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Virtual | Artist Talk with Karen Lofgren
2020-11-19 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s Artist Talk series is made possible by the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Originally formatted as in-person Artist Breakfasts, ArtTable has moved all programming into the virtual realm during the pandemic. Please join us for a virtual Artist Talk with Karen Lofgren.
This program is $5 for ArtTable members and $10 for non-members.
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Artist Statement
I was influenced by my childhood within a utopian back-to-the land island community, and at a Tibetan dharma center. Raised by an alternative medicine practitioner and in experimental social structures, I was born into countercultural participation. Fundamentally centered on belief structures and systems, my practice mediates space by linking the history of ritual and belief throughout various cultures and time periods, and placing this material in relationship through the approach of “radical subjectivity” in the studio.
About Karen Lofgren

Karen Lofgren is a Los Angeles-based artist working primarily in sculpture and artist books from a feminist and decolonial perspective, and holds an MFA from CalArts. Her research centers on ritual, history, mythology, and the construction of consciousness over time, forming relationships between cultural systems and other wild systems. She was a 2019 Pollock-Krasner grant recipient; receives Canada Council Grant support; and was Fulbright Core Scholar at UAL, Central St. Martins College in 2017/2018.
Solo exhibitions include What is To Cure at Royale Projects Contemporary Art; Trajectory Object c. 2000-2050 with High Desert Test Sites, as well as solo shows at LACE; Pitzer Art Galleries; and Machine Project. Group exhibitions include PRISKA PASQUER; Palm Springs Art Museum; Commonwealth & Council; MASS Gallery; LACMA; Human Resources; Bank of America; Royal College of Art; Nicodim Gallery; and OCAD University. Her projects have also received support from Mike Kelley Foundation; Durfee Foundation; the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; The Ranch Projects; and West of Rome Public Art.
This program is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation has been a leader in providing grants enabling emerging and established artists to focus on their work. Funding helps artists to create new work, acquire art supplies, rent studio space, and prepare exhibitions. The Foundation also provides grants to organizations that directly engage with artists, such as artist residency programs. Please visit www.pkf.org for more information.
Thank you to Shana Nys Dambrot, ArtTable Southern California Chapter, and the Pollock Krasner Foundation.

Image Credits:

Karen Lofgren in studio with work in progress, 2020

What is to Cure, installation view in Brave New Worlds at Palm Springs Art Museum, 2019
Like This I See You In Dreams, 2018

RESCHEDULED - Virtual | AT Connect with Marika Kuźmicz
2020-11-18 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
This program has been rescheduled to Wednesday, January 13, 2021 at 12pm ET, 11am CT, 9am PT. Click here to visit the event page.

12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s AT Connect program series allows and encourages members to network, connect, and ask questions outside of their regular areas of expertise. In this session we will hear from art historian, curator, researcher, and publicist, Marika Kuźmicz, who is currently working on an online database highlighting the lives and work of overlooked female artists. You can read more about the database here.

ArtTable Members | $5
Non-members | $10
How to take part:

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

Image: Marika Kuźmicz
Are you interested in participating in an AT Connect program? Email programs@arttable.org for more information!

Virtual | Challenges & Choices Facing Nonprofit Leaders, with Deborah Fisher & Irene Shum
2020-11-16 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
The year 2020 has been a trying one for the art world, specifically for nonprofit organizations. A study from the National Center for Arts Research released over the summer estimated that New York City’s nonprofit arts sector alone had lost more than half a billion dollars since March, with 11% of smaller cultural organizations not expected to survive. The data is bleak, but in spite of it all, nonprofit leaders are showing that when faced with a challenge, they will work to execute the best possible solution to further their organizations’ missions or legacies.
During this discussion we will hear from Deborah Fisher, Executive Director of A Blade of Grass, and Irene Shum, former Executive Director of Art in General. Both spaces were majorly affected by the pandemic and ultimately came to different solutions. We will discuss the challenges each organization faced and the different possible solutions that were considered, the decision-making process, and what’s next for them and the future of arts nonprofits.
This program is $10 for ArtTable members and $15 for non-members.
How to take part:

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About the Speakers
Deborah Fisher is an artist and creative leader working to expand the roles artists play in civic life. She is the founding Executive Director of A Blade of Grass, a non-profit solely dedicated to nurturing socially engaged art. Fisher has served as an art, strategy, and philanthropy advisor to Shelley and Donald Rubin, and has worked in many capacities at the intersection of art and civic life in New York City, including as studio manager at Socrates Sculpture Park, and as an educator and curriculum developer for the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment. Her approach to leadership is deeply informed by her training as a sculptor, particularly her experience making public art. She also writes and lectures internationally about arts funding and socially engaged art.
For fifteen years, curator Irene Mei Zhi Shum has actively explored the intersection of art and architecture, organizing ambitious projects and championing the artists and designers with whom she works. Most recently, she was the Executive Director of Art in General in New York City. Prior to this, Shum served as the Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas (2018-2020) and the inaugural curator for the Philip Johnson Glass House, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in New Canaan, Connecticut (2007-2018). An early and major responsibility at the Glass House was the coordination of the transfer of property from the estates of architect Philip Johnson and art patron David Whitney to the National Trust. Shum shaped the Glass House’s collection and implemented the site’s arts initiative, introducing exhibitions, music and dance performances. Notably, she organized and secured funding for the large-scale, site-specific exhibitions Fujiko Nakaya: Veil (2014) and Yayoi Kusama: Narcissus Garden (2016), as well as a highly acclaimed sound performance by composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and visual artist and musician Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto), that was recorded and released as Glass (Noton, 2018). Shum holds a Master’s in Architecture from Yale University; a certificate of architecture from the École des Beaux-Arts of the Ecoles d’Art Américaines de Fontainebleau, where she was awarded the Prix de Ville de Fontainebleau; and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Architecture and Art History from Barnard College, Columbia University.

Images

Installation view: Aliza Shvarts: Purported, Art in General, New York, 2020. Photo: Dario Lasagni. Courtesy of The Brooklyn Rail
Deborah Fisher, Executive Director of A Blade of Grass
Irene Shum, former Executive Director of Art in General

Virtual | Artist Talk with Letitia Huckaby
2020-11-13 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s Artist Talk series is made possible by the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Originally formatted as in-person Artist Breakfasts, ArtTable has moved all programming into the virtual realm during the pandemic. Please join us for a virtual Artist Talk with photographer Letitia Huckaby.
This program is free for ArtTable members and $5 for non-members.
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.
For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

About Letitia Huckaby
Letitia Huckaby has a degree in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma, a BFA from the Art Institute of Boston in photography and her Master’s degree from the University of North Texas in Denton. Huckaby has exhibited as an emerging artist at Phillips New York, the Tyler Museum of Art, The Studio School of Harlem, the Camden Palace Hotel in Cork City, Ireland, and the Texas Biennial at Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum. Her work is included in several prestigious collections; the Library of Congress, the McNay Art Museum, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, and the Samella Lewis Contemporary Art Collection at Scripps College in Claremont, California. Huckaby was a featured artist in MAP2020: The Further We Roll, The More We Gain at the Amon Carter Museum and State of the Art 2020 at The Momentary and Crystal Bridges Museum, both opened in the spring of 2020. She is currently a Fall 2020 Artist in Residence at ArtPace in San Antonio, TX.
Click here to learn more about Letitia and her work.
This program is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation has been a leader in providing grants enabling emerging and established artists to focus on their work. Funding helps artists to create new work, acquire art supplies, rent studio space, and prepare exhibitions. The Foundation also provides grants to organizations that directly engage with artists, such as artist residency programs. Please visit www.pkf.org for more information.
Thank you to Bryn Larsen and Lindsay Davis, ArtTable Houston Chapter, and the Pollock Krasner Foundation.

Image Credits:

Letitia Huckaby, photographed by Rambo
Sweet Enough, Pigment Print on Cotton Fabric w/ Embroidery Hoop, 12” x 20”, 2020, Courtesy of the artist & Foto Relevance Gallery, Houston, TX

Virtual | DC BreakfastTable with Jame Anderson
2020-11-13 08:30 - 09:30 (America/New_York)
8:30am ET| 7:30am CT
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for a presentation and conversation with Jame Anderson, SmithGroup Director of Cultural Practice. This event is free for ArtTable members and $5 for non-members.
How to take part:

