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

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

ArtTable Members | $5
Non-members | $10
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About Marika
Dr. Marika Kuźmicz is an art historian, curator, researcher, and publicist. She is the dean of students and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts (Department of Visual Culture and the Artistic Research) in Warsaw and Warsaw University. She is also a lecturer at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw. For many years she conducted research on Polish art of the 1970s, particularly advocating performance and video art. In 2010 she established the non-profit organization Arton Foundation. Its main activity is the elaboration of private archives of artists. Kuźmicz is the author and editor of many books, such as “The Workshop of The Film Form” (2016, co-edited with Łukasz Ronduda, published by Sternberg Press) and “History of Performance in Poland” and many monographs of Polish artists (like Zdzisław Jurkiewicz, Ludmiła Popiel and many others) based on her research in private archives. She has curated many exhibitions in Poland and abroad, most recently: “Her Own Way – Female Artists and the Moving Image in Art in Poland”, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum and the monographic exhibition of Barbara Kozłowska “You Can See It All Anywhere” (2020, Muzeum of Contemporary Art, Wrocław). She is also the curator of the film festival “Arton Review”, devoted to the forgotten forerunners of Polish avant-garde film and video. The 2017 edition took place in Whitechapel Gallery in London and in 2020, the film festival was part of the Oberhausen Shortfilm Festival. Kuźmicz was the coordinator of an international art project “Forgotten Heritage – European Avant-Garde Art Online” dedicated to the re-discovering marginalized avant-garde artists from Poland, Croatia, Belgium and Estonia. In 2017 she also established Edward Hartwig Foundation, the organization devoted to the developing and dissemination of legacy and art on Edward Hartwig, the key Polish photographer. Currently she is the main coordinator and the curator of the project “Not Yet Written Stories: Women Artists Archives On-line”, supported by Creative Europe, in collaboration with the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Arts in Riga and the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Ljubljana.

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

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

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

Image Credits:

Karen Lofgren in studio with work in progress, 2020

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

Virtual | "Artcurious" Book Discussion with Jennifer Dasal
2020-12-03 18:00 - 19:00 | Zoom
6pm ET | 5pm CT | 3pm PT
Please join ArtTable’s New York Chapter for a virtual discussion of “Artcurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd and Strangely Wonderful in Art History” with the creater and host of the podcast “Artcurious” and author of the book, Jennifer Dasal. This discussion will be facilitated by ArtTable New York member Susan L. Halper.
This program is for ArtTable members only. Not a member? Join us today!
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About the Author
Jennifer Dasal is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the North Carolina Museum of Art where she has worked since 2008. She holds an M. A. in art history from the University of Notre Dame as well as a B.A. in art history of the University of California, Davis. Her area of special interest is Women artists and Asian Art. In edition to her prior curatorial experiences at other museums and galleries, she hosts the ArtCurious Podcast, a bi-weekly show . Her podcast and the book are full of lively, fascinating and unexpected stories about artists and art lovers in the modern era. The book is available at Amazon and on Kindle.
Thank you to Susan L. Halper, President Susan L Halper Fine Art, Inc. and New York Chapter member, for coordinating this program.

Virtual | DC BreakfastTable with Sheila McDaniel
2020-12-04 08:30 - 09:30 | Zoom
8:30am ET| 7:30am CT
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for a presentation and conversation with Sheila McDaniel, new Administrator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
Tickets are $5. Members attend for free. Not a member? Join today!
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About Sheila McDaniel
Sheila McDaniel was recently appointed as Administrator of the National Gallery of Art and began her tenure this September. As Administrator, McDaniel oversees the divisions of administrative support, architecture and capital improvement, facilities, horticulture, personnel, procurement, and security, which comprise more than one-third of the museum’s staff.
About her appointment, she says “I have dedicated my entire career to serving communities through art and education. Now, coming to Washington, I will have the honor of working for a community that encompasses all the United States. The National Gallery of Art is a treasure that belongs to every American, and unlike most other treasure, it becomes more valuable the more it is shared.”
Since 2004, McDaniel has been the deputy director of finance and operations at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Her areas of expertise include change management, human resource development, nonprofit financial management, and organizational development. At The Studio Museum in Harlem, she is a member of the leadership team responsible for implementing the museum’s strategic plan and managing the construction of a new facility that spans 80,000 square feet. McDaniel previously served as the associate executive director for operations at the Hetrick-Martin Institute, where she was part of the team that opened Harvey Milk High School. McDaniel has also served as treasurer on several nonprofit boards, including those of ArtTable, Bronx Council on the Arts, and North Star Fund. McDaniel holds a master’s degree in public administration from Baruch College. A lifelong learner, she is pursuing a Doctor of Education in adult learning and leadership at Columbia University.
Thank you to ArtTable’s Washington, D.C. Chapter for organizing this program.

Image: Sheila McDaniel. Photo by Erich Camping.

Virtual | Artist Talk with Josely Carvalho
2020-12-04 12:00 - 13:00 | FL
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s Artist Talk series is made possible by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Originally formatted as in-person Artist Breakfasts, ArtTable has moved all programming into the virtual realm during the pandemic. Please join us for a virtual Artist Talk with Josely Carvalho, focusing on her ongoing cross-disciplinary series, “The Diary of Smells,” where olfaction, a powerful connector to memory and emotions, is a protagonist among other typically dominant components in contemporary art.
Tickets are $10. Member tickets are $5. Not a member? Join today!
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About the Artist
In 2019, Josely Carvalho received the International Art and Olfaction Sadakichi Award for the category of Experimental Olfaction Artwork in Amsterdam with smells she created together with Leandro Petit, perfumist at Givaudan do Brasil. She has been the recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2017); The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency (2001); Creative Capital Foundation (2000); NYSCA (2003), among others. Read more about Josely on her website.
This program is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation has been a leader in providing grants enabling emerging and established artists to focus on their work. Funding helps artists to create new work, acquire art supplies, rent studio space, and prepare exhibitions. The Foundation also provides grants to organizations that directly engage with artists, such as artist residency programs. Please visit www.pkf.org for more information.
Thank you to Julia P. Herzberg, Ph.D., ArtTable New York Chapter Programs Committee, for making this program possible.

Image: Josely Carvalho at the Garden of Cannons, Museu Histórico Nacional, Rio de Janeiro (Photo credit: Tania Sarquis)

Virtual | AT Connect with Molly Morse Limmer
2020-12-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s AT Connect program series allows and encourages members to network, connect, and ask questions outside of their regular areas of expertise. In this session we will hear from ArtTable Chicago Chapter member Molly Morse Limmer, Senior Vice President of Decorative Arts & Collectables at Hindman Auctions.

