ArtTable

Virtual | AT Connect with Molly Morse Limmer
2020-12-09 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s AT Connect program series allows and encourages members to network, connect, and ask questions outside of their regular areas of expertise. In this session we will hear from ArtTable Chicago Chapter member Molly Morse Limmer, Senior Vice President of Decorative Arts & Collectables at Hindman Auctions.

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About Molly Morse Limmer
Ms. Morse Limmer has recently joined Hindman as Senior Vice President, Decorative Arts and Collectibles Departments, where she is responsible for the management of the expertise side of the business. Prior to joining Hindman, her career spanned two decades at Christie’s Auction House, including seventeen years in the New York office serving as Vice President, Senior Specialist and Department Head for Antiquities. Following her move to Chicago, Ms. Morse Limmer served as Vice President, Business Development for Christie’s Midwest Regional Office. Most recently, Ms. Morse Limmer spent close to five years owning and operating 2050 Art Services, a premiere art and antiquities appraisals and advisory consultancy firm. Ms. Morse Limmer holds an M.A. in Greek and Roman art from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and a B.A. in Classics and Art History from Brown University. She also studied at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome.

Image: Molly Morse Limmer
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Virtual | Curatorial Perspective: 'Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists'
2020-12-11 12:00 - 12:45 | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s Curatorial Perspective program series invites curators to present and discuss timely exhibitions and initiatives. Please join us for a discussion with Jill Ahlberg Yohe, Associate Curator of Native American Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Christina Burke, Curator of Native American & Non-Western Art at the Philbrook Museum of Art, and Teri Greeves, artist and independent curator, about the exhibition, Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, currently on view at Philbrook Museum of Art through January 3, 2021.
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About the Speakers
Jill Ahlberg Yohe is the Associate Curator of Native American Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA). In 2008, Ahlberg Yohe received her PhD from the University of New Mexico; her dissertation was a focus on the social life of weaving in contemporary Navajo life. Along with Teri Greeves, Ahlberg Yohe is the co-curator of Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists. At MIA, Ahlberg Yohe seeks new initiatives to expand understanding and new curatorial practices of historical and contemporary Native art.

Christina E. Burke is Curator of Native American Art at Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, OK. Her work focuses on collaborative projects with Native artists, from collections research to exhibition and program development. She is interested in how Indigenous people record and present stories through visual, literary, and performing arts. She’s served on several boards including the Native American Art Studies Association (NAASA) and the Advisory Board for Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists.

Teri Greeves (Kiowa) is a contemporary beadwork artist, recognized for pictorial narrative works. Greeves is currently co-curator, with Jill Ahlberg Yohe, of Hearts of Our People, an exhibition of Native American women’s art.

Images:

Christi Belcourt (Michif), The Wisdom of the Universe, 2014, acrylic on canvas, Collection Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Purchased with funds donated by Greg Latremoille, 2014, 2014/6. © Christi Belcourt
Jill Ahlberg Yohe, courtesy of the speaker
Christina Burke, courtesy of the speaker
Teri Greeves, courtesy of the speaker

Virtual | Artist Talk with Julia Kwon
2020-12-17 12:00 - 13:00 | NY
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s Artist Talk series is made possible by the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Originally formatted as in-person Artist Breakfasts, ArtTable has moved all programming into the virtual realm during the pandemic. Please join us for a virtual Artist Talk with Julia Kwon.
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About Julia Kwon
Julia Kwon sews interpretative bojagi—Korean object-wrapping cloths historically created since the early Joseon Dynasty (1392–1910)—to comment on the objectification of Asiatic female bodies and examine the complexities of constructing identity within the context of globalism, cultural hybridity, and intersectionality. She earned her M.F.A. at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University and B.A. in Studio Art at Georgetown University. She was also a participant at the Chautauqua School of Art residency program. Her work has been exhibited nationally including art galleries such as Hartnett Gallery of the University of Rochester and Torpedo Factory Art Center. Her work has been featured and reviewed internationally including in television programs such as PBS’s WETA Arts series that showcases the creative arts scene in the Greater Washington DC area as well as one of the major Korean national television networks SBS’s international news. Kwon won awards such as the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University’s Traveling Fellowship as well as the artist residencies at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Vermont Studio Center, NARS Foundation, Montgomery College, and Textile Arts Center. She presented artist lectures and workshops at Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Phillips Collection, Georgetown University, Lehigh University, University of Rochester, Emerson College, Montgomery College, among others.

This program is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation has been a leader in providing grants enabling emerging and established artists to focus on their work. Funding helps artists to create new work, acquire art supplies, rent studio space, and prepare exhibitions. The Foundation also provides grants to organizations that directly engage with artists, such as artist residency programs. Please visit www.pkf.org for more information.
Thank you to Maria Sancho-Arroyo, Caitlin Berry, and Allison Nance from the ArtTable Washington, D.C. Chapter, and the Pollock Krasner Foundation for making this program possible.

Image Credits

Unapologetically Asian, 2020, sewn in the format of face masks, 5” x 12” each
The Blanket Statements You Use on Me and Every Other Yellow Women, 2019, satin, custom design fabric, thread, and wire, sewn in the format of traditional Korean object-wrapping cloth bojagi, 2.75′ x 14′ x 14′

Virtual | DC BreakfastTable with Molly Warnock
2021-01-08 08:30 - 09:30 | Zoom
8:30am ET| 7:30am CT
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for a presentation and conversation with art critic and art historian Molly Warnock.
Tickets are $5. Members attend for free. Not a member? Join today!
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About Molly Warnock
Baltimore-based Molly Warnock is the author of “Simon Hantaï and the Reserves of Painting” (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020). She has published writings in journals such as Artforum, Art in America, Les Cahiers du Musée National d’Art Moderne, Tate Papers, Journal of Contemporary Painting, and on nonsite.org. Her work has also been featured in numerous U.S. and European exhibition catalogues.
Currently, Warnock is a 2020-21 Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art.
Thank you to Lily Siegel, ArtTable DC Faith Flanagan Fellowship Co-Chair, for organizing this program.

Image: Molly Warnock

Virtual | Reading at the (Art)Table
2021-01-10 14:00 | NY
2pm ET | 1pm CT | 11am PT
Reading at the (Art)Table is ArtTable’s Northern California chapter book club that has gone virtual to stay connected during the pandemic. We engage in conversations about art, culture, criticism, and contemporary challenges. For this session, will be reading and discussing “Video Art — The First Fifty Years” by pioneering video art curator, Barbara London. Tracing the history of the medium and the broader field of media art, we look forward to a lively discussion of development and transformation.
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Virtual | AT Connect with Marika Kuźmicz
2021-01-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s AT Connect program series allows and encourages members to network, connect, and ask questions outside of their regular areas of expertise. In this session we will hear from art historian, curator, researcher, and publicist, Marika Kuźmicz, who is currently working on an online database highlighting the lives and work of overlooked female artists. You can read more about the database here.

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About Marika
Dr. Marika Kuźmicz is an art historian, curator, researcher, and publicist. She is the dean of students and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts (Department of Visual Culture and the Artistic Research) in Warsaw and Warsaw University. She is also a lecturer at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw. For many years she conducted research on Polish art of the 1970s, particularly advocating performance and video art. In 2010 she established the non-profit organization Arton Foundation. Its main activity is the elaboration of private archives of artists. Kuźmicz is the author and editor of many books, such as “The Workshop of The Film Form” (2016, co-edited with Łukasz Ronduda, published by Sternberg Press) and “History of Performance in Poland” and many monographs of Polish artists (like Zdzisław Jurkiewicz, Ludmiła Popiel and many others) based on her research in private archives. She has curated many exhibitions in Poland and abroad, most recently: “Her Own Way – Female Artists and the Moving Image in Art in Poland”, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum and the monographic exhibition of Barbara Kozłowska “You Can See It All Anywhere” (2020, Muzeum of Contemporary Art, Wrocław). She is also the curator of the film festival “Arton Review”, devoted to the forgotten forerunners of Polish avant-garde film and video. The 2017 edition took place in Whitechapel Gallery in London and in 2020, the film festival was part of the Oberhausen Shortfilm Festival. Kuźmicz was the coordinator of an international art project “Forgotten Heritage – European Avant-Garde Art Online” dedicated to the re-discovering marginalized avant-garde artists from Poland, Croatia, Belgium and Estonia. In 2017 she also established Edward Hartwig Foundation, the organization devoted to the developing and dissemination of legacy and art on Edward Hartwig, the key Polish photographer. Currently she is the main coordinator and the curator of the project “Not Yet Written Stories: Women Artists Archives On-line”, supported by Creative Europe, in collaboration with the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Arts in Riga and the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Ljubljana.

