Drew Sawyer Author & Editor

Nora Burnett Abrams is the Ellen Bruss Curator and Director of Planning at MCA Denver. Since arriving in Denver in 2010, she has organized over thirty exhibitions and authored or contributed to nearly a dozen accompanying publications. Recent projects have highlighted unusual or unknown episodes in artists careers, such as Basquiat Before Basquiat (2017), as well as the first survey of Senga Nendudi s R.S.V.P. sculptures (2014). She has taught art history at New York University and lectured throughout the country on modern and contemporary art. She holds art history degrees from Stanford University (B.A.), Columbia University (M.A.), and a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Drew Sawyer is the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum. Previously, he was Head of Exhibitions and the William J. and Sarah Ross Soter Associate Curator of Photography at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio. His most recent exhibition, Family Pictures, explored the legacy of Roy DeCarava s 1955 book The Sweet Flypaper of Life, and included works by John Edmonds, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Lyle Ashton Harris, Deana Lawson, Lorraine O Grady, Gordon Parks, Sondra Perry, Ming Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems.