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SUMMARY:CANCELED: ANNUAL BENEFIT & AWARD CEREMONY⎪Honoring Susan Unterberg
DESCRIPTION:Your health and the health of our supporters is important to us. It is with a heavy heart that we have decided to cancel this year’s annual benefit and award ceremony.  \nThis is a signature ArtTable event that we look forward to each year as an opportunity to bring our network together from around the world celebrating the women who make a difference in the art world. \nThe excitement around this year’s event in celebration of our 40th anniversary as well as our honoree Susan Unterberg and our awardees Wassan Al-Khudairi\, Erin Christovale\, Lauren Haynes and Jami Powell has been incredible. These women are an inspiration to us all. \n\nConsider supporting ArtTable today. Every dollar counts to help us support women in the visual arts.  \n\n               ArtTable Benefit and Award Ceremony Honorary Benefit Co-Chairs:\nSusan K. Freedman \nLowery Stokes Sims \nBarbara Tober \n 2020 Benefit Supporters and Host Committee Ruby Supporters Alva Greenberg Gold Supporters BlackRock Bloomberg Philanthropies Agnes Gund Susan Unterberg Bronze Supporters  ArtTable Northern California Chapter Susan K. Freedman Carol Cole Levin Marian Goodman Gallery Elizabeth Smith Barbara Tober HOST COMMITTEE Jody and John Arnhold Arlene Bascom Catherine Behrend Brian Wall Foundation Courtney Burbela Peggy Danziger Linda Fischbach Milly Glimcher Thelma Golden Donna Harkavy Patricia E. Harris Julia P. Herzberg Barbara T. Hoffman Raymond Learsy Susana Torruella Leval Melissa Osterwind The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Lyn M. Ross Mary Sabbatino Ann Schaffer Lowery Stokes Sims Ellen Taubman   MATRON/PATRON Jane Borthwick Lori Chemla Marna Clark Eileen Ekstract Elaine Goldman Marilyn Hoffman Sandra Lang Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz   *list as of February 24\, 2020    \n\nArtTable Benefit  Journal: Ad Deadline Extended to April 3!\nWe are still planning to share our Annual Benefit Journal with our members + friends digitally. This a wonderful opportunity to show your support for our honorees or promote your business and services. See the link below for journal rates and sizes! \nJournal advertising rates \nFor more information please contact Jonquil Schaller-Harris at jharris@arttable.org \n\nDistinguished Service to the Visual Arts Press Release \nNew Leadership Awards Press Release \n2019 Gala Highlights \nFor more information on making a donation or program ad sales please email jharris@arttable.org \nArtTable is a 501(c)(3) organization. All programs are non-refundable. \n\n            Honorees + Presenter Bios \n2020 Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Honoree \nSusan Unterberg is a New York–based photographer and philanthropist whose poetic photographic and video work explores the psychological complexities of intimate relationships\, especially familial ones\, as well as nature and broader political themes. She was represented by Lawrence Miller Gallery\, and later Yancey Richardson Gallery\, and her work has been exhibited broadly in the U.S. and abroad at such institutions as the New Museum\, International Center of Photography\, and Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati\, Ohio. Unterberg is represented in major public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Museum of Modern Art\, Jewish Museum\, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies at Yaddo\, the MacDowell Colony\, Djerassi Artists Program\, American Academy in Rome\, and Bogliasco. In 2019\, she was awarded NYU’s Distinguished Alumni Award\, as well as being honored at the Skowhegan Awards Dinner. In 2018\, Unterberg stepped forward as the founder and sole funder of the Anonymous Was A Woman award\, which awards 10 unrestricted $25\,000 grants to women-identifying artists over the age of 40. \n2020 New Leadership Awardees \nWassan Al-Khudhairi is chief curator at the Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) in St. Louis where she organized Stephanie Syjuco: Rogue States\, Bethany Collins: Chorus\, Paul Mpagi Sepuya\, Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Eartwitness Theatre\, Guan Xiao: Fiction Archive Project\, Hayv Kahraman: Acts of Reparation\, Trenton Doyle Hancock: The Re-Evolving Door to the Moundverse\, and SUPERFLEX: European Union Mayotte. Prior to her position at CAM\, Al-Khudhairi was the Hugh Kaul Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art where she organized the first large-scale exhibition of the museum’s contemporary collection\, Third Space/shifting conversations about contemporary art. She was invited to be a curator for the 6th Asian Art Biennial in Taiwan in 2017 and co-artistic director for the 9th Gwangju Biennial in South Korea in 2012. Serving as the founding director of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar\, Al-Khudhairi oversaw the opening of the museum in 2010 and co-curated Sajjil: A Century of Modern Art and curated Cai Guo-Qiang: Saraab. \n  \nErin Christovale is associate curator at