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Washington, DC | Private Tour - A SKY SHATTERED GLASS REFLECTED BY THE SHINING SUN at Culture House
2023-03-04 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Culture House, 700 Delaware Ave SW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20024, United States
Please join us for a private tour of the exhibition, A SKY SHATTERED GLASS REFLECTED BY THE SHINING SUN, on view at Culture House, with opening remarks by Cicie Sattarnilasskorn, Culture House’s Gallery Director and a private artist-led tour of the exhibition with Stephanie Mercedes.

The materials employed in the exhibition are both profound and striking, ranging from melted bullets and destroyed weapons to soap, wax, and seeds. The exhibition features a series of installations that explore vulnerability in the context of the queer body, however, rather than portraying vulnerability as a weakness, the works presented in this exhibition encourage the viewer to consider vulnerability as a powerful weapon.

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Culture House 700 Delaware Ave SW, Washington, DC 20024

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About the Curator

Stephanie Mercedes has exhibited and performed at the Bronx Museum, the Queens Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the Kennedy Center, and the National Gallery of Art. She has been funded by George Soro’s Open Society Foundation, Light Works, NALAC, The Foundation for Contemporary Art, WPA, The DC Commission for the Arts, the GLB Memorial Foundation, the Warhol Foundation, and the Clarvit Fellowship.
She has also been an artist in residence at VisArts, Halcyon Art Labs, the Bronx Museum, Montgomery College, Christopher Newport University, SOMA, Lugar a Dudas, Largo das Artes and La Ira de Dios. Mercedes is producing an Opera with CulturalDC in 2022-23.

Image: Stephanie Mercedes, I Hold You Close. Image courtesy of Culture House.

Washington, DC | INTERLUDE : A Collaboration Between the Kreeger Museum and STABLE Arts
2023-03-11 15:00 - 16:00 | Kreeger Museum, 2401 Foxhall Rd. NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20007, United States
We are thrilled to announce a noteworthy event, INTERLUDE – a collaboration between the Kreeger Museum and STABLE Arts, which showcases the works of fifteen regional artists.

Helen Chason, Director of the Kreeger Museum, will begin by extending a warm welcome to our guests.

Maleke Glee, Director of STABLE Arts, will provide an introduction to the exhibition. Additionally, three artists-Gail Shaw-Clemons, K. Lorraine Graham, and Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann-will share their perspectives on their work.

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Kreeger Museum 2401 Foxhall Rd. NW, Washington, DC 20007

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About the Participants

Helen Chason was named Director of The Kreeger Museum June 1, 2017. Embracing the Museum’s mission to share art and music, Chason has prioritized programming that reaches across the city and celebrates the wealth of artistic talent in our community. Under her leadership the Museum has developed Jazz at the Kreeger, a series that spotlights area musicians, created The Collaborative, an exhibition program that supports visual and performing artists working in Washington DC, and expanded innovative and inclusive family program offerings. In addition to presenting group exhibitions in 2020 and 2021, the Museum presented two exhibitions in 2022 for legendary printmaker, Lou Stovall, illustrating and acknowledging Stovall’s profound and far-reaching influence on the Washington arts community and city. Chason holds an Ed.M. from Harvard University and has lived in Washington, DC since 1980.

K. Lorraine Graham writes poems and texts that occasionally manifest as drawings, games and performances. She is the author of The Rest is Censored (Bloof Books), Terminal Humming (Edge Books) and numerous zines, including Semiotic Squares (Primary Writing), a book of drawings, and My Little Neoliberal Pony (Insert Blanc Press). Graham earned an M.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego is an artist at STABLE Arts in Washington, D.C., where she also lives.

Gail Shaw-Clemons, born in Washington, DC, received her Masters’ Degree in printmaking from the University of Maryland. She is a printmaker, mixed media, and art activist. She has exhibited extensively, with many works included in public and private collections in the USA, Brazil, Norway, Sweden, China and the Republic of Ireland. Her work is also in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Library of Congress, and the Banneker-Douglass Museum. Shaw-Clemons has a studio at Stable Art and prints at the Bob Blackburn Printmaking Studio in New York as well as the Pyramid Printmaking Studio in Hyattsville MD. Recently retired as an art instructor from the United Nations International School in New York, She is currently an adjunct professor at Bowie State University in Maryland.

Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann creates large scale paintings and paper installations that examine mythology, identity, and landscape. She is the recipient of the Sustainable Arts Foundation grant, a Fulbright grant, the AIR Gallery and Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Fellowships, and the Mayor’s Award and Hamiltonian Fellowship in Washington, DC. Some of the venues where Mann has shown her work include the Kreeger Museum, Academy Art Museum, Walters Art Museum, American University Museum, Tides Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, RawlsMuseum, the US consulate in Dubai, UAE, and the US embassy in Yaounde, Cameroon.

Images: Left: Matthew Mann, Moonlight Sinew, 2022, oil, acrylic, and collage on canvas, Courtesy ofthe artist. Right: David Urban, Band of Hope, 1996, oil on canvas, Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art., I Hold You Close. Image courtesy of Culture House.

*FULL* New York, NY | Dia Chelsea Chryssa Exhibition Tour with Megan Holly Witko
2023-03-30 18:00 - 19:30 | Dia Chelsea, 537 W 22nd St, New York, New York, 10011
Join us for a tour of Chryssa & New York at Dia Chelsea led by exhibition curator Megan Holly Witko. Co-organized by Dia Art Foundation and the Menil Collection, Chryssa & New York is the first comprehensive survey of works by Greek-born artist Chryssa (1933–2013) to take place in North America since 1982. A leading figure of the New York art world in the 1950s and ’60s, Chryssa developed an innovative approach to activating sculptural surfaces through subtle manipulations of light and shadow. Pathbreaking in its use of signage, text, and neon, her vastly under-recognized body of work bridges Pop, Conceptual, and Minimalist ideas of art making. This exhibition focuses on works from these decades through to the early 1970s, bringing together Chryssa’s deeply formal concerns and critical interest in exploring the United States following World War II.

DIA Chelsea 537 W 22nd St, New York, NY 10011

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This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

About the Participants

Megan Holly Witko is external curator at Dia Art Foundation and currently working on an exhibition of the artist Chryssa (1933 – 2013). She recently organized presentations of works by Marian Zazeela at Dia:Beacon, as well as Keith Sonnier and Jacqueline Humphries at the Dan Flavin Art Institute in Bridgehampton, NY. She was assistant curator of François Morellet at Dia:Chelsea in New York (2017–18), as well as Robert Ryman (2015-16), and La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Jung Hee Choi’s Dia 15 VI 13 545 West 22 Street Dream House (2015). She joined Dia Art Foundation in 2012.

Featured Image: Chryssa, The Gates to Times Square, 1964–66. © Εstate of Chryssa, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens. Image courtesy Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio, New York.

Washington, DC | BreakfastTable with Mary Early, HEMPHILL Artworks
2023-04-07 08:00 - 09:00 | HEMPHILL Artworks, 434 K STREET NW, Washington, DC, 20001
Join us for a morning conversation and gallery tour with Mary Early, Director of HEMPHILL Artworks, featuring the exhibition: Prints & Works on Paper.Prints and Works on Paper (March 18 – May 6, 2023)The 19 artists presented in Prints & Works on Paper worked from the mid-1930s through 2014. While the work spans almost a century, it was made within the shared social and political context of the Black experience in America. These artists did not perceive a line where activism ended and art began. Believing that pictures could make a difference, they were invested in advocating for justice, empowerment, and community through education; the intentionality of creating editioned prints in a workshop setting reflects this dedication. Printmaking facilitated a wider distribution of their messages, allowing artists to be deliberate about connection and reaching a larger audience. Imagery portraying a rich social life offered viewers positive self-representation, verity, and aspiration for the future. The private collection of 38 works passionately assembled over a 30-year period, is honest in content and impressive in technique, both captivating the audience and effectively conveying the artworks’ significance. By boldly broadcasting their identities while the art world was systematically prejudiced, the artists in Prints & Works on Paper documented a difficult past and visualized a brighter future.Ron Adams, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Robert Colescott, Allan Rohan Crite, Aaron Douglas, Sam Gilliam, Palmer Hayden, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Lois Mailou Jones, Alison Saar, Charles Sebree, Renée Stout, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Hale Woodruff

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ABOUT MARY EARLY

Mary Early (b. 1975) is an artist and art dealer based in Washington, DC. She studied visual art, film, and video at Bennington College, and her work has been exhibited at the United States Botanic Garden, Washington Project for the Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Second Street Gallery (Charlottesville, VA), Hemphill Fine Arts (Washington DC,) the Austrian Cultural Forum (Washington DC), Galerie Im Ersten (Vienna, Austria), Kloster Schloss Salem (Salem, Germany), Kunstlerbund Tubingen (Tubingen, Germany), the American University Museum (Washington DC), and the Sun Valley Museum of Art (Ketchum, ID). Early’s work is included in the collections of the US Department of State/Embassy of Panama and Embassy of Jordan, the District of Columbia Art Bank, the American University Museum (Corcoran Collection). She is a recipient of the Artist Fellowship Grant from the DC Commission on Arts & Humanities, Washington DC (2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2011, 2009, 2007).

Early is the director of HEMPHILL Artworks, Washington, DC, and serves on the boards of Hamiltonian Artists and Washington Sculptors Group. She handles the work of contemporary artists and artist estates, including William Christenberry (Estate), Colby Caldwell, Jacob Kainen (Estate), Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, Mingering Mike, Robin Rose, Renée Stout, Alma Woodsey Thomas, Julie Wolfe, Workingman Collective. She specializes in the artists of the Washington Color School. Early works with living artists and artists’ heirs on long-range planning, and with private and institutional collectors to build and manage significant collections. She has a particular interest in public art and community engagement, the materials and processes of contemporary sculpture, and professional development for emerging and under-represented artists.

ABOUT HEMPHILL

HEMPHILL Artworks opened in Washington DC in September, 1993. The exhibition schedule features contemporary art ranging in media from emerging to mid-career and established artists. In addition to these shows, the gallery mounts exhibitions of historically-significant artwork and socially relevant subjects. The diversity of this schedule is designed to showcase important talent and provide artwork that appeals to a broad range of interests.

From its beginnings, HEMPHILL has advised corporate and private collectors. This initial client base was built upon contacts and experiences gained in academia, with private galleries, and with architectural and design firms. HEMPHILL’s consulting and advisory work has expanded to include companies and individuals worldwide. HEMPHILL offers collectors the chance to experience a broad range of aesthetic experiences both through the gallery exhibition program and through private viewing opportunities. It also provides an opportunity to be directly involved in the artists’ community as well as the creative process.

Special events include the ongoing ART TALKS series, artist book signings, and charitable vents for area nonprofits. Begun in 1998, the ART TALKS series includes educational lectures on topics such as collecting for beginners, artist talks, and panel discussions on issues in contemporary art. In 2020, HEMPHILL inaugurated a new gallery space in Washington’s historic Mount Vernon Square neighborhood. Featuring an open gallery floor plan and glass partitions that invite guests into the office area, the design allows for increased interaction and conversation. As we enter 2023, the third year in this new space and the third year of a global pandemic, we continue to welcome first-time visitors.

Washington, DC | Tour of "Philip Guston Now" at the National Gallery of Art with Nathalie Ryan
2023-04-19 15:30 - 16:30 | The National Gallery of Art, East Building: 4th St and Constitution Ave NW. Enter or exit at 4th Street., Washington, District of Columbia, 20565
Join us for a special private tour of Phillip Guston Now exhibit at the National Gallery of Art with Senior Educator Nathalie Ryan. The exhibition charts the 50-year career of one of America’s most influential modern artists through more than 150 paintings and drawings. Guston’s story is one of epic change—of artistic styles, from muralism to abstract expressionism to figuration, of degrees of political and social involvement, and of levels of personal confession in his work. Renowned in his time and in ours, Guston’s work continues to resonate, attract, and provoke, raising crucial questions about the relationship of art to beauty and brutality, freedom and doubt, politics and the imagination.Nathalie A. Ryan has contributed to education programming, publications, and exhibitions to the National Gallery of Art since 2002. She has twenty years of demonstrated experience in conceptualizing, implementing, and evaluating outcome-based programming for museums and other educational institutions. Nathalie is also an Instructor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, coaching K-12 teachers and administrators in arts and thinking-centered learning frameworks. An artist herself, Nathalie is the Book Arts Associate at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Hyattsville, MD, where she oversees the Bindery and teaches workshops in bookmaking, paper engineering, and printmaking.

The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Tate Modern, London; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

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About Natalie Ryan

Nathalie A. Ryan has contributed to education programming, publications, and exhibitions to the National Gallery of Art since 2002. She has twenty years of demonstrated experience in conceptualizing, implementing, and evaluating outcome-based programming for museums and other educational institutions. Nathalie is also an Instructor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, coaching K-12 teachers and administrators in arts and thinking-centered learning frameworks. An artist herself, Nathalie is the Book Arts Associate at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Hyattsville, MD, where she oversees the Bindery and teaches workshops in bookmaking, paper engineering, and printmaking.

