Past Public Programs
2006/2007
Program Highlights
ArtTable Tours Phoenix and Scottsdale, AZ
Thursday, February 28 – Sunday, March
2, 2008
Phoenix Art MuseumArtTable Tours Phoenix-Scottsdale is an extended-weekend
travel program organized by the ArtTable national office
and hosted by members in the region including ArtTable
founder, Lila Harnett. The trip, designed for up to
25 members and guests, is an opportunity to visit Arizona’s
dynamic variety of museums, galleries, corporate and
private collections. It will include special tours
and receptions organized by members in the region with
leaders from the area’s unique art community
including directors, curators, artists and collectors.
From Thursday, February 28 - Sunday, March
2, 2008 ArtTable members from the area will
guide trip participants through the arts and cultural
landscape of Phoenix and Scottsdale. This four day,
three night trip is filled with private tours and
receptions, visits to major art institutions and
prominent collections, and an abundance of local
flavor!
ASU Art MuseumGuests will check in at The Clarendon Hotel on
Thursday, and be welcomed at a wine reception at the Victoria
Boyce Gallery, followed by dinner and a guided
tour of the Scottsdale Art Walk. The
next three days will include:
- A visit and private tour of
the Nelson Fine Arts Center and Ceramics
Research Center at Arizona State
University Art Museum
- A visit and private tour of
the Heard Museum and visit to its 50th
Annual Indian Market
- A visit and private tour of
the Phoenix Art Museum and its recent
$50 million expansion by renowned architects Tod
Williams and Billie Tsien
- A visit and private tour of SMoCA
(Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art)
- Visits to private collections
including those of Sylvie and Pascal de Sarthe and Jim
Bialac
- A private tour of the corporation
collections of Zelma Basha Salmeri Gallery
of Western American and Native American Art, Pinnacle
West Capital Corporation, and Snell & Wilmer law
firm
- Buffet dinner at the private
collection of ArtTable founder, Lila Harnett
- A visit and private tour of
the Heard North Museum
- Special tour of Frank
Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West
Taliesin WestNote: Trip participants will receive the
final itinerary with registration materials.
Also Note: For those in or near the region
who want to participate, a-la-carte, day trip options
will be posted as soon as daily itineraries are confirmed.
We will send out a newsletter with pricing for these
day trips as well as registration information. (Roundtrip
airfares from L.A. or Albuquerque start at $100, so
we hope members in the area will take advantage and
join the trip!)
Trip prices:
$975 members full payment - single
occupancy
$775 members full payment - double
occupancy
$575 members - no hotel accommodations
$1075 guests full payment - single
occupancy
$875 guests full payment - double
occupancy
$675 guests - no hotel accommodations
Included: 3 nights at the Clarendon Hotel
including breakfast each day; 3 lunches; 3 dinners;
several receptions, visits with private collectors,
artists, curators, and directors; entrance fees to
all museums; bus transportation; tips for meals and
drivers; and gifts for hosts.
Clarendon HotelNot included: Airfare to Phoenix, transportation
to and from the airport, tips at the hotel, and incidentals.
Hotel Accommodations: Travelers will stay
at The Clarendon Hotel, a boutique
hotel in central Phoenix, named among the best hotels
in the area. (Accommodations may be made individually
for participants who wish to stay an additional night.)
Registration: Click the event name ArtTable
Tours Phoenix-Scottsdale on the February
2008 calendar on the member’s only website
to reserve your space. Or click here http://www.memberize.com/clubportal/EventDisplayNew.cfm?
clubID=158&EventID=53194&mo=2&tDate=%7Bd%20%272008%2D02%2D09%27%7D to
register.
Reservations are on a first-come, first-served
basis (limit 25) so sign up now! Final registration
deadline is February 5th, 2008.
Cancellation Policy: Cancellations made up
to February 5th, 2008 will forfeit a total of 25% of
the cost of the trip. Participant cancellations made
after February 5th through the date of departure will
forfeit the entire cost of the trip.
We recommend travel insurance. Please contact Travel
Insured, 1.800.243.3174, www.travelinsured.com or
another reputable personal insurance company to purchase
your policy prior to the trip.
SMoCAThe goals of ArtTable Tours Phoenix-Scottsdale are:
to present the region’s unique cultural voice
to the national ArtTable membership; to bring members
together for purposes of professional development and
networking; and to cultivate membership in the region.
We look forward to your participation!
Please contact National Program Manager, Melissa Messina,
at
or 212.343.1735 x25 with questions about ArtTable
Tours Phoenix-Scottsdale, AZ.
To register, click here: http://www.memberize.com/clubportal/EventDisplayNew.cfm?
clubID=158&EventID=53194&mo=2&tDate=%7Bd%20%272008%2D02%2D09%27%7D
The 14th Annual ArtTable
Award Luncheon, Monday, June 4, 2007
The Starlight Roof at The Waldorf Astoria,
New York City |
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ArtTable presented the Award for Distinguished
Service to the Visual Arts to Emily K. Rafferty,
President of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
on
June 4, 2007 at our 14th Annual Luncheon. Over
450 members and guests, whose enthusiasm was
not dampened by an inopportune early summer deluge
outside, floated into the Starlight Room at the
Waldorf=Astoria to celebrate Emily’s extraordinary
achievements at the Met, where she began in 1976
as a fundraising administrator and rose steadily
through the ranks to Senior Vice President for
External Affairs before being tapped in 2005
for the President’s position.
At the beginning of the luncheon ArtTable’s
out-going president, Linda Sweet, welcomed the
attendees and announced that Peggy Loar Voorsanger
would succeed her as President on July 1, the
beginning of our new fiscal year. Linda also
introduced Dena Muller, ArtTable’s new
executive director, who spoke about future plans
for the organization.
As dessert arrived, Luncheon Co-chair, Lowery
Sims, took charge of the podium and before introducing
our main speaker, Caroline Kennedy, took a few
moments to note the loss this past year of three
beloved members of the art community, two who
were past recipients of ArtTable’s annual
award—Kitty Carlisle Hart and Marcia Tucker – and
art critic, Arlene Raven.
Caroline Kennedy, who is Vice Chair of the New
York City Fund for Public Schools, spoke eloquently
about the need for art education in our public
schools. In her closing comments, Ms. Kennedy
encouraged the art world to take an active role
on behalf of public school art education. This
is an issue that is important to many ArtTable
members and Kennedy’s remarks were loudly
applauded.
Lowery then introduced last year’s awardee,
Elizabeth Sackler, who presented the ArtTable
award to Emily. As Emily made her way to
the podium, applauding attendees rose to their
feet to express their appreciation to and admiration
for Emily, a long-time ArtTable member, who despite
her schedule has served on the Board as well
as co-chair of the 1994 ArtTable luncheon.
Emily spoke about her career, citing the people
who had been her mentors, and personalizing
her remarks with anecdotes and stories.
(The transcript of her speech and Caroline Kennedy’s
are available here as
a PDF with their permission.)
— Nancy Kaufman, 2007 Luncheon Co-chair |
Pacific Northwest Trip: Seattle Area Focus (June
13-17, 2007)
ArtTable Tours the Seattle Area is
a five-day travel program produced by ArtTable, the
national organization for professional women in the
visual arts, and organized by ArtTable’s Northwest
Alliance. Designed for a total of 30 members and guests,
the tour is an opportunity to visit the region’s
outstanding array of new and revitalized museums, galleries,
artist studios, and private collections, many of which
have thrived under the leadership of women.
The goals of ArtTable Tours
the Seattle Area are:
to present the region’s unique cultural
voice to the broad, national membership that
is ArtTable; to bring members together for purposes
of professional development and networking; and
to launch a mentorship program for the NW Alliance. Donations
to ArtTable that are included in the trip price
will support this project while also contributing
to general operations of ArtTable.
The trip is structured around three days of guided
touring throughout Seattle and surrounding cities,
and two days of self-guided and optional walking tours
by local host members. A dynamic variety of venues
and sights are on the itinerary, most of which include
special tours by directors and curators. The tour opens
and closes with festive receptions and the opportunity
for guests to meet leaders from the Seattle art community.
