Pilipinx American Library Artist Retreat: Curators in Conversation

Curators in Conversation moderated by Jennelyn Tumalad with Lauren Schell Dickens, Lian Ladia, Linde Brady Lehtinen, Patricia Cariño Valdez, and Trisha Lagaso Goldberg.
JENNELYN TUMALAD is a Filipina American arts program producer, educator, and curator interested in the intersection of arts programming and socially-engaged art practices. She has worked in various education departments within museums including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
LAUREN SCHELL DICKENS is Curator at the San José Museum of Art. Recent projects include The Propeller Group; The House Imaginary; Darkened Mirror: Global Perspectives on Water; Diana Al-Hadid: Liquid City, and an upcoming mid-career survey of Rina Banerjee. Dickens has held curatorial posts at the National Gallery of Art and Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and The Jewish Museum, New York, and holds degrees from Yale University and Columbia University. She was born in San José, California.
LIAN LADIA is a curator and organizer. She completed an MA in Curatorial Studies at Bard College with an Asian Cultural Council Fellowship. She was also a curatorial program participant de Appel in Amsterdam. She co-founded Planting Rice, a curatorial platform founded in Manila, Philippines that presents contemporary art discussions in Southeast Asia not available to mainstream publications. She has curated exhibitions and public programs at the Jorge Vargas Museum (Manila), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), de Appel (Amsterdam), The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), NTU CCA (Singapore), BACC (Bangkok), The Hessel Museum (New York), and ISCP (New York) among others.
LINDE BRADY LEHTINEN is assistant curator of photography at SFMOMA. She received her BA in art history from the University of Chicago and MA and PhD in art history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Lehtinen has worked for several museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Guggenheim, and Getty. She has published various essays on the history of photography in America, and recently co-curated The Train: RFK’s Last Journey with Clément Chéroux.
PATRICIA CARIÑO VALDEZ is an independent curator based in Oakland, CA. From Spring 2016 - to Summer 2018, she served as the Curator and Director of Public Programs at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). Her curatorial and public program projects have been held at the Exploratorium, San Francisco State University, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Asian Contemporary Arts Consortium, Oakland Museum of California, Pro Arts, California College of the Arts and various art spaces in San Francisco and Oakland. She was born in Manila and grew up in the West Coast. Valdez earned a BA in History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley and an MA in Curatorial Practice from the California College of the Arts.
TRISHA LAGASO GOLDBERG is a curator, arts administrator, and artist. She serves as a public art project manager for the SF Arts Commission. Formerly, Lagaso Goldberg was Director/Curator of thirtyninehotel in Honolulu (2005-2010)—there she launched the Thirtynine Chambers Artist Residency Program and worked with artists like Chitra Ganesh, Rajkamal Kahlon, Julio Morales, and Eamon Ore-Giron. As Executive Director/Curator of Southern Exposure (1997-2002), she founded the Youth Advisory Board.
About the Program
The PAL Artist Retreat gathers artists, writers, curators and cultural workers across disciplines for the purpose of fostering community, collaboration and intergenerational dialogue within the Filipino community and the broader contemporary art world. This day-long convening will include a mix of panels, breakouts and conversations on strategies for visibility, representation, support, mentorship and other possibilities.
The PAL Artist Retreat is presented in conjunction with PAL / The Pilipinx American Library at the Asian Art Museum. For more info: