ABOUT
Neysa Page-Lieberman is a contemporary art curator, lecturer, writer, and educator with a focus on monuments & public art, feminism, African diaspora and social practice. Based in Kansas City since 2020, she curates, consults and lectures on public art at the intersection of social justice. She is the Founder & Artistic Director of Monumenta, an art and monuments initiative creating commemorative public artworks about collective action. Previously she co-founded Monuments to Movements and served as the artistic director. For nearly 15 years she was executive director of Exhibitions and Performance at Columbia College Chicago and chief curator of the Wabash Arts Corridor, a public art project in downtown Chicago. She has also designed and taught courses on curatorial theory and practice, and lectured at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Page-Lieberman has produced hundreds of exhibitions and public art projects nationally and internationally, with recent highlights including Trespassers Beware! Fort Conley and Wyandot Women Warriors, a mobile monument co-produced with the Wyandot Nation of Kansas (current); the National Suffrage Mural Series, a multi-city public art series commemorating the Suffrage movement state-by-state (current); the Feminist Seed Bank that collects plant-based craft practices historically cultivated by women (current); Inequality in Bronze: Monumental Plantation Legacies, a monument to a formerly enslaved woman named Dinah at the historic Stenton home in Philadelphia (2018 - 2024); a series of international mural exchanges with Sister Cities International, including Casablanca, Morocco and Toronto, Canada (2017-2019); Vacancy: Urban Interruption and (Re)generation (2015), an affiliate exhibition of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial; the Chicago-based exhibition and performance series, Revolution at Point Zero: Feminist Social Practice (2017); and the nationally touring Not Ready to Make Nice: Guerrilla Girls in the Artworld and Beyond (2012-2019).
Neysa has extensively lectured and given interviews on public art and monuments with recent features including: The Occupation That Saved a Wyandot Cemetery on A People’s History of Kansas City podcast (KCUR / NPR); Building Monuments to Resemble and Represent Us, interview on Know, Be, Raise podcast; Time for a Reckoning, interview in Newcity, Public Art at the Intersection of Social Justice on Rounding the Bases podcast; the SpeakEasy conversations series about public art (co-producer/co-host), and the Constellations - Assemblies public art series by UP Projects, London. Her work and collaborative projects have been funded by regional and national foundations including National Endowment for the Arts / ArtsHERE, Harnisch Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Joyce Foundation, Pew Foundation for the Arts, Kemper Foundation, Francis Family Foundation, Illinois Arts Council, Humanities Kansas, Charlotte Street Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation and Kansas Arts Commission. Neysa is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and received her BA in art history from Florida State University and her MA in art history from Indiana University.