STEPHEN WICKS
curator: Lift: Printmaking in the third dimension
Stephen Wicks is the Barbara W. and Bernard E. Bernstein Curator at the Knoxville Museum of Art where he has managed the museum's exhibitions program and guided the development of its collections of East Tennessee-related art and international contemporary art for 20 years. He organized “Higher Ground: A Century of the Visual Arts in East Tennessee,” the first ongoing display devoted to East Tennessee's art history; “Awakening the Spirits,” the first-ever retrospective devoted to the work of Bessie Harvey, as well as “Facets of Modern and Contemporary Glass,” and “New Directions in American Drawing.” He previously served as Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Columbus Museum (Georgia), and is active as a guest curator, juror, lecturer and writer. Wicks received his Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the University of Tennessee, his Master of Arts in Art History & Museum Studies from Case Western Reserve University, and was awarded back-to-back Cleveland Museum of Art Fellowships.
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