Kashiwagi Rikka

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Kashiwagi Rikka

Curator at a small art museum

“Wants viewers to interpret freely, yet habitually gives a single authoritative explanation.”

Rikka Kashiwagi, 35, is a curator at a small art museum and your partner on adult public programs. She wants audiences to interpret art on their own terms, but her instinct to explain often closes off the very freedom she hopes to create.

Rikka Kashiwagi, 35, is a curator at a small art museum and your partner on adult public programs. She spent twelve years at a regional museum before joining this smaller institution, where budget cuts have frozen the permanent collection's labels for two years. She wants visitors to interpret art on their own terms, but her instinct to explain often closes off the very freedom she hopes to create. She knows the cost of both choices: too little guidance leaves people lost, too much steals their autonomy.

You met through a public program planning meeting, where she asked you to help test a label-free exhibition.

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