ArtTable

VIRTUAL | ATCONNECT with Maria Sancho-Arroyo
2020-04-08 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | District of Columbia
Image: Maria Sancho-Arroyo, Sotheby’s Institute of Art
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!
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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ArtTable CONNECT virtual lunch breaks
This April, 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 is transitioning to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.
Join us for these “Ask Me Anything” session via Zoom to take advantage of learning more about different sectors of the art world while respecting social distancing.
We’ll kick start this series with a virtual lunch hour with Maria Sancho-Arroyo to learn more about the global art market and this moment of fluctuation during COVID-19.
Maria has over 25 years of international experience in the art world, first at museums – National Museum of Catalan Art, MNAC, in Barcelona and at the Louvre in Paris- then at Sotheby’s Auction House in London. During her time at Sotheby’s, she gained experience in all aspects of the auction world with a focus on business and client development. She has participated in numerous auctions and worked closely with all Sotheby’s European offices. Maria has given lectures on art market trends at the London and New York Sotheby’s Institute, Georgetown University and Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) and is a regular contributor to the “Giornale dell’Arte”, the Italian edition of the Art newspaper. She is involved with art charitable organizations and is the co-chair of ArtTable DC chapter since June 2019.
Maria is currently adjunct faculty at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York teaching various Art Market topics within the MA Art Business and online courses.
She is fluent in Spanish, Italian, French and English and hold and MS in Science (chemistry) from Zaragoza University and MA in Museum management by the Institut National du Patrimoine in Paris, France.
This program is hosted by Concetta Duncan, Maria Sancho-Arroyo and Caitlin Berry

VIRTUAL | BreakfastTable with Alice Walker
2020-04-09 08:30 - 09:30 (America/New_York) | District of Columbia
Image: Alice Walker
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!
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
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ArtTable East Coasters, bring your breakfast and join the DC chapter for a virtual informal conversation with Alice Walker who is an expert in using storytelling, human centered design and technology to create indelible experiences for museums and cultural attractions.
This event will start 30 minutes later than usual to allow adequate time for coffee brewing and breakfast making!
As Managing Director for Art Processors (artprocessors.net), she is on the executive team, heads up their global business development, marketing and product development practices, and manages staff in Melbourne, San Francisco, Atlanta and New York City. Their projects range from location-aware guides and exhibition design to immersive sound installations, augmented and virtual reality experiences, and wearables for institutions such as the Smithsonian Institution, the J. Paul Getty Center, the Venetian and Bellagio in Las Vegas, Portland Museum of Art, and numerous Australian museums, zoos and aquaria.
Her former roles include serving as Antenna International’s Creative Director and Digital Media Director for 9 years, heading up Pentagram Design’s interactive team in their NYC studio, and educational media roles at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and SFMOMA.
Alice resides with her family in Bethesda, MD and is part of Art Table’s DC Chapter.
DC’s BreakfastTable normally takes place at Boulangerie Christophe. The bakery is open and we encourage members in DC to place and order for this event and those in other locations to support local businesses!
Thank you to Ruth Abrahams and Ashley Templeton!

Virtual | Care of Modern and Contemporary Paintings with Rustin Levenson, President and Founder, ArtCare Conservation
2020-04-10 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | District of Columbia
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is required and open to all. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
How to take part!

Register for this event here
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.

ArtTable’s professional empowerment series invites experts to share their professional experiences, knowledge and skills. Each session presents an opportunity to engage with and learn more about a topic, issue or skill that directly impacts the professional lives of our members. During this session we’ll hear directly from Rustin Levenson, President and Founder, ArtCare Conservation.
The materials and techniques of Modern and Contemporary paintings offer unique challenges for those responsible for assessing, shipping, handling, and treating works. This session will discuss the history of recent artists’ materials and how they impact the life of their paintings. Rustin will outline best practices for handling and shipping these works. For those assessing works,
examples of treatments will give insight into the impact of damage and conservation.
Rustin Levenson has worked on the painting conservation staff of the Fogg Museum, the Canadian Conservation Institute, The National Gallery of Canada, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In 1981, she founded ArtCare Conservation, a private studio offering museum quality conservation to institutions and private clients. ArtCare Conservation has grown to include studios in New York, Los Angeles, and Miami. Rustin has co-authored, with art historian, Andrea Kirsh, Seeing Through Paintings: Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies (Yale University Press, 2000) and written chapters for The Expert vs the Object (Oxford University Press, 2004) and The Conservation of Easel Paintings (Rutledge Press, 2013). She has published numerous technical and historical articles and has lectured widely. She is a Fellow both in the American Institute for Conservation and The International Institute for Conservation, and has served on numerous professional committees as well as chairing the Paintings Specialty Group of the American Institute for Conservation. In 2015 she was awarded a Residency at the American Academy in Rome.
Thank you to ArtTable’s Florida Chapter and Rustin Levenson.

