AYELET DANIELLE ALDOUBY

Dr. Ayelet Danielle Aldouby is a public and social practice curator, researcher, and educator in Community Arts in the Art & Art Education program at Columbia University's Teachers College. Her research focuses on the Ethics of Care in collaborative arts, transformative participatory art engagements, and sustainable artistic practices. Aldouby is the founder of the artists’ residency Voices of Multiplicity (VoM), focused on Environmental Justice, and the curator of the ARTmobile in collaboration with the Brooklyn Public Library system. Her recent curated exhibit, Silent Fall, at the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, DC, highlighted endangered species in the Americas (2023).

Recent publications include Silent Fall: Unveiling Hidden Voices in Environmental Justice Art Through Hope (ICOM Paraguay 2023), The Artistic Practice as Geography of the Heart (Silent Spring catalog), and The Creative Listening Workshop: Exploring the Potential for Transformational Learning (ITLC 2022). Aldouby also co-authored Then and Now - a Harlem Renaissance Curriculum Guide and Seeing the Unseen in the Texas Art Education Journal.

Aldouby has served as lead curator for IDEASxLab, cultivating artists as agents of change, led NEA Our Town grants (2014-2016), and worked on public art projects for Alliance for Downtown NY, the International Artists’ Museum at the 51st & 52nd Venice Biennales, and Documenta.

She was president of the National Art Education Association Community Art Caucus (CAC) from 2019-2021 and a Humanities New York Public Humanities Fellow in 2022-2023.

Website: ayeletdaniellealdoubyart.com

PAST PROJECTS WITH ZAZ10TS

24:7, December 4, 2017 - January 4, 2018

In 2017, Ayelet Danielle Aldouby co-curated the groundbreaking project "24:7" alongside Tzili Charney, Danspace Project, Tamar Dresdner, Tamar Ettun, and Naomi Lev. This innovative project featured around-the-clock art videos displayed on a billboard at the corner of 41st Street and Broadway for an entire month.

"24:7" was the inaugural initiative of ZAZ10TS, founded by Charney, and sought to blur the line between public and private spaces by bringing art directly to passers-by. The project tested the medium's power to meaningfully engage the public in the bustling heart of New York City. Charney, a staunch advocate for "art as a way of life, built into buildings," was thrilled to see this dynamic project come to life in such a vibrant urban setting. The success of "24:7" marked the birth of ZAZ10TS and set the stage for a series of future art initiatives.

OTHER CURATED PROJECTS

“As a social practice curator and researcher I am committed to engaging in art projects which promote sustainability in communities and beyond.” — Ayelet Danielle Aldouby