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Virtual | Coffee Break with Ruri Yampolsky, Seattle Waterfront Program Arts Manager
2021-05-28 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
2pm ET | 1pm CT | 11am PT
Grab a cup of coffee and join us for an informal chat and virtual presentation about the Seattle Waterfront Arts Program! This presentation will highlight the ongoing installation taking place along the Seattle Waterfront that includes the work of female-identifying artists who have indigenous backgrounds. Ruri Yampolsky will speak about this public art program, sharing with ArtTable Northwest’s audience and anyone else who is interested. After the presentation there will be time set aside for questions and also for networking in smaller groups.
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About Ruri Yampolsky
Ruri Yampolsky is the Waterfront Program Arts Manager for the city of Seattle’s Office of the Waterfront and Civic Projects, working to ensure that arts and culture are fully integrated into one of the largest civic transformations Seattle has undertaken. With 30 years’ experience in the public art field, including managing Seattle’s public art program and numerous art projects, she has worked to expand collective experience by advocating for a variety of artistic expressions in artworks that shape urban space, engage community, encourage civic dialog and bring new voices into the field.

Ruri served on the Public Art Network Council for Americans for the Arts, finishing out as vice-chair, and focusing on diversity, equity and inclusion in public art practice, policies and procedures. Most recently, she collaborated with national colleagues on a document addressing issues of problematic monuments and memorials. She is a registered architect with a Master of Architecture from Columbia University, and earned her Bachelor of Arts in architecture with a minor in Latin from Barnard College.

Thank you to Ruri Yampolsky, Waterfront Program Arts Manager, and ArtTable’s Northwest Chapter for organizing this program.

Images:

Image courtesy of Waterfront Program

Virtual | Reimagining Public Monuments: Old Stories & New Narratives
2021-06-02 18:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
6pm ET | 5pm CT | 4pm PT
We are delighted to present Monuments & Memorials: Then & Now, a three part series about the history, context and creation of public monuments and memorials.
This first panel will introduce milestones and controversies of past memorials and monuments. We will hear from Professor Harriet F. Senie, Professor of Art History at C.U.N.Y. and its Graduate Center, who will offer her perspective on The Evolution of Monuments: Paradigms and Underlying Issues based on her 30 years of experience teaching, writing and participating on national selection commissions in the field of public art. She is joined by artist Alison Saar, who will reflect on her much admired permanent 2007 Harriet Tubman Monument in Harlem, a case study, in New York City where there are few monuments to women or non-white males. We will also hear from artist Marisa Williamson, who is known for reimagining under-represented historical subjects by bringing these figures to life through performance art and augmented reality (AR). She will speak about her practice using new narratives and new media for contemporary audiences. Cathie Behrend, ArtTable New York member who co-organized this series, will introduce the program and panelists.
The second panel in this series will be announced in the coming weeks and will focus on Reimagining Public Monuments & Memorials: Through Other Lenses. What have we seen? Whose stories will we now tell? Who will decide? Who will provide funding? What visions do artists now imagine for the future? A third panel in September will wrap up the series with a focus on the Preservation of Public Monuments & Sacred Spaces at Home & Abroad. We hope you will join us for all three!
We also look forward to sharing more information on an upcoming walking tour of Harlem with Cathie Behrend that will highlight monuments and memorials in the neighborhood, including Alison Saar’s “Swing Low: Harriet Tubman Memorial” and the Frederick Douglass Sculpture and Water Wall. Stay tuned for more details!
Admission

Non-Members – $15
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About Professor Harriet F. Senie
Harriet F. Senie is professor of art history at City College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Memorials to Shattered Myths: Vietnam to 9/11; The “Tilted Arc” Controversy: Dangerous Precedent?; and Contemporary Public Sculpture: Tradition, Transformation, and Controversy. She is co-editor and contributor to Teachable Monuments: Using Public Art to Spark Dialogue and Confront Controversy; Museums and Public Art?; A Companion to Public Art; and Critical Issues in Public Art. In 2008, she cofounded Public Art Dialogue, an international organization and College Art Association affiliate, and coedited its peer review journal Public Art Dialogue from 2011-17. She has served on the New York City Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers; the She Built New York advisory committee, and selection committees for the Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument in Central Park; the Mexico City 1968 Memorial; and the Flight 587 Memorial. Her current book project is Monumental Controversies: Mount Rushmore, Four Presidents, and the Quest for National Identity.
About Alison Saar
Alison Saar was born in Los Angeles, California. She has been commissioned to create a number of Public Monuments including Swing Low a monument to Harriet Tubman, Terra Incognita a memorial to York of the Lewis and Clark expedition and Embodied a monument to Justice. She received the United States Artist Fellowship in 2012 and has also been awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and two National Endowment Fellowships. Alison has exhibited at many galleries and museums, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her art is represented in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Baltimore Art Museum, the Modern Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
About Marisa Williamson
Marisa Williamson is a project-based artist who has produced site-specific works at Monticello, & by commission from Storm King Art Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Monument Lab, & the National Park Service. She has had solo exhibitions at the University of Virginia, the University of Washington, & SPACES in Cleveland. Her work has been exhibited nationally & internationally. Williamson has received grants from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, & the Graham Foundation. Williamson holds a BA from Harvard & an MFA from CalArts. She lives & works in New Jersey & Connecticut, serving as an assistant professor of media arts at the University of Hartford.

Thank you to Cathie Behrend, former Deputy Director of New York’s Percent for Art Program and founder of VenturesinVision, and Lori Shepard, member of ArtTable’s New York Chapter Programs Committee, for organizing this program series.

Images:

Marisa Williamson, Ruffin Hall: University of Virginia – Seeing that nothing is purely black or white, the Ghost of Thomas Jefferson wanders in this grey area. Charlottesville, VA. From Postcard Book: The Ghost of Thomas Jefferson, 2018. Edition of 150. Photo by Gabby Fuller. Courtesy of the Artist. | Swing Low: A Harriet Tubman memorial by Alison Saar (Photo: Devin A. Hill for TravelMag)
Harriet F. Senie, courtesy of the speaker
Alison Saar Self Portrait, courtesy of the artist
Marisa Williamson, courtesy of the artist

Partner Program | The Convening: Women in Art
2021-06-07 12:00 - 2021-06-12 13:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
June 7-12, 2021
The Convening is a week-long virtual leadership conference founded by Sheri Pasquerella of SLP The Class + SLP Women’s Group, and Lauren Jackson Harris & Daricia Mia DeMarr of Black Women in Visual Art. Presented in collaboration with ArtTable and inaugurating in June 2021, the gathering will provide tools, education, and mentorship for women of all ages working in the visual arts ecosystem. We will unite more than 300 female visionaries from across the country and convene around the question: How can we lead real change in 2021?
For 5 Days, The Convening will present daily programming on a rotating schedule designed to encourage equity and growth in the arts, including Morning Meditations, Afternoon Workshops, and Evening Panel Discussions. All these programs are leading up to The Great Convening on Friday and Saturday. During these gatherings, 10 inspiring women will lead small groups & mentor-based sessions of 10-15 people to brainstorm and consider the question: How can we lead real change? Each circle is tasked with coming up with 1-2 actions that they can commit to. The group will nominate a ‘presenter’ to share the ideas & actions during Saturday’s The Great Convening.
Admission

Students – $50 (limited amount available)
Monday – Thursday (Workshops & Panels only) – $125
Full Week – The Great Convening Combo Ticket – $250

Visit The Convening website to read more about the event, the speakers and panelists, view the full schedule, and purchase your ticket today!

Virtual | NoCal Film Night - "Everybody Knows...Elizabeth Murray"
2021-06-09 20:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
8:30pm ET | 7:30pm CT | 5:30pm PT
Join ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter for a virtual film night to view and discuss Everybody Knows…Elizabeth Murray — The Life of a Great Contemporary Painter. You can also view the film in advance and join us for the discussion afterwards. We are delighted that after the viewing, we will be joined Daisy Murray Holman, daughter of the late artist. We look forward to a moving documentary and discussion of an inspiring artist.
This program is free for ArtTable Members only. Not a member? Join today!
How to take part:

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How to view the film in advance:
Members can watch the film at their leisure through their own public library Kanopy accounts.
Kanopy – San Francisco Public Library
Kanopy – Berkeley Public Library – California
PBS (only available to KQED Passport Members)
About Daisy Murray Holman
Daisy Murray Holman is Head of Archives for the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation and manages the estate of her mother, Elizabeth Murray.

Thank you to Jan Wurm for organizing this program.

Image: Elizabeth Murray, Everybody Knows, 2007, oil on canvas, 87″ x 93″ © 2019 The Murray-Holman Family Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Virtual | Global Perspectives - Art & Culture in Mali with Massira Toure
2021-06-10 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
2pm ET | 1pm CT | 11am PT
Join us for a discussion with Massira Toure, the founder and director of a digital art gallery, Agansi.com, which combines art and technology to enhance visibility for visual artists from Africa and allow them to sell their work worldwide. Through this platform, Massira organizes virtual exhibitions, sales, and rentals of works of art. An artist herself, Massira also organizes in-person exhibitions in Mali. She will speak with ArtTable member Janet Goldner about her gallery, her art, and the Malian cultural scene.
Admission

Non-Members – $10
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Members may bring an additional guest for $5

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About Massira Toure
Massira has a masters from the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers de Bamako. Her painting practice centers around traditional Malian cloth. She has exhibited her works in group and individual exhibitions in Mali, Tunisia, Benin, the USA and France. She is also a committed educator, teaching drawing and painting at the Conservatoire.
About Janet Goldner
Janet is an independent researcher, scholar, consultant and artist. She has a lifelong relationship with Africa. She received a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship to Mali in 1995. Since then, she has spent several months every year in Mali engaged cultural research and projects concerning cultural preservation, contemporary art, and artists in Mali. Her research takes the form of immersive fieldwork, and she often collaborates with Malian artists. She has received three Fulbright Specialist grants and grants from the Ford Foundation and the UN Special Committee Against Apartheid. She has lectured widely. Published articles include a chapter in Contemporary African Fashion, Indiana University Press, an essay in Poetics of Cloth, Grey Art Gallery, NYU.

