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

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

How to take part:

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

Images:

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

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

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

How to take part:

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

Images:

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

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

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

How to take part:

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

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

Images:

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

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

Images courtesy of the artist and PBS Books.

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

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

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

Images:

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

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

Click here to Register for this program.
Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link.
Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center and select the “Zoom Client for Meetings” option. Alternatively, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link.
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Accessibility: Please note that this program will offer live closed captioning. If you require additional accommodations, please email programs@arttable.org.

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

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

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

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

Please read before registering:
Covid-19 Guidelines:

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

Accessibility:

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

Getting There:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please read before registering:
Covid-19 Guidelines:

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

Accessibility:

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

Getting There:

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

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

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

Images:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Images:

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

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

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Non-Members – $15
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About the Speakers
Marcela Guerrero is the Jennifer Rubio Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Recently, she was part of the curatorial team that organized Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945. In summer 2018, Guerrero curated the exhibition Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art. From 2014 to 2017 she worked as Curatorial Fellow at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, where she was involved in the much-lauded exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985, organized as part of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative and guest-curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Andrea Giunta. Prior to her position at the Hammer, she worked in the Latin American and Latino Art Curatorial department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) where she served as Research Coordinator for the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA). Guerrero’s writing has appeared in a variety of publications and has contributed articles to numerous exhibition catalogues. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Guerrero received her BA from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, and holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Daisy Nam is the curator at Ballroom Marfa, a contemporary art space located at the borderlands of Far West Texas. She recently co-edited a publication, Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts with Paper Monument. Previously from 2015–19, she was the assistant director at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University where she organized exhibitions, publications, and public programs working closely with artists to engage with the campus community and public at large. Prior, she curated and produced seven seasons of talks, screenings, performances, and workshops from 2008–2015 as the assistant director of public programs at the School of the Arts, Columbia University. Curatorial residencies and fellowships include: Marcia Tucker Senior Research Fellow at the New Museum, New York (2020); Bellas Artes, Bataan, Philippines (2020); Surf Point in York, Maine (2019); Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Korea (2018). She holds a master’s degree in Curatorial and Critical Studies from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in Art History and Cinema Studies from New York University. She has taught at RISD, and lectured at Lesley University, Northeastern, SMFA/Tufts, SVA as a visiting critic.

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

Images:

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

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

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

Images:

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

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

Admission

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

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

Images:

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

All images courtesy of the SPARC Archives.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Images:

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

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

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

How to make it:
Serve this cocktail in a Rocks Glass with a large ice cube. Stir all ingredients except bitters in a glass pitcher. Pour over your ice cube. Put in 3-4 dashes of bitters after the mix is in the glass (do not put these on the cube, but around the edges). Put worm salt/chili salt on the ice cube and garnish with an orange zest on the glass. Voila!
This program is free for ArtTable members and $10 for non-members. Members are encouraged to bring a friend for an additional $10.
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Accessibility: Automatic closed captioning will be available for this program. Please email programs@arttable.org if you require additional accommodations.

About the Speakers
Owner and chef Christa Csoka’s love for entertaining and passion for food began when she was a child, helping her mother host dinners and events for officers and cadets at West Point.
Csoka has over 30 years’ experience in the service industry, including working as a chef at French restaurants in NYC and Chicago and catering in Austin, New York, and Charlotte. She has lived in and visited many cities all over the world, all of which have given her a diverse culinary perspective and palate. After graduating from the French Culinary Institute in New York, Christa moved to Charlotte in 2003 to be closer to family. Although she was not immediately immersed in the culinary world of Charlotte, she kept her love of cooking alive by catering on weekends and special events as well as hosting many themed parties and events over the years. This would launch the idea of the Artisan’s Palate. The inclusion of art as part of a whole experience was always her passion and she envisioned a space in which food, drinks, music and art co-existed in harmony – and that is how The Artisan’s Palate came to be.
Melissa Herriott is a Charlotte-based abstract artist and interior stylist working in multiple mediums. Her paintings are full of color, texture, and symbolism. Melissa is an award-winning artist, featured in QC Exclusive Magazine and the KNOW Book of Women. Melissa’s hope is that her work sparks conversation, inspires, and allows you (if even for a moment) to get lost inside of it.

