The 2012 Future Curators team consisted of 13 students in grades 11 and 12:
Bella Buscarino (Buffalo Seminary), Christina Chilberg (Lewiston-Porter High School), Andrew Fretz (Williamsville North High School), Evan Hayes (St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute), Courtney Lowinger (Kenmore East High School), Maria Melchiorre (Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart), Dora Ranilovic (Nichols School), Mary Rindfuss (Hamburg High School), Mitchell Riter (Nichols School), Allison Schmitz (Kenmore East High School), Cassondra Stolzenburg (Lockport High School), Amanda Tobin (Immaculata Academy), and Calder Wright (Amherst Central High School).
The 2012 Future Curators (from left): Program Coordinator Lindsay Kranz, Maria Melchiorre, Amanda Tobin, Christina Chilberg, Cassondra Stolzenburg, Evan Hayes, Courtney Lowinger, Bella Buscarino, Mary Rindfuss, Allison Schmitz, Dora Ranilovic, Calder Wright, Andrew Fretz, and Mitchell Riter. In the background is Nancy Rubins’s Stainless Steel, Aluminum, Monochrome I, Built to Live Anywhere, at Home Here, 2010–11 (Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery; George B. and Jenny R. Mathews Fund, by exchange, 2010; © 2010 Nancy Rubins). Photographs by Tom Loonan.
The 2012 Future Curators Exhibition Opening. Photograph by Tom Loonan
From January to May 2012, this exceptional team of young artists, art historians, writers, mathematicians, and musicians used the Albright-Knox’s collection to explore new ways of looking at art and learned what goes on behind-the-scenes at the museum from various staff members.
The 2012 Future Curators’ exhibition of artwork by local high school students—Calloused—was on view at the Albright-Knox May 3–June 17, 2012, with an exhibition opening celebration planned by the team on May 3.
AK Teens is presented by the First Niagara Foundation.