Image: Philip Guston, Painting, Smoking, Eating, 1973, oil on canvas, Collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. © The Estate of Philip Guston, courtesy Hauser & Wirth.

Washington, DC | BreakfastTable with Deborah Dunner
2023-05-04 08:00 - 09:00 | Guarisco Gallery, Four Seasons Hotel 2828 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, District of Columbia, 20007
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter in May BreakfastTable with Debrah Dunner, founder and owner of Aesthetica Art Services and Washington, D.C. and Regional Representative for Freeman’s Auction. Debrah will speak about her specialization in Fine Art, Decorative Arts, and Contemporary American Craft appraisals, and a wide range of art related services including advising, consulting, investments, sales, consignments, collection management, and artist management. Also, fun note: Debrah assisted in cataloging the personal collection of the artist Sam Gilliam, a highlight of her career!.Prior to starting her own business, Debrah worked as the Assistant Curator for the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, the Craft and Decorative Arts branch of the national museum. While employed at the Renwick, Debrah assisted in the creation of numerous exhibitions and scholarly publications including the monumental 40th anniversary exhibition 40 Under 40: Craft Futures, and the internationally recognized exhibition WONDER. As of January 1, 2020, Debrah became the Washington, D.C. Regional Representative for Freeman’s Auction, based in Philadelphia, PA. Established in 1805, Freeman’s is the oldest auction house in America, and one of the country’s first family owned businesses. Serving the Washington, D.C. region including all of Maryland and Northern Virginia, Debrah represents Freeman’s by facilitating consignments and servicing customers with any art related needs.

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Image: Deborah Dunner, courtesy of the speaker.

Thank you to ArtTable member Ashley Templeton for organizing this program.

DC | MeetAT Doyle Bar & Lounge
2023-05-23 17:00 - 19:30 | Doyle at The Dupont Circle Hotel, 1500 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20036
Come meet current ArtTable members and invite interested guests to join us over happy hour at the last event of the season before the summer break from programming! We’ll meet at Doyle Bar & Lounge. Designed by the renowned Martin Brudnizki Design Studio, Doyle is a warm, club-like bar with panoramic views of Dupont Circle. We encourage members to bring friends and colleagues to engage over refreshments and conversation and to learn more about ArtTable and our lively and active chapter in the Washington, DC region.

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Washington, DC | Curator-led tour of "1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions" National Portrait Gallery
2023-09-19 10:00 - 11:00 | National Portrait Gallery, 8th & G Streets NW, Washington, DC, 20001, United States
Join co-curators Taína Caragol and Kate Lemay for an exclusive tour of “1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions” at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery! “That single year launched the United States on a path that would end with the annexation of Hawaii, intervention in Cuba, and the invasions of Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Guam—profound geopolitical changes resulting from U.S. domination during the Philippine-American War (1899-1902) and the Spanish-American War (April to August 1898), now often referred to as the War of 1898.”—Maya Wei-Haas, The Smithsonian Magazine.

Portraiture is part of how we represent ourselves, and how we memorialize our historic public figures from the heroic to the problematic. 125 years after this extensive series of conflicts, the U.S. continues to grapple with its imperial legacy. The Smithsonian exhibition revisits these representations from multiple, culturally-complex perspectives, “and recognizes that the Smithsonian Institution’s collecting practices legitimized the imperial project.”Please see the Museum’s Visitor Page for Health, Safety, and Accessibility information.

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Image: Queen Liliʻuokalani;. Harris & Ewing Studio (active 1905–1977). 1908 Gelatin silver print 37.4 × 28.8 cm (14 3/4 × 11 5/16 in.) National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Aileen Conkey.

Thank you to ArtTable member Laura Roulet for initiating this program.

About the Curators

Taína Caragol, Curator of Painting and Sculpture and Latino Art and History, joined the National Portrait Gallery in 2013 as the first curator for Latino art and history and her role was expanded to curator of painting and sculpture in 2015. Caragol has led the effort to increase the representation of Latino historical figures and artists at the museum, adding over 170 portraits to the collection and ensuring that Latino contributions to American history and art are interwoven through the museum’s exhibitions and permanent collection.

In 2014, she was the lead curator for “Portraiture Now: Staging the Self,” which examined the forces that shape identity–from friendships, to gender dynamics, and histories of migration–through the work of contemporary Latino artists. In 2015, she curated “One Life: Dolores Huerta,” exploring Huerta’s role as co-architect of the farm workers movement with César Chávez. She co-curated “The Face of Battle: Americans at War, 9/11 to Now” (2017) and “UnSeen: Our Past in a New Light, Ken Gonzales-Day and Titus Kaphar” (2018).

Previously, Caragol was the curator of education at Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico, where she organized the museum’s symposium on Pre-Raphaelite art and led a program of talks with contemporary Puerto Rican artists. She was the Museum of Modern Art’s Latin American bibliographer from 2004-2007, and she worked as a postdoctoral researcher for Latin American Art in the United Kingdom: History, Historiography, Specificity, 1960 to the Present, an investigation led by the University of Essex (2007–2008).

Caragol earned her PhD in art history from the City University of New York. Her dissertation “Boom and Dust: The Rise of Latin American and Latino Art in New York Exhibition Venues and Auction Houses, 1970s–1980s,” examined the incubating role of New York City’s alternative museums and art spaces and market during the “Latin American art boom” of the late 1980s. Her essay on Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of President Barack Obama was published in The Obama Portraits in February 2020 (Princeton University Press / National Portrait Gallery).

Kate Clarke Lemay, Historian, joined the National Portrait Gallery in 2015. She is a Fulbright Scholar; a Presidential Counselor to the National WWII Museum; and the founding director of PORTAL, the Portrait Gallery’s scholarly center. Lemay also served as the founding coordinating curator for the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative. In 2019, Lemay curated “Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence” to usher in the centennial of the U.S. American women’s suffrage anniversary. She published its eponymous catalogue with Princeton University Press which was awarded the 2021 Smithsonian Secretary’s Prize for Excellence in Research and the 2020 Amelia Bloomer Book Award from the American Library Association.

In 2017, Lemay’s first book Triumph of the Dead: American WWII Cemeteries, Monuments and Diplomacy in France was awarded the Terra Foundation in American Art publication grant. In 2018, she served as guest editor for The International Journal of Military History and Historiography. She has published essays on art and military history for the University of North Texas Press, Oxford University Press, The Strategy Bridge, Zócalo Public Square, Reviews in American History, and the Marine Corps University Press. Lemay’s research has been supported by a Terra Foundation in American Art predoctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, a fellowship in American Modernism at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center, and a fellowship from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique at the Caen Mémorial Museum in France. Lemay served as the lead historian for the transformation of the museum’s landmark exhibition “America’s Presidents” (2017). Her other exhibitions include “Marlene Dietrich: Dressed for the Image” (2017).

