Interview with Joyce Tsai, Director of the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver. Recorded Thursday, July 16, 2026, at 2PM via Zoom.

It was a rather stunning tour of the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, Colorado, on July 2, 2026. Museum Director Joyce Tsai spoke without notes on many subjects and I listened through the lens of my own Institute Residency task, that being Still in Cascadia, or how the Abstract Expressionist legend Clyfford Still’s time in the Cascadia bioregion shaped his life, art and cosmology.

Joyce Tsai is an award-winning educator and scholar whose research received support with fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, Dedalus Foundation, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and the Phillips Collection, among others. She has published extensively in the field of technical art history with conservators and conservation scientists at the National Gallery of Art, Harvard Art Museums, Guggenheim, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Formerly the Chief Curator at the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art and Associate Professor of Practice at the School of Art and Art History, she has been Director of the Clyfford Still Museum since 2021 and is our guest to discuss the museum, the artist and maybe even what it is about Cascadia that made Clyfford Clyfford, for good and bad.