Intertwined: Public Art & Private Collecting with Alison Croney Moses & Kate Gilbert
Join us in conversation with artist Alison Croney Moses and community leader and curator Kate Gilbert as they discuss the works on view in our current exhibition, Alison Croney Moses: Brown Out. The discussion will explore the interplay between public and private art forms, including installations, exhibitions, and discussions about how these realms influence and complement each other. Moses and Gilbert will discuss the ways art can move beyond traditional boundaries, especially woodworking, to inspire shared cultural experiences.
This conversation will be held at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, 1923 S. Santa Fe Ave, Los Angeles, CA. Nearby street parking can be found on 11th and 15th street.
Alison Croney Moses is a Boston-based artist who creates wooden objects that reach out to your senses—the smell of cedar, the glowing color of honey, the round form that signifies safety and warmth, the gentle curve that beckons to be touched.
She strives to create situations and objects where people are compelled to interact, to express, and therefore challenge themselves to heal, to stand taller, to build community, and to work toward a more just future.
Born and raised in North Carolina (USA) by Guyanese parents, making clothing, food, furniture, and art are embedded in her memories of childhood. She carries these values and habits into adulthood and parenting—creating experiences, conversations, and educational programs that cultivate the current and next generation of artists and leaders in art and craft. Her work is in the collections at Fuller Craft Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She is a recipient of the 2022 USA Fellowship in Craft, the 2023 Boston Artadia Award, a finalist of the 2024 LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize, and the recipient of the 2024 Black Mountain College International Artist Prize. Her work has been featured in American Craft Magazine, the book Joinery, Joist and Gender: A History of Woodworking for the 21st Century, and Boston Art Review. She was recently named one of the 2023 WBUR 10 Makers. Alison’s first solo show in the fall of 2023 was reviewed in the Boston Globe. Alison holds an MA in Sustainable Business & Communities from Goddard College, and a BFA in Furniture Design from Rhode Island School of Design.
Kate Gilbert (she | her) founded Now + There in 2015, which became Boston Public Art Triennial in 2024, after completing an MFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, and decades of programming, partnerships, curation, and creative placemaking with Boston cultural institutions. Gilbert is the 2020 recipient of NEFA’s Newell Flather Award for Leadership in Public Art. Her call to civic leaders to advance art in public spaces was included in Idea City: How to Make Boston More Livable, Equitable, and Resilient (2023).