TRIP HIGHLIGHTS
Wednesday, June 13
This is a travel day and arrival times in Seattle
will vary. From noon till 9 pm a Northwest Alliance
ArtTable member will welcome you at the Pioneer Square
Hotel. After checking in, members may take a self-guided
tour of Seattle or join an ArtTable member for a walking
tour. At 7 pm join us for a welcome reception at a
member’s gallery in Pioneer Square, right in
the middle of a neighborhood of artists’ lofts
and studios. You are free to have dinner wherever you
like, however we suggest either La Paloma, a wonderful,
inexpensive Turkish restaurant, or Al Bocollino, a
deluxe Italian restaurant. Both are on the same block
as the hotel.
Thursday, June 14
We tour on foot and by free city bus to see how Seattle
has made art and architecture a priority. Stop one
is the Rem Koolhaas-designed library with unique, site-specific
installations by many artists including Gary Hill,
Ann Hamilton, and Tony Oursler. Next tour the new Brad
Cloepfil-designed Seattle Art Museum (SAM) featuring
an enormous public space and completely new and fully
remodeled galleries. Meet key administrative staff
of SAM, all of whom are women!
Next we board a free city bus through Belltown to
the Olympic Sculpture Park (OSP) of SAM, a free, brilliantly
designed nine-acre park. A special docent tour is provided.
After lunch in the Pavilion at OSP, enjoy some free
time touring the park and waterfront or shopping! Next
take a tour bus through eclectic waterfront areas of
Seattle, Queen Ann, Fremont, Wallingford, and to the
University of Washington with the Henry Art Gallery
as our destination. After a museum tour with ArtTable
member curators, we proceed to historic Ballard and
the fascinating and creative home, studio, and gardens
of visual artist and collector Ginny Ruffner for dinner.
Friday, June 15
The day begins with a quick drive past the Experience
Music Project designed by Frank Gehry. Next is the
waterside Ship Canal studio of collaborative sculptors
Flora Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick. From there we go to
Dale Chihuly's working studio on Lake Union, the Boathouse,
to watch glass blowers, look at his swimming pool and
collections, and eat lunch.
After lunch there’s time for a quick rest until
we venture across Lake Washington to see the new Bellevue
Arts Museum (BAM) designed by Stephen Holl. Director
Michael Monroe and Curator Stefano Catalani talk about
the collection and the reincarnation of BAM.
After the museum, collectors Jon and Mary Shirley
host us for a cocktail reception. The Shirleys are
among the top collectors in the U.S. as well as major
benefactors of every museum and many artists in the
Seattle area. Their amazing waterfront home is really
a private George Suyama-designed museum with a condo
attached. At the reception trip participants have the
opportunity to meet many Northwest Alliance ArtTable
members. Upon returning to the hotel, the evening is
free.
Saturday, June 16
We venture south of Seattle to the reinvigorated downtown
of Tacoma, WA, stopping first at the Tacoma Art Museum,
where ArtTable member Stephanie Stebich, director of
the museum, gives us a private tour. From there we
walk over the Chihuly Bridge to the Museum of Glass
(MOG) where ArtTable member Susan Warner, education
director of MOG, shows us around. Next there’s
time to walk around the waterfront and pop into the
well respected William Traver Gallery in a renovated
19th century warehouse. You are free to have lunch
at any of the small, gourmet restaurants in walking
distance of the museums.
On the way back to the hotel we stop at Western Bridge,
a private art space. Operating out of a Roy McMakin-designed
and renovated 10,000 square-foot warehouse in Seattle’s
industrial district, Western Bridge presents the current
state of art making through thematic group shows drawn
from the True Collection. Western Bridge has focused
exhibitions on contemporary artists, and newly commissioned
works in film, video, as well as more traditional media.
Bill and Ruth True, founders of the True collection,
and their curators join us.
We take you back to the Pioneer Square Hotel for a
brief rest and the tour resumes with a visit to a Seattle
collector, who has a fine collection of contemporary
regional artists. From there we take over one of our
favorite restaurants in Seattle for a private dinner
and networking evening.
Sunday, June 17
Trip participants can check out at their leisure.
If your schedule permits, go on a self-guided tour
of Seattle and enjoy the great galleries, shops, museums,
aquariums, ferries, bike paths, and markets which are
all open on Sunday.
The itinerary is subject to change as necessary. The
final itinerary will be provided before departure.
Included: 4 nights at the Pioneer Square Hotel including
breakfast; 2 lunches; 2 dinners; many receptions, visits
to see and meet with private collectors, artists, curators,
and directors; entrance fees to all museums; bus transportation;
tips for meals, drivers, and hosts.
