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Karen Rapp was appointed Director and Curator for the Laband Art Gallery in June 2017. Karen has been recognized throughout her career for her interdisciplinary work within the arts and humanities, as well as for building connections with communities through exhibitions and public programming. A Los Angeles-based arts leader who specializes in the direction and curation of academic museums and galleries, Karen comes to us from the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College, where she served as Director from 2007 to 2015. As part of her tenure there, she directed the ambitious expansion of the museum facility into a stand-alone, 40,000 square foot space on the college’s campus in Monterey Park. Previously, she served as Assistant Director, Curator and Director of the Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside from 1998 to 2005. Recent projects include solo shows with artists Pearl C. Hsiung, Ken Gonzales-Day, Carlos Almaraz, Shizu Saldamando, and Lorenzo Hurtado-Segovia. Karen curated a rotating project series called HOY SPACE that received critical attention for its focus on underrepresented artists in the community. She also supervised all aspects of the exhibition and catalog for the 2012 Getty Pacific Standard Time initiative, “’Round The Clock: Chinese American Artists Working in Los Angeles.” Karen earned her bachelor’s degree in history and art history from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a master’s degree in public history from the University of California, Riverside.

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