Wendy Woon is an artist, educator, facilitator, and mentor with over 35 years of innovative leadership experience in progressively high-profile contemporary art institutions in the United States and Canada. She is currently a lecturer at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She also held the Edward John Noble Foundation Deputy Director for Education position at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2006-2020). Woon has been an adjunct instructor in the Visual Art Administration Graduate Programs at New York University for over 10 years, exploring imaginative, experimental, and engaging forms of pedagogy in classes to impart these collaborative methods to future art leaders, who will evolve the ways art museums fulfill their educational missions. Woon is a highly regarded thinker featured in public conversations in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Americas, most recently in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She considers art a vital catalyst that connects people across differences, a rich source for people to learn from and with each other, and a means to foster empathy.
During the last week of September, members of the C-MAP Latin America group traveled to Chile. This trip was part of a research focus on that country which, over the past year, has brought a number of artists, scholars, critics and curators to MoMA–all this in an effort to better understand the complexities of the…
The artists’ book movement in Mexico evolved as a “direct consequence of many complex circumstances in keeping with the mood of the times,” according to Felipe Ehrenberg, an artist, writer, and neologist. Upon Ehrenberg’s return from…
The C-MAP Latin America research group spent a week in Mexico City in August 2014, visiting the Distrito Federal’s major institutions, flourishing gallery scene, artists’ studios, and architectural sites. The group also celebrated the project Poema Colectivo 2014 and participated in a roundtable at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) with Mexico City–based curators. Throughout the…
