Anthony Stepter works at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) where he is the assistant director of the graduate program in Museum and Exhibition Studies and served as the coordinator of public programs at Gallery 400 for three years. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an MA in Visual and Critical Studies. Anthony has curated exhibitions and projects for ACRE, the Washington Park Arts Incubator at the University of Chicago, and the Open Engagement Conference among other sites. He served as a juror for apexart, collaborated with the Office of Public Culture in Grand Rapids, MI, and co-curated Extinct Entities, a month-long performance series of commissioned art works exploring the history of Chicago-based art spaces that no longer exist. Anthony’s work seeks to encourage museums and galleries to consider their relationship to the communities in which they program and to support projects that invite publics to define and generate meaningful connections to works of art and ideas.