Thank you to Janet Goldner from ArtTable’s New York Chapter Programming Committee for organizing this program.

Images:

Massira Toure, courtesy of the speaker
Janet Goldner, courtesy of the speaker

New York | Tour of 'RE:GROWTH, A Celebration of Art, Riverside Park, & the New York Spirit'
2021-06-11 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Riverside Park, Riverside Blvd, New York, 10069
Please join us for an in-person tour of ‘RE:GROWTH, A Celebration of Art, Riverside Park, and the New York Spirit‘ on view at Riverside Park in New York City. The tour will be led by Independent Curator Karin Bravin. We will also be joined by artists Blanka Amezkua, Dahlia Elsayed, and Jean Shin, who will speak about the pieces they have on view in the show.
This program is open to ArtTable members only. The program fee is $15. The exact meeting spot will be circulated prior to the program. During the tour we will walk for approximately 10-12 blocks, so please prepare accordingly!
All attendees are invited to stick around after this program to meet the New York-based 2021 ArtTable Fellows! More details on this to come.
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Registration for this program is limited to 20 attendees. Waitlisted registrants will be notified if space becomes available.

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About Karin Bravin

Karin Bravin is a curator with a strong focus on site-specific, public and installation art projects. In 2006 she curated and produced Studio in The Park, a three month exhibition of eleven art installations in Riverside Park. The projects were sited in unexpected places: under tunnels, on baseball backstops, in the Hudson River, and along the meandering paths. In 2009 she became consultant for the Downtown Alliance, where she selected and oversaw several art projects on construction barriers in lower Manhattan. Among some of her other projects, she curated 19 site -specific works at Lehman College and several installations for a gallery during Bushwick Open Studios. She is the curator and consultant for The Public Arts Commission of Lewes, Delaware and on the arts advisory committee for The Stirner Arts Trail in Easton Pennsylvania.
Since 1991, Karin Bravin and her husband, John Post Lee, have owned and operated BravinLee programs, a contemporary art gallery in New York. They focus their attention on their exhibition program, artist rug program, site-specific/public art program and an artist book program. They curate outside of the gallery, lecture, teach, participate in art fairs, and foster an active art advisory. Bravin received her BA in art history from Dartmouth College.
About Blanka Amezkua
Blanka Amezkua is formally trained as a painter; she attended the Accademia di belle Arti in Florence, Italy and received her B.A. from California State University Fresno. Her work and projects have been shown in the United States, Mexico, Belgium and Greece. In cultural establishments such as: MoMA-P.S.1, Exit Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, El Museo del Barrio, Queens Museum of Art, Towson University, Dorsky Gallery, The Taller Boricua, The Block Gallery among others. You can read more about Blanka’s work and projects on her website.
Mentions of Blanka’s work and projects are included in ARTnews, the New York Times, TimeOut, Daily News, Art21:blog, athinorama, Athens News, Queens Chronicle, International Museum of Women, WNYC, as well as other publications.
About Dahlia Elsayed
Dahlia Elsayed is an artist and writer who makes text and image based work that synthesizes an internal and external experience of place, connecting the ephemeral to the concrete. She writes short fictions for created landscapes that take the form of narrative paintings, print and installation. Her work has been exhibited at galleries and institutions throughout the United States and internationally, including the 12th Cairo Biennale, Robert Miller Gallery, BravinLee Programs, The New Jersey State Museum and Aljira Center for Contemporary Art. Her work is in the public collections of the Newark Museum, the Zimmerli Museum, Johnson & Johnson Corporation, the US Department of State, amongst others. Dahlia has received awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Edward Albee Foundation, Visual Studies Workshop, the MacDowell Colony, Women’s Studio Workshop, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the NJ State Council on the Arts. She received her MFA from Columbia University, and lives and works in New Jersey. Ms. Elsayed is Professor of Humanities at CUNY LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY. You can view more of her work on her website.
About Jean Shin
Born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in the United States, is nationally recognized for her monumental installations that transform everyday objects into elegant expressions of identity and community engagement. For each project, she amasses vast collections of a particular object—prescription pill bottles, sports trophies, sweaters—which are often sourced through donations from individuals in a participating community. These intimate objects then become the materials for her conceptually rich sculptures, videos, and site-specific installations. Distinguished by her meticulous, labor-intensive process, and her engagement of community, Shin’s arresting installations reflect individuals’ personal lives as well as collective issues that we face as a society.
Shin attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1999 and received a BFA and MS from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She is a tenured Adjunct Professor of Fine Art at Pratt Institute and a recipient of Pratt’s 2017 Alumni Achievement Award. She lives and works in Brooklyn and Hurley, NY. You can view her full bio and see more of her work on her website.

Images:

Digital rendering of Letha Wilson, ‘Double Arc Leaves and Lava (Hawaii California),’ courtesy of Karin Bravin.
Karin Bravin, courtesy of the speaker.
Blanka Amezkua, courtesy of Greece-Is. Photo by Nikos Kokkas
Dahlia Elsayed, courtesy of the artist.
Jean Shin, courtesy of the artist.

Virtual | Professional Empowerment: Repatriation of Cultural Heritage w/ Leila Amineddoleh
2021-06-16 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
Please join us for a discussion with Leila Amineddoleh, internationally recognized expert on art and cultural heritage crime and law and Founder of Amineddoleh & Associates, LLC on the topic of repatriation of cultural heritage.
For centuries, sought-after art objects and antiquities have been subject to high-profile ownership disputes. From the smuggling of religious artifacts out of the Holy Land to Hitler’s extensive looting of artistic property, cultural objects have been targeted by rapacious collectors and leaders. The British Museum’s ownership of the Parthenon Marbles is perhaps the best-known cultural heritage debate, yet legal battles are often not the focus of such intense public scrutiny. The presentation will examine antiquities disputes, including a discussion of the laws that regulate ownership of cultural heritage and the evolution of the art market.
ArtTable’s Professional Empowerment program series invites experts to share their professional experiences, knowledge and skills. Each session presents an opportunity to engage with and learn more about a topic, issue or skill that directly impacts the professional lives of our members. If you have a topic or idea for a Professional Empowerment program, email us at programs@arttable.org!
Admission

Non-Members – $15
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ArtTable Circle Members – Free
Members may bring an additional guest for $5

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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 Leila Amineddoleh
Leila A. Amineddoleh represents art collectors, museums, galleries, dealers, non-profit organizations, artists, estates, foundations and foreign governments. She has been involved in matters related to multi-million dollar contractual disputes, international cultural heritage law violations, the recovery of stolen art and antiquities, authentication disputes, art-backed loans, and the purchase and sale of hundreds of millions of dollars of art and collectibles. As a specialist in art authentication and title disputes, Leila advises clients on the acquisition and sale of fine art and cultural heritage.
Leila began her career as an intellectual property law litigator. She continues to work with artists and entrepreneurs to develop their intellectual property portfolios and protect their works and artistic rights.
Leila has lectured at esteemed institutions, including the Frick Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She has appeared in major news outlets, including the NY Times, ABC News, LA Times, Forbes, The Guardian, TIME Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. She has been published in legal journals and has had scholarly contributions published in books, including Nazi Law: From Nuremberg to Nuremberg and The Provenance Research Handbook.
Leila teaches International Art & Cultural Heritage Law at Fordham University School of Law, in addition to Art Crime and the Law at New York University.

