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E. Maude Haak-Frendscho



Curatorial Projects

Upcoming:

Co-Curator: Insistent Ecologies, Easthampton City Arts Gallery, Easthampton, MA. Oct-Nov 2026

Editor & Designer: Press On: A publishing practice reader (working title), Neighboring Systems, Easthampton, MA. Expected release Nov 2026

Guest Curator: A map, a mirror, a miracle, A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA. Oct-Nov 2027

Past:
"Making Meaning / Marking Time" Cati Bestard & Michael Medeiros ECA Gallery Invitational, Oct 4-Nov 12, 2025 "In each other we trust" Jeff Kasper ECA Gallery Invitational & Panel Convo, Oct 5 - 28, 2024 Press On: Indie Publishing Festival: Sat, April 27, 2024 ACROSS / BETWEEN Kathy Guo & Paul Specht: ECA Gallery Invitational Exhibition, Oct 12 - Nov 3, 2023 Press On: Indie Publishing Fair, Sat, May 20, 2023 What Now? Towards Artist-Led Movements, Common Field, Sept 30-Oct 2, 2022 Press On: Indie Publishing Fair, Sat, May 14, 2022 Sustaining Futures, Common Field Convening, Nov 2 - 13, 2021 Staff participant in Common Field Re-Imagining audit, repair work, and organizational sunsetting process, Jan 2021-Nov 2022 No to Zero for the Arts, as member of Vox Populi Artist Collective, May 2020 In Response to Now: A Virtual Assembly, May 21, 2020 Common Field Convening Online, April 23 - May 3, 2020 2019 Neighboring Systems Publication Releases Release Reading & Conversation: Christy Davids, Nabil Kashyap, and Connie Yu, Nov 17, 2019 Neighboring Systems: Publishing & Events: 2019-present Common Field Convening Philadelphia, April 25-28, 2019 Field Guide to Wet Lab, February 2019 Maximum Tilt: Summer Solstice Festival, June 21, 2018 Philly Field Conversations, June 11 - July 21, 2018 WE ARE THE FRUITING BODY: May 4th - June 29th, 2018 Common Field Convening Program Director March 2018 - November 2022 x+1 _ Vox Accelerated, Feb 2-18, 2018 Vox Populi Gallery: Artist Collective Member 2017-2021 The Battle Is Joined by Karyn Olivier for Monument Lab, Sept - Nov, 2017 Love Is The Message by Jamel Shabazz for Monument Lab, Sept-Nov, 2017 A Jury of Your Peers, Jury Assemby Room mural by Nathaniel Lee, Oct 2017 Latinx Heros: Julia de Burgos Elementary School Mural by Danny Torres, Sept 2017 The Blueprint, Boys & Girls Club Mural by Felix St. Fort, Sept 2017 History, Commerce, Community Germantown Mural by Jared Bader Soar to High Heights, St. Christopher's Children's Hospital mural by Erik Okdeh, 2017 Mural Arts Philadelphia: Community Murals Project Manager 2016 - 2018 Pro Arts Gallery 2x2 Solos, Outside Influence by Ernest Jolly, Curator, 2013 Shifts in Horizon: Perspectives on Landscape, Headlands Workshop, June 1-8, 2012 Headlands Center for the Arts, Program Manager Feb 2012 - Jul 2016 San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, SHIFT: Three Projects Constructing a Dialogue about Race in America, Catalogue Project Manager & Co-Editor 2011 Transit//Stasis: Negotiating Movement in the City, Co-Curator & Publication Project Manager 2011 Pop-Up Cafe: 5 Discussions of Social Meal Space Organizer 2011 DRIFT: A Magazine of West Coast Cultural Production, Co-Editor & Designer 2010 - 2012


Community & Public Art; Cultural Planning

RiverFest Cummington, Sept 19, 2026 Hilltown Open Studio Tour Coordinator, Apr 2026-present Cross Pollination: Community Biodiversity Program Cummington, Mar 2026 - present deTours: Exploring the Westfield River Cummington, Jun 2025 ART& Public Space Activation Strategy & Implementation Guide for Belchertown, Oct 2025 RiverFest Cummington, Sept 19-20 2025 Branding Belchertown Project & Committee formation, Jun 2024 - Jul 2025 (Town logo approved May, 2025) ViewFinder program design & library partnership, April - Jul 2025 Belchertown Transfer Station Container Murals & Trash Gala, 2025 Building Up Belchertown small business support program partnership, 2025 Public Art on Main Street, Cummington self-guided tour print map & online guide, Oct 2024 The Bounty of Belchertown print brochure & online interactive guide, Aug 2024 deTours: Exploring the Bryant Homestead thematic walks, Cummington, Jul - Aug, 2024 Belchertown Creative Economy Committee, Initiator & Facilitator, Jun 2024 - Oct 2025 Belchertown Spaces Guide for Meetings & Venues, Aug 2024 Belchertown Wildlife & Landscape Photography Program, Feb - May 2024 GATHER: Art Space & Marketplace Pilot, Belchertown, 2023 Belchertown Wayfinding Signage & Downtown Signage Plan, Sept 2023 - Jul 2025 Programming, Partnership & Administration, Sept 2023-present Belchertown Cultural District Planning & Programming, Jun 2023 - Oct 2025 Cultural Strategy & Creative Economy Consultant, Apr 2023-Oct2025 ECA Coordinating Committee Member, Dec 2021-present The Battle is Joined by Karyn Olivier for Monument Lab, Sept-Nov 2017 Love is the Message by Jamel Shabazz for Monument Lab, Sept-Nov 2017



Writing



ART& Public Space Activation Strategy & Implementation Guide for Belchertown, Oct 2025 Making it Public: Community-inspired Artmaking in Belchertown for NEFA blog, Aug 20, 2025 Belchertown Spaces Guide for Meetings & Venues, Aug 2024 Review: A Social Body: Tarek Atoui’s Organ Within, July 23, 2019 Field Guide to Wet Lab, February 2019 Review, Rhonda Holberton at Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Dec 15, 2016 Pro Arts Gallery 2x2 Solos, Outside Influence by Ernest Jolly, Curator & Writer, 2013 San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, SHIFT: Three Projects Constructing a Dialogue about Race in America, Catalogue Project Manager & Co-Editor 2011 Transit//Stasis: Negotiating Movement in the City, Co-Curator & Publication Project Manager 2011 DRIFT: A Magazine of West Coast Cultural Production, Co-Editor & Designer 2010 - 2012