ABOUT

Caroline Kipp (she/they) is a curator, artist, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Art History & Archaeology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research focuses on contemporary art, material culture, phenomenology, and installation art, with a passion for underrecognized and underrepresented artists, especially women, disabled individuals, and those working within expanded craft traditions.

Kipp’s recent independent curatorial projects include Waste Not, Want Not: Craft in the Anthropocene at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA; Beyond the Surface: Contemporary Artists and Printed Textiles at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, NY; Ringgold|Saar: Meeting on the Matrix at the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland; the 2023-2024 Textile Culture Net exhibitions; and Light & Shadow at Shelter in Place Gallery, Boston, MA.

From 2019 to 2023, Kipp was the Curator of Contemporary Art at The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum in Washington, DC. Previously, she was the Curatorial Associate in the Department of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she was responsible for the contemporary decorative arts collection, including the Daphne Farago collection. She curated the Farago Gallery rotations, Perception is the Medium, Jack Bush: Radiant Abstraction, Community Arts Initiative: Mindful Mandalas, and Community Arts Initiative: Endless Feast, and co-curated Beyond the Loom: Fiber as Sculpture and Subversive Threads as part of the museum-wide exhibition, Women Take the Floor. Kipp served as the assistant and project manager on Cecilia Vicuna: Disappeared Quipu, Sheila Hicks, Nan Goldin, Lorraine O’Grady: Family Gained, Candice Breitz: Love Story, Maia Lynch: In Between, and Monuments to Us. Prior to this, Kipp was part of the MFA Boston’s Textile and Fashion Arts Department, where she contributed research to the exhibition Gender Bending Fashion.

Kipp holds a B.F.A. in Fibers from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an A.L.M. in Museum Studies from Harvard University. She serves on the board of the James Renwick Alliance for Craft (JRA Craft) as the Chrysalis Award Chair, and previously served on the board of the Textile Society of America (TSA) as the Director of Programming.

Email: kipp@umd.edu

Instagram: @carolinekipp_curator