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Spring 2009 Graduate Studies Lecture Series Tuesday, February 24, 7 pm Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus 1111 Eighth Street Info: 415.703.9505 or www.wattis.org Free and open to the public Cosponsored by the Wattis Institute For almost a decade, Shamim M. Momin has been a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. She was a cocurator of the 2004 and 2008 Whitney Biennials, and director and curator of the Whitney branch at Altria from 2000 to 2008. During her tenure as the organizer of the museum's Contemporary Series, she coordinated exhibitions by Banks Violette, Raymond Pettibon, Terence Koh, Mark Grotjahn, and Alex Bag. Her independent projects have included Will Boys Be Boys?, which examined adolescent masculinity in contemporary art. Generous support for CCA public programs in San Francisco has been provided by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.