Oceanside, CA – July 08: Delana Delgado at the Hill Street Country Club Gallery in Oceanside, CA. (Brittany Cruz-Fejeran / The San Diego Union-Tribune)
Delana Delgado is an assistant curator with the Hill Street Country Club, a nonprofit working to create a more inclusive and diverse arts culture and community in northern San Diego County
For Delana Delgado, it started with a class assignment. In her museum studies class, she was assigned to interview a museum professional and chose one of the co-founders of the Hill Street Country Club, a nonprofit organization working to create a more inclusive and diverse arts culture and community in northern San Diego County.
“I just thought about how that is where I imagined myself one day, learning from an independent curator or gallery/museum director of color, who was passionate about an anti-institutional art world,” Delgado says. “(We had) a conversation on decolonization, institutional racism and making arts accessible, and I loved every second of it because conversations about this are my thing.”
Read the whole article by Lisa Deaderick for the San Diego Union Tribune