Houston | Private FotoFest Auction Preview with Janice Bond

Join ArtTable in Houston, Texas for a private preview tour of the auction for FotoFest with Auction Manager Janice Bond. The auction will include works by Anja Niemi, the Starn brothers, Mónica Alcázar-Duarte, Ori Gersht, Diana Matar, Deborah Roberts, Delilah Montoya, and many other noted contemporary photographers. The official VIP Auction Preview will take place from September 24-29, so we are thrilled to provide ArtTable members with an exclusive first look.

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About Janice Bond

Janice Bond is a cultural architect, curator, and art advisor dedicated to building equitable creative ecosystems. Her work as an interdisciplinary artist traverses the complex terrain of humanity, nature, and identity.

A Houston native, Janice is opening a gallery in the city, ART IS BOND., and is the Auction Manager for the 2022 FotoFest Biennial. She is the incoming International Director of Civic Art and Immersive Experience for Seismique.

Janice has brought a transformative approach to previous positions as Deputy Director of theContemporary Arts Museum Houston (2020) and Director of Music and Social Programming at the Kimpton Gray Hotel in Chicago, Illinois and the Hotel Van Zandt in Austin, Texas. She founded Bond Creative Advisors in 2009 to guide artistic collectives and institutions toward their visions. Her insight has since been integral to programming and communications strategies for artists, municipalities, and brands.

Before making a return to Texas, Janice spent several years as Director of Arts and Culture at IMAN, where she used art as the foundation and the way forward for social justice and restorative healing in Chicago’s Southwest Side and in marginalized communities worldwide. She served as a member of the Chicago Cultural Plan Advisory Council, the Navy Pier Arts Working Group, and as a curator for Chicago’s Year of Public Art in 2017.

Janice’s signature workshops for artists and emerging collectors have been adapted for global audiences from the Brooklyn Museum to public conferences throughout Europe and Southeast Asia. As a photographer and visual artist, her work envisions new forms of cultural mapping across cultures and urban landscapes. In 2016, she was selected to participate in the Mark Rothko Art Center’s first International Photography Symposium in Daugavpils, Latvia. Four original works from Beyond the Binary are in the center’s permanent collection.

Janice is forever inspired by the makers, the making, and the beauty of creation. This chromatic tapestry of art-making and administration has allowed her to live and work by those terms.

About FotoFest

FotoFest is a Houston-based contemporary arts organization co-founded by photojournalists Fredrick Baldwin and Wendy Watriss. FotoFest is dedicated to advancing photography and visual culture through the presentation of exhibitions, public programs, and publications. The examination of social, cultural, and political histories and contemporary life through the lens of photography and related media is central to FotoFest’s mission. In addition to the organization’s year-round programming, FotoFest organizes a city-wide biennial project in the form of large-scale central exhibitions, curated lectures, performances, a symposium, and film programs. The organization also hosts several professional development programs, including annually-held Meeting Place Portfolio Reviews, which host over 400 artists and 150 professionals working in the field of art and photography. Through its Literacy Through Photography program, FotoFest organizes K-12 classroom-based learning projects designed to encourage creativity and strengthen student writing, comprehension, and expression, reaching thousands of students. A platform for art and ideas since 1983, FotoFest is committed to promoting lasting international dialogue, cultural exchange, scholarship, and community enrichment by working with artists, audiences, academics, curators, and influential figures in art, culture, and society.

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Image: Mónica Alcázar-Duarte (Mexico / UK), Second Nature, 2022, UV print direct to Dibond, Aluminum Dibond, printed in 2022. Special Edition with unique drawing, Edition 1/1, 33 ⅛ x 46 13/16 inches, signed on certificate. Courtesy of the artist.