Chenoa Baker

Chenoa Baker (she/her) is a curator, writer, professor, and descendant of self-emancipators. She has contributed to major exhibitions including Simone Leigh and Simone Leigh: Sovereignty at ICA/Boston, Gio Swaby: Fresh Up at the Peabody Essex Museum, and Touching Roots: Black Ancestral Legacies in the Americas at the MFA/Boston. In recognition of her curatorial work, she received the WBUR Maker Award and was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered in 2024. In 2023, she won the AICA Young Art Critics Prize for her writing. She writes for Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, Public Parking, Material Intelligence, and Studio Potter, among others. To learn more, visit chenoabaker.org. 

About Fallingwater Institute

When Edgar Kaufmann jr. entrusted Fallingwater to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy in 1963, he envisioned Fallingwater not only as a place where visitors would come to experience great architecture, but also where a deeper experience of art, design and nature might occur.

Kaufmann imagined that Fallingwater could become a place where artists, scholars, designers and learners might come to find inspiration from the building and its landscape while pursuing individual or group study. Today, the Fallingwater Institute, formally established in 2015, honors that vision by providing a stimulating location for creative collaboration and inspired thinking through immersive classes, workshops and residencies. By serving an international community through its innovative programming, the Fallingwater Institute works to create and disseminate new ideas that promote harmony between people and nature.