Community Voices: A Public Dialogue with Emily Kuhlmann

Every Thursday evening during Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA, join us in the MoAD galleries for Community Voices: A Public Dialogue. Hear a creative thinker from the Bay Area cultural community reflect on the exhibition’s themes of identity, representation, space, and diaspora, and how these themes inspire the speaker’s practice.

Emily Kuhlmann is the exhibitions manager at the Museum of the African Diaspora. She received her BA from the University of California, Irvine, in Art History with a minor in Women’s Studies. After falling in love with art history, she continued her education in Northern California, where she graduated with an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from the California College of the Arts. Her research interests include performance studies and critical race art history. Concerned with accepted norms of race, class, and gender, Emily explored the work of William Pope.L, Wu Tsang, and Adrian Piper in her thesis Making Visible Bodies: Artistic Interventions of Recognition and Responsibility.