Images:

Part of the Elgin Marbles, were originally part of the Parthenon in Athens. Photo: by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images. via artnet news.
Leila Amineddoleh, courtesy of the speaker

Virtual | Artist Talk with Shahzia Sikander
2021-06-22 12:00 (America/New_York) | 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 Shahzia Sikander.
Shahzia will talk about individual works she created from 1988 to 2003, elaborating on the evolution of her unique visual lexicon as she negotiated a language between the pictorial traditions of Central and South Asia and contemporary practices, through the lens of her experience from Pakistan to the US as an immigrant pre and post 9/11 and how that period’s shifting socio-political culture shaped her broader practice.
Admission

Non-Members – $10
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Members may bring an additional guest for $5

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About Shahzia Sikander
Pioneering Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander is one of the most influential artists working today. Sikander is widely celebrated for expanding and subverting pre-modern and classical Central and South-Asian miniature painting traditions and launching the form known today as neo-miniature. By bringing traditional and historical practice into dialogue with contemporary international art practices, Sikander’s multivalent and investigative work examines colonial archives to readdress orientalist narratives in western art history. Interrogating ideas of language, trade, empire, and migration through imperial and feminist perspectives Sikander’s paintings, video animations, mosaics and sculpture explore gender roles and sexuality, cultural identity, racial narratives, and colonial and postcolonial histories.
Sikander earned a B.F.A. in 1991 from the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan. Her seminal thesis work, The Scroll (1989–1990) which initiated the start of the neo-miniature movement, garnered awards, exhibitions and press, as well as led to increased enrollment in the NCA’s miniature painting department. Subsequently, Sikander was appointed as a lecturer in miniature painting at the school. The artist then moved to the United States to pursue an M.F.A. at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1993 to 1995; from 1995 to 1997, she participated in the Glassell School of Art’s CORE Program at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (2006) and the State Department Medal of Arts (2012), Sikander’s innovative work has been exhibited and collected internationally.
Shahzia Sikander will be the subject of a traveling exhibition titled Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities. The exhibition will open at The Morgan Library in New York in June 2021, followed by the RISD Museum in Providence, Rhode Island in November 2021, and then the MFA Houston in Texas in Spring 2022. On the occasion of these exhibitions, there will be a major new monograph printed. Extraordinary Realities is an exhaustive examination of Sikander’s work from 1987 to 2003, charting her early development as an artist in Lahore and the United States, and foregrounding her critical role in bringing miniature painting into dialogue with contemporary art. Edited by Jan Howard and Sadia Abbas, with contributions by Gayatri Gopinath, Faisal Devji, Kishwar Rizvi, Sadia Abbas, Jan Howard, Vasif Kortun, Dennis Congdon, Bashir Ahmed, Rick Lowe, and Julie Mehretu.

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 Julia P. Herzberg, Ph.D., member of ArtTable’s New York Chapter Programming Committee, for organizing this program.

Images:

“Cholee Kay Peechay Kiya? Chunree Kay Neechay Kiya? (What Is under the Blouse? What Is under the Dress?)”, 1997; Vegetable Color, dry pigment, watercolor and tea on wasli paper; Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
“Hood’s Red Rider No. 2”, 1997; Vegetable Color, dry pigment, watercolor, gold and tea on wasli paper; Collection of Susan and Lew Manilow

Virtual | Luise Kaish and Women Artists in America, with Gail Levin
2021-06-24 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
Please join us for a discussion with Gail Levin, Distinguished Professor of Art History, American Studies, and Women’s Studies at the City University of New York. Levin is Judy Chicago’s and Lee Krasner’s biographer, and an acknowledged authority on Edward Hopper, having written his catalogue raisonné, his biography, and many other publications. She is the editor and author of Theresa Bernstein: A Century in Art; a co-editor of Ethics and the Visual Arts; as well as contributor to the recently published monograph Luise Kaish: An American Art Legacy. Levin will speak about the work of pioneering artist Luise Kaish, in the context of the history of women artists in America.
Luise Clayborn Kaish (1925–2013) was a pioneer. A key figure in the New York art scene of the late 20th century, her multidisciplinary practice and process-oriented work spanned a range of mediums, materials, techniques, and themes. The strength and breadth of her work—monumental sculptures in bronze, oil paintings, watercolours, lithographs, collage—and the prestigious awards and fellowships she received set her apart as an early female leader in the visual arts. Dedicated to absorbing world cultures through travel and research, Kaish studied a broad range of subjects from architecture, design, and engineering to spiritualism, metaphysics, and the cosmos. Through her wide-ranging practice, she explored the spaces and connections between material, natural, and spiritual worlds. The publication Luise Kaish: An American Art Legacy celebrates her immense talent, highly individual point of view, far- reaching influence, pursuit of the sublime, and passion for life.
Admission

Non-Members – $10
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This program is generously supported by the Kaish Family Art Project.

Images:

Luise Kaish at work on the Ark of Revelation, MacDougal Street Studio, New York, circa, 1962.

Virtual | Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
2021-06-28 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
2pm ET | 1pm CT | 11am PT
Join us for a discussion with Alexander Nemerov, author of Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York, and Sarah Kirk Hanley, an independent prints and editions expert and critic based in the New York area, who is currently writing an essay for the Dulwich Picture Gallery for their Fall exhibition of woodcuts by Helen Frankenthaler.
Dr. Nemerov’s biography of Frankenthaler encompasses her life and work beginning with her college years at Bennington, where Nemerov’s father was her English teacher, and Clement Greenberg, her first significant romantic partner, gave seminars in Art history and organized exhibitions. Nemerov concentrates his text on Frankenthaler of the 1950s which, Karen Wilkin’s review of the book writes,” she was notably strong and inventive, almost from the start at a time when artists were expected to spend years maturing before their work was considered to be worthy of attention.” Nemerov acknowledges her importance as an Ab-ex painter and also writes about Freudian sources of her lifetime romantic relationships. There is a great deal to unpack about this major abstract woman artist of the twentieth century.
Admission

Non-Members – $15
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About Alexander Nemerov
Alexander Nemerov is The Carl and Marilyn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities, as well as Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. He formerly taught Yale University where he was the Vincent J. Scully Professor of the History of Art. He has a Masters and Doctor of Philosophy in History of Art from Yale University and has published several books before the Frankenthaler. A scholar of American art, Nemerov writes about the presence of art, the recollection of the past and the importance of humanities in our lives today.

About Sarah Kirk Hanley
Sarah Kirk Hanley is an independent prints and editions expert and critic based in the New York area. Her critical writing focuses on prints by women artists, artists of color, as well as work grounded in socio-political themes. Her past experiences include Consultant for Auctionata and 1st Dibs (2009-19); Assistant Vice President , Christie’s Print Department (2006-2009); Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, Milwaukee Art Museum (2000-2005). She writes extensively for Art 21 Magazine and Art in Print.

Thank you to Susan L Halper, President , Susan L Halper Fine Art, Inc. for organizing this program.

Images:

Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York, courtesy of Penguin Random House
Alexander Nemerov, courtesy of Penguin Random House
Sarah Kirk Hanley, courtesy of the speaker

Virtual | Exhibition Tour - 'Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists & the Politics of Scale'
2021-07-01 16:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
4:30pm ET | 3:30pm CT | 1:30pm PT
Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale, on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, examines the approaches of women artists for whom space is a critical feature of their work, whether they take the space on a wall, the real estate of a room through sculpture and installation, engage seriality as a spatial visual practice, cast a wide legacy in art history or claim the space of their body. Curated by Jodi Throckmorton and Brittany Webb, this exhibition features more than sixty works of art from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts’ permanent collection. In this virtual exhibition tour, Dr. Brittany Webb will discuss the exhibition and the importance of women’s leadership in producing this exhibition.
This program is open to ArtTable members only.
Admission

ArtTable Members – $5
ArtTable Circle Members – Free
Members may bring an additional guest for $5

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About Brittany Webb
Brittany Webb is the inaugural Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth-Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection. In this role, Webb oversees the Museum’s collections, exhibitions, and programs of 20th century art and provides instruction for the School of Fine Arts at PAFA. Webb’s first exhibition at PAFA, Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale (November 2020-September 5, 2021) is co-curated with Jodi Throckmorton, Curator of Contemporary Art at PAFA. Webb is also organizing a major retrospective exhibition and catalogue of the work of the African American sculptor John Rhoden (1916-2001) and stewards a collection of nearly 300 sculptures by Rhoden, leading PAFA’s ongoing effort to place his artworks into the permanent collections of museums around the world.
Prior to joining PAFA, Webb was a member of the curatorial staff of the African American Museum in Philadelphia. Dr. Webb holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Temple University and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Southern California.
Thank you to ArtTable Philadelphia Chapter Co-Chairs Laurie McGahey and Rachel Zimmerman for organizing this program, and Dr. Brittany Webb and Christiana Cruz-Council from PAFA.

Images:

Deborah Willis, I Made Space For a Good Man, 2009, Lithograph, gift from the collection of Winston and Carolyn Lowe in honor of Brandywine founder, Allan L. EdmundsDeborah Willis/Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 2019.18.35
Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, January 21, 2021–September 5, 2021. Photo by Adrian Cubillas, courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.

Virtual | Asian American Perspectives at the Whitney Museum, with Xin Wang
2021-07-07 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
Please join us and Xin Wang, art historian and John Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art, for a presentation on Asian American Perspectives, drawing on contemporary artists works from the Whitney Museum’s collection.
Admission

ArtTable Circle Members – Free
All other membership levels – $12
Non-members – $15

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About Xin Wang
Xin Wang is the John Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. She is an art historian and curator whose past curatorial projects include Ink Art: Past and Present in Contemporary China, Metropolitan Museum of Art (2013); Field Meeting of Asian Contemporary Art Week (2014, New York), Lu Yang’s solo debut in New York THE BANK SHOW: Vive le Capital and THE BANK SHOW: Hito Steyerl (2015), Art in China since the 1990s (2018, Ulm, Germany), to highlight a few projects. Her writing has appeared in E-flux journal, Artforum, Kaleidoscope, Hyperallergic and Leap.
Xin is currently pursuing her PhD in modern and contemporary art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and holds an MA in Art History from Columbia University and a BA in Art History, Mathematics, and Psychology from Hamilton College. She is currently planning an exhibition that explores Asian Futurisms for The Museum of Chinese in America in New York City and manages the discursive archive on Asian Futurisms at afuturism.tumblr.com.

