{"id":884,"date":"2026-03-20T04:02:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/?page_id=884"},"modified":"2026-03-23T05:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:30:21","slug":"mia-curran","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/mia-curran\/","title":{"rendered":"Mia Curran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section alignfull alignfull getwid-section-content-custom-width\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__wrapper getwid-padding-left-medium getwid-padding-right-medium\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-wrapper\" style=\"max-width:1140px\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background-holder\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background\"><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__foreground\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__content\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mia Curran<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-advanced-heading\" style=\"margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-advanced-heading__content\">She\/Her<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>PhD candidate, CUNY Graduate Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mia Curran is a PhD candidate in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her dissertation, <em>Aaron Douglas\u2019s Figurative Returns, 1925\u201375<\/em>, reconsiders the artist\u2019s six-decade career through the prism of circulation, positioning his shifting figurative idioms as negotiations of their changing locations, publics, and conditions of transmission. She has taught at Hunter College, Fordham University, and the City College of NY, and has held curatorial positions at the Tate, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum. Her research has been supported by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the Racial Imaginary Institute, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-advanced-spacer\" style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/presenters\/\" style=\"color:#000000\">BACK<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/01\/oXj7bnC7aft2E0mh7_lMgnUK-x1ZxfONujbjjid_xkM-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Melanie Masterton\" class=\"wp-image-751\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-884","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"qubely_landscape":false,"qubely_portrait":false,"qubely_thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"cm","author_link":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/author\/cherylmann\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1585,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/884\/revisions\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}