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Bridgehampton, NY | Artist Talk: Liliana Porter in conversation with Humberto Moro at Dia Bridgehampton
2024-08-23 15:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Dia Bridgehampton, 23 Corwith Avenue, Bridgehampton, New York, 11932
Liliana Porter, The Task (detail), 2024. © Liliana Porter. Photo: Don Stahl

Join us for a tour of Liliana Porter: The Task at Dia Bridgehampton, led by the artist and Humberto Moro, co-curator of the exhibition and Deputy Director of Program, Dia Art Foundation. This Artist Talk is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

About the exhibition: A prominent figure in the early Conceptual and feminist art movements, Liliana Porter contests the spaces between reality and fiction across a variety of media. Central to her long-standing research is the subject of time—which she perceives as nonlinear and dislocated—manifest in the artist’s early prints and photographic works from the 1970s, later images and installations from the 1990s incorporating found objects and collected figurines, and, most recently, her films and plays. By creating unexpected scenes that are both humorous and intriguing, Porter employs, almost as a sort of conceptual trap, playful strategies to reflect on political and otherwise contentious subject matter, as well as philosophical questions concerning time, reality, and representation. Liliana Porter: The Task is curated by Humberto Moro, deputy director of program, and Liv Cuniberti, curatorial assistant.

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A note about accessibility, from Dia: Dia Bridgehampton’s galleries are not wheelchair accessible. A handout with images of and texts about the works located on the second floor is available upon request at the front desk or by clicking here. ADA service dogs are welcome. Pets, including therapy or emotional-support animals, are not permitted in the galleries.

Let’s make a day of it!

Earlier on August 23, join ArtTable for an a tour of Are You Joking? Women and Humor with Sheri Pasquarella, Executive Director of The Church in Sag Harbor. Click “Register Here” above to sign up for both events at a discounted rate:

ArtTable Member – $27

Friend of Member – $32

Non-Member – $40

Installation photos of Are You Joking: Women & Humor at the Church, Sag Harbor. Photos by Joe Jagos.

About Liliana Porter:

Liliana Porter was born in Buenos Aires in 1941. She studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires and Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. Originally trained in printmaking, Porter has evolved a practice that spans painting, drawing, photography, video, installation, and, more recently, theater, the latter often developed in collaboration with artist Ana Tiscornia. In 1964, Porter moved to New York where she co-founded the New York Graphic Workshop with artists Luis Camnitzer and José Guillermo Castillo.

In the city, her work was first shown in institutions such as the Jewish Museum in 1964; Pratt Graphic Art Center in 1967; and the Museum of Modern Art in 1973. Between 1991 and 2007, Porter was a professor at Queens College, City University of New York. In 2008, Dia commissioned Porter’s first web-based work, Rehearsal, for the Artist Web Projects initiative. In 2017, her work was included in the 57th Venice Biennale: Viva Arte Viva and Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, which traveled in 2018 to the Brooklyn Museum, New York, and the Pinacoteca, São Paulo. Recent surveys of her work have been presented at Artium Museoa, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del País Vasco, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (2017); SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah (2017–18), and traveling to El Museo del Barrio, New York (2018–19); and Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France (2023). Porter lives in Rhinebeck, New York. Image credit: Mor Charpentier

About Humberto Moro:

Humberto Moro is Deputy Director of Program at Dia Art Foundation where he oversees the exhibitions, publications and learning and engagement departments. He was previously Deputy Director and Senior Curator at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, where he curated OTRXS MUNDXS, a large-scale survey of artists working in the city, and solo shows by Erick Meyenberg, Tania Pérez Córdova and Ugo Rondinone.

He was Curator of the 2021 Exposure section at EXPO Chicago; and from 2016-22, Adjunct Curator at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, where he co-organized Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom and Points of Contact by Elizabeth Catlett, and solo exhibitions by Kenturah Davis, Glen Fogel, Alex Gardner, Oliver Laric, Cynthia Gutiérrez, Pia Camil, Mariana Castillo Deball, Tom Burr, Yang Fudong, FOS, AES+F, Mark Wallinger, Isaac Julien, and Anna Maria Maiolino, among others. Moro has previously held curatorial positions at the Park Avenue Armory in New York and Museo Jumex in Mexico City. Moro curated Other Situations, a project by Liliana Porter which included THEM, a theater play at The Kitchen, the reopening exhibition at El Museo del Barrio, and a publication. He was the recipient of the 2016 Estancias Tabacalera Research Award for Latin-American curators, Madrid, Spain, and was part of the 7th Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course, in Gwangju, South Korea. Moro holds a BFA in painting from the Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato; and a MA in curatorial studies by the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS), Bard College, New York; and is part of the 2021 cohort of the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL). Image credit: Humberto Moro

New York, NY | ArtTable Annual Brunch at The Armory Show 2024
2024-09-06 11:30 - 13:00 | Javits Center, 429 11th Avenue, New York, 10001
Reconnect with colleagues and friends at ArtTable’s Annual Brunch at The Armory Show! In addition to a delicious continental brunch, each registration for this event—a highlight of the ArtTable calendar—includes a day pass to The Armory Show for Friday, September 6.

Kyla McMillan, Director of The Armory Show, will join us as a special guest!

Registration:

ArtTable Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Members – $47

ArtTable Members – $57

Guest of ArtTable member – $67

Nonmember – $77

ArtTable members receive special access to art fairs happening nationwide throughout the year. Not a member? Join or renew today!

ArtTable thanks The Armory Show and catering partner Cultivated for their generosity in welcoming us this year.

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.

Los Angeles, CA | Tour of Mickalene Thomas: All About Love at The Broad with Assistant Curator, Jennifer Vanegas Rocha
2024-09-11 11:00 - 12:00 | The Broad, 21 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Image Credit: Mickalene Thomas, Din avec la main dans le miroir et jupe rouge, 2023. Rhinestones, acrylic, and glitter on canvas mounted on wood panel. © Mickalene Thomas

Join Jennifer Vinegas Rocha, Assistant Curator at The Broad, on an exclusive tour of Mickalene Thomas: All About Love. This major 20-year survey of Thomas’ work was co-organized by the Hayward Gallery in London and The Broad, in partnership with the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.

About the exhibition: Debuting at The Broad with over 90 works made by the artist over the last 20 years, Mickalene Thomas: All About Love is the first major international tour of this pioneering artist’s work. The exhibition highlights how Mickalene Thomas has mastered and innovated within several disciplines, from mixed-media painting and collage to installation and photography. The exhibition shares its title and several of its themes with the pivotal text by feminist author bell hooks, in which love is an active process rooted in healing, carving a path away from domination and towards collective liberation. Through her queries into pop culture and mass media, Thomas offers a reverberating demand for Black women to be seen and understood, and for viewers to become what hooks calls “practitioners of love.”

About Jennifer Vinegas Rocha: Jennifer Vanegas Rocha is Assistant Curator at The Broad where she has provided support to major special exhibitions and catalogue publications like William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows (2023) and Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody (2023). Most recently, she co-curated the collection exhibition, Desire, Knowledge, and Hope (with Smog) with Ed Schad, Curator and Publications Manager. She received a Master of Arts in Art History from the University of California, Riverside. She was awarded the 2019-2020 UCR Gluck Fellowship and 2020-2021 UCR Family Learning Fellowship. She received her Bachelor of Art in Art History from California State University, Dominguez Hills where she was the recipient of the 2016 Winston Hewitt Art & Design Endowed Scholarship and the 2016-2017 CSUDH Praxis Student Fellowship.

Program Registration:

Includes admission to The Broad and to Mickalene Thomas: All About Love

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New York, NY | Studio Visit with Helina Metaferia
2024-09-12 17:30 - 18:30
Installation view of Helina Metaferia’s 2022 solo exhibition, All Put Together, at Praise Shadows Art Gallery, featuring artwork from the By Way of Revolution series. Image courtesy the artist.

ArtTable is pleased to invite you to explore Helina Metaferia‘s process and current projects on a visit to the artist’s studio in Lower Manhattan.

About the Artist: Helina Metaferia is an interdisciplinary artist working across collage, assemblage, video, performance, and social engagement. Her work integrates archives, somatic studies, and dialogical practices, creating overlooked narratives that amplify BIPOC/femme bodies.

Metaferia received her MFA from Tufts University’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include RISD Art Museum (2022-2023); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (2021-2022); New York University’s The Gallatin Galleries, New York, NY (2021); Michigan State University’s Scene Metrospace Gallery, East Lansing, MI (2019); and Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (2017). Metaferia’s work was included in the Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates (2023), the Tennessee Triennial through the Frist Art Museum and Fisk University Art Gallery (2023). Her work is in the permanent collection of institutions including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates; Kadist, San Francisco, CA and Paris, France; and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY.