VIRTUAL | ATCONNECT with Concetta Duncan
2020-04-15 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | District of Columbia
Image: Concetta Duncan
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!
How to take part!

This event is now at capacity. Please email programs@arttable.org to be added to the waitlist.
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.

ArtTable CONNECT virtual lunch breaks
This April, 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 is transitioning to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.
Join us for these “Ask Me Anything” session via Zoom to take advantage of learning more about different sectors of the art world while respecting social distancing.
During this virtual lunch hour we will hear from Concetta Duncan on tips on communications and messaging for institutions during COVID-19.
Concetta Duncan is Head of Communications at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery where she oversees the museum’s press, marketing and social media strategies. In Washington, DC, she has directed impactful campaigns including the 2018 unveiling of the Obama portraits, the Portrait Gallery’s 50th anniversary, and the museum’s red-carpet American Portrait Gala. She also serves on the Marketing Steering Committee for the pan-institutional Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative.
In New York, Concetta played an integral role in the expansion of two of the art world’s leading communications agencies. She directed campaigns for numerous arts and culture organizations across the U.S., Europe, Dubai and Hong Kong, including Art Basel, in addition to serving in an in-house role at Pace Gallery.
Concetta joined the board of STABLE in June 2019 and was Chair of the organization’s Opening Party Committee. She is also Membership Chair of ArtTable’s Executive Committee, member of the Performa Biennial’s Advisory Council in New York and member of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
This program is hosted by Concetta Duncan, Maria Sancho-Arroyo and Caitlin Berry

VIRTUAL | Artist Talk with Shinique Smith
2020-04-22 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | District of Columbia
Photo credit: Jeff Vespa
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is required and open to all, with a minimum donation of $5.00 to participate in this event. We hope to see you there!
How to take part!

Register for this event here
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.

This event was intended as an Artist Breakfast in New York. Artist Breakfasts are intimate monthly breakfasts featuring leading figures in the visual arts in discussion with curators, academics, and critics. We’re so excited to be able take this talk online for members and friends across the country! Join us for a special Earth Day conversation with Shinique Smith.
For over a decade artist Shinique Smith has employed clothing, fabrics, and objects—items that exist in the realm of what we call belongings—to construct sculptures, paintings, and site-specific installations bound with ribbon and calligraphic lines. Examining the ways in which these objects resonate on a personal and social scale, “Smith’s works operate at the convergence of consumption, displacement, and sanctuary. In Smith’s hands, these works reveal connections across space, time, and place to suggest the possibility of constructing worlds renewed by hopeful delight.”
Born and raised in Baltimore, MD, currently residing in Los Angeles, Smith has had solo exhibitions with California African American Museum; Frist Center for Visual Arts; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and MOCA Jacksonville. Currently, a show of her newest works is on view with the UBS Art Collection Gallery in New York until July 2020.
Smith’s artworks have been exhibited in many acclaimed group shows including UnMonumental: The Object in the 21st Century at New Museum, Frequency at Studio Museum in Harlem, 30 Americans: Rubell Family Collection and Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women 1947-2016 at Hauser + Wirth LA and is held within the permanent collections of Brooklyn Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum; Minneapolis Art Institute, Whitney Museum and LACMA among others. In March 15 – August 9, 2020, Smith’s newest sculpture, Grace Stands Beside will be presented as part of the Baltimore Museum of Art’s 2020 Vision series of exhibitions.
Shinique has received awards from Anonymous Was a Woman, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation, NYFA, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Shinique earned her MAT from Tufts University & The Museum School, and MFA and BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art where Smith awarded the Alumni Medal of Honor in 2012.
Thank you to the Pollock Krasner Foundation for its support of this program.

