Chase Westfall
Chase Westfall is an artist, musician, and curator. In 2017, he joined VCUarts at Virginia Commonwealth University as curator of student exhibitions and programs, where he serves as director of the Anderson Museum and oversees an evolving program of student and professional exhibitions, including the annual VCUarts MFA thesis exhibition. Recent projects include Stone’s Throw: Arte de Sanación, Arte de Resistencia (2020), a survey of contemporary Central American artists, curated with Laura August; Carmen Winant: Fire on World (2019); When the Whirlwind Begins (2019), a student-curated survey of Philadelphia artists; Ron Rege Jr: From the Word of First Thought (2019), coorganized with Dem Passwords, Los Angeles; Daniel Everett and Leah Beeferman: Surface Tension, Surface Tenses (2019); and Caitlin Cherry: Etherpaint (2018). He is the curator of a forthcoming thematic survey of contemporary Latter- day Saint art, Great Awakening, organized by the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts, New York.