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National | Hamptons Fine Art Fair Membership Meet & Greet
2023-07-15 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Southampton Fairgrounds, 605 County Rd 39, Southampton, New York, 11968
Explore Hamptons Art Fair and mingle with ArtTable’s own Membership & Development Coordinator, Audra Lambert, during Saturday’s fair opening hours. This informal meet and greet will allow you VIP access to the fair, as well as offer the chance to meet other ArtTable members and prospective members, ask questions to get to know what’s coming up soon with ArtTable, and to learn more about how to take advantage of your own membership.
Discover an extraordinary collection of modern and contemporary art at the Hamptons Fine Art Fair. Explore a record-breaking 130 galleries from 14 countries with over 800 artists on display, from emerging to blue chip, with museum-level works by Picasso, Van Gogh, Matisse, Renoir, Pollock, Motherwell, Rockwell, Katz, Condo, and Warhol. The famous Astor Place Cube, generously loaned by New York City, takes center stage at SculptureHamptons. There is ample on-site parking for your convenience, ensuring a hassle-free visit.
You will receive VIP fair passes with your (complimentary) registration: they include entrance to the opening night reception: Thursday, July 13 from 6-9:30 PM at Vernissage.
Please note that our limited VIP passes are available for ArtTable Members only. Not a member? Join today!
PLEASE REGISTER NO LATER THAN 6:00 PM WEDNESDAY, JULY 12. WE ARE PROCESSING ALL FAIR PASSES ON THURSDAY MORNING IN TIME FOR OPENING NIGHT!

National | "for the sake of dancing in the street" at OXY ARTS Los Angeles
2023-07-20 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Oxy Arts, 4757 York Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90042
Join ArtTable for a tour of “for the sake of dancing in the street”—a group exhibition celebrating the interconnectedness of feminist and queer resistance in person at OXY ARTS Los Angeles. The exhibition features works by performance collaborative LASTESIS, Morehshin Allahyari, and Yasmine Nasser Diaz, in conversation with works by poet Ava Ansari and the Geochicas network, and documentation of resistance movements compiled by Caitlin Abadir-Mullally and Raja Bella Hicks. An original print by Entangled Roots Press is featured in the gallery space and available as a takeaway. Yasmine Nasser Diaz will speak about the exhibition. Meldia Yesayan, Director, and Frankie Fleming, Manager of Education and Community Engagement, will explain the unique mission of OXY ARTS as it relates to Occidental College and to the surrounding community. OXY ARTS is situated off-campus in a store-front building in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.

The exhibition and associated programming were conceived and organized in collaboration with OXY ARTS, LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division), and Yasmine Nasser Diaz.

Optional activities after the tour include staying for the gallery’s 6 pm screening of JOYLAND—an Urdu- and Punjabi-language film tackling gender and desire that was shortlisted in the Best International Feature Film category at the 95th Academy Awards, and won the Jury Prize and Queer Palm Prize at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Attendees are also welcome to continue networking while enjoying a “no-host” meal at a nearby restaurant.

Please note there is limited street parking; details are available on the OXY ARTS website here.

ArtTable Members $10
ArtTable Guests $15
Public $20

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Image: LANDOXY-For the Sake of Dancing Installation. Creator: Gina Clyne. Photo Credit: Gina Clyne Photography Copyright (c) Gina Clyne 2021.

Meldia Yesayan. Meldia is the Director of OXY ARTS, the multidisciplinary arts programming initiative at Occidental College. She oversees all aspects of the programming and development of OXY ARTS, including organizing all exhibitions and programs at the OXY ARTS center, facilitating visiting artist residencies such as the Wanlass Artist-in-Residence program, initiating cross-departmental and interdisciplinary collaborations, creating opportunities for student-curated events, and engaging the Occidental community in socially conscious discourse with contemporary arts practices. She is also responsible for developing meaningful and sustained relationships with the Los Angeles area arts communities, including partnerships with local arts agencies, artists and institutions.

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is a visual artist whose work frequently occupies the domestic sphere to explore the boundaries of cultural identity. Staging familial memories in nostalgic recreations of home, her work nods to both tradition and technological change and is often deftly punctured by powerful feminist and social critique. Using a variety of media from collage and fiber etching to video and immersive installation, she mines personal archives to probe the nuances of third-culture identity, often drawing upon the frictions experienced between the individual and the collective.