VIRTUAL | ATCONNECT with Alexa Kaye
2020-04-23 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | District of Columbia
Image: Alexa Kaye
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!
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.
For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

ArtTable CONNECT virtual lunch breaks
This April, 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 is transitioning to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.
Join us for these “Ask Me Anything” session via Zoom to take advantage of learning more about different sectors of the art world while respecting social distancing.
During this virtual lunch hour we will hear from Alexa Kaye on tips on development and fundraising for institutions large and small.
Alexa Kaye is a fundraiser for cultural institutions and recently became the Development Director at Washington Project for the Arts. Prior to that, Alexa worked in Individual Giving at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy. She holds BAs in Psychology and Art History from Tufts University, and an MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University. Alexa grew up in the Washington, DC area and is passionate about supporting the creative community in this city. She currently lives in Northeast DC with her husband and two little budding artists.
This program is hosted by Concetta Duncan, Maria Sancho-Arroyo, Alexa Kaye and Caitlin Berry

AT Together | Development Professionals with Sarah Milestone
2020-04-23 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | District of Columbia
Image: Courtesy of Maira Kalman, Poster House and Times Square Arts.

In this time of crisis, ArtTable is reaching beyond geographic barriers to form a platform for connectivity for our community across professions. Each weekly session will bring together individuals within a particular profession in the art world for the exchange of ideas, to share resources and to network. Members are invited to participate in a 45 minute open discussion to focus on how women in the visual arts are handling issues relating to our field. Members and non-members welcome. We ask that you sign up for the event that matches your role and needs.
This session is for Development Professionals and will be facilitated by Sarah Milestone, Fundraising Advisor and Event Planner.
Gather with your development colleagues from across the country to talk about fundraising in today’s new climate. In this pilot session, we’ll explore the challenges and opportunities facing arts organizations and kick around some new ideas about gathering and building-community that just might help you move forward in a more meaningful and creative way.
We keep hearing that we are all in this together, and its true here too. Please come prepared with a question or two and be ready to share some of your experiences (or wish list items.) What’s on your mind?
How to take part!

Register for this event here
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 Sarah:
Sarah Milestone is a development and special event professional who works closely with executive directors, board members and other creative leaders to design fundraising and event strategies that support an organization’s specific goals and unique mission.
After spending nearly twenty years in New York, producing some of the most recognizable fundraising events, Sarah returned to the Midwest where her focus shifted to major gift fundraising and individual giving. She weaves together this experience now as a consultant. Central to Sarah’s work is the deep understanding that successful fundraising and events are rooted in shared stories and building community around a specific purpose. She is a skilled listener and deftly able to address the needs of a particular audience and organization—no matter the location or size.
Sarah has worked for several leading arts institutions, including American Ballet Theatre, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Wisconsin Historical Society—where she has led teams, directed successful fundraising campaigns and built systems for sustainable growth.
Sarah serves on the Executive Committee of the Chicago Chapter of of ArtTable, the Board of Visitors of the UW-Madison Art Department and the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access Committee of AFP Chicago. Sarah holds a degree in Art History and Women’s Studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

CANCELED: ANNUAL BENEFIT & AWARD CEREMONY⎪Honoring Susan Unterberg
2020-04-24 12:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | District of Columbia
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.
This 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.
The 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.

Consider supporting ArtTable today. Every dollar counts to help us support women in the visual arts.

ArtTable Benefit and Award Ceremony Honorary Benefit Co-Chairs:
Susan K. Freedman
Lowery Stokes Sims
Barbara Tober
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

ArtTable Benefit Journal: Ad Deadline Extended to April 3!
We 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!
Journal advertising rates
For more information please contact Jonquil Schaller-Harris at jharris@arttable.org

Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Press Release
New Leadership Awards Press Release
2019 Gala Highlights
For more information on making a donation or program ad sales please email jharris@arttable.org
ArtTable is a 501(c)(3) organization. All programs are non-refundable.

Honorees + Presenter Bios
2020 Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Honoree
Susan 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.
2020 New Leadership Awardees
Wassan 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.

Erin 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.

Lauren 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.

Jami 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.
Presenters
Amy 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.

Shinique 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).

Virtual | ArtTable X Come to Your Census Discussion and Happy Hour!
2020-04-24 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | District of Columbia
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.
Join 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.
This 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.
How to take part!

Register for this event here
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.