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Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link
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About Jame Anderson
Originally an artist turned exhibits fabricator, Jame studied architecture leading to her first tenure with SmithGroup. Jame went on to serve as a Senior Architect and Exhibitor Designer at the National Gallery of Art, where she designed hundreds of special exhibitions and other projects before returning to SmithGroup to lead the Cultural Practice. Some notable projects include the National Museum of the American Indian, the Gilcrease Museum of American Art, the Lumpkin’s Slave Jail Site/Devil’s Half Acre interpretive site, and the renovation and expansion of The Franklin Institute.
“There are stories to tell everywhere – we must look for every opportunity to make our world more beautiful, have more meaning, and better engage with one another.”
Jame holds a combined BA in Studio Art and Art History from Wake Forest University and an M-Arch from the Rhode Island School of Design. She lives in the DC burbs with her spouse Neel and 13-year-old fiddle playing daughter and personal hero, Clare.
Thank you to Caitlin Berry, ArtTable Washington, D.C. Chapter Co-Chair.

Image: Jame Anderson

Virtual | DC Around the Table Book Group: "Whitewalling: Art, Race, & Protest in 3 Acts" - Aruna D'Souza
2020-11-12 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
7pm ET | 6pm CT | 4pm PT
Join ArtTable’s Washington, D.C. Chapter for an Around the Table Book Group. This program is open to all ArtTable members and meets four times a year; participants can join for one book or for all!
How to take part:

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Join us for an in-depth discussion on Aruna D’Souza’s “Whitewalling: Art, Race, and Protest in 3 Acts.” In the book, D’Souza pinpoints three incidents in the long, troubled history of art and race in America and provides critical commentary on those events.
Aruna D’Souza is an author and art historian who examines modern and contemporary art, intersectional feminisms, and the impact of museums on our lives and the way we view our world. She was recently featured in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s annual lecture series, the Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art.
Please make sure to register for this virtual program by November 11 at 5:00 PM EST. A Zoom video call link for the program and other details will be sent to all attendees a day prior to the program.
Thank you to Ruth Abrahams for organizing this program.

Image: “Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts” by Aruna D’Souza

Virtual | SoCal: L.A. Louver 45th Anniversary Exhibition Discussion
2020-11-12 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
4pm ET | 3pm CT | 1pm PT
Join ArtTable’s Southern California Chapter for a virtual discussion about the L.A. Louver’s 45th Anniversary Exhibition, with Chapter Co-Chair and art critic Shana Nys Dambrot, Elizabeth East, Director of the L.A. Louver, and exhibiting artists Rebecca Campbell and Sherin Guirguis.
This program is open to ArtTable Members and guests only. Members are allowed to bring one guest for an additional $5.
How to take part:

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Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link
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Venerable gallery L.A. Louver is currently showing its 45th anniversary exhibition, featuring 45 artists from their extended gallery stable and family. They are open for free private viewing appointments, and the show is also presented in online form. All who are comfortable are welcome to make an appointment at their convenience at any time, and on November 12, once everyone has had a chance to see the show, either in person or online, we will convene on Zoom for a virtual conversation.
About Shana Nys Dambrot
Shana is an art critic, curator, and author based in Downtown LA. She is Arts Editor for the L.A. Weekly; contributor to Flaunt, Art & Cake, and Artillery; and author of the experimental novella Zen Psychosis (2020, Griffith Moon). She is the co-chair of Programming at ArtTable SoCal.
About Rebecca Campbell
Rebecca Campbell received her MFA in painting and drawing in June 2001 from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at L.A. Louver Gallery, Ameringer-McEnery-Yohe, Gagosion Gallery, the Phoenix Art Museum, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, among other galleries and museums. Currently an assistant professor at California State University, Fullerton, she has also taught at Art Center College of Design, Claremont Graduate University, Vermont College of Fine Art, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and the Idyllwild Arts Academy. She is represented by L.A. Louver Gallery. More info.

About Sherin Guirguis
Sherin Guirguis was born in 1974 in Luxor, Egypt. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Painting and Sculpture from the University of California’s College of Creative Studies in Santa Barbara, CA and her Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2001. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. More info.

Thank you to Shana Nys Dambrot, SoCal Programs Co-Chair for organizing this program.