Images:

Sarah Sze, (not yet titled), 2000, Chromogenic print mounted on aluminum; courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Arthur and Susan Fleischer, © Sarah Sze

Virtual | Artist Talk with Charlotte Caspers
2021-07-15 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
2pm ET | 1pm CT | 11am PT
ArtTable’s Artist Talk series is made possible by the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Originally formatted as in-person Artist Breakfasts, ArtTable has moved most programming into the virtual realm during the pandemic. Please join us for a virtual Artist Talk with Charlotte Caspers.
Admission

Non-Members – $10
ArtTable Members – $5
ArtTable Circle Members – Free
Members may bring an additional guest for $5

How to take part:

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About Charlotte Caspers
Charlotte Caspers (Ghent, 1979) is an artist who makes use of historical painting techniques and materials in a contemporary way. Central to her work is the subtle communication of materials, of human beings as makers, with nature as the basis of everything. She connects these themes with her specific form language and with her clearly recognisable aesthetics. Caspers studied Art History at Radboud University in Nijmegen and took the postgraduate course in painting restoration at Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg in Maastricht (SRAL). She specialized in historical painting materials and techniques and has made historical reconstructions for numerous museums and institutions, including the Van Gogh Museum, the Rijksmuseum, Tate Britain, Princeton and Duke University, and Dutch television. For ten years, Caspers has been a guest lecturer in historical painting techniques at the Department of Conservation and Restoration at the University of Amsterdam.

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:

Colour composition maple tree, 2019. 93 x 72 cm. Oak panels, mineral pigments in distemper, graphite, & goldleaf. Image courtesy of the artist.
Charlotte Caspers, courtesy of the artist; Photo by Joris Hilterman

Partner Program | Author Talk - Art: Creating With Judy Chicago
2021-07-20 20:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
July 20, 2021 at 8pm
PBS Books presents this Author Talk with Judy Chicago about her book The Flowering: The Autobiography of Judy Chicago. Chicago will be in conversation with ArtTable’s Lila Harnett Executive Director, Jessica Porter!
This event will be a time for viewers to get to know America’s most dynamic living artist. Known for her extraordinary and genre-defying art, such as The Dinner Party, Birth Project, Holocaust Project, and more, Chicago is a trailblazing feminist and a champion of using art to express visions and challenge boundaries. PBS Books is honored to learn more about Chicago alongside viewers nationwide, as she explores her own personal journey to becoming a multi-talented American icon. This special event will showcase the stories behind her works and celebrate her lifelong aim: a more just and equitable world for all beings.
Click here to read more about the book and the artist.
The event will be live streamed on the PBS Books Facebook Page.

Images courtesy of the artist and PBS Books.

Virtual | Art in Public Spaces with Sonia Romero, Danielle Brazell, Felicia Filer, & Heidi Zeller
2021-07-21 13:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
10:30 am PT/12:30pm CT/ 1:30pm ET
On July 6, members of ArtTable’s Southern California chapter met for a walkthrough of Sonia Romero’s unique and powerful Metro Arts mural project in the historic Mariachi Plaza’s Gold Line Station in Boyle Heights. As a result of this successful event, we are following up with part two!
Join us for a virtual discussion on the current state of public art in Los Angeles and Romero’s public art projects — especially as we emerge from the pandemic with an increased awareness of the profound value of art in activated public spaces across all the city’s diverse communities.
Romero unpacks the community and history-centric content of the work, as well as offers insight as to how the project came into fruition over the course of more than five years. Additionally, we are honored to welcome to this conversation with the perspectives of LA Metro’s head of Cultural Programming Heidi Zeller, Director of the City of L.A.’s Public Art Division Felicia Filer, and the Department of Cultural Affairs General Manager Danielle Brazell.
Admission

Current ArtTable Members – $10
Members may bring a guest for an additional $5
Non Members – $15

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About the Speakers
Sonia Romero is a Los Angeles artist known for her paper-cut and printmaking aesthetics which she incorporates into both her fine art and public art commissions. Born in 1980, she grew up in an artistic household in Echo Park before formally studying at the Rhode Island School of Design. After returning to California, she began working as a public artist, and was the artist in residence at Avenue 50 Studio in Northeast Los Angeles from 2007-2014. (soniaromero)
Danielle Brazell is a visionary national arts and cultural leader, passionate about the roles that arts, culture, and creativity play in advancing civic belonging, equity, economic prosperity, and social connectedness. Her career spans thirty years, first as an artist, teaching artist, cultural producer, and administrator, and now as the General Manager of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA). A passionate advocate, she advances the agency’s mission to enhance the quality of life in the city. Ms. Brazell provides executive leadership to a staff of 84 full-time employees and over 200 part- time employees, including a robust roster of teaching artists. Ms. Brazell works with the progressive agency’s Community Arts, Grants Administration, Public Art, and Marketing, Development, Design, and Digital Research division directors, and the Performing Arts Program and General and Administrative Support Program directors, to implement an annual budget of $22 million and a robust $150 million portfolio of capital projects, facilities, programming, and initiatives of free and low-cost publicly accessible arts and cultural services citywide. Prior to 2014, Ms. Brazell was the Executive Director of Arts for LA, a highly visible arts advocacy organization serving the greater Los Angeles region. Under her stewardship, Arts for LA became a formidable coalition advancing the arts in the largest county in the country. Ms. Brazell was previously the Artistic Director of Highways Performance Art Space and the Director of Special Projects for the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. She serves as a board member of Americans for the Arts and DataArts.
Felicia Filer is the public art director for the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. She has overseen the commission and fulfillment of over 200 permanent public art projects throughout the city. In Summer 2016, Filer co-produced the city’s inaugural Public Art Biennial, CURRENT: LA Water. The Biennial commissioned 15 original, temporary public art installations and 150 public programs. A native of Los Angeles, she earned an MBA in finance and marketing from Claremont Graduate University. (linkedin)
Heidi Zeller is LA Metro’s Senior Manager of Cultural Programming. Zeller is an arts organizer and cultural planner with a focus on the role of art in enriching public space and civic dialogue. At LA Metro, she produces Metro Art Presents, a series of arts and cultural events at historic Union Station. She is a proud native Angeleno. (ciclavia)
Thank you to Shana Nys Dambrot & Ceci Moss, ArtTable SoCal Chapter Co-Chairs, for organizing this program.

Images:

Headshots of the speakers, clockwise from top left: Sonia Romero, Danielle Brazell, Felicia Filer, & Heidi Zeller

Virtual | Meet the 2021 ArtTable Fellows!
2021-07-22 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12:00pm ET
Join us for a discussion with the 2021 ArtTable Fellows! This year is especially exciting as ArtTable was able to award 16 fellowship positions to emerging professionals throughout the country, all thanks to generous donations from individuals and foundations. The fellows will discuss their projects and overall experience with the ArtTable Fellowship Program so far. This is a wonderful opportunity to meet our current fellowship cohort and learn more about the ArtTable Fellowship Program and the opportunities it provides to emerging professionals. We are pleased to celebrate over 20 years of this impactful program. Click here to read more about our Impact initiatives!
Registration for this program is open to anyone, with a suggested donation of $15.00 to continue to support the program. We hope to see you there!
How to take part:

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About the ArtTable Fellowship Program
Since the year 2000, ArtTable has conducted a Fellowship Program to address the marked lack of diversity in arts employment. The Fellowship provides quality experiences and mentorship to female-identifying graduate students and emerging professionals from backgrounds generally underrepresented in the field to aid their transition from academic to professional careers. Through one-on-one mentoring relationships at select museums and cultural institutions, fellows have the opportunity to work with established leaders and gain exposure to a range of professional activities.
The 2021 ArtTable Fellows

Sarah Ahmed | LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Los Angeles, CA
Nidhi Gandhi | Brooklyn Museum | Brooklyn, NY
Kendra Greendeer | Portland Art Museum | Portland, OR
Alison Guh | The Morgan Library & Museum | New York, NY
Molly Hatesohl | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum | New York, NY
Andrea Lewis | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Philadelphia, PA
Alejandra Lopez-Oliveros | Project for Empty Space | Newark, NJ
Frances Melgarejo | American Indian Artists Inc. (AMERINDA) | New York, NY
Larissa Nez | Montclair Art Museum | Montclair, NJ
Alitzah Oros | Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) | Los Angeles, CA
Juliana Ramirez Herrera | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | Houston, TX
Sarika Sanyal | Public Art Fund | New York, NY
Zoe Toledo | Materials & Applications (M&A) | Los Angeles, CA
Joy Tucker | Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center | Oklahoma City, OK
Dada Wang | Museum of Chinese in America | New York, NY
Ashleigh Yallaly | Museum of Arts and Design | New York, NY
Click here to read more about the ArtTable Fellowship Program, the 2021 Fellows, and the projects they are working on this summer.

To learn more about supporting this program, email director@arttable.org.
To learn more about participating in this program as a Host Organization or Fellow, email lroldan@arttable.org

National | ArtTable at The Armory Show
2021-09-11 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Javits Center, 429 11th Avenue, New York, 10001
Please join us for the annual ArtTable Brunch at The Armory Show! This is a great time for members and friends from across the country to come together and network at New York’s premiere art fair, now to take place annually in September at the Javits Center. We will be joined by The Armory Show’s Executive Director, Nicole Berry. Your ticket covers access to the fair, early private access to the VIP Lounge, and a light breakfast.