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

Images:

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

Virtual | AT Connect with Tiffany Williams
2021-11-10 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
9am PT / 10am MT / 11am CT / 12pm ET
ArtTable’s AT Connect program series encourages members to network, connect, and ask questions outside of their regular areas of expertise. In this session we will hear from Tiffany Williams, Assistant Curator at Art in Embassies and a member of ArtTable’s Washington, DC Chapter.
Admission

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

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

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

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

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

Virtual | Artist Talk with Andrea Chung
2021-11-17 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
10am PT / 11am MT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET
Please join us for a virtual artist talk with Andrea Chung, whose exhibition, We Was Girls Together, was recently presented at Tyler Park Presents in San Diego.
We Was Girls Together, inspired by Toni Morrison’s book Sula, is a series of large-scale collages that celebrates the relationships of black women in all their complexities and displays Chung’s gratitude for them. As Chung says, “Our sisterhood, our love for one another, is not always visible to the unfamiliar, nor should it always be.” Click here to read more about the exhibition.
Chung’s work has recently been featured in Prospect 4 (New Orleans) and the Jamaican Biennale (Kingston, Jamaica), as well as the Chinese American Museum and California African American Museum in Los Angeles, and the San Diego Art Institute. In 2017, her first solo museum exhibition took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, You broke the ocean in half to be here. She has participated in national and international residencies, including Headlands Center for the Arts and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been written about in the Artfile Magazine, Artnet, and Los Angeles Times, as well as a number of academic essays looking at the subject of colonialism and slavery in the Caribbean. (Full bio below)
Admission

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All other ArtTable Members – $10
Non-Members – $15
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About the Artist
Andrea Chung lives and works in San Diego, California. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design, New York, and a Master of Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. Her recent biennale and museum exhibitions include Prospect 4, New Orleans and the Jamaican Biennale, Kingston, Jamaica, as well as the Chinese American Museum and California African American Museum in Los Angeles, and the San Diego Art Institute. In 2017, her first solo museum exhibition took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, You broke the ocean in half to be here. She has participated in national and international residencies, including the Vermont Studio Center, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been written about in the Artfile Magazine, New Orleans Times, Picayune, Artnet, Los Angeles Times, and International Review of African-American Art, as well as a number of academic essays looking at the subject of colonialism and slavery in the Caribbean.

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

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

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

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

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

Images:

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

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN - Miami Art Week | ArtTable Brunch at Design Miami/
2021-12-02 11:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | DesignMiami/, Convention Center Drive & 19th Street, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
Please join us for our annual ArtTable Brunch during Miami Art Week, this year at Design Miami/! This is a great time for members and friends from across the country to come together and network at the week’s only fair dedicated to collectible design artwork and objects.
Your ticket includes a light breakfast at the fair, VIP Preview Access for you and one guest, as well as return admission for duration of the fair.
Admission:

ArtTable Members – $50
Member Guest – $65
Non-member – $75

Please read before registering:
Covid-19 Guidelines Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed. Face Masks Required: Face masks are required once inside the Design Miami/ tent and must not be removed. Staff will be required to wear a face mask at all times.Social Distancing Recommended: Social distancing of six feet or more is encouraged and adjustments to the exhibition floorplan have been made to allow for wider aisles and increased ventilation.Click here to read the full list of health & safety protocols during the fair. Accessibility Please email programs@arttable.org if you require accessibility information for this program. Getting There The fair is located at Convention Center Drive & 19th Street, Miami Beach, FL, USA. If you are taking an Uber or Lyft to the fair, the drop off and pick up location is on the corner of 19th Street and Meridian Ave. Nearby parking is available at the city parking garage at 1755 Meridian Ave. For more parking, please visit the City of Miami Beach Parking by clicking here.

Don’t miss these other opportunities and events during Miami Art Week!
VIP Fair Pass Packages
NADA Miami Director’s Tour

Image: Design Miami/’s flagship fair pictured in 2019. Courtesy Design Miami/

Virtual | DC BreakfastTable with Charlotte Ickes
2021-12-03 08:00 - 09:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
7am CT / 8am ET
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for December’s BreakfastTable with Charlotte Ickes, curator of time-based media and special projects at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. She will be discussing her background as an art historian and highlighting her current work at NPG. Currently, Ickes is co-curating a yearlong virtual screening and conversation series supported by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative called Viewfinder: Women’s Film and Video from the Smithsonian.
This program is free and open to ArtTable members only. Not a member? Join today!

