Frances Cathryn
Frances Cathryn is a museum worker and community organizer in Kingston, New York, who fights to recontextualize stories as they’ve been told to us. Her work confronting racist histories and the myth of neutrality in museums helped her start wip projects, where she looks forward to building something different. Frances has written about collective memory and public art, material histories of child design, and memorials to the coronavirus, and has been featured in the Los Angeles Review of Books, ARTnews magazine, and the Museum of Modern Art, among others. She has also held workshops and talks at MASS MoCA, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, among others. Frances is a member of Common Field, a national network of arts organizations and independent organizers, and a New Inc. at the New Museum mentor.