Please read before registering:
Covid-19 Guidelines:

Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed.
Please note that The Armory Show requires that all individuals wear a mask indoors, regardless of vaccination status. This will be strictly enforced.
In addition to masks, The Armory Show also requires that each attendee provide the following before entry to the fair:
(1) PROOF OF FULL VACCINATION STATUS IN PAPER FORM, DIGITAL APPLICATION, OR THE NEW YORK STATE EXCELSIOR PASS.
OR
(2) PROOF OF A NEGATIVE COVID-19 TEST RESULT (I.E., PCR/NAAT) TAKEN WITHIN 72 HOURS OF ENTERING THE JAVITS CENTER.
Please review The Armory Show’s full Health and Safety Plan before registering.

Accessibility:

The Javits Center has sidewalk ramps, automatic doors at all street levels, restrooms and elevators accessible for persons with mobility impairments. For more information regarding accessibility, please visit the Javits Center website.

Getting There:

The Armory Show is easily accessible by car, taxi, and public transportation. For detailed directions visit the Javits Center website.

About The Armory Show
In 1994, four New York art dealers had the ambitious goal of creating a new art fair to support their artists and attract global attention. They succeeded. The result was a groundbreaking cultural moment that has become vital to the New York art market and beyond. While much has changed over the years, our ingenuity and ambition have not. The Armory Show is a galvanizing force in the art world and essential to New York’s cultural landscape.
Now in September at the Javits Center, The Armory Show will kick-off New York’s fall arts season. We have always been a gateway to New York’s art scene, hosting the world’s best galleries and linking collectors and galleries with museums and institutions across the city. And our updated timing coupled with the proximity to Chelsea and the High Line will create increased access to the city’s vibrant culture.
At our core, The Armory Show is dedicated to ensuring galleries and New York’s art community continue to thrive. We pave the way for its success and strive to be a platform in which it is easier to buy, sell and discover art.
Click here to read more about the fair.

Virtual | Let's Connect! Fall National Networking Event
2021-09-13 17:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
5pm ET | 4pm CT | 2pm PT
We invite all ArtTable members to join us for our next virtual national networking event! Our first national networking event took place in May 2021 and allowed members from all over to share ideas and make new connections! We are thrilled to offer our members this opportunity to connect with each other nationwide. Participants will go into breakout rooms to chat, connect, see old friends and make new ones! This is a great opportunity for members from all over the country (and the world!) to form new connections and find ways to collaborate with one another.
This program is Free for all ArtTable members. Not a member? Join today!
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.
(You will receive an email confirmation containing the Zoom link.)
Can’t join us for this event? Don’t worry, there will be plenty more opportunities to connect with members in the future! In the meantime, we hope you can join us for another upcoming virtual program or support other ArtTable initiatives!

Virtual | Reading at the (Art)Table - 'The Free World: Art & Culture in the Cold War' - Louis Menand
2021-09-19 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
2pm ET | 1pm CT | 11am PT
Join Reading at the (Art)Table as we delve into ‘The Free World: Art and Culture in the Cold War” by Louis Menand, hosted by ArtTable’s Northern California chapter. This deep and detailed history shines a light on the art and culture of the period from WWII through the war in Vietnam.
This program is for ArtTable members only. Not a member? Join today!
How to take part:

Click here to Register for this program. Please note that registration for this program will close at 4pm ET/1pm PT on Friday, September 17.
You will receive a registration confirmation via email that contains the Zoom link. If you need to download the Zoom app, you may do so here.
For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

Thank you to Jan Wurm, ArtTable Northern California Chapter, for organizing this program.
Image: The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand

New York | ArtTable Circle Private Collection Visit with Lillian Heidenberg
2021-09-29 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Park Slope, Brooklyn, Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States
Join fellow ArtTable Circle members for a special Collection Visit to the home of Brooklyn-based art dealer Lillian Heidenberg.
Priority registration is available to ArtTable Circle members until August 24, 2021. Registration will open to Executive level members on August 25, 2021, and to all other members on September 14, 2021. Space is limited. Light refreshments will be served.
To learn more about the ArtTable Circle membership level, please visit the Membership page on our website or email membership@arttable.org.

Please read before registering:
Covid-19 Guidelines:

Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed.
Proof of Covid-19 vaccination is required in order to attend this program. You will be asked to submit this information safely and securely after you register. If proof of vaccination is not submitted at least 2 weeks in advance of the program, you will not be permitted to attend.

Accessibility:

Please note that the residence is not wheelchair accessible, as there are some stairs leading up to the main entrance. There is an elevator inside to travel between the different floors.

Getting There:

This program will take place in the neighborhood of Park Slope in Brooklyn, New York. The closest subway stops are Grand Army Plaza along the 2, 3, or 4 lines and 7th Avenue along the B or Q lines. The actual address will be shared with registrants in advance of the event.

ArtTable is a 501.c.3 organization. All programs are non-refundable.

About Lillian Heidenberg
Lillian Heidenberg is both a collector and an internationally renown art dealer. She has been specializing in modern and contemporary masters for many years. Today she also includes several contemporary cutting edge artists in her collection including Ebony Patterson and Summer Wheat. She also has a special interest in British sculpture and has represented the works of Henry Moore and Lynn Chadwick and is an expert on their art. Her collection includes Louise Bourgeois, Fernando Botero, John Wesley, Helen Frankenthaler, Alex Katz among many others. Lillian also has a strong interest in Chinese contemporary art.
Now located in a historic brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn her collection includes both new and more historic elements.
Lillian has advised many important private collectors, museums, and institutions around the world. As a member of the prestigious Art Dealers Association of America, she has exhibited at art fairs internationally. She has also donated works to many museums.
Education: Barnard College, cum laude Bachelors of Art; New York University Institute of Fine Arts, Masters Degree in Fine Art; Attended Ecole du Louvre, speaks French fluently
Board Affliations: Tel Aiv Museum of Art, Israel (also co-chaired several galas for American friends of Tel Aviv Museum); Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
Select Charitable Organizations and Art Donations: Jewish Federation of North America; Lions of Judah member; Lions of Judah Endowment; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada; Yale University Center for British Art; Brandeis University of Art Museum; Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida; Norton Museum of Art, Florida; Perez Art Museum Miami, Florida; Meijer Garden and Museum of Art, Grand Rapids Michigan; New Museum, New York; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts; American Friends of the Uffizi; Israel Museum; and others.

Images:

A peek at Lillian Heidenberg’s collection: Flanking the fireplace are Jim Dine’s Glow of July, 1992, oil, enamel and charcoal on canvas, and Eric Fischl’s Woman in Water, 1980, oil on canvas. A Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) clay horse sits on the 1940s art deco dining table and three ceramic pieces by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) are on the mantle. On the Aldo Tura circa 1940s sideboard are, from left, Mao Culture collars, 20th century, and 19th-century Chinese ceremonial necklaces.

Virtual | Annual Leadership Series - The Precarious Position of Women in Leadership
2021-10-13 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
1pm PT / 2pm MT / 3pm CT / 4pm ET
Women-identifying leaders in the arts are stepping down or being fired in larger proportions to their male counterparts. The issue was further exacerbated in the year 2020 when women, either by choice or circumstance, continued to leave the workforce in greater numbers than men. However, as the world began to reopen, more and more women came into leadership positions at large-scale arts organizations and institutions. In 2020, CultureType listed 54 Arts Leaders Who Took on New Appointments in 2020, 43 of whom are women. This past year, of approximately 75 new appointments to various leadership positions in the art world, 62 of them have been women, as noted by CultureType and ARTnews.
Despite the growing visibility of women in the art world, issues still plague the industry, such as the ongoing gender pay gap (as of now, women continue to earn approximately 73 cents for every dollar that men earn; the number is even lower for women of color, ranging from 55 to 62 cents for Latina, Native American, and Black women.), disparities in gender representation depending on operating budget (the majority of museums with budgets less than $15 million are run by a female rather than a male director; the reverse is true for museums with budgets of over $15 million, where female representation decreases as budget size increases), and the glass cliff phenomenon (the idea of women being placed in leadership positions during periods of crisis or downturn, when the chance of failure is highest, but under the pretense of providing an exciting professional opportunity).
For this year’s Annual Leadership Series, we want to acknowledge and celebrate the incredible strides that women have made as leaders in the art world, but we also want to look to the future and ask ourselves, what still needs to be done, and how can we ensure women always have a seat at the table?
Please join us for what is sure to be an enlightening and thought-provoking discussion with women-identifying leaders in the art world with various perspectives on the issues. We will address questions including:

What do these phenomena mean for women in the workforce, and particularly in the art world, both women leaving the workforce in greater numbers and the incredible amount of women being promoted to leadership positions?
How do we advocate for women leaders from racially, ethnically, and socio-economically diverse backgrounds and reach greater gender parity in leadership roles?
The glass cliff is the phenomenon of women in leadership roles, such as executives in the corporate world and female political election candidates, being likelier than men to achieve leadership roles during periods of crisis or downturn, when the chance of failure is highest. Is this a phenomenon that we may have recently witnessed, with all of the significant appointments of woman-identifying leaders in the art world? Or are we finally, truly on the path to equality? Do women continue to be more vulnerable to career displacement than men?
What lessons have we learned, and how can we ensure lasting change?