Image: Marika Kuźmicz
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Virtual | Curatorial Perspective: 'Betye Saar: Call and Response'
2021-01-14 12:00 | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s Curatorial Perspective program series invites curators to present and discuss timely exhibitions and initiatives. Please join us for a discussion with Carol S. Eliel, Senior Curator of Modern Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Rachel Federman, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawings at The Morgan Library & Museum, about the exhibition, Betye Saar: Call and Response, currently on view at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York.
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About the Speakers
Rachel Federman is Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawings at The Morgan Library & Museum. Before joining The Morgan in 2016, she was Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture at SFMOMA, where she helped organize the retrospective Bruce Conner: It’s All True. She also curated the museum’s inaugural galleries of California art. Since arriving at The Morgan, she has curated By Any Means: Contemporary Drawings from The Morgan (2019) and Drawing the Curtain: Maurice Sendak’s Designs for Opera and Ballet (2019). She has published essays on Bruce Conner, Richard Diebenkorn, Paul McCarthy, Allen Ruppersberg, and Andy Warhol, among others. Rachel holds a PhD in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

As Senior Curator of Modern Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Carol S. Eliel is involved with exhibitions and acquisitions of historical and living artists. Current and upcoming projects include Betye Saar: Call and Response (at LACMA earlier this year, on view now at The Morgan and traveling through 2021), which looks at the arc of Saar’s career through the lens of her sketchbooks; and Light, Space, Surface: Southern California Art from LACMA’s Collection (2021-22, traveling), both with publications. The Saar catalogue received the 2020 Publication Award for Excellence by the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC). She previously co-organized Moholy-Nagy: Future Present (2016-17) with the Guggenheim and the Art Institute of Chicago. Carol has recently spearheaded acquisitions by Betye Saar, Fred Eversley, Maren Hassinger, Mildred Howard, Lari Pittman, Alison Saar, and others. She conceived and produced the core twenty of LACMA’s Artists on Art series of short, web-based videos featuring artists speaking about a specific work in LACMA’s encyclopedic collections. She started at LACMA as a curatorial assistant, having received her BA from Yale and her MA and PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. In 1999 Carol was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) by the French government. She served as President of the AAMC from 2011-2013 and was a Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow in 2015.
Thank you to Annette Blaugrund, ArtTable Board President, for helping to make this program possible.

Image: Installation photograph, Betye Saar: Call and Response, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 22, 2019 – March 14, 2020, © Betye Saar, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Virtual | Curating Under Covid, with Adrienne L. Childs, Laura Roulet, & Sarah Tanguy
2021-01-15 12:00 | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, curators have struggled to continue their work with artists and arts organizations and to find new ways to bring exhibitions to the public. Washington, D.C.-based independent curators Adrienne L. Childs, Laura Roulet, and Sarah Tanguy have each opened exhibits amid the crisis. Despite the shutdown, they have been able to organize exhibitions at The Phillips Collection, Brentwood Arts Exchange, and the Kreeger Museum. Childs, Roulet, and Tanguy will share their experiences in maintaining and evolving their practices during these trying times.
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Accessibility: Please note that this program will offer live closed captioning. If you require additional accommodations, please email programs@arttable.org.

About the Speakers
Adrienne L. Childs, Ph.D., is an independent scholar, art historian, and curator. She is an associate of the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center at Harvard University. She was recently a guest curator of The Phillips Collection exhibit, “Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition.” The exhibit presents the works of 20th to 21st century African American artists alongside the examples of 20th-century art that inspired those American artists. Childs was also a curator at the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland.
Laura Roulet is an independent curator and writer in the DC metropolitan area and specializes in contemporary and Latin American art. She has organized exhibitions in Mexico, Puerto Rico and the U.S. including at the OAS Art Museum of the Americas, the American University Museum, the Mexican Cultural Institute, Hillyer Art Space, WPA, Arlington Arts Center, and the DC Art Center. Roulet is a frequent contributor to Sculpture magazine. Her other publications include many catalog essays, encyclopedia entries, articles in American Art, Art Journal and Art Nexus. In the fall of 2020, Brentwood Arts Exchange exhibited her most recent exhibition, “Mothering in a World Turned Upside Down.” The exhibit focused on visual embodiments of motherhood during a time of social, physical, and economic uncertainty.
Sarah Tanguy is a Washington, DC-based independent curator and arts writer. From 2004-2019, Tanguy was also a curator for Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State, where she curated over 100 exhibitions and 12 permanent collections for U.S. diplomatic facilities overseas. She has also worked at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Gallery, The Tremaine Collection, the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, and The Hechinger Collection. Her exhibit “TRACES” is currently on display at the Kreeger Museum and each artwork featured in the exhibition explores the many meanings of the word “trace.”
Image: Roxana Alger Geffen, Complicated Presence (Covid Coat), 2020

Virtual | Collection Visit with Laura Blanco
2021-01-22 12:00 | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
This virtual collection visit program is free for ArtTable Circle Members and $10 for all other members. Click here to learn more about ArtTable’s membership levels.
How it works:
You will receive access to a recorded collection visit in advance of the live program on January 22. The collector creates this recording exclusively for ArtTable members, so please do not share or rerecord this video. Members are then invited to attend a live virtual discussion with the collector led by ArtTable’s Executive Director, Jessica Porter, to learn more and ask questions.
How to take part:

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Laura Blanco is a pro-bono advisor to museums and institutions on matters of governance, ethics and development. She was a producer in the entertainment industry for over twenty years.
Ms. Blanco has served on numerous boards and committees within the areas of architecture, music, theater and fine arts. She and her husband have been collecting art by Cuban American artists for over 25 years and are the founders of the In Art We Trust Foundation and Museum.
Ms. Blanco is currently the founding board chair serving the Arts Museum of the Americas, in Washington, DC. The museum is the first institution in the United States to hold a collection of modern and contemporary Latin American art.

Image: At home with Laura Blanco; artwork is by Demi (Camagüey, Cuba, 1955), The Execution (1994-2014). Oil on canvas, 60” x 82”.

Virtual | The Contemporary Art Landscape in Israel, with curator Rotem Ruff
2021-01-26 10:00 | Zoom
10am ET | 9am CT | 7am PT
Join us for a live discussion with Tel-Aviv-based Rotem Ruff, Associate Director of Artis, who will present an overview of the contemporary art landscape in Israel, with an emphasis on major museums, mid-size art institutions, alternative spaces, and residencies.
Tickets are $10. Member tickets are $5. Not a member? Join today!
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Accessibility: Please note that this program will offer live closed captioning. If you require additional accommodations, please email programs@arttable.org.

About Rotem Ruff
Rotem Ruff is the Associate Director of Artis, Tel Aviv and is Heading the Office of International Academic Affairs at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, where she is also a lecturer. During her decade-long stay in New York, she earned her B.A. and M.A. in Art History at Hunter College and held positions in various institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). In Israel, she worked as a curator at the Haifa Museum of Art and has organized public programs and curated numerous exhibitions in leading museums and various cultural venues.
Rotem is the co-founder and co-director of REACTIK, an International Erasmus+ Jean-Monnet Network, researching EU Cultural Diplomacy and Policy. Rotem served on the International Council of the renowned television series Art21, the Israeli Lottery Committee for the Arts, the International Exposure dance festival, and DocAviv film festival.
About Artis
Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from Israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. Artis was founded in 2004 by philanthropist Rivka Saker with the goal of amplifying international recognition of artists from Israel. Starting off as a series of public events timed with New York’s Armory Show, the organization’s scope expanded to include programs that invest in artists and cultural exchange. We raise our annual budget without governmental funds through the generosity of individuals and foundations that share our values. Artis is based in New York and Tel Aviv.
Thank you to Michelle Perr from ArtTable’s New York Chapter, Hillit Zwick, Executive Director of Artis, and Rotem Ruff for organizing and participating in this program.