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

About Charlotte Ickes
Previously the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Charlotte has held fellowship appointments at the Whitney Independent Study Program, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia).
Ickes has curated and co-curated exhibitions and public programs at multiple institutions and cultural spaces. This includes the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), Slought, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Anthology Film Archives, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. In addition to her BA from Yale University, Ickes received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
Her writing has appeared in American Art, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, and several exhibition catalogues, including Descent (2016), Ginny Casey & Jessi Reaves (2017), and Anna Kunz: Color Cast (forthcoming).

Thank you to Ruth Abrahams, Graphic designer, Ruth Abrahams Design and former DC Chapter Co-Chair for organizing this program.

Images:

Charlotte Ickes. Photo by Nathan Keay.

Miami Art Week 2021 | NADA Miami Director's Tour, with Heather Hubbs
2021-12-03 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | NADA Miami, Ice Palace Studios, 1400 North Miami Ave, Miami, FL, 33136, United States
Please join us for a director-led tour of the 2021 edition of NADA Miami. We will be joined by Heather Hubbs, Executive Director of New Art Dealers Alliance, who will guide us through highlights of the fair.

This program is $10 to attend and is open to ArtTable members only. Not a member? Join today!

Please read before registering:
Covid-19 Guidelines Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed. Health & Safety Guidelines at NADA Miami Entrance:All visitors, participants, and staff (ages 2 and older) will be required to wear masks in order to enter NADA Miami. Masks must adequately cover the nose and mouth at all times. No entry will be permitted without a face covering. All visitors, participants, and staff at NADA Miami over 12 years old must provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test to enter the fair. Test results can be a negative PCR test administered within 72 hours or a negative antigen test administered within 48 hours. Alternatively, visitors, participants, and staff may choose to voluntarily provide proof of completed COVID-19 vaccination to enter the fair. Please bring your government issued ID for identification to verify your health screening. Health & Safety Guidelines at the Fair:NADA Miami will have a timed-ticketing system to allow for more space between visitors and groups. NADA Miami will have separate entry and exit locations reconfigured to create less congestion for visitors—the entrance to the fair will remain the same at the corner of North Miami Avenue and NW 14th Street. NADA Miami will have sanitizing stations spread throughout the Ice Palace Studios. Stay Home if You Are Sick:If you have had any symptoms consistent with COVID-19 within the past 3 days or you have had any recently known exposures to COVID-19 within the past 14 days, please stay home and postpone your visit. Anyone exhibiting signs of illness will not be permitted entry. Accessibility Please email programs@arttable.org if you require accessibility information for this program. Getting There NADA Miami will be held at Ice Palace Studios at 1400 North Miami Avenue, Miami, Florida.

Don’t miss these other opportunities and events during Miami Art Week!
VIP Fair Pass Packages
ArtTable Brunch at Design Miami/

About the New Art Dealers Alliance
Founded in 2002, the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) is a not-for-profit 501c6 collective of professionals working with contemporary art. Our mission is to create an open flow of information, support, and collaboration within our field and to develop a stronger sense of community among our constituency. We believe that the adversarial approach to exhibiting and selling art has run its course. We believe that change can be achieved through fostering constructive thought and dialogue between various points in the art industry from large galleries to small spaces, non-profit and commercial alike. Through support and encouragement, we facilitate strong and meaningful relationships between our members working with new contemporary and emerging art; while enhancing the public’s interaction with contemporary art. Click here to read more about the New Art Dealers Alliance.

