Guided Tour

Some American Dreams Artist Box Viewing

June 11, 2026
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm

An gallery installation features three garments suspended in space alongside two white punching bags that is being viewed by a museum visitor.
Some American Dreams (installation view), 2026. The Fabric Workshop and Museum. Photo credit: Constance Mensh.

Curious about the stories behind the works in Some American Dreams? Following a self-guided tour of the show, which explores the complexity of American-ness through 27 works created by past Artists-in-Residence, curator Hilde Nelson will unpack some of the materials that drove the artistic process. Sift through a selection of artist boxes to uncover test prints, notes, photographs, scale models, and production materials that reveal the artists’ conceptual and material approach over the course of their residencies.

On this tour, we’ll unpack the following artist boxes:

Glenn Ligon, 1995
Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, 2002
Rose B. Simpson, 2022

Organized in conjunction with Some American Dreams, on view though June 14, 2026.

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Event Information

June 11, 2026
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm

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

Second Floor Gallery

$20 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.