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Tonya Nelson

Tonya Nelson

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    • The Messy Edge at Brighton Digital Festival
    • Art (I)rrelevance Symposium: Academics, Collectors, Funders and Artists Talk Data, AI and Arts
    • 2019 Knowledge Quarter Conference: The Future of Knowledge
    • THE ARTS+ INNOVATION SUMMIT: 10 October 2018
    • Government can work! Seeing Culture is Digital come to life
    • Festival of Ideas: 8 September 2018
    • New Horizons: Arts Technology and Innovation
    • Artlab18: 24th-25th May 2018
    • The Oscars, Othello and Ira Aldridge: The Paradox of Race in the Performing Arts
    • Continuing the Conversation: Statues, Monuments and Difficult Histories
    • Can The Art World Lead Change In A Post-Brexit And Trump World?
    • Curators vs. Managers: Succession Planning in Museums
    • Raqqa: The Cultural History of the ISIS Stronghold
    • Corbyn’s Arts Policy: A Philosophy of Accessibility
    • The Fall of Kids Company: The Reserves Quandary
    • Push-Pull Strategy and the Future of the BBC
    • The Immigration Crisis: The Limits of Language and the Opportunities of Art
    • Keynote Address: 2019 Museums Computer Network (MCN) Annual Conference
    • The Best of Art Basel 2018
    • 60 Second Tour: Blue Rider Group at Lenbachhaus
    • A First Look at the Berlin Biennale 2018
    • 60 Second Tour: Mona Hatoum’s Turbulence
    • 60 Second Tour: Wonder at Renwick Gallery
    • 60 Second Tour: Schauwerk Sindelfingen
    • Coming Spring 2020: My Evening Talk Series at Christie’s Education on Digital Arts
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Tonya Nelson

Tonya Nelson

About me

Tonya Nelson is a cultural sector leader based in London.  She is currently Director of Arts Technology and Innovation at Arts Council England and sits on the board of trustees of the National Gallery and Chairs ICOM UK. She is also a Senior Associate at AEA Consulting.

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Check out get short documentary about black female artist Betye Saar on the NYT website. It will show at Sundance this year. #betyesaardocumentary #betyesaar #blackwomenartists #museumdetox #museum #sundance #sundance2020
Kit Cat Klock by Mathieu Malouf.(2019). According to @icalondon Malouf ‘hand altered the A-typically American product, giving the clock a hammer and sickle eye.’
Arts Council England’s new strategy - Let’s Create - has just been published. The need for diversity and innovation feature as priorities. #letscreate #acegram #aceagrams #museumdetox #creativity #arts #culture #artscouncilengland
#dollypartonchallenge LinkedIn: The American Dream #9 (1964) by Faith Ringgold. A glamorous female figure, half black, half white, languidly displays an outsize diamond ring against a descending red arrow, suggesting downfall accompanying the pursuit of material wealth and superficial status Facebook: Mlle Bourgeoise Noire by Lorraine O’Grady. O’Grady creates the persona of a tempestuous 1950s beauty queen named Mlle Bourgeoise Noire, or Miss Black Middle-Class which she generated out of anger at the racism and sexism then prevalent in the art world Instagram: Untitled (2009), Kerry James Marshall. An allegory of painting, an artist sits holding her oversize palette, turned away from an unfinished self-portrait on her easel. Tinder: Alison Sarr’s Saffire (1985)

Recent Posts

  • SXSW: Time Machines, Museums and the Future of the Past
  • Coming Spring 2020: My Evening Talk Series at Christie’s Education on Digital Arts
  • Art (I)rrelevance Symposium: Academics, Collectors, Funders and Artists Talk Data, AI and Arts

What I like to think about

art arts arts management culture diversity exhibitions feminism finance gallery germany history immigration international language leadership museums oscars politics racism science social media strategy technology theatre videos

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