Panel Speaker: Louise Shaw!

Hello Atlanta,

There are now officially five weeks until Gather Atlanta on June 6! On every Monday leading up to the event, we’ll reveal at least one of our distinguished guest speakers who will participate in the discussion panel at Eyedrum.

Today, please welcome Louise Shaw who, in the words of Felicia Feaster, is “a key figure in the local art scene’s institutional memory.” Shaw was the Executive Director of Nexus for 15 years — if you don’t know what Nexus was, just ask around! (It’s the same organization we know today as the Atlanta Contemporary.)

More about our guest:

Since 2002, Louise E. Shaw has served as the Curator of the Global Health Odyssey Museum at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From 1983–1998, she was Executive Director of Nexus Contemporary Art Center (now Atlanta Contemporary Art Center). She was Director of the Georgia State University Art Gallery from 1981-83, and served as Assistant Curator of the Atlanta Historical Society, (now Atlanta History Center) from 1977-1981. Ms. Shaw is also an independent curator and consultant, working with cultural organizations such as the Space One Eleven in Birmingham, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Office of Cultural Affairs—City of Atlanta, and the Norwegian Sculpture Association (Oslo). In 2001 she curated the Georgia Triennial, a traveling exhibit organized by the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah. In 2003 and 2004 Ms. Shaw was invited to work in Ghana as a museum specialist, advising on interpretative methodologies for cultural sites throughout the country. In 2008 she traveled to Macedonia and Albania at the invitation of the U.S. State Department to consult with small cultural organizations and to lead grant writing workshops.

Louise Shaw currently serves as Curator of the Odyssey Museum at the CDC (Click here for a review of a previous show at BurnAway.org). The Odyssey Museum specializes in exhibitions related to public health, epidemiology, and countless other biology-related -ologies. The current show, Design for the Other 90%, contemplates living conditions in non-wealthy “developing” countries and introduces 30 projects designed to offer sustainable low-cost solutions to everyday problems (including Atlanta’s Mad Housers).

The CDC may be out of your gallery-hopping routine, but you should definitely drop by!