethnicity. Because of the very large sample sizes, were are able to examine differences between racial/ethnic groups within the pool of respondents (i.e., arts and culture members and ticket buyers). Following an initial presentation of research highlights, Tiffany Bradley moderates a discussion with Chandra Stephens-Albright, Managing Director of Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company, a participant in the first phase of the research.

Revisioning Research: Looking at Identity and Visual Culture

Part of the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) Social Justice Lecture Series 2020-2021 season, Stories and Silences: Research on Race in the Middle East.

February 18th, 2021

Critic Tiffany Bradley will examine art, literature, and photography as tools to explore Middle Eastern communities. She will discuss cultivating a multicultural, multiracial approach to research in the Middle East and North Africa. Her discussion will be informed by critical race theory and her anthropological fieldwork in Nubian communities in Cairo and Palestinians of African descent in Jerusalem. She will also talk about online networks looking at shared histories from a fresh perspective. This interactive session will consider approaches to diversifying studies for academics, researchers, and students.

Recording available upon request.

Curating the Contemporary at Amherst College

On September 10, the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College opened its latest exhibition, Starting Something New: Recent Contemporary Acquisitions. To kick-off the night, we hosted a conversation on what it means to curate contemporary art. Tiffany Bradley, founder of Colored Criticism, a company for cultural heritage stories, moderated a panel of contemporary art curators, featuring David E. Little, John Wieland 1958 Director and Chief Curator of the Mead; Horace D. Ballard, curator of American art at the Williams College Museum of Art; and Emma Chubb, Charlotte Feng Ford ’83 Curator of Contemporary Art at the Smith College Museum of Art.

Image by Jiayi Liu.