Metaferia’s work has been supported by several residencies including MacDowell, Yaddo, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and MASS MoCA. She is currently a 2021-2023 artist-in-residence at Silver Art Projects at the World Trade Center in New York City. Her work has been written about in publications including The New York Times, Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Artnet News, The Art Newspaper, and Hyperallergic. Metaferia is an Assistant Professor at Brown University in the Visual Art department, and lives and works in New York City.

Helina Metaferia’s studio is located in Lower Manhattan, a short walk from the World Trade Center. The exact address will be shared with attendees prior to the visit.

This Artist Talk is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Special thanks to Ashley Paulisick and Nicole Poletta for their assistance in organizing this program.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Member – $15

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PLEASE NOTE: Registration for this program closed at 5:00 PM on Monday, September 9.

*CANCELED* Yonkers, NY | Curator-Led Tour of 'No Bodies: Clothing as Disruptor' at the Hudson River Museum
2024-09-20 15:30 - 17:00 | Hudson River Museum, 511 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers, New York, 10701, United States
Rachel Breen. Shroud, 2018. Used white shirts, thread, and fabric. Courtesy of the artist.

Join us in Westchester County for a tour of No Bodies: Clothing as Disruptor with exhibition curator and ArtTable member Alva Greenberg. Following our exclusive tour, the Hudson River Museum will graciously host a reception for attendees. Our heartfelt thanks to Alva Greenberg; Laura Vookles, Chair of the Curatorial Department at the Hudson River Museum and Board Member of ArtTable; and Masha Turchinsky, Director and CEO of the Hudson River Museum and former Board Member of ArtTable for organizing this program.

About the exhibtition: “Clothing conveys impressions of social background, economic status, and ethnicity. Much like physical features, it serves as a powerful tool for self-expression and understanding others. Our inclination to categorize people based on their attire also shapes our reactions to them. How often do we subconsciously assign meanings to clothing that may not truly represent the wearer?

The altered and uninhabited clothing in No Bodies disrupts our automatic responses by challenging perceptions of materiality, cultural identity, relationships, political beliefs, and portraiture itself. Free from physicality, these works compel us to confront our assumptions, as well as the ever-growing societal tendency to compartmentalize people, behavior, and social media that increasingly rules our thinking. What does it mean to deconstruct a garment by unraveling it, burning it, or transforming it into another material? What does clothing symbolize when there never was, or will be, a body inside?”

Program Admission:

ArtTable Member – $15

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Virtual | New Member Orientation & Member Portal Walkthrough
2024-09-23 15:00 - 15:30, 2025-01-13 15:00 - 15:30, 2025-03-17 15:00 - 15:30
12 pm PT / 1 pm MT / 2 pm CT / 3 pm 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.

Whether you are new to our community or have been a long-time member, there’s no wrong time for a refresher course! Connect with other members in a casual and relaxed online environment and learn more about what our community is all about.

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(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 every 3 months! In the meantime, we hope you can join us for another upcoming program or support other ArtTable initiatives!

New York, NY | Deborah Remington Exhibition Talk with Peeky Berenson
2024-09-27 15:30 - 17:00 | Bortolami Gallery, 39 Walker St, New York, New York, 10013, United States
Deborah Remington, Aldwych, 1973. Courtesy of Bortolami Gallery.

Join us at Bortolami Gallery for a tour of Deborah Remington‘s exhibition Mirrors with Director of the Deborah Remington Charitable Trust for the Visual Arts and ArtTable member Margaret Mathews Berenson. Following our exclusive tour, Bortolami Gallery will graciously host a reception for attendees.

Margaret Mathews Berenson, better known as Peeky to her contemporaries at ArtTable, has been an ArtTable member for nearly three decades. She joined the Program Committee immediately after becoming a member, later serving as co-chair of the committee with gallerist, Julie Saul. Peeky also served on the Board of Directors from 2007 to 2011 and as Board Secretary from 2009-2011. She co-chaired the 2008 Luncheon honoring Vishakha Desai, President and CEO of Asia Society, and actively participated in countless trips, tours, and luncheons.

Since 2010, she has been Director of the Deborah Remington Charitable Trust for the Visual Arts. Mirrors is the second solo show for the artist at Bortolami and coincides with the publication of a major monograph for the artist published by Rizzoli / Electa. The book represents a long-overdue survey of the work of yet another under-recognized woman artist: a renegade in every sense of the word – and who well deserves critical attention.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Member – $10

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New York, NY | Walkthrough of Jordan Casteel: Field of View at the Hill Art Foundation
2024-10-01 16:00 - 17:00 | Hill Art Foundation, 239 10th Avenue 3rd Floor, New York, New York, 10001, United States
Installation view: Jordan Casteel: Field of view. Hill Art Foundation, September 13–November 23. © Hill Art Foundation. Photo: Dan Bradica Studio.

ArtTable community members are invited on a walkthrough of Jordan Casteel: Field of view in the galleries of the Hill Art Foundation in Chelsea, overlooking the High Line. Our tour will be led by Sarah Needham, Executive Director of the Hill Art Foundation, accompanied by intern Endie Hwang, who is an alum of the Foundation’s Teen Curators program. Field of view is curated by Lauren Haynes, 2020 ArtTable New Leadership Awardee, Head Curator of Governors Island Arts, and Vice President at the Trust for Governors Island.

About the exhibition: Compositions that span the last decade are sourced from the environments Casteel inhabits and presented against the backdrop of the Foundation, overlooking 10th Avenue and the High Line. The exhibition brings together key loans and four monumental portraits from the Hill Collection, two of which are promised to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, to trace the lineage of a site within a site. Casteel’s figurative portraits, landscapes and still lifes will be accompanied by original scholarship by curator Lauren Haynes.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Non-Members – $25

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About the Hill Art FoundationThe Hill Art Foundation is a public exhibition and education space that presents rotating exhibitions and ongoing arts education programs. Opened in 2019 in a custom-built 7,700-square-foot space in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, the Foundation is free and open to the public. Exhibitions include works on loan from the Hill Collection, as well as collaborative projects with leading artists, collections, and institutions. The Foundation was founded by J. Tomilson and Janine Hill, collectors and philanthropists based in New York. The Foundation offers year-round educational programming for New York City high school students through three unique programs: Teen Curators, HAF Educators, and Teen Summer Fellows.

Sarah Needham has been the Executive Director of the Hill Art Foundation since 2018. Previously she was a Program Officer at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation where she oversaw the arts and education portfolio. From 2008-2012, Needham worked at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where she held a variety of roles in public relations and development and helped to organize the campus’ first-ever public art initiative. Needham holds a B.A. in Art History from Williams College and an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business. She serves on the Board of Directors for Danspace Project and is a member of the Education Committee at the Guggenheim Museum.

New York, NY | ArtTable's Annual Leadership Series | Arts in Health: Thriving Communities, Sustainable Organizations
2024-10-15 18:00 - 20:00 | New York University, Wasserman Center for Career Development, 133 E 13th St, New York, 10003
Nearly five years after the emergence of COVID-19, we live and work in a world transformed by the pandemic and the interrelated political and social crises it brought into high relief. The transformative power of creative experiences in helping human beings process trauma has never been clearer, and yet arts organizations still struggle to regain their footing, both financially and operationally. The growing field of arts in health, bolstered by innovative collaborations across academia and the private sector, provides essential new frameworks for measuring and articulating the societal value of the visual arts to consumers, funders, and healthcare professionals. ArtTable’s conversation will bring together experts in research, museum education, and artist partnerships to imagine a sustainable and equitable future for our communities and the vital organizations that serve them. Attendees will hear from leaders in the arts in health field and come away from this conversation with new frameworks for investigating and articulating the tremendous societal value of their work.

Taking place at NYU’s Wasserman Center, a convenient 3-minute walk from Manhattan’s Union Square, this engaging talk will be followed by a networking reception with light refreshments. Registration closes Monday, October 14—don’t miss your chance to join us for this special professional development opportunity!