Image: Rotem Ruff

Virtual | AT Connect with Aubrey Catrone
2021-01-27 12:00 | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s AT Connect program series encourages members to network, connect, and ask questions outside of their regular areas of expertise. In this session we will hear from Aubrey Catrone, an international art historian, appraiser, and provenance researcher. Aubrey is also a member of ArtTable’s New York Chapter.
Tickets are $10. Member tickets are $5. Not a member? Join today!
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About Aubrey
Aubrey Catrone is an international art historian, appraiser, and provenance researcher. Aubrey earned an MA in History of Art from University College London, specializing in the documented histories of art objects and is a member of the Appraisers Association of America. With an art gallery and academic research background, Catrone founded Proper Provenance, LLC to provide her clients with the tools, not only to historically contextualize art, but also to shed light on attribution and legal title within the international art market.
Catrone has researched artworks, paintings, artefacts, works on paper, prints, and sculptures spanning the fourth century B.C. to the twenty-first century A.D. She continues to volunteer with the Cultural Plunder by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg: Jeu de Paume Database.

Images:
Aubrey Catrone, courtesy of the speaker
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Virtual | Artist Talk with Hiba Schahbaz
2021-01-29 12:00 | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s Artist Talk series is made possible by the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Originally formatted as in-person Artist Breakfasts, ArtTable has moved all programming into the virtual realm during the pandemic. Please join us for a virtual Artist Talk with Hiba Schahbaz.
Tickets are $10. Member tickets are $5. Not a member? Join today!
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About Hiba Schahbaz
Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Hiba Schahbaz is a Brooklyn-based figurative painter who works primarily with paper, black-tea, and water based pigments. Her subjects, largely drawn from her lifelong practice of self portraiture, inhabit a dreamlike, all-female world. Schahbaz initially trained in Indo-Persian miniature painting at Lahore’s National College of Arts, and later earned a Master’s in Painting from Pratt Institute in New York. Her work addresses issues of personal freedom, destruction, sexuality and censorship by unveiling the beauty, fragility and strength of the female form.
Her solo shows include Dreaming (De Buck Gallery 2020), In Solitude (De Buck Gallery, 2020), The Garden (Spring/Break Art Show, 2018), Hiba Schahbaz: Self-Portraits (Project for Empty Space, 2017), Hanged With Roses (Thierry Goldberg Gallery, 2015), and In Memory (Noire Gallery, 2012). Schahbaz has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including a recent show curated by Jasmine Wahi in Tokyo, “all the women. in me. are tired.”, at THE CLUB, as well as exhibitions at NiU Museum of Art, The Untitled Space, and Center for Book Arts; and has shown at art fairs such as Pulse Art Fair, Untitled Art Fair, Art Fair Cologne, and Vienna Fair.
Publications like Vice, Hyperallergic, The Huffington Post, Coveteur, Vogue, NY Magazine, Art Critical, ArtForum, Bomb Mag, Paper, and others have written about Hiba’s work. Schahbaz has curated painting exhibitions in Pakistan and India, and she was an artist-in-residence at Mass MoCA, The Wassaic Project, Vermont Studio Center, and the Alfred Z. Solomon Residency at the Tang Museum. She teaches miniature painting at the Art Students League in New York, and her work is held in private collections around the world.
(Bio adapted from De Buck Gallery press release, 2020)
This program is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation has been a leader in providing grants enabling emerging and established artists to focus on their work. Funding helps artists to create new work, acquire art supplies, rent studio space, and prepare exhibitions. The Foundation also provides grants to organizations that directly engage with artists, such as artist residency programs. Please visit www.pkf.org for more information.

Image Credits

Hiba Schahbaz in her studio in Brooklyn, NY.
Inside Hiba’s studio; photo by Meiying Thai

Virtual | Collection Visit with Ellen Cantrowitz
2021-02-03 12:00 | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
This virtual collection visit program is free for ArtTable Circle Members and $10 for all other members. Click here to learn more about ArtTable’s membership levels.
How it works:
You will receive access to a recorded collection visit in advance of the live program on February 3. The collector creates this recording exclusively for ArtTable members, so please do not share or rerecord this video. Members are then invited to attend a live virtual discussion with the collector led by ArtTable’s Executive Director, Jessica Porter, to learn more and ask questions.
How to take part:

Are you an ArtTable member? Click here login and Register for this event.
Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link.
Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center and select the “Zoom Client for Meetings” option. Alternatively, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link.
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Ellen Cantrowitz has been collecting art since graduating from college. She collects paintings, sculpture, and drawings from the second half of the 20th century and the 21st century. She is also a private art dealer of international art, for the past three decades. She was a member of the Bronx Museum’s Acquisitions Committee, and Education Committee until 2017. Ellen is also a member of the Acquisitions Committee at the Parrish Art Museum in Watermill, NY, and a supporter of various exhibitions and rehangings at that museum. She is a devoted ArtTable member for the past 16 years. Ellen is also a member of the Cultivist art group.

Image: Artwork by Otto Piene & Jay De Feo

Virtual | DC Chapter Leadership Award Ceremony Honoring Kim Sajet
2021-02-03 17:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
In recognition of her significant achievements as the first woman director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, ArtTable DC honors Kim Sajet with the 2020 Chapter Leadership Award. Please join us in celebrating this occasion virtually. Dr. Johnetta Cole, our 2018 recipient, will present the award to Ms. Sajet.
This event was postponed from March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Please email dc@arttable.org to confirm whether you would like to use your original registration for the new event or if you would prefer to credit your ArtTable account for future programming (credit can only be used through March 31, 2021).
This event is for ArtTable members only. Click here to see who’s already registered! Not an ArtTable member? Join today!
Ticket Information:

$40 – General Admission

Please note, your ticket purchase directly supports the DC chapter’s Faith Flanagan Fellowship Program. This annual program provides mentorship, resources, and a stipend to three DC-area women working in the visual arts. The Fellowship Program focuses on the empowerment and growth of the next generation of arts leaders by building relationships and offering progressive programming. Your support of this event enables the DC Chapter to continue offering this incredible Fellowship Program. THANK YOU.
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As the first woman to serve as director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Kim Sajet (pronounced Say-et) has been exploring new ways to place personal experience and creativity at the center of learning and civic awareness. Not just a place to see famous Americans, the museum explores identity as a social construct that has been shaped in equal measure by opportunity and ability, prejudice and fear. By taking a cross-disciplinary approach that merges the traditional forms of painting, sculpture, drawing and printmaking with poetry, installation art, video and performance, Sajet aims to bring history alive.
Before her current appointment, Sajet was the president and CEO of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the vice president and deputy director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the director of corporate relations at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Before arriving in the United States with her family in 1997, she served first as curator and then director of two Australian art museums from 1989 – 1995.
Born in Nigeria, raised in Australia, and a citizen of the Netherlands, Sajet brings a global perspective to the position. She earned a master’s degree in art history from Bryn Mawr College, a master’s degree in business administration from Melbourne University Business School in Australia, a bachelor’s degree in art history from Melbourne University, and a graduate diploma in Museum studies from Deakin University in Australia. She has completed arts leadership training at the Harvard Business School, the Getty Institute and National Arts Strategies.
In addition to 20 years of arts management experience, Sajet has written a number of scholarly publications, curated exhibitions and spoken at academic symposia around the world. Her current interests include the June 2019 study of identity politics, role-playing in online virtual worlds and the significance of celebrity in American history. She is also the host of the Portrait Gallery’s new podcast series, “Portraits,” exploring themes of art, history and biography.
Thank you to Ruth Abrahams, Caitlin Berry, Alexa Kaye and Maria Sancho-Arroyo for organizing this program.
Hosted By:

