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Raised in a large, working-class, Italian family in suburban Boston, Annette DiMeo Carlozzi has spent 40+ years building an expansive career as a curator of contemporary art. Trained at Brandeis University (a first-generation college student, she received her BA in Art History, magna cum laude), the University of Minnesota (Museum Studies), and at Walker Art Center (as a two-year fellow), Carlozzi launched early, creating innovative exhibitions, producing new commissioning opportunities for artists, and, eventually, acquiring works for public collections by a wide range of national and international artists, with a focus on women and artists of color. At age 25, Carlozzi moved to Austin, Texas to be the first professional curator at Laguna Gloria Art Museum (now called The Contemporary Austin). Subsequently, she became director of the Aspen Art Museum (and mother to her son, born in their tiny valley hospital); Executive Director of the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; visual arts producer for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta; and then returned to Austin in fall 1996, where she was hired as the founding curator of American and Contemporary Art at UT-Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art. Eighteen years later, after working as the Blanton’s Director of Curatorial Affairs and Deputy Director, she retired as its Curator-at-Large, and has since worked independently. Named to the Austin Arts Hall of Fame in 2013, Annette works with lots of younger creatives as a formal and informal mentor, is a frequent public speaker at arts organizations in Austin, Houston, and San Antonio, and serves on the executive board of The Contemporary Austin. She continues to explore writing-about-art with passion and curiosity, and will frequently collaborate on and sometimes initiate projects and conversations with artists, poets, dancers, wrestlers, you name it.

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