Before 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
Meet the participants:
Ashara 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.
re.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.
Huey 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.
Sarah 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.
She 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.
Martin 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.
He 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.
Yerba 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.
Amy 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.
Brittany 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.
Brittany 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.

VIRTUAL | Assessing Risk with Covid-19: Museums, Galleries and Private Collections
2020-04-28 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | District of Columbia
Image: Juan Arredondo for The New York Times

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 for a conversation on risk assessment for museums, private collections and galleries during COVID-19. We’re bringing together experts to discuss the most significant risks for art when museums, galleries, and other exhibiting institutions are closed, as well as important measures to be taken.
About the participants:
Aleesha Ast, Associate Registrar, Boca Raton Museum of Art
Before joining the Boca Raton Museum of Art in February 2020, Aleesha held registrar positions at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Norton Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, and Ringling Museum of Art. With a decade of experience coordinating exhibitions, facilitating loans, couriering artworks, and preparing for natural disasters, she has worked with conservators, artists, preparators, and invaluable colleagues to be well-versed in collections of all sorts and objects of all mediums.
Aleesha earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History/Archaeology, summa cum laude from Binghamton University and a Master of Arts degree in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center.
Jitka Kyrian, Associate Conservator at GV Art Conservation
Jitka is a Paintings and Objects Conservator with GV Art Conservation and has been in this role since 2015. Prior to joining GV Art Conservation, Jitka had 9 years of experience working in museums and other institutions in Germany and other European countries. She holds a degree in Conservation from the Technical University in Munich, Germany and continues her education with on-going conservation studies.
With her specialization in paintings, sculptures and objects she worked in private conservation studios and institutions such as the Wallraf-Richartz- Museum/Museum Ludwig (Cologne, Germany), the Conservation Institute Ludbreg (Croatia), the Vancouver Museum (British Columbia) and the National Gallery of Prague (Czech Republic). From 2008 to 2015 she worked in the Museum Five Continents Munich, which houses one of the biggest collections of ethnographic art and objects worldwide. Here Jitka gained experiences working with artworks and objects of various materials and material combinations of all periods and regions of the world. Additionally she gained practical experiences in fields such as preventive conservation, storage management, risk management and the supervision and management of museum’s staff and other professionals.
Mary Pontillo, Senior Vice President, National Fine Arts Practice Leader
In her current position as Senior Vice President and National Fine Art Practice Leader at DeWitt Stern/Risk Strategies, Mary handles and produces Fine Art accounts including Fine Art dealers, private collectors, and museums, artist foundations among others, along with the Property & Casualty policies associated with these accounts. In addition Mary consults on client Fine Art exposures firm-wide.
Before joining DeWitt Stern in May 2006, Mary worked at Huntington T. Block Insurance Agency/Aon for over three years as a Fine Art Insurance Underwriter and Account Manager, handling large line Fine Art accounts. In addition, she taught art in Norfolk, VA, for two years and served as a docent at the Smithsonian Institute’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.
Mary earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Art and Masters in Art History from James Madison University. She also completed the Appraisal Studies and Art Business certificate programs at New York University.
In 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018 Mary was recognized as Power Broker: Fine Art category by Risk & Insurance magazine, as well as the Enterprising Achiever Award from NAIW. In addition, in 2011, Risk & Insurance magazine awarded Mary the Responsibility Leader designation.

VIRTUAL | DC Around the Table book group
2020-04-28 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | To be announced, Valet parking available
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is required. We hope to see you there!
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This program is for ArtTable members only!

Join us to discuss Blood Water Paint, by Joy McCullough, who gives voice to Baroque feminist icon Artemisia Gentileschi.
Open to all members. We meet four times a year. Come to one or all.
Thank you to Ruth Abrahams.

VIRTUAL | ATCONNECT with Roberta Bantel
2020-04-29 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | District of Columbia
Image: Roberta Bantel
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ArtTable CONNECT virtual lunch breaks
This April, 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 is transitioning to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.
Join us for these “Ask Me Anything” session via Zoom to take advantage of learning more about different sectors of the art world while respecting social distancing.