Alexa Kaye
Alice Dow Walker
Anne M. Lampe
Beverly Carol With
Brandon B. Fortune
Brigitte Reyes
Carolyn K Carr
Charlotte Ickes
Concetta M Duncan
Dorothy Kosinski
Gay P Hanna
La’Tasha Nicole Banks
Laura Roulet
Lauren Jensen
Maria Sancho-Arroyo
Marlene Rothacker Harrison
Mary Early
Renee Y Sandell
Ruth Abrahams
Sarah Courtney
Sarah Tanguy
Shelley R. Langdale
Terry Dudnick Taffer
Victoria L. Reis

Image: Grace Roselli, Pandora’s BoxX Project

Virtual | DC BreakfastTable with Jaynelle Hazard
2021-02-05 08:30 - 09:30 | Zoom
8:30am ET| 7:30am CT
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for a presentation and conversation with Jaynelle Hazard, Executive Director & Curator of the newly rebranded Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art. Jaynelle will discuss how the Greater Reston Arts Center repositioned and transformed into Tephra ICA as the institution’s programs, audience, and impact had drastically evolved over the past several years.
This program is free for ArtTable members only. Members may bring one guest for an additional $5. Not a member? Join today!
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About Jaynelle Hazard
Prior to joining Greater Reston Arts Center, Jaynelle Hazard was the Director of Exhibitions at Workhouse Art Center. There she developed, implemented, and oversaw contemporary art programming initiatives. In previous roles, she supported various art programs and worked with some of the most celebrated artworks by supporting the corporate contemporary art collection at UBS, the Union Bank of Switzerland, and via her work at Blank Projects, a contemporary art gallery in Cape Town, South Africa. Significant milestones throughout Hazard’s career include producing more than 75 exhibitions in turn providing opportunities to more than 200 artists, introducing the first outdoor mural project and festival in the Northern Virginia region, and partnering with the Smithsonian American Art Museum in leading the conference, State of Art 5/DC.
Jaynelle Hazard relocated to Washington, DC from New York in 2017 where she earned a Master of Arts degree at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. She currently serves as the Co-Chair for the Washington, DC Chapter of Sotheby’s Institute of Art Alumni and Chair of the Faith Flanagan Fellowship for ArtTable’s DC Chapter.
As the Executive Director and Curator of Tephra ICA, Jaynelle builds a critically engaged practice by introducing methods to advance scholarship; extending reach in interdisciplinary experimentation of contemporary art and ideas; as well as engaging audiences of all backgrounds and identities. With a curatorial foundation and leadership style rooted in care, Hazard is a catalyst and serves as a bridge between the public and the most innovative art of our time.
About Tephra ICA
Tephra ICA is a non-profit, non-collecting institution committed to promoting innovative contemporary art and thinking. Leading with curiosity and care, the organization is a catalyst, generator, and advocate for visual arts. The institution is devoted to celebrating artists. It values the power of art to broaden and shift perspectives, start difficult conversations, and consider alternative ideas.
Thank you to ArtTable’s Washington, D.C. Chapter for organizing this program.

Image: Jaynelle C. Hazard

Virtual | Conversation: Howardena Pindell and Adeze Wilford, 'Rope/Fire/Water' at The Shed
2021-02-05 14:00 | Zoom
2pm ET | 1pm CT | 11am PT
ArtTable’s Curatorial Perspective program series invites curators to present and discuss timely exhibitions and initiatives. Please join us for a discussion with artist Howardena Pindell and Adeze Wilford, Assistant Curator at The Shed and organizer of the exhibition, Howardena Pindell: Rope/Fire/Water, currently on view at The Shed in New York.
Please join us after the discussion for 10-15 minutes of virtual networking in Zoom Breakout Rooms! In pre-pandemic times, ArtTable programs were a time for members and non-members to connect with old friends and meet new people, and we aim to simulate that in the virtual realm!
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About the Speakers
Born in Philadelphia in 1943, Howardena Pindell studied painting at Boston University and Yale University. After graduating, she accepted a job at the Museum of Modern Art, where she worked for 12 years (1967–1979). Her first role was an Exhibition Assistant, then Assistant Curator in the Department of National and International Traveling Exhibitions, and finally Associate Curator and Acting Director in the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books. In 1979, she began teaching at the State University of New York, Stony Brook where she is now a full-time professor. Throughout her career, Pindell has exhibited extensively. Notable solo-exhibitions include: Spelman College (1971, Atlanta), Just Above Midtown (1977, New York), Lerner-Heller Gallery (1980, 1981, New York), The Studio Museum in Harlem (1986, New York), the Wadsworth Atheneum (1989, Hartford), G.R. N’Namdi Gallery (1992, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2006, Chicago, Detroit, and New York), Garth Greenan Gallery, New York (2014, 2017), Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta (2015) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2018).
Pindell often employs lengthy, metaphorical processes of destruction/reconstruction. She cuts canvases in strips and sews them back together, building up surfaces in elaborate stages. She paints or draws on sheets of paper, punches out dots from the paper using a hole punch, drops the dots onto her canvas, and squeegees paint through the “stencil” left in the paper from which she had punched the dots. Almost invariably, her paintings are installed unstretched, held to the wall merely by the strength of a few finishing nails. The artist’s fascination with gridded, serialized imagery, along with surface texture appears throughout her oeuvre. Even in her later, more politically charged work, Pindell reverts to these thematic focuses in order to address social issues of homelessness, AIDs, war, genocide, sexism, xenophobia, and apartheid.
Most recently, Pindell’s work appeared in: Black in the Abstract: Part I, Epistrophy (2013, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston), and Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, (2015–2016, Museum Brandhorst; 2016, Museum Moderner Kunst) and We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–1985 (2017, the Brooklyn Museum, New York). Howardena Pindell was the subject of the 2018 retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago titled ‘Howardena Pindell: What Remains to Be Seen.’ The exhibition later traveled to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2018) and the Rose Art Museum (2019).
View the artist’s full biography here.

Adeze Wilford is an Assistant Curator at The Shed. She was an inaugural joint curatorial fellow at The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Museum of Modern Art. She organized Vernacular Interior at Hales Gallery in 2019, as well as Excerpt (2017) at the Studio Museum and Black Intimacy (2017), a film series at MoMA. Other curatorial projects include Harlem Postcards F/W 2016/2017 and Color in Shadows the 2016 Expanding The Walls exhibition at Studio Museum. Prior to this Adeze was the Public Programs and Community Engagement assistant at the Studio Museum. She has contributed scholarship to various catalogues and magazines including Young,Gifted and Black and Black Refractions. She graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in Art History and African-American Studies.

This program is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation has been a leader in providing grants enabling emerging and established artists to focus on their work. Funding helps artists to create new work, acquire art supplies, rent studio space, and prepare exhibitions. The Foundation also provides grants to organizations that directly engage with artists, such as artist residency programs. Please visit www.pkf.org for more information.

Images: Installation view of ‘Howardena Pindell: Rope/Fire/Water’ at The Shed; Howardena Pindell; Adeze Wilford, © 2015 Scott Rudd

Virtual | AT Connect with Marine Tanguy
2021-02-10 12:00 | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s AT Connect program series allows and encourages members to network, connect, and ask questions outside of their regular areas of expertise. In this session we will hear from Marine Tanguy, founder of MTArt Agency, the first talent agency for visual artists worldwide.
Please join us after the discussion for 10-15 minutes of virtual networking in Zoom Breakout Rooms! In pre-pandemic times, ArtTable programs were a time for members and non-members to connect with old friends and meet new people, and we aim to simulate that in the virtual realm!
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About Marine
An advocate for artists since a young age, Marine Tanguy managed her first gallery at age 21 and opened her first art gallery in Los Angeles at age 23. After seeing the restrictiveness of the traditional gallery model, Marine launched MTArt Agency in 2015.
MTArt is the first talent agency for visual artists worldwide. Clients love to work with the agency to identify the next rising star in the art world. They trust its rigorous selection and the expertise of the team to integrate their art in the most extraordinary contexts. MTArt Agency was behind the largest public art painting in the world: the project of Saype in Paris supported by 30 companies including the Eiffel Tower and the Guardian Media Group. Its artists enhance your homes, cities, screens, and advertising spaces with their art. They broadcast their inspiring messages and visuals for you to lead a more visually inspiring life.
Marine was awarded Forbes 2018 30 under 30 Europe: Art & Culture and UK entrepreneur of the year for the 2019 NatWest Everywoman Awards. She is a writer and keynote speaker on contemporary art and art investment. Her talks include two TEDx Talks on how to transform cities with art and how social media visuals affect our minds.