Tickets are $10. Member tickets are $5. Not a member? Join today!
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About Molly Morse Limmer
Ms. Morse Limmer has recently joined Hindman as Senior Vice President, Decorative Arts and Collectibles Departments, where she is responsible for the management of the expertise side of the business. Prior to joining Hindman, her career spanned two decades at Christie’s Auction House, including seventeen years in the New York office serving as Vice President, Senior Specialist and Department Head for Antiquities. Following her move to Chicago, Ms. Morse Limmer served as Vice President, Business Development for Christie’s Midwest Regional Office. Most recently, Ms. Morse Limmer spent close to five years owning and operating 2050 Art Services, a premiere art and antiquities appraisals and advisory consultancy firm. Ms. Morse Limmer holds an M.A. in Greek and Roman art from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and a B.A. in Classics and Art History from Brown University. She also studied at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome.

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

Virtual | Curatorial Perspective: 'Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists'
2020-12-11 12:00 - 12:45 | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s Curatorial Perspective program series invites curators to present and discuss timely exhibitions and initiatives. Please join us for a discussion with Jill Ahlberg Yohe, Associate Curator of Native American Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Christina Burke, Curator of Native American & Non-Western Art at the Philbrook Museum of Art, and Teri Greeves, artist and independent curator, about the exhibition, Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, currently on view at Philbrook Museum of Art through January 3, 2021.
Tickets are $10. Member tickets are $5. Not a member? Join today!
How to take part:

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About the Speakers
Jill Ahlberg Yohe is the Associate Curator of Native American Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA). In 2008, Ahlberg Yohe received her PhD from the University of New Mexico; her dissertation was a focus on the social life of weaving in contemporary Navajo life. Along with Teri Greeves, Ahlberg Yohe is the co-curator of Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists. At MIA, Ahlberg Yohe seeks new initiatives to expand understanding and new curatorial practices of historical and contemporary Native art.

Christina E. Burke is Curator of Native American Art at Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, OK. Her work focuses on collaborative projects with Native artists, from collections research to exhibition and program development. She is interested in how Indigenous people record and present stories through visual, literary, and performing arts. She’s served on several boards including the Native American Art Studies Association (NAASA) and the Advisory Board for Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists.

Teri Greeves (Kiowa) is a contemporary beadwork artist, recognized for pictorial narrative works. Greeves is currently co-curator, with Jill Ahlberg Yohe, of Hearts of Our People, an exhibition of Native American women’s art.

Images:

Christi Belcourt (Michif), The Wisdom of the Universe, 2014, acrylic on canvas, Collection Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Purchased with funds donated by Greg Latremoille, 2014, 2014/6. © Christi Belcourt
Jill Ahlberg Yohe, courtesy of the speaker
Christina Burke, courtesy of the speaker
Teri Greeves, courtesy of the speaker

Virtual | Artist Talk with Julia Kwon
2020-12-17 12:00 - 13:00 | FL
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s Artist Talk series is made possible by the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Originally formatted as in-person Artist Breakfasts, ArtTable has moved all programming into the virtual realm during the pandemic. Please join us for a virtual Artist Talk with Julia Kwon.
Tickets are $10. Member tickets are $5. Not a member? Join today!
How to take part:

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Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link.
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About Julia Kwon
Julia Kwon sews interpretative bojagi—Korean object-wrapping cloths historically created since the early Joseon Dynasty (1392–1910)—to comment on the objectification of Asiatic female bodies and examine the complexities of constructing identity within the context of globalism, cultural hybridity, and intersectionality. She earned her M.F.A. at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University and B.A. in Studio Art at Georgetown University. She was also a participant at the Chautauqua School of Art residency program. Her work has been exhibited nationally including art galleries such as Hartnett Gallery of the University of Rochester and Torpedo Factory Art Center. Her work has been featured and reviewed internationally including in television programs such as PBS’s WETA Arts series that showcases the creative arts scene in the Greater Washington DC area as well as one of the major Korean national television networks SBS’s international news. Kwon won awards such as the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University’s Traveling Fellowship as well as the artist residencies at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Vermont Studio Center, NARS Foundation, Montgomery College, and Textile Arts Center. She presented artist lectures and workshops at Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Phillips Collection, Georgetown University, Lehigh University, University of Rochester, Emerson College, Montgomery College, among others.

This program is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation has been a leader in providing grants enabling emerging and established artists to focus on their work. Funding helps artists to create new work, acquire art supplies, rent studio space, and prepare exhibitions. The Foundation also provides grants to organizations that directly engage with artists, such as artist residency programs. Please visit www.pkf.org for more information.
Thank you to Maria Sancho-Arroyo, Caitlin Berry, and Allison Nance from the ArtTable Washington, D.C. Chapter, and the Pollock Krasner Foundation for making this program possible.

Image Credits

Unapologetically Asian, 2020, sewn in the format of face masks, 5” x 12” each
The Blanket Statements You Use on Me and Every Other Yellow Women, 2019, satin, custom design fabric, thread, and wire, sewn in the format of traditional Korean object-wrapping cloth bojagi, 2.75′ x 14′ x 14′

Virtual | DC BreakfastTable with Molly Warnock
2021-01-08 08:30 - 09:30 | Zoom
8:30am ET| 7:30am CT
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for a presentation and conversation with art critic and art historian Molly Warnock.
Tickets are $5. Members attend for free. Not a member? Join today!
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About Molly Warnock
Baltimore-based Molly Warnock is the author of “Simon Hantaï and the Reserves of Painting” (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020). She has published writings in journals such as Artforum, Art in America, Les Cahiers du Musée National d’Art Moderne, Tate Papers, Journal of Contemporary Painting, and on nonsite.org. Her work has also been featured in numerous U.S. and European exhibition catalogues.
Currently, Warnock is a 2020-21 Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art.
Thank you to Lily Siegel, ArtTable DC Faith Flanagan Fellowship Co-Chair, for organizing this program.