Before joining the National Portrait Gallery, Lemay was an assistant professor of art history at Auburn University Montgomery and visiting assistant professor of the history of modern and contemporary art at Brigham Young University. She earned a dual PhD in American art history and American studies from Indiana University (Bloomington).

Washington, DC | BreakfastTable with Caroline Mariz
2023-10-12 08:00 - 09:00 | IA&A at Hillyer, 9 Hillyer Court, NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20008
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter in October for BreakfastTable with Caroline Mariz, Director of the Cultural Exchange Programs at International Arts & Artists! Caroline will offer insights into her experience providing exchange opportunities and J-1 visa facilitation for students, professionals, artists, and researchers from around the world participating in programs across the United States. In her role at IA&A Caroline works closely with the State Department, American museums, art institutions, cultural organizations, and design firms. Her work demonstrates a career path for women and nonbinary arts professionals; and how one can work directly with arts institutions, art professionals, and the State Department. Mariz will provide a different lens into what it means to create cross-cultural connections while supporting international artists in concrete ways.

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Thank you to ArtTable member Nora van Trotsenburg for organizing this program.

Reception and Collection Visit with Juanita Hardy
2023-10-17 18:00 - 20:00 | Silver Spring, Silver Spring, MD
Join ArtTable’s Lila Harnett Executive Director, Jessica L. Porter and ArtTable members for a private collection visit and networking reception at the home of Silver Spring-based art collector, and leading Creative Placemaking writer, consultant, and public speaker, Juanita Hardy! With a collection spanning Elizabeth Catlett, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, Camille Billops, Herb Gentry, Jacob Lawrence, Ed Clark, Joe Overstreet, Renée Stout, and Michael Platt—and more! You won’t want to miss the opportunity to experience this remarkable collection, hosted by an honored member of the art, culture, and business communities. Ms. Hardy is an esteemed friend of ArtTable: she has served on the ArtTable Board and is a longtime member of the organization.

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ArtTable Member Guests – $45

Public – $55

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Image: Herbert Gentry. Masquerade. Silkscreen print on paper, 22 1/2 × 25 1/4 in | 57.2 × 64.1 cm, 1986

Juanita Hardy

Juanita Hardy has a passion for fostering healthy, thriving, and equitable places to live, work, learn and play through her work with individuals and businesses. Hardy is an avid collector of fine art and, with her husband, has acquired many works on paper, canvas, sculptures, and African art. Hardy has over 45 years of business experience, including 31 years with IBM, where she retired in 2005, and over a decade in the real estate industry.

In 2006, Hardy founded Tiger Management Consulting Group, an executive coaching and business consulting services firm. Hardy’s client portfolio comprises for-profit and non-profit organizations, including global human capital development firm, Right Management. Hardy has been associated with Urban Land Institute, a global non-profit committed to responsible land use, since 2016. She has served ULI in various advisory and consulting roles, including its Senior Visiting Fellow for Creative Placemaking.

Hardy has been recognized for her work in the arts and in business, for example, as a 2022 honoree by The Phillips Collection, a prominent Washington, DC museum, and as 2010 Minority Business Leader by the Washington Business Journal. Hardy is an accomplished writer and public speaker. Her recent writings include an essay, “Development Without Displacement” in Volume 3 of The Place Economy published by Hoyne based in Australia; she is author of ULI 2022 Publication, “Creative Placemaking: Recommendations from and Impact of Six Advisory Services Panels;” and co-author of ULI 2020 Publication “Creative Placemaking: Sparking Development with Art and Culture.” Between 2016 and 2023, Hardy has written a sextet of articles on creative placemaking for Urban Land magazine.

Hardy’s non-profit board affiliations include co-founder of Millennium Arts Salon, Mid Atlantic Arts, Mosaic Theatre Company and serving as board chairperson for International Arts and Artists.

After retiring from IBM, Hardy founded Tiger Management Consulting Group, an executive coaching and business consulting services firm. Hardy’s client portfolio comprises for-profit and non-profit organizations, including global human capital development firm, Right Management.

Hardy’s board affilations include Mid Atlantic Arts, Mosaic Theatre Company and serving as board chairperson for International Arts and Artists.

Helen Zughaib Artist Talk & Studio Visit
2023-11-01 18:00 - 19:30 | Zughaib Studio, Foggy Bottom, Washington, District of Columbia
Don’t miss your chance for a studio tour with celebrated artist Helen Zughaib! Zughaib is a Washington, DC-based painter and mixed-media artist known for her vibrant and thought-provoking work. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, her pop-art influenced art explores themes related to issues of cultural identity, migration, and social justice and is characterized by its use of bold colors, intricate patterns, and symbolism.

Zughaib’s work has been gifted to international heads of state by President Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton and appears in galleries and museums around the world. She is a multi-year recipient of DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship award. In 2023, she was featured at the Hall of Nations at the Kennedy Center, and was commissioned by Disney/PIXAR. Zughaib has exhibitions running concurrently at The Kay Chernush Virtual Gallery, ArtRage, and ArtHub609 Gallery this fall.

“My work is ultimately about creating empathy. Creating a shared space for introspection anddialogue. I ask the viewer to see through someone else’s eyes, to walk in another’s shoes. Toaccept the “other.” To reject divisiveness. To promote acceptance and understanding and toreject violence and subjugation of anyone anywhere. To give voice to the voiceless, to heal, andto reflect in our shared humanity.”

Thank you to Sarah Gordon for her assistance with this event!

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Image: Helen Zughaib | Generations Lost 1, 2014. Gouache on board. 30” x 40”

About the Artist

Helen Zughaib was born in Beirut, Lebanon, living mostly in the Middle East and Europe before coming to the United States to study art at Syracuse University, earning her BFA from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. Her work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States, Europe and Lebanon. Her paintings are included in many private and public collections, including the White House, World Bank, Library of Congress, US Consulate, Vancouver, Canada, American Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, the Arab American National Museum in Detroit, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the Barjeel Art Foundation Collection. Her paintings are also included in the DC Art Bank Collection and she has received the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship award each year since 2015. Her work has been included in Art in Embassy State Department exhibitions abroad, including Brunei, Nicaragua, Mauritius, Iraq, Belgium, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Sweden. Helen has served as Cultural Envoy to Palestine, Switzerland and Saudi Arabia. The John F. Kennedy Center/REACH, in Washington, DC, has selected Helen for the 2021-2024 Inaugural Social Impact Practice residency. Her paintings have been gifted to heads of state by President Obama and former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.

