Portland, OR | Exhibition Tour & Talk by Libby Werbel, Director of the Lumber Room

Libby Werbel is an artist, curator, and social organizer living and working in Portland, OR. In 2012, she founded the Portland Museum of Modern Art, and institutional critique project aimed to instigate dialogue around self organizing and community driven programs in the arts. With an emphasis on accessibility and engagement, Werbel produces site-based programs using community as her medium. Her investigation in space-making has included alternative exhibitions models in Barcelona, San Francisco, New York City, Joshua Tree and Santa Fe. Most recently Werbel has fulfilled a two year position as Visiting Artistic Director at Portland Art Museum, where she created five exhibitions with an emphasis on re-evaluating the role of the museum titled We.Construct.Marvels.Between.Monuments. Werbel holds the position of Director at the lumber room, the collection house and exhibition space for the prestigious Miller Meigs Collection. She has sat on various granting panels, selection juries and committees for the Regional Arts and Culture Council, Oregon Arts Commission, Ford Family Foundation, PICA, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Disjecta, and National Visual Artist Network and teaches Exhibition Strategies for the MFA studio art program at Portland State University. She spends her time advocating for the arts both locally and nationally.