Susan Sollins (photo courtesy ART21)

Susan Sollins, the co-founder of Independent Curators International (ICI) and founder and executive director of Art21 — the non-profit organization that produces an artist documentary series with PBS — passed away on October 13 of unknown causes. Just days before her death, she served on the grand jury of ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her age has not been made publicly available.

During Sollins’s 21 years at the helm of ICI she helped the organization mount some 75 exhibitions showcasing works by more than 1,700 artists. After leaving that organization (where she continued to serve as executive director emerita) she founded Art21 in 1997, whose ongoing documentary series on PBS, Art:21 – Art in the Twenty-First Century, she executive produced. She received a Peabody Award for Art:21 in 2007. She received another Peabody for William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible, her 2010 documentary about the South African artist. Sollins went by Susan Sollins-Brown during her marriage to the composer Earle Brown, who died in 2002. At the time of her death, Sollins was serving as the president of the Earle Brown Music Foundation.....Continue Reading

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