*Waiting List* BreakfastTable with Anne Helmreich
2023-11-09 08:00 - 09:00 | The Archives of American Art, 750 9th Street NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001, United States
Meet Anne Helmreich, the newly appointed director of the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, who leads the world’s preeminent and most widely used research center dedicated to collecting, preserving, and making accessible primary sources documenting the history of the visual arts in America. The Archives’ holdings, dating from the 18th century to the present day, encompass more than 30 million items from artists, collectors, art historians, art dealers, and critics, as well as other voices from across the art world. The Archives stewards more than 6,400 collections and 2,500 oral history interviews.Registration will be finalized by the morning of Monday, November 6!

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Thank you to ArtTable member Madeleine Sargent for organizing this program.

Anne Helmreich, art historian, administrator, and educator, brings to the Archives of American Art experiences drawn from higher education and non-profit arts administration. Before joining the Archives, Dr. Helmreich was associate director of grants programming at the Getty Foundation, supporting individuals and institutions committed to advancing the greater understanding and preservation of the visual arts in Los Angeles and throughout the world. She also represented the Getty Foundation in the LA Arts Recovery Fund, which supports small to mid-sized arts organizations in Los Angeles. While at the Getty, Dr. Helmreich also served as the inaugural co-chair of the Getty DEAI Council and the associate director of digital initiatives at the Getty Research Institute. Her work in higher education has included appointments as dean of the College of Fine Arts, professor of art history at Texas Christian University, director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, and associate professor of art history at Case Western Reserve University.

*Waiting List* Guided Tour of the Capital One Art Collection with Anne Fletcher & Susannah Haworth Dunn
2023-11-13 16:30 - 18:00 | Capital One Center, 1675 Capital One Drive, McLean, Virginia, 22102-3473, United States
Join ArtTable for an exclusive tour of the The Capital One Art Program! This 90-minute guided tour through the Capital One Center art collection offers a premium opportunity to see the in-house work and do a deep-dive into the building, stewardship, and purpose of a corporate art collection. The art displayed in the company’s offices across North America is composed of over 50 rotating exhibits a year and a permanent collection of over 8,000 pieces. The heart of the program is the belief that when people are surrounded by thoughtful, detailed, innovative work, they will create thoughtful, detailed, innovative work. Anne Fletcher, the Art Administrator for Capital One, explains that above all, through the program, “we want to create really innovative, vibrant work spaces for our associates.” Capital One Center is the culmination of the company’s belief in the impact of the arts and a thriving, mixed-use cultural and retail destination for the local community and the region.

Artists in the collection include Alice Aycock, Jacob Hashimoto, Carter Hodgkin, and Anne Patterson.

Please note health, safety, and procedural information:

The Art Tour will begin in the first-floor lobby of Center 3. Please bring a government-issued ID to gain entrance.

The building is wheelchair-accessible with elevators. Those walking for the 90-minute tour will want to wear comfortable shoes.

Each attendee must sign a release form two business days before the event—they are due by Friday, November 10 at 11:00 AM Eastern. Please watch for the release form after registration, and then complete and return it on time to make sure you can attend!

See the Capital One Center’s Parking & Transportation page for details on parking and Silver Line Metro access. General Parking is $15.00. Parking is in the public garage adjacent to Center 2 just next door (to the right) of Center 3, where the tour begins.

Admission:

ArtTable Members $25

Guests $35

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Thank you to Susannah Haworth Dunn for spearheading this event!

Image: Alice Aycock, Hoop-La, 2016-2018, Capital One Art Collection.

Tour of the National Museum of Women in the Arts with Ginny Treanor & Orin Zahra
2023-11-30 12:00 - 13:00 | National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW, Washington, 20005
Come join us to tour the reopened National Museum of Women in the Arts! NMWA is the first museum in the world solely dedicated to championing women through the arts. NMWA undertook a top-to-bottom renovation from 2021 to 2023. The building’s first full renovation since 1987, this restoration project honors the structure’s history while improving its interior spaces, mechanical systems, and exterior envelope. We are very fortunate to have a curator-led tour with Senior Curator Ginny Treanor, and Associate Curator Orin Zahra!

Current exhibitions include “The Sky’s the Limit,” showcasing never-before-exhibited contemporary sculptures that dangle from the ceiling, cascade down walls, and extend far beyond their footprint on the gallery floor: recent acquisitions and never-before-exhibited works include Sonya Clark, Beatriz Milhazes, Cornelia Parker, Mariah Robertson, Shinique Smith, and Joana Vasconcelos. “Remix: The Collection,” showcases familiar collection favorites as well as never-before-exhibited recent acquisitions: Remix continues to reject outmoded and gender-based art hierarchies.

Read Abigail Tracy’s recent article in Vanity Fair: “The National Museum of Women in the Arts Just Got a $68 Million Overhaul.“

Please review NMWA visitor health, safety, and accessibility information before your visit!

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $10

Member Guests – $20

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Thank you to Ashley Templeton for organizing this program.

Orin Zahra is the Associate Curator at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA). Zahra earned her doctoral degree from Washington University in St. Louis in nineteenth-century French art, with a secondary field in modern and contemporary South Asia. Recent writing credits include contributions to major survey texts Great Women Painters (2022), Latin American Artists (2023), and Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art (2024), published by Phaidon Press. At NMWA, Zahra has focused on issues of gender, race relations, and cross-cultural exchanges in modern and contemporary art. Curated solo and group exhibitions including Hung Liu In Print (2018), Ambreen Butt: Mark My Words (2019), Live Dangerously (2019), Paper Routes—Women to Watch 2020 (2020), Hung Liu: Making History (2023), and the forthcoming New Worlds—Women to Watch 2024.

Virginia (Ginny) Treanor, Ph.D. serves as Senior Curator, National Museum of Women in the Arts Treanor is the Senior Curator at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, D.C. and holds a Ph.D. in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art, which she earned at the University of Maryland. Treanor has held positions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Gallery of Art, among other institutions. During her time at NMWA, Treanor has curated numerous contemporary exhibitions, including four installments of NMWA’s Women to Watch exhibition series: Organic Matters (2015), Heavy Metal (2018), Paper Routes(2020), and New Worlds (2024).

