{"id":17568,"date":"2023-03-21T15:55:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T19:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?p=17568"},"modified":"2023-03-31T13:14:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T17:14:41","slug":"samantha-sigmon-joins-museum-of-art-as-assistant-curator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/2023\/03\/21\/samantha-sigmon-joins-museum-of-art-as-assistant-curator\/","title":{"rendered":"Samantha Sigmon joins Museum of Art as Assistant Curator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/ECBE4C96-DCEE-4795-A546-28E5647358FF-600x900.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17554\" width=\"450\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/ECBE4C96-DCEE-4795-A546-28E5647358FF-600x900.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/ECBE4C96-DCEE-4795-A546-28E5647358FF-200x300.webp 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/ECBE4C96-DCEE-4795-A546-28E5647358FF-768x1152.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/ECBE4C96-DCEE-4795-A546-28E5647358FF-1024x1536.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/ECBE4C96-DCEE-4795-A546-28E5647358FF-419x628.jpg 419w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/ECBE4C96-DCEE-4795-A546-28E5647358FF.webp 1279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by Ashlyn Gulbranson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial; font-family: var(--fontSansSerif);\">The Museum is pleased to announce that Samantha Sigmon has joined the staff as Assistant Curator. <\/span><p>Samantha Sigmon investigates cultural and folk histories, contemporary art and theory, and issues of equity and grassroots activism within the built environment through curatorial projects, writing, and community engagement. Samantha has a Master&#8217;s in Architectural History from the University of Virginia, a Master\u2019s in Museum Studies from Syracuse University, and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor\u2019s in Anthropology and English from the University of Arkansas.<\/p><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial; font-family: var(--fontSansSerif);\">In her hometown of Northwest Arkansas, she was invested in community arts, running Fayetteville Underground Gallery, a do-it-yourself space and organizing local arts exhibitions, being an independent curator at numerous regional venues, and specializing in contemporary art and architecture as an Interpretation Manager at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. At UVA, Samantha was an editor of the student-run publication Lunch, as well as an organizer for Manifest A Collective for Equity in Design, co-president of the University of Virginia Society of Architectural Historians, and Curatorial Research Assistant in University of Virginia Special Collections.<\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Museum is pleased to announce that Samantha Sigmon has joined the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":17473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17569,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17568\/revisions\/17569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}