Image: Molly Warnock

Virtual | Reading at the (Art)Table
2021-01-10 14:00 | FL
2pm ET | 1pm CT | 11am PT
Reading at the (Art)Table is ArtTable’s Northern California chapter book club that has gone virtual to stay connected during the pandemic. We engage in conversations about art, culture, criticism, and contemporary challenges. For this session, will be reading and discussing “Video Art — The First Fifty Years” by pioneering video art curator, Barbara London. Tracing the history of the medium and the broader field of media art, we look forward to a lively discussion of development and transformation.
This program is for ArtTable members only. Not a member? Join today!
How to take part:

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Virtual | AT Connect with Marika Kuźmicz
2021-01-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s AT Connect program series allows and encourages members to network, connect, and ask questions outside of their regular areas of expertise. In this session we will hear from art historian, curator, researcher, and publicist, Marika Kuźmicz, who is currently working on an online database highlighting the lives and work of overlooked female artists. You can read more about the database here.

Tickets are $10. Member tickets are $5. Not a member? Join today!
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.

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

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

Virtual | Curatorial Perspective: 'Betye Saar: Call and Response'
2021-01-14 12:00 | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s Curatorial Perspective program series invites curators to present and discuss timely exhibitions and initiatives. Please join us for a discussion with Carol S. Eliel, Senior Curator of Modern Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Rachel Federman, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawings at The Morgan Library & Museum, about the exhibition, Betye Saar: Call and Response, currently on view at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York.
Tickets are $10. Member tickets are $5. Not a member? Join today!
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About the Speakers
Rachel Federman is Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawings at The Morgan Library & Museum. Before joining The Morgan in 2016, she was Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture at SFMOMA, where she helped organize the retrospective Bruce Conner: It’s All True. She also curated the museum’s inaugural galleries of California art. Since arriving at The Morgan, she has curated By Any Means: Contemporary Drawings from The Morgan (2019) and Drawing the Curtain: Maurice Sendak’s Designs for Opera and Ballet (2019). She has published essays on Bruce Conner, Richard Diebenkorn, Paul McCarthy, Allen Ruppersberg, and Andy Warhol, among others. Rachel holds a PhD in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

As Senior Curator of Modern Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Carol S. Eliel is involved with exhibitions and acquisitions of historical and living artists. Current and upcoming projects include Betye Saar: Call and Response (at LACMA earlier this year, on view now at The Morgan and traveling through 2021), which looks at the arc of Saar’s career through the lens of her sketchbooks; and Light, Space, Surface: Southern California Art from LACMA’s Collection (2021-22, traveling), both with publications. The Saar catalogue received the 2020 Publication Award for Excellence by the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC). She previously co-organized Moholy-Nagy: Future Present (2016-17) with the Guggenheim and the Art Institute of Chicago. Carol has recently spearheaded acquisitions by Betye Saar, Fred Eversley, Maren Hassinger, Mildred Howard, Lari Pittman, Alison Saar, and others. She conceived and produced the core twenty of LACMA’s Artists on Art series of short, web-based videos featuring artists speaking about a specific work in LACMA’s encyclopedic collections. She started at LACMA as a curatorial assistant, having received her BA from Yale and her MA and PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. In 1999 Carol was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) by the French government. She served as President of the AAMC from 2011-2013 and was a Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow in 2015.
Thank you to Annette Blaugrund, ArtTable Board President, for helping to make this program possible.

Image: Installation photograph, Betye Saar: Call and Response, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 22, 2019 – March 14, 2020, © Betye Saar, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Virtual | Curating Under Covid, with Adrienne L. Childs, Laura Roulet, & Sarah Tanguy
2021-01-15 12:00 | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, curators have struggled to continue their work with artists and arts organizations and to find new ways to bring exhibitions to the public. Washington, D.C.-based independent curators Adrienne L. Childs, Laura Roulet, and Sarah Tanguy have each opened exhibits amid the crisis. Despite the shutdown, they have been able to organize exhibitions at The Phillips Collection, Brentwood Arts Exchange, and the Kreeger Museum. Childs, Roulet, and Tanguy will share their experiences in maintaining and evolving their practices during these trying times.
Tickets are $5 for ArtTable members. Not a member? Join today!
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Accessibility: Please note that this program will offer live closed captioning. If you require additional accommodations, please email programs@arttable.org.

About the Speakers
Adrienne L. Childs, Ph.D., is an independent scholar, art historian, and curator. She is an associate of the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center at Harvard University. She was recently a guest curator of The Phillips Collection exhibit, “Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition.” The exhibit presents the works of 20th to 21st century African American artists alongside the examples of 20th-century art that inspired those American artists. Childs was also a curator at the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland.
Laura Roulet is an independent curator and writer in the DC metropolitan area and specializes in contemporary and Latin American art. She has organized exhibitions in Mexico, Puerto Rico and the U.S. including at the OAS Art Museum of the Americas, the American University Museum, the Mexican Cultural Institute, Hillyer Art Space, WPA, Arlington Arts Center, and the DC Art Center. Roulet is a frequent contributor to Sculpture magazine. Her other publications include many catalog essays, encyclopedia entries, articles in American Art, Art Journal and Art Nexus. In the fall of 2020, Brentwood Arts Exchange exhibited her most recent exhibition, “Mothering in a World Turned Upside Down.” The exhibit focused on visual embodiments of motherhood during a time of social, physical, and economic uncertainty.
Sarah Tanguy is a Washington, DC-based independent curator and arts writer. From 2004-2019, Tanguy was also a curator for Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State, where she curated over 100 exhibitions and 12 permanent collections for U.S. diplomatic facilities overseas. She has also worked at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Gallery, The Tremaine Collection, the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, and The Hechinger Collection. Her exhibit “TRACES” is currently on display at the Kreeger Museum and each artwork featured in the exhibition explores the many meanings of the word “trace.”
Image: Roxana Alger Geffen, Complicated Presence (Covid Coat), 2020

Virtual | Collection Visit with Laura Blanco
2021-01-22 12:00 | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
This virtual collection visit program is free for ArtTable Circle Members and $10 for all other members. Click here to learn more about ArtTable’s membership levels.
How it works:
You will receive access to a recorded collection visit in advance of the live program on January 22. The collector creates this recording exclusively for ArtTable members, so please do not share or rerecord this video. Members are then invited to attend a live virtual discussion with the collector led by ArtTable’s Executive Director, Jessica Porter, to learn more and ask questions.
How to take part:

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Laura Blanco is a pro-bono advisor to museums and institutions on matters of governance, ethics and development. She was a producer in the entertainment industry for over twenty years.
Ms. Blanco has served on numerous boards and committees within the areas of architecture, music, theater and fine arts. She and her husband have been collecting art by Cuban American artists for over 25 years and are the founders of the In Art We Trust Foundation and Museum.
Ms. Blanco is currently the founding board chair serving the Arts Museum of the Americas, in Washington, DC. The museum is the first institution in the United States to hold a collection of modern and contemporary Latin American art.

