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Save-the-Date for Pratt’s Annual Art Auction!
Pratt In Bloom
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Fisher Pavillion, Seattle Center
305 Harrison Street
Seattle, WA 98109
Meet Pratt in Bloom's Auction Co-Chairs:
José Carlos Diaz (he/him)
Susan Brotman Deputy Director for Art, Seattle Art Museum
José Carlos Diaz is the Susan Brotman Deputy Director for Art at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM). Diaz has held positions at The Andy Warhol Museum, The Bass Museum in Miami Beach, Tate Liverpool, and the Liverpool Biennial. He received a BA in art history from San Francisco State University and MA in cultural history from the University of Liverpool. In 2018 Diaz was a Fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership and currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Association of Art Museum Curators.
Jamilee Lacy (she/her)
Executive Director, Frye Art Museum
Jamilee Lacy is an art museum leader, curator, and writer committed to contemporary art and artists. As of March 2023, she is the Executive Director of the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, after serving as the inaugural Director and Chief Curator of Providence College Galleries. Lacy is a commissioning curator for The Trustees' Art & Landscape program, organizing the traveling public art installation Counterculture by Rose B. Simpson. She co-founded the Interlace Grant Fund and My HomeCourt, serving on their boards and curating public art projects, and has worked at institutions such as Northwestern University, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and DOX Centre in Prague. Lacy holds a dual-degree BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an MA from Northwestern University, and was a Class of 2022 Fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership.
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