Documenta (July 6-14, 2007)
Every 10 years, two major international art events
coincide within the heart of Germany: documenta, also
known as the 100 day contemporary art museum, and sculpture
projects Münster, the world's most extreme urban
sculpture show.
ArtTable, Inc., announces a July 2007 trip to documenta
12, sculpture projects Münster and West Germany's
fertile art land around Düsseldorf and Cologne.
The trip runs from Friday, July 6th to Saturday, July
14th, 2007.
TRIP HIGHLIGHTS
Friday, July 6th:
Meet Roger Buergel, artistic director of documenta
2007, for an introduction to round 12 of this seismograph
of contemporary art. Afterwards, Alard von Rohr-Demmin,
your art expert throughout the trip, gives you an
orientation tour of the exhibition, which explores
the meaning of globalization for art in an international
extravaganza intended to thrill and chill alike.
Enjoy a Welcome Dinner this evening.
Saturday, July 7th:
Today will be spent charting the newest trends and
positions at documenta 12.
Sunday, July 8th:
Spend another day exploring documenta 12 with meetings
and program visits. Today, Ruth Noack, co-curator
of the exhibition, joins the group for a stimulating
debate of the leitmotifs that guided her exploration
of 'humanity's common horizons'.
Monday, July 9th:
Take a day trip to sculpture projects Münster
07.
Every 10 years since 1977, this international exhibition
has pushed the sphere of public art into new and unmapped
territory. For 2007, Prof. Dr. Kaspar König from
the Ludwig Museum Cologne (father of NY art dealer
Leo König) is turning this historic university
town into a forum of ‘confrontation with civil
urbanism’.
Enjoy a private walking tour of the 35 sculptures
installed in a resonant variety of public spaces from
Münster’s Romanesque cathedral and Renaissance
town hall to a 1940s sports arena and a derelict caravan
site.
Among the 35 contributors are Francis Alys, Guy Ben-Ner,
Martin Boyce, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Isa Genzken, Dominique
Gonzalez-Foerster, Mike Kelley, Suchan Kinoshita, Bruce
Naumann, Manfred Pernice, Susan Philipsz, Martha Rosler,
Thomas Schütte, Rosemarie Trockel and Mark Wallinger.
Tuesday, July 10th:
Travel by bus to Cologne. On the way, visit Germany’s
furniture hub Herford, where Jan Hoet, director of
documenta 11, runs an award-winning Museum of Art and
Design (MARTa). The building is Frank Gehry’s
finest in Germany, a swirling brick and steel concoction
evoking southern Baroque. Jan Hoet’s highly provocative
shows explode the barrier between high art and applied
design.
Wednesday, July 11th:
An overview tour of Cologne should begin with a descent
into the ancient Roman city that lies beneath its
post-war facades, including a governor’s palace,
defence towers, baths and Germany's oldest surviving
Jewish bath.
Visit Cologne’s towering landmark, the Dome
of St Peter and St Mary. After a tour of its awe-inspiring
interior, Prof. Klaus Hardering, Director of Restoration,
takes you via a lift up the outside scaffolding for
an unprecedented close-up view of its Gothic architecture,
from flying buttresses and gargoyles to resident ferns,
birches, lizards and falcons.
Visit the Ludwig Museum of Modern Art, where its director,
Prof. Kaspar König, introduces this first-class
collection of 20th century art covering all major positions.
Studio and Gallery Visits:
The Rhineland is Germany’s second contemporary
art hub alongside Berlin with prominent galleries and
artists. Some of the acclaimed artists living
and working in Cologne include: Kai Althoff, Cosima
von Bonin, Georg Herold, Candida Höfer, Michael
Krebber, Marcel Odenbach, Andreas Schulze and Rosemarie
Trockel. Specific studio visits will be arranged closer
to the date.
End the day with a reception at the Taschen Publishing
House crammed with art works from Benedikt Taschen’s
personal collection (Martin Kipperberger, Albert Oehlen,
Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Christopher Wool and many
others).
Thursday, July 12th:
Spend the day visiting two wonderful art institutions:
Stiftung Insel Hombroich & Langen Foundation.
