Buffalo, NY – The Albright-Knox is proud to present Meet Me in Between, the 2020 AK Teens: Future Curators exhibition. Each year, this program enables local students to organize an exhibition of artwork created by their peers. This year, 20 students from the Western New York area came together to create an exhibition that explores the manipulation of the human experience and figure. 

The exhibition was planned to be on view at the Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology and the Western New York Book Arts Center. Due to social distancing guidelines related to COVID-19, the exhibition was moved online to the museum’s website. It includes 50 works chosen from 530 entries, submitted by artists from 22 different schools. The AK Teens: Future Curators Program is made possible by the generous support of KeyBank.

A virtual exhibition celebration will be held on Wednesday, May 20, at 5 pm, hosted through Zoom. 

Meet Me in Between showcases how shared experiences are altered and distorted through an individual’s perception. The artworks in this exhibition underscore the duality of the familiar and the uncanny. Each work in the exhibition was chosen because of its focal point on the intersection of familiarity and unfamiliarity to the human mind. “During this program, we made friends and brought our ideas together to construct the exhibition. Although COVID-19 interfered with our plans, we persevered in quarantine and created this virtual exhibition,” Future Curator Katherine Mahoney explains. 

The 2020 Future Curators team consists of 20 students in grades 11 and 12: Abbilynn Cardona (Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts), Lucy Dietrich (Tonawanda High School), Alexandria Dillemuth (Lake Shore High School), Catherine Finn (Orchard Park High School), Alison Kolaga (City Honors High School), Zoe Kowalski (Grand Island Senior High School), Solomon Lian (Canisius High School), Tristan Madden (Nichols School), Katherine Mahoney (City Honors High School), Angelina Marinello (Grand Island Senior High School), Lydia Maynor (Nichols School), Cadence Nelligan (Hamburg High School), Ruby Z Soudant (City Honors High School), Emma Stephen (Nichols School), Alanna Swanson (Frontier Central High School), Audrey Swanson (Frontier Central High School), Jackson Trummer (Pioneer Central High School), Chloe Vecchio (Silver Creek High School), Badriyah Williams (City Honors High School), Sarah Zakeri (Frontier Central High School). 

Beginning in January 2020, this creative team of young aspiring art professionals have been learning what goes on behind the scenes at the Albright-Knox. The program allows students to use the museum’s collection and current exhibitions to begin thinking about art from the mindset of a curator.

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