VIRTUAL | Artist Talk with Liza Lou
2020-05-12 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Illinois
Image: Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul. Photo by: Zihui Song
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is required and open to all, with a minimum donation of $5.00 to participate in this event. We hope to see you there!
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Join ArtTable for a conversation with artist, Liza Lou. Lou’s ongoing project “Apartogether,” looks to build beauty and community in the time of social distancing.
Liza Lou (b. 1969, New York; lives and works in Los Angeles) first gained attention in 1996 when her room-sized sculpture Kitchen was shown at the New Museum in New York. Representing five years of labor, this groundbreaking work subverted prevalent standards of art by utilizing glass beads as a fine art material. As a monumental work of twentieth century feminist art, Kitchen’s slow, hand-made process is a tribute to women whose work has historically gone unrecognized. The project blurs the boundary between fine art and craft, and established Lou’s long-standing exploration of materiality, beauty, and the valorization of labor. Centering her practice on a craft métier has led Lou to work in collaboration with artisans in a variety of socially engaged settings, including recent projects in Brazil and India, as well as Durban, South Africa, where she founded a collective in 2005 that she continues to work with today.
Over the past 15 years, Lou has focused on a poetic approach to abstraction as a way to highlight the process underlying her work. In 2016, Lou constructed The Waves, a monumental installation comprised of 1,000 white beaded sheets that were marked by the transference of oils from the hand of the maker and variance of their weaving. This lead to Lou’s investigation into the potential of a minimalist approach, and ultimately the most fundamental components of visual art—color, light, line, volume and texture—recreating beads as paint, mixed and bound to canvas. Lou’s practice can be described as a careful study of the forms and conceptual function of minimalism, but without the associated dogma of the absence of personal expression and erasure of the hand of the maker. The artist has recently begun painting directly onto layers of beaded cloths and then hammering the beads away to reveal the delicate network of paint-soaked thread hidden inside them. In choosing to dedicate her career to one specific material, Lou has recalibrated the confines of the singular mediums of art— painting and sculpture—pushing a material not traditionally associated with either across the spectrum to both ends.
Liza Lou has had over 40 solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world including Lehmann Maupin Seoul (2019), New York (2018), and Hong Kong (2017); Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art, Cape Town, South Africa (2017); Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (2016); Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY (2015); Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita, KS (2015); White Cube, London, United Kingdom (2014); Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (2013); SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2011); L&M Arts, New York, NY (2008); Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany (2002); Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL (2001); Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (2000) and the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution of American Art, Washington, D.C. (2000).
Select group exhibitions have included Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950-2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2019); Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA (2019); Lexicon: The Language of Gesture in 25 Years at Kemper Museum, Kemper
Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO (2019); We the People: New Art from the Collection, Albright Knox Art Museum, Buffalo, NY (2018); Screens: Virtual Material, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (2017); No Place Like Home, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (2017); Women’s Work, National Gallery, Iziko Museum, Cape Town, South Africa (2016); Home Land Security, FOR-SITE Foundation, San Francisco, CA (2016); Stories of Espai 10 and Espai 13, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain (2014); The Artist’s Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (2010); Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, New Museum, New York (2010) and 19th Century and Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2010). Lou’s work is in numerous international public and private collections, including the Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo; Brant Foundation, Greenwich; Cleveland Museum of Art; Cleveland; DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; de Young Museum, San Francisco; François Pinault Foundation, Palazzo Grassi, Venice; La Fondación Jumex, Mexico City; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Skira Rizzoli published the first comprehensive monograph of the artist’s career in 2010. Liza Lou is the recipient of the 2013 Anonymous Was A Woman Award and the 2002 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

Virtual| AT Together: Non-profit leadership with Jennifer Scanlan
2020-05-14 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Image: Eyakem Gulilat. Photo by Jennifer Scanlan.
In this time of crisis, ArtTable is reaching beyond geographic barriers to form a platform for connectivity for our community across professions. Each weekly session will bring together individuals within a particular profession in the art world for the exchange of ideas, to share resources and to network. Members are invited to participate in a 45 minute open discussion to focus on how women in the visual arts are handling issues relating to our field. Members and non-members welcome. We ask that you sign up for the event that matches your role.
This session is for non-profit leadership and will be facilitated by Jennifer Scanlan.
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Jennifer Scanlan is an independent curator focusing on contemporary art and design. She has worked in exhibitions and programming in organizations and museums across the country, most recently as the Exhibitions and Curatorial Director at Oklahoma Contemporary in Oklahoma City. From 2013 through 2015 she was a New York-based independent curator working on exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City; the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.; the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center in Vermont; the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz; and the Museum of Biblical Art in New York.
Prior to working independently, for twelve years she was Associate Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. She has taught at Courtauld Institute of Art Summer School in London, England, and at Parsons The New School for Design in New York . She has a BA in art history and Italian from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, and an MA in the history of decorative arts, design, and culture from the Bard Graduate Center, New York, New York.

Weekend Film Streaming: TALKING HOUSE Eileen Gray & Jean Badovici
2020-05-15 17:00 - 2020-05-17 00:00 (America/New_York)
Image: © Elizabeth Lennard
Introducing ArtTable weekend film streamings! This weekend members will have the opportunity to access and watch TALKING HOUSE Eileen Gray & Jean Badovici, a film by Elizabeth Lennard.
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“Talking House: Eileen Gray & Jean Badovici” is a 40-minute montage of E.1027, the iconic modernist villa on the Cote d’Azur in 1929, built by Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici . Filmed today, and using Eileen Gray’s 1929 photographs of the villa and recently restored Le Corbusier film footage, the camera takes us through E.1027 as the couple talks and argues off screen about the design philosophy behind the breakthrough layout, interiors and furniture. Heated correspondence between Corbu (Le Corbusier) and Bado (Badovici) adds a bit of controversy over the later addition of Corbu’s wall paintings.
This multi-media art piece created by Elizabeth Lennard was part of the MoMA exhibit, How Should We Live? Propositions for the Modern Interior (Oct. 1–April 23, 2017) and is now in MoMA’s collection.
In lieu of the the canceled in person program to celebrate the Eileen Gray exhibition at Bard Graduate Center this Spring, we’re kicking off this streaming series with a film that spotlight’s Gray’s status as a pioneer of modern architecture.
Streaming should begin in time for Friday Happy Hour at 5 PM EST and conclude at midnight on Sunday. We hope you enjoy!
Thank you to Ingrid Dinter, NY Chapter, for organizing this program.

VIRTUAL | Curatorial Perspective: For a Dreamer of Houses
2020-05-18 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Image: Misty Keasler, Green Room (Quarenteen) Leagnul di Copii, Tigru Mures, Romania, 2004. Courtesy Misty Keasler and The Public Trust Gallery.
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Join ArtTable for a presentation and virtual walk through of For a Dreamer of Houses, an imaginative and immersive exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art, with Dr. Anna Katherine Brodbeck, the Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, as part of ArtTable’s virtual curatorial perspective series. For a Dreamer of Houses explores the significance of the spaces we inhabit and how they represent ourselves, our values, and our desires- a curatorial theme that feels all too relevant as so many of us remain at home.
About Dr. Anna Katherine Brodbeck
Anna Katherine Brodbeck.
Dr. Anna Katherine Brodbeck is the Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art. She joined the DMA in January 2017 as the Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, as was promoted to Associate Curator in May 2018. Brodbeck has extensive knowledge of modern and contemporary art, with a focus on Latin American art, as well as a background in Islamic art. As the Hoffman Family Senior Curator, Brodbeck oversees exhibitions, programming, publications, and acquisitions related to the Museum’s leading collection of contemporary art. In collaboration with Dr. Agustín Arteaga, The Eugene McDermott Director, and other colleagues throughout the Museum, Brodbeck works to expand the scope of the department to reflect the DMA’s commitment to presenting an inclusive, globally-minded vision of the art historical canon.
Since joining the DMA in 2017, Brodbeck has curated several exhibitions across the breadth of contemporary art, including Jonas Wood (2019), the first major museum survey of works by the beloved Los Angeles-based painter. She also curated America Will Be!: Surveying the Contemporary Landscape (2019), a focused exhibition of works primarily from the DMA’s collection of contemporary art—including 15 new acquisitions she oversaw for the DMA—that take the American landscape as a point of departure.
Brodbeck also served as installation curator for the Dallas presentations of Günther Förg: A Fragile Beauty (2018), the most comprehensive survey of Förg’s work to date, and Laura Owens (2018), the critically acclaimed mid-career survey of the American artist. She also curated the immensely popular presentation of Yayoi Kusama: All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins (2017) and co-curated Truth: 24 frames per second, the DMA’s first exhibition dedicated to time-based media. Additionally, she has organized the DMA’s exhibition series Concentrations, which spotlights emerging international artists.
Prior to arriving at the DMA, Brodbeck worked in curatorial departments at the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She co-curated the first comprehensive US retrospective of the influential Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica in Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium (2016), co-organized by the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She also delivered extensive exhibition research for Picasso’s Drawings, 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition (The Frick Collection, 2011) and Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years (The Museum of Modern Art, 2007).
Brodbeck has been supported by a number of fellowships, and she has delivered scholarly papers and contributed to numerous publications in her field. She has also served as an adjunct instructor of art history at New York University and Hunter College, and is a member of the College Art Association and Latin American Studies Association.
Dr. Brodbeck earned her master’s and doctorate degrees in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is a magna cum laude graduate of New York University and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Thank you to Sarah McNaughton, NY Programs Committee, for organizing this event.

