Growth Rings marks Now + There’s first collaboration with a guest curator. Pedro Alonzo is a Boston-based independent curator, who is currently an Adjunct Curator at Dallas Contemporary. He specializes in producing exhibitions that transcend the boundaries of the museum walls and spill out onto the landscape. Pedro works with artists to develop ambitious artworks in public space. He is committed to providing opportunities for artists to engage broader audiences by presenting contemporary art in the public realm and by developing projects, which stimulate participation as an integral component of the artwork.

Pedro has curated numerous museum exhibitions for the ICA Boston, MCA San Diego, and Dallas Contemporary, among others. He has also developed several public art installations and programs in partnership with the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, that included ambitious public works by artists Sam Durant, Jonathan Monk, Odili Odita, Michelle Angela-Ortiz, Shinique Smith and Swoon;  The Trustees, Massachusetts’ largest conservation and preservation nonprofit, to launch and curate the organization’s first Art and the Landscape Initiative, resulting in site-specific projects for its most iconic sites throughout New England, and most recently Alonzo worked with the artist JR to place a gigantic image of a Mexican child named Kikito, overlooking the US/México border wall in Tecate.