Art as the Answer
Episode description
Finding balance is her art. Meet Melani Douglas an artist, educator, and curator who focuses on socially engaged art and bringing artists together. She founded the Family Art Museum, a nomadic non-collecting institution focusing on family as fine art, home as curated space and community as gallery, and is the Director of Public Programs at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She sees everything in her life as part of her art practice, including being a mother and friend.
In this episode learn how Melani is cultivating peace during the pandemic, her experience as a black woman in a white institution, and exciting new projects she’s working on, including one with artist Halim Flowers called Art as the Answer.
Melani talks about:
- How she’s been doing during this pandemic and what motherhood means to her.
- How she holds space for her life as a curator and artists, and how she sees them as interconnected.
- The story behind how she met Halim Flower’s and why they started working together in an instagram mini series.
- She tells us about her role at the National Museum of Women in the Arts as the Director of Public Programs and how she is navigating that space.
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