Lecture: Shalini Le Gall, “Models for Shared Stewardship”
- 90 Carlton Street, Performing and Visual Arts Complex, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602
- (706) 542-1817
- Presented By: Georgia Museum of Art
- Dates: February 14, 2025
- Location: Georgia Museum of Art
- Time: 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
- Price: Free
The Portland Museum of Art has been working to develop new forms of stewardship for contemporary Indigenous art that are focused on long-term relationships with artists and their communities. To create space for a dynamic and growing relationship between the artwork, the artist, the artist’s community and the institution, it is modifying its acquisitions and collections-care practices to allow works of art to remain connected to cultural knowledge holders. It is the museum’s intent to ensure that Indigenous art can be both shared within a museum context and available to Indigenous communities to support cultural teaching and learning for future generations.
Shalini Le Gall is chief curator and Susan Donnell and Harry W. Konkel Curator of European Art at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, where she leads the curatorial, collections and education departments. In this capacity, Le Gall has led the reinstallation of the American art galleries with a multivocal advisory group and organized the exhibitions “Surrealist Play” (2022), “Elizabeth Colomba: Mythologies” (2023) and “Painting Energy: The Alex Katz Foundation Collection at the Portland Museum of Art” (2025).
Previously, Le Gall served as the Linde Family Foundation Curator of Academic Programs at the Colby College Museum of Art, where she built relationships with students and faculty through workshops and classes and co-curated the exhibitions “Inside Out: The Prints of Mary Cassatt” (2020) and “River Works: Whistler and the Industrial Thames” (2019). For over a decade, she has worked in museums in both educational and curatorial capacities, thinking equally about how to engage supporters and visitors and build exhibitions and collections in ways that expand audiences. Le Gall received her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and her master’s and doctoral degrees in art history from Northwestern University, with a focus on postcolonial studies and 19th-century painting.
The Portland Museum of Art has been working to develop new forms of stewardship for contemporary Indigenous art that are focused on long-term relationships with artists and their communities. To create space for a dynamic and growing relationship between the artwork, the artist, the artist’s community and the institution, it is modifying its acquisitions and collections-care practices to allow works of art to remain connected to cultural knowledge holders. It is the museum’s intent to ensure that Indigenous art can be both shared within a museum context and available to Indigenous communities to support cultural teaching and learning for future generations.
Shalini Le Gall is chief curator and Susan Donnell and Harry W. Konkel Curator of European Art at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, where she leads the curatorial, collections and education departments. In this capacity, Le Gall has led the reinstallation of the American art galleries with a multivocal advisory group and organized the exhibitions “Surrealist Play” (2022), “Elizabeth Colomba: Mythologies” (2023) and “Painting Energy: The Alex Katz Foundation Collection at the Portland Museum of Art” (2025).
Previously, Le Gall served as the Linde Family Foundation Curator of Academic Programs at the Colby College Museum of Art, where she built relationships with students and faculty through workshops and classes and co-curated the exhibitions “Inside Out: The Prints of Mary Cassatt” (2020) and “River Works: Whistler and the Industrial Thames” (2019). For over a decade, she has worked in museums in both educational and curatorial capacities, thinking equally about how to engage supporters and visitors and build exhibitions and collections in ways that expand audiences. Le Gall received her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and her master’s and doctoral degrees in art history from Northwestern University, with a focus on postcolonial studies and 19th-century painting.