Image: At home with Laura Blanco; artwork is by Demi (Camagüey, Cuba, 1955), The Execution (1994-2014). Oil on canvas, 60” x 82”.

Virtual | The Contemporary Art Landscape in Israel, with curator Rotem Ruff
2021-01-26 10:00 | Zoom
10am ET | 9am CT | 7am PT
Join us for a live discussion with Tel-Aviv-based Rotem Ruff, Associate Director of Artis, who will present an overview of the contemporary art landscape in Israel, with an emphasis on major museums, mid-size art institutions, alternative spaces, and residencies.
Tickets are $10. Member tickets are $5. Not a member? Join today!
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Accessibility: Please note that this program will offer live closed captioning. If you require additional accommodations, please email programs@arttable.org.

About Rotem Ruff
Rotem Ruff is the Associate Director of Artis, Tel Aviv and is Heading the Office of International Academic Affairs at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, where she is also a lecturer. During her decade-long stay in New York, she earned her B.A. and M.A. in Art History at Hunter College and held positions in various institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). In Israel, she worked as a curator at the Haifa Museum of Art and has organized public programs and curated numerous exhibitions in leading museums and various cultural venues.
Rotem is the co-founder and co-director of REACTIK, an International Erasmus+ Jean-Monnet Network, researching EU Cultural Diplomacy and Policy. Rotem served on the International Council of the renowned television series Art21, the Israeli Lottery Committee for the Arts, the International Exposure dance festival, and DocAviv film festival.
About Artis
Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from Israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. Artis was founded in 2004 by philanthropist Rivka Saker with the goal of amplifying international recognition of artists from Israel. Starting off as a series of public events timed with New York’s Armory Show, the organization’s scope expanded to include programs that invest in artists and cultural exchange. We raise our annual budget without governmental funds through the generosity of individuals and foundations that share our values. Artis is based in New York and Tel Aviv.
Thank you to Michelle Perr from ArtTable’s New York Chapter, Hillit Zwick, Executive Director of Artis, and Rotem Ruff for organizing and participating in this program.

Image: Rotem Ruff

Virtual | AT Connect with Aubrey Catrone
2021-01-27 12:00 | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s AT Connect program series encourages members to network, connect, and ask questions outside of their regular areas of expertise. In this session we will hear from Aubrey Catrone, an international art historian, appraiser, and provenance researcher. Aubrey is also a member of ArtTable’s New York Chapter.
Tickets are $10. Member tickets are $5. Not a member? Join today!
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About Aubrey
Aubrey Catrone is an international art historian, appraiser, and provenance researcher. Aubrey earned an MA in History of Art from University College London, specializing in the documented histories of art objects and is a member of the Appraisers Association of America. With an art gallery and academic research background, Catrone founded Proper Provenance, LLC to provide her clients with the tools, not only to historically contextualize art, but also to shed light on attribution and legal title within the international art market.
Catrone has researched artworks, paintings, artefacts, works on paper, prints, and sculptures spanning the fourth century B.C. to the twenty-first century A.D. She continues to volunteer with the Cultural Plunder by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg: Jeu de Paume Database.

Images:
Aubrey Catrone, courtesy of the speaker
Are you interested in participating in an AT Connect program? Email programs@arttable.org for more information!

Virtual | Artist Talk with Hiba Schahbaz
2021-01-29 12:00 | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s Artist Talk series is made possible by the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Originally formatted as in-person Artist Breakfasts, ArtTable has moved all programming into the virtual realm during the pandemic. Please join us for a virtual Artist Talk with Hiba Schahbaz.
Tickets are $10. Member tickets are $5. Not a member? Join today!
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About Hiba Schahbaz
Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Hiba Schahbaz is a Brooklyn-based figurative painter who works primarily with paper, black-tea, and water based pigments. Her subjects, largely drawn from her lifelong practice of self portraiture, inhabit a dreamlike, all-female world. Schahbaz initially trained in Indo-Persian miniature painting at Lahore’s National College of Arts, and later earned a Master’s in Painting from Pratt Institute in New York. Her work addresses issues of personal freedom, destruction, sexuality and censorship by unveiling the beauty, fragility and strength of the female form.
Her solo shows include Dreaming (De Buck Gallery 2020), In Solitude (De Buck Gallery, 2020), The Garden (Spring/Break Art Show, 2018), Hiba Schahbaz: Self-Portraits (Project for Empty Space, 2017), Hanged With Roses (Thierry Goldberg Gallery, 2015), and In Memory (Noire Gallery, 2012). Schahbaz has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including a recent show curated by Jasmine Wahi in Tokyo, “all the women. in me. are tired.”, at THE CLUB, as well as exhibitions at NiU Museum of Art, The Untitled Space, and Center for Book Arts; and has shown at art fairs such as Pulse Art Fair, Untitled Art Fair, Art Fair Cologne, and Vienna Fair.
Publications like Vice, Hyperallergic, The Huffington Post, Coveteur, Vogue, NY Magazine, Art Critical, ArtForum, Bomb Mag, Paper, and others have written about Hiba’s work. Schahbaz has curated painting exhibitions in Pakistan and India, and she was an artist-in-residence at Mass MoCA, The Wassaic Project, Vermont Studio Center, and the Alfred Z. Solomon Residency at the Tang Museum. She teaches miniature painting at the Art Students League in New York, and her work is held in private collections around the world.
(Bio adapted from De Buck Gallery press release, 2020)
This program is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation has been a leader in providing grants enabling emerging and established artists to focus on their work. Funding helps artists to create new work, acquire art supplies, rent studio space, and prepare exhibitions. The Foundation also provides grants to organizations that directly engage with artists, such as artist residency programs. Please visit www.pkf.org for more information.