AT CONNECT | Caryn Keppler
2020-05-27 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Image: Caryn Keppler
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
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ArtTable CONNECT virtual lunch breaks
ArtTable is expanding its CONNECT program to intimate online discussions open to members nationally across chapters. Originally designed to further encourage one-to-one networking amongst its members in DC, CONNECT transitioned to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.
During this session we will hear from Caryn b. Keppler, partner at Putney Law, on estate planning.
CARYN B. KEPPLER has extensive experience in all aspects of estate, gift and charitable planning for foreign and domestic individuals, artists and collectors, conventional and alternative families, as well as business succession and continuity planning. Caryn’s areas of focus also include representing individuals regarding prenuptial, post-nuptial and domestic partnership agreements and assisting families in planning for their disabled children. She has represented artists’ foundations, both fiduciaries and beneficiaries in the administration of domestic estates and trusts, as well as estates and trusts having contacts in international jurisdictions, and in litigation with the Internal Revenue Service and in the Surrogate’s Courts. Prior to entering private practice, Caryn was an attorney with the Internal Revenue Service.
Ms. Keppler is certified as an Estate Planning Law Specialist* by the Estate Law Specialist Board, Inc., an organization accredited by the American Bar Association and affiliated with the National Association of Estate Planners and Councils. Caryn is one of a select number of Estate Planning Law Specialists practicing in New York and New Jersey.
Ms. Keppler is a Director and former Secretary / Treasurer of the Estate Law Specialist Board Inc. and a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (“STEP”) New York, the American Bar Association’s Section of Real Property, Trusts and Estate Law, Income and Transfer Tax Planning Group, the New York State Bar Association Trusts and Estates Section, the New York State Bar Association Entertainment, Arts, the New York City Bar Association’s Art Law Committee and Sports Law Section and the UJA – Federation of New York Lawyers Division, Trusts and Estate Group. She is also a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on LGBT People and the Law and ArtTable, an association of professionals who advise fine artists. She is a member of the Estate Planning Council of New York City, a past president of the Rockland County Estate Planning Council and a former member of the Westchester County Estate Planning Council.
Thank you to Concetta Duncan, for moving the CONNECT program online and to Katherine Wilson-Milne for organizing.

Virtual | Pecha Kucha!
2020-05-28 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
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We’re kicking off summer with a virtual Pecha Kucha!
The Pecha Kucha format highlights members’ projects and initiatives across different visual arts professions. Creative and fast-paced, each presentation provides an opportunity to share and learn more about what have been working on during and the evolution of projects during our current crisis.

About our participants:
Laila Abdul-Hadi Jadallah: Drawing Out the Artist in Everyone: Creating Accessible Art Education Opportunities in the Online Space
Laila Abdul-Hadi Jadallah is the Managing Director of Washington Studio School, a nonprofit arts organization in Washington, D.C. where she is responsible for fundraising, communications, operations, and strategies, including partnerships and community outreach in collaboration with the Artistic Director. Ms. Jadallah has over 12 years of experience in the nonprofit sector and art consulting in communications, exhibition development and cultural heritage protection having held positions at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Art Fraud Insights, LLC, and International Arts and Artists. She received her BA in Integrative Studies/Arts & Culture from George Mason University’s School of Integrative Studies. She also holds certificates from SPEOS Photographic Institute Paris in photography and Harvard Business School Online in Business Fundamentals.
Ilaria Conti: Labor, Art, and Auratic Conditions
Ilaria Conti is an independent curator and cultural worker with a focus on social justice and engaged artistic practices, epistemological pluralism, and the relationship between institutional infrastructures and public engagement. She is the Vice President of African Art Dialogues, a non-profit organization producing the African Art in Venice Forum. Most recently, she served as Research Curator at the Centre Georges Pompidou for Cosmopolis, a multiyear platform devoted to research-based art. Previously, she was Exhibitions and Programs Director at CIMA New York, Assistant Curator of the 2016 Marrakech Biennale, and Samuel H. Kress Interpretive Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other positions. Her curatorial projects include Is This Love? Art / Labor / Auratic Conditions (2020), Cosmopolis #2: Rethinking the Human (2019), Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence (2018), Cosmopolis #1: Collective Intelligence, (2017); 6th Marrakech Biennale: Not New Now (2016); and Méxtasis (2016). She holds a BA and an MA in Contemporary Art History and Curatorial Studies from the University of Rome La Sapienza and an MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University.
Susan Power: Cuban Sculptor Agustín Cárdenas: Expanding the Canon
An independent scholar and curator based in Los Angeles and specializing in modern and contemporary art, Susan L. Power holds a doctorate from the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She has lectured and published internationally on the reception and dissemination of surrealism in North America as well as artist-designed strategies of display, from surrealist exhibitions to contemporary interventions in institutional and commercial settings. Most recently, she contributed a catalog essay on the American reception of Rumanian artist Victor Brauner published in partnership with the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Her current scholarship focuses on the work of Cuban sculptor Agustín Cárdenas, with recent essays in the exhibition catalogue Agustín Cárdenas: Mon Ombre Après Minuit, currently at the Maison d’Amérique Latine, Paris, France until June 10, 2020, and “Agustín Cárdenas: Sculpting the ‘Memory of the Future,’” in the forthcoming issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Surrealism and the Americas. She has worked in curatorial and educational roles at the Musée d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Marciano Art Foundation.
Masha Turchinsky: Small Museum, Big Footprint

Masha Turchinsky is Director and CEO of the Hudson River Museum, where she oversees the largest cultural organization in Westchester County, New York. With a mission to connect diverse communities through the power of arts, sciences and history, the HRM’s collections include nineteenth-century to contemporary American art; Glenview, a Gilded Age home on the National Register of Historic Places; an environmental teaching gallery; a state-of-the-art planetarium; and an amphitheater dedicated to the performing arts. Under Turchinsky’s direction, the Hudson River Museum garnered the 2019 Engaging Communities Award from the Museum Association of New York for the collecting initiative and exhibition Through Our Eyes: Milestones and Memories of African Americans in Yonkers and the 2019 Award for Excellence in Publications for Maya Lin: A River Is a Drawing by the Greater Hudson Heritage Network. She is currently overseeing a $10+ million capital expansion and improvement project at the Museum. Previously, Turchinsky worked for nineteen years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Digital and Education Departments, overseeing teams dedicated to original content and design. While at the Met, she also served as delegate to the board of trustees. As a consultant, she has worked with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the New York Botanical Garden. She is a member of the Association of Art Museum Directors and currently serves on ArtTable’s national Board of Directors. Turchinsky holds an EdM in International Educational Development from Teachers College, Columbia University, an MA in Education from New York University, and a BS in Russian Studies from Georgetown University.
Thank you to Hope Davis, New York Chapter, and Roni Feinstein, Southern California Chapter.

Weekend Film Streaming: Driven to Abstraction
2020-05-29 10:00 - 2020-05-31 22:00 (America/New_York)
ArtTable weekend film streaming is back this weekend! This weekend members will have the opportunity to access and watch, Driven to Abstraction, a film by Daria Price.
Are you an ArtTable member? If so, here’s how to take part!

Registration will open on Friday, May 29 at 10 AM EST and close on Sunday, May 31 at 10 PM EST.
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DRIVEN TO ABSTRACTION unravels a mutating tale of self-delusion, greed, and fraud — the $80 million forgery scandal that rocked the art world and brought down Knoedler, New York City’s oldest and most venerable gallery. Was the gallery’s esteemed director the victim of a con artist who showed up with an endless treasure trove of previously unseen abstract expressionist masterpieces? Or did she eventually suspect they were fakes? Whatever the truth, two women from very different worlds crossed paths in what would become the greatest hoax ever of Modern American Art.

About the Filmmaker
Daria Price works in both documentary and narrative film. Making DRIVEN TO ABSTRACTION, she spent years following an art forgery hoax and the New York trial that exposed the scandalous habits of the art trade. New York State Council on the Arts and New York Women in Film & TV awarded the documentary completion grants, and Raindance Film Festival nominated it for “Best Documentary Feature.” Daria’s first feature OUT ON A LIMB won “Best Documentary” at the Boston International Film Festival and was broadcast throughout the USA and world. She wrote, directed, and edited the award-winning short SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, a satirical mystery that lampoons America’s obsession with youth and beauty. A screenwriter and script supervisor for many years, she is a member of Writers Guild of America East and IATSE. For info: www.driventoabstractiondocumentary.com

Driven to abstraction is distributed by Grasshopper Film. Available on Streaming Platforms August 2020
Available now: Educational Public Performance & DSL

Thank you to Daria Price for making this possible, Hope Davis for assistance, and Ingrid Dinter for organizing.