Images:
Marine Tanguy, courtesy of the speaker; Marine Tanguy giving a TED talk. Photo courtesy of TEDx.
Are you interested in participating in an AT Connect program? Email programs@arttable.org for more information!

Virtual | Artist Residencies: Evolving Amid the Pandemic
2021-02-18 14:00 | Zoom
2pm ET | 1pm CT | 11am PT
Please join Ruth Adams (Art Omi – Ghent, NY), Toccarra Thomas (Joan Mitchell Center – New Orleans, LA), and Helen Toomer (Stoneleaf Retreat – Kingston, NY) for a panel to explore how artist residencies are evolving their services to artists during the pandemic through “virtual” residencies and other strategies. The panelists will share their experiences with adapting their programming and pivoting their usual approach amid Covid, as well as insights into ways the field may change long-term coming out of the pandemic.
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About the Speakers
Ruth Adams is Executive Director of Art Omi in Ghent, NY, where she provides leadership for the multi-faceted contemporary arts center’s 120-acre Sculpture and Architecture Park and Gallery, international artist residencies, public arts events, & education programming. Together with a Board of Trustees and Program Advisory Boards, Adams is dedicated to Art Omi’s vitality and sustainability, with a current focus on destination creation, exemplary visitor services, internationalism, equity, inclusivity, and programming excellence.

Toccarra A. H. Thomas is the Director of the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans. Thomas has previously served as the inaugural general manager of Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, NY, as well as inaugural managing director of SPACE, a contemporary multidisciplinary art organization in Portland, ME. In her role at the Joan Mitchell Center, she directs the expansive artist residency program, develops public programming and special projects to support community engagement with the Center’s artist residents, and manages the day-to-day operations. Additionally, Thomas works closely with leadership at the Joan Mitchell Foundation in New York to develop artist-centered resources and programming.

Helen Toomer is Co-Founder of STONELEAF RETREAT, an artists’ residency and connective space in the Catskill Mountains of New York. The residency is focused on supporting women artists and families. She is the Founder of UPSTATE ART WEEKEND and the Co-Founder of Art Mamas Alliance. Formerly, Toomer was Executive Director of Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE) and Director of the IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair, Collective Design Fair and PULSE Contemporary Art Fairs. She lectures on art fairs and professional development at universities and arts organizations in the US and the UK. She was also an adjunct professor at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and the Fashion Institute of Technology. Toomer co-founded and managed a contemporary art gallery, toomer labzda in New York and graduated with Bachelors in Fine Arts from the Arts Institute of Bournemouth, England. She serves on the Board of AIRIE and Advisory Committees for ProjectArt, Foundwork and the Baxter St Camera Club of New York.
Thank you to Sarah McNaughton, NY Chapter Programs Committee Co-Chair, for organizing this program.

Images:

Uta Bekaia (USA / Georgia) performance, courtesy of Art Omi
Ruth Adams
Toccarra Thomas
Helen Toomer

Virtual | AT Local: NoCal Film Night - Art21's Art in the Twenty-First Century: Borderlands
2021-02-18 20:30 | Zoom
8:30pm ET | 7:30pm CT | 5:30pm PT
Join ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter for a virtual film night to watch and discuss Art21’s Borderlands, an episode in the 10th season of their Art in the Twenty-First Century series. Following the film, we’ll be joined by Lolita Fierro, Associate Director, Major Gifts & Special Events at Art21 to discuss the episode.
The film screening will take place from 5:30 – 6:30 PT (7:30-8:30pm CT, 8:30-9:30pm ET), and the discussion from 6:30 – 7:15 PT (8:30-9:15 CT, 9:30-10:15pm ET). Members are welcome to join for just the discussion if they would prefer to view the film on their own time.
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About the Episode
A vast geography encompassing open deserts and densely populated metropolises, the borderland between the United States and Mexico has long been a site of political conflict, social struggle, and intense creative ferment. Taking a new curatorial and filmmaking approach, Art21 connects and juxtaposes a group of acclaimed artists as they work along the U.S.-Mexico border, interweaving their stories to chronicle the creative responses to one of the most divisive moments in the history of this area. From an epic interactive searchlight installation along the El Paso–Juárez divide to a deeply personal performance at the Tijuana border wall, these artists consider the border as an open wound, a theatrical stage, a political podium, a studio, and a contradictory landscape that features both ugliness and beauty.
This episode explores how contemporary art can reveal the new and unexpected. It asks viewers to question their preconceived notions of a place seemingly made familiar by mass media. Ultimately, the artists featured in this hour challenge themselves and audiences to embrace a more empathetic view of one of the most contested areas in North America.
This event is presented in collaboration with Art21, a nonprofit global leader in art education. Art21 produces preeminent films about today’s leading visual artists and education programs that inspire creativity worldwide.
Thank you to Lucy Lydon, Director of Luce Productions and member of ArtTable NoCal’s Executive Committee for making this program possible.

Image: Tanya Aguiñiga at her Los Angeles studio. Production still from the Art21 television series “Art in the Twenty-First Century,” Season 10, 2020. © Art21, Inc. 2020

Virtual | DC Around the Table Book Group with Carolyn Kinder Carr
2021-02-22 19:00 | Zoom
7pm ET | 6pm CT | 4pm PT
Join ArtTable’s Washington, D.C. Chapter for an Around the Table Book Group. This program is open to all ArtTable members and meets four times a year; participants can join for one book or for all!
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For the first Around the Table Book Group of 2021, we will discuss “Sara Tyson Hallowell: Pioneer Curator and Art Agent in the Gilded Age” by ArtTable DC member Carolyn Kinder Carr. Carr will be joining us to present her book and take part in engaging conversation.
Sara Tyson Hallowell: Pioneer Curator and Art Agent in the Gilded Age

This biography tells the story of Philadelphia-born Sara Tyson Hallowell (1846-1924). Hallowell made her reputation in Chicago in the 1880’s organizing exhibitions for that city’s Inter-state Industrial Expositions. Impressed with her knowledge of art and the art market, Bertha and Potter Palmer sought her advice. Hallowell’s enthusiasm for the work of Monet, Renoir, Sisley, and Pissarro led them to form one of the earliest collections of French Impressionism in America, notable examples of which are today at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Disappointed that her gender prevented her from becoming director of art at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition, Hallowell nevertheless created a critically successful exhibition for this mammoth fair. Following its close, Hallowell went to live in France. From 1894 to 1914, she selected paintings of American artists living abroad for annual exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago. Mary Cassatt and Auguste Rodin were among her many Parisian friends.
Hallowell’s pioneering work as a curator and art advisor provided a model for women seeking to enter these professions previously the prerogative of men.

Carolyn Kinder Carr is the Deputy Director of the National Portrait Gallery and the author of “Gaston Lachaise: Portrait Sculpture” (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985).
Thank you to Ruth Abrahams, ArtTable DC Committee Member at Large for organizing this program.

Image: “Sara Tyson Hallowell: Pioneer Curator and Art Agent in the Gilded Age” by Carolyn Kinder Carr

Virtual | Equity & Representation in Contemporary Art - A Panel Discussion for Black History Month
2021-02-25 12:00 | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
Over the course of time in America, large swaths of art history have been omitted, erased, or ignored. This absence has created a significant void in the narrative around how people of African descent and people of color have contributed to the artistic canon.
The impact presents significant disadvantages for artists of color. From artists that have difficulty gaining representation, to art historians overlooking Black and Brown artists’ contributions, to collectors that do not have access to works they would like to acquire, the playing field has never been level. Bias shows up in art schools, in institutions, in hiring practices, in the primary and secondary art market, and in the critical voices that influence all of the above.
Recent news of high-profile curatorial appointments are a move in the right direction. However, there is significant work that remains to be done. What kind of new and inclusive art world can we as art professionals help to create ?
Join us for this interactive session on a very timely and important topic. The discussion will address questions surrounding this subject including:

What are the barriers to equity and representation and how can we, as leaders, make a difference toward that goal?
What does it feel like to be an “outsider” in the art world?
Why does diversity and representation matter?
How can institutions and art spaces be more accessible to all?
Black art is “hot” right now. Why?
How does diversity in art help us to understand each other in a complex multicultural society?

