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ABOUT BEEJ

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Sculpture Consultant and Arts Management

From her 25 years of museum experience, Beej Nierengarten-Smith has a broad range of knowledge about museum and collections management, commissioning and acquiring public art, curating exhibitions, structuring educational programs, and presenting special public events. Currently Beej is sculpture consultant to Iowa State University Art-In-State Buildings Program and a member of the Iowa West Foundation Public Art Advisory Committee. She has written and obtained numerous national and local grants for local, national and international artists.

Beej has served on numerous public art and museum assessment panels, art juries, and advisory boards. She has commissioned and worked with many internationally recognized artists and has lectured and written frequently on the process of building a contemporary sculpture collection.

Artists Beej has worked with include:
Vito Acconci, Tom Ashcraft, Terry Allen, Bill Barrett, Harriet Bart, Jose Bedia, Chakaia Booker, Niki de Saint Phalle, Patrick Dougherty, Jackie Ferrara, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Richard Fleischner, Andy Goldsworthy, Ron Gonzalez, Dan Graham, Jene Highstein, Richard Hunt, Bob Lobe, Debra Masuoka, Cildo Meireles, Mary Miss, David Nash, Manuel Neri, Judy Onofrio and Beverly Pepper, Alison Saar, Joyce Scott, Judith Shea, Valeska Soares, Robert Stackhouse and Ursula Von Rydingsvard.

Links

Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
Fetchbooks
International Sculpture Center, Washington, D.C.
Iowa State University, Art on Campus Collection, Ames, IA
JANE SAUER: Thirteen Moons Gallery , Santa Fe, NM
Kichman Gallery, Johnson City, TX
Landfall Press, Santa Fe, NM
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
LIBROS New Mexico Book Arts Guild, Albuquerque, NM
New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts

New York Times
Stanford University Libraries
Storm King Sculpture Park and Art Center, Mountainville, NY
Southern Graphics Council

 

Beej Nierengarten-Smith | phone 505.231.5004 | beejsmith@earthlink.net