AT CONNECT | Bernadine Bröcker Wieder
2020-06-17 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
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ArtTable CONNECT virtual lunch breaks
ArtTable is expanding its CONNECT program to intimate online discussions open to members nationally across chapters. Originally designed to further encourage one-to-one networking amongst its members in DC, CONNECT transitioned to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.
During this session we will hear from Bernadine Bröcker Wieder is CEO and founder of Vastari Group, on the evolution of technology for the art market, and how “Web 3.0” will change the art world at the core, especially in light of recent times with COVID-19 business interruption.

Bernadine Bröcker Wieder is CEO and founder of Vastari Group, an online marketplace securely connecting private collectors of art, exhibition producers, venues and museums for exhibition loans and tours. She was a founding member of the team at Trinity House gallery on Maddox Street in London, has worked to represent illustrators at Traffic Creative Management agency and facilitated museum exhibition design at Ralph Appelbaum Associates in New York.
Bernadine is a member of the Professional Advisors to the International Art Market, the Association of Women in the Arts and the Worshipful Company of Arts Scholars. Bernadine holds a Master’s degree in History of Art and Art-World Practice from Christie’s Education/The University of Glasgow and a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts/Illustration from Parsons School of Design, New York.
She is a young ambassador to the Museum of London, an advisor to We Are Museums, Cromwell Place, Artnome, the Christie’s Employers Advisory Group and a mentor at the Founder Institute. In 2018 she was selected for Apollo Magazine’s 40 under 40 Europe, and Bernadine and co-founder Francesca Polo were shortlisted for the Natwest Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2017.
Bernadine is a proponent of technological innovation for the art world, and in July 2018, Vastari helped co-organise the first Christie’s Art+Tech Summit in London, focussing on blockchain technology and the first Future of the Art Market Unconference at Somerset House in London in 2019.

RE/ VIEW | Navigating Public Defunding
2020-06-22 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Introducing RE/ VIEW, an online program discussion series to address reopening and reimagining museums, art spaces and institutions across the country. Understanding that this crisis has upended previous conditions and revealed vulnerabilities in how we exhibit, present and view art, we invite leaders across our field to strategize for the future. This event is open to members and non-members with a 5$ minimum donation.

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ArtTable’s Philadelphia chapter brings together our city’s female arts leaders to discuss strategizing the future of Arts and Culture in the wake of drastic public budget cuts of the city’s arts programs. Earlier in May, Mayor Jim Kenny introduced a 2021 budget proposal that eliminates both the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and the Office of Arts and Culture and Creative Economy. ArtTable will discuss this industry-threatening cut, the potential impact, and the organizational efforts taken by arts communities to stay afloat during this crisis.
Participants:
Valerie Gay, Deputy Director for Audience Engagement & Chief Experience Officer, Barnes Foundation
Before joining Art Sanctuary as executive director in 2012, Gay served as Assistant Dean for Institutional Advancement for Temple University’s College of Education, as well as the College of Education’s Director of Development and Alumni Affairs. She also held the position of Vice President and Portfolio Manager with PNC Advisors, where she managed investment portfolios of high net-worth individuals and family trusts. In 2006, Gay founded Fortress Arts Academy, a nonprofit that provides arts and skill-building lessons to children and adults, especially those in underserved communities. In 2017, she co-founded Davis Gay + Associates, a firm providing targeted support for nonprofit and social-venture organizations seeking to solve societal problems. She also cofounded the EVER Ensemble, a collective of women musicians who perform diverse musical genres, from classical to hip-hop.
Gay serves on the boards of directors for the Barra Foundation and the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, and is a member of the Arts + Business Council for Greater Philadelphia’s Advisory Board. She also currently serves on Mayor Jim Kenney’s Council for the Arts. She earned a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from the University of the Arts and a Master of Music in Vocal Performance and a Professional Studies Certificate at Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance. She also completed degree coursework at Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University and is a Certified Financial Planner.

Jane Golden, Founder and Executive Director Mural Arts Philadelphia
Jane Golden has been the driving force of Mural Arts Philadelphia since its inception in 1984, overseeing its growth from a small city agency into the nation’s largest public art program. Under Golden’s direction, Mural Arts has created over 4,000 works of transformative public art through community engagement. In partnership with innovative collaborators, she has developed groundbreaking and rigorous programs that employ the power of art to transform practice and policies related to youth education, restorative justice, environmental issues and behavioral health. Sought-after nationally and internationally as an expert on urban transformation through art, Golden has received numerous awards for her work, including the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Award and Philadelphia Magazine’s Trailblazer Award. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and serves on the Mayor’s Cultural Advisory Council, the Penn Museum Advisory Committee, and the board of directors of The Heliotrope Foundation.
Liz Grimaldi, Executive Director, Fleisher Art Memorial
Liz Grimaldi is the Executive Director of Fleisher Art Memorial, the country’s oldest community art school. Today, Fleisher is a celebrated and thriving community arts center, driven by a mission to make art accessible to everyone, regardless of economic means, background or artistic experience. Fleisher offers creative learning opportunities to more than 20,000 people each year through free and low-cost classes, long-term artist residencies in public schools and community centers throughout Southeast Philadelphia, a robust exhibitions program, and ColorWheels, its mobile art studio. This summer, Fleisher is the lead arts education provider for 3,000 children in the City of Philadelphia’s 150 summer recreation sites.
Before Fleisher, Grimaldi was the Executive Director of The Village of Arts and Humanities, where she co-founded the youth-driven arts and culture publication, CRED magazine, piloted a digital media program with the US Attorney’s Office, and helped launch PhillyEarth, a center for environmental education. During her tenure, Grimaldi advocated for the City’s definition of economic development activities to include independent contractors such as artists and program instructors, resulting in an $850,000 tax credit to be redirected towards the creative economy and youth entrepreneurship education.
Prior to the States, Grimaldi lived in Hong Kong, Barcelona, and Rome, and worked for Galería Senda and Cabinet Magazine. Liz holds a B.A. in Fine Arts from Bryn Mawr College and lives in Philadelphia with her husband, two daughters, and pet tarantula.

Christina Vassallo, Executive Director of the Fabric Workshop and Museum
Christina Vassallo was appointed Executive Director of the Fabric Workshop and Museum, in Philadelphia, effective January 2, 2020. Previously, she spent six productive years as Executive + Artistic Director of SPACES, in Cleveland, where she provided creative direction and oversaw operations for one of the longest running alternative art organizations in the country. Before relocating to Cleveland, she was Executive Director of Flux Factory, in NYC, where she set the course for an expansive art collective and residency program. She is currently completing the Chief Executive Program of National Arts Strategies with a nonforprofit certificate from Harvard Business School, as well as a Fall 2020 fellowship through the German Marshall Fund.
Moderator:
Rachel Zimmerman, Founding Artistic and Executive Director, InLiquid
Rachel Zimmerman is the Founding Artistic and Executive Director of InLiquid, a non-profit visual arts organization, with over 20 years of experience in managing and curating art and design projects. Through her leadership, InLiquid continues to support the careers and creative practices of over 300 working artists each year and produces over 40 public exhibitions annually.
InLiquid has been honored with numerous awards, including Philadelphia Magazine’s Best of Philly Award for Affordable Art and The Culture Trip’s Pennsylvania Local Favorite Award. Zimmerman has also received citations from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the City of Philadelphia, as well as a nomination for the 2017 Rad Award for Nonprofit of the Year (Rad Girls). At InLiquid’s recent 20th Anniversary Celebration, Philadelphia’s Chief Cultural Officer, Kelly Lee presented a mayoral proclamation to InLiquid for its work in creating a vibrant visual arts community in Philadelphia.
As an artist and curator, Zimmerman has been named one of the region’s “Top 101 Emerging Connectors” in 2008, as well as a Creative Connector by Leadership Philadelphia. She is a Leadership Philadelphia and Designing Leadership alumna, and has served on numerous committees from Design Philadelphia to the executive board of the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. Currently, she is on the art advisory committees of CFEVA and the Main Line Art Center, the co- chair of ArtTable (Philadelphia), and the Creative Industries Working Group (Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, City of Philadelphia) and a board member of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance.
Other events in this series:
Tuesday, June 23: The Rise of the Regional: Recovering Mid-sized Institutions
Tuesday, June 30: Decentralizing the museum: Digital tools and Creating Community online
… more to come!