Panel Participants:

June Edmonds, Award-Winning Artist, Los Angeles, CA
Chela Mitchell, Art Advisor and Founder of Komuna House Global Arts Club, New York, NY
Dr. Kimberli Gant, McKinnon Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Moderated by Lynne Toye, Founder of Art Unpacked, New York, NY

Please join us after the discussion for 10-15 minutes of virtual networking in Zoom Breakout Rooms! In pre-pandemic times, ArtTable programs were a time for members and non-members to connect with old friends and meet new people, and we aim to simulate that in the virtual realm!
Admission

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Accessibility: Please note that this program will offer live closed captioning. If you require additional accommodations, please email programs@arttable.org.

About the Speakers
June Edmonds was born in Los Angeles, where she lives and works. Edmonds received her MFA from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, and a bachelor’s degree from San Diego State University. She also attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and is the recipient of the inaugural prestigious 2020 AWARE Prize, which recognizes an outstanding solo presentation of work by a female artist at the Armory Show. Edmonds is also the 2020 Harpo Foundation Grant recipient and a recipient of the 2018 City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Grant (COLA). She attended the Paducah A.I.R. residency in Kentucky in 2017 and is slated to go to Vermont Studio Center Residency in 2021 or 2022. Edmonds uses abstract painting to explore how color, pattern, repetition, movement and balance can serve as conduits to spiritual contemplation and interpersonal connection. She has exhibited nationally and has completed several works of public art with the city of Los Angeles and the Department of Cultural Affairs, including an installation at the MTA Pacific Station in Long Beach, CA. Her paintings are held in collections throughout the United States including the California African American Museum, Los Angeles and the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA.
Kimberli Gant, PhD is the McKinnon Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Chrysler Museum. She has held curatorial positions at the Newark Museum, The Contemporary Austin, and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan
Art. She has curated numerous exhibitions including Brendan Fernandes: Bodily Forms, Multiple Modernisms, Wondrous Worlds: Art & Islam through Time & Place, and De-Luxe. Kimberli holds Art History degrees from the University of Texas Austin, Columbia University, and Pitzer College.

Chela Mitchell is an art advisor at CMA, a firm committed to helping collectors build diverse art collections. Chela has worked with some influential institutions, corporations and art collectors, informing their acquisitions in the emerging, mid-career and established markets. Chela has become a voice for change in the art world, actively fighting for equity of artists and art professionals. This work inspired the creation of Komuna, a global arts club with a special focus on artists and people of color.
Before devoting herself fulltime to the art world, Chela worked as a fashion stylist at Net-a-Porter, Barney’s, Intermix and Vogue Japan. She has worked closely with artists like Solange, Iman Omari and Young Paris.
Chela has been featured in Forbes, The Los Angeles Times, ArtNews, Artnet News, NR Magazine and 10 Magazine. She is a proud graduate of Rutgers University and lives in Manhattan with her husband, daughter and French mastiff, Harlem.

Lynne Toye is a curator, change agent, and artist advocate building a community of support for artists of color. She is focused on educating and cultivating new collectors and forming strategic alliances with stakeholders in the art market. She founded Art Unpacked in 2020 to provide access to the art market through curated events, lectures, studio visits and salons. She is on the African American Culture Committee of the Montclair Art Museum and also currently serves as the Chief Administrative Officer at Harlem School of the Arts. Lynne holds degrees from the University of Virginia and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Thank you to Lynne Toye for organizing this program exclusively for ArtTable.

Images:

June Edmonds
Dr. Kimberli Gant
Chela Mitchell
Lynne Toye

RESCHEDULED | MFA Artists Talk: Recent Cadogan Scholarship Awardees
2021-02-25 20:30 | Zoom
8:30pm ET | 7:30pm CT | 5:30pm PT
This program has been rescheduled to a later date. Stay tuned for updates.
In support of Bay Area MFA candidates, the Northern California Chapter invites you to join us on Thursday, February 25 (8:30pm ET/ 7:30pm CT/ 5:30pm PT) for a visit with recent Cadogan Scholarship Awardees Dominique Birdsong, Amy Elkins, and Claudia Huenchuleo Paquien.
The distinction is part of The Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Award and the Edwin Anthony and Adalaine Boudreaux Cadogan Scholarships (aka The Murphy Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards). These awards help fuel the forward-thinking visual arts movement that makes the Bay Area unique. Established in 1986, the awards were designed to further the development of the region’s MFA students and to foster exploration of their artistic potential.
The winners receive financial awards and have their work displayed in an exhibition at SOMArts Cultural Center. As universities and students have been impacted by COVID-19 this past year, the 2020 exhibition, curated by artist, curator, and educator Kevin B. Chen, made the pivot online so awardees can celebrate safely from their homes. We are pleased to present this Artists Talk by three of the year’s talented awardees.
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About the Artists
Dominique Birdsong is a San Francisco-based artist working in a variety of media, from acrylic paint to concrete, plaster, and resin cloth. Her work explores the relationship between death and identity. Reflecting on a personal experience of loss, she states, “The impact that it has on me is extreme, prompting me to question my identity: who I am now and who I was before I lost them.” Birdsong completed her BFA from Humboldt State University. She is currently an MFA candidate at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Amy Elkins works primarily in photography and with a series-based approach that oscillates between formal, conceptual and documentary. She has spent the past fifteen years researching, creating and exhibiting work that explores the multifaceted nature of masculine identity as well as the psychological and sociological impacts of incarceration. Elkins received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She is currently an MFA candidate in the Art Practice program at Stanford University. She has exhibited and published both nationally and internationally.
Claudia Huenchuleo Paquien is a multimedia artist based in San Francisco. An urban Mapuche descendant, born and raised in Chile, her work reflects on feelings of sadness, nostalgia, and dislocation as collective constructions in attunement to places and territories. Through collage, photography, and installation, her work interrogates the way in which memory, culture, and race function in relation to Indigenous contemporary identities and new systems of knowledge. Huenchuleo Paquien graduated from University of Concepción, Chile, with a degree in psychology. She completed a Post Baccalaureate in Visual Arts at UC Berkeley Extension. She is currently a third year MFA candidate at San Francisco State University.
Thank you to Northern California Chapter Executive Committee members Donna Napper, Co-Chair and Maren Jones, Finance Chair for organizing this program.

Images clockwise from top left: Dominique Birdsong, A Conversation, 2019, clay, concrete, red LED light and wood base; Amy Elkins, Holding Pattern, 2020, pigment print on adhesive fabric, stop motion animation on two 13” Clear Tech Televisions, print on cotton, used prison uniforms, stainless steel hangers, industrial steel pipes and fittings. Claudia Huenchuleo Paquien, Kallfü Füdo, 2020, photograph. Images courtesy of the artists.

