NADA Curated: As It Unfolds
Organized with Fitsum Shebeshe
March 13 – April 15, 2025
NADA Curated is a series of open-submission online exhibitions highlighting artists and art spaces from NADA’s international community through curated thematic presentations.
Each edition of NADA Curated is selected by a guest curator that relates to their field of research or a topic they are currently exploring.
The NADA Curated exhibition series provides a new context for discovering the best of contemporary art online and engaging with NADA’s international community.
About Fitsum Shebeshe
Fitsum Shebeshe is a curator and painter based in Washington, DC, and Baltimore, Maryland. He is the curator of States of Becoming, a traveling exhibition produced by Independent Curators International (ICI). Before moving to the United States in 2016, he was Assistant Curator at the National Museum of Ethiopia. In 2012, Shebeshe co-founded the 1957 Initiative to annually celebrate the liberation of African countries from colonialism through the arts. His curatorial projects include the 1957 Art Show at the National Museum of Ethiopia (2013), Depart Africa at the Baltimore School for the Arts (2017), Sculpture Now: Washington Sculptures Group at Harmony Regional Center (2022), and More Than One Memory at Unlit London (2024). Shebeshe holds an MFA in Curatorial Practice and Critical Studies from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).
Organized with Fitsum Shebeshe
March 13 – April 15, 2025
NADA Curated is a series of open-submission online exhibitions highlighting artists and art spaces from NADA’s international community through curated thematic presentations.
Each edition of NADA Curated is selected by a guest curator that relates to their field of research or a topic they are currently exploring.
The NADA Curated exhibition series provides a new context for discovering the best of contemporary art online and engaging with NADA’s international community.
About Fitsum Shebeshe
Fitsum Shebeshe is a curator and painter based in Washington, DC, and Baltimore, Maryland. He is the curator of States of Becoming, a traveling exhibition produced by Independent Curators International (ICI). Before moving to the United States in 2016, he was Assistant Curator at the National Museum of Ethiopia. In 2012, Shebeshe co-founded the 1957 Initiative to annually celebrate the liberation of African countries from colonialism through the arts. His curatorial projects include the 1957 Art Show at the National Museum of Ethiopia (2013), Depart Africa at the Baltimore School for the Arts (2017), Sculpture Now: Washington Sculptures Group at Harmony Regional Center (2022), and More Than One Memory at Unlit London (2024). Shebeshe holds an MFA in Curatorial Practice and Critical Studies from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).