Expert Series: “Meadow”
January 23, 2025, 6:15 pm–7:15 pm
Join Shoshana Resnikoff, the Milwaukee Art Musuem’s Demmer Curator of 20th- and 21st- Century Design, and Colin Fanning, Assistant Curator of European Decorative Arts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, for a conversation about the artistic practice of Netherlands-based duo DRIFT. They will discuss DRIFT’s site-specific Meadow sculpture, which comprises the Museum’s Winter Series exhibition, and the surprising connections between Meadow and the Milwaukee Art Museum’s iconic Santiago Calatrava–designed Quadracci Pavilion.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art awarded DRIFT the Collab Design Excellence Award in 2022 and celebrated this honor with the exhibition Rhythms of Nature: The Art and Design of DRIFT, curated by Fanning.
This drop-in experience is included with Museum admission and is free for Members. Admission tickets are available at the door or online.
About the expert
Colin Fanning is the Assistant Curator of European Decorative Arts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His curatorial and scholarly work is primarily focused on design and craft from 1850 to the present. Past exhibitions have included Dieter Rams: Principled Design (2018–19), Designs for Different Futures (2019–20), Rhythms of Nature: The Art and Design of DRIFT (2022–23), and Naoto Fukasawa: Things In Themselves (2024). He is also a PhD candidate in design history at Bard Graduate Center in New York, where he is completing a dissertation on the intellectual and technological transformations of American design education in the late twentieth century. Since 2021, he has co-convened the Craft History Workshop (with Antonia Behan of Queen’s University, Ontario), a virtual works-in-progress seminar for interdisciplinary histories of making.
The Expert Series welcomes renowned artists, scholars, and cultural activators to the Museum for expansive dialogues that dive deeper into an exhibition, artist, or theme.
Sponsored by
The Milwaukee Art Museum’s Contemporary Art Society
Image: DRIFT, Meadow (detail), 2017. Photo courtesy of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