Images:

Image courtesy of NADA Miami

New York | MAD About Jewelry Holiday Edition - Private Member Tour
2021-12-09 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Museum of Arts & Design, 2 Columbus Circle, New York City, NY, 10019, United States
6:00pm ET
This December, the Museum of Arts and Design will present MAD About Jewelry, its annual show and sale featuring designs from more than 40 emerging and acclaimed US-based jewelry artists. MAD About Jewelry has become known as the ultimate pop-up shop for contemporary artist-made jewelry, where collectors and jewelry enthusiasts have the rare opportunity to meet and acquire pieces from some of the most innovative creators in the field. We are thrilled to offer ArtTable members a special private walkthrough of the show with the shows’ curator, Bryna Pomp.
This program is open to ArtTable members only. ArtTable Circle members have first access. Registration will open to all other members on Friday, November 19.
Admission

ArtTable Circle members – $10
All other ArtTable Members – $15

Not a member? Join today!

Please review before registering:
Covid-19 Guidelines Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed. For the protection of staff and visitors, the Museum’s health and safety policies adhere to Centers for Disease Control recommendations, as well as Federal, State, and City guidelines. All visitors over the age of twelve and Museum staff must provide proof of vaccination against Covid-19 to enter the building.Face coverings must be worn by all staff members and all visitors over the age of two.Enhanced cleaning of high-touch surfaces throughout the day; with hand-sanitizer units stationed throughout the building for visitors to use regularly.Social distancing throughout the galleries and the Store at MAD.Please use the stairs if you are able.Visitors who are feeling unwell, have a fever of 100°F or higher, tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 14 days, or had close contact with anyone who is confirmed or suspected of having Covid-19 should not visit the museum.To learn more about MAD’s response to Covid-19, please click here. Accessibility The Museum offers people with disabilities free admission and a $15 discount on Individual and Dual/Family memberships. For tickets, please inquire at the Visitor Services desk or contact info@madmuseum.org to reserve a ticket in advance. For membership information, please call the membership office at 212.299.7732. Please click here for more information about accessibility at the Museum of Arts and Design. If you require accommodations for this particular program, please email programs@arttable.org. Getting There The Museum is located at 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 11001. It is easily accessible by subway via the A, B, C, and 1 lines.

Thank you to Bryna Pomp and the Museum of Arts and Design.

Image: Photo courtesy of the Museum of Arts and Design

Virtual | An Evening with Barbara Earl Thomas
2021-12-10 18:00 - 19:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
6pm PT / 7pm MT / 8pm CT / 9pm ET
ArtTable’s Northwest Chapter invites members and guests to celebrate the holidays by spending a virtual evening with esteemed artist Barbara Earl Thomas. She will be joined in conversation by Nina Bozicnik, Curator at the Henry Art Gallery, discussing the current exhibition, Packaged Black: Derrick Adams and Barbara Earl Thomas.
This special event promises to be a fun, informative, and intimate evening for ArtTable members and friends. Time will be set aside for questions from the audience. The evening will be peppered with chances to win exciting prizes through a raffle, and of course there will be a chance to connect with each other during some lively chat roulette.
Program:
– 6:00-6:10pm: Welcome + Thanks
– 6:10-6:40pm: Live conversation with Barbara Earl Thomas and Nina Bozicnik
– 6:40-6:50pm: Q&A
– 6:50-6:55pm: Introduction of new Chapter Leaders
– 6:55-7:05pm: Breakout rooms
– 7:05-7:15pm: Raffle
Raffle items include:

A chance to make a reservation at TOMO Seattle for 2 + a bottle of wine.
Reservations at this new restaurant sell out each month in minutes – but this item is the opportunity to make a reservation outside of their online reservation system for a date of your choice. Dinner will cost the winner $78/person, but TOMO will generously include special VIP gratis extras (bubbles, snacks, dessert). A bottle of wine (or non-alcoholic drinks) will be included with dinner (up to $75)
Midnight Bloom glass stud earrings by Kait Rhoads ($115)
A set of champagne coupes by Decicio Glass (created by Greg Clark) & a bottle of champagne.
An Individual-level Membership to the Henry ($45)
The forthcoming catalog from the Seattle Art Museum: Barbara Earl Thomas: The Geography of Innocence (donated by Lucia | Marquand)
Young, Gifted & Black: A New Generation of Artists: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art (Art Catalog)
Four Generations: The Joyner / Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art (Art Catalog)

More raffle items to be announced!