During this virtual lunch hour we will hear from Roberta Bantel on leadership development.
Roberta is a leadership coach and a former marketing executive with wide experience in the communication and advertising industry and in Leadership Development. Roberta informally began coaching and guiding her own staff and direct reports, while running Omnicom’s subsidiary, TBWA, in Berlin, Germany. Through this experience, she found her true passion and has dedicated the last ten years to developing and focusing exclusively on coaching. In 2008, Roberta founded Roberta Bantel & Friends LLC, a Leadership Coaching Company with clients in Asia, Europe, USA and South America. Her passion and main focus is coaching across cultural and geographical borders and supporting women in developing as leaders.
Holding a BA in Social Communication from the Catholic University of Santos, Brazil and is a certified coach through The Leadership Coaching Program of Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
In addition to her Leadership Development and Coaching Company, Roberta is the Associate Director for the Leadership Coaching Program at Georgetown University.

This program is hosted by Concetta Duncan, Maria Sancho-Arroyo and Caitlin Berry

AT Together | Educators with Riva Blumenfeld
2020-04-30 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | District of Columbia
Image: Courtesy of Riva Blumenfeld
In this time of crisis, ArtTable is reaching beyond geographic barriers to form a platform for connectivity for our community across professions. Each weekly session will bring together individuals within a particular profession in the art world for the exchange of ideas, to share resources and to network. Members are invited to participate in a 45 minute open discussion to focus on how women in the visual arts are handling issues relating to our field. Members and non-members welcome. We ask that you sign up for the event that matches your role and needs.
This session is for Educators and will be facilitated by Riva Blumenfeld, museum educator.
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Riva Blumenfeld began her career as an educator at the Brooklyn Museum and then became an art dealer specializing in contemporary art & printmaking which she has been pursuing for over 25 years. Since closing her public gallery in January 2002, she has been teaching adult classes in contemporary galleries at the 92nd Street Y and since 2004 she’s been working with school groups at the Guggenheim Museum and families and access groups at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Additionally, she was the New York chapter chair of ArtTable and on the board of the Lower Eastside Printshop.

VIRTUAL | Reading at the (Art)Table
2020-05-03 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | District of Columbia
Image: Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit
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This program is for ArtTable members only!

Reading at the (Art)Table has gone online to keep us connected and engaged in conversations about art, culture, criticism, and contemporary challenges in the Time of Corona.
We will be reading “Recollections of My Nonexistence,” by Rebecca Solnit.
In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas.
Thank you to Jan Wurm, Northern California Chapter, for organizing.

VIRTUAL | BreakfastTable with Wendy Clark
2020-05-08 08:30 - 10:00 (America/New_York) | District of Columbia
Image: Wendy Clark
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
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ArtTable East Coasters, join us for a virtual Breakfast Table with guest speaker Wendy Clark. Wendy Clark joined Arts Consulting Group as Vice President in 2020 with more than 35 years of experience in museums, visual arts, and design. Her areas of expertise include grantmaking, programming support, and project management on a national scale. She also has extensive training and experience in the areas of diversity, equity, inclusion, implicit bias, ethics, anti-harassment, the Hatch Act, leadership, cyber-security, and executive coaching.
This event will start 30 minutes later than usual to allow adequate time for coffee brewing and breakfast making!
Most recently serving as Director of Museums, Visual Arts, and Indemnity at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). “Today’s cultural organizations are increasingly called upon to expand their missions to help communities cope with contemporary challenges. The cultural sector is an ecosystem, dependent upon the interaction and support of a variety of parties. Its success is contingent on the collaboration of patrons, foundations, and the public, corporate. and governmental sectors.”
Prior to joining the NEA, Ms. Clark served as a Grant and Public Affairs Specialist for the Illinois Arts Council. During her tenure, she developed, promoted, and implemented $1 million statewide grants initiative for local cultural facility planning and development. She was the recipient of the Federal Design Achievement Award for the Illinois Arts Council’s Building by Design Program, served as an Arts Management Fellow at the NEA, and chaired the architecture and design review committee for a mid-century modern residential community.
Ms. Clark is a member of the American Alliance of Museums and ArtTable, a national membership organization dedicated to advancing women’s professional leadership in the visual arts.
Ms. Clark holds a bachelor of arts degree in political science from the University of Michigan and studied Elizabethan history, art, and literature at New College, University of Oxford.
Thank you to Blair Wunderlich.