the Hammer Museum and co-founder of Black Radical Imagination with Amir George. Notable exhibitions include a/wake in the water: Meditations on Disaster (2014) at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts\, Memoirs of a Watermelon Woman (2016)\, and A Subtle Likeness (2016)\, both at ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives\, S/Election: Democracy\, Citizenship\, Freedom (2016) at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery\, the critically acclaimed Made in L.A. 2018 (2018) with Anne Ellegood\, and belonging (2019) at the Hammer Museum. \n  \nLauren Haynes is the curator of contemporary art at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and curator of visual arts at the Momentary in Bentonville\, AR. Haynes was co-curator of the 2018 Crystal Bridges’s exhibition The Beyond: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Art and is co-curator of the 2019 exhibition Crystals in Art: Ancient to Today. Haynes is currently leading the curatorial team working on the exhibition State of the Art\, which opened at both Crystal Bridges and Momentary in February 2020. Prior to joining Crystal Bridges in October 2016\, Haynes spent nearly a decade at the Studio Museum in Harlem. As a specialist in African-American contemporary art\, Haynes curated dozens of exhibitions at the Studio Museum and contemporary art institutions in New York. Haynes was a 2018 Center for Curatorial Leadership fellow. Haynes is co-curator of the inaugural Tennessee Triennial for Contemporary Art taking place across Tennessee in 2021. \n  \nJami Powell is the Hood Museum’s first associate curator of Native American art and was recently appointed as a lecturer in Native American Studies at Dartmouth. Powell is a citizen of the Osage Nation and has a PhD in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to working at the Hood\, she was a faculty lecturer at Tufts University. She has also worked as a research assistant at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science\, was a Mellon Fellow at the Peabody Essex Museum\, and has conducted research projects at the Field Museum of Natural History and the Denver Art Museum. Powell’s research examines representations of Indigenous peoples in museums as well as the interventions contemporary Indigenous artists make through creative acts of self-representation. Powell is currently working on a book manuscript from her dissertation titled Stitching an Osage Future: Aesthetic Resistance and Self-Representation. She has also published articles in Museum Anthropology\, Panorama\, Museum Management\, and Curatorship\, and is an editorial advisor for First American Art Magazine. Powell has served on curatorial advisory boards for the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Yale University. She is currently working on several exhibitions including Form and Relation: Contemporary Native Ceramics\, Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange (CIPX) Dartmouth\, and This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World. \nPresenters \nAmy Sherald was born in 1973 in Columbus\, GA\, Sherald documents contemporary African-American experience in the U.S. through arresting\, otherworldly portraits. Sherald subverts the medium of portraiture to tease out unexpected narratives\, inviting viewers to engage in a more complex debate about accepted notions of race and representation\, and to situate black heritage centrally in the story of American art. Sherald received her MFA in painting from Maryland Institute College of Art (2004) and her BA in painting from Clark-Atlanta University (1997). She was the first woman and first African-American ever to receive first prize in the 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition from the National Portrait Gallery in Washington\, DC; in February 2018\, the museum unveiled her portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama. Sherald has also received the 2018 David C. Driskell Prize from the High Museum of Art in Atlanta\, the 2018 Pollock Prize for Creativity\, and the 2017 Anonymous Was A Woman grant. Her solo exhibition “Heart of the Matter” opened at Hauser &Wirth in NYC in September 2019. Alongside her painterly practice\, Sherald has worked for almost two decades alongside socially-committed creative initiatives\, including teaching art in prisons and art projects with teenagers. \n  \n \nShinique Smith is known for her monumental artworks of bundled fabric and gestural calligraphy that resonate on a spiritual and social scale which have been featured in acclaimed exhibitions such as Revolution in the Making: Women Abstract Sculptors 1940-2016; 30 Americans: Rubell Family Collection; UnMonumental: The Object in the 21st Century; New Museum\, and Frequency; Studio Museum in Harlem. Smith’s works are held in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum\, LACMA\, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)\, and Whitney Museum among others. She earned her MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art\, where Smith was awarded the Alumni Medal of Honor (2012).
