Vigtel Conversation – Printmaking in African Art

Judy Hecker is the executive director of Print Center New York, a nonprofit space that champions printmaking as an art form that drives invention, collaboration, and access and plays a vital role in society. Prior, Hecker was an assistant curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she organized Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now (2011) and co-organized the New York presentation of William Kentridge: Five Themes (2010), among other exhibitions. She holds a BA from Wellesley College and an MA from the University of Chicago.

Lauren Tate Baeza is the Fred and Rita Richman Curator of African Art at the High Museum of Art. For the museum, she has curated Bruce Onobrakpeya: The Mask and the Cross, Three Decades of Democracy: South African Works on Paper, and the forthcoming Ezrom Legae: Beasts, each focused on prints or drawings. Baeza previously served as Director of Exhibitions at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, where she curated the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection of archival documents and organized numerous exhibitions and programs engaging the visual and performing arts to address social issues. She is a contributing editor at Art Papers and serves on the boards of Still Art in Johannesburg and the UCLA African Studies Center.