Read below to learn more about our panelists:

Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, Transdisciplinary Artist, Educator, and Community Builder; member of the President’s Committee on the Arts & Humanities

Dr. Nisha Sajnani, Founding Co-Director, Jameel Arts & Health Lab | Director, NYU Drama Therapy Program | Editor, Drama Therapy Review

Cris Scorza, Helena Rubinstein Chair of Education, Whitney Museum of American Art

Moderator: Julia Hotz, Journalist and Author of THE CONNECTION CURE (Simon & Schuster)

About the Annual Leadership Series: This signature ArtTable program was initially launched in 2016, and since its inception, the series has fostered engaging conversations among prominent women and nonbinary professionals. It has provided a platform for these influential voices to discuss the most pressing and relevant topics within our industries.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Member – $35

Friend of Member – $45

Non-Member – $55

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Please note, registration for this event closes on Monday, October 14, at 4:00 PM. We are unable to accommodate walk-in registrations for this event.

Meet Our Panelists

Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya

Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya is a transdisciplinary artist, educator, and community builder based in Brooklyn, New York. The daughter of Thai and Indonesian immigrants, her practice spans sculpture, large-scale murals, installation, and public art campaigns. Through defiant storytelling, her work brings forth colors, patterns, textures, histories, and rituals to amplify marginalized voices. Amanda has investigated how to create liminal spaces that can serve as conduits for healing and transformation. She is a 2024 New York City Artadia Awardee, a 2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Visual Arts and Civic Practice Artist in Residence with Poster House and the San Francisco Asian Art Museum.

In 2022, she transformed Lincoln Center’s campus with GATHER: a series of monuments and rituals that examined how ceremony, sound, and textiles can inscribe new meaning to memory and foster unexpected belonging. As artist-in-residence with the NYC Commission on Human Rights, Amanda’s art series celebrating the resilience of the AAPI community, I Still Believe in Our City, reached millions in New York City and worldwide through reclaiming billboards, bus shelters, subway tunnels, buildings, and the cover of TIME Magazine. Her work has been shown at the Cooper Union, Times Square, Lincoln Center, and recognized by The New York Times, Harpers Bazaar, and the Guardian. She has received support from the Sloan Foundation, the Café Cultural Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation. Her work is held in permanent collections at the Museum of the City of New York, the Goldwell Open Air Museum, the Library of Congress, the Museum of Chinese in America, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In 2023, she was appointed to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities where she advises the President on how art can foster community well-being.

Nisha Sajnani, PhD., RDT-BCT

Dr. Sajnani is a co-founding, co-director of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab, established as a collaboration between the WHO Regional Office for Europe, NYU Steinhardt, Culturunners, and Community Jameel, with a mission to measurably improve lives through the arts. She is also Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Drama Therapy at NYU Steinhardt and on faculty with the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma where she lectures on the role of the arts in global mental health. Sajnani is a global leader in a growing movement to advance understanding of how engaging in the arts can support people of all ages in living longer, fuller, and healthier lives.

She leads the Jameel Arts & Health Lab – Lancet Global Series on the health benefits of the arts, in collaboration with the WHO. Recent publications include a commentary for the National Endowment for the Arts on realizing the potential of the artists, arts therapists, and arts organizations as partners in clinical and public health in our homes, schools, and communities, a co-edited ebook on the psychological and physiological benefits of the arts, a Howlround article on teaching theater in times of crisis, and the first WHO policy brief on the role of the arts in supporting the mental wellbeing of people who are forcibly displaced. She is the principal editor of Drama Therapy Review and serves on the editorial boards of The Arts in Psychotherapy and the Journal of Applied Arts & Health.

Cris Scorza

As the Helena Rubinstein Chair of Education at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Scorza provides vision, leadership, and strategic direction for the Museum’s education program. She oversees interpretation and educational content; public programs and academic engagement; social impact and learning aligning school, youth, and family programs; and access and community programs. In addition, she plays an active role in Whitney’s Latinx initiatives and evolving Spanish-language bilingual efforts. Scorza creates programs for diverse communities that incite inquiry, build self-esteem, foster an interest in art history, and respond to a contemporary culture centered on equity and inclusion.

She has worked in renowned institutions such as the New Museum, MoMA, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. At MCASD, Scorza and her team implemented a variety of programs tailored to the surrounding community, including collaborations with artists and arts organizations in the U.S./Mexico border region, leadership development for teens with an emphasis on social justice, and cutting-edge work with combat troops recovering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). She has curated social practice exhibitions and community-centered collaborations at MCASD, such as Oscar Romo: Recovered Stream (2020); To-Do • A Mending Project (2019); and Sanctuary Print Shop (2018). As an arts administrator, she developed and managed a range of exhibitions, including Photography in Mexico: Selections from the Collection (2013); Alvaro Blancarte: Marking the Present (2015), DELIMITATIONS: A Survey of the 1821 United States-Mexico Border (2016); and Papel Chicano Dos: Works of Paper from the Cheech Marin Collection (2016). She has also authored essays on Las Hermanas Iglesias, Ramiro Gomez, John Valadez, and Daniel Guzman.

Scorza has served on professional and civic committees, including the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority Art Advisory Committee and the San Diego Civic Youth Ballet Diversity and Inclusion Advisory. She is also an adjunct professor at Baruch College, CUNY, in the Arts Administration Masters Program. Scorza, born in Mexico City, studied painting at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She has a B.A. in arts administration and art history from Baruch College, CUNY, an M.A. in leadership in museum education from Bank Street College of Education, and a Diversity and Inclusion Certificate from Cornell University.

Julia Hotz, moderator

Julia Hotz is a solutions focused journalist based in New York. Her stories have appeared in The New York Times, WIRED, Scientific American, The Boston Globe, Time, and more. She helps other journalists report on the big new ideas changing the world at the Solutions Journalism Network. THE CONNECTION CURE: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging (Simon & Schuster, 2024) is her first book.

Greenwich, CT | Artist & Curator-Led Tour: 'The Elusive Art of Kumi Yamashita'
2024-10-25 18:00 - 19:00 | Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Library, 101 West Putnam Avenue, Second Floor, Greenwich, Connecticut, 06830
Kumi Yamashita, Arc, 2014. Carved wood, single source light, shadow. 30 x 13 x 2 inches. Photo by Erik Maahs.

Join ArtTable at the Greenwich Library’s Flinn Gallery for a tour of The Elusive Art of Kumi Yamashita co-led by the artist and Leslee Asch, exhibition curator, Flinn Gallery chair, and member of ArtTable.

About the exhibition: Kumi Yamashita transforms simple materials into astonishing works of art. Discussing her shadow art and the elusive nature of light, she explains, “I sculpt using both light and shadow. I construct single or multiple objects and place them in relation to a single light source. The complete artwork is therefore comprised of both the material (the solid objects) and the immaterial (the light or shadow).” In addition to Yamashita’s Light & Shadow series, the exhibition features provocative portraits crafted by meticulously winding a single, unbroken sewing thread around thousands of small galvanized nails. Yamashita’s body of work showcases an astounding range of materials and techniques.

Learn more about her practice in this interview with the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.

About the Artist

Kumi Yamashita was born in Takasaki, Japan. She earned her Master of Fine Arts from the Glasgow School of Art and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. Her solo exhibitions have been held at prestigious venues such as the Seattle Art Museum, Boise Art Museum, Roswell Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Taipei’s Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay in Singapore, Art Front Gallery in Tokyo, and Kent Gallery in New York City.

Yamashita has also participated in group exhibitions at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs at the Louvre, the CODA Museum in the Netherlands, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Honolulu Museum of Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Liverpool Biennial, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Scottish Parliament, Karşı Sanat Çalışmaları in Istanbul, and the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial in Japan. She continues to exhibit her work internationally.

Her art is featured in both private and public collections, including the Microsoft Art Collection, New Mexico History Museum, American Express, Birmingham Museum of Art, Thoma Art Foundation, Le Meridien Shenyang, Otsuma University, Seattle City Light, Tokyo’s Akiru Medical Center, Osaka’s Namba Parks Tower, Stellar Place at Sapporo JR Tower, Boise Art Museum, and Hamada Children’s Art Museum.

Yamashita has received several awards and grants, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Artist Trust GAP, and China’s Crystal Kirin Award. She has participated in residencies at RAIR (Roswell Artist-in-Residence), the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and the Millay Colony. She currently lives and works in Woodstock, New York.

This Artist Talk is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Special thanks to Courtney Maier Burbela for organizing this program.

Program Admission:

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Los Angeles, CA | Tour of 'Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism' with Catherine Taft at The Brick
2024-10-29 16:45 - 18:00 | The Brick, 518 N. Western Ave, Los Angeles, California, 90004
Meech Boakye (1997- ), Untitled (Biomaterial Research), 2020. Roundup contaminated wild violets, wild onions, purple dead nettle and dandelions suspended in gelatin bioplastic. Courtesy of the artist. Meech Boakye (1997- ), Untitled (Sloppy Bondage Test), 2021. Cherry blossom wild yeast loaves. Courtesy of the artist.