BreakfastTable with Cheryl Numark
2023-12-14 08:00 - 09:00
Cheryl Numark will host this gathering at her Washington DC home and discuss what it means to be a contemporary art advisor in 2023, as well as alternative forms of artist representation outside of the traditional gallery setting. This will be an opportunity for both artists and collectors to consider the evolving dynamics of artist representation and glean valuable insight into the multi-faceted role of an art advisor/gallerist who has worked to build meaningful collections and support artists throughout her career.

For the health and safety of all guests, please have an up to date COVID vaccine or wear a mask. Venue address will be disclosed via email to all registered guests two days prior to the event.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – complimentary

Member Guests – $10

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Thank you to ArtTable’s DC Chapter for organizing this program.

Cheryl Numark’s career in art took hold during her tenure as owner and curator for Numark Gallery (1995 – 2007), the premier gallery in Washington DC for many years. During this period Numark represented and exhibited dozens of artists that would find great success, including Michal Rovner, Tony Feher, Peter Halley, Tara Donovan, Sharon Louden, Terri Friedman, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Dan Steinhilber and many others. Shortly after closing her gallery, Numark launched CNAA art advisory to work more closely with her clients to help them build meaningful collections. Throughout this time, Cheryl maintained close contact with many of the artists she had once exhibited, facilitating exciting commissions and acquisitions (most recently a painting by Sharon Louden at the National Gallery of Art, 2023) and hosting curated exhibitions on Artsy / within her home of work by artists Sharon Louden, Marylyn Dintenfass and Terri Friedman (forthcoming shows include Jorge Yazpik, October 2023 and Diana Cooper, Spring 2024). In addition to placing and exhibiting work at both fairs and her home, Cheryl has exhibited work by artists at Art Miami, 2022, and located public and private commissions for artists, for both residential and commercial uses.

Cheryl currently serves on the collector’s council at the Hirshhorn Museum and is a member of The Tower Project at the National Gallery of Art. For over a decade Numark was on the Board of Directors for Cultural DC, supporting its mission to ‘Make Space for Art’ in the DC area.

ArtTable Holiday Party in DC
2023-12-19 18:00 - 20:00 | 52 O Street Studios, 52 O Street NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001
Join ArtTable Members and their guests for an end of year celebration with wine and light bites. The event will be hosted at 52 O Street Studios, providing a unique opportunity to visit a gallery and three studio spaces in the heart of the District.

Host spaces will include:

Amy Morton Fine Arts, now showing: “Hannalie Coetzee. In Mid-Loping Gait”

Kim Cooper studio

Cianne Fragione studio

Philip Livingston studio

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $30

Member Guests – $35

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Thank you to ArtTable’s DC Chapter for organizing this program.

Baltimore | Curator-Led Tour: Recent Acquisitions at The Walters Art Museum
2024-05-17 15:30 - 17:00
Local to Baltimore or in town for AAM? Reconnect with ArtTable friends between conference sessions at The Walters Art Museum, located less than a mile from the Baltimore Convention Center. This exclusive, 90-minute tour with Lynley Anne Herbert, Robert and Nancy Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, covers two of her exhibitions: Reflect and Remix: Art Inspiring Artists and New on the Bookshelf: The Creative Power of Women. These exhibitions explore the visual and material resonances between works of art separated by time in the Walters collection, as well as highlighting new acquisitions that celebrate the contributions of women to the book arts.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Non-Members – $25

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Washington, DC | Curator-Led Tour: Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860-1960
2024-05-28 16:00 - 17:00
Installation view of Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960, March 22, 2024–April 20, 2025. Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Photo: Rick Coulby.

Meet ArtTable in DC for a curator-led tour of Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860-1960 with Dr. Marina Isgro, Associate Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. In anticipation of the fiftieth anniversary of the Hirshhorn’s opening on October 4, 2024, Revolutions places the work of 19 contemporary artists in dialogue with that of 117 artists who worked between 1860 and 1960: the century that introduced Modernism and abstraction, and led up to the Hirshhorn’s establishment by Congress in 1966. An audio guide by Katy Hessel—part of her Museums Without Men series—accompanies the exhibition, highlighting the women represented in Revolutions, whose work completes and complicates art historical narratives they were frequently written out of. Revolutions‘ dialogue between living artists—including Torkwase Dyson, Loie Hollowell, and Catherine Opie—and their 19th- and 20th-century counterparts—such as Berenice Abbott, Mary Cassatt, and Alma Thomas—reveals the resonance and relevance of these earlier works in our contemporary culture.

Program admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Non-Members – $25

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Admission to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and to all its exhibitions, tours, and other public educational programs is free of charge. Any charge or request for contributions is unrelated to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

About the Curator

Marina Isgro is Associate Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Hirshhorn and was the lead curator of Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860-1960. At the Museum, she has also curated Laurie Anderson: The Weather; John Akomfrah: Purple; and OSGEMEOS: Endless Story, forthcoming in September. Prior to joining the Hirshhorn, Marina was Nam June Paik Fellow at the Harvard Art Museums, where she curated Nam June Paik: Screen Play. She received her MA and PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA from Princeton University.

Washington, DC | Curator-Led Tour: Time-Based Media at the National Portrait Gallery
2024-06-12 16:30 - 17:30 | National Portrait Gallery, 8th & G Streets NW, Washington, DC, 20001, United States
Expand your understanding and appreciation of time-based media on this special tour for the ArtTable community, led by Dr. Charlotte Ickes, Curator of Time-Based Media and Special Projects at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. As the pace of technological innovation continues to accelerate, so too will the quantity of art produced within this precisely defined, yet expansive category: time-based media, or art that reveals itself to the viewer or over time, encompasses film, audio, computer, and slide-based works. As the National Portrait Gallery and its peer institutions build their collections in time-based media, they are confronted with complex questions regarding the interpretation, installation, and conservation of these works, as well as the opportunity to define best practices for future generations of scholars. Dr. Ickes’ tour will cover highlights of the National Portrait Gallery’s acquisitions in time-based media, as well as explore how her Smithsonian colleagues have been grappling with these issues.

Program admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Non-Members – $25

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

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

We hope you will join us!

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $10

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

Washington, DC | Curator-Led Tour of "Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
2025-03-20 17:00 - 18:00 | Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th and G Streets, NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20004, United States
Join ArtTable for a curator-led tour of Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, led by Melissa Ho, Curator of 20th Century Art.

Miki Hayakawa (1899-1953), Hisako Hibi (1907-1991), and Miné Okubo (1912-2001) were three of the most active and critically acclaimed American artists of Japanese descent in the years leading up to World War II. Their careers spanned eight decades and four US states, yet the full extent of their contributions remain underrecognized within twentieth-century American art history.