Art collector Karl-Heinrich Müller returned an
island in the river Erft to its preindustrial state,
erected 11 beautifully simple brick pavilions and created
an art environment that hovers somewhere between Giverny
and Marfa. Brancusi, Chillida, Jean Arp and Mark di
Suvero have never looked so good!
The Langen Foundation is Karl-Heinrich Müller’s
second art project, a disused NATO army base, whose
centerpiece is a sublimely floating museum by Tadao
Ando (Modern Art Museum Fort Worth).
Upon your return to Cologne, enjoy drinks at the home
of Mr. and Ms. Christian Dumont-Schütte, whose
private collection features works by Cosima von Bonin,
Andreas Schulze, Rosemarie Trockel and Franz West.
Friday, July 13th:
Enjoy a day trip to Düsseldorf and Krefeld.
En route to Düsseldorf, visit Turner Prize-winning
Tony Cragg at his large studio in Wuppertal.
First stop in Düsseldorf is K21, one of Germany’s
edgiest museums of contemporary art housed in a spectacularly
refitted old Parliament building.
After a welcome by the museum’s director, Dr.
Julian Heynen, enjoy a private tour of the collection
ranging from Juan Munoz, Paul Mc Carthy, Robert Gober
and Jeff Wall to Katharina Fritsch, Thomas Ruff, Thomas
Schütte and Reinhard Mucha.
Studio visits: With Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter
and Bernd and Hilla Becher as former professors, it
comes as no surprise that the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
has turned out more winners than any other art school
in Germany. Many of its former students are settled
in the area, among them Katharina Fritsch, Andreas
Gursky, Reinhard Mucha, Thomas Ruff, Dirk Skreber,
Thomas Struth and Paloma Varga Weisz. Specific studio
visits will be determined closer to the date.
After lunch, take a stroll along Düsseldorf’s
port along the Rhine. Over the last 5 years, Germany’s
fashion, computer and media industries have turned
the waterfront into a showcase for contemporary architecture
with sensational contributions by Frank Gehry, Will
Alsop, David Chipperfield, Claude Vasconi and others.
On your way back to Cologne, pause in Krefeld for
a visit to two beautiful villas designed in the 1920s
by Mies van der Rohe. Both Haus Esters and Haus Lange
are now museums hosting contemporary art exhibitions.
Recent solo shows featured Carl Andre, Robert Longo,
Candida Höfer and Martin Boyce.
Saturday, July 14th:
Departures
This is a selected list of highlights and subject
to change as necessary. Final itinerary provided
before departure.
Included: 4 nights at Movenpick Hotel
Kassel and 4 nights at Marriott Hotel Cologne with
daily breakfasts; 5 lunches, 4 dinners; Art speakers
and specialists; Private collection visits and artist
encounters; entrance fees to all museums and events
listed in itinerary; Air conditioned motor coach; tips
for meals, driver, and guides.
2005/2006
Program Highlights
Mexico City 2006
ArtTable will travel to Mexico City to experience
the reinvention of the city as the Latin American capital
of contemporary art, architecture and culture! We
will engage in conversation with arts colleagues and
experience this dynamic city together– Thursday,
April 20 through Tuesday, April 25, 2006.
On the heels of our trip is the third edition of MACO,
the Mexican contemporary art fair, which will be held
April 26-30, 2006. This year the fair will include
over 55 international art galleries as well as new
galleries with less than five years of experience working
with emerging artists. Parallel evening events
and parties are planned in conjunction with the fair.
Art Table’s Mexico City Steering Committee is
considering the following activities and visits. We
will also be scheduling a number of private meetings
with museum directors, artists and collectors.
TRIP HIGHLIGHTS
Thursday, 20th:
We will start the evening at 6pm with a margarita at
the Blue Lounge of the Camino Real Hotel before departing
for a welcome dinner at the home of collector and
curator Haydee Rovirosa.
Friday, 21st:
We will start the day with a walking tour and orientation
on the rich history of the Historic Center of Mexico
City. The buildings of the historic center,
which stand on the site of the former Aztec city,
date mainly from the colonial and post-independence
eras. We will be received by the directors
and curators at the following institutions: Museum
Mural Diego Rivera where we will see the famous mural “Dream
of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Central”;
a private guided tour of the National Museum of Art
(MUNAL); Antiguo Colegio San Ildefonso, the meeting
place of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo; and the Palacio
de Bellas Artes, arguably the most beautiful building
in the historic center.