Join ArtTable for an exclusive tour of The Brick in its new home in East Hollywood! With Catherine Taft, Deputy Director and Curator of The Brick (formerly LAXART), we will explore Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism, one of over 70 exhibitions and programs supported by The Getty as part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide. This inagural exhibition at The Brick, where a pivotal institution in Los Angeles’ art scene embarks on its next chapter, explores the interwoven histories of feminst and environmental thought and platforms a wide array of contemporary artists expanding the boundaries of these fields in the 21st century.

About the Exhibition: Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism, on view through December 21, 2024, is inspired by four decades of ecofeminist thought and action in art. Ecofeminism is a theoretical and activist movement that locates critical connections between gender oppression and the exploitation of natural resources. In the U.S., it developed from the environmental, anti-nuclear, and feminist movements in the late 1970s and 1980s; in addition to their primary concerns around the subordination of nature and women, ecofeminists sought to resist racism, homophobia, and the capitalist patriarchy. As quickly as the movement was developed, artists began adopting an ecofeminist position, producing ambitious, often site-specific work that addressed the systemic subjection of women and the environment.

Life on Earth uses ecofeminism as a both a lens and departure point, bringing together eighteen international artists and collectives who present new methodologies for thinking-with our natural environment in the twenty-first century. These artists challenge anthropocentric notions around both gender and ecology to call for new positions that embrace communality, intersectionality, mythmaking, joy, and reparative action. Installations, mixed-media sculptures, video and performance art address themes including social ecologies, the commons, indigenous cosmologies, deep time, witchcraft, hydrofeminism, plant knowledge, science fiction, and speculative futures, among other threads. Participating artists include Alliance of the Southern Triangle (A.S.T.), Alicia Barney Caldas, Meech Boakye, Carolina Caycedo, Francesca Gabbiani, Masumi Hayashi, Institute of Queer Ecology, Kite, Leslie Labowitz Starus, Maria Maea, Otobong Nkanga, yétúndé olagbaju, Alicia Piller, Aviva Rahmani, Tabita Rezaire, Yo-E Ryou, Emilija Škarnulytė, and A.L. Steiner.

About The Brick: The Brick is a nonprofit visual art space that promotes developments in contemporary culture through exhibitions, publications, and public programs. It was founded as LAXART by art historian and curator Lauri Firstenberg in 2005, LAXART was created as a platform for emerging and under-recognized talent in Los Angeles. Evolving under the directorship of Hamza Walker, who took the helm of the organization in 2016, The Brick has expanded its mission to encompass thematic exhibitions that engage with a range of local and international artists at every stage of their careers. Through a range of free, accessible offerings, The Brick contextualizes contemporary art both socially and discursively.

Parking: The Brick recommends parking on Western Ave (metered), or on the side streets adjacent to The Brick.

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San Francisco, CA | Walkthrough of Forms Unbound: Peter Young and Maren Hassinger at Gallery Wendi Norris
2024-11-12 17:00 - 18:00 | Gallery Wendi Norris, 436 Jackson St, San Francisco, California, 94111, United States
[L] Peter Young, #5 – 1967, 1967, Acrylic on canvas, 144 x 72.25 inches (365.76 x 183.52 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco. [R] Maren Hassinger, Untitled Vessel (Small Body), 2021, Stainless steel wire rope on steel armature, 48 x 36 inches (121.92 x 91.44 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC. Photo by Adam Reich.

Join ArtTable for a walkthrough of Forms Unbound: Peter Young and Maren Hassinger at Gallery Wendi Norris, along with an overview of the gallery’s program. Installed across two venues—Gallery Wendi Norris, and Gallery Wendi Norris Offsite, located across the street in the historic carriage house at 38 Hotaling Place—Forms Unbound pairs fluid wire and fiber-based sculptures by Maren Hassinger (b. 1947) with monumental dot paintings by Peter Young (b. 1940). Young and Hassinger have followed parallel journeys in life and art: both raised in Los Angeles, they launched their careers in New York, where the art world was dominated by Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism. As the works on view in Forms Unbound demonstrate, each artist developed new visual vocabularies and practices to mark their own departure from the limiting influence of formalism. Bringing these two artists into dialogue, this exhibition explores the limits—and possibilities—of abstraction and minimalism. Our tour will focus especially on Hassinger’s work; reshaping industrial materials like steel wire rope into forms that appear organic or handmade, and melding natural materials with the manmade, Hassinger contemplates the relationship between the earth and our human world. Juxtaposed with Young’s monumental paintings, the full impact of Hassinger’s large-scale sculptures is fully felt in the carriage house space, where viewing the works becomes an immersive experience.

Enjoy conversation and a glass of wine following the tour!

Accessibility note: There no stairs leading into or within the main gallery space and Carriage House. Limited seating is available for guests who need.

Program Registration:

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Maren Hassinger (b. 1947, Los Angeles) has built an expansive practice that articulates the relationship between nature and humanity. Carefully choosing materials for their innate characteristics, Hassinger has explored the subject of movement, family, love, nature, environment, consumerism, identity, and race. Wire rope has played a prominent role in Maren Hassinger’s artistic practice since the early 1970s when, as a sculptor placed in the Fiber Arts program at UCLA, Hassinger used the material to bridge the gap between the two disciplines. The artist often takes a biomimetic approach to her material, whether bundling it to resemble a monolithic sheaf of wheat or planting it in cement to create an industrial garden. Within the past five years, Hassinger has been commissioned to make work for Sculpture Milwaukee (curated by Ugo Rondinone), Dia Bridgehampton, Socrates Sculpture Park, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Aspen Art Museum. Her work is currently installed at Dia Beacon and at Longhouse Reserve in East Hampton. Hassinger will be honored with an upcoming two-person survey alongside Senga Nengudi at IVAM, Valencia, as well as participation in an upcoming exhibition at The Met. Hassinger is the recipient of the Women’s Caucus for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award. Her work can be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; the San Francisco Museum of Art; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum, NYC, among others.

Peter Young (b. 1940, Pittsburgh) grew up in Los Angeles and studied at Pomona College for two years before moving to New York in 1960. Young’s paintings have continuously defied categorization since his early New York years showing with Leo Castelli and Richard Bellamy. He has been described variously as the first post-modernist painter, as well as a minimalist and an abstract surrealist. From the beginning, his paintings have addressed the rigid formal criteria of minimal art that prevailed in the 1960’s. Following his first two solo exhibitions in 1967 and 1970 at the Noah Goldowsky Gallery, Young then exhibited at Richard Bellamy’s Oil & Steel Gallery in Tribeca in 1984. Through Bellamy’s interest in Young’s work, it came to the attention of then P.S.1 Director, Alanna Heiss, and in 2007 the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center dedicated a comprehensive survey exhibition to the artist’s work, accompanied by a monograph, focusing on the period between 1963 and 1977. His work has been included in exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Arizona; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Guggenheim, New York; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; as well as the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Tate St. Ives, United Kingdom; Rolf Ricke, Cologne; and Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany. Peter Young’s work is featured in collections, including the Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio; the American University, Washington D.C.; the Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Neuberger Museum, Purchase College, New York; Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita; University of Texas, Austin; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.

About Gallery Wendi Norris: Gallery Wendi Norris is a leading international art gallery with headquarters in San Francisco, California. The gallery holds decades-long relationships with 20th-century luminaries such as Leonora Carrington, Dorothea Tanning, Wolfgang Paalen, Remedios Varo, and Alice Rahon, artists whose nomadic and visionary practices interrogated the aesthetic, scientific, and philosophical movements of their times. The gallery also represents María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Enrique Martínez Celaya, Chitra Ganesh, Julio César Morales, Ranu Mukherjee, Eva Schlegel, Peter Young, and other contemporaries, artists whose work similarly flows across disciplines, continents, and generations as they speculate on the present moment. Opened in 2002, Gallery Wendi Norris remains committed to its founding principles of rigorous programming, development of artists’ legacies, public accessibility, and cultural significance. To those ends, the gallery hosts visiting academics, sponsors artist talks, and publishes highly-researched books with original contributions from international scholars. The gallery actively supports artists in engaging new audiences through influential commercial, biennial, and institutional collaborations. Pioneering an offsite exhibition model in 2017, the gallery produces public-facing artworks and shows wherever they might reach the widest viewership and provide the deepest impact. Working in concert with major museums, private collectors, and innovative curators, Gallery Wendi Norris builds enduring, well-represented collections for its respected array of international clients.