Image Credits

Hiba Schahbaz in her studio in Brooklyn, NY.
Inside Hiba’s studio; photo by Meiying Thai

Virtual | Collection Visit with Ellen Cantrowitz
2021-02-03 12:00 | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
This virtual collection visit program is free for ArtTable Circle Members and $10 for all other members. Click here to learn more about ArtTable’s membership levels.
How it works:
You will receive access to a recorded collection visit in advance of the live program on February 3. The collector creates this recording exclusively for ArtTable members, so please do not share or rerecord this video. Members are then invited to attend a live virtual discussion with the collector led by ArtTable’s Executive Director, Jessica Porter, to learn more and ask questions.
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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Ellen Cantrowitz has been collecting art since graduating from college. She collects paintings, sculpture, and drawings from the second half of the 20th century and the 21st century. She is also a private art dealer of international art, for the past three decades. She was a member of the Bronx Museum’s Acquisitions Committee, and Education Committee until 2017. Ellen is also a member of the Acquisitions Committee at the Parrish Art Museum in Watermill, NY, and a supporter of various exhibitions and rehangings at that museum. She is a devoted ArtTable member for the past 16 years. Ellen is also a member of the Cultivist art group.

Image: Artwork by Otto Piene & Jay De Feo

Virtual | DC Chapter Leadership Award Ceremony Honoring Kim Sajet
2021-02-03 17:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
In recognition of her significant achievements as the first woman director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, ArtTable DC honors Kim Sajet with the 2020 Chapter Leadership Award. Please join us in celebrating this occasion virtually. Dr. Johnetta Cole, our 2018 recipient, will present the award to Ms. Sajet.
This event was postponed from March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Please email dc@arttable.org to confirm whether you would like to use your original registration for the new event or if you would prefer to credit your ArtTable account for future programming (credit can only be used through March 31, 2021).
This event is for ArtTable members only. Click here to see who’s already registered! Not an ArtTable member? Join today!
Ticket Information:

$40 – General Admission

Please note, your ticket purchase directly supports the DC chapter’s Faith Flanagan Fellowship Program. This annual program provides mentorship, resources, and a stipend to three DC-area women working in the visual arts. The Fellowship Program focuses on the empowerment and growth of the next generation of arts leaders by building relationships and offering progressive programming. Your support of this event enables the DC Chapter to continue offering this incredible Fellowship Program. THANK YOU.
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As the first woman to serve as director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Kim Sajet (pronounced Say-et) has been exploring new ways to place personal experience and creativity at the center of learning and civic awareness. Not just a place to see famous Americans, the museum explores identity as a social construct that has been shaped in equal measure by opportunity and ability, prejudice and fear. By taking a cross-disciplinary approach that merges the traditional forms of painting, sculpture, drawing and printmaking with poetry, installation art, video and performance, Sajet aims to bring history alive.
Before her current appointment, Sajet was the president and CEO of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the vice president and deputy director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the director of corporate relations at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Before arriving in the United States with her family in 1997, she served first as curator and then director of two Australian art museums from 1989 – 1995.
Born in Nigeria, raised in Australia, and a citizen of the Netherlands, Sajet brings a global perspective to the position. She earned a master’s degree in art history from Bryn Mawr College, a master’s degree in business administration from Melbourne University Business School in Australia, a bachelor’s degree in art history from Melbourne University, and a graduate diploma in Museum studies from Deakin University in Australia. She has completed arts leadership training at the Harvard Business School, the Getty Institute and National Arts Strategies.
In addition to 20 years of arts management experience, Sajet has written a number of scholarly publications, curated exhibitions and spoken at academic symposia around the world. Her current interests include the June 2019 study of identity politics, role-playing in online virtual worlds and the significance of celebrity in American history. She is also the host of the Portrait Gallery’s new podcast series, “Portraits,” exploring themes of art, history and biography.
Thank you to Ruth Abrahams, Caitlin Berry, Alexa Kaye and Maria Sancho-Arroyo for organizing this program.
Hosted By:

Alexa Kaye
Alice Dow Walker
Anne M. Lampe
Beverly Carol With
Brandon B. Fortune
Brigitte Reyes
Carolyn K Carr
Charlotte Ickes
Concetta M Duncan
Dorothy Kosinski
Gay P Hanna
La’Tasha Nicole Banks
Laura Roulet
Lauren Jensen
Maria Sancho-Arroyo
Marlene Rothacker Harrison
Mary Early
Renee Y Sandell
Ruth Abrahams
Sarah Courtney
Sarah Tanguy
Shelley R. Langdale
Terry Dudnick Taffer
Victoria L. Reis

Image: Grace Roselli, Pandora’s BoxX Project

Virtual | DC BreakfastTable with Jaynelle Hazard
2021-02-05 08:30 - 09:30 | Zoom
8:30am ET| 7:30am CT
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for a presentation and conversation with Jaynelle Hazard, Executive Director & Curator of the newly rebranded Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art. Jaynelle will discuss how the Greater Reston Arts Center repositioned and transformed into Tephra ICA as the institution’s programs, audience, and impact had drastically evolved over the past several years.
This program is free for ArtTable members only. Members may bring one guest for an additional $5. Not a member? Join today!
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About Jaynelle Hazard
Prior to joining Greater Reston Arts Center, Jaynelle Hazard was the Director of Exhibitions at Workhouse Art Center. There she developed, implemented, and oversaw contemporary art programming initiatives. In previous roles, she supported various art programs and worked with some of the most celebrated artworks by supporting the corporate contemporary art collection at UBS, the Union Bank of Switzerland, and via her work at Blank Projects, a contemporary art gallery in Cape Town, South Africa. Significant milestones throughout Hazard’s career include producing more than 75 exhibitions in turn providing opportunities to more than 200 artists, introducing the first outdoor mural project and festival in the Northern Virginia region, and partnering with the Smithsonian American Art Museum in leading the conference, State of Art 5/DC.
Jaynelle Hazard relocated to Washington, DC from New York in 2017 where she earned a Master of Arts degree at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. She currently serves as the Co-Chair for the Washington, DC Chapter of Sotheby’s Institute of Art Alumni and Chair of the Faith Flanagan Fellowship for ArtTable’s DC Chapter.
As the Executive Director and Curator of Tephra ICA, Jaynelle builds a critically engaged practice by introducing methods to advance scholarship; extending reach in interdisciplinary experimentation of contemporary art and ideas; as well as engaging audiences of all backgrounds and identities. With a curatorial foundation and leadership style rooted in care, Hazard is a catalyst and serves as a bridge between the public and the most innovative art of our time.
About Tephra ICA
Tephra ICA is a non-profit, non-collecting institution committed to promoting innovative contemporary art and thinking. Leading with curiosity and care, the organization is a catalyst, generator, and advocate for visual arts. The institution is devoted to celebrating artists. It values the power of art to broaden and shift perspectives, start difficult conversations, and consider alternative ideas.
Thank you to ArtTable’s Washington, D.C. Chapter for organizing this program.

