Frida Kahlo Exhibit Moves to 2021
WDCB’s Gary Zidek talks to McAninch Arts Center director Diana Martinez about the Cleve Carney Museum of Art’s decision to reschedule its highly anticipated Frida Kahlo art exhibition
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“We should be in there (Cleve Carney Museum of Art) right now setting it up, because we’re transforming the entire space. And every one of our partners we’re like just move it, ‘if you can move it, move it’. And when the Olmedo Museum came back and said we could do it next summer, we could make this work, that’s when it all clicked it, that this was the right thing to do.” - Diana Martinez, director of the McAninch Arts Center, talking about the decision to move the Frida Kahlo exhibit to 2021.
Diana Martinez, director of the McAninch Arts Center
College of DuPage’s Cleve Carney Museum of Art has been preparing for a major Frida Kahlo exhibit for years. FRIDA KAHLO 2020 was scheduled to open this coming June. But given the uncertainty caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, museum and COD leaders announced the exhibit will be postponed until next year. The exhibition, now titled FRIDA KAHLO: TIMELESS, will open to the public on June 5 2021.
“I think we’re going to be able to present everything we planned and maybe more, because we have more time to come up with some more good ideas. It gives me another year of programming to build up to the event.” - Diana Martinez says the exhibit will be the same, but now she and her staff have even more time to work on additional programming.
Frida Kahlo