Virtual | Artist Talk with Angela Fraleigh
2021-03-03 12:00 | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s Artist Talk series is made possible by the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Originally formatted as in-person Artist Breakfasts, ArtTable has moved all programming into the virtual realm during the pandemic. Please join us for a virtual Artist Talk with Angela Fraleigh.
Please join us after the discussion for 10-15 minutes of virtual networking in Zoom Breakout Rooms! In pre-pandemic times, ArtTable programs were a time for members and non-members to connect with old friends and meet new people, and we aim to simulate that in the virtual realm!
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About Angela Fraleigh
Angela Fraleigh (b. 1976) earned her MFA from Yale University School of Art and her BFA from Boston University. Her solo exhibitions include Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY; Inman Gallery in Houston, TX; PPOW Gallery in New York, NY; Peters Projects in Santa Fe, NM; and James Harris Gallery in Seattle, WA. She has exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, and has been the recipient of several awards and residencies including the Yale University Alice Kimball English grant; The Sharpe-Walentas Program Brooklyn, NY; and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE. Fraleigh has created site-specific solo projects for the Edward Hopper House Museum and Study Center (Shadows Searching for Light, 2018) and the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site (Lost in the Light, 2015), the Everson Museum of Art (Between Tongue and Teeth, 2016) and the Delaware Art Museum (Sound the Deep Waters, 2019).
She currently lives and works in Allentown, PA, where she is a Full Professor and Department Chair at Moravian College. Fraleigh’s debut solo exhibition with Hirschl & Adler Modern, Fluttering still, is on view now through March 12, 2021.
This program is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation has been a leader in providing grants enabling emerging and established artists to focus on their work. Funding helps artists to create new work, acquire art supplies, rent studio space, and prepare exhibitions. The Foundation also provides grants to organizations that directly engage with artists, such as artist residency programs. Please visit www.pkf.org for more information.
Thank you to Hirschl & Adler Modern for helping to make this program possible.

Image Credits

We tell beginnings, 2021; Oil and watercolor on canvas over panel, 56 x 48 in.; Courtesy of the artist and Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York; Photo © Ken Ek
Angela Fraleigh, courtesy of the artist

Virtual | DC BreakfastTable with Rayna Andrews
2021-03-05 08:30 - 09:30 | Zoom
8:30am ET| 7:30am CT
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for a BreakfastTable presentation and conversation with archivist Rayna Andrews.
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About Rayna Andrews
Rayna Andrews is the Archivist for the Henry Luce Foundation African American Collecting Initiative at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, where she primarily processes collections related to African American art and artists.
Andrews has a background in inclusion, intersectionality, and accessibility relative to archival collections, as well as to archival institutions and the field. Additionally, she currently serves on MARAC’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee and on the Steering Committee of the Women Archivists Section of the Society of American Archivists.
Thank you to Lily Siegel, ArtTable Washington, D.C. Chapter, for organizing this program.

Image: Rayna Andrews

Virtual | Curatorial Perspective: 'Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond'
2021-03-12 12:00 | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s Curatorial Perspective program series invites curators to present and discuss timely exhibitions and initiatives. Please join us for a discussion with Rachel Seligman, Malloy Curator at the Tang Museum, and Minita Sanghvi, Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and Business at Skidmore College, about the exhibition Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond.
The exhibition includes artwork a multitude of notable female artists, including Gina Adams, Jordan Casteel, Guerrilla Girls, Martine Gutierrez, Julie Mehretu, Joan Mitchell, Catherine Opie, Howardena Pindell, Wendy Red Star, Faith Ringgold, Deborah Roberts, Tschabalala Self, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Shinique Smith, Mickalene Thomas, Marie Watt, Carrie Mae Weems, among many others!
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About the Speakers
Rachel Seligman is the Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs and Malloy Curator at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY). Her curatorial practice includes many interdisciplinary collaborative projects on subjects including Solomon Northup, democracy and citizenship, social class, activism and civil rights, pattern in art and science, and sugar, among others. Seligman is the co-author of Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave (Praeger, 2013), as well as numerous exhibition catalogues including Classless Society (Tang, 2014), Machine Project (DelMonico-Prestel, 2016), and Sixfold Symmetry (Tang, 2018). She has a BA from Skidmore College and an MA in Art History from George Washington University. She has chaired the Visual Arts Panel of the New York State Council on the Arts. Seligman has also served on numerous panels and committees for regional and national arts organizations.
Dr. Minita Sanghvi is an assistant professor in the management and business department at Skidmore College where she teaches business, marketing, as well as a first year seminar on gender and politics in the United States. Her research centers around gender and intersectionality in marketing and consumption. Palgrave MacMillan published her book Gender and Political Marketing in the United States and the 2016 Presidential Election: An Analysis of Why She Lost in 2019. In addition, she has published articles in Journal of Marketing Management and Journal of Business Research. Dr. Sanghvi was elected to the Saratoga Springs Public Library Board in 2019 for a 5-year term. She is the co-curator of the exhibition titled Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond along with Rachel Seligman at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College.

Images:

Installation view of Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond
Rachel Seligman, courtesy of the speaker
Minita Sanghvi, courtesy of the speaker

Virtual | Reading at the (Art)Table - 'Just Us: An American Conversation,' by Claudia Rankine
2021-03-14 14:00 | NY
2pm ET | 1pm CT | 11am PT
Join the Northern California Chapter’s Reading at the (Art)Table book group for a discussion of our latest book selection, “Just Us: An American Conversation,” by Claudia Rankine. With essays, poems, and images, Just Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together, even and especially in breaching the silence, guilt, and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness. Rankine’s questions disrupt the false comfort of our culture’s liminal and private spaces – the airport, the theater, the dinner party, the voting booth – where neutrality and politeness live on the surface of differing commitments, beliefs, and prejudices as our public and private lives intersect.
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Virtual | Where Are We Now? Revisiting the State of Fine Art Shipping in a Post-Pandemic World
2021-03-17 12:00 | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
Since the start of the pandemic, fine art shippers, registrars, and collections managers have had to find inventive solutions to moving artwork during a global lockdown. Back in July 2020, when the art world was still adapting to new pandemic-related regulations, ArtTable hosted a virtual conversation on this topic, where we discussed evolving logistical measures and responsibilities taken on by arts institutions and spaces within and outside of the US. As we approach the one year mark of the pandemic in the US, we revisit this conversation with new insights and discuss other factors that continue to affect the shipping sector of the art market, like new regulations between the US and the UK, continued gallery closures and staff reductions, and shifting exhibition and fair schedules.
What have shipping agents and registrars learned in the past year about adapting their tried and tested methods? How are museums, art galleries, or private collections faring amid ever-changing regulations? And what can we expect in the coming months? Join us for what is sure to be a fascinating discussion with Jacqueline Cabrera (Cabrera + Art + Management), Tina Sullivan (Masterpiece International), and Anna Marris (Constantine International).
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About the Speakers
Jacqueline Cabrera is currently Principal at Cabrera + Art + Management, Host of the Registrar Hour and past President and founding board member of the Association of Registrars and Collection Specialists. From 1996 – 2016 she worked at the J. Paul Getty Museum as a registrar at both the Getty Villa and Getty Center museums. Jacqueline has also served as Chair of the Registrar’s Committee Western Region and as a board member for the Western Museum Association. Prior to joining the Getty in 1996 she was the Registrar at the Long Beach Museum of Art and previously a Painting Department Assistant at Sotheby’s.
Tina Sullivan is the Vice President of Fine Arts at Masterpiece International. She has worked in the fine art logistics industry for the past 23 years. She started at Masterpiece International in 1997 as their in-house licensed Customhouse Broker, and now
serves as the Vice President of Fine Arts, overseeing all fine art operations on the West Coast. Tina is a licensed Customhouse broker and has a strong understanding of U.S. Customs and U.S. Fish and Wildlife regulations.

Anna Marris started her career in the fine arts logistics world at Wingate & Johnston (London) in 1984. She then went on to work for MOMART for 25 years where in 1996 she became the first female Director in the Art transport Industry. In 2015 she rejoined the Constantine (parent company of W&J) as Associate Director, again the first female Director for the company.

Thank you to Jacqueline Cabrera from ArtTable’s SoCal Chapter for organizing this program.

