Vignette Art Fair 2025 Curator
Maggie Adler
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Maggie Adler has over two decades of experience in the art world, having distinguished herself as a curator, speaker, writer, mentor, nonprofit fundraiser, and organizational leader. She brings her historical art expertise to contemporary projects, focusing on supporting artists and inspiring institutional, individual, and organizational growth.
She spent more than a decade as Curator of Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. She is now an independent curator specializing in the relationships between historical and contemporary art. Prior to her tenure at the Carter, she held posts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Williams College Museum of Art, and the Addison Gallery of American Art.
While her scholarly research initially focused on nineteenth-century art, she has become well-known for her collaborations with living artists on site-specific installations, including Jean Shin, Gabriel Dawe, Mark Dion, and Justin Favela.
She has organized numerous exhibitions, including Horizon Lines (2017); In Our Own Words: Native Impressions (2018); The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion (2020); Mythmakers: The Art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington (2020); Sandy Rodriguez In Isolation (2021); Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation (2023); and Jean Shin: The Museum Body (2024).
Her publication highlights include Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation (published by University of California Press, 2023); Homer|Remington (distributed by Yale University Press, 2020); and Wild Spaces, Open Seasons: Hunting and Fishing in American Art (University of Oklahoma Press, 2016), which was nominated for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award. Adler has also collaborated with artists Gabriel Dawe on Embodied Light (Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 2016) and Mark Dion on The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion (Yale University Press, 2020) and a coloring book with Sandy Rodriguez.
Adler holds a Bachelor of Arts in classical languages and the history of art and a Master of Arts in the history of art from Williams College. She has served as Chair of the Association of Historians of American Art; was selected as a Fellow of the Center for Curatorial Leadership; she is the chair of the public art commission for the City of Fort Worth, Texas; and she serves the Williams College Museum of Art, Arrival Art Fair, and the National Juneteenth Museum in an advisory capacity.
“I recently attended a conversation between two accomplished women artists. When asked about their inspirations, both mentioned that they did not know or see many famous women artist role models when they chose to pursue their callings, the vocations that stirred their hearts,” Adler said. “I choose to serve as the 2025 Vignette Art Fair curator, a fair that celebrates women artists, because I believe representation matters. Every person who identifies as a woman should be able to envision a world in which who they wish to be is possible. I look forward to fostering their creativity and amplifying their voices for them and for the future.”
Vignette Art Fair 2025 Artists
The call for art submissions for Vignette Art Fair 2025 is currently open! Click the button below for submission requirements and a link to apply before June 27th to be considered for this year’s fair.