The panel will be moderated by Stephanie A. Stebich, Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. Additional speakers include:

Min Jung Kim, Director, Saint Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
Dorothy Kosinski, Vradenburg Director and CEO of The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
Mia Locks, Independent Curator and Culture Worker, Los Angeles, CA
Danyelle Means, Executive Director, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Brittany Webb, Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of 20th-Century Art & the John Rhoden Collection, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA

Please join us after the discussion for 10-15 minutes of virtual networking in Zoom Breakout Rooms. ArtTable programs are a time for members and non-members to connect with old friends and meet new people, both in-person and virtually. We hope you will stick around afterwards to discuss important themes from the conversation and talk about new ideas and insights.
Admission

ArtTable Members – $10 (ArtTable members may bring a guest for an additional $15)
Non-Members – $25

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Accessibility: Automatic closed captioning will be available for this program. Please email programs@arttable.org if you require additional accommodations.

About the Speakers
Stephanie A. Stebich (pronounced STEE-BISH) is responsible for the nation’s premier collection of American art and major exhibition, research, publication, education and digital-media programs at the museum and its Renwick Gallery. She was named director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in January 2017. Stebich also serves as co-chair of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative.
Before coming to Washington, D.C., Stebich had been executive director of the Tacoma Art Museum since 2005. Under her leadership, the museum underwent a major renovation that doubled its exhibition space; launched a capital campaign with a goal of $17 million and raised more than $37 million; and added endowed curator, educator and fellow positions. She oversaw the development and implementation of the museum’s strategic plan, as well as a 10-year collecting strategy. At Tacoma, Stebich championed the presentation of many groundbreaking exhibitions and secured major collection gifts, including the Haub Family Collection of Western American Art, and the Rebecca and Jack Benaroya Collection of American studio glass.
Stebich was assistant director of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts from 2001 to 2004 and assistant director at the Cleveland Museum of Art from 1995 to 2001. She was previously a trustee of the Association of Art Museum Directors and the American Alliance of Museums.
Stebich earned a bachelor’s degree in art history from Columbia University and a master’s degree with a concentration in modern art from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She has a certificate in nonprofit management from Case Western Reserve University and is a graduate of the Getty Leadership Institute in Los Angeles. She was a fellow at the Guggenheim Museum and has studied at the University College London. She is fluent in German.
Min Jung Kim was named the Barbara B. Taylor Director of the Saint Louis Art Museum in 2021. She brings to St. Louis extensive experience in museum leadership roles. As the director and chief executive officer of the New Britain Museum of American Art, she enhanced the museum’s profile through exhibitions and collection development designed to expand the definition of American Art and reflect greater diversity while strengthening community engagement and collaborative partnerships. As deputy director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, she was in charge of implementing the completion of the Zaha Hadid-designed Broad MSU. As director of content alliances at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, she managed collaborative projects among the Guggenheim; the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia; and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Min Jung Kim was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea. She graduated from Wheaton College and holds a master’s degree in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London.
Dr. Dorothy Kosinski has been the Vradenburg Director & CEO of The Phillips Collection since April 2008. Previously, Dr. Kosinski was Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Dallas Museum of Art. She was also the museum’s Barbara Thomas Lemmon Curator of European Art. Over the course of 30 years in museum work, Kosinski has earned a reputation internationally as an accomplished curator and scholar of 19th and 20th century art. For over 12 years, Dr. Kosinski was based in Basel, Switzerland, where she was a curator, scholar, and university instructor, including curator and administrator of the Douglas Cooper Collection. In August 2013, Dr. Kosinski was appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Council on the Humanities. She currently serves on the Board of the Sherman Fairchild Foundation and The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation. Dr. Kosinski received a BA from Yale University and an MA and PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.

Mia Locks is an independent curator and culture worker based in Los Angeles. She was previously a curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles as well as MoMA PS1 and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. She was a 2018 fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership and currently co-leads Museums Moving Forward, a data-driven initiative focused on accountability in the museum field.

Danyelle Means is the newly appointed Executive Director of the Center for Contemporary Arts (CCA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She will continue her successful philanthropic and non-profit leadership by advancing CCA’s mission to celebrate creativity across the arts, humanities, and sciences by generating transformative experiences designed to ignite minds and connect people. Means has served as the Director of Advancement at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) and the Executive Director of the IAIA Foundation. During her tenure at IAIA, like many in the philanthropic sector, Means and her staff shifted all efforts online during the pandemic, bringing IAIA one of the most successful fundraising years ever.

Dr. Brittany Webb is the Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). She is currently working on a retrospective exhibition on 20th century African-American sculptor John Rhoden (1916-2001) that includes an initiative to gift more than 250 sculptures by Rhoden to museums around the country. Dr. Webb came to PAFA from the African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP). She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Temple University and a BA in Political Science from the University of Southern California (USC).

Images:

Stephanie A. Stebich, The Margaret and Terry Stent Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum; Photo credit: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Min Jung Kim, Photo by Tim Parker
Dorothy Kosinski, Photo by Daniel Schwartz
Mia Locks © 2016 Scott Rudd; www.scottruddevents.com; scott.rudd@gmail.com
Danyelle Means
Brittany Webb

Virtual | Marcela Guerrero & Daisy Nam on Donna Huanca's exhibition at Ballroom Marfa
2021-10-27 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
9am PT / 10am MT / 11am CT / 12pm ET
Please join Marcela Guerrero, Jennifer Rubio Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Daisy Nam, Curator at Ballroom Marfa, for a discussion on Donna Huanca’s exhibition ESPEJO QUEMADA, on view at Ballroom Marfa through January 22, 2022. The two will also discuss Guerrero’s work on influential recent exhibitions of contemporary art from Latin America, including the exhibitions Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 at the Hammer Museum.
Donna Huanca presents a series of new works commissioned by Ballroom Marfa in her exhibition ESPEJO QUEMADA. Huanca creates experiential installations that incorporate paintings, sculptures, video, scent and sound. The profound experiences and memories of Huanca’s first visit to Marfa in 2005 inspired the work in the exhibition. The artworks draw on visual, cultural, and mythological cues informed by feminism, decolonialism and the artist’s personal and familial histories, while simultaneously engaging with the biodiversity, geology, and dark skies of Far West Texas. The sky was particularly striking for Huanca–animated with cosmic and extraterrestrial forces while also revealing the natural rhythms of the sun and moon.
ESPEJO QUEMADA, Huanca’s first exhibition since the pandemic, uses mirrors as formal and metaphorical devices to respond to changing conditions. The title, which translates to “burnt mirror” in English and is purposefully feminized in Spanish, alludes to Huanca’s feminist praxis. “Espejo Quemada” suggests reflections of the current moment, portals to the past and future, and catalysts for combustion and change. Click here to read more about the exhibition!
Admission

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About the Speakers
Marcela Guerrero is the Jennifer Rubio Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Recently, she was part of the curatorial team that organized Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945. In summer 2018, Guerrero curated the exhibition Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art. From 2014 to 2017 she worked as Curatorial Fellow at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, where she was involved in the much-lauded exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985, organized as part of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative and guest-curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Andrea Giunta. Prior to her position at the Hammer, she worked in the Latin American and Latino Art Curatorial department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) where she served as Research Coordinator for the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA). Guerrero’s writing has appeared in a variety of publications and has contributed articles to numerous exhibition catalogues. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Guerrero received her BA from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, and holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Daisy Nam is the curator at Ballroom Marfa, a contemporary art space located at the borderlands of Far West Texas. She recently co-edited a publication, Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts with Paper Monument. Previously from 2015–19, she was the assistant director at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University where she organized exhibitions, publications, and public programs working closely with artists to engage with the campus community and public at large. Prior, she curated and produced seven seasons of talks, screenings, performances, and workshops from 2008–2015 as the assistant director of public programs at the School of the Arts, Columbia University. Curatorial residencies and fellowships include: Marcia Tucker Senior Research Fellow at the New Museum, New York (2020); Bellas Artes, Bataan, Philippines (2020); Surf Point in York, Maine (2019); Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Korea (2018). She holds a master’s degree in Curatorial and Critical Studies from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in Art History and Cinema Studies from New York University. She has taught at RISD, and lectured at Lesley University, Northeastern, SMFA/Tufts, SVA as a visiting critic.

About Ballroom Marfa
Ballroom Marfa is an internationally recognized non-collecting contemporary art museum located in Marfa, a rural town of less than 2,000 people in Far West Texas. Established in 2003 by Virginia Lebermann and Fairfax Dorn, the contemporary art and performance space is housed in a 1920s-era ballroom and is free and open to the public. With generous support from individuals and foundations, Ballroom commissions new site-specific and site-inspired projects and gives artists and musicians the opportunity to engage with the magnificent landscape of the Big Bend. Read more about Ballroom Marfa here.
This program is presented in collaboration with Ballroom Marfa.
Public programs for ESPEJO QUEMADA are generously supported by Humanities Texas.

Images:

Installation view, SCRYING CON DIOS(A), 2021, in Donna Huanca: Espejo Quemada, June 26, 2021–January 2, 2022, Ballroom Marfa. Courtesy the artist and Ballroom Marfa. Photograph by Makenzie Goodman.
Marcela Guerrero, Photo by Javier Romero
Daisy Nam

Virtual | A Brief History of Digital Art, Before and Beyond NFTs, with Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan
2021-10-28 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
9am PT/ 10am MT / 11am CT / 12pm ET
If you’re curious to know more about the history of digital art before and beyond NFTs, join Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan as she offers a brief survey of digital art since the 1960s. Her talk will emphasize digital art’s major artists, practices, and themes, as well as the evolution of its relation to traditional arts institutions, such as galleries and museums.
NFTs have brought digital art into the spotlight, but they also have cast a long shadow over the decades-long history of digital art that preceded them. Even the artistic projects that were made with and about blockchain technologies just five years ago seem to have been erased in the rush to hail this “revolutionary” development in contemporary art.
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About Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan
Tina Rivers Ryan is an Assistant Curator of modern and contemporary art at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. Most recently, she co-curated the exhibition Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art, which opened October 16th and runs through January 16th, 2022. An art historian by training, Ryan is a specialist in the history of art and technology since the 1960s and has written extensively on topics ranging from kinetic light environments to virtual reality. Over the past decade, her work has appeared in publications from museums such as The Met, the Walker Art Center, and Pirelli HangarBicocca. She also is an active critic for Artforum; her essay on NFTs, “Token Gesture,” appeared in its May 2020 issue. Ryan holds five degrees in art history, including a BA from Harvard and PhD from Columbia.