Image: Jaynelle C. Hazard

Virtual | DC Around the Table Book Group with Carolyn Kinder Carr
2021-02-22 19:00 | Zoom
7pm ET | 6pm CT | 4pm PT
Join ArtTable’s Washington, D.C. Chapter for an Around the Table Book Group. This program is open to all ArtTable members and meets four times a year; participants can join for one book or for all!
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For the first Around the Table Book Group of 2021, we will discuss “Sara Tyson Hallowell: Pioneer Curator and Art Agent in the Gilded Age” by ArtTable DC member Carolyn Kinder Carr. Carr will be joining us to present her book and take part in engaging conversation.
Sara Tyson Hallowell: Pioneer Curator and Art Agent in the Gilded Age

This biography tells the story of Philadelphia-born Sara Tyson Hallowell (1846-1924). Hallowell made her reputation in Chicago in the 1880’s organizing exhibitions for that city’s Inter-state Industrial Expositions. Impressed with her knowledge of art and the art market, Bertha and Potter Palmer sought her advice. Hallowell’s enthusiasm for the work of Monet, Renoir, Sisley, and Pissarro led them to form one of the earliest collections of French Impressionism in America, notable examples of which are today at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Disappointed that her gender prevented her from becoming director of art at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition, Hallowell nevertheless created a critically successful exhibition for this mammoth fair. Following its close, Hallowell went to live in France. From 1894 to 1914, she selected paintings of American artists living abroad for annual exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago. Mary Cassatt and Auguste Rodin were among her many Parisian friends.
Hallowell’s pioneering work as a curator and art advisor provided a model for women seeking to enter these professions previously the prerogative of men.

Carolyn Kinder Carr is the Deputy Director of the National Portrait Gallery and the author of “Gaston Lachaise: Portrait Sculpture” (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985).
Thank you to Ruth Abrahams, ArtTable DC Committee Member at Large for organizing this program.

Image: “Sara Tyson Hallowell: Pioneer Curator and Art Agent in the Gilded Age” by Carolyn Kinder Carr

Virtual | DC BreakfastTable with Rayna Andrews
2021-03-05 08:30 - 09:30 | Zoom
8:30am ET| 7:30am CT
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for a BreakfastTable presentation and conversation with archivist Rayna Andrews.
This program is free for ArtTable members and $5 for non-members. Not a member? Join today!
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About Rayna Andrews
Rayna Andrews is the Archivist for the Henry Luce Foundation African American Collecting Initiative at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, where she primarily processes collections related to African American art and artists.
Andrews has a background in inclusion, intersectionality, and accessibility relative to archival collections, as well as to archival institutions and the field. Additionally, she currently serves on MARAC’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee and on the Steering Committee of the Women Archivists Section of the Society of American Archivists.
Thank you to Lily Siegel, ArtTable Washington, D.C. Chapter, for organizing this program.

Image: Rayna Andrews

Virtual | DC BreakfastTable with Alison McNeil
2021-04-09 08:30 - 09:30 | Zoom
8:30am ET| 7:30am CT
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for a presentation and conversation with Alison McNeil, Founder and Chief Creative Officer of McNeil Creative Enterprises.
This program is free for all ArtTable members. Members may bring 1 additional guest for $5.
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About Alison McNeil
Alison T. McNeil is a nationally recognized award-winning strategic thinker and creative entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in performing arts and education. She leads with the intention of creating resources, removing roadblocks and designing roadmaps to make arts and culture accessible to all. Alison’s work has addressed the blind spots that perpetuate the disparities in funding, hiring, and operational practices with and for Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) arts administrators. Alison’s work is rooted in arts advocacy and is at the intersection between philanthropy, strategy and justice. She has led multi-million-dollar change efforts, therefore directly informing policy, grant-making, and strategic partnerships.
Her efforts have fortified leadership and secured grants, and as a result expanded equity and access for women, emerging leaders and communities of color. Every effort she’s contributed to is in service to the communities noted above including launching McNeil Creative Enterprises and co-founding Third Eye Cultural Collaborative, Women of Color in the Arts (WOCA), and the Maynor Biggers Artist Fund.
Alison’s talent has resulted in accolades both inside and outside of the arts and culture sector. She has served as a thought leader on numerous grant panels, boards, conference panels, and advisory committees including the National Endowment for the Arts, Americans for the Arts, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, as well as the Heinz Endowments, Association of Performing Arts Professionals, Step Afrika!, FRESHH Inc. Theatre Company, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Arts Council of Fairfax County, Alexandria Commission for the Arts and Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy. If you really want to get Alison to smile, ask her about her nephew or her favorite Stevie Wonder song.
About McNeil Creative Enterprises
McNeil Creative Enterprises (MCE) is an organizational development firm committed to improving company culture, reinvigorating program operations, igniting growth and facilitating change in the arts and culture sector. MCE provides tactical solutions that help their clients strategically position themselves to achieve their goals. MCE removes the roadblocks and creates roadmaps. This contributes to healthy work environments, increased access to funding and opportunity, and holistic programming.
Thank you to Alissa Maru, ArtTable Washington, D.C. Chapter, for organizing this program.

Image: Alison McNeil

Virtual | DC BreakfastTable with Nancy Miyahira & Deirdre MacWilliams
2021-05-06 08:30 | Zoom
8:30am ET| 7:30am CT
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for May’s Breakfast Table with Nancy Miyahira, Vice President & Marketing Director for the Georgetown Business Improvement District (BID), and Deirdre Ehlen MacWilliams, public art manager and curator of Georgetown GLOW. Now in its 7th edition, GLOW is an outdoor public light-based art experience featuring local, national, and international artists. Nancy and Deirdre will give presentations and talk about the history and vision of GLOW. They will also tell us about current GLOW artworks and artists.
This program is free for all ArtTable members. Members may bring 1 additional guest for $5.
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About Nancy Miyahira