Saturday, 22nd:
We are considering a trip to the Pyramids of Teotihuacan
followed by a visit to the Jumex Collection. Mexican
art collector and Jumex heir Eugenio Lopez stores
some 1,200 works of his international contemporary
collection in the warehouse of one of Mexico’s
biggest corporations. In the afternoon we will
visit the Rufino Tamayo museum in Chapultepec park,
which houses Oaxacan artist Rufino Tamayo’s
work as well as exhibiting some of the best contemporary
programming in Mexico City. Tonight we will
dine in the hip and modern Casa Lamm in the Roma
neighborhood, which also houses a cultural art center.
Sunday, 23rd:
Today we will be visiting with Mexico City’s
top galleries and artists. Our day begins with
a visit to the contemporary art gallery Galeria Kurimanzutto
with owners Jose Kuri and Monica Manzutto followed
by a visit to OMR Gallery where we will be received
by gallery directors Patricia Ortiz Monasterio, Jaime
Riestra and Pamela Echeverria followed by studio visits
to artists represented by the galleries. In the
afternoon we will visit Garash Gallery, an emerging
contemporary gallery representing young artists. Director
Rodrigo Espinosa will welcome our group.
Monday, 24th:
Today we travel some 50 miles south of Mexico City
to visit Cuernavaca, the cosmopolitan, charming "city
of the eternal spring," with its marvelous climate,
flowers, swimming spots and architecture. The
highlight will be visiting the Centro Cultural Muros,
which houses the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection. Over
320 works including those artists of the mid 20th
century such as Rivera, Kahlo, Siquerios, Orozco,
Tamayo, Izquierdo and 21st century such as Gabriel
Orozco, Francis Aÿs, Melanie Smith and Miguel
Calderon are exhibited in this cultural center recently
inaugurated in 2004.
Tuesday, 25th:
Our tour concludes with a special visit to one of the
most impressive collections of modern Mexican art. The
collection of Andrés Blaisten houses countless
Mexican masterpieces, which are a product of more
than 30 years of careful selection, and are displayed
throughout his beautiful home. This stunning
and comprehensive collection is a wonderful insight
into the evolution of Mexican fine arts throughout
the 20th century. Our tour will officially
end just around 1pm after visiting the Museum of
Modern Art.
ArtTable’s international trips are a great opportunity
to meet other members and get the behind the scene
(insiders) tour. Many of you will also want to stay
in Mexico City to attend the MACO art fair, which opens
on Wednesday, April 26th.
Approximately 1-3 ArtTable trips are coordinated
annually. Reservations are no longer being taken
for Mexico City. Check back for future listings
or contact women@arttable.org for
more information.
ArtTable attends the College Art
Association 94th Annual Conference, Boston
ARTTABLE ATTENDS THE COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION
94TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE, BOSTON (www.collegeart.org)
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23
12:30–2:00 PM:
Art Paths: Alternative Careers in the
Visual Arts
Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 311
Chair: Katie Hollander, ArtTable
Judy Fox, Harvard University Art
Museums
Barbara O'Brien, Art New England
Rachel Lafo, DeCordova Museum
and Sculpture Park
Diana Caston, Fidelity Investments
5:30 - 7:00PM:
ArtTable Cocktail Reception at the Mills
Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts,
during the College Art Association Annual Conference!
539 Tremont Street between Berkeley and Clarendon
Streets
Open to ALL ArtTable members
Please join ArtTable members from across the country
for a cocktail party at the Mills Gallery, Boston Center
for the Arts, in conjunction with the College Art Association
National Conference. Co-hosted by ArtTable and the
Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts.
On view will be the exhibit "After", a group
exhibition which examines the aftermath of events that
range from personal and intimate to cataclysmic and
world changing. Artists include Jake Bloomer, Anna
Broell Bresnick, Gary Duehr, Cynthia Greig & Richard
H. Smith, Andrew Johnson, Julie Levesque, Mary Magsamen & Stephan
Hillerbrand, David Politzer, Emily Puthoff, Julie
Roberts, Misa Saburi, Kimi Weart, and Jonathan
Whitehall. This exhibition is being generously sponsored
by CAA.