Images:

Courtesy of The ARTA blog
Jacqueline Cabrera, courtesy of the speaker
Tina Sullivan, courtesy of the speaker
Anna Marris, courtesy of the speaker

Virtual | Curatorial Perspective: 'Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And' at the Brooklyn Museum
2021-03-23 18:00 | Zoom
6pm ET | 5pm CT | 3pm PT
ArtTable’s Curatorial Perspective program series invites curators to present and discuss timely exhibitions and initiatives. Please join us for a discussion with Catherine Morris, Sackler Senior Curator at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and writer and co-curator of the exhibiton, Aruna D’Souza, for a discussion of the Lorraine O’Grady retrospective currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum.
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About the Exhibition
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of one of the most significant contemporary figures working in performance, conceptual, and feminist art. Lorraine O’Grady replaces either/or ways of thinking with the endless loop of “both/and,” challenging the fixed positions of self and other, here and there, now and then, all while reflecting on the poignancy of lives lived within dualistic frameworks. The artist addresses her own experience as a person marked by racial hybridity―her family histories connect the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and the United States―who is nonetheless definitively a Black woman. Through her exploration of legacies of cultural interconnection and reciprocal influences, O’Grady sheds light on the ways Blackness has always existed at the heart of Western modernism.
The exhibition features twelve of the major projects O’Grady has produced over her four-decade career and also debuts a much-anticipated new installation. In addition to works presented in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, five of O’Grady’s projects are installed in collection galleries throughout the Museum, highlighting the artist’s long engagement with art historical omissions and institutional failings related to the creative agency of those excluded from the canon. O’Grady’s radical revisionism of the 1980s and 1990s anticipated themes that have been embraced by a younger generation of artists and thinkers, inspiring them to resist and reshape a world structured by difference and inequity.
About the Speakers
Catherine Morris is the Sackler Senior Curator for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Since 2009, Catherine has curated a number of exhibitions for the Sackler Center including the award-winning Materializing “Six Years”: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art (co-curated with Vincent Bonin); Twice Militant: Lorraine Hansberry’s Letters to “The Ladder”; Between the Door and the Street: A performance initiated by Suzanne Lacy; “Workt by Hand”: Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts; Kathë Kollwitz: Prints from the “War” and “Death” Portfolios; Rachel Kneebone: Regarding Rodin; Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes, 1913–1919; Matthew Buckingham: “The Spirit and the Letter”; Lorna Simpson: Gathered; Sam Taylor-Wood: “Ghosts”; Kiki Smith: Sojourn; and Healing the Wounds of War: The Brooklyn Sanitary Fair of 1864. She was also the in-house curator of Eva Hesse Spectres 1960 and Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968.
Before joining the Brooklyn Museum, Catherine was an independent curator. Among some of the projects she organized are Decoys, Complexes, and Triggers: Women and Land Art in the 1970s at SculptureCenter, Long Island City; 9 Evenings Reconsidered: Art, Theatre, and Engineering in 1966 for the M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center; and Gloria: Another Look at Feminist Art of the 1970s at White Columns, New York. From 2004 until 2009, she was Adjunct Curator of Contemporary Art for the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she curated shows of Josiah McElheny, Lucy Gunning, and Cameron Martin. In 2004, she received a Penny McCall Foundation Award for Independent Curating and Writing.
Aruna D’Souza writes about modern and contemporary art, intersectional feminisms and other forms of politics, and how museums shape our views of each other and the world. Her most recent book, Whitewalling: Art, Race, and Protest in 3 Acts (Badlands Unlimited), was named one of the best art books of 2018 by the New York Times. Aruna’s work appears regularly in 4Columns.org, where she is a member of the editorial advisory board. Her work has also been published in The Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, ArtNews, Garage, Bookforum, Momus, Art in America, and Art Practical, among other places. She is currently editing two forthcoming volumes, Making It Modern: A Linda Nochlin Reader, and Lorraine O’Grady’s Writing in Space 1973-2018, and is co-curator of the upcoming retrospective of O’Grady’s work, Both/And, which will open in March 2021 at the Brooklyn Museum.

Thank you to Ingrid Dinter, Principal Dinter Fine Art and Program Committee Member of ArtTable’s NY Chapter for organizing this program.

Images:

Lorraine O’Grady (American, born 1934). Rivers, First Draft: The Woman in White eats coconut and looks away from the action, 1982/2015. Digital chromogenic print from Kodachrome 35mm slides in 48 parts, 16 × 20 in. (40.64 × 50.8 cm). Edition of 8, plus 2 AP. Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York. © Lorraine O’Grady / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Catherine Morris, courtesy of the Brooklyn Musuem
Aruna D’Souza, photo credit Dana Hoey

Virtual | Exhibition Tour of 'Stayin' Alive' with Estrellita Brodsky
2021-03-25 12:00 | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
Please join us for a virtual exhibition tour of the exhibition Stayin’ Alive at ANOTHER SPACE with art historian, collector, and philanthropist, Estrellita B. Brodsky. Taking its title from the Bee Gees disco hit, Stayin’ Alive explores artists’ responses to social and environmental crises, as well as the threat to the natural and indigenous environments.
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*All proceeds benefit ArtTable and support our mission of advancing the leadership of womxn in the visual arts. ANOTHER SPACE is not associated with the above fees.
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About the Speakers
Estrellita B. Brodsky, PhD, is a New York-based art historian, collector and philanthropist, as well as an advocate for art from Latin America. A founding member of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Latin American Art Initiative, the Latin American Acquisitions Committee at Tate, and founder of the Pompidou Foundation’s Latin American Acquisitions Committee, she has endowed curatorial positions in Latin American art at Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate, and MoMA. Additionally, in 2015 she founded ANOTHER SPACE, a program and not-for-profit exhibition gallery established by the Daniel and Estrellita B. Brodsky Foundation to broaden international awareness and appreciation of art from Latin America.
Brodsky holds a doctorate in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University as well as a Master’s Degree from Hunter College. She curated the first U.S. museum survey of Julio Le Parc at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM): Julio Le Parc: Form into Action, (2016-2017), which she subsequently organized in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Buenos Aires, Argentina; the first U.S. retrospective of the Venezuelan kinetic artist Carlos Cruz-Diez at the Americas Society in 2008; and Jesus Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950-1970 at Grey Art Gallery, New York University, in 2012.
Thank you to Julia P. Herzberg, Ph.D. for organizing this program.

Images:

Installation view of Stayin’ Alive
Estrellita Brodsky, courtesy of the speaker

Virtual | DC BreakfastTable with Alison McNeil
2021-04-09 08:30 - 09:30 | Zoom
8:30am ET| 7:30am CT
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for a presentation and conversation with Alison McNeil, Founder and Chief Creative Officer of McNeil Creative Enterprises.
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About Alison McNeil
Alison T. McNeil is a nationally recognized award-winning strategic thinker and creative entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in performing arts and education. She leads with the intention of creating resources, removing roadblocks and designing roadmaps to make arts and culture accessible to all. Alison’s work has addressed the blind spots that perpetuate the disparities in funding, hiring, and operational practices with and for Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) arts administrators. Alison’s work is rooted in arts advocacy and is at the intersection between philanthropy, strategy and justice. She has led multi-million-dollar change efforts, therefore directly informing policy, grant-making, and strategic partnerships.
Her efforts have fortified leadership and secured grants, and as a result expanded equity and access for women, emerging leaders and communities of color. Every effort she’s contributed to is in service to the communities noted above including launching McNeil Creative Enterprises and co-founding Third Eye Cultural Collaborative, Women of Color in the Arts (WOCA), and the Maynor Biggers Artist Fund.
Alison’s talent has resulted in accolades both inside and outside of the arts and culture sector. She has served as a thought leader on numerous grant panels, boards, conference panels, and advisory committees including the National Endowment for the Arts, Americans for the Arts, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, as well as the Heinz Endowments, Association of Performing Arts Professionals, Step Afrika!, FRESHH Inc. Theatre Company, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Arts Council of Fairfax County, Alexandria Commission for the Arts and Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy. If you really want to get Alison to smile, ask her about her nephew or her favorite Stevie Wonder song.
About McNeil Creative Enterprises
McNeil Creative Enterprises (MCE) is an organizational development firm committed to improving company culture, reinvigorating program operations, igniting growth and facilitating change in the arts and culture sector. MCE provides tactical solutions that help their clients strategically position themselves to achieve their goals. MCE removes the roadblocks and creates roadmaps. This contributes to healthy work environments, increased access to funding and opportunity, and holistic programming.
Thank you to Alissa Maru, ArtTable Washington, D.C. Chapter, for organizing this program.

Image: Alison McNeil
