Alice Denney Artist

Alice Denney (born 1922 ) is a curator and arts administrator. Denney has been considered to be the grande dame of the Washington, D.C. avant-garde and the mentor to a number of Washington's artists and arts administrators. She was the first director of the Jefferson Place Gallery, intimately involved in the founding of the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, and founder of the Washington Project for the Arts.She helped with the exhibition "The Popular Image", which included Robert Rauschenberg's "Concerto #5", with the Judson Dance Theater.She brought the exhibit "Punk Art", to the WPA, in 1978.

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Birth dateJanuary 01, 1922
Nationality
United States

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Curator

Alice Denney on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://johnjamesanderson.blogspot.com/2006/11/conversation-with-alice.html
  2. http://www.wpadc.org/pdf/WPAC_History.pdf