AT CONNECT | Dana Prussian
2020-06-24 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
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ArtTable CONNECT virtual lunch breaks
ArtTable is expanding its CONNECT program to intimate online discussions open to members nationally across chapters. Originally designed to further encourage one-to-one networking amongst its members in DC, CONNECT transitioned to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.
During this session we will hear from Dana Prussian, Vice President, Art Services Specialist at Bank of America Private Bank on Art Market Trends in the Age of COVID-19.
Dana Prussian is Vice President, Art Services Specialist at Bank of America Private Bank, based in New York City. In this role, Dana helps drive the bank’s art opportunities across all divisions nationally, with a specific focus on Central South, South Atlantic, and Southeast divisions. She works directly with art collecting clients and prospects to meet their needs through art lending, consignment, wealth planning, and philanthropy.
Dana joined U.S. Trust in January 2019 from Bessemer Trust where she was a Client Advisor for three years. At Bessemer, Dana helped cultivate a book of clients and advised them on a wide array of services, including investment management, trust and estate planning, real estate, and art services. Prior to Bessemer, Dana began her career at Christie’s before going on to Barclays.
She earned a duel Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Political Science from Barnard College, Columbia University
Thank you to the DC Chapter Executive Committee for organizing this event.

BreakfastTable Special: Setting the Table
2020-06-26 08:30 - 09:30 (America/New_York)
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
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ArtTable East Coasters, join us for a special BreakfastTable program celebrating the launch of “Setting the Table,” a page that highlights the stories of thirteen trailblazing women, all early members of ArtTable DC Chapter, who have each been instrumental in shaping the DC art community. The website was created by ArtTable DC’s 2019-2020 Faith Flanagan Fellows and is based on interviews conducted over several months.
This event will start 30 minutes later than usual to allow adequate time for coffee brewing and breakfast making!
The Faith Flanagan Fellowship Program is a Washington, D.C. chapter program, based locally, that provides mentorship and a one-year provisional membership in the DC Chapter to a select few individuals with at least 2 years of experience in the visual arts field.
During this interactive BreakfastTable program, attendees will be asked to respond to the following questions: What are some words you would use to describe the ArtTable community? How has ArtTable helped you grow since you’ve joined it? Are there any physical objects or places that relate to your arts journey? And what are your hopes for ArtTable and the art community in the coming years?
Thank you to ArtTable DC’s 2019-2020 Faith Flanagan Fellows: Ella Weiner, Jennifer Anne Mitchell, Emily Ann Francisco, and Laura Augustin.

RE/ VIEW| Staffing & Leadership with The Philadelphia Museum of Art's Union Leaders
2020-06-29 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
The Philadelphia Museum of Art. Photo: Sang-Min Yoon/Flickr.
Introducing RE/ VIEW, an online program discussion series to address reopening and reimagining museums, art spaces and institutions across the country. Understanding that this crisis has upended previous conditions and revealed vulnerabilities in how we exhibit, present and view art, we invite leaders across our field to strategize for the future. This event is open to members and non-members with a $15 suggested donation.

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Join ArtTable for a conversation on staffing, leadership and unions with two of the main organizers behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s recently founded workers’ union. We’ll hear from Nicole Elizabeth Cook, Ph.D., Program Manager for Graduate Academic Partnerships and Sarah Shaw, Museum Educator and Coordinator of the Education Resource Center at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on organizing during this pandemic, the challenges that unions are facing during this time and how unions are shifting operations to support members as museums plan to reopen.

This will provide an opportunity to hear directly from Sarah and Nicole on building a union and supporting workers at the PMA, while addressing issues related to staffing and reopening. How are museums prioritizing operations in order to work with smaller teams? What departments are we seeing dissolve and what is being prioritized during this time?
Sarah Shaw is a Museum Educator and Coordinator of the Education Resource Center at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In her role as Resource Center Coordinator, she works closely with classroom teachers, teaching artists, pre-service teachers and other educators to integrate visual arts into all kinds of teaching and learning. She was previously a classroom teacher in Philadelphia public, charter, and independent schools and earned an M.A. and M.S.Ed. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Nicole Elizabeth Cook is a Program Manager for Graduate Academic Partnerships at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She develops and coordinates object-based study workshops and other initiatives for graduate students and she also works with undergraduate and graduate fellows at the museum. Nicole holds a Ph.D. in Art History from University of Delaware and a M.A. from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. She has previously worked in research, curatorial, and educational positions at private art collections, arts nonprofits, and museums. Her personal research currently focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to early modern women artists.
Nicole Elizabeth Cook
Sarah Shaw

RE/ VIEW | Expanding Reach and Audience with Augmented and Virtual Reality
2020-06-30 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Clockwise from top left: Sisa Bueno, Vashti DuBois and Robin White Owen
Introducing RE/ VIEW, an online program discussion series to address reopening and reimagining museums, art spaces and institutions across the country. Understanding that this crisis has upended previous conditions and revealed vulnerabilities in how we exhibit, present and view art, we invite leaders across our field to strategize for the future. This event is open to members and non-members with a $15 suggested donation.
How to take part!

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Join ArtTable for a discussion on using augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) tools to expand an institutions’ reach and programming. During this discussion we will hear from Sisa Bueno, founder of Vuevelo, an AR platform that works alongside museums, Vashti DuBois, Executive Director/Founder of the Colored Girls Museum that is working with AR/VR to develop a virtual experience that connects artists, educators and technologists with everyday women of the African diaspora, and Robin White Owen, Co-founder and Principal of Media Combo, which works within museums again focusing on AR/VR.
Sisa Bueno
Originally from New York City, Sisa Bueno is an Afro-Latina film & multimedia maker who is fascinated by people of all cultures and seeks to awaken our own empowerment. She studied both film production and interactive technologies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University (NYU). The NBC Network named Sisa a 2013 Latina Innovator for her upcoming documentary “To the Mountains,” which takes place in Bolivia, South America. Sisa is a recipient of the ITVS-PBS Diversity Development grant, HotDocs CrossCurrents grant, and BAVC MediaMaker fellow for her current work in progress, “For Venida, For Kalief.”
Sisa is also currently a 2018-2020 Member of the NEW INC tech incubator program within the New Museum working with Augmented Reality (AR) developing an art-viewing app tentatively called Vuevelo (currently in prototype stage). The goal is to provide an enhanced curated experience via an interactive AR platform that gives extra media content for featured works of art in real time. Her fascination with finding solutions for providing additional context, and her experimentation with VR and AR technology inspired her to create the Vuevelo platform to fulfill an existing need for art lovers seeking more vetted information about the works that they love straight from the creators/curators themselves.
Vashti DuBois
Prior to creating The Colored Girls Museum (TCGM), Vashti DuBois held leadership positions at a number of organizations over the span of her 30-year career in non-profit and arts administration. DuBois’ work focused primarily on issues impacting girls and women of color at organizations such as The Free Library of Philadelphia, Tree House Books, the historic Church of the Advocate, the Children’s Art Carnival in New York City, the Haymarket People’s Fund in Boston, Congreso Girls Center and The Leeway Foundation.
In 2015, DuBois opened TCGM to “honor the stories, experiences and history of Colored Girls throughout the African Diaspora.” It is the first memoir museum of its kind offering visitors a multi-disciplinary experience in a residential space. TCGM initiates the “ordinary” object, submitted by the colored girl herself, as a representative of an aspect of her story and personal history which she finds meaningful.
TCGM has been engineered to pop up in other cities and neighborhoods around the country, transforming ordinary spaces into Colored Girls Museum outposts that collect, archive and share the stories of indigenous Colored Girls.
DuBois is a graduate of Wesleyan University and a NAMAC Fellow. She is currently working on a book about the making of The Colored Girls Museum.
Robin White Owen
Robin White Owen is a Principal and Creative Producer at MediaCombo, a digital media studio she founded with her husband, Michael Owen, in 2004 in New York. They produce user friendly and engaging experiences in virtual reality, augmented reality and interactive applications, as well as audio tours and videos. These projects are designed to build engagement, relationships and knowledge.
Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) create immersive experiences that can accomplish these goals because they help visitors gain a deeper, more personal understanding of a story.
She is currently completing Tracing Paint: the Pollock-Krasner Studio in VR, a VR experience for the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in East Hampton, NY. Visitors in Quest VR headsets will find themselves in the studio as it looked when first Pollock and then Krasner painted their most iconic works there, seeing those paintings in situ, and hearing the artists speak about their process.
Her first AR project was an AR audio tour at The Morgan Library & Museum, launched in December 2018, The 1907 Tour: Pierpont Morgan’s Library Revealed. It takes advantage of the unique attributes of augmented reality to merge the past with the present, blending time and distance, delving into Morgan’s personal life, and his sources of inspiration.
Her first Virtual Reality project was a 3D virtual tour of We Are Nature, a ground- breaking exhibition examining the human causes of climate change, at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.
In addition to producing in VR & AR, Robin has produced interactive applications, sim games, websites, audio tours and video programs for a broad spectrum of internationally known cultural and civic organizations, and corporations, including the Rubin Museum of Art, The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY), the International Center of Photography (ICP), the American Museum of Natural History, the New-York Historical Society, the Jewish Museum, the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, and Metropolitan Transit Authority Capital Construction (MTACC).
Robin has been a member of ArtTable for many years, serving on the Program Committee for several of them. At present she volunteers as Co-Chair of the Media, Technology & Design Commission in the Career & Technology Education program at the NYC Dept of Education, and is an Advisory Board Member of Calm Clarity. She frequently presents at museum and technical conferences on AR and VR in museums and has recently written on this topic for the touring museum exhibition platform TEO.

