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ArtTable held its annual brunch during Miami Art Week at Design Miami/! Members and friends from across the country came together to network at the week’s only fair dedicated to collectible design artwork and objects.

For this artist talk we heard from Andrea Chung, whose exhibition, We Was Girls Together, was recently presented at Tyler Park Presents in San Diego.

We Was Girls Together, inspired by Toni Morrison’s book Sula, is a series of large-scale collages that celebrates the relationships of black women in all their complexities and displays Chung’s gratitude for them. As Chung says, “Our sisterhood, our love for one another, is not always visible to the unfamiliar, nor should it always be.” Click here to read more about the exhibition.

For this program, ArtTable members in Washington, DC enjoyed a tour of Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful, at The Phillips Collection. The tour was led by Renee Maurer, coordinating curator for the exhibition, and Gwendolyn Everett, Howard University Professor of Art History.

For this program, ArtTable members in New York enjoyed a tour of Soft Water, Hard Stone, the 5th New Museum Triennial, led by curatorial fellow Jeanette Bisschops.

In this AT Connect program we heard from Tiffany Williams, Assistant Curator at Art in Embassies. Tiffany gave us a brief overview of her educational journey before arriving in the art world, as well as a review of her role at Art in Embassies and how the organization works overall.

ArtTable’s New York Chapter organized a tour with Mary Engel, director of the Ruth Orkin Photo Archive, for a special in-person tour of Expressions of Life at Fotografiska. Members enjoyed complimentary drinks with Mary after the tour!

In this program, author Gabrielle Selz was in conversation with art advisor Jeremy Stone and Debra Burchett-Lere, executive director of the Sam Francis Foundation. They discussed the self-mythologizing narratives of artists and personalities of the 20th Century, with focus on discoveries Selz made in her new book, Light on Fire, the first comprehensive biography of Sam Francis.

In this presentation, we heard from Los Angeles-based artist, educator, scholar/activist, community arts pioneer, UCLA professor emeritus, and founder of the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARCinLA) Judy Baca. Judy discussed her artistic practice as a tool for both people and place and presented several of her murals which dramatically document both told and untold American stories of the disenfranchised.

November’s BreakfastTable with ArtTable’s DC Chapter was with Christine Neptune, founder of Neptune Fine Art and Principal of gallery neptune & brown. Members visited the gallery to hear from Christine about her extensive career and experience in a wide range of curatorial and consulting services in the fine arts market.