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SUMMARY:Virtual | ArtTable X Come to Your Census Discussion and Happy Hour!
DESCRIPTION:Image: Art+Action’s Come to Your Census campaign. Featured artwork from left to right: Masako Miki\, Conversation with Plates\, 2018.\, Clare Rojas\, Untitled\, 2020.\, Joel Daniel Phillips\, Charlie Lee #3\, 2017. \nJoin ArtTable for a conversation with the creative collaborators behind- Come to Your Census: Who Counts in America? a digital art and civic experience organized by Yerba Buena Arts Center as part of Art+Action’s arts-driven COME TO YOUR CENSUS arts-driven campaign\, galvanizing communities to participate in the 2020 Census. As part of ArtTable’s curatorial perspective virtual programming\, we’ll be speaking with the curators\, artists\, and creative collaborators involved in this initiative\, as an important model of how now more than ever\, arts institutions are embracing collaboration and leaning into their role to advocate with and inspire our communities. \nThis event will be followed by a 10 minute Census-taking ‘happy hour.’ For all who take their 2020 Census and send proof to Art+Action\, they will be gifted an art sweatshirt by artists Arleene Correa Valencia + Ana Teresa Fernández as part of their collaboration SOMOS VISIBLES. This ongoing project takes a political stance on visibility through the use of high visibility ready-to-wear safety gear present throughout many labor industries\, and as it relates to the invisibility of the undocumented in the U.S.—and within COME TO YOUR CENSUS campaign\, as it relates to being seen and counted in the 2020 Census. Read more about SOMOS VISIBLES—made possible through the generous support of Levi’s—and the artists’ work here. \nHow to take part! \n\nRegister for this event here\nFollowing registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link\nBefore 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.\nFor further instruction on how to use Zoom\, see here.\n\n\nBefore COVID-19 changed our lives and took hold of our collective psyche\, independent curator\, activist and ArtTable member Amy Kisch was commissioned by San Francisco’s Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs (OCEIA) to develop an arts-driven campaign to mobilize communities around the 2020 Census. Understanding that the Census determines the distribution of federal money and political power across the U.S.\, Kisch\, together with Amy Schoening and Brittany Ficken\, formed Art+Action\, the first-ever coalition for civic participation across art\, creative\, community\, business\, technology\, philanthropy\, activist\, and government sectors. Art+Action approached Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)\, inviting them to enter into a partnership to amplify and expand this work. YBCA eagerly accepted this call to collaboration—becoming a Lead Partner in the coalition and Art+Action’s headquarters \nMeet the participants:  \nAshara Ekundayo is a Detroit-born\, Oakland-based\, inter-disciplinary independent curator\, artist\, creative industries entrepreneur and organizer working internationally across cultural\, spiritual\, civic\, and social innovation spaces.  Through her company AECreative Consulting Partners she places artists and cultural production as essential in equitable design practices\, real estate development\, and movement building. Some of her ventures Evolve Oakland (formally known as Impact Hub Oakland)\, Omi Arts Project + Space\, and Ashara Ekundayo Gallery gained international attention for their groundbreaking methodology and courageous programming and have been featured in publications such as Black Enterprise\, Forbes and The Guardian. Ashara is also a “pleasure activist” and her creative arts practice epistemology requires an embodied commitment to recognizing joy in the midst of struggle.Currently she serves as Chief Creative Catalyst for the Bay Area Girls & Womxn of Color Collaborative\, sits on the Advisory Board of the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music\, and is the Co-Founder of See Black Women – a curatorial collective whose mission is to center and present an understanding of Black feminist thought and creative culture through exhibition\, publication and policy.  Her new media platform and forthcoming book\, “Artist As First Responder” excavates\, documents\, and nurtures the next generation of cultural workers whose practices save lives. \nre.riddle’s founder and principal and ArtTable member\, Candace Huey\, brings her extensive knowledge of and experience in the art world to her projects. Huey has worked for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco\, Bonham’s auction house\, Alameda County Arts Commission and various galleries in the Bay Area where she curated exhibitions showcasing the work of 20th century masters and contemporary artists. As an independent curator\, she conceptualized and produced exhibitions for cultural institutions such as Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco\, Consulado General de México\, Consulado General de España\, and Consulat Général de France\, San Francisco. She consults on collection portfolio and development for private clients in San Francisco\, Hong Kong\, Chicago\, London and Paris. \nHuey holds degrees from The Courtauld in London and U.C. Berkeley\, and has presented her academic research on 17th century Dutch Art at renowned conferences in the United States and the Netherlands.  