Curator Name: Ayelet Danielle Aldouby
Residency Dates: 2023 – 2024
Hometown: Trumbull, CT & Tel Aviv, Israel
Lives & Works: NYC, NY
URL: ayeletdaniellealdoubyart.com
Education: Doctoral Candidate, Art & Art Education Program, Columbia University, TC
Bio/Statement:
Ayelet Danielle Aldouby is a curator, professor, and researcher specializing in public art, socially engaged practice, and community-based art education with a focus on well – being and care ethics. She is the founder of ARTMobile, a mobile studio offering creative, research-informed art engagements in public spaces.
Aldouby previously served as lead curator for IDEASxLab, where she advanced artists as creative agents of change under the National Endowment for the Arts’ “Our Town” initiative. She is also the co-founder of Artea Projects, a New York City-based organization supporting public art, where she directed RE: CONSTRUCTION, a commission by the Alliance for Downtown New York. Her curatorial work has been presented internationally, including the 51st and 52nd Venice Biennale (International Artists’ Museum) and in Times Square with ZAZ10.
Aldouby is the founder of Voices of Multiplicity (VoM), collaborating with RU to support a socially engaged artist residency for BIPOC artists focused on eco-justice, knowledge production, and experiential learning. She also served as president of the Community Art Caucus of the National Art Education Association.
She holds a doctoral degree in Art & Art Education from Columbia University, Teachers College, where her dissertation explored Ethics of Care in Participatory Arts Engagements. She is currently an Adjunct Professor, teaching the Community Arts course, with ongoing research interests in reflective artistic practice, transformative learning, and socially engaged pedagogy.
Support: The VoM Artist Residency is made possible with support from the Roman Foundation. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
