Introducing Curated, by Heidi McCulloch.

The term curate comes from the Latin word curatus which has multiple meanings including: to attend to; to heal or cure; to provide for; to take care of; and to care about. From that root come the associated words: cure and care, as well as form the foundation for the modern day profession of Curator.

A Curator in modern-day is most often employed by museums, art galleries or other cultural institutions and is charged with maintaining a collection of items, items which often have some commonality: paintings, photographs, fashion garments, jewelry, or even books or cookware. A Curator is expected to bring a philosophy, a point-of-view and a certain taste to the items they personally select to form the collections they curate. Essentially, and true to the root meaning of the word, a curator’s collection represents that which they care about and hence take care of; perhaps they serve a healing purpose of some kind, for the curator, as well as those who experience the collection.

I will serve as Curator of the collection that will be presented here, on these pages. It will be a collection of finds, words, thoughts and perspectives that will be representative of my own philosophy, point-of-view and certain taste… this collection will be Curated, by me.

Heidi McCulloch, Curator