Bodies & Souls: Art Happens in Community - Hardcover

Dr. Robert Cozzolino is Curator of Modern Art and Senior Curator at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) and has organized over thirty exhibitions at PAFA, including Jacob Lawrence's Hiroshima (2008), George Tooker: A Retrospective (2009), Narcissus in the Studio: Artists' Portraits and Self-Portraits (2010), and The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World (2012). A champion of underrepresented artists and uncommon perspectives on well-known artists, Dr. Cozzolino has been called the "curator of the dispossessed" for his attention to the underdog.

Robert Cozzolino is a Minneapolis-based independent curator, art historian, and critic who approaches curation collaboratively, in partnership with artists, colleagues, and broad communities. "Starting where you are" is critical to his practice--knowing the immediate context and deeper history of the place in which he works. Dr. Cozzolino is drawn to artists who express the full range of human experience, especially those who aspire to visually express the intangible. Although he has worked on topics from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, he often collaborates with contemporary artists in examining history. He considers himself a curator of fluid time, not bound by the labels and bins imposed on the field. Among his more than forty exhibitions are Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art (2021-22), World War I and American Art (2016-17), Peter Blume: Nature and Metamorphosis (2014-15), David Lynch: The Unified Field (2014), and With Friends: Six Magic Realists, 1940-1965 (2005). William R. Valerio (Author)

William R. Valerio is the Patricia Van Burgh Allison Director and CEO of Woodmere in Philadelphia. Over the last fifteen years, he has led a transformative revitalization of the institution's community engagement, collections, financial health, and cultural relevance. As the lead visionary behind the museum's exhibitions, he has deepened the scholarship and celebration of the art and artists of Philadelphia, through such major exhibitions as A Grand Vision: Violet Oakley and the American Renaissance (2017), We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s (2015), and Schofield: International Impressionist (2014). Valerio holds a PhD in art history from Yale, an MBA from Wharton, an MA in art history from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA cum laude from Williams College. Robert E. Kohler (Author)