Nancy Miyahira is the Vice President & Marketing Director for the Georgetown Business Improvement District (BID), where she has overseen the creation and growth of new experiences to attract visitors to one of D.C.’s most historic districts since 2009. In 2014, she and the BID team began to delve into public art as a placemaking initiative for the commercial district. They launched D.C.’s first free, curated, outdoor Light Art exhibition, Georgetown GLOW. GLOW started as a three-night experience with five art installations. It has since grown over six years to a month-long exhibition with 11 installations in 2019.
After a pause in 2020 due to the pandemic, GLOW is back in spring and summer 2021 as a two-part, six-month exhibition with eight installations featuring many local artists. In addition to working on public art initiatives, Nancy and her team oversee marketing strategy, events and communications to promote Georgetown as a destination to local, national and international visitors. Nancy believes in the accessibility and power of public art, and hopes that BID can be a catalyst for increasing opportunities for all. One of her most memorable public art experiences is Desert X 2019 in the Coachella Valley. One of her favorite museums is the Honolulu Museum of Art.
Nancy has over 20 years of experience in marketing – primarily in the retail and real estate industries. Prior to joining the BID, she served in marketing leadership roles for Nordstrom’s East Coast region. There she worked to launch Nordstrom stores in over 20 new markets; The Mills Corporation (national retail REIT acquired by Simon Property Group) – leading the branding for the regional mall portfolio; and Duke Realty Corporation (national office REIT) – overseeing marketing of office and industrial properties in four East Coast markets. Nancy has an MBA in Marketing from the George Washington University, and currently serves on the Board of STABLE Arts in Eckington, D.C. Originally from Honolulu, Hawaii, Nancy lives in Woodley Park, D.C. with her husband and two silly beagles.

About Deirdre MacWilliams

Deirdre MacWilliams brings passion, effective oversight and management skills to large- and small-scale public art projects. Since 2005, Deirdre has collaborated with design professionals, community members, government colleagues and artists to develop public art for Washington, D.C. and Arlington, Virginia.
Deirdre serves as public art project manager for Arlington’s nationally renowned Public Art program. She develops and manages County-initiated projects and advises on various public art and design enhancement requests. Prior to joining Arlington, Deirdre worked as the public art coordinator for the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) and for Weitzman Studios.
Deirdre also works independently on creative projects and initiatives. She has been the curator of Georgetown GLOW since 2014. She was the co-curator for What’s Going on Voices of Shaw in 2016 and in 2015 she was a project manager for Finding a Line, working with local artist and skateboarder Ben Ashworth and the Kennedy Center. In 2014, Deirdre was the curator for the Foggy Bottom Sculpture Biennial and in 2014 and 2012 was the producer for DCCAH’s temporary public art program 5×5.
Deirdre received her BA in Art History from The George Washington University and an MA from the Fashion Institute of Technology in Art Market Studies, and currently serves on the board of Washington Project for the Arts. Originally from Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., she lives on Capitol Hill, D.C. with her husband, four-year-old son and super sweet Pitbull mix.
About The Georgetown Business Improvement District (BID)
The Georgetown BID is a city chartered private non-profit organization who focuses on managing the commercial district of the historic neighborhood of Georgetown. It is one of eleven BIDs in Washington, D.C., and the fourth largest, with an annual budget of $4.5 million and 850+ business members. Membership consists of local, national and international retailers, restaurateurs, real estate developers and corporations. The BID’s property owners and merchants established, funded and founded the BID in 1999. They work to protect and enhance the accessibility, attractiveness and overall appeal of Georgetown. The BID is governed by a 24-member Board of Directors and works with city agencies of the District of Columbia on issues of concern to the business district. Major program areas for the BID are: Streetscape, Street Services, Public Safety, Transportation, Economic Development, Placemaking and Marketing.
Thank you to Concetta Duncan, Head of Communications at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, for organizing this program.

Images:

Snapshot from Georgetown GLOW, 2019
Nancy Miyahira, courtesy of the speaker
Deirdre MacWilliams, courtesy of the speaker

Virtual | DC Around the Table Book Group - Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama
2021-05-25 19:00 | Zoom
7pm ET | 6pm CT | 4pm PT
Join ArtTable’s Washington, D.C. Chapter for an Around the Table Book Group. This program is open to all ArtTable members and meets four times a year; participants can join for one book or for all!
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For the second DC Around the Table Book Group of 2021, we will discuss “Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama.”

In 1957, encouraged by Georgia O’Keeffe, artist Yayoi Kusama left Japan for New York City to become a star. By the time she returned to her home country in 1973, she had established herself as a leader of New York’s avant-garde movement, known for creating happenings and public orgies to protest the Vietnam War and for the polka dots that had become a trademark of her work. Her sculptures, videos, paintings, and installations are to this day included in major international exhibitions.

Thank you to Ruth Abrahams, ArtTable DC Committee Member at Large and ArtTable VP of Chapter Leadership for organizing this program.

Image: Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama

DC | MeetAT at Tudor Place
2021-06-09 18:00 - 19:15 | Tudor Place, 1644 31st St NW, Washington, DC, DC, 20001
Enjoy a glass of wine and the company of old and new friends at the DC chapter’s first in-person program in over a year! Learn about Tudor Place’s history with a brief welcome from their Executive Director Mark Hudson, a private tour of their gardens, and meet our Faith Flanagan Fellows 2021 Cohort!
Due to social distancing requirements, registration for this program is limited to 30 attendees. Waitlisted registrants will be notified if space becomes available.
This program is free and open to ArtTable members only.
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Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed. While masks are no longer mandated by the CDC for fully vaccinated individuals, Tudor Place continues to enforce Health and Safety Guidelines that require all visitors aged 3 and over to wear a mask at all times. Masks will not be provided. Anyone without a mask will not be admitted to the program. There will be no exceptions.

Thank you to Caitlin Berry, Co-chair of ArtTable’s DC Chapter, as well as Janet Wall, Director of Development & Communications at Tudor Place, for organizing this program.

