A Newfound Confidence for Gallery Curation


Astrid Bridgwood ’24, a Charlotte native with a deep appreciation for the local artistic and cultural scene, conducted a gallery apprenticeship where she helped with the curation of the Indigenous Voices of the Carolinas exhibition, which ran from September through December 2022 in the Bank of America and Loevner Galleries of the Sarah Belk Gambrell Center for the Arts and Civic Engagement. The exhibition featured art by and about Indigenous Peoples from the Lumbee, Eastern Band of Cherokee, Catawba, Coharie, and Haliwa-Saponi tribal nations.


“Through this experience, I was excited to


discover that curation and gallery shows can be a way to showcase and explore voices of marginalized populations both in Charlotte and beyond,” said Bridgwood. “Dr. Siu Challons- Lipton introduced me to every step of a show’s process from ideation to development to hanging.” While Bridgwood plans to lean into her passion for education and art history by becoming a professor one day, she hopes to continue to serve as a curator for galleries in Charlotte and beyond in the years to come.


—Morgan Williams Photo by: Amy Hart


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