Babette DeLafayette Pendleton

Bio

Babette Pendleton is the Program Manager for the Corcoran / National Gallery Partnership. Within this role she manages the newly established Corcoran Institute which serves as an interdisciplinary lab for art, experimentation, and research. Babette assists the Corcoran Director in managing all aspects of the National Gallery of Art/GW partnership to establish and grow the institute. Responsibilities include management of programming, exhibitions, artists-in-residence, visiting artists, student workers, and contractors related to the partnership.

Pendleton creates activated environments, immersive installations, and performances through her multidisciplinary work as an artist and curator-producer. Her national and international curatorial work manifests in forms of collective and collaborative organizing, project management, visionary and strategic consulting, and exhibition/performance producing. Pendleton is also currently the director of Yellow Fish Durational Performance Art Festival. The festival brings awareness to the significance and study of Time while facilitating community involvement in historical and contemporary thought surrounding Durational Performance Art. Pendleton maintains a rigorous performance and land art practice utilizing forms of movement, sculpture, and photography. She holds a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts and an MFA in Curatorial Practice from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).