Brooklyn, NY | Behind-the-Scenes Tour: Dieu Donné
2024-11-13 18:00 - 19:30 | Dieu Donné, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Bldg 3 / 63 Flushing Ave, Suite 602 (6th floor), Brooklyn, New York, 11205
Join ArtTable for an immersive experience at Dieu Donné, where artists create unique handmade paper artworks in collaboration with an expert team. This event includes a behind-the-scenes tour of the Brooklyn-based hand papermaking studio, a live demonstration by a Master Papermaker, and an opportunity to learn about different hand papermaking techniques. Discover exclusive works made in collaboration with Dieu Donné by artists including Howardena Pindell, Diana Al-Hadid, Melvin Edwards, Glenn Ligon, Lynda Benglis, and more.

Program admission (limited spots available):

ArtTable Members – $20

Member Guests – $25

Non-Members – $30

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Accessibility Note: The closest walk-in entrance to the building is through a turnstile, followed by a few stairs. If you require a wheelchair- or walker-accessible entry, please let ArtTable know, and they will provide detailed campus directions from Dieu Donné. Seating will be available to those who need it during our visit.

ArtTable extends a special thank you to Angelica Semmelbauer for coordinating this visit.

DIRECTIONS:

By NYC Ferry: The Brooklyn Navy Yard stop is a 10-15 minute ride on the Astoria line, either from Wall Street (take the northbound/90th Street-bound ferry 1 stop to the Brooklyn Navy Yard) or from East 34th Street (take the southbound/Wall Street-bound ferry 1 stop to the Brooklyn Navy Yard). Dieu Donné, in Building 3 at the Navy Yard, is a 12-minute walk from the ferry stop (see map below).

Bus/Subway: Please see below for directions provided by Dieu Donné, as well as a map of Dieu Donné’s section of the Brooklyn Navy Yard campus.

New York, NY | Curator-Led Tour of Nicole Eisenman: Fixed Crane at Madison Square Park
2024-11-19 09:30 - 10:30 | Madison Square Park, 11 Madison Ave, New York, New York, 10010, United States
Nicole Eisenman (American, b. France 1965), Fixed Crane, 2024. Crane, bronze, plaster, wire, and various additional materials. Approximately 12 feet x 12 feet x 102 feet. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Commissioned by Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York. Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein

This tour with Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Artistic Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator of Madison Square Park Conservancy, explores Nicole Eisenman: Fixed Crane, the current project in the Conservancy’s field-leading program of contemporary public art.

About the exhibition: Nicole Eisenman – one of the most influential artists working today — assembles a monumental public project for Madison Square Park that destabilizes familiar heroic objects associated with human achievement. Fixed Crane features a toppled industrial crane embellished with handmade sculptural objects. The work marks a significant moment in Eisenman’s practice, expanding her explorations of the twentieth-century concept of the “readymade,” created in 1916 by Dada artist Marcel Duchamp to elevate everyday, mass-produced objects to the status of an artwork, and pushing the boundaries of her work in figuration. The project is part of the milestone twentieth anniversary of Madison Square Park Conservancy’s art program.

Parkgoers can walk around the deflated machine, a mighty symbol of construction prowess and urban growth that now rests impotently on the park’s Oval Lawn. Rather than reach valiantly into the sky, the once imperious 1969 Link-Belt crane has capsized, provocatively challenging our notions of betterment. Turned on its side, the operator’s cab reaches nine-feet high; the tracks extend up twelve feet, and the boom stretches ninety feet. The artist upends an Edenic refuge from the city by placing a rusted relic of presumed advancement center stage. Eisenman questions cycles of progress in public space: how powerful cranes build skyscrapers–and, lately, “supertalls”–like those near Madison Square Park. In recent months, a towering wisp of an 860-foot-high structure has risen to eclipse views of the Empire State Building from in and around the park. Eisenman critiques New York City’s impulse for ever higher ascension, which advances some lives and compromises others, and alludes to how the human condition may be endangered by ongoing urban construction.

At the apex of the cab is a diminutive explorer. The figure is a symbol of surrender or of occupation. Sculptural bandages placed on the crane’s boom are there to heal the fallen apparatus. A large foot wearing a Birkenstock sandal adjacent to the engine, is footloose no longer, an unexpected culprit as the kicker who capsized the crane. Visible through a small portal is a tableau of a solitary seated female figure, draped in a shawl, and bathed in the soft light of a chandelier. She sits before a small cast-iron stove. She is now a vision (or a squatter), a glowing soul who recently found a haven for a wiener roast, skewering a sausage with a stick. The crane’s original counterweight and interior mechanisms become benches for seating as the artist daylights what was once hidden in the machine’s interior. Viewers can look at the fallen crane–once a commanding, necessary force for building, but now in stasis.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

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About the Curator:

Brooke Kamin Rapaport is Artistic Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator at New York’s Madison Square Park Conservancy, where she is responsible for the outdoor public sculpture program of commissioned work by contemporary artists including Diana AI-Hadid, Tony Cragg, Abigail DeVille, Leonardo Drew, Teresita Fernandez, Maya Lin, Josiah McElheny, Martin Puryear, Erwin Redl, Arlene Shechet, and Krzysztof Wodiczko. She was commissioner and curator of the 2019 US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale with the exhibition Martin Puryear: Liberty/Liberta. She is the founder of Public Art Consortium, a national initiative of museum, public art, and sculpture park colleagues launched in 2017. Rapaport was a curator in the contemporary art department at the Brooklyn Museum and a guest curator at The Jewish Museum. She sits on the boards of three artist-endowed foundations and the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College.

*CANCELED* San Francisco, CA | Curator-Led Tour of Mary Cassatt at Work at the de Young Museum with Emily Beeny
2024-11-19 16:00 - 17:15 | de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, California, 94118, United States
Mary Cassatt at Work, Legion of Honor, 2024. Photo by Gary Sexton.

Join ArtTable for a tour of Mary Cassatt at Work with Emily Beeny, PhD, Curator in Charge of European Paintings at the de Young Museum. The largest exhibition of Cassatt’s work in the US in decades, Mary Cassatt at Work was organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art with the support of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

About the exhibition: Too often dismissed as a sentimental painter of mothers and children, Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) was in fact a modernist pioneer. Her paintings, pastels, and prints are characterized by restless experimentation and change. Cassatt was the only American to join the French Impressionists, first exhibiting with the group at Degas’s invitation in 1879, and quickly emerged as a key member of the movement. Alongside scenes of women at the opera, visiting friends, and taking tea, Cassatt produced many images of “women’s work” — knitting and needlepoint, bathing children, and nursing infants. These images suggest parallels between the work of art making and the work of caregiving. The exhibition calls attention to the artist’s own processes of making — how she used her brush, etching needle, pastel stick, and even fingertips to create radical art under the cover of “feminine” subject matter.

Accessibility note: Wheelchairs and lightweight portable stools are available from Coat Check or the Admissions counter on a first come, first-served basis. A Photo ID must be provided to ensure items are returned prior to leaving the museum.

Program Registration:

ArtTable Member – $30

ArtTable Member with FAMSF membership – $15

Friend of Member – $35

Nonmember of ArtTable – $40

Nonmember of ArtTable with FAMSF membership – $20

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VIP Access Passes | Miami Art Week 2024
2024-12-02 09:00 - 2024-12-08 18:00
PC: Untitled Art

ArtTable VIP Access Passes for fairs taking place during Miami Art Week are now live and available to all ArtTable members for purchase! To secure your pass, login to the member portal and select your preferred available pass option. Participating fairs and remaining pass types indicated below; we look forward to seeing you in Miami in early December!

Participating Fairs:

Art Basel Miami Beach

UNTITLED

NADA Miami

SCOPE Art Show

Design/Miami

Red Dot Miami

Spectrum Miami

VIP Access Pass Levels Available:

Platinum Level – $170

Gold Level – $150

Silver Level – $135

Bronze Level – $125

Copper Level – $100

General Access Level – $85

San Francisco, CA | Guided Tour of 'Amy Sherald: American Sublime' at SFMOMA
2024-12-12 16:00 - 17:15 | SFMOMA, 151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States
Amy Sherald, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (detail), 2018; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. The National Portrait Gallery is grateful to the following lead donors for their support of the Obama portraits: Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg; Judith Kern and Kent Whealy; Tommie L. Pegues and Donald A. Capoccia. Courtesy of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.