Admission (includes one raffle ticket)

ArtTable Members – $10
Non-Members – $15

Additional raffle tickets:

1 ticket – $15
4 tickets – $60
8 tickets – $120

Not a member? Join today for reduced admission on most programs!
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Accessibility: Please note that this program will offer live closed captioning. If you require additional accommodations, please email programs@arttable.org.

About the speakers
Nina Bozicnik is Curator at the Henry Art Gallery, where she has organized exhibitions including most recently Packaged Black: Derrick Adams and Barbara Earl Thomas (2021); Will Rawls: Everlasting Stranger (2021); Bambitchell: Bugs & Beasts Before the Law (2021), Carrie Yamaoka: recto/verso (2019), & Between Bodies (2018-19). She has also organized presentations & projects for the museum with artists including Demian DinéYazhi´ (2018), Chris E. Vargas & the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art (2016-17), & Michelle Handelman (2015), among others. Prior to the Henry, Bozicnik held curatorial positions at the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; and the Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts.
Barbara Earl Thomas earned her BA and MFA from the University of Washington. She has been the recipient of the Howard S. Wright Award, Stranger Genius Award, Mayor’s Arts Award, and Hauberg Fellowship. Thomas has completed residencies at the Pilchuck School of Glass, Stanwood; Museum of Glass, Tacoma; and Goathead Press, Tieton. She has held solo exhibitions at the Evansville Museum of Arts and Science; Seattle Art Museum; Bainbridge Island Art Museum; and Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham. Thomas has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including at the Bellevue Arts Museum; Northwest African American Museum, Seattle; and Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art. Her work is included in the public collections of the Portland Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, and Tacoma Art Museum. She is represented by the Claire Oliver Gallery in New York.
About the exhibition
Packaged Black brings together the work of artists Derrick Adams (b. 1970, Baltimore, MD) and Barbara Earl Thomas (b. 1948, Seattle, WA) in a collaborative, multi-media installation developed from their shared dialogue about representation, Black identity, and practices of cultural resistance. This exhibition is a synthesis of a multi-year, intergenerational, and cross-country exchange between New York-based Adams and Seattle-based Thomas that began after the two artists exhibited work alongside each other in a group show at the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2017. For this exhibition, Thomas draws upon the role of media and fairytales in shaping social expectations and her own conception of self. She is presenting all new work, including an immersive installation conceived as a ‘transformation room’ and a series of new cut-paper portraits of friends and colleagues that riff on the concept of the royal court.

Thank you to ArtTable’s Northwest Chapter Leaders Jessica Landau, Judith Rinehart, and Gina Broze for organizing this program.

Image: Barbara Earl Thomas. Installation view of Packaged Black: Derrick Adams and Barbara Earl Thomas, 2021, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. Photo: Jueqian Fang, courtesy of the Henry Art Gallery

Virtual | Preserving Cultural Heritage in Afghanistan & Beyond, with Laura Tedesco & Anna Bottinelli
2021-12-15 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
9am PT / 10am MT / 11am CT / 12pm ET
Afghanistan is currently facing an incredible crisis. Since the US left the country and Taliban forces reentered, many aspects of daily life have come into question, including how the country’s cultural heritage will be affected. Just two decades ago, when the Taliban were last in power, they called for the destruction of any and all pre-Islamic statues and sanctuaries on the land. While this new regime has promised to honor Afghanistan’s cultural heritage, history makes us skeptical.
One woman who has spent many years living and traveling throughout Afghanistan, overseeing the preservation of its archaeological sites, artifacts, monuments, and museums, is Laura Tedesco, Cultural Heritage Program Manager at the U.S. Department of State. As a cultural heritage and preservation specialist, Laura has experienced firsthand the challenges of preserving art and heritage amidst conflict, an experience she shares with Anna Bottinelli, President of the Monuments Men Foundation. Join us for a discussion about the preservation of cultural heritage in Afghanistan and beyond with these two leading experts!
Admission

ArtTable Circle members – Free
All other ArtTable members – $10
Non-Members – $15
Members may bring a guest for an additional $15.

Not a member? Join today for reduced admission on most programs!
Can’t make the program at this time? Register anyway to receive a recording after!
Accessibility: Please note that this program will offer live closed captioning. If you require additional accommodations, please email programs@arttable.org.