VIRTUAL | Reading at the (Art)Table
2020-07-12 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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The Northern California Chapter hosts Reading at the (Art)Table, now a virtual brunch and discussion of art books. This months selection, Black Mountain: An Interdisciplinary Experiment 1933-1957.
Published by Spector Books and the National galerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, this book provides us with an opportunity to delve deeply into the extraordinarily fertile environment and history of Black Mountain.

AT CONNECT | Hillary Burchfield
2020-07-15 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Image: Hillary Burchfield
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
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ArtTable is expanding its CONNECT program to intimate online discussions open to members nationally across chapters. Originally designed to further encourage one-to-one networking amongst its members in DC, CONNECT transitioned to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.
During this session we will hear from Hillary Burchfield, founder of Hillary Burchfield, LLC, on her experience starting up on her own and building her business. Topics included:
– Getting the nuts & bolts in place: transitioning a side hustle to a full-time position
– Evaluating your positioning, professional experience, and timing in the art world
– Knowing when the timing is right – the “galvanizing moment”
– Advice on leveraging your network to grow your business quickly
– Thinking currently and pivoting as needed
– Starting a business in the current climate – how to prepare for a launch, survival and success in a post-quarantine art world
Hillary Burchfield, LLC is a New York-based fine arts executive search and talent acquisition firm. Hillary received her BA from Vanderbilt University, and her MA in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art. She gained professional experience throughout her career at prominent international galleries, auction houses, art advisories, and other arts organizations, before launching Hillary Burchfield, LLC. Hillary has cultivated close relationships with galleries, museums, auction houses, artist estates, artist studios, and non-profit organizations, and works to connect these organizations with qualified candidates to build their teams and enhance their businesses. With a personal understanding of the challenges in navigating a career change in the art world, Hillary is dedicated to consulting candidates openly and honestly, and providing the most thorough networking opportunities for each candidate with a commitment to meeting their professional goals.
Thank you to Concetta Duncan, for moving the CONNECT program online and to Jacqueline Towers-Perkins for organizing.

VIRTUAL | Learning and leading in times of trauma: How to establish an anti-racist workplace
2020-07-17 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
Join ArtTable for a participatory webinar on creating an anti-racist workplace culture with consultants and educators, Susan X Jane and Adriele Parker, who specialize in building strategies for diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace. Led by Susan and Adriele, we’ll lean into discomfort, discuss practicing intersectional feminism in the workplace, and take on long-term meaningful action for organizational progression. This event is open to members only with a suggested donation of $15.00.
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Susan X Jane
Susan is a skilled trainer and coach with over 25 years of experience working in mission-focused organizations and supporting leaders who are ready to take on the challenge of our times. Read more about Susan’s work here.
Adriele Parker
Adriele is a NY-based consultant who helps tech leaders, teams, and companies improve cultural competency and build more equitable and inclusive spaces. You can learn more about Adriele here.

RE/ VIEW: The Future of International Storage, Travel and Care for Collections
2020-07-21 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
We are currently at capacity for this event. If you’d like to listen in live we will be streaming this on our Youtube page. Please head here to watch along!
Introducing RE/ VIEW, an online program discussion series to address reopening and reimagining museums, art spaces and institutions across the country. Understanding that this crisis has upended previous conditions and revealed vulnerabilities in how we exhibit, present and view art, we invite leaders across our field to strategize for the future. This event is open to members and non-members with a $15 suggested donation.

Join ArtTable for a RE/ VIEW program on the future of international loans, insurance, couriers and storage. We’ll be discussing inventive solution building when moving a work across borders during a global pandemic, as well as new logistical measures and responsibilities taken on by institutions, collectors and art spaces within and outside of the US.
How will this affect an international market? How are registrars, handlers and art services working to return works and provide safe access to collections? During this event, we will hear from Sydney Briggs, Associate Registrar, Collections, Museum of Modern Art, Jacqueline Cabrera, Principal, Cabrera+Art+Management, and Melissa Osterwind, Chief Operating Officer, SRI Fine Art Services. This conversation will be moderated by Jessica Porter, Lila Harnett Executive Director, ArtTable.
About the participants:
Sydney Briggs is an Associate Registrar with a 20-year career managing the permanent collections of the Departments of Painting and Sculpture, Media and Performance Art, and Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art, NY. Most recently, she was the Lead registrar for the reinstallation of MoMA’s newly expanded 4thfloor permanent collection galleries, collaboratively overseeing the installation of a variety of works spanning the late 1930s – 1970s. She has couriered fragile works of art, managed complex installations, and organized shipments of incoming acquisitions and loans both domestically and internationally. She is integrally involved in ongoing collection maintenance for the museum’s Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman Fluxus and Instruction Drawings Collections. She has guest lectured on contemporary exhibition management for museum studies at New York University. She co-published an article on collaborative work practices in the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, and has blogged about her work documenting installations for the former Inside/Out-A MoMA/PS1 blog. Before joining MoMA she was a registrar for Sotheby’s NY, and began her career as a gallery assistant for June Kelly Gallery, NY. She holds a BA in the History of Art from Wesleyan University and has studied graduate art history at City University of New York/ Hunter College.
Jacqueline Cabrera is Principal at Cabrera + Art + Management, a company that focuses on registration and collection management projects for both the private and public sector. She is a founding board member and past President of the Association of Registrars and Collection Specialists (ARCS), and founder and host of the Registrar Hour. The Registrar Hour is an international weekly Zoom hour specifically for registrars, topics covered included fine art shipping, art couriers, fine art insurance, disaster planning, re-opening plans, digital condition reports and indemnity schemes. Over the years she has served on the Program Committees for American Alliance of Museums, Western Museum Association, the California Association of Museums and Art Table, Inc. She also served as Chair of the Registrars Committee Western Region, as a board member of the Western Museum Association, and participated in the leadership training program at the Getty Leadership Institute (Claremont University). From 1996 to 2016, she was an exhibition registrar at the J. Paul Getty Museum and Getty Villa. Prior to joining the Getty in 1996 she was the Registrar at the Long Beach Museum of Art and previously a Painting Department Assistant at Sotheby’s.
Melissa Osterwind holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from Syracuse University, with a Finance concentration. Prior to her tenure as Chief Operating Officer at SRI Fine Art Services, Melissa was the Controller at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and oversaw their $1.6 billion expense budget. She joined SRI in 2013 and immediately felt that company’s commitment to supporting the arts and other cultural institutions aligned with her call to public service.
Melissa has used her extensive financial and team-building experience to guide SRI through record growth; doubling the staff, storage footprint and gross sales over the past six years. Her success is hinged on providing tailored logistics solutions to gallerists, museums, and private collectors coupled with excellent client relationships.

AT CONNECT | Building AWARE with Camille Morineau
2020-07-22 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Image: Camille Morineau, credit: Photo Valerie Archeno
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
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ArtTable is expanding its CONNECT program to intimate online discussions open to members nationally across chapters. Originally designed to further encourage one-to-one networking amongst its members in DC, CONNECT transitioned to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.
This week we’ll hear from Camille Morineau, Director and Co-Founder of AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions, on building AWARE.
Based in Paris, AWARE is a French non-profit organization dedicated to the creation, indexation and distribution of information on women artists of the 20th century. This year, The Armory Show in New York partnered with AWARE on a new juried award to recognize the best booth dedicated to a solo presentation of a female artist, awarding $10,000 to the artist or her estate.
With degrees from both the École normale supérieure and the Institut national du patrimoine, Camille Morineau has worked for twenty years in public cultural institutions in France, including ten years as curator of the contemporary collections at the musée national d’Art moderne – Centre Georges-Pompidou (Paris). She has curated numerous exhibitions there, including Yves Klein (2006), Gerhard Richter (2012), Roy Lichtenstein (2013), and the site elles@centrepompidou (2009-2011) dedicated solely to female artists from the collections of the musée national d’Art moderne.
She has also curated several exhibitions as a free-lance curator, including Niki de Saint Phalle at RMN – Grand Palais (Paris, 2014) and Guggenheim Bilbao (2016), Ceramix. From Rodin to Schütte, about the use of ceramics by artists of the 20th and 21st century, at Bonnefanten Museum Maastricht (2015) and La maison rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, with Manufacture de Sèvres (Paris, 2016). From 2016 to October 2019, she has been the director of exhibitions and collections at Monnaie de Paris, where she has curated the following exhibitions: Women House, also shown at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington (2017-2018), Floor-naments, an exhibition marking the 40th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou (2017), Subodh Gupta (2018), Thomas Schütte (2019), Kiki Smith (2019-2020).

Virtual: Meet the 2020 ArtTable Fellows!
2020-07-29 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for a discussion with our 2020 ArtTable Fellows where they will be discussing their projects and experiences with the ArtTable Fellowship Program. 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 be celebrate 20 years of this impactful program. Click here to read more about our Impact initiatives.
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
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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 ArtTable Fellowship Program is partnering this year with the Chrysler Museum of Art (Norfolk, VA); The Laundromat Project (New York, NY), the Museum of Chinese in America (New York, NY); Socrates Sculpture Park (Long Island City, NY); Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center (Oklahoma City, OK); The Arts Student League of New York (New York, NY); LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary (Los Angeles, CA); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA); and The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, NY).