Welcome remarks at 6 p.m. by Mills Gallery Director, "After" curator,
and new ArtTable Member, Laura Donaldson,
as well as President of the Boston Center for the Arts, Libbie
Shufro, and ArtTable NE Regional Alliance Chair Rachel
Lafo.
Organized by Barbara O'Brien.
Arts Advocacy Day 2006
March 13-14, 2006 - ArtTable
is a pleased to be a National Co-Sponsor of Arts Advocacy
Day. Entering its nineteenth
consecutive year, Arts Advocacy Day is the only national
event designed to bring together a broad cross section
of America’s national cultural and civic organizations.
These groups will join hundreds of grassroots advocates
from across the country to underscore the importance
of developing strong public policies and appropriating
increased public funding for the arts.
Find out more! Visit Arts
Advocacy Day on the Americans for the Arts website,
for scheduling and registration information.
Additional details on ArtTable programming
will be announced shortly.
2004/2005
Program Highlights
ArtTable’s 25th
Anniversary Conference and Gala Award Dinner, April
6-9, 2005
ArtTable's 25th anniversary
conference, Looking Back- Moving Forward: 25 Years
of Women's Leadership in the Visual Arts in New
York City, celebrated the role women have played
in changing the visual arts over the past 25 years
and looked ahead at the changes to come.
The conference was open to ArtTable's
1,600 members as well as to the community-at-large,
assembling a diverse group of arts professionals
from across the country. The week included an opening
night reception at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
day excursions to galleries and museums, lectures
and forums at Sotheby’s
and intimate dinners at the homes of some of New York’s
most notable private collectors.
Conference Session topics included: Women
as Patrons, Women as Institution Builders, ‘Art’repreneurs,
Trendspotting in the Art World, and Feminism and
the Feminization of the Visual Arts.
Selected Participating Panelists:
Bonnie
Clearwater, Director Miami MoCA; Anne d’Harnoncourt,
Director, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Agnes Gund,
President Emerita, Museum of Modern Art; Sheila C.
Johnson, CEO, Salamander Middleburg; Emily K Rafferty,
President, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Susan Sollins,
Director, Art 21; Lowery Stokes Sims, Director, Studio
Museum in Harlem, Susana Torruella Leval, Director,
Emerita, El Museo del Barrio, Linda Nochlin, Professor,
Institute of Fine Arts, NYU; Linda M. Pace, Trustee,
ArtPace and others.
The Gala Award Dinner, held at Cipriani on April 7, looked
back and recognized its past 12 award recipients
and looked forward and honored twelve future
women leaders, selected by the past recipients.
RECOGNIZED LEADERS
Elizabeth C. Baker,
Editor, Art in America (2004)
Linda Nochlin, Lila
Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art, New York University’s
Institute of Fine Arts (2003)
Iris Cantor, Chairman,
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation (2002)
Paula Cooper,
Director, Paula Cooper Gallery (2001)
Marcia Tucker,
Founding Director, The New Museum of Contemporary Art
(2000)
Lucy Lippard,
scholar (1999)
Stephanie French,
formally Vice President, Corporate Contributions, Philip
Morris Companies, Inc. (1998)
Joan Mondale,
arts advocate (1997)
Dianne H. Pilgrim,
former Director, Cooper-Hewitt Nat'l Design Museum
(1996)
Emily Rauh Pulitzer,
trustee (1995)
Agnes Gund, President,
Emerita, MoMA (1994)
Kitty Carlisle Hart (1993)
FUTURE WOMEN LEADERS
Andrea Barnwell,
Director, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
Melissa Chiu, Director,
The Asia Society, New York, NY
Fairfax Dorn,
Executive Director, Ballroom and Virginia
Lebermann, President, The Ballroom,
Marfa, TX
Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn,
Director, Salon 94 and Greenberg, Van Doren Gallery,
New York, NY
Ellen Haddigan,
Executive Director, Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation,
New York, NY
Laura Hoptman, Curator,
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, PA
Bronwyn Keenan,
Founding Member, Downtown for Democracy, New York,
NY
Marysol Nieves,
Curator of Contemporary Art, Museo de Arte de Puerto
Rico, San Juan, PR
Sheri L. Pasquarella,
Director, Gorney Bravin + Lee and founding member,
New Art Dealers Alliance, New York, NY
Maura Reilly, Curator,
The Elizabeth A. Sackler for Feminist Art, Brooklyn
Museum of Art
Natasha Schlesinger,
Founder, ARTMUSE, New York, NY
Olga Viso,
Deputy Director, The Hirshhorm Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Washington, DC
MOTHER- DAUGHTER GALA CO-CHAIRS
Ellyn Dennison / Lisa Dennison
Carol Goldberg / Beth Goldberg Nash
Watch the Gala Award Dinner Film
West Coast Luncheon
The Northern California Chapter hosted the 2005
Creative Force Award honoring, Dede Wilsey,
President, Board of Trustees, Fine Arts Museum of San
Francisco with Mercedes Ruehl, Obie award winning actress
for her role as Peggy Guggenheim in Women Before a
Glass, as the keynote speaker.