Image Credits:

L.A. Louver, 45 at 45, installation views
Rebecca Campbell, Which Side Are You On
Sherin Guirguis, Untitled (el sokareya), 2013, plywood, 84 x 84 x 88 in. (213.4 x 213.4 x 223.5 cm) / Edition A.P. of 3

NY | Artist-Led Tour of 'Beth Lipman: Collective Elegy' at the Museum of Arts & Design
2020-11-06 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Museum of Arts & Design, 2 Columbus Circle, New York City, NY, 10019, United States
Please join us for this exclusive in-person tour of Beth Lipman: Collective Elegy, made possible by a generous contribution from the Alturas Foundation and led by artist Beth Lipman at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City! The exhibition brings together a decade of work, and is the first major scholarly assessment of the artist’s career. In these turbulent times, Lipman’s art reminds us of where we came from, the subjectivity of history, and the need for harmony with the larger world. Click here to read more about the exhibition.
This event is $25 for ArtTable members and $35 for non-members. There are two time slots for this event with extremely limited availability.
By registering for this event you consent to having your contact information shared with the Museum of Arts and Design only to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed. Your information will not be used for any other communications. Please read the Museum of Arts and Design’s policy regarding Health and Safety regulations at the museum before registering.
Click here to register for the 11:00am tour.
Click here to register for the 11:30am tour.

About Beth Lipman
Lipman is an American artist whose sculptural practice explores aspects of material culture and deep time through still lives, site-specific installations, and photographs. Ephemeral and intricate, the work addresses mortality, materiality, and temporality. Lipman is also known for site responsive installations that activate the specific history of objects, individuals and institutions. Collective Elegy, her solo exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design, is on view September 24- April 4 2021. She has received numerous awards including a USA Berman Bloch Fellowship, Pollock Krasner Grant, Virginia Groot Foundation Grant, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. Recent works include All in All, a large scale sculpture that investigates the nature of time and Belonging(s) a sculptural response to the life of Abigail Levy Franks for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (AR). Lipman has exhibited her work internationally at such institutions as the Ringling Museum of Art (FL), ICA/MECA (ME), RISD Museum (RI), Milwaukee Art Museum (WI), Gustavsbergs Konsthall(Sweden) and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC). Her work has been acquired by numerous museums including the North Carolina Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY), Kemper Museum for Contemporary Art (MO), Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC), Jewish Museum (NY), Norton Museum of Art, (FL), and the Corning Museum of Glass (NY). The artist is represented by Nohra Haime Gallery (NY) and Cade Tompkins Projects (RI). Lipman lives and works in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin.
Thank you to Joy Glidden, Beth Lipman, Lydia Brawner (MAD), and Samantha DeTillio (MAD) for working together to make this program possible. Additional thanks to the Alturas Foundation for generously funding this program.

Image Credits:

All in All, 2020, 74” (188 cm) x 134” (340 cm) x 92” (234 cm), mixed media; photo credit: Beth Lipman
Beth Lipman, photographed by Richard Gottscho

Virtual | Artist Talk with Shelley Spector
2020-10-26 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
4pm EST | 3pm CST | 1pm PST
ArtTable’s Artist Talk series is made possible by the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Originally formatted as in-person Artist Breakfasts, ArtTable has moved all programming into the virtual realm during the pandemic. Please join us for a virtual Artist Talk with Shelley Spector.
This program is free for ArtTable members and $5 for non-members.
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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About Shelley Spector
Shelley Spector is a multidisciplinary sculptor and project based artist who lives and works in Philadelphia. In her practice she produces distinct bodies of work that utilize the excess of our consumer-based culture. Spector responds to available materials, mostly discarded, in combination with a changeable work environment. She seeks to make work that takes shape as an agent of change – who begin as sculpture rooted in the art world of form and content but that physically move into the world of social issues and can directly respond to its needs. Her most current work in progress is the defining project for a long term body of work entitled, The Nowadays, which uses a small cabin in the mountains of Pennsylvania as a tool and conduit through which she will explore alternatives to resource economy.
Spector’s work is part of many public and private collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which presented her solo exhibition “Keep The Home Fires Burning” in 2015, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Woodmere Art Museum, and the West Collection in PA, and Human Rights Campaign Headquarters in Washington, DC. Her ongoing collaborative project, Village, which began at the Philadelphia Museum of Art has traveled to alternative art spaces in Brooklyn, Costa Rica, San Francisco. Chicago and Montréal. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art In America and featured in ARTnews. She has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Leeway Foundation. Her residencies include Mildred’s Lane in Beach Lake, PA, and RAIR (Recycled Artists In Residence) and Nextfab Studio in Philadelphia. Spector has been actively engaged in Philadelphia’s art community for years as a respected artist, innovative gallery owner, teacher and champion of emerging talent. Between 1999 and 2010, she founded and directed SPECTOR Gallery/Projects, a program to work outside the traditional gallery system. From 2006 to 2013, she published Artjaw.com, an online multimedia anthology of first person stories from the Philadelphia art community. Spector is faculty in the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.
This program is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation has been a leader in providing grants enabling emerging and established artists to focus on their work. Funding helps artists to create new work, acquire art supplies, rent studio space, and prepare exhibitions. The Foundation also provides grants to organizations that directly engage with artists, such as artist residency programs. Please visit www.pkf.org for more information.
Thank you to Rachel Zimmerman, ArtTable Philadelphia Chapter, and the Pollock Krasner Foundation.

