fredi nielsen (she/her) is an independent art curator and educator. She curates immersive spaces and provides strategic consulting to facilitate successful implementation of project goals and operations.

 

At the center of fredi’s work lives the desire to position Black artists as central to the narrative, making her audiences aware of under represented people + communities. fredi's work also examines the idea of posterity and the many ways in which we all work to memorialize + preserve the people + experiences that have been most influential to our lives. 

 

fredi has partnered with gallery spaces and organizations in North Carolina to produce group exhibitions for visual artists across the African diaspora. Her curatorial work expands to education as a 2019 Teach For America alumna, having served as a primary school educator in rural, Eastern North Carolina. An advocate for educational equity, fredi currently sits on the board for Horizons National—a network of Summer enrichment programs across the country created to aid in closing the opportunity gap by providing academic resources to students from low-income areas. She has designed professional development curricula and has built models for implementing arts education initiatives in Horizons Summer Enrichment Programs.

 

fredi has served as both a juror for the Durham Art Guild's 2019 exhibition season and a steering committee member for Golden Belt Arts in Durham, NC. She holds a BSW from Union University (2017) and has completed a Residency Teaching Licensure program with the College of Education at East Carolina University (2021). Currently, fredi is a curatorial specialist at the University of Chapel Hill, designing age-appropriate and inclusive curricula for museum programming, serving K-5 audiences statewide. In the Fall of 2024, Fredi will attend law school to pursue a Juris Doctor with a specialization in intellectual property law.