Image: Tudor Place Historic House & Garden

DC | BreakfastTable with Allison Nance & Teddy Rodger
2021-06-10 09:00 | Plain Sight, 3218 Georgia Avenue NW, Washington, DC, DC, 20010, United States
9am ET
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for June’s BreakfastTable featuring Allison Nance and Teddy Rodger, co-founders and curators of Plain Sight, an independent exhibition space born out of the many art space closures during the Covid-19 pandemic. Guests will gather in front of Plain Sight and learn more about Allison and Teddy’s partnership and concept behind Plain Sight, and about their current exhibition by Lee Nowell-Wilson. After, we will walk one block to Doubles Cafe for a Dutch Treat-style breakfast and conversation outdoors on their large covered patio.
This program is free for all ArtTable members. Members may bring 1 additional guest for $5.
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About Allison Nance
Allison Nance has over 15 years of leadership experience in arts non-profit management for the visual arts. She is deeply dedicated to supporting and empowering artists as leaders, and elevating cultural exchange opportunities both abroad and locally. In addition to co-founding and curating Plain Sight, Allison is the Managing Director of The Nicholson Project, an Artist Residency Program and exhibition space in Washington, DC. She is also the curator of exhibitions at Culture House DC.
Previously, Allison was the Director of Hillyer Art Space (IA&A at Hillyer) from 2013-2020 where she facilitated a robust schedule of artist selection and mentorship, organizing and curating over 30 exhibitions and 85+ public programs annually. She fostered initiatives and key partnerships throughout DC and the surrounding region and broadened artist-focused projects between Washington, DC, and international counterparts. Allison currently serves on the Alexandria Commission for the Arts and the Washington Sculptors Group Advisory Board. She is the Programs Chair for ArtTable’s DC Chapter Executive Committee.
About Teddy Rodger
Teddy Rodger specializes in program development within the cultural sector. She delivers high-quality and thoughtful initiatives and events that connect communities around the world through the arts. She is well-versed in launching large-scale and internationally-focused arts events, fellowships, and collaborative projects that elevate organizational mission and presence on a global scale. In addition to co-founding and curating Plain Sight, Teddy is a Program Manager for the Goethe Institute. There she manages Shaping the Past, a partnership between the Goethe-Institut, Monument Lab, and the German Federal Agency for Civic Education. The partnership connects memory workers in North America and Germany to deliver public programs and a multi-city, international exhibition.
She was the Public Engagement and Events Manager at IA&A at Hillyer before its pandemic related closure in May 2020. Before that, Teddy worked as the Programs Manager at Georgetown’s The Lab for Global Performance and Politics, as well as the Producer of their international Cross-Currents festival. Amongst others, previous experience includes Assistant to Playwrights Charles L. Mee and Michi Barall, and Associate Director of Audience Development and Promotions at the hakespeare Theatre Company.

Thank you to Allison Nance, DC Chapter, for organizing this program.

Images:

Teddy Rodgers headshot courtesy of District Fray Magazine, photo by Rick Kessler Photography.

Virtual | Speed Networking - DC Chapter Faith Flanagan Fellows
2021-06-15 18:00 | Zoom
6pm ET | 5pm CT | 3pm PT
Join ArtTable DC for an opportunity to meet and support the 2021 Faith Flanagan Fellows in a fun round of Speed Networking! Like Speed Dating, Speed Networking is an opportunity for brief face-to-face, virtual interactions designed to help the Fellows perfect their “30-second elevator pitch.” ArtTable members will provide feedback on their pitches and advance the next generation of arts leaders.
This program is Free for all ArtTable members. Not a member? Join today!
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Can’t join us for this event? Don’t worry, there will be plenty more opportunities to connect with members in the future! In the meantime, we hope you can join us for another upcoming virtual program or support other ArtTable initiatives!
Thank you to Jaynelle C. Hazard and Lily Siegel, ArtTable DC Faith Flanagan Fellowship Co-Chairs for organizing this program.

Image: ArtTable DC members and friends gathered online to honor Kim Sajet with the annual Chapter Leadership Award.

Virtual | DC BreakfastTable Special: Faith Flanagan Fellows
2021-07-02 08:30 - 09:30 | Zoom
8:30am ET
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for a presentation by the 2021 Faith Flanagan Fellows. For this special BreakfastTable, the Fellows will present their engagement projects undertaken over their course of the fellowship.
Learn more about Mehveş Lelic’s Choose-Your-Own-Adventure story titled, How to Curate an Exhibition. Sourced from anecdotes submitted anonymously by womxn working in the visual arts, the story leads the reader through a number of plot twists that either culminate in a successful or an unsuccessful exhibition. View the story here.
Johanna Obenda’s audio story profiles a handful of DC-area cultural practitioners who are working to reimagine cultural institutions and how we engage with visual arts in a variety of ways. Obenda engages healing artist Geo Edwards, Kristi Maiselman, Executive Director of Cultural DC, and Loretta Thompson, a visual artist and arts administrator for Sitar Arts Center who have each disrupted traditional approaches to arts engagement. Listen to the audio story here.
Susannah Stern hosts a conversation with Lena Galperina, Visitor Experience Director at ARTECHOUSE, Don Allen Stevenson III, Artist and XR Content Creator, and Charlotte Ickes, Curator of Time-Based Media and Special Projects, about their unique perspectives on immersive, technology-based art, opening the door to an honest look at the trend toward art as experience. Listen to the conversation here.
Special thanks to this year’s mentors: Nora Halpern, Victoria Reis, and Vesela Stretenovic.
This program is free for all ArtTable members. Members may bring 1 additional guest for $5.
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Thank you to Jaynelle C. Hazard and Lily Siegel, ArtTable DC Faith Flanagan Fellowship Co-Chairs, for organizing this program.

Images:

Top: Johanna Obenda; Bottom Left: Mehveş Lelic; Bottom Right: Susannah Stern

DC | BreakfastTable with Nicole Dowd
2021-09-10 08:00 - 09:00 | Washington, DC, Washington, DC, 20008
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for September’s “Dutch Treat” BreakfastTable with Nicole Dowd, Apple’s Head of Programming, Washington DC. She will be discussing her work supporting local artists, arts programming during a pandemic, and how globally-expansive work can evolve into hyperlocal initiatives. We will be holding this BreakfastTable program “en plein air” following local healthy and safety standards. This program is free and open to ArtTable members only.
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Accessibility:

The location for this program is wheelchair accessible.

Getting There:

This program will take place at SakuSaku Flakerie by Al Volo (3417 Connecticut Ave NW) in the Cleveland Park neighborhood.

About Nicole Dowd
Nicole Dowd moved to Washington, DC in 2005 and has spent the last decade falling in love with everything arts and culture in the District. This past February, she joined Apple as Head of Programming and is working on locally-impactful cultural programs and initiatives based out of Carnegie Library.
Previously Nicole was the Director of Arts Programs at Halcyon, an incubator for socially-conscious and civic-minded artists and social entrepreneurs. In 2017 she helped to launch Halcyon’s Arts Lab Fellowship program, which supports emerging artists and creators seeking to hone their artistic and entrepreneurial practices. Prior to her work at Halcyon, Nicole managed the Hamiltonian Artists Fellowship program. Her work focused on professional development and exhibition opportunities for DC-based emerging artists.
She received a master’s degree in exhibition design from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and studied fine art, art history, and journalism at The George Washington University.

Thank you to Ashley Templeton, ArtTable Washington DC Chapter Programs Committee Member, for organizing this program.

Images:

Nicole Dowd, courtesy of the speaker