Participating ArtTable Fellow Bios
Jewel Ham
The Arts Student League

Jewel Ham is a 2020 Summa Cum Laude Howard University graduate, with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts. Interested in production, curation, and distribution of fine art alike, she intends to increase the accessibility of visual art in Black and brown communities.

Jocelyn Lopez-Anleu
Los Angles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
Jocelyn Lopez-Anleu was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles and is the first member in her family to attend a four-year university. Lopez-Anleu has packed a lot in her four years at UC Santa Cruz. Besides her B.A., she is completing minors in Latin American and Latino studies and History of Consciousness. During her second year, she studied contemporary curatorial practices at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and engaged with different methods of studying art history at UCLA. She also interned at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and The Broad. These experiences starkly illustrated how limiting the traditional art world can be, and she has dedicated her efforts to bring underrepresented artists from communities of color to the forefront. “I do this in hopes that by seeing art that engages with their identity, communities of color and queer communities of color will arrive at an understanding that art and careers in the arts is not something that is inaccessible to them.

Michelle Mandarino
The Chrysler Museum of Art
Michelle Mandarino is an MA student in Art History at Indiana University and the Graduate Curatorial Assistant of European and American Art at the Eskenazi Museum of Art. Her research interests include southern Baroque painting and the cross-cultural relationship between Italy and Spain in the seventeenth century.

Taylor Payer
Socrates Sculpture Park
Boozhoo! My name is Taylor Payer and I am a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Anishinaabe. I graduated from Dartmouth College in 2015 with a Bachelor’s in Women’s and Gender Studies. During my last year of undergraduate, I was a student fellow at the Hood Museum of Art where I worked on public programming and curated an exhibition of contemporary art by women of color and indigenous women.
For the last three years I have worked as a curator and community engagement director at the All My Relations Gallery in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I have also been an arts educator at the Walker Art Center. As an emerging arts professional, I have been able to curate, organize, and install several exhibitions and creative place-keeping initiatives.

Erica Rawles
The Laundromat Project

Erica Rawles is an artist, writer, facilitator, and collaborator with a background in community engagement and organizing. In addition to her personal art practice and work as a freelance writer, Erica collaborates with organizations in a participatory, creative process that prioritizes community building and empowerment. Before joining the Laundromat Project as an ArtTable fellow, she worked as Creative Strategist for the Little Tokyo Service Center and as an educator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. She is also an AmeriCorps alumna. Erica holds a dual B.A. in studio art and philosophy from Claremont McKenna College.

Carola Reyes
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Carola Reyes Benítez is a recent graduate from NYU’s College of Arts and Sciences. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, she embarked to New York City to pursue studies in Art History and Business Studies. During her four years at university, she has had various experiences in the art world, including internships at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Sotheby’s, and Salon 94 gallery in NYC. Her academic interests include international contemporary art and design, specifically that of the Americas. As an incoming ArtTable Fellow at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, she plans to gain further experience in an arts institution while fostering new relationships within the San Francisco art community.

Lisa Zhang
Museum of Chinese of America
Lisa Yin Zhang is an artist, art historian, and writer, based in Queens, NY. She is a graduate of Williams College, and is interested in marginal narratives of modern and contemporary art history.

Virtual Summer Cocktail Hour with The Cocktail Bandits and Van Gogh Vodka
2020-08-25 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
6 PM EDT/ 5 PM CDT/ 3 PM PDT
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
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Join ArtTable, the Cocktail Bandits and our friends at Van Gogh Vodka for a summer cocktail hour!
We’ll be making “The Rose Gold:’

11/4 oz of Van Gogh Vodka
2 oz of rose flower tea
1 oz of honey syrup
1/4 oz of lemon juice
Garnish of lemon / rose flower

Van Gogh Vodka released its first limited edition #GoghGirl bottle to 31 markets across the U.S. just in time to toast National Girlfriends Day (August 1, 2020). Created by artist Kate Worum, a recognized print and pattern designer, the GoghGirl label pays homage to the brand’s namesake artist Vincent Van Gogh by featuring similar flowers shown in his painting “Oleanders.” In addition to showcasing female art and using the campaign hashtag #GoghGirl on the bottle, Van Gogh vodka will donate a $1 per bottle sold to ArtTable! You can find Van Gogh vodka for this event and beyond here!
Johnny Caldwell and Taneka Reaves are the dynamic duo known around the globe as the curly-haired Cocktail Bandits. Read more about the Cocktail Bandits here!

Virtual | AT CONNECT: Klaudia Ofwona Draber
2020-09-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Image: Klaudia Ofwona Draber

12 PM EDT/ 11 AM CDT/ 9 AM PDT

This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
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The AT CONNECT program series presents intimate online discussions open to members nationally across chapters. Originally designed to further encourage one-to-one networking amongst its members in DC, CONNECT transitioned to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.
This week we’ll hear from Klaudia Ofwona Draber is the Executive Director and Curator at ​​KODA, on residency building and supporting the work of artists. KODA’s focus is on supporting the professional and artistic growth of mid-career artists, who create conceptual and social justice related work.

Klaudia Ofwona Draber is the Executive Director and Curator at ​​KODA​—a NYC-based social practice nonprofit, an artist residency for mid-career artists. She’s also the founder of Ofwona Foundation, building schools in Africa. Previously she managed $2-20 million capital investment projects in Africa, governed a $3.2 billion strategic portfolio and managed art CSR projects at UBS, and consulted strategy and technology for the British Council Arts—including writing and implementation of the program management policy and standards for a $50 million global portfolio of Visual Arts, Theater, Music, Dance, Fashion and Design, Film and Creative Economic projects and programs. Klaudia trained and mentored over 100 project managers and executives, in best practices in Project Management. Some of the artists she worked with include Terence Koh, Tahir Carl Karmali, Lina Puerta, Hidemi Takagi, or Kenseth Armstead. She completed MA in Art Business at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art New York, where she returns regularly as a guest speaker, and MSc in Economics at the Warsaw School of Economics, with a focus on the art market. Klaudia serves on the Membership Committee of ArtTable.

Virtual | AT CONNECT: Naomi Baigell
2020-09-09 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
This program is open to ArtTable members for free. Non members are welcome at an additional cost of $10. ArtTable Members, please make sure to log-in to your account for complimentary access.
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The AT CONNECT program series presents intimate online discussions open to members nationally across chapters. Originally designed to further encourage one-to-one networking amongst its members in DC, CONNECT transitioned to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.

During this session we will hear from Naomi Baigell, Managing Director, Marketing and Client Relationships at Athena Art Finance. Naomi will give an introduction to art finance and art lending and will discuss Athena’s unique approach as a specialized, independent firm that provides financial solutions to private collectors, galleries, family trusts, and artist foundations and estates who want to access the value of the works of art they hold, but do not wish to sell them.
Naomi has 30+ years of experience in the art and finance industries and as a leader in identifying and crafting proactive business development opportunities. As Managing Director at Athena Art Finance, Naomi works with clients to develop art-secured loans and financial strategies, cultivates and maintains partnerships, and creates strategic business opportunities for Athena’s clients.
Prior to joining Athena, Naomi was Senior Vice President and Director of Global Corporate Art Services at Sotheby’s Auction House. Naomi earned her B.A. in Art History and Business from University of Massachusetts at Amherst and earned her appraisals certificate from NYU.
Thank you to Sarah McNaughton, ArtTable NY Programs Chair.

VIRTUAL | Live Virtual Memorial Tour at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum
2020-09-13 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
12 PM EDT/ 11 AM CDT/ 9 AM PDT
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. We hope to see you there!
Members | $5.00
Guests | $10.00
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Join ArtTable for a live virtual memorial tour at the 9/11 memorial & museum.
For the anniversary of 9/11, this year we’re providing members with the opportunity to experience a live virtual tour of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum to experience the site and its monumentality. Through interactive tours, a guide tells the stories of courage, resilience and sacrifice that took place on September 11, 2001.
Thank you to Ana-Alicia Siqueiros, ArtTable New York member.