Yasmine’s work was recently featured at the Getty Center and is included in the collections of LACMA, UCLA, and the Arab American National Museum. She is the recipient of the Harpo Visual Artists Grant, the California Community Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship, and the University of Michigan Efroymson Visiting Artist Residency in Ann Arbor, MI. Yasmine lives and works in Los Angeles.

Frankie Fleming oversees education and community programming at OXY ARTS. She works with students, community partners, and faculty on collaborations with the surrounding community, including running the Community Studio K-12 after school art program, organizing workshops, field trips and community events. Before joining OXY ARTS in 2019, Frankie was the Director of Education at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock and a Teaching Artist at Southern Exposure. She brings her experience in art education to OXY ARTS’ LAUSD after school art program and internship program, which launched in 2021.

New York | A Day Upstate: Rita McBride at Dia Beacon | Mother Gallery, Garage Gallery, Analog Diary
2023-07-22 11:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | DIA Beacon, 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY, 12508
Join ArtTable members and guests for a day of art, walking, and networking during Upstate Art Weekend this July! It’s a perfect time to take a break from the city and connect with colleagues. Please note that this is a walking tour.

We’ll start the day at Dia Beacon, where Curator Alexis Lowry will guide us on a tour of “Rita McBride: Momentum.” McBride, renowned for her extensive body of work encompassing architecture, design, and public space, operates at the confluence of these disciplines. Her work predominantly revolves around creating expansive installations and large-scale works, and includes elements of performance, textual compositions, and smaller sculptural pieces. You’ll have a little time to explore other exhibits at Dia before joining the group on a shuttle to downtown Beacon.We’ll enjoy a delicious (Dutch treat) lunch at a Main Street restaurant. Just a few minutes away on foot, we’ll tour “Reclaimed,” at Garage Gallery with Co-Founder Susan Keiser. The exhibit features work by Laura Petrovich-Cheney, Jaynie Crimmins, and Rinat Goren. “‘Women’s work’ is such a loaded term—loaded with seemingly impossible to dislodge assumptions about who does what in this world and what it’s worth. Said dismissively, these two short words have the power to devalue the lives and work of half the population. Still. But said authoritatively, joyfully, hopefully, it can refer to the unheralded artists who have long woven and embroidered seemingly worthless scraps of everyday life into entirely new vocabularies of expression.”

Our next stop will be “Chromazones” at Analog Diary with Founding Partner Katharine Overgaard. “This show celebrates the myriad compositional, technical, and narrative possibilities achieved through color—painted, drawn, poured, and sculpted—and draws unexpected and generative through-lines between otherwise disparate artists and their works. Chromazones is fecund, life-affirming, and curious.” Featuring artists Latifa Alajlan, Polly Apfelbaum, Michael Berryhill, Eugene von Bruenchenhein, Julia Chiang, Martha Clippinger, Holly Coulis, Pam Glick, Tamara Gonzales, Clare Grill, Alteronce Gumby, Marcia Hafif, EJ Hauser, Andrew Masullo, John McAllister, Dan Miller, Ron Nagle, Ken Price, Julia Rommel, Sylvia Snowden, Emma Soucek, Tracy Thomason, Yukine Yanagi, and Kennedy Yanko.To finish the day, we’ll join Founder Paola Oxoa at MOTHER Gallery for “I AM THE PASSENGER Pt II” featuring artists Lisa Beck, Trudy Benson, Seth Cameron, Mariah Dekkenga, Stacy Fisher, Rico Gatson, Russell Tyler, and Susan Weil. I AM THE PASSENGER is an intergenerational group exhibition of non-objective painting, in two parts—acting as a looking glass for perceiving our current moment in time and place within the lineage of non-objective painting. We relate to non-objective painting in both corporeal and immaterial ways. Non-objective painting wants to stir something. Non-objective painting connects with our bodies. Severe yet playful, non-objective painting is evidence of the artist operating within a greater movement of creation. We bear witness to the journey of artist as passenger when we stand in view of non-objective painting. Non-objective painting is about feeling and perceiving in the body, it’s personal, it’s universal. Organized by Trudy Benson, Paola Oxoa, and Russell Tyler. Stay and socialize at the Upstate Art Weekend reception at MOTHER, explore on your own in downtown Beacon, or wrap up the day!

If you plan to make a night (or weekend) of it, Upstate Art Weekend has so much to offer. The fourth edition of UPSTATE ART WEEKEND, July 21-24, 2023, includes 130+ participants located in Columbia, Delaware, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester counties. Visit upstateartweekend.org for details.