Join ArtTable at SFMOMA an exclusive guided tour of Amy Sherald: American Sublime with Auriel Garza, Curatorial Assistant, Painting & Sculpture.

About the exhibition: Amy Sherald: American Sublime invites you to breathe. Come and be taken in by the colors, shapes, and forms painted by one of America’s defining contemporary portraitists. This exhibition presents nearly 50 of Amy Sherald’s luminous paintings, including her iconic portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, poetic early works, and new works on view for the first time. Sherald’s artworks convey the quiet power in everyday people and invite viewers to participate in a more complex debate about accepted notions of American identity. In the spirit of great American artists like Edward Hopper, Alice Neel, and Kerry James Marshall, Sherald’s works reframe our understanding of American culture. American Sublime is organized thematically, with each gallery presenting a crucial idea in her work and explaining her detailed approach to making paintings. Learn more about Sherald’s central themes.

Accessibility note: SFMOMA offers gallery stools, wheelchairs, and canes at the Coat Check on Floor 1 as you enter at 151 Third Street. Benches are installed at several points in the galleries.

Program Registration (includes admission):

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New York, NY | Curator-Led Tour of 'Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde' at the NYU Grey Art Museum
2025-01-08 17:30 - 18:30 | NYU Grey Art Museum, 18 Cooper Square, New York, New York, 10003
Installation view of ”Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde.” Courtesy Grey Art Museum, New York University. Photo: Simon Cherry

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Join ArtTable for our first event of 2025! Join us at NYU’s Grey Art Museum for a tour of Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde with Lynne Gumpert, Director of the Grey and co-curator of the exhibition. This tour covers a pivotal chapter in the history of modern art: the career of Berthe Weill, who broke boundaries as the first woman in her profession and as the dealer who recognized and cultivated the talents of many of the most influential artists of the 20th century.

Make Way for Berthe Weil is the second exhibition presented in the Grey Art Museum’s new and expanded home on Cooper Square, where NYU’s campus museum moved in 2024 after nearly fifty years as the Grey Art Gallery on Washington Square East.

About the Exhibition: Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde surveys the groundbreaking career of the first woman modern art dealer. Berthe Weill (1865–1951) championed many fledgling masters of modern art early on—such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Amedeo Modigliani—as well as numerous others who did not achieve wide acclaim. Yet her role in early 20th century modernism has been omitted from most historical accounts.

The exhibition will feature some 110 paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture—many of which were shown at her gallery during the first four decades of the 20th century. The exhibition also includes archival documents—such as letters, exhibition catalogs, photographs, and journals—that reveal her deep relationships with a range of artists. Examining Weill’s contributions to the history of modernism as a gallerist, a passionate advocate of contemporary art, and a Jewish woman, it brings to light the remarkable achievements of a singular figure who overcame sexism, antisemitism, and economic struggles in her quest to promote emerging artists.

Co-organized by NYU’s Grey Art Museum, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Musée de l’Orangerie, the exhibition’s curatorial team includes Grey Director Lynn Gumpert, Marianne Le Morvan, founder of the Berthe Weill Archives in Paris, Anne Grace, curator of modern art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and Sophie Eloy, collections administrator and coordinator of the Contrepoints installations at the Musée de l’Orangerie. The exhibition will tour to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts May 10–September 7, 2025, and the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris October 8, 2025–January 25, 2026.

Visitor Policies and Accessibility: Please note that large bags and backpacks must be checked in a secure locker, and food & drink (including water bottles) are not permitted. The Grey is fully walker- and wheelchair-accessible, and several portable stools are available to borrow for use within the galleries.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Non-Members – $25

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ArtTable’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

About the Curator:

Lynn Gumpert is the Director of NYU’s Grey Art Museum, formerly known as the Grey Art Gallery. During her tenure, the Grey has presented over 75 exhibitions. Among them are: Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde (2024); Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World (2020); and The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal (2018). Lynn received a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MA in art history from the University of Michigan. The French government honored Gumpert with the distinction of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1999.

ArtTable would like to thank Dorothea Basile, Riva Blumenfeld, and Donna Harkavy for coordinating this event, and to acknowledge the late Julie Saul‘s contributions to the ArtTable community as well as to the NYU Grey Art Museum.

2025 The Winter Show | Insiders Preview & Early-Access Mornings
2025-01-24 10:00 - 2025-02-01 12:00
For ArtTable Executive, Circle, Patron and Benefactor Levels only.

ArtTable Executive, Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Members are invited to claim their complimentary pass for The Winter Show’s Insiders Preview & Early-Access Mornings.

The Winter Show is the premier art, antiques, and design fair in America, featuring many of the world’s top experts in the fine and decorative arts. The Winter Show, held annually at the Park Avenue Armory, showcases a breadth of works spanning 5,000 years presented by over 70 internationally renowned dealers.

These passes provide complimentary access to the fair on the below dates and times:

Insiders Preview: Friday, January 24 | 10AM – 12PMEarly-Access: Friday, January 31 | 10AM – 12PMEarly-Access: Saturday, February 1 | *11AM – 12PMAdmission:

FREE

Executive, Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Members Only with possibility to open to lower levels if availability allows later.

All registrants will receive an email after registration here with how to get their ticket(s). These passes are only offered while supplies last.

Location: Park Avenue Armory643 Park Avenue New York, NY 10065

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New York, NY | Author Talk: 'Mothers of Invention: The Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art'
2025-01-29 18:00 - 20:00 | Home of Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz, Address to be shared with registrants, Midtown Manhattan, New York
Join ArtTable for an Author Talk exploring Mothers of Invention: The Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art (Lund Humphries, 2024), written by Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal, and Sue Scott. This talk will be generously hosted in the home of Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz, a founding Board member of ArtTable.

This program will begin with light refreshments and conversation, with the Author Talk beginning at 6:30 PM. Seating will be provided.

About the book: Offering a radical rewriting of the history of contemporary art from a feminist perspective, four distinguished authors explore the lineages of performance, abstraction, craft and ecofeminism in ways that reveal the debt these important genres owe to the work of pioneering women artists. Tracing these influences over time, Mothers of Invention underscores the enormous impact of feminist ideas on the work of contemporary artists of all genders.

The painters, sculptors and performance artists featured here have shaped ideas now dominating the art world: the vulnerability of the environment, the rise of activist art, the challenge to the reign of high technology (including digital culture), and the development of a new language of abstraction. Having demolished the linear narrative of modernism, the privileging of a white male ethnocentric vision, the division of high and low art and the separation of art from larger social issues, feminist artists laid the groundwork for the globalised, multi-media, postmodern art world of today.

Illustrated with a spread of work from the last sixty years (and including contextual discussion of earlier practitioners), this book makes a compelling case for placing feminist art and artists at the heart of contemporary art.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $25

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ArtTable’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

About the Authors:

Eleanor Heartney is Contributing Editor to Art in America and Artpress. Recent publications include: Doomsday Dreams: the Apocalyptic Imagination in Contemporary Art (2019).

Helaine Posner is Chief Curator Emerita at the Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY, Purchase College, New York. She is the author of monographs on the artists Kiki Smith, Louise Fishman, and, most recently, Donna Dennis: A Poet in Three Dimensions (2023).

Nancy Princenthal is a writer whose most recent book Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s (2019) was named one of the best art books of the year by the New York Times. She is also the author of Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art (2015), which won a PEN America award for biography.

Sue Scott is an independent curator and writer. She was Adjunct Curator of Contemporary Art at the Orlando Museum of Art from 1989 to 2008 and founder and director of Sue Scott Gallery in New York City. All four writers are co-authors of the award-winning book After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art (2007) and of The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium (2013).

Los Angeles, CA | Guided Tour of 'Diane von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion' at the Skirball Cultural Center
2025-02-04 15:30 - 16:30 | Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, California, 90049, United States
Installation view of Diane von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion. Courtesy Skirball Cultural Center.

Join ArtTable for an exclusive tour of Diane von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion at the Skirball Cultural Center with Chief Curator Cate Thurston. Organized by the Fashion & Lace Museum in Brussels, where von Furstenberg was born, the exhibition uncovers the fascinating life story of a woman whose business transformed the world of fashion – and whose designs have empowered and celebrated the women who wear them. Program registration includes admission to the Skirball, with time to explore the galleries until the Center closes at 5:00 pm.

About the exhibition: Diane von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion explores the remarkable life and work of fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg. This expansive, multidisciplinary exhibition, enriched by a lavishly illustrated catalogue featuring interviews and scholarly essays, invites visitors to discover the extraordinary features of von Furstenberg’s career, from the 1970s to the present day.