VIRTUAL | Curatorial Perspective: Angela Davis: Seize the Time
2020-09-22 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
5 PM EDT/ 4 PM CDT/ 2 PM PDT
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members and guests. We hope to see you there!
Members | $5.00
Guests | $10.00
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Join ArtTable for a presentation of Angela Davis: Seize the Time, which will open at the Zimmerli Art Museum on September 1, 2021, with Donna Gustafson, Interim Director, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Mellon Director for Academic Programs, Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers.
Focusing on Davis and her image, the exhibition provides a compelling and layered narrative of Davis’s journey through the junctures of race, gender, and economic and political policy from 1969 to the present. The project is inspired by, and draws heavily on, a private archive in Oakland, California, that includes materials produced by an international community that assembled to protect Davis in a campaign to “Free Angela and All Political Prisoners,” press photography, court sketches, videos, music, and Davis’s own writings making it possible to document Davis’s work on issues related to freedom, oppression, feminisms, and prison abolition.
Beyond the archive, the exhibition positions Angela Davis as a continuing touchstone for contemporary artists who reference her history as a political icon and her texts on revolution, feminisms, and incarceration. It includes work by contemporary artists Sadie Barnette, Bethany Collins, Yevgeniy Fiks, Coco Fusco, Renée Green, Steffani Jemison and Justin Hicks, Roberto Lugo, Juan Sanchez, and Carrie Schneider, among others, who assert Davis’s significance as a black feminism intellectual and engage with her as a historical participant, contemporary thinker, and activist in a larger narrative that extends into the present. The book, published by Hirmer Press and available for purchase, includes contributions by the co-curators, Donna Gustafson and Gerry Beegan, the archivist Lisbet Tellefsen, scholar and curator, Nicole Fleetwood, scholar and curator and interviews with Angela Davis by René de Guzman and Tellefsen by Gustafson.
Donna Gustafson is the Interim Director and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. Her publications and exhibition projects at the Zimmerli include Tiananmen Square, 1989: Photographs by Khiang H. Hei (2019); Subjective Objective: A Century of Social Photography (2017); Jessie Krimes: Apokaluptein: 16389067 (2014); Rachel Perry Welty 24/7 (2012); at/around/beyond: Fluxus at Rutgers (2011); Water (2010) and Lalla Essaydi: Les femmes du Maroc (2010). She is coauthor with Andrés

Mario Zervigón of Subjective Objective: A Century of Social Photography (Hirmer, 2017), and the author of George Segal in Black and White: Photographs by Donald Lokuta (Zimmerli, 2015), Amelia and the Animals: The Photographs of Robin Schwartz (Aperture, 2014), Almost Human: Dolls and Robots in Contemporary Art (Hunterdon Art Museum, 2005), and Images from the World Between: The Circus in Twentieth-Century American Art (MIT Press, 2001). She has published reviews and articles, presented papers, and participated in symposia and panels on a variety of topics in photography, American, and contemporary art. Her current project is an exhibition on the image and texts of the American activist and scholar Angela Davis to open at the Zimmerli Art Museum in 2021.
Thank you to Elisabeth Rouchau- Shalem, NY Programs Committee.

Virtual | AT CONNECT: Pauline Willis
2020-09-30 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Image: Pauline Willis, Director and CEO of the American Federation of Arts (AFA).
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ArtTable CONNECT virtual lunch breaks
ArtTable is expanding its CONNECT program to intimate online discussions open to members nationally across chapters. Originally designed to further encourage one-to-one networking amongst its members in DC, CONNECT transitioned to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.
During this session we will hear from Pauline Willis, Director and CEO of the American Federation of Arts (AFA).
Pauline Willis has been the Director and CEO of the American Federation of Arts (AFA) since 2012, a century-old, not-for-profit organization that develops, raises money, and handles all logistics to tour top quality exhibitions to museum across America. Ms. Willis previously served as the organization’s Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer.
Under her leadership, the AFA’s exhibition program has been reinvigorated and traveling exhibitions increased from two to more than twenty. Working with the board of trustees and a strengthened staff, she also developed innovative programs relating to museum exhibitions and collaborations, expanded the organization’s membership program, and raised funds to enable these endeavors.
A curatorial research program developed by Ms. Willis created new partnerships with museums internationally. One, the China Initiatives Program of 2013, fostered cultural exchange with Chinese museums, resulting in the US-China Museum Summit, co-organized with the Asia Society, which brought together over thirty American and twenty Chinese museum directors for presentations and discussions in New York City. In 2018, Ms. Willis oversaw the AFA partnering with the Italian arts organization LoveItaly, and is currently spearheading a cultural exchange of prized Italian collections with U.S. museums.
Recognizing important issues shared by museums nationwide, Ms. Willis established ArtViews, a panel discussion series for graduate school students and museum professionals to explore and address current concerns among museums and other arts organizations.
Also under her leadership, the AFA assumed responsibility for administering the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation that oversees a biennial competition and confers thirty $20,000 grants to artists who work in varied media.
Pauline Willis holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Baruch College, City University of New York, and in 2019 she attended the Getty Leadership Institute at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. She is a board member of ArtTable, a national organization for professional women in the arts, and a board member of the Art Bridges Foundation. She readily embraces diversity through her exposure to varied cultural environments and extensive travel.

Annual Leadership Series: Enacting Equality, Ending Racism with Sandra Jackson-Dumont
2020-10-07 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York)
Image: Marie Watt, ‘Companion Species (Calling All My Relations)’, 2018, photographed by Edward Robison
4 PM EDT/ 3 PM CDT/ 1 PM PDT
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ArtTable’s Annual Leadership Series is dedicated to convening top voices in the arts to deeply explore the most pressing issues of our time. This year, Sandra Jackson-Dumont (Director and CEO, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art) moderates an essential conversation on race and equity in the art world with Suzy Delvalle (former Head of Creative Capital), Lisa Yancey (President, Yancey Consulting, LLC), and Marie Watt (artist). These inspirational visionaries will share their perspectives on systemic inequity and racism in the art world—as reflected in leadership roles, salary structure, fundraising priorities, and beyond—and discuss the meaningful changes they are spearheading to move the field toward equity and inclusion.
ArtTable’s Annual Leadership Series presents a public forum featuring a distinguished roster of artists, change-makers, and leaders in our field to discuss relevant and emerging issues for those working in arts and culture. In the past, our speakers have included Thelma Golden, Christy Maclear, Monica O. Montgomery, Anne Pasternak, and many more.
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About Sandra Jackson-Dumont
Sandra Jackson-Dumont joined the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art as director and CEO in January 2020. Tasked with leading the institution through its opening and beyond, Jackson-Dumont came to the Lucas Museum from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she served as the Frederick P. and Sandra P. Rose Chairman of Education from 2014 to 2019.
At the Lucas Museum, Jackson-Dumont oversees wide-ranging programming and operational teams and will manage a staff of more than 230 by the time the museum opens. She leads the curatorial, museum experience, education, and collections management teams in exploring the extensive collection and developing exhibitions and programs for the museum’s extensive gallery and classroom spaces. The Lucas Museum broke ground in March 2018 in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park, and Jackson-Dumont also works with the architecture and construction teams to bring architect Ma Yansong’s vision for the 11-acre campus and 300,000-square-foot building to life. Jackson-Dumont reports to the Lucas Museum’s board of directors.
Throughout her career, Jackson-Dumont has developed programming around museum collections and special exhibitions to engage a broad range of audiences, from school-age children and their teachers to artists and scholars. At The Met, Jackson-Dumont conceived of and managed an array of dynamic public programs, community engagement and academic initiatives, and live arts performances for diverse audiences. Jackson-Dumont also served for eight years as the deputy director for education and public programs and adjunct curator of modern and contemporary art at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM). There, she oversaw educational public programs, interpretive technology, and community affairs across the museum’s three venues, as well as organized significant exhibitions and collaborative projects on the work of Theaster Gates, Titus Kaphar, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and Sondra Perry, among others. Prior to that, Jackson-Dumont held positions at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among other cultural organizations.
Known for her ability to blur the lines between academia, popular culture, and non-traditional art-going communities, Jackson-Dumont is invested in curating experiences that foster dynamic exchanges between art/artists, past/present, public/private, and people/places. She has organized numerous exhibitions, lectures, performances, symposia, and education initiatives and has contributed essays to a host of publications and worked with numerous artists.

About Suzy Delvalle
Susan (Suzy) Delvalle is a fierce advocate for art and artists. With over 20 years of leadership experience in the cultural sector, she has committed her career to enhancing the impact of mission-based organizations and building opportunity and equity in the arts. She most recently served as President and Executive Director of Creative Capital, an innovative arts nonprofit that adapts venture philanthropy concepts to support individual artists. Only the second Director in Creative Capital’s history, Suzy oversaw some of the most dramatic changes in the organization’s two-decade history. Under her leadership, Creative Capital increased its annual operating budget 20 percent by instituting a three-year fundraising cycle, further developed the board with ten new active members while also establishing a National Advisory Council, and expanded services to artists by instituting regular, annual Creative Capital Awards and retreats.
Suzy formerly served as the founding Director of the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, where she oversaw all aspects of the development and opening of the museum. She previously served as Director of External Affairs and Development at El Museo Del Barrio, where she dramatically increased the museum’s budget and attendance over her eleven-year tenure. Before joining El Museo, she worked for American Composers Orchestra following a career in consumer banking and advertising. Suzy has served as adjunct faculty at NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies and is a guest lecturer at several universities. She serves on the Board of ArtTable, New Yorkers for Culture & Arts, The Laundromat Project and is a member of The Metropolitan Museum’s Advisory Committee in Culture Engagement. She was born and raised in Curaçao and speaks Spanish, Dutch, and Papiamento.

