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Frye Art Museum Lets You Be the Curator with #SocialMedium

Crowd-curate the Frye's Founding Collection for the fall via Facebook, Instagram, and more social media sites.

Seth Sommerfeld
Author: Seth Sommerfeld
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Anyone who has wandered through an art museum has likely played a quick round of fantasy curator in their mind. Why is this painting there? Who decided this was good enough to hang? What type of painting could be added here to improve the space? Alas, being an actual museum curator usually requires art degrees and a lifetime of dedication few possess. But now, the Frye Art Museum is handing the curatorial reins over to you. Yes, you.

In an effort to give that power to the people, Frye is letting the public choose which of the 232 paintings in the Frye’s Founding Collection will be on display this fall for its #SocialMedium exhibit. The crowd-curation is currently taking place on Facebook, Instagram, Pintrest, Tumblr, and the Frye website. The works with the most likes and ♥s across all platforms will be displayed from the end of September through the start of January. Additionally, the names of the digital curators will accompany the paintings, along with select comments about the art from the various social media sites. Don’t sleep on your chance to curate the Frye’s walls, as voting closes this Friday, August 22.

#SocialMedium
Sept 27–Jan 4, 2015, Frye Art Museum, Free




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Seth Sommerfeld
Seth Sommerfeld
Assistant Editor (Arts) Seth Sommerfeld runs the arts department at Seattle Met, crafting the magazine's On the Town section, editing the Culture Fiend blog, and contributing to reader service features such as “The Ultimate Seahawks Guide” and the front-of-the-book department, Mudroom. Seth has written about music and culture for Rolling Stone, Spin, Pacific Northwest Inlander, Charleston Post and Courier, Syracuse Post-Standard, and Billings Gazette. He also extensively covered the NBA Draft for years for Fox Sports and NBADraft.net, and was published as part of Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars: An Anthology. Originally from Billings, Montana, Seth first lived in Washington while earning an undergraduate degree in journalism and broadcasting at Gonzaga University. He followed up those studies at Syracuse University, where he earned a master’s degree in arts journalism.