“Everyone comes from a different place and engages with art differently,” says Lauren Schell Dickens, senior curator at San Jose Museum of Art.
The San Jose Museum of Art is not just for “art” people, says Lauren Schell Dickens. It’s for all kinds of people, including families with small kids and those who don’t normally visit museums at all.
We recently had the chance to learn more about this San Jose native, who grew up in Sonoma County and now calls Oakland home.I always liked making art but don’t recall being very interested in museums as a kid. It wasn’t until college, when I realized that a museum experience is more than just looking at paintings.
Great art operates on a register that logic or reason or language cannot touch. It can pull me in with beauty and then reveal or show me something about the world, about people and experiences around me that I hadn’t thought of or paid attention to before.The most challenging aspect of my job is also the most fun — I get to work with artists!
It can also be challenging to get audiences to slow down. Some people want to look at a sculpture and “get it” right away, but understanding, engaging takes time.The pandemic was certainly challenging. We had a fantastic exhibition on view that looked at art and prisons called “Barring Freedom,” which was only open to the public for nine days. It’s sort of heartbreaking, for us and the artists, when so much work goes into a project that the public doesn’t get to experience.
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