Thank you to Regan Lynn Larroque, Programs Committee Co-Chair for ArtTable’s New York Chapter, for organizing this program.

Images:

Frame from Chris Torres’s Nyan Cat, 2011, GIF.
Tina Rivers Ryan

Virtual | Reimagining Memorials and Memory, with Judy Baca
2021-11-04 18:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
3pm PT/ 4pm MT / 5pm CT / 6pm ET
Join our conversation with Judy Baca, 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 has produced numerous murals in Los Angeles and elsewhere since the early 1970’s, and is particularly renown for The Great Wall of Los Angeles (also known as The History of California).
“I want to produce artwork that is beautiful and inspirational, and beyond decorative. I excavate public spaces to hear public voice, and to create public consciousness about the presence of people who are often the majority of the population but are not represented in a visual way. By telling their stories I hope to give voice to those least heard and to visualize a more whole American story. I call this creating sites of public memory.” – Judy Baca
This program will highlight Baca’s artistic practice as a tool for both people and place. She will present several of her murals which dramatically document both told and untold American stories of the disenfranchised. Baca will also share her wisdom, personal perspective, and vast experience on how to effectively reimagine memorials and memory. Cathie Behrend, ArtTable New York member who co-organized this series, will introduce the program and speaker. There will be ample time for questions so come prepared with your inquiry about Memorials and Memory.

Admission

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About Judy Baca
One of America’s leading visual artists, Dr. Judith F. Baca, grew up in Los Angeles and has been creating public art for more than four decades. In 1974, Baca founded the City of Los Angeles’ first mural program which produced over 400 murals and employed thousands of local participants, evolving into an arts organization known as the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC).
Dr. Baca, now Professor Emeritus, was a University of California senior professor of Studio Art (1980-96), founded UC’s Cesar Chavez Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in 1993, and has long been a professor in UC’s Chicano/a Studies and World Cultures Department in UCLA’s School of Art and Architecture. She continues to serve as SPARC’s artistic director, and within the UCLA@SPARC Digital/Mural Lab, now uses digital technology as she co-creates murals promoting social justice and participatory public art projects. Her honors include a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2015 Rockefeller Fellowship and over 50 awards from various community groups. Judy Baca’s artwork is included in the collections of The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, among others. The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in L.A. has recently acquired The History of California archive; and currently, the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, CA presents a major retrospective of Judy Baca’s practice.
Her most well-known work, ‘The Great Wall of Los Angeles,’ created between 1976-1983, runs for one-half mile in the Tujunga Wash, a flood control channel of the Los Angeles River, featuring images of California’s pre-history into the 1950’s. In 2017 it was named to the National Register of Historic Places. In 2021, Baca and SPARC received a $5 million Andrew Mellon Foundation grant to extend The Great Wall’s imagery for another half mile to include narratives up to the present and develop further interpretive material.

Thank you to Cathie Behrend, former Deputy Director of New York’s Percent for Art Program and founder of VenturesinVision, and Lori Shepard, ArtTable member (New York Chapter), for organizing this program series.

Images:

Portrait of Judy Baca at the 2004 partial restoration of the Great Wall of Los Angeles. Background mural detail from the 1950’s section “Forebearers of Civil Rights.”
3 mural images: Judith F. Baca(c)1976, Great Wall of Los Angeles, detail from the 1950’s section “Division of the Barrios and Chavez Ravine,”; detail from the 1950’s section “Asians Gain Citizenship and Property,”;detail from the 1950’s section “Olympic Champions 1948-1964 Breaking Barriers.”
Judy Baca at the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC).

All images courtesy of the SPARC Archives.

Virtual | Self-Mythology and the Unreliable Narrator in the Life & Times of Sam Francis
2021-11-07 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
11am PT/ 12pm MT / 1pm CT / 2pm ET
Please join Gabrielle Selz, Jeremy Stone, and Debra Burchett-Lere as they probe the self-mythologizing narratives of artists and personalities of the 20th Century. This talk will focus on discoveries Selz made in her new book, Light on Fire, the first comprehensive biography of Sam Francis.

Light on Fire traces the extraordinary and ultimately tragic journey of a complex and charismatic artist who first learned to paint while encased for three years in a full-body plaster cast. Francis portrayed himself as a pilot who heroically crashed his plane in the Arizona desert; a story Selz reveals is a fabrication that was repeated by all the male historians who wrote about his illustrious career. For indeed, Francis’s color-saturated paintings went on to fetch the highest prices of any living artist. His restless desire resulted in five marriages and homes on three continents. His entrepreneurial spirit led to the founding of MoCA, Lapis Press, a reforestation program, and several nonprofits. Light on Fire captures the art, life, personality, and talent of a man who sought to resolve in art, the contradictions he couldn’t resolve in life.

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About the Speakers
Debra Burchett-Lere brings a range of professional international art-world experiences as an author, curator, and executive director of the artist-endowed Sam Francis Foundation, California. Her background includes key positions at the fine-art limited editions print studio Gemini G.E.L. and the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA). For over twenty-five years, Debra has collaborated on museum exhibitions including projects with the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; the Milwaukee Art Museum; Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC; the Jeu de Paume, Paris; Kunsthalle- der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn; Fundacio Caja de Madrid; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

In addition, Burchett-Lere has authored books and catalogues including publications by the Getty Museum Conservation Institute, Los Angeles and the University of California, Berkeley (UC Press). She has worked as a grant writer for university art programs, an art consultant, and accredited appraiser with the Appraisers Association of America, NYC. Her recent volunteer board services include positions for ArtTable, NYC and the Brand Associates of the Brand Library and Arts Center, Glendale, CA.

ArtTable member Gabrielle Selz is the award-winning author of Unstill Life: Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction (W.W. Norton 2014) and Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis (UC Press, 2021), the first comprehensive biography of one of the most important American abstract artists of the 20th century. Her essays and art reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Hyperallergic, Square Cylinder, Art & Object, Art Papers, The Rumpus, and The Huffington Post, among others. She makes her home in Oakland, CA. For more information, visit: https://gabrielleselz.com.

Jeremy Stone, also an ArtTable member, is a former gallerist, art advisor/appraiser, and collector who has advised many important private collectors, museums, and institutions. Her expert witness work over the past 25 years has included legal cases across the United States and the government of Canada. She has served on the board and held office on multiple levels with ArtTable, the American Society of Appraisers, and the San Francisco Art Dealers Association.

Jeremy specializes in Post-War, modern, and contemporary art. Her collection includes Hank Murta Adams, Robert Arneson, Elmer Bischoff, Squeak Carnwath, John Chamberlain, Willem de Kooning, Nancy Drosd, Sam Francis, Mike Henderson, Mildred Howard, David Huffman, Kazuko Inoue, Franz Kline, John Graham, Rick Hickam, David Huffman, Gaston Lachaise, Joanne Leonard, Robert Mapplethorpe, Grace Munakata, Edith Schloss, Richard Sheehan, Katherine Sherwood, Lorna Simpson, Louise M. Stanley, Pia Stern, Masami Teraoka, Wayne Thiebaud, Ai Wei Wei, and John Zurier, among many others.

Thank you to Gabrielle Selz, Jeremy Stone, and ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter Leaders for organizing this program.

Images:

Light On Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis by Gabrielle Selz

CANCELLED | Virtual | An ArtTable Friendsgiving, with The Artisan's Palate
2021-11-08 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
3pm PT/ 4pm MT / 5pm CT / 6pm ET
Come celebrate Friendsgiving with ArtTable and The Artisan’s Palate! We will be joined by founder and chef Christa Csoka and artist Melissa Herriott for a conversation about how The Artisan’s Palate came to be, the importance of art, food, and community, and the local arts scene in Charlotte, North Carolina. We’ll also be making a specialty cocktail called “The Weight of the World,” inspired by a series of paintings by Herriott that were on view at The Artisan’s Palate during her time as featured artist. See below for the ingredients so you can make the cocktail with us!
After the discussion and drinks, we’ll go into breakout rooms for a classic ArtTable networking session.
RECIPE: The Weight of the World
Ingredients:

1 ½ oz Reposado Tequila
½ oz Mezcal
1 oz Blood Orange Puree (Alternative: blood orange soda OR 1/2 oz orange juice + 1/2 oz grapefruit juice)
½ oz Blood Orange Aperitif (vermouth) (Alternative: sweet vermouth)
1 fresh lime
Smoked Chili Bitters (Alternative: any bitters will work if smoked chili is unavailable)
Orange Zest
Sal de Gusano (worm salt; or substitute with chili salt) (Alternative: just mix some salt and chili powder!)

