Opening Day Public Program: A Conversation with Dr. Katharine Wright and Constance Dinapoli

Sunday, February 1, 2026 |2 PM

Join us for a FREE curator talk this Sunday at 2pm and hear from Dr. Katharine Wright, Curator at the American Federation of the Arts and Constance Dinapoli, dancer and choreographer formerly with Paul Taylor Dance Company. Dinapoli is one of the dancers who appears in works featured in the exhibition.  

About the Speakers:

Dr. Katharine J. Wright is a curator and scholar of modern and contemporary art based in New York City. She specializes in pre- and post-war American art, with a focus on design, alternative media, public art, and photography. For more than twenty years, Katharine has conducted research, organized educational programs, and held curatorial roles at major art museums including the Morgan Library and Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has curated exhibitions across the United States, Europe, and Latin America, featuring artists such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Marta Chilindron, George Lois, Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin and many more. Dr. Wright received her BA from Williams College and her MA and PhD from The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her research and writing has been published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thames & Hudson, Yale University Press.

Constance Dinapoli, a muse for Alex Katz and Paul Taylor, has a deep and rich professional background in dance and teaching, from performing worldwide with the Paul Taylor Dance Company. She continues to serve as a répétiteur for the Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, director of summer intensives for The Taylor School, and faculty in the NYC Taylor School. Currently, she is the director of dance at Episcopal High School and guest faculty at Johns Hopkins University’s Program in Theatre Arts and Studies, the University of Maryland’s School of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, Sam Houston State University’s Dance Department, Dean College, and Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. She was the artistic coordinator of contemporary dance at the Peabody Preparatory, the Peabody Institute, an instructor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, an assistant professor in the School of Dance, George Mason University, and faculty at The Washington School of Ballet.  M.F.A., George Mason University. B.A. Stanford University 

Be the first to experience Alex Katz: Theater and Dance as it opens to the public at WAM.
Exhibition Hours: 10 AM –  5 PM

Performing arts and visual arts come together as one in this exhibition, the first comprehensive exploration of Katz’s playful and inventive collaborations with choreographers, dancers, and members of avant-garde theater ensembles over six decades. The exhibition, co-organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Colby College Museum of Art, showcases rare archival materials, major sets and paintings, and previously unexhibited sketches from more than two dozen productions.

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