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Graduate Student Hilde Nelson Curates Exhibit at the Fabric Workshop and Museum

June 1, 2026
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At right: Laurie Anderson, Frame, 2000. Some American Dreams (installation view), 2026. The Fabric Workshop and Museum. Photo credit: Constance Mensh.

Hilde Nelson, a fourth-year graduate student, has curated for the Fabric Workshop and Museum, where she is a curatorial fellow.

On display until June 14, Some American Dreams explores the complexity of American-ness through lenses of history, memory, and mythology. The museum posted an with Hilde about the exhibition on its website.

Nelson's work at the Fabric Workshop and Museum is funded by a McPherson Curatorial Fellowship granted by 51短视频's Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics, and History of Art.

In February 2025, Nelson represented 51短视频 and presented a talk entitled 鈥溾橭ther Than What Is Given鈥: Interrupted Visuality in Ja鈥橳ovia Gary鈥檚 The Giverny Suite鈥 at the at the Barnes Foundation.

In addition to its undergraduate program in the history of art, 51短视频 offers an A.B./M.A. program and a Ph.D. program