Guided Tour

Curator Tour: Some American Dreams

April 18, 2026
11:00 am to 12:00 pm

A photo of an artwork in the form of a white desaturated American flag pinned to a wall in a way that twists it from corner to corner.
Donald Lipski, in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. Who’s Afraid of Red, White and Blue #37, 1990. White wool gabardine, 71 x 115 inches. Photo credit: FWM Visual Archives.

Please join us for a special curator’s tour of the new exhibition Some American Dreams. 

Organized on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, this presentation of works from FWM’s collection explores the complexity of American-ness through lenses of history, memory, and mythology. Made by past Artists-in-Residence in collaboration with the FWM Studio, the projects reimagine symbols of nationhood and belonging, critique ongoing legacies of inequity, and offer expanded visions of kinship and community.  

Led by Hilde Nelson, FWM Curatorial Fellow, the tour will explore 27 works by 20 artists spanning a range of media and representing four decades of making at FWM. 

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Event Information

April 18, 2026
11:00 am to 12:00 pm

The Fabric Workshop and Museum
1214 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107

Second Floor Gallery

$10 Public | Free for FWM members + a guest

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About the Participants

A portrait of a young woman smiling in front of a painting.
Photo: Trey Burns

Hilde Nelson is a fourth-year PhD student in the History of Art department at Bryn Mawr College, where her work considers questions of visuality and alterity in contemporary time-based media. She is the former Curatorial Assistant for Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), where she curated Naudline Pierre: What Could Be Has Not Yet Appeared, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition. At the DMA, she contributed to exhibitions of works by Ragnar Kjartansson, Alex Katz, Sheila Hicks, Wanda Koop, Sandra Cinto, Julian Charrière, and Ja’Tovia Gary, and other group exhibitions. She has also held positions at Creative Time, Julius Caesar Gallery, and the Williams College Museum of Art. Nelson’s writing has been published in the Visual Resources journal and in exhibition catalogues at the DMA. She received her BA from the University of Chicago and her MA from the Williams College Graduate Program.