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TK Smith curates “Carried Over”

September 03, 2025 Written by CAS Communication Staff

Group exhibit exploring Diaspora curated by AAPHI scholar

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) exhibit Carried Over will run Sept. 9 – Jan. 16th, curated by TK Smith.  TK Smith is a curator, writer, and cultural historian. He currently serves as Curator, Arts of Africa and the African Diaspora, Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University. Previously, Smith served as Assistant Curator: Art of the African Diaspora at the Barnes Foundation. Recent curatorial projects include the 2025 Mississippi Invitational: Call Home at the Mississippi Museum of Art, Hand to Mouth at Stove Works, and the forthcoming 2026 Oregon Artist’s Biennial at the Oregon Contemporary. Smith is a contributing editor of Art Papers. He has been awarded the Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant and Leo and Dorothea Rabkin Prize, and is a doctoral candidate in the History of American Civilization at the University of Delaware, where he is completing his dissertation, “Granite, Power, and Piss: The Transformation of a Confederate Symbol.” He is also an African American Public History Initiative Scholar at UD.

September 9, 2025–January 16, 2026 – Carried Over

Carried Over is supported by DutchCulture USA, a program of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the United States; Austrian Cultural Forum; Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; Hartfield Foundation; James Rosenquist Foundation; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Council District 34; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; William Talbott Hillman Foundation; and Woodman Family Foundation.


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