Pictures of Belonging is an unprecedented examination of these three trailblazing figures. By tracing their artistic development before, during, and after the mass incarceration and displacement of Japanese Americans during World War II, the exhibition offers a nuanced view of how these women continued to explore and experiment with new artistic expression throughout their lives. Created during tumultuous decades in modern US history, their paintings, along with their stories of resilience, remind us of art’s power in the face of adversity and challenge.

Click here to read more about the exhibition.

Please review the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s accessibility page for available accommodations.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

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Please note that ArtTable registration fees go toward administrative costs for the nonprofit organization. The Smithsonian American Art Museum does not charge an admission fee.

About Melissa Ho

Melissa Ho is the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s curator of 20th-century art; she joined the museum’s staff in September 2016. Ho is responsible for research, acquisitions and exhibitions related to the museum’s collections focusing on art since 1945. She currently is leading an initiative to expand and enrich the representation of Asian American experiences, perspectives and artistic accomplishment in the museum’s collection and public displays.

Recent projects include “American Voices and Visions: Modern and Contemporary Art” (2023), the first phase of a multiyear renewal and reinstallation of the museum’s permanent collection galleries, and “Composing Color: The Paintings of Alma Thomas” (2023), which will travel to several venues in the United States. Ho organized the critically acclaimed exhibition “Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975” (2019) and “Artist to Artist” (2021).

Previously, Ho worked as a curator at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden from 2011 to 2016, where she organized “Barbara Kruger: Belief+Doubt” (2012), “Salvatore Scarpitta: Traveler” (2014) and “Shirin Neshat: Facing History” (2015) with Melissa Chiu. She also co-curated with Evelyn Hankins “At the Hub of Things” (2014), a re-installation of the museum’s collection.

Ho earned a bachelor’s degree in studio art and art history from Princeton University and a master’s degree in art history from the University of Pennsylvania.

Image credits:Miki Hayakawa, One Afternoon, ca. 1935, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 in., New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, Gift of Preston McCrossen in memory of his wife, the artist, 1954, 520.23P

Washington, DC | Curator-Led Tour of "Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist" at the National Gallery of Art
2025-04-08 15:00 - 16:00 | National Gallery of Art, East Building, 4th St and Constitution Ave NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20565, United States
Join ArtTable for a curator-led tour of Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist at the National Gallery of Art, led by Dr. Lynn K. Matheny, Deputy Head of Interpretation and Curator of Special Projects.

This retrospective exhibition showcases the enduring legacy of Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012) as a visionary artist and an unwavering activist. As the most comprehensive presentation devoted to Catlett in the United States, it features more than 150 works, including well-known sculpture and prints, rare paintings and drawings, and important ephemera. The exhibition is co-organized by the Brooklyn Museum and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and presented in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago.

One of the defining artists of the 20th century, Elizabeth Catlett addressed the injustices she witnessed and experienced through her bold prints and dynamic sculptures. In striving to make art for the people—from her roots in Washington, DC, Chicago, and New York to the remarkable body of work she made during some 60 years in Mexico—Catlett put social justice at the very center of her work. An avowed feminist, lifelong activist, and deft formalist, Catlett passionately addressed injustices such as class inequality, racial violence, and U.S. expansionism through her politically engaged art, injustices which continue to shape the world today.

“I have been, and am currently, and always hope to be a Black Revolutionary Artist and all that it implies.”– Elizabeth Catlett, 1970

Click here to read more about the exhibition and this visionary artist-activist.

Please review the National Gallery of Art’s accessibility page for available accommodations.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

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Please note that ArtTable registration fees go toward administrative costs for the nonprofit organization. The National Gallery of Art does not charge an admission fee.

About Lynn K. Matheny

Dr. Lynn K. Matheny currently serves as Deputy Head of Interpretation and Curator of Special Projects at the National Gallery of Art. She has worked on a wide array of modern and contemporary art exhibitions, including Philip Guston Now; Afro-Atlantic Histories; Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950; and Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings, among many others. She frequently collaborates with museums in the United States and abroad and is honored to help bring to the National Gallery Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist.

Image credits:Elizabeth Catlett, Gossip, 2005color digital and photo-lithograph on wove paperimage: 37.47 x 45.72 cm (14 3/4 x 18 in.)sheet: 59.69 x 60.96 cm (23 1/2 x 24 in.)National Gallery of Art, Washington, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Lynn K. Matheny, courtesy of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, George Washington University.

Chicago, IL | ArtTable Brunch at EXPO Chicago
2025-04-25 09:30 - 11:00 | EXPO Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, 60611, United States
Here at ArtTable, we love nothing more than a pre-art fair brunch. Join us at EXPO Chicago for drinks, bites, and networking before exploring the 2025 edition of the fair. We are excited to be joined by Kate Sierzputowski, Artistic Director of the fair!

EXPO CHICAGO Contemporary Art Fair showcases leading contemporary and modern art galleries each April at Navy Pier’s Festival Hall, alongside a diverse and inventive program of talks, on-site installations, and public art initiatives. Inaugurated in 2012, EXPO CHICAGO draws upon the city’s robust history as a vibrant international cultural destination, while highlighting the region’s contemporary arts community. In 2023, EXPO CHICAGO was acquired by Frieze, the world’s leading platform for modern and contemporary art.

Please review EXPO Chicago’s accessibility page for available accommodations. Please email us at programs@arttable.org with any accommodation requests.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $50

Member Guests – $60

General Admission – $70

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All registration fees go toward administrative costs for the nonprofit organization.

Image credits:The scene at the 2023 edition of Expo Chicago, at Navy Pier.

Washington, D.C. | End-of-Year MeetAT at Irene and Richard Frary Gallery
2025-12-18 17:30 - 19:00 | Irene and Richard Frary gallery, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001, United States
Photo Credit: Sloane Prince/Johns Hopkins University.

You’re invited to our upcoming End-of-Year MeetAT networking event on December 18, graciously hosted by Caitlin Berry at the Irene and Richard Frary Gallery. Meet us at the gallery to take in their current exhibition, and then join us at the Good Company cafe for light refreshments while catching up with fellow ArtTable members and prospective members.

About the Irene and Richard Frary GalleryThe Irene and Richard Frary Gallery is the Hopkins Bloomberg Center’s free, public art gallery presenting rotating exhibitions drawn from the University’s collections and special exhibitions born out of partnerships with leading museums and collections. The 1,000-square-foot gallery designed by Rockwell Group brings new ideas and energy to Washington, D.C., enriching the cultural and intellectual offerings of the Center and dynamically reinforcing its mission as a place that convenes different artistic and ideological perspectives to support discovery, democracy, and global dialogue.About CeremonyDrawing on artist Lindsay Adams’ background in international studies and cultural anthropology, Ceremony explores the histories of Black movement, migration, and world-building. Guest curated by Claudia M. Watts, the exhibition places Adams’ new works in conversation with never-before-seen archival objects from the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries’ collection, including rare books and personal correspondence from Billie Holiday, Josephine Baker, and more.

