Thursday 7 July 2022
13:00pm - 14:00pm
Online event
PLEASE NOTE: This event is for STEAMhouse Create members only.
Join Emalee Beddoes-Davis, Curator at Birmingham Museum & Gallery, for an informal conversation about how she works with artists.
About this event
Led by Ruth Claxton, this is the latest in a series of events exclusively for STEAMhouse Create Programme members designed to demystify the commissioning process and help artists understand how different curators and organisations work, and how projects and relationships with artists evolve.
The event will be hosted on Zoom.
Our Guest

Emalee Beddoes Davis is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Birmingham Museums Trust. Previously, she was curator of art and exhibitions at Museums Worcestershire. She is a trustee of Division of Labour Gallery. She loves funny art, folk art and emotionally engaging art and her interests are in producing creative historic interpretation, supporting artists, and making joyful, accessible exhibitions.
She is co-curator of We Are Birmingham, a Don’t Settle partnership programme, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG), April – December 2022 and most recently curated Coming Home, a National Portrait Gallery partnership programme, 2020; Cold War Steve Vs the PRB, 2020;Thoughts on Portraiture, 2019; Women Power Protest 2018 and co-curated Cut Copy Remix, Vivid Projects and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 2020;
To register for this event please email ruth.claxton@bcu.ac.uk