Organized in four thematic sections, Diane von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion includes a selection of over sixty pieces drawn from the DVF archives along with ephemera, fabric swatches, media pieces, and information on her philanthropic work. The Skirball’s presentation of this exhibition will also include new images and audio that shed light on von Furstenberg’s personal biography as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and a war refugee, offering additional perspective on the factors that shaped her life and work. Diane von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion was organized by the Fashion & Lace Museum in von Furstenberg’s native city of Brussels, Belgium.

Parking and Accessibility (please see the Skirball’s website for full details):

Parking at the Skirball Cultural Center is free. ADA accessible parking is available in the South Parking garage, with a limited number of additional ADA accessible spaces available in the North and East garages.

All indoor and outdoor spaces are accessible to mobility devices, with heelchairs available for check-out from the Main Entrance lobby desk and North Parking Garage security kiosk on a first-come, first-served basis.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $25

Member Guests – $30

Non-Members – $35

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ArtTable extends its sincerest thanks to Felice Axelrod for coordinating this program.

About the Curator:

Cate Thurston, Chief Curator, joined the Skirball team in 2015 and is the coordinating curator for Diane von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion. She is also the co-curator of the Skirball exhibition “I’ll Have What She’s Having”: The Jewish Deli, which is currently traveling on a five-city national tour. Thurston previously curated the acclaimed exhibition Notorious RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2018). She was the managing curator for the Skirball’s presentations of Blacklist: Hollywood’s Red Scare (2023) Sara Berman’s Closet (2018), Future Aleppo (2018), Paul Simon: Words & Music (2017), Chasing Dreams: Baseball and Becoming American (2016), and the curator for The Unauthorized History of Baseball in 100-Odd Paintings: The Art of Ben Sakoguchi (2016). Prior to joining the Skirball, Thurston worked at the Autry Museum of the American West for five years in a variety of exhibition, education, and visitor experience-related positions, culminating in a hybrid curatorial role. Thurston holds a B.A. in American History from Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire and an M.A. in History from California State University, Northridge.

Virtual | Member Networking for Executive, Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Members
2025-02-10 17:30 - 18:30
ArtTable Executive, Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Members are invited to a Virtual Networking Session on February 10 at 5:30 PM EST/2:30 PM PST.

Make your cocktail or some afternoon caffeine, and join us on Zoom to connect with fellow ArtTable members nationwide. It is an excellent opportunity to share your projects and ideas while building your network and community. ArtTable staff members Jessica L. Porter, Lila Harnett Executive Director, and Alyssa Garland, Membership and Impact Initiatives Manager, will facilitate this session.Admission:

FREE

Open to Executive, Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Members Only

All registrants will receive Zoom details the day before the event.

This networking session is a perk for Executive, Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Members of ArtTable. If you want to join for this or other opportunities, consider upgrading your membership! Reach out to membership@arttable.org with any questions.

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2025 Frieze LA | Complimentary Passes
2025-02-20 10:00 - 2025-02-23 18:00
For ArtTable Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Members only.

ArtTable Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Members are invited to claim 1 complimentary General or VIP pass for 2025 Frieze Los Angeles.

The sixth edition of the fair returns to Santa Monica Airport from February 20-23, 2025 and will feature galleries from around the world, plus an expansive program of ambitious installations, collaborations with nonprofit organizations, and pop-ups from some of Los Angeles’ most beloved restaurants.

The Focus section will be curated by Essence Harden (co-curator Made in L.A 2025) for the second year. Focus is dedicated to solo presentations by galleries with a space in the US, formed in or after 2013. This section benefits from a subsidized rate.

Passes are available to Circle, Patron and Benefactor Members only on a first come, first-served basis, with a limit of 1 pass per member. Get your pass while they last!

Admission:

FREE (limited availability)

Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Members Only

All registrants will receive an email from ArtTable after registration here with next steps on how to get their ticket. Our supply is limited, so register while the supply lasts.

Location: Santa Monica Airport3027 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, 90405

OPENING HOURS

Frieze Los Angeles takes place from February 20 – 23, 2025.

Thursday, February 20: 10am – 7pm  (invitation only): Friday, February 21: 11am – 7pm  (invitation only 11am – 1pm, open to the public from 1pm) Saturday, February 22: 11am – 7pm Sunday, February 23: 11am – 6pm

Please note that last admission is 30 minutes before closing time on each day.

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North Miami, FL | Curator Tour of "See Me, Hear Me: Native Cultures" at ArtNexus Space
2025-02-26 16:00 - 17:00 | ArtNexus Space, 12500 N.E. 8th Avenue, 2nd Floor, North Miami, Florida, 33161, United States
Please join us for a tour of the group exhibition “See Me, Hear Me: Native Cultures,” the inaugural exhibition at the new ArtNexus Space in North Miami. The exhibition delves into the creative production of members of Indigenous communities, artists of Indigenous descent, and contemporary visual artists who have addressed issues related to the cosmogonies of various Indigenous peoples of Latin America and the problems they have faced over time. Artists on view include Claudia Andújar, Lastenia Canayo García (Pecón Quena), Sandra Gamarra, Santiago Yahuarcani, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwë, Zoila Andrea Coc-Chang, and many others. ArtNexus Space Executive Director & Chief Curator, Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig, Ph.D., will lead us through the space and exhibition. Light refreshments will be provided.

The new ArtNexus Space will expand the work the organization has been doing for 48 years to promote the dissemination, knowledge, and study of art from Latin America and the Caribbean. ArtNexus Space will present two annual shows drawn from private collections to which the public does not usually have access. In many cases, early works by important artists, acquired shortly after their production, will be on view. These projects will be accompanied by curatorial studies and publications that will become valuable reference documents.

The ArtNexus Space has a small elevator that can accommodate up to 2 people or a wheelchair. Benches are located throughout the gallery.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

General Admission – $25

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About Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig, Ph.D.

Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig is an art historian, independent curator, and art critic. Shereceived a Master’s in art history and a Ph.D. in Latin American history from the University ofMiami. She is a founding and contributing editor of ArtNexus magazine and was recentlyappointed Executive Director and Curator of the ArtNexus Space in North Miami. Since 1989,she has written about modern and contemporary art for specialized magazines, newspapers,artists’ monographs, and exhibition catalogs. She specializes in Latin American and Caribbeanart, emphasizing young emerging artists and pioneering women artists from the 20 th century. Sheis the author of the book Essays on 20 th Century Latin American Art (Routledge, 2022). From2008 to 2015, she worked as an adjunct curator at The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum,Florida International University, Miami, Florida. In 2023, she co-curated the XXIII Bienal deArte Paiz in Guatemala with Juan Canela. As an independent curator, she has organized over onehundred exhibitions in the United States and Latin America. She serves on the Advisory Boardof the Friends of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. She belongs to several professionalorganizations, including the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), the College ArtAssociation (CAA), the Association for Latin American Art (ALAA), and ArtTable.

Image: Zoila Andrea Coc-Chang, Más mazorca verde (More Green Cob), 2021Silk organza, corn husks and leaves, plastic, glitter, floral wire, and nails on the wall15.7 x 17.7 in. Courtesy of the artistPhoto: Etienne Frossard

Los Angeles, CA | Tour of 'Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal' with Erin Christovale at the Hammer Museum
2025-03-05 14:00 - 15:00 | Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, California, 90024, United States
Portrait of Alice Coltrane, 1970. Photo: Chuck Stewart. © Chuck Stewart Photography, LLC/Fireball Entertainment Group.

Join ArtTable for an exclusive tour of Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal at the Hammer Museum with Curator Erin Christovale. Christovale, who is also the co-founder of Black Radical Imagination, was an ArtTable New Leadership Awardee in 2020 and named to Apollo‘s 40 Under 40 USA in 2023. Our tour of this inventive interdisciplinary exhibition will explore Coltrane’s creative practice as well as her deep influence on contemporary art, evident in the work of Rashid Johnson, Jennie C. Jones, and Cauleen Smith, among others.

About the exhibition: The exhibition Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal is inspired by the life and legacy of jazz musician, devotional leader, and mother Alice Coltrane (b. 1937, Detroit). The title takes its name from her book Monument Eternal (1977), which reflected her newfound spiritual beliefs; the loss of her husband, the saxophonist John Coltrane; and the path to healing and self-discovery. The exhibition presents works by contemporary American artists paired with ephemera from Coltrane’s personal archive. Featuring a range of mediums including video, installation, performance, and sculpture together with Coltrane’s archival handwritten sheet music, unreleased audio recordings, and rarely seen video footage, Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal explores themes including spiritual transcendence, sonic innovation, and architectural intimacy to honor Coltrane’s cultural output and practice. This exhibition is part of a larger initiative called “The Year of Alice,” and in partnership with the John & Alice Coltrane Home.