Image Credits:

Shelley Spector, White Rice Builds – 1,250 Servings, Reclaimed textiles and white rice, 72 x 96 x 3”; Produced with the support of the Pollock – Krasner Foundation, 2020

Virtual | Pecha Kucha! with ArtTable's Northwest & Northern California Chapters
2020-10-24 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
2pm EST | 1pm CST | 11am PST
Join ArtTable’s Northwest and Northern California Chapters for a virtual Pecha Kucha! This format highlights members’ projects and initiatives across different visual arts professions. Creative and fast-paced, each presentation provides an opportunity to share and learn more about what members have been working on and the evolution of projects throughout 2020. This program is open to members and non-members. Donations are not required but always appreciated!
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.
For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

Sharing a coast, the Northern California and the Northwest Chapters had hoped to have an event to share their work with each other. Now, with our lives online, we can open a window to virtually get to know each other across the continent. We hope you will join us for a Virtual Pecha Kucha highlighting the flexible and innovative ways in which our members have met the challenges presented by the current COVID19 pandemic. In this Time of Corona, these women have found new methods, deep motivation, and inspiring commitment for the pursuit of their projects and goals in their fields.
Among the many presenters in this faced-paced and stimulating revelation of ventures and accomplishments, we look forward to meeting:
In California

Julie McCray, Gallerist and founding member of Commotion West Berkeley for crowd-funding exciting projects like murals, community gardens, parklets, public art, pop-up events
Terri Cohn, Art Historian, curator, writer and educator
Dorothy Davila, Managing Director of the Headlands Center for the Arts, who recently made an employment change and will address the adjustments in job search, interview process and building a new team during the pandemic
Lisa Chadwick, Gallerist who initiated online postings of pairings of poetry and art leading to a new book published to raise money for a food support non-profit
Gina Werfel, Professor of Art at the University of California Davis will discuss the challenges in teaching studio courses online
Ann Trinca, former Director of the Berkeley Art Center who became an independent art consultant, curator, and artist management advocate.
Joyce Ertel Hulbert, Textile Conservation
Jeanie Craig, Art Collection Management and Appraisals

In Washington

Emily Zimmerman is a curator and writer based in Seattle, WA. Emily is the Director of the Jacob Lawrence Gallery at the University of Washington’s School of Art + Art History + Design, and editor for the art journal MONDAY
Paula Stokes, glass artist and teacher, project director for two of Chihuly’s most acclaimed exhibitions, and co-founder of METHOD gallery
Kira Burge is the President of Shunpike’s Board of Directors and has 13+ years of experience developing programs, events and exhibitions, including 6+ years successfully producing the Seattle Art Fair. Kira previously held positions at Greg Kucera Gallery and Ramsay Fairs, and founded Interstitial gallery and project space which was dedicated to showcasing video and new media art.
Marge Levy, art advocate, ceramics artist, Artist Trust Board of Trustees, intrepid scuba diver
Allison Kramer, is a fine art professional, most recently with Chihuly, inc.
Donna Davies is currently deputy director of Pilchuck glass, and recently Group Show Director producing the Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art (SOFA) fairs
Lauren Gallow is a writer, editor, and marketing consultant specializing in architecture, design, and art. Formerly an in-house writer for Olson Kundig, Lauren is currently the Editorial Chair of ARCADE, and her writing has appeared in Dwell, Metropolis, New American Paintings, GRAY Magazine, and Seattle Met, among others.
Kathleen Warren is co-founder and art director of overall creative, a women owned and operated creative services company based in Seattle. Founded in 2019, overall creative focuses on public and private mural designs and installation throughout Washington and beyond. She strongly believes in advocating for artists who have not had the privilege, freedom, or tools to experiment in large scale works.

