Boston Center for the Arts announces new Associate Director of Visual Arts

BOSTON, MA – The Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) has appointed Randi Hopkins as its new Associate Director of Visual Arts. Hopkins is a Boston-based curator and arts writer. Until 2011, she served as Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston. Her work at the ICA includes exhibitions of Charles LeDray: workworkworkworkwork, the 2010 James and Audrey Foster Prize and Krzysztof Wodiczko: OUT OF HERE The Veterans Project. She was the co-founder and co- director of Allston Skirt Gallery in Boston’s South End from 1998- 2008, and a longtime weekly arts columnist for the Boston Phoenix. Current and ongoing activities include organizing a multi-state, multi-venue exhibition of Barbara Bosworth’s photographs as independent curator for the National Park Service and teaching art history and curatorial practice in the Art & Music Department at Simmons College in Boston. She began full-time at the BCA on Monday, July 15, 2013.

“I am excited to join the BCA team,” says Hopkins, “to work on developing its amazing potential to become a dynamic hub of contemporary art in Boston, a place where we can think together about what contemporary art can be and what it can mean in a very broad sense. I think one of the things that I most look forward to about taking on this position is the opportunity to play a role as the Boston Center for the Arts continues to evolve into a lively arena for artistic and curatorial exploration.”

Hopkins will oversee the curatorial direction of the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts. One of the BCA’s longest-running programs, Mills Gallery Exhibitions showcase contemporary works, emphasizing diversity of voice, practice and giving equal attention to emerging, midcareer and established artists and curators. The scope of exhibitions in the Mills Gallery include regional and national artists, local artists as well as artists from the BCA’s own Artist Studios Building. In addition, Hopkins will direct the BCA’s Artist Residencies and the Artist Studios Building program.

“The Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts provides artists the opportunity to present their work in the vibrant South End community,” says BCA President and CEO Veronique Le Melle. “I look forward to the work Randi will develop at the BCA, her reputation and expertise in the contemporary art field will be instrumental in expanding the visibility of the BCA’s visual arts programming.”