Are you considering joining ArtTable and want to know more about who we are and what we do? This is a great opportunity for potential members to get to know us!

Admission:

FREE to ArtTable Members and their guests*

*Each member is allowed to bring one guest with them at this time. We encourage members to bring a member of the visual arts field who would enjoy this community engagement opportunity.

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Washington, DC | Artist Talk with Joan Danziger
2026-02-19 15:00 - 17:00 | Katzen Arts Center American University Museum, 4400 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC, 20016, United States
Join ArtTable for an artist talk and exhibition walkthrough with Joan Danziger! Joan has two concurrent exhibitions on view at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center.

Spanning 60 years of imaginative artistry, The Magical World of Joan Danziger is the first career retrospective for Joan Danziger, who is actively producing art at the age of 91. Danziger has been a working artist since the 1960s. The retrospective traces her evolution from a surrealist painter to a multimedia artist who transforms her creations into three-dimensional sculptures. Over the decades, she evolved into a sculptor and glass artist who imbues her work with secret meanings from world religions, history and mythology.A major milestone in her career was transitioning from an artist who worked on canvas to a three-dimensional artist. In 2008, she added glass to her repertoire when she began her Beetles series. She enjoyed the results of working with glass so much that it led to two other series of glass sculptures of horses and her newest creation, ravens.

Ravens: Spirits of the Sky will transform the American University Museum’s Long Gallery into an aviary. Featuring never-before-exhibited artworks, the show is comprised entirely of 21 metal and glass raven sculptures inspired by the bird’s appearance in world mythology. Snow Crystal Raven references a Native American myth that expresses reverence and thankfulness to the Great Spirit. Smoky Raven demonstrates ‘lift’ in the bird’s preparation for flight. Colorful and predatory, Amethyst Raven with Frog depicts a raven gripping a frog in its beak. The iridescent violets and yellow glass contrast to express the struggle of life and death. The ravens are captured in various poses, including flight, with three of the sculptures suspended from the ceiling.

For more than 60 years, Washington, D.C.-based artist Joan Danziger has beguiled audiences with her artworks born of mythology, imagination and fantasy. As an artist, she has metamorphosized from a painter to a sculptor to a glass artist. Danziger began her career as a surrealist painter and the dramatic hues in her paintings fed directly into painted sculptures — from vivid, surreal flowers in vases resting on pigmented patterned, handwoven carpets to large colorful figures of acrobats and musicians, to brilliantly hued figures riding bicycles with parrots.Her public commissions can be seen along the Eastern Seaboard in Maryland, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. She has exhibited in museums from New York to California, and her work is included in the collections of museums including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, D.C.); New Orleans Museum of Art; National Sporting Library & Museum (Middleburg, Virginia); Grounds For Sculpture (Hamilton Township, New Jersey); Reading Public Museum (Reading, Pennsylvania); New Jersey State Museum (Trenton, New Jersey); Museum of Science & Industry (Jacksonville, Florida); and the San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego, California).

More information about accessibility at the Katzen Art Center can be found here.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

ArtTable Member Guests – $20

General Admission – $25

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Washington, DC | Curator-Led Tour of "Mary Cassatt: An American in Paris" at the National Gallery of Art
2026-02-25 15:00 - 16:00 | National Gallery of Art, West Building, 6th St and Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC, District of Columbia, 20565, United States
Join ArtTable for a curator-led tour of Mary Cassatt: An American in Paris. The exhibition celebrates this pioneering American impressionist on the 100th anniversary of her death.

This special installation includes several of Cassatt’s beloved paintings alongside groundbreaking prints and drawings that are rarely on view.

Our tour will be led by Kimberly A. Jones, curator of nineteenth-century French paintings, department of French paintings; Rena Hoisington, curator and head, department of old master prints; Mary Morton, curator and head, department of French paintings; and Michelle Bird, curatorial associate, department of French paintings, all of the National Gallery of Art.

Learn more about accessibility at the National Gallery of Art here. For questions about access or to request accommodations please contact us at programs@arttable.org.

Program Admission:

General Admission – $25

ArtTable Members – $15

ArtTable Guests – $20

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All program registration fees go toward event expenses and administrative costs for the organization.

Images:

Mary Cassatt, Girl Arranging Her Hair, 1886, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.97

Mary Cassatt, Woman with a Sunflower, c. 1905, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.98

Washington, DC | Unboxing at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art with Christina Ayson-Plank and Jayna Josefson
2026-03-23 14:30 - 16:00 | The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, 750 9 th Street NW,, Washington, DC, Washington, DC
Join ArtTable at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art to discover collections that document the history of women in American visual arts. During this tour and presentation, attendees will learn about the lives and legacies of Toshiko Takaezu and Hung Liu through archival collections.

For more than 70 years, the Archives has provided researchers worldwide with access to the largest collection of primary source materials collected from artists, galleries, and other art world institutions and professionals. The Archives holds nearly 6,500 collections comprised of more than 30 million primary sources including correspondence, diaries, sketchbooks, photographic, audiovisual, and born-digital materials. As one of the oldest and most respected oral history collections in the world, the Archives’ Oral History Program has preserved the voices of the American art world in more than 2,600 interviews. Learn more about the Archives here.Toshiko Takaezu (1922–2011) was a pioneering 20 th century ceramic artist known for her signature closed forms and installations. Born in Pepeekeo, Hawai‘i, Takaezu attended Cranbrook Academy in Michigan and taught for decades at Princeton University.

Hung Liu (1948–2021) was a groundbreaking painter whose works drew primarily from historical Chinese photographs of women and children. Born in Changchun, China, Liu studied under Allan Kaprow at the University of California, San Diego and taught for decades at Mills College.

Christina Ayson-Plank is the Asian Pacific American Collections Specialist at the Archives of American Art. She earned her Ph.D. in Visual Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Jayna Josefson is a project archivist at the Archives of American Art with a focus on processing the papers of women artists. She earned her MA in Public History from Wright State University.

For questions about access or to request accommodations please contact us at programs@arttable.org.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

ArtTable Member Guests – $20

General Admission – $25

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All program registration fees go toward event expenses and administrative costs for the organization.

Image: Evon Streetman. Toshiko Takaezu throwing a ceramic pot, 1974.Toshiko Takaezu papers, circa 1925-circa 2010. Archives of American Art, SmithsonianInstitution.