About the speakers

Dr. Laura A. Tedesco serves as the Cultural Heritage Program Manager for the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs. Laura’s work is centered on supporting U.S. Embassies across the region in identifying and guiding cultural preservation projects supported by the Department of State. In 2021 there are more than 30 active projects that preserve intangible and built heritage of more than 12 nations. Now based in Washington, D.C. and Charleston, S.C., she previously worked in Afghanistan at the U.S. Embassy from 2010-2012 developing and overseeing the State Department’s large-scale initiatives to support the preservation of Afghanistan’s imperiled cultural patrimony. Prior to joining the Department of State, Laura worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for 13 years. She has also worked in the private sector field of cultural resources management, managing archaeological recovery of cultural resources for land development and corporate investment programs. Tedesco has participated in archaeological excavations in Syria, Palestine, the Republics of Armenia and Georgia, Italy, Cyprus, and in several locations across the United States. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from New York University. Laura has a popular podcast that focuses on her personal story of the challenges she’s faced as a woman carrying out heritage preservation programs in Afghanistan. The title of the podcast is Monuments Woman.
Born and raised in Florence, Italy, Anna Bottinelli earned her B.A. in History of Art from John Cabot University (JCU) in Rome, graduating Magna Cum Laude. There, she was also the recipient of numerous accolades including the 2010 JCU Excellence in Art History Award and JCU Leadership Award. In 2011, she received her M.A. in Art History at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London. She specialized in the Franciscan and Dominican Art of 13th century Italy. At the same time, Ms. Bottinelli began work as the lead Italian research assistant to #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Robert Edsel on his project to write about the Monuments Men and their preservation work in Italy during World War II. Her work contributed greatly to the success of Mr. Edsel’s acclaimed bestseller, “Saving Italy: The Race to Save a Nation’s Treasure from the Nazi.”
In 2014, Ms. Bottinelli accepted a full time research position with the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, in Dallas, Texas. By 2017, she had advanced to senior leadership positions and in December 2019, she was appointed as the Foundation’s new President, succeeding its founder, Mr. Edsel . During her tenure at the Foundation, Ms. Bottinelli has overseen numerous restitutions of cultural objects to individuals and museums in Europe. She has also served as a consultant for “Hunting Nazi Treasure,” an eight-part investigative documentary that continues to air on Discovery’s American Heroes Channel, History Channel-Canada, and Canale Focus in Italy, with additional future broadcasts planned internationally.
Today Ms. Bottinelli is considered an expert on the subject of art looting and recovery during World War II. She regularly is a point of contact for provenance attorneys seeking expert opinions on art restitution cases involving Italy. Ms. Bottinelli has close ties with the art restitution unit of the Italian Carabinieri, who have been steadfast supporters of the Monuments Men Foundation and its mission. Anna Bottinelli is currently based in Dallas with her husband and two little boys. She divides her time between the U.S. and Italy.

Images: Laura Tedesco in Ghazni, Afghanistan; Laurie Tedesco, The Monuments Woman photographed for publication by Jackie Neale October, 2021 in Charleston, SC; Anna Bottinelli

Virtual | Chicago Chapter Holiday Happy Hour!
2021-12-16 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Zoom
3pm PT / 4pm MT / 5pm CT / 6pm ET
Grab a glass of your favorite wine or mix up a festive cocktail! Catch up with fellow members you’ve missed and help us welcome new members into ArtTable’s Chicago Chapter!
As we look forward to a brighter future in 2022, let’s support one another by sharing how this year has gone and share ideas for programming and gatherings in the New Year!
This program is free and open to ArtTable members only. Click below to register!
Not a member? Join today!

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

Thank you to Diane Dinkins-Carr and Julie Gustafson, Chicago Chapter Leaders, for organizing this program.