Thanks to Margaret Graham for spearheading this event, and to Courtney Maier Burbela and Racine Berkow for their assistance!

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $25

ArtTable Member Guests – $35

Public – $40

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Please note that all income from program fees goes towards program expenses and ArtTable’s internal costs for organizing programs.

Detailed Itinerary:

Meet us at Dia Beacon at 11:00 amDia Beacon is located adjacent to the Beacon train station, which is served by Metro-North Railroad trains from Grand Central Terminal and Poughkeepsie. Trains run hourly in either direction during museum operating hours. For train information, visit www.mta.info. New York residents dial 511, all others dial toll-free 877 690 5114. For detailed train, driving, and parking instructions, see the Dia Beacon website. Dia Beacon is an 8-10 minute walk (1/2 mile) from the Metro-North Beacon Station.

11:15 am-12:00 pm Dia Beacon guided tour of “Rita McBride: Momentum” with Alexis Lowry12:00 pm-12:30 pm self-guided wander through Dia Beacon12:30 pm board the Beacon Free Loop Shuttle to Main Street (6 min)12:45-1:45 pm Dutch Treat/No Host lunch at a Main Street restaurant2:00-2:30 pm tour of “Reclaimed” at Garage Gallery with Susan Keiser2:45-3:15 pm tour of “Chromazones” at Analog Diary with Katharine Overgaard3:30-4:00 pm tour of “I Am the Passenger Pt II” at Mother Gallery with Paola Oxoa4:00 pm stay for Upstate Art Weekend Reception at Mother GalleryEnjoy more Upstate Art Weekend activities, or head home via the Beacon Shuttle to the train or the Dia Beacon parking lot.

Image: RITA MCBRIDE. Photo by Don Stahl. Courtesy of Dia Beacon 2023.

Alexis Lowry is curator at Dia Art Foundation, New York, where she is responsible for exhibitions, commissions, and public programs across Dia’s sites and locations. Lowry also oversees acquisitions and the permanent collection. At Dia Chelsea, she has curated new projects by Lucy Raven, Rita McBride, and Kishio Suga. At Dia Beacon, she organized the first North American retrospective of Charlotte Posenenske’s work, as well as installations by Mel Bochner, Mary Corse, Charles Gaines, Barry Le Va, Lee Ufan, Robert Morris, Michelle Stuart, and Anne Truitt.

Prior to joining Dia, she was curator of the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Providence, and a freelance project manager for Creative Time, New York. She has recently contributed to publications for Art Monthly, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Orlando, The Drawing Center, New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in addition to books produced by Dia. In 2021, Lowry was the first invited curator-in-residence at the Bauhaus Foundation in Dessau, Germany. She is on the board of directors for the Triple Aught Foundation and serves on the advisory council of The Great Northern, Minneapolis. She received her PhD from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts in 2019.

Paola Oxoa (b. 1979 Medellin, Colombia) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in New York, NY & Beacon, NY. Oxoa earned a BFA in experimental animation from Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design (Lakewood, CO). Working across media—themes of interconnectedness and transcendence permeate her work. Solo exhibitions include What the Thunder Said at Matteawan Gallery (Beacon, NY), Round Tripper at Stay Gallery (Denver, CO), The Mirror of Reason (2005) and TRUE LOVE (2004) at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, where she was awarded a residency and named the #1 NEW PICK (2004-5). Her work has been featured in Two Coats of Paint, NYLON, Art in America, Artillery Magazine, Rocky Mountain News, and The Denver Post, among other publications. Oxoa’s work is in the permanent collection of The Bass Museum of Contemporary Art (Miami, FL) and in prominent private collections.

Oxoa founded Mother, an artist-centered gallery, in the spring of 2018 in Beacon, NY. Oxoa has curated upwards of 25 solo, two-person, and group exhibitions at both gallery locations, off-site, and at significant art fairs including The Armory Show. Mother’s exhibitions have been featured or reviewed in publications including The New York Times, Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, Two Coats of Paint, Artnet, The Brooklyn Rail, and Whitewall. Oxoa was named one of six woman gallerists and curators defining the Hudson Valley art scene in 2019 by Chronogram Magazine. Oxoa serves on the board of the Children’s Museum of Arts in NYC.

Susan Keiser is a fine-art photographer and the cofounder of Garage Gallery, a contemporary fine arts gallery in Beacon, NY, exhibiting significant bodies of work by emerging and mid-