Breeana Thorne
Los Angeles, CA
hi.breeana.thorne@gmail.com
Breeana Thorne is an art curator invested in the preservation of cultural memory and the relational practices that nourish it. Through a rhizomatic lens, her practice encourages a communal gravitation toward collective empathy, intra+interpersonal reflection, and soft subversion. Across curatorial projects, wellness strategies, and cultural productions, she accentuates the intrinsic ties between creative expression and communal regeneration.
Breeana has held positions across the arts sector including roles at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Blum & Poe, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, and currently Cedars-Sinai Hospital. She has also collaborated with art organizations such as Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Google Arts + Culture, Ochi Gallery, and Abramson Architects. She holds a Master of Arts in Curatorial Studies and Arts Management from Claremont Graduate University and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Queens University of Charlotte.
The Reverie World
As a wellness strategist for the arts, Breeana founded The Reverie World - a creative studio nurturing the nexus of artistic practice and personal vitality. Through restorative experiences and bespoke services, TRW supports artists, art workers, organizations, and cultural producers to refill nourishment into those who relentlessly pour.
Current Interests 01. Curatorial
02. Archival Research and Management
03. Project and Production Management
04. Program Development and Partnerships
05. Public Art Activation
Last Updated 26.03.31
Select Projects
01.
Elements of Renewal
Fig & Oak
‘Elements of Renewal‘ is a group exhibition centering works that breathe new life into raw forms. Conceived as a multi-sensory experience, the show transported viewers into a space filled with materials and sounds commemorating California’s landscape and atmospheric forces.
Collectively, the contributing artists seamlessly wove earth pigments, textiles, movement, and materials to frame ecological design. By reconceptualizing everyday materials and elements, the artists, in conjunction with the designs, created an atmosphere to commemorate the land and stimulate the senses.
Elements of Renewal is a proposition to deepen our connection with ecological landscapes, build conscious relationships with nature, and initiate intimate connections with the land that birthed its communities.
The exhibition was curated in collaboration with Fig & Oak.
- Curatorial
- Exhibition design and management
02.
Ciarra K. Walters’ MFA Thesis Exhibition, Eileen’s Daughters, is an exploration of female identity through the lens of daughterhood. The exhibition was displayed at the Meyerhoff Gallery of the Maryland Institute College of Art.
- Curatorial
- Art consulting
03.
Cedars-Sinai’s Art Program enriches patient care by creating a healing environment through contemporary fine art. This extensive collection is displayed across more than 40 clinics throughout Los Angeles. The program features exhibitions and public art activations and actively invites local artists to contribute works that reflect the communities served by the clinics. This effort is supported through collaborations with art professionals, organizations, and public and private collectors to enhance the therapeutic impact of art in everyday spaces.
- Curatorial
- Collections Management
- Project and Production Management
- Program Development and Partnerships
- Public Art Activation
Selected Projects:
- Guerin Children’s
- Open Doors
- Los Feliz Urgent Care & OB/GYN
04.
The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture serves as a community epicenter for music, dance, theater, visual art, film, arts education programs, literature, and community outreach.
- Curatorial
- Exhibitions Management
- Archive and Collections Management
- Strategy and partnerships
Selected Exhibitions
- HBG Center x Google Arts + Culture
- Inter|Sectionality: Diaspora Art from the Creole City
- ...And Justice for all
The Reverie World - Index
As part of TRW's offerings, this seasonal index includes researched books, films, interviews, and works that explore the intrinsic connection between artistic practice and personal vitality. This collection invites viewers to explore this evolving archive with curiosity, critique, and a deep reflection on the relationships, systems, and rituals that shape their own practice.
001.
Toshiro Kuwabara, Milford Recording with Aida and Toshi, 1977. Black and white photograph. Courtesy of Toshi Tsuchitori.
Milford Graves - a visionary jazz drummer and interdisciplinary artist who seamlessly integrated holistic living and artistic expression into a unified life philosophy. He called his practice a “mind-body deal” - where the human heart, music, movement, medicine, herbalism, and visual art were all harmonics of the same energy.
Graves composed music using the heartbeat itself, turning biological rhythms into sound medicine. From that same heart source, he created his own martial art improvisation, built a community garden for collective nourishment, and hosted acupuncture sessions out of his homes in Queens, New York.
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Barbara McCullough
Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of Purification
1979
Barbara McCullough’s experimental films center ritual, restoration, and renewal as sustenance for the spirit. A salient figure of the L.A. Rebellion, McCullough’s film and video projects offer a model of cinema that is both communal and devotional.
Made in collaboration with performer Yolanda Vidato, Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of Purification examines Black women’s ongoing tension and negotiation for spiritual and psychological space. Shopping Bag Spirits and Freeway Fetishes: Reflections on Ritual Space explores the ways in which artists across various media implement ritual into their practices. In this context, ritual reveals itself through the continuous utilization of objects, movements, words, or hums used to generate spiritual communication and cathartic experiences.
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