Thank you to Jan Wurm, Northern California Chapter and Lorrie Cardoso, Northwest Chapter for organizing this program.

Virtual | AT Together: Gallerists with Christine Berry & Martha Campbell
2020-10-22 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
4pm ET | 3pm CT | 1pm PT
AT Together was developed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic as a way to reach beyond geographic barriers and network, exchange ideas, and share resources across professions. Each session focuses on a particular profession in the art world, such as Curators, Non-Profit Leaders, or Educators. These programs are open to members and non-members, though we ask that you sign up for the event that matches your professional role and needs.

This session is for gallery professionals and will be facilitated by Christine Berry and Martha Campbell, Co-Founders of Berry Campbell Gallery.
How to take part:

Click here to Register for this event.
Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link.
Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center and select the “Zoom Client for Meetings” option. Alternatively, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link.
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About Christine Berry and Martha Campbell:
Christine Berry and Martha Campbell opened Berry Campbell Gallery in Chelsea in 2013. They share many parallels in their backgrounds and interests: both studied art history in college and began their careers in the museum world, but most importantly, both share a curatorial vision.
Christine Berry is from Geneseo, New York, and graduated from Baylor University in Waco, Texas in 1992. She received a Master’s degree in art history from the University of North Texas, along with a certification in museum studies and education. She worked at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, as Assistant Curator before moving to New York City for a position at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Christine moved from the non-profit sector to commercial world in 2000. She was Associate Director at Spanierman Gallery/Spanierman Modern for ten years before opening a gallery with Martha Campbell.
Martha Campbell is from Greenville, in the Mississippi Delta, and attended the Groton School in Massachusetts. She then graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2006. Directly from college she went to a position at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. Deciding to explore a path in the gallery world, Martha was hired at age 24 as an Associate Director at Spanierman Modern in New York.
With a strong emphasis on research and networking with artists and scholars, Berry and Campbell decided to join forces and open their own art gallery. Berry Campbell Gallery opened in 2013 in the heart of Chelsea’s art district, at 530 West 24th Street on the ground floor. In 2015, the gallery expanded, doubling its size with an additional 2,000 square feet of exhibition space.
Highlighting a selection of postwar and contemporary artists, the gallery fulfills an important gap in the art world, revealing a depth within American modernism that is just beginning to be understood, encompassing the many artists who were left behind due to stylistic trends, race, gender, or geography. Since its inception, the gallery has been especially instrumental in giving women artists long overdue consideration, an effort that museums have only just begun to take up, such as in the 2016 traveling exhibition, Women of Abstract Expressionism curated by University of Denver professor Gwen F. Chanzit. This show featured work by Perle Fine and Judith Godwin, both represented by Berry Campbell.
In addition to Perle Fine and Judith Godwin, artists whose work is represented by the gallery include Edward Avedisian, Walter Darby Bannard, Stanley Boxer, Dan Christensen, Eric Dever, John Goodyear, Ken Greenleaf, Raymond Hendler, Ida Kohlmeyer, Jill Nathanson, John Opper, Stephen Pace, Charlotte Park, William Perehudoff, Ann Purcell, Mike Solomon, Syd Solomon, Albert Stadler, Yvonne Thomas, Susan Vecsey, James Walsh, Joyce Weinstein, Frank Wimberley, and Larry Zox.
Berry Campbell Gallery shows have been reviewed or featured in publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Artforum, Art & Antiques, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, Brooklyn Rail, Artcritical, New Criterion, Architectural Digest, and Veranda.

