Join SAI for a guided tour of our current exhibition, The Written Image: A Confluence of Music and Calligraphy. Curator and exhibitions manager Sydney Barofsky will give an inside look at how this first-of-its-kind show of contemporary, abstract South Asian calligraphy came to be!

About the curator

Sydney Barofsky is a PhD student of art history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. They hold an MA in art history with a concentration in museum studies from the University of Denver, where they were a fellow at the Madden Museum of Art for two years. Sydney is broadly interested in themes of feminism and new materialism. As part of the SAI team, their curatorial approach is one of collaboration that hinges on building reciprocal relationships with everyone they work with whenever possible.