Rebecca Hart joined the modern and contemporary art department
at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) in 1995 and became assistant
curator of modern and contemporary art in 1997, now the department
of contemporary art. She has served as curator for influential
exhibitions such as Detroit Collects Murano Glass (2004),
Bill Viola: Video Installations (2000) and Common
Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn (1999),
and co-curator for Artists Take on Detroit: Projects for
the Tricentennial (2001).
Hart received a master’s of fine arts degree in fiber
from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.,
and is currently pursuing a master’s of arts in art history
from Wayne State University in Detroit. Hart received two bachelor’s
degrees, one in fine arts from the Kansas City Art Institute
in Kansas City, Mo., where she was valedictorian, and one in
art history from Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., where
she graduated with honors.
Hart co-wrote two electronic publications at the DIA, Artists
Take on Detroit and Interventions. She has also written
for the FiberArts journal with articles entitled “Merging
Boundaries re-examines Material and Form” and “When
the Public Joins In: Recent Work of Gerhardt Knodel.”
Hart is a contributing author of the forthcoming American
Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume III
(April 2005), which chronicles work by American artists born
between 1848 and 1880.
Acclaimed for her works in fiber, Hart is an accomplished artist
locally and nationally. Her work has been featured in several
national exhibitions and has been acquired by many private and
corporate collectors.
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