Science Gallery Atlanta Announces Promotion of Co-Curator Floyd Hall
Floyd Hall, Creative Producer for Science Gallery Atlanta
Science Gallery Atlanta has announced the promotion of Floyd Hall to the role of Creative Producer. In his new role, Hall will continue to serve as a curator for the upcoming HOOKED exhibition.
As Creative Producer, Hall will lead the creative execution of HOOKED and auxiliary programming for Science Gallery Atlanta, including public events and workshops. Additionally, he will serve as a public ambassador for the organization during transdisciplinary projects related to Science Gallery Atlanta.
Holding Bachelor’s degrees from both Morehouse and Georgia Tech and an MBA from Columbia University, Hall has served in roles across a variety of industries, including engineering, media production, and cultural arts. In his new role, Hall looks forward to leveraging his expertise in a strategic but meaningful way.
“Having worked extensively in both the arts and the sciences, I see myself as a bit of a translator,” says Hall. “In this role, I want to help connect more people to science by way of the arts, and vice versa.”
Beyond the main exhibition, Hall plans to create programming that unveils the commonalities between the arts and sciences. “Artists and scientists are often telling two sides of the same story—just delivered in different forms of output,” he says. “I want to help advance the narrative that there’s creativity all around us, and that the arts and sciences really work together to help us understand and shape our world.”
Newly appointed Director of Science Gallery Atlanta, Audrey Chang, attributes Floyd’s effective communication, creativity, and cultural savvy to the successful development of the upcoming exhibition. “Floyd embodies the mission and values of the Science Gallery brand,” says Chang. “His work as a curator has been instrumental to the success of Science Gallery Atlanta, and we are thrilled to have an individual in this role that thinks critically of the dual roles of arts and sciences.”
Chang also recognizes Hall’s vision as an opportunity to promote dialogue, learning, and reflection amongst Emory students and the local community. “Through Floyd, students and community members have an excellent model for engagement and contributing to solutions that we need today and tomorrow. Our team is looking forward to seeing Floyd build a network for those solutions through Science Gallery.”
The new Creative Producer aims to not only amplify Emory as a champion of innovation but the city of Atlanta as a community. “For several decades, Atlanta has been a center of cultural and academic advancement. HOOKED provides the ideal platform for rare collaborations between local artists and researchers,” says Hall.
“My hope is that, in my new role, I will help bring those two sides together in a way that creates new understanding and new opportunities for Emory and Atlanta.”
The announcement of Hall’s promotion comes just ahead of the exhibition’s first virtual pop-up event of the season, taking place in Atlanta’s historic Little Five Points neighborhood at 7 Stages Theatre on Friday, October 29.