Rachel Moore

Executive Director
The Current: A Center For Contemporary Art
    
2020 Dona Ann McAdams: Performative Acts
Location: Stowe, Vermont
Nationality: American
Biography: Rachel Moore is the Executive Director & Director of Exhibitions at The Current in Stowe, Vermont. She has been with the Art Center since 2010, first as Independent Curator, and then as Assistant Director & Executive Curator (2011-2016).... MORE
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2020 Dona Ann McAdams: Performative Acts
Copyright Rachel Moore 2024
Updated Jan 2021
Topics Activism, Avant-garde performance, Documentary, Feminism, Gay Rights, Peace, Photography, Photojournalism, Protests, Theater

Artist:

Dona Ann McAdams

Curated by:

 John Killacky

This exhibition includes approximately 45 photographs from her expansive oeuvre over the last forty years featuring essential documentation of the avant-garde performance and queer liberation scenes in New York in the ‘80s and ‘90s, humane in situ portraits of those with cognitive disabilities, cloistered nuns, race track workers, Appalachians, and farmers as well as luminous photos of horses, oxen, and goats.

A longtime New York City resident, McAdams now lives on a goat farm in Sandgate, Vermont, with her husband, the writer Brad Kessler.
After showing at BMAC from June 22 through September 23, “Dona Ann McAdams: Performative Acts” will tour Vermont through November 2020, visiting Castleton University’s Bank Gallery in Rutland, Catamount Arts in St. Johnsbury and Helen Day Art Center in Stowe.

Public Programs

Culture Wars with Dona Ann McAdams and John Killacky

In the 1990s, artists such as David Wojnarowicz, Karen Finley, and Ron Athey served as lightning rods for outrage over the appropriateness of their receiving support from the National Endowment for the Arts. In this video, photographer Dona Ann McAdams and curator John Killacky discuss the culture wars of this era and McAdams’ exhibition at the Helen Day Art Center, “Dona Ann McAdams: Performative Acts.”

Live Webinar: October 29, 5:30-6:30pm

Vermont Farming: Education, Economics, and Entrepreneurship

A Panel Discussion with Dona Ann McAdams, Brad Kessler, Molly Pindell, Lelia Evans, and Maiya Keck
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86775784103?pwd=aDZrcU8xekRlU0Y4WlpzTlVEUTlJdz09

Meeting ID: 867 7578 4103
Passcode: 306498Moderator: Rachel Moore




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