Visitor Guidelines & Accessibility (please see the Hammer’s website for full details):

Convenient self-parking is available under the museum. Parking entrances are located on the east side of Westwood Boulevard (northbound) or on the west side of Glendon Boulevard (southbound), between Wilshire Boulevard and Lindbrook Drive. Rates are $8 for the first three hours with museum validation, and $3 for each additional 20 minutes, with a $22 daily maximum. There is a $8 flat rate after 5 p.m. on weekdays, and all day on weekends.

Portable gallery stools can be borrowed from a Hammer ambassador stationed in the galleries. Two wheelchairs are available to borrow from the Welcome Desk on a first-come, first-served basis. The Hammer asks visitors to check oversized bags and leave food and beverages outside the gallery spaces. There may be a few portions of the exhibition with capacity limits.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Non-Members – $25

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ArtTable extends its sincerest thanks to Nicole Berry for assistance in coordinating this program.

Berkeley, CA | Curator-Led Tour: "Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection" with Chief Curator Margot Norton
2025-03-05 16:00 - 17:00 | Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States
Join ArtTable for a curator-led tour of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, led by Chief Curator Margot Norton.

Making Their Mark brings together more than seventy artworks from the Shah Garg Collection, which is committed to amplifying the voices and visions of women artists. The exhibition, which premiered in New York in 2023, is the first public presentation of this important collection. Making Their Mark juxtaposes contemporary practices with pathbreaking historical works to illuminate transgenerational affinities, influences, and methodologies among artists from the postwar era to the present. Featuring a wide spectrum of artworks spanning almost eight decades, the exhibition emphasizes dialogues between artists who circumvent and break through conventions in art making, embracing craft techniques, uncommon supports, and alternative materials. Accompanied by a major publication produced in advance of the exhibition, Making Their Mark assembles significant examples by artists whose works go beyond prescribed definitions of art making established within a historically patriarchal field.

The Shah Garg Collection us owned by Komal Shah and Gaurav Garg, who support scholarship and public engagement highlighting the achievements and innovations of women artists through the Shah Garg Foundation. Through a wide range of projects and partnerships with educational institutions, arts organizations, and arts leaders, the Foundation works to bring greater recognition to art by women and to rectify the underrepresentation of women in public collections, exhibitions, and art historical narratives. Komal Shah will be honored at ArtTable’s Annual Benefit & Award Ceremony in April of this year. Click here to read more and register!

“I want to make a point with the collection, which is how excellent these artists are — they belong in every single museum.”– Komal Shah, The New York Times, 2023

Please review BAMFA’s accessibility page for available accommodations.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Public – $25

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About Margot Norton

Margot Norton is Chief Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), where she leads the curatorial team and oversees the exhibition program. At BAMPFA she curated the exhibition Gabriel Chaile: No hay nada que destruya el corazón como la pobreza (2023), and is curating the collection exhibition To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection (2024) and Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, co-curated with Cecilia Alemani (2024). Norton was previously Allen and Lola Goldring Senior Curator at the New Museum, New York, where she recently co-curated the 2021 New Museum Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone; Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined; and Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart/ Mi corazón latiente. At the New Museum, she has also curated solo exhibitions with Carmen Argote, Judith Bernstein, Diedrick Brackens, Pia Camil, Sarah Charlesworth, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Ragnar Kjartansson, Sarah Lucas, Chris Ofili, Goshka Macuga, Nathaniel Mellors, Laure Prouvost, Pipilotti Rist, Mika Rottenberg, Kaari Upson and Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, among others, and group exhibitions including The Keeper, Here and Elsewhere, and NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star. In 2017, she curated the Eighth Sequences Real Time Art Festival in Reykjavik, Iceland, and the Georgian Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale with artist Anna K.E. She is a founding member of Museums Moving Forward (MMF), an intergenerational, cross-institutional coalition of art museum professionals committed to advancing equity across the museum field. Before joining the New Museum in 2011, Norton was a curatorial assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has contributed to and edited numerous publications and exhibition catalogues, and regularly lectures on contemporary art and curating. She holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from Columbia University, New York.

Image credits:Installation view: Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, October 27, 2024–April 20, 2025

Margot Norton, photo by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr, courtesy of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Virtual | Artist & Curator Conversation with Cara Romero & Jami Powell
2025-03-12 11:00 - 12:00
8am PST | 9am MST | 10am CST | 11am EST

Join ArtTable for a virtual conversation with artist Cara Romero and curator Jami Powell on the occasion of Romero’s solo exhibition currently on view at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, Panûpünüwügai (Living Light).

Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light) explores the narrative artistic practice of Chemehuevi photographer Cara Romero. Spanning the past decade of her work, this exhibition presents a thematic examination of Romero’s complex and layered images, which celebrate the multiplicity, beauty, and resilience of Native American and Indigenous experiences. Accompanied by a catalogue of the same title and debuting at the Hood Museum in January 2025, this is Romero’s first major solo exhibition.

Click here for more details about the exhibition.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Patron, Benefactor, and Circle Members – Free

All other ArtTable Members – $10

Member Guests – $15

General Admission – $20

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All program registration fees go toward event expenses and administrative costs for the organization. Please note that if you end up not being able to attend the live program, you will receive the virtual recording after the event.

ArtTable’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

ArtTable Artist Talk programs are generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

About Cara Romero

Cara Romero (b. 1977, Inglewood, CA) is a contemporary fine art photographer. An enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi (CHE -MEH- WAY- VEE) Indian Tribe, Romero was raised between contrasting settings: the rural Chemehuevi reservation in Mojave Desert, CA and the urban sprawl of Houston, TX. Romero’s identity informs her photography, a blend of fine art and editorial photography, shaped by years of study and a visceral approach to representing Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural memory, collective history, and lived experiences from a Native American female perspective.

As an undergraduate at the University of Houston, Romero pursued a degree in cultural anthropology. Disillusioned, however, by academic and media portrayals of Native Americans as bygone, Romero realized that making photographs could do more than anthropology did in words, a realization that led to a shift in medium. Since coming to Santa Fe’s Institute of American Indian Arts in 1998, Romero’s expansive oeuvre has been informed by formal training in film, digital, fine art and commercial photography. By staging theatrical compositions infused with dramatic color, Romero takes on the role of storyteller, using contemporary photography techniques to depict the modernity of Native peoples, illuminating Indigenous worldviews and aspects supernaturalism in everyday life.Maintaining a studio and gallery in Santa Fe, NM, Romero regularly participates in Native American art fairs and panel discussions, and was featured in PBS’ Craft in America (2019) and again for a short documentary called “Following the Light in 2023. Her award-winning work is included in many public and private collections internationally. Married with three children, she travels between Santa Fe and the Chemehuevi Valley Indian Reservation, where she maintains close ties to her tribal community and ancestral homelands.

Image credits:Cara Romero, 3 Sisters, 2022, archival pigment print. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Acquisition and Preservation of Native American Art Fund; 2022.47.2. © Cara Romero. Courtesy of the Hood Museum of Art.

Washington, DC | BreakfastTable with Carol Duke
2025-03-13 08:00 - 09:00 | Mount Vernon Triangle Neighborhood, Exact Address to be Provided, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001, United States
Join ArtTable for the return of the BreakfastTable event! Launched by a group of dedicated members based in Washington, DC, this long-loved program welcomes female and nonbinary leaders in the arts to share their stories in a casual setting. This month, please join us in welcoming ArtTable Board Member Carol Duke as our featured speaker.

With a passion for the arts and architecture for over 30 years, Carol Duke helps museums and galleries plan for and design facilities that best suit the needs of their audiences, communities, and colleagues. She leads client development and strategy at DLR Group, expanding the firm’s international cultural and performing arts studio. Her long-range planning and commitment to equitable community-building supports projects at a high level, resulting in exceptional, inspiring design solutions. Carol is a trustee of the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. and actively supports several arts organizations, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Society for College & University Planning, the American Institute of Architects, and the International Association of Museum Facilities Administrators. She holds a BA in Art History from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. In her spare time, Carol loves to curate her Little Free Library, travel with her husband and twin daughters, attend the theater, and visit museums.

We hope you will join us!

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $10

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Please note that ArtTable registration fees go toward administrative costs for the organization.
