dessane lopez cassell

Select Curatorial Projects

 

Unraveling Paradise, April 10–May 1, 2022. Co-presented by Metrograph and Abrons Arts Center. Curated by Dessane Lopez Cassell. Trailer courtesy Metrograph.

 
  • Curator, Unraveling Paradise, Metrograph, April 10–May 1, 2022, New York, NY. Co-presented by Abrons Arts Center and Metrograph.

  • Curator and Guest Juror, Ways of Being Free, Southern Exposure, 29th Juried Exhibition (virtual), Dec. 2020–March 2021

  • Guest Curator, Pleasure & Power: the films of Numa Perrier, Black Women’s Film Conference, Sept. 2020

  • Guest Curator, Talk to me how + Jezebel, Rockaway Film Festival, Oct. 19, 2019

  • Curator, Juror’s Program: What Happened Here, Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, Apr. 20, 2019

  • Guest Programmer, Aftermath, Flaherty NYC, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY, Oct. 1–Dec. 10, 2018

  • Guest Curator, Women at Work: Radical Creativity, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Brooklyn, NY, Aug. 10–16, 2018

  • Curatorial Research & Exhibition Assistance, Fictions, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, Sept. 14, 2017–Jan. 4, 2018

 
Series trailer for “Women at Work: Radical Creativity,” Brooklyn Academy of Music, August 10–16, 2018, guest curated by Dessane Lopez Cassell. Courtesy of BAM.