About Lisa Yancey
Recently coined a strategic maverick by a long-time colleague, Lisa Yancey is an organizational development consultant who specializes in strategic organizational planning, business planning, program evaluation and assessments, executive project management, revenue modeling, leadership coaching, and organizational structure assessments for nonprofit institutions. She is the President of Yancey Consulting, LLC, an organizational and leadership development consulting firm committed to unlocking, provoking, facilitating, and collaboratively imagining equitable social impacts on the local to national level™. Lisa advises a spectrum of practitioners, nonprofit organizations, philanthropists, and philanthropic institutions committed to dismantling inequities, enriching disinvested communities, building leadership, and amplifying diverse perspectives. She has worked with, facilitated, and provided pro bono services to over 100 organizations or grantmaking institutions in the past 19 years. She works across arts and culture, youth development, social justice, media justice, economic justice, and open internet sectors. As an entrepreneur, Lisa also advises emerging for-profit entities that are values-aligned with her equity-based values. Getting to know organizations personally to co-develop strategies, benchmark indicators, and measurable objectives is a hallmark of her work.
Lisa matriculated from both Boston College Law School and Emory University, respectively earning her Juris Doctorate and Bachelor of the Arts degrees. She used to be a professional dancer and choreographer and has been a member of the New York State Bar Association since 2000. She started her consultancy practice in 2001. Her professional ambition is to make meaningful differences that systemically elevate equity, particularly disrupting inequities that impact historically disinvested, underinvested or marginalized communities.

About Marie Watt
Marie Watt is an American artist and citizen of the Seneca Nation with German-Scot ancestry. Her interdisciplinary work draws from history, biography, Iroquois protofeminism, and Indigenous teachings; in it, she explores the intersection of history, community, and storytelling. Through collaborative actions she instigates multigenerational and cross-disciplinary conversations that might create a lens and conversation for understanding connectedness to place, one another, and the universe.
Watt holds an MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University; she also has degrees from Willamette University and the Institute of American Indian Arts; and in 2016 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Willamette University.
She has attended residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Vermont Studio Center; and has received fellowships from Anonymous Was a Woman, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Harpo Foundation and the Ford Family Foundation and the Native Arts and Culture Foundation.
Marie serves on the board for VoCA (Voices in Contemporary Art) and on the Native Advisory Committee at the Portland Art Museum and in 2020 became a member of the Board of Trustees at the Portland Art Museum. She is a fan of Crow’s Shadow, an Indigenous founded printmaking institute located on the homelands of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla, as well as
Portland Community College.
Selected collections include the Seattle Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Yale University Art Gallery, Crystal Bridges Museum, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian and Renwick Gallery, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Denver Art Museum, and the Portland Art Museum. She is represented by PDX
Contemporary Art in Portland, Oregon, Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle, Washington, and Marc Straus Gallery in New York City, New York.

Virtual | AT Connect with Shelley Fischer
2020-10-14 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Image: Shelley Fischer
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s AT CONNECT program series allows and encourages all members to network and connect with each other and ask questions outside of their regular areas of expertise. This event will take place as a live conversation. Registration is open to members only, with a suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
Please join us for a discussion with Shelley Fischer, Director of Finance & Operations at Art Money.
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About Shelley Fischer
Making art accessible with Art Money now and having experience in both art-secured lending and personal finance, Shelley’s professional activities fall at the crossroads of art and money/finance. Shelley is currently the Director of Finance & Operations at Art Money, a young international company, whose mission is to make buying art accessible by allowing qualified buyers the ability to pay for their purchases in 10 monthly installments without paying any interest, fees, subscriptions or finance charges. Art Money partners with over 1200 galleries worldwide, where art collectors shop for the art they love, make a deposit, and pay the rest over time.
She’s also a Certified Financial Planner® and works primarily with artists and art dealers/gallerists on their personal finances. Previously, during her 19-year tenure at Sotheby’s Financial Services, Shelley provided art collectors, dealers, trusts and estates with financing secured by their fine art, jewelry, watches, wine & /or decorative art collections.

Virtual | Artist Talk with Elizabeth Turk
2020-10-15 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Image: Elizabeth Turk with her work, courtesy of the artist and Hirschl & Adler Modern
4pm EST | 3pm CST | 1pm PST
Please join us for a virtual Artist Talk with Elizabeth Turk, whose exhibition ‘Tipping Point: Echoes of Extinction’ opens at Hirschl & Adler on October 1 in New York.
This program is free for ArtTable members and $5 for non-members.
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About Elizabeth Turk
A native Californian, Elizabeth Turk (b. 1961) is known for her hand-carved marble sculpture and community installations. She is a MacArthur Fellow, an Annalee & Barnett Newman Foundation recipient and a Smithsonian Artist Fellow. Turk received her MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, Rinehart School of Sculpture in 1994 and her BA from Scripps College, Claremont, CA in 1983. In 2017, she launched ET Studios (a CA non-profit) to develop open community experiences. Her work can be found in numerous public collections including The Jewish Museum (New York, NY); The National Museum for Women in the Arts (Washington, DC); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA); and The Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC), among others. In 2014, The Laguna Art Museum (Laguna, CA) hosted Elizabeth Turk: Sentient Forms, a mid-career survey of the artist’s work. Currently, Turk splits time between a studio in Santa Ana, CA and New York City. She has been represented by Hirschl & Adler Modern since 2000.
About Hirschl & Adler Modern
Hirschl & Adler Modern, founded in 1981, specializes in art from 1913 to the present, with a strong emphasis on American Modernism and the post-war period. It also represents a select group of established and mid-career contemporary artists who are featured regularly through scheduled solo and group exhibitions in its 11,000 square-foot gallery space at the crossroads of 57th Street and Madison Avenue in New York City. Its parent company Hirschl & Adler Galleries, founded in 1952, has been specializing in important American and European art of all periods throughout its 69 year history.
Led for over 50 years by President and Director, Stuart P. Feld, and joined in 1999 by his daughter Elizabeth Feld, Hirschl & Adler mounts about 8 to 10 special exhibitions per year, most accompanied by scholarly publications. Both the contemporary and historical presentations have received critical acclaim and have resulted in the placement of works into major private collections around the world, as well as the finest American and international museums.
Thank you to Elizabeth Turk and Hirschl & Adler Modern.

Virtual | Curatorial Perspective: House to House: Women, Politics, & Place
2020-10-17 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Image: “House to House: Women, Politics, and Place”; Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum at FIU, Miami, FL
2pm EST | 1pm CST | 11am PST
ArtTable’s Curatorial Perspective program series invites curators to present and discuss timely exhibitions and initiatives.
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Please join ArtTable’s Florida chapter for a Virtual tour of the exhibition “House to House: Women, Politics, and Place” with Amy Galpin, PhD, Chief Curator at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum at FIU in Miami, FL. The tour is free for members and $10 for guests.
This fall, U.S. citizens will go to the polls to cast their vote in the 2020 presidential election. Campaign advertisements saturate TV and radio while social media feeds explode with political declarations. As local and national elections are decided in November, the U.S. also marks the 100-year anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. As these two events coalesce, the Frost Art Museum presents House to House: Women, Politics, and Place. The multimedia works in this exhibition explore the changing roles of women, metaphorically represented by the house as domestic space and the most public of houses, the U.S House of Representatives, where there are 100 women serving as Representatives. In the 20th century, women became visible outside the home, becoming active participants in society and demanding overdue equal representation, social justice, as well as empowerment.
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Thank you to Amy Galpin and Rustin Levenson, ArtTable Board Member.

Virtual | AT Connect with Danielle Glosser
2020-10-21 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
1pm ET | 12pm CT | 10am PT
ArtTable’s AT Connect program series allows and encourages all members to network and connect with each other and ask questions outside of their regular areas of expertise. In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation and is open to members only, with a suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!

How to take part:

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Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link.
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About Danielle
Danielle Glosser is the Principal of Client Raiser, a business dedicated to helping artists to increase their client volume and the visibility of their art. Since 2014, she has worked with artists across the country in support of their professional goals. Danielle’s expertise in strategic planning, project management, research, writing, and networking comes from years of working and building relationships in the private, nonprofit, and government sectors on social justice issues from inner-city schools in Oakland, California to The White House. These professional opportunities — coupled with her personal belief that the arts are central to igniting conversation and enhancing human understanding — moved her to help artists with the business elements of their practice and to share their work with the world. Emerging and established artists alike begin with Client Raiser’s in-depth interview process, which results in a tangible assessment of their art practices and concrete next steps for advancing their careers.
Danielle is a 25+ year resident of Washington, D.C. She has led workshops with arts organizations across the region, including the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Maryland Institute College of Art, Hamiltonian, Transformer, Washington Project for the Arts, Halcyon, Superfine! DC, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Gateway Arts District, VisArts, Washington Sculptors Group, Women’s Caucus for Art, Artomatic, District of Columbia Arts Center, Montgomery Arts Association, and Capitol Hill Arts League. She also is a member of ArtTable, a leadership organization for women in the visual arts.

Image: Danielle Glosser
