The Pamela Alper Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary, Chicago (MCA), Widholm has had extensive experience working with emerging contemporary artists, including organizing nearly 30 of the MCA’s 12 x 12 shows, an exhibition series of emerging Chicago-based talent. And in 2009, she was the curator of Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection, which examined the course of painting over the last 60 years.