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

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

Weekend Film Streaming: TALKING HOUSE Eileen Gray & Jean Badovici
2020-05-15 17:00 - 2020-05-17 00:00 (America/New_York) | District of Columbia
Image: © Elizabeth Lennard
Introducing ArtTable weekend film streamings! This weekend members will have the opportunity to access and watch TALKING HOUSE Eileen Gray & Jean Badovici, a film by Elizabeth Lennard.
Are you an ArtTable member? If so, here’s how to take part!

Registration will open on Friday, May 15 at 10 AM: Login and register here to receive the link for this streaming
The link to the film will be located in the summary section of your registration confirmation email
Use the link to access the film- enjoy!
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“Talking House: Eileen Gray & Jean Badovici” is a 40-minute montage of E.1027, the iconic modernist villa on the Cote d’Azur in 1929, built by Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici . Filmed today, and using Eileen Gray’s 1929 photographs of the villa and recently restored Le Corbusier film footage, the camera takes us through E.1027 as the couple talks and argues off screen about the design philosophy behind the breakthrough layout, interiors and furniture. Heated correspondence between Corbu (Le Corbusier) and Bado (Badovici) adds a bit of controversy over the later addition of Corbu’s wall paintings.
This multi-media art piece created by Elizabeth Lennard was part of the MoMA exhibit, How Should We Live? Propositions for the Modern Interior (Oct. 1–April 23, 2017) and is now in MoMA’s collection.
In lieu of the the canceled in person program to celebrate the Eileen Gray exhibition at Bard Graduate Center this Spring, we’re kicking off this streaming series with a film that spotlight’s Gray’s status as a pioneer of modern architecture.
Streaming should begin in time for Friday Happy Hour at 5 PM EST and conclude at midnight on Sunday. We hope you enjoy!
Thank you to Ingrid Dinter, NY Chapter, for organizing this program.

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

AT CONNECT | Laura Bardier
2020-05-20 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | District of Columbia
Image: Laura Bardier
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
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ArtTable CONNECT virtual lunch breaks
ArtTable is expanding its CONNECT program to intimate online discussions open to members nationally across chapters. Originally designed to further encourage one-to-one networking amongst its members in DC, CONNECT transitioned to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.
During this session we will hear from Laura Bardier, Executive Director of the James Howell Foundation (New York) and Founding Director of ESTE ARTE Art Fair (Punta del Este).
Laura Bardier (1976, Montevideo) is Executive Director of the James Howell Foundation (New York) and Founding Director of ESTE ARTE Art Fair (Punta del Este).
In 2002 she collaborates with the Municipality of Naples, to create the first contemporary art center of the city: PAN. From 2004 to 2008, she served as curator at PAN, where she oversaw the exhibitions programming and initiated the museum’s media art collection.
From 2008 to 2010, she was the collection manager for the J.P. Carroll Private Collection (New York / London). From 2010 to 2014, she was the collection manager for the well-respected collector and philanthropist Estrellita B. Brodsky.
In 2015, she founded ESTE ARTE, the International Art Fair in Uruguay. The fair is brought forth by my commitment and passion for the arts and making it accessible to the widest audience possible. Its goal is the professionalization of the visual arts in the region and the advancement of private and public collections. Presenting 140 international exhibitors, throughout the first six editions the fair has welcomed 25,000 visitors, among the most renowned international collectors and art supporters. Laura Bardier shaped and led the organization’s strategy to grow relationships with private and public donors, collectors, and art dealers to implement the most international art fair in South America.
In 2017, she was appointed to create the James Howell Foundation in New York, for which she is now Executive Director. As an artist-endowed foundation, the James Howell Foundation supports education programs, exhibitions, and scholarships.
She has written on contemporary art in publications such as Domus Magazine, Arte al Día, Review, Infonegocios and has curated several exhibitions including Robots, Los Impolíticos, and Richard Garet: Espacios no-Euclídeos, and The Birdwatchers. She has also organized international conferences including1st Forum on Documentation, 2nd Forum on New Media Art, and Art and the New Media Art series for the MoMA-PS1 radio at the 52nd Venice Biennale.
She is member of the National Committee of Visual Arts of Uruguay, and has been a jury in several awards, such as the Cezanne Prize of the French Embassy in Uruguay and the Parsons School of Design. Laura Bardier received her master’s degree in Curatorial Studies, focusing in new media, from the Donau Universität, Austria.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Register here
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.

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

VIRTUAL | Reading at the (Art)Table
2020-07-12 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | District of Columbia
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This program is for ArtTable members only!

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.