Images:

Courtesy of Maira Kalman, Poster House and Times Square Art
Martha Campbell & Christine Berry

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

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

Image: Danielle Glosser

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AT LOCAL | New York Coffee Break
2020-09-18 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York)
Image: ArtTable Untitled Panel 2019. Courtesy of UNTITLED, ART. Photo by Arthur Kobin: Drew Altizer Photography.
AT LOCAL virtual programs present opportunities to connect as a local chapter online. This event is for members of ArtTable’s New York chapter. Stay tuned for AT LOCAL events near you!
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Join ArtTable New York chapter for a coffee break!
With so many now working from home, separated from colleagues and usual networks of friends, many of us are missing the stimulating conversations and debates that filled the working week. This has led us to organize the AT Local Coffee Break, a casual conversation over a hot drink, providing a virtual space for members of the New York chapter to come together to network and discuss newsworthy topics in our community. Join the New York programs committee co-chairs Jacqueline Towers-Perkins and Sarah McNaughton for an interactive and informal back-and-forth to discuss the most pressing art world topics of the week and to share your thoughts on the industry developments hitting the headlines. An informal agenda of topics will be circulated prior to the event. Please come prepared to speak up and to be called on for your opinion – we want to hear your thoughts!
Please Note: numbers for this program are limited so should you no longer be able to attend the session, please let us know as soon as possible so that another member can take your place.
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Thank you to Jacqueline Towers-Perkins and Sarah McNaughton, NY Programs Co-chairs.

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

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

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

AT LOCAL | DC BreakfastTable with Marta Staudinger
2020-09-04 08:30 - 09:30 (America/New_York)
Image: Marta Staudinger
8:30 AM EDT/ 7:30 AM CDT
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Join us for a presentation and informal conversation and with Marta Staudinger, founder and director of Latela Curatorial, and the GLB Memorial Fund which supports woman-identifying artists and curators who reside in Washington DC, Maryland or Virginia.
In 2014, Marta founded Latela Curatorial: an Art & Curatorial Lifestyle Boutique which provides art consultation to art collectors and commercial clients in the Washington DC region. In 2015, she opened the Latela Art Gallery, a multi-purpose space which serves as a curatorial office and client meeting space, artist studio and is also regularly activated for art exhibitions. The gallery has been voted Best Commercial Art Gallery in Washington DC consecutively since its opening in 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019.
Marta is passionate about improving the Arts Ecosystem in Washington DC to continue to draw national/international attention to the DMV’s artistic currents and talents. In 2018, she challenged DC’s Comprehensive Cultural Plan. In 2019, Latela Curatorial was highlighted as one of “5 Art Destinations Changing DC’s Creative Scene”. Most recently, Marta spearheaded the example of “How Apartment Buildings can become Showcases for Artists in DC” in partnership with local developer WC Smith by sourcing only local, original artwork in one of the city’s newest luxury apartment buildings setting a precedent for developers to contribute to the local creative economy.
In May 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, Marta launched the GLB Memorial Fund for the Arts which provides financial support to woman-identifying artists and curators who reside in Washington DC, Maryland or Virginia to further advance women-led contemporary art initiatives.
Marta Staudinger has worked in multiple fine art capacities over the last decade as an Independent Curator and Artist, but also as an Art Professional in some of the most prominent art historical institutions including the National Bargello Museum in Florence, Italy; the Antoni Tàpies Foundation in Barcelona, Spain; the Art Museum of the Americas and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Throughout her time working in institutions, she has maintained an artist practice, which has included apprenticing with professional painters and expressing her creative voice with the multiple cultures in which she has lived.
Marta divides her time wearing multiple hats as an Art Consultant, Curator, Gallerist, Artist & Art Historian. She travels regularly for curatorial projects + to lecture in Italy, Portugal and Spain as a Smithsonian Journeys Expert.
Thank you to Allison Nance, DC Chapter Programs Chair.