She currently teaches art history at a private university\, sits on the executive council for SECA SFMoMA\, de Young Museum College Programs Advisory\, ArtTable and is an active member of Artadia San Francisco Council and Headlands Center for the Arts. \nSarah Cathers is the Director of Public Life at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco where she develops the organizational focus on radical hospitality; participation rich public spaces; deep and generative relationships with community; and a culture of invitation. Making sure that people\, aka ‘the public’\, are at the center of everything we do at YBCA\, Sarah works alongside other departments to lead projects out of traditional roadblocks and help connect the work we all do in a more holistic manner. \nShe has 24 years of experience in arts leadership\, curation and operations\, including producing 7 years of the renowned SFFilm Festival and 9 years at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus\, Ohio. She has performed in and produced stage and film works for SFMOMA and Di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art\, designed costumes for independent short films and music videos and was an internationally touring performance artist. She has served on the Board of The Lab\, one of San Francisco’s most beloved experimental performance spaces and managed a 15-artist gallery and studio space in her hometown of Columbus\, Ohio. \nMartin Strickland is the Associate Director of Public Life at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco where he develops the organizational focus on radical hospitality; participation rich public spaces; deep and generative relationships with community; and a culture of invitation. Making sure that people\, aka ‘the public’\, are at the center of everything we do at YBCA\, Martin works to commit the model of the art institution as a public resource — to pledge the institution to artistic practitioners and constituencies who understand art and culture as forms of knowledge and experience that support civic inquiry. \nHe has curated multiple exhibitions and public programs\, including co-curating YBCA’s signature triennial Bay Area Now 8 in 2018\, and has collaborated with Lucía Sanromán on The City Initiative\, a series of exhibitions and public programs featuring architects designers\, planners and artists that focus on creating provocative works in the urban environment. Prior to YBCA\, he worked as the programs assistant at the Arts Research Center\, UC Berkeley\, as an independent contractor with the San Francisco Arts Commission\, and as a community organizer for public health in New Orleans. \nYerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is one of the nation’s most innovative contemporary arts centers. Founded in 1993\, YBCA’s mission is to generate culture that moves people. \nAmy Kisch is the Founder + Artistic Director of Social Impact for the Art+Action Coalition. For over two decades\, Kisch has worked as a strategist and cultural producer\, developing major global\, art\, culture\, and brand initiatives for high-profile private\, corporate\, institutional\, and non-profit clients including Sotheby’s\, ABC TV\, The Armory Show\, AT&T\, NYFA\, and the Williamsburg Gallery Association\, among others. Having spent six years in clinical and community social work\, her projects are underscored by efforts to democratize access\, while upholding integrity and quality in curatorial vision and programming. In 2018\, Kisch launched Collect For Change™—collaborating with artists to offer artwork with a portion of sales benefiting a charity selected by each artist. \nBrittany Ficken is cultural producer who has worked in the arts for the last eight years at art museums\, arts organizations\, and on various independent projects. She is the Executive Producer and Project Director of Art+Action\, an arts-driven cross-sector coalition for civic participation—mobilizing around the 2020 Census—headquartered at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and powered by San Francisco’s Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs. \nBrittany Ficken is the Co-Director of The Painting Salon\, a bi-monthly roaming lecture series that creates conversation around contemporary art in the San Francisco Bay Area. From 2016-2019\, Brittany Ficken worked with Headlands Center for the Arts to manage the production of outdoor public artworks in the National Park\, produce events\, fundraise\, manage Board relations\, and to run the artist limited edition program. While in the Bay Area\, Brittany has also worked with McEvoy Foundation for the Arts\, Rena Bransten Gallery\, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Previously\, in New York\, Brittany Ficken developed arts programming and communications for Artis. She also worked on the Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ annual benefit art exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery. From 2012-2014 Brittany Ficken was Assistant Curator at City Ice Arts in Kansas City. In 2012 she worked with the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art. The same year\, Brittany Ficken co-founded Archive Collective\, an active organization that provides opportunities for communities to engage with photography by hosting group critiques\, gallery visits\, artist talks\, studio visit\, and local and traveling exhibitions.
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