The chapter organized a terrific weekend of activities.
Friday, October 21, 2005 included a continental
breakfast and welcome at the de Young Museum in Golden
Gate Park with Harry S. Parker III, Director, Fine
Arts Museums of San Francisco. Curators led tours of
the new 300,000 square ft. museum designed by Herzog & de
Meuron including the galleries, sculpture garden and
special exhibit: “Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh.” Afterwards,
ArtTable visited the Legion of Honor, the de Young’s
sister museum in Lincoln Park for a reception and the
2005 Creative Force Award luncheon. Members
then took self-guided tours of San Francisco members
gallery’s, and attended a cocktail reception
at Crown Point Press and dinner at Hawthorne Lane.
Some Saturday highlights included; Richard and Pamela
Kramlich collection of time-based media and video art,
Robin Wright’s collection of conceptual art,
the avant-garde contemporary collection of Ann Hatch
and Paul Discoe and a cocktail reception at Fletcher
Benton’s Mies VanDer Rohe inspired studio and
home. On Sunday, members and guests had
the opportunity to view the Northern California’s
Oral History Project and visit SFMoMA.
Washington DC Tea
ArtTable’s Washington DC Tea, celebrated ArtTable’s
Oral History Program by honoring three influential
women in the arts, Olga Hirshhorn, philanthropist and
President of the Olga and Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation;
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, founder of the National Museum
of Women in the Arts; and Janet Solinger, museum education
pioneer and Vice President of Public Programs at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Over 200 ArtTable members and guests attended the
Washington DC Tea, which was held on Thursday, September
22, 2005 at the historic Willard hotel in Washington,
DC. Liza Kirwin, Curator of Manuscripts, Archives
of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, gave the
keynote address.
The purpose of ArtTable’s Oral History program
is to record, permanently document, and make accessible
to the widest possible audience of researchers and
the general public the contributions of women who are
outstanding leaders or pioneers in their field. The
Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art has agreed
to conduct oral histories on our behalf. These
collective stories become a rich and vital legacy to
inspire and benefit future generations. The three
honorees will be interviewed and recorded to preserve
their legacies and their experiences as professionals
in the visual arts.
MIAMI À LA
CARTE 2005
ArtTable coordinated a fun Saturday of programming
to gather ArtTable and NLA members, who attended Art
Basel Miami and surrounding fairs.
The day included a rare viewing of private artworks
via boat on the Biscayne Bay of Miami Beach. Members
were led along the waterfronts of collectors George
Lindemann Jr., Susan and Dennis Richard, Craig Robins,
Debra and Dennis Scholl and Richard Tuttle at Aqua.
Next, members went to Key Biscayne to visit
the private collection of Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz,
which included works by assume vivid astro focus,
Cosima von Bonin, Sigmar Polke, Dirk Skreber, Kelley
Walker, Wade Guyton, Dana Schutz, Daniel Richter, neo
Rauch, Mamma Andersson, Kaye Donachie, Jonathan Meese, Tal
R, Martin Kippenberger, Sergei Jensen, Alison
Fox, Henry Taylor. Also, a large installation
by Jon Pylypchuck, and another large installation by
Christian Holstad. Also works by Lucy McKenzie,
Jim Hodges, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and a large mural
by Arturo Herrera. Jorge Pardo's lamps and Manfred
Pernice sculptures.
The day ended with an open wine and cheese Reception
at PILIKIA, @ the South Seas Hotel!
With so many of us in Miami, this became a relaxing
way to meet-up with colleagues and friends from around
the country! |