Virtual | Let's Connect! New Year National Networking Event
2022-01-10 17:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
2pm PT | 3pm MT | 4pm CT | 5pm ET
We invite all ArtTable members to join us for our next virtual national networking event celebrating the start of 2022! Join us as we reflect on our accomplishments and challenges of the past year and our goals and aspirations for the future.
Our first national networking event took place in May 2021 and allowed members from all over the world to share ideas and make new connections. We are thrilled to offer our members this opportunity to connect with each other worldwide! Participants will go into breakout rooms to chat, connect, see old friends and make new ones! This is an exclusive opportunity for ArtTable members to form new connections and find ways to collaborate with one another.
This program is free for all ArtTable members. Not a member? Join today!
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.
(You will receive an email confirmation containing the Zoom link.)
Can’t join us for this event? Don’t worry, there will be plenty more opportunities to connect with members in the future! In the meantime, we hope you can join us for another upcoming virtual program or support other ArtTable initiatives!

Virtual | New Member Orientation
2022-01-13 16:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
1pm PT / 2pm MT / 3pm CT / 4pm ET
Welcome new ArtTable members! Please join us for a virtual orientation session where you will meet other new members and learn how to take full advantage of all the ArtTable community has to offer! This program is free and open to all ArtTable members, regardless of when you joined – it’s always a good time for a refresher!
Not a member? Join today!

(You will receive an email confirmation containing the Zoom link.)
Accessibility: Please note that this program will offer live closed captioning. If you require additional accommodations, please email programs@arttable.org.
Can’t join us for this new member orientation? Don’t worry, we host virtual orientation sessions on the 2nd Thursday of each month! In the meantime, we hope you can join us for another upcoming virtual program or support other ArtTable initiatives!

Virtual | 'The Empress and I,' with Donna Stein and Dorothy Goldeen
2022-01-19 13:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
10am PT / 11am MT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET
Please join us for a conversation between author Donna Stein Korn and art advisor Dorothy Goldeen about Donna’s newest book, The Empress and I: How an Ancient Empire Collected, Rejected and Rediscovered Modern Art. The book was written to reflect Donna’s work to assemble a collection of contemporary art for a new Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, Iran under the auspices of the Imperial Empress Pahlavi, wife of the Shah of Iran. She writes about how she worked curatorial miracles through her connections with colleagues especially in the USA and with encouragement from the Shabanou and some obstacles from other government members.
Click here to read a feature article on the book in Architectural Digest.
Admission

ArtTable Circle Members – Free
All other ArtTable Members – $5
Non-Members – $10

Not a member? Join today!

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Accessibility: Please note that this program will offer live closed captioning. If you require additional accommodations, please email programs@arttable.org.
ArtTable is a 501.c.3 organization. All programs are non-refundable.

About the speakers
Donna Stein worked for six years at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY after completing her BA at University of California, Los Angeles. She continued her studies at The Institute of Fine Arts at NYU, NYC. Stein has written extensively in articles and books on many art subjects including Cubism, Modern Illustrated Books, and Photography. She is the first American scholar to study 19th century photography in Iran. Stein has also received awards for her meticulous scholarship. She recently retired as Deputy Director at the Wende Museum of the Cold War in Los Angeles.
Dorothy Goldeen is an art advisor and former gallery owner. Between 2014-2020, Dorothy was honored to serve as the President of Stone Art LLC and Allan Stone Projects in New York, the exclusive representative of the Allan Stone Collection, one of the largest private art collections ever amassed by an individual. Dorothy presided over the sale of an unprecedented number of artworks, through exhibitions at Allan Stone Projects, to private collectors, institutions, and at auction. In 2021, Dorothy relaunched Dorothy Goldeen Art Advisory, which she had initiated in Los Angeles in 1996. Prior to that, she owned and operated Dorothy Goldeen Gallery in Santa Monica. The gallery represented artists such as Nam June Paik and Magdalena Abakanowicz, gave early shows to international and trailblazing artists, such as Beatriz Milhazes, Diana Thater, Charles Gaines, and David Wojnarowicz. Dorothy currently lives and works in New York. She has served on ArtTable’s Board of Directors and was the founding Chair of the Chapter Leadership Forum, as well as serving twice as the Chair of the Southern California Chapter in Los Angeles. She was honored with New York’s Chapter Leadership Award in 2019.

Thank you to Susan Halper, ArtTable member, for organizing this program.

Images: Book cover, The Empress and I: How an Ancient Empire Collected, Rejected and Rediscovered Modern Art
