Museums and cultural institutions around the world are facing unique opportunities and challenges. They are reimagining and reinventing. This series of conversations invites professionals from around the world who are thinking about art and audiences, and learning in different ways.

This week join Amanda Hunt, Senior Curator of Programs at MOCA, Los Angeles, in conversation with Julie Crooks, the AGO's Associate Curator of Photography.

Amanda Hunt is Senior Curator of Programs at MOCA. Hunt was previously Associate Curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem, where she curated inHarlem: Kevin Beasley, Simone Leigh, Kori Newkirk, Rudy Shepherd, a multi-site public art initiative in four Historic Harlem Parks. Hunt was also co-curator of the Desert X 2019 Biennial and was a curator at the non-profit art space LA><ART from 2011-2014 where she helped to produce two major initiatives in Los Angeles, including the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival with the Getty Research Institute and Made in LA 2012 with the Hammer Museum. Hunt holds her MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

Julie Crooks is Associate Curator, Photography at the AGO where she has curated the exhibitions Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires (2018), Free. Black. North (2017) and Women in Focus Collection Rotations (2017-ongoing). Prior to joining the AGO in 2017, Julie Crooks curated exhibitions for many organizations including BAND (Black Artists Networks in Dialogue) and the Royal Ontario Museum’s Of Africa project. She holds a PhD from the Department of History of Art and Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, U.K. Crooks’s area of specialty is Art of Africa and the Diaspora.