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

12 PM EDT/ 11 AM CDT/ 9 AM PDT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

RE/ VIEW | Expanding Reach and Audience with Augmented and Virtual Reality
2020-06-30 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Clockwise from top left: Sisa Bueno, Vashti DuBois and Robin White Owen
Introducing RE/ VIEW, an online program discussion series to address reopening and reimagining museums, art spaces and institutions across the country. Understanding that this crisis has upended previous conditions and revealed vulnerabilities in how we exhibit, present and view art, we invite leaders across our field to strategize for the future. This event is open to members and non-members with a $15 suggested donation.
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Join ArtTable for a discussion on using augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) tools to expand an institutions’ reach and programming. During this discussion we will hear from Sisa Bueno, founder of Vuevelo, an AR platform that works alongside museums, Vashti DuBois, Executive Director/Founder of the Colored Girls Museum that is working with AR/VR to develop a virtual experience that connects artists, educators and technologists with everyday women of the African diaspora, and Robin White Owen, Co-founder and Principal of Media Combo, which works within museums again focusing on AR/VR.
Sisa Bueno
Originally from New York City, Sisa Bueno is an Afro-Latina film & multimedia maker who is fascinated by people of all cultures and seeks to awaken our own empowerment. She studied both film production and interactive technologies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University (NYU). The NBC Network named Sisa a 2013 Latina Innovator for her upcoming documentary “To the Mountains,” which takes place in Bolivia, South America. Sisa is a recipient of the ITVS-PBS Diversity Development grant, HotDocs CrossCurrents grant, and BAVC MediaMaker fellow for her current work in progress, “For Venida, For Kalief.”
Sisa is also currently a 2018-2020 Member of the NEW INC tech incubator program within the New Museum working with Augmented Reality (AR) developing an art-viewing app tentatively called Vuevelo (currently in prototype stage). The goal is to provide an enhanced curated experience via an interactive AR platform that gives extra media content for featured works of art in real time. Her fascination with finding solutions for providing additional context, and her experimentation with VR and AR technology inspired her to create the Vuevelo platform to fulfill an existing need for art lovers seeking more vetted information about the works that they love straight from the creators/curators themselves.
Vashti DuBois
Prior to creating The Colored Girls Museum (TCGM), Vashti DuBois held leadership positions at a number of organizations over the span of her 30-year career in non-profit and arts administration. DuBois’ work focused primarily on issues impacting girls and women of color at organizations such as The Free Library of Philadelphia, Tree House Books, the historic Church of the Advocate, the Children’s Art Carnival in New York City, the Haymarket People’s Fund in Boston, Congreso Girls Center and The Leeway Foundation.
In 2015, DuBois opened TCGM to “honor the stories, experiences and history of Colored Girls throughout the African Diaspora.” It is the first memoir museum of its kind offering visitors a multi-disciplinary experience in a residential space. TCGM initiates the “ordinary” object, submitted by the colored girl herself, as a representative of an aspect of her story and personal history which she finds meaningful.
TCGM has been engineered to pop up in other cities and neighborhoods around the country, transforming ordinary spaces into Colored Girls Museum outposts that collect, archive and share the stories of indigenous Colored Girls.
DuBois is a graduate of Wesleyan University and a NAMAC Fellow. She is currently working on a book about the making of The Colored Girls Museum.
Robin White Owen
Robin White Owen is a Principal and Creative Producer at MediaCombo, a digital media studio she founded with her husband, Michael Owen, in 2004 in New York. They produce user friendly and engaging experiences in virtual reality, augmented reality and interactive applications, as well as audio tours and videos. These projects are designed to build engagement, relationships and knowledge.
Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) create immersive experiences that can accomplish these goals because they help visitors gain a deeper, more personal understanding of a story.
She is currently completing Tracing Paint: the Pollock-Krasner Studio in VR, a VR experience for the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in East Hampton, NY. Visitors in Quest VR headsets will find themselves in the studio as it looked when first Pollock and then Krasner painted their most iconic works there, seeing those paintings in situ, and hearing the artists speak about their process.
Her first AR project was an AR audio tour at The Morgan Library & Museum, launched in December 2018, The 1907 Tour: Pierpont Morgan’s Library Revealed. It takes advantage of the unique attributes of augmented reality to merge the past with the present, blending time and distance, delving into Morgan’s personal life, and his sources of inspiration.
Her first Virtual Reality project was a 3D virtual tour of We Are Nature, a ground- breaking exhibition examining the human causes of climate change, at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.
In addition to producing in VR & AR, Robin has produced interactive applications, sim games, websites, audio tours and video programs for a broad spectrum of internationally known cultural and civic organizations, and corporations, including the Rubin Museum of Art, The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY), the International Center of Photography (ICP), the American Museum of Natural History, the New-York Historical Society, the Jewish Museum, the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, and Metropolitan Transit Authority Capital Construction (MTACC).
Robin has been a member of ArtTable for many years, serving on the Program Committee for several of them. At present she volunteers as Co-Chair of the Media, Technology & Design Commission in the Career & Technology Education program at the NYC Dept of Education, and is an Advisory Board Member of Calm Clarity. She frequently presents at museum and technical conferences on AR and VR in museums and has recently written on this topic for the touring museum exhibition platform TEO.
