Laila Islam
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Laila Islam is a curator and multidisciplinary artist in Philadelphia, PA, working in the Prints Drawing and Photographs Department as a second-year Mellon Fellow at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Islam is an incoming senior at Moore College of Art and Design majoring in Curatorial Studies with a minor in Fine Arts. Islam identifies as a curator committed to artistic community engagement and radical healing. They define radical healing as a practice where one provides marginalized demographics the platforms to exist and think outside of the circumstances that have historically and currently oppressed them, allowing them to discern ways to combat said circumstances while developing forms of mutual aid. Islam’s passion to intersect curation with community mobilization is reflected in their work as co-curator and collective organizer of The Future Is Us Collective. Islam’s curatorial mentor at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is Peter Barberie, The Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center.
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