How to make it:
Serve this cocktail in a Rocks Glass with a large ice cube. Stir all ingredients except bitters in a glass pitcher. Pour over your ice cube. Put in 3-4 dashes of bitters after the mix is in the glass (do not put these on the cube, but around the edges). Put worm salt/chili salt on the ice cube and garnish with an orange zest on the glass. Voila!
This program is free for ArtTable members and $10 for non-members. Members are encouraged to bring a friend for an additional $10.
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About the Speakers
Owner and chef Christa Csoka’s love for entertaining and passion for food began when she was a child, helping her mother host dinners and events for officers and cadets at West Point.
Csoka has over 30 years’ experience in the service industry, including working as a chef at French restaurants in NYC and Chicago and catering in Austin, New York, and Charlotte. She has lived in and visited many cities all over the world, all of which have given her a diverse culinary perspective and palate. After graduating from the French Culinary Institute in New York, Christa moved to Charlotte in 2003 to be closer to family. Although she was not immediately immersed in the culinary world of Charlotte, she kept her love of cooking alive by catering on weekends and special events as well as hosting many themed parties and events over the years. This would launch the idea of the Artisan’s Palate. The inclusion of art as part of a whole experience was always her passion and she envisioned a space in which food, drinks, music and art co-existed in harmony – and that is how The Artisan’s Palate came to be.
Melissa Herriott is a Charlotte-based abstract artist and interior stylist working in multiple mediums. Her paintings are full of color, texture, and symbolism. Melissa is an award-winning artist, featured in QC Exclusive Magazine and the KNOW Book of Women. Melissa’s hope is that her work sparks conversation, inspires, and allows you (if even for a moment) to get lost inside of it.

About The Artisan’s Palate
The Artisan’s Palate is a restaurant, art gallery and gathering space in the NoDa neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina. It offers a unique menu of craft cocktails, wine and share plates in a neighborly, relaxed atmosphere with a focus on art and those who create it.
Over the years the NoDa community has seen most of its galleries close, but The Artisan’s Palate is working to change that. The space includes a gallery that features local artists monthly. Guests are introduced to immersive experiences, crafted by Chef and Owner, Christa Csoka. These experiences converge all five senses through food, beverage, art, music and more based on each collection.
The Artisan’s Palate is an inclusive destination for its customers – from local coffee during the day, to rustic-yet-refined plates and curated cocktails at night, to savory and sweet brunch on Sunday. They also sell wine, coffee, and art in support of local artisans all within a creative, community environment.

Images:

Interior shot of The Artisan’s Palate gallery, featuring work by Melissa Herriott
Headshots provided by the speakers
Interior shot of The Artisan’s Palate, courtesy of The Artisan’s Palate

Virtual | AT Connect with Tiffany Williams
2021-11-10 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
9am PT / 10am MT / 11am CT / 12pm ET
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 Tiffany Williams, Assistant Curator at Art in Embassies and a member of ArtTable’s Washington, DC Chapter.
Admission

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All other ArtTable Members – $5
Non-Members – $10
Members may bring an additional guest for $5

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About Tiffany Williams
Tiffany Williams is an advocate for the arts as a tool for cultural diplomacy and dialogue, critical thinking, and self expression. For ten years, she has worked for the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Art in Embassies (AIE). Serving ten years in total at AIE, she has curated dozens of exhibitions for U.S. Ambassadors on six continents. Tiffany has assisted on and co-curated several permanent U.S. embassy collections, including those in Harare, Zimbabwe; N’Djamena, Chad; Niamey, Niger; and Nogales, Mexico. Previously, she served as a Henry Luce Curatorial Assistant Fellow for The Corning Museum of Glass. Tiffany holds a BA from Virginia Commonwealth University as well as an MA in the History of Decorative Arts from George Mason University in partnership with the Smithsonian.

Virtual | Reading at the (Art)Table - 'Culture Strike: Art & Museums in the Age of Protest' by Laura Raicovich
2021-11-14 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
11am PT / 12pm MT / 1pm CT / 2pm ET
Join us in reading “Culture Strike – Art and Museums in an Age of Protest” by Laura Raicovich and lend your voice to the discussion that promises to be lively and engaging!
This program is for ArtTable members only. Not a member? Join today!
How to take part:

Click here to Register for this program. Please note that registration for this program will close at 5pm ET/2pm PT on Friday, November 12.
You will receive a registration confirmation via email that contains the Zoom link. If you need to download the Zoom app, you may do so here. For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

Thank you to Jan Wurm, ArtTable Northern California Chapter, for organizing this program.
Image: Culture Strike – Art and Museums in the Age of Protest by Laura Raikovich

Virtual | Artist Talk with Andrea Chung
2021-11-17 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
10am PT / 11am MT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET
Please join us for a virtual artist talk with 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.
Chung’s work has recently been featured in Prospect 4 (New Orleans) and the Jamaican Biennale (Kingston, Jamaica), as well as the Chinese American Museum and California African American Museum in Los Angeles, and the San Diego Art Institute. In 2017, her first solo museum exhibition took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, You broke the ocean in half to be here. She has participated in national and international residencies, including Headlands Center for the Arts and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been written about in the Artfile Magazine, Artnet, and Los Angeles Times, as well as a number of academic essays looking at the subject of colonialism and slavery in the Caribbean. (Full bio below)
Admission

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Non-Members – $15
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About the Artist
Andrea Chung lives and works in San Diego, California. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design, New York, and a Master of Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. Her recent biennale and museum exhibitions include Prospect 4, New Orleans and the Jamaican Biennale, Kingston, Jamaica, as well as the Chinese American Museum and California African American Museum in Los Angeles, and the San Diego Art Institute. In 2017, her first solo museum exhibition took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, You broke the ocean in half to be here. She has participated in national and international residencies, including the Vermont Studio Center, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been written about in the Artfile Magazine, New Orleans Times, Picayune, Artnet, Los Angeles Times, and International Review of African-American Art, as well as a number of academic essays looking at the subject of colonialism and slavery in the Caribbean.

Miami Art Week 2021 | ArtTable VIP Fair Pass Packages
2021-11-29 - 2021-12-05 | Miami, Miami, FL, United States
ArtTable members enjoy special access to art fairs during Miami Art Week, taking place this year from November 29 – December 5, 2021! This year we are offering multiple levels of packages, as outlined below:

Platinum Level - Sold Out VIP Pass - Art Basel Miami Beach(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 4pm) Platinum First View Pass - SCOPE Contemporary Art Fair(First view for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 12pm) VIP Pass - Art Miami & CONTEXT(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 6:30pm) VIP Pass - NADA Miami(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Wednesday, December 1 at 10am) VIP Pass - UNTITLED ART, Miami Beach(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Monday, November 29 at 11am) $150 Diamond Level - Sold Out Day Pass - Art Basel Miami Beach(Entry for 1 for 1 day starting on Friday, December 3 at 11am) Platinum First View Pass - SCOPE Contemporary Art Fair(First view for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 12pm) VIP Pass - Art Miami & CONTEXT(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 6:30pm) VIP Pass - NADA Miami(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Wednesday, December 1 at 10am) VIP Pass - UNTITLED ART, Miami Beach(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Monday, November 29 at 11am) $140 Gold Level - Sold Out Day Pass - Art Basel Miami Beach(Entry for 1 for 1 day starting on Friday, December 3 at 11am) VIP Pass - SCOPE Contemporary Art Fair(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 4pm) VIP Pass - Art Miami & CONTEXT(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 6:30pm) VIP Pass - UNTITLED ART, Miami Beach(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Monday, November 29 at 11am) Each VIP pass is good for entry for 2 people to each fair. A day pass provides entry for 1 person. $130 Ruby Level Day Pass - Art Basel Miami Beach(Entry for 1 for 1 day starting on Friday, December 3 at 11am) VIP Pass - SCOPE Contemporary Art Fair(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 4pm) VIP Pass - Art Miami & CONTEXT(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 6:30pm) VIP Pass - UNTITLED ART, Miami Beach(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Monday, November 29 at 11am) $120 Silver Level Day Pass - Art Basel Miami Beach(Entry for 1 for 1 day starting on Thursday, December 2 at 11am) VIP Pass - SCOPE Contemporary Art Fair(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 4pm) VIP Pass - Art Miami & CONTEXT(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 6:30pm) Day Pass - UNTITLED ART, Miami Beach(Entry for 1 for 1 day starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 11am) $110 Bronze Level VIP Pass - SCOPE Contemporary Art Fair(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 4pm) VIP Pass - Art Miami & CONTEXT(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 6:30pm) Day Pass - UNTITLED ART, Miami Beach(Entry for 1 for 1 day starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 11am) $100 General Admission Level VIP Pass - SCOPE Contemporary Art Fair(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 4pm) Day Pass - Art Miami & CONTEXT(Entry for 1 for 1 day starting on Wednesday, December 2 at 11am) Day Pass - UNTITLED ART, Miami Beach(Entry for 1 for 1 day starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 11am) $90

Conditions:
VIP Pass Packages are available for purchase by current ArtTable members only. Members are limited to one package each. We have a limited number of packages available at each level that will be distributed on a first come first serve basis. Not an ArtTable member? Join today!

Click here to purchase your 2021 Miami Art Week VIP Pass Package!

Don’t miss these other events during Miami Art Week!
ArtTable Brunch at Design Miami/
NADA Miami Director’s Tour

Images:

Art Basel Miami Beach 2019, Courtesy of Art Basel © Art Basel
