Britt Salvesen

Britt Salvesen is an American curator and writer specializing in photography, prints, and drawings. She is Curator and Department Head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department and Prints and Drawings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where she has organized exhibitions including New Topographics, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium, 3D: Double Vision, and Digital Witness.

The Athlete-Artist Divide Narrows Youth Development Too Early

LJ Rader, founder of Art But Make It Sports, argues that children are pushed too early to choose between identities such as athlete and artist, and lose developmental range in the process. In a conversation moderated by LACMA curator Britt Salvesen, Rader uses his art-and-sports image pairings to make the case that both fields train attention, emotion, improvisation and tolerance for beginnerhood. Their shared point is practical rather than romantic: young people benefit when they are allowed to keep playing across more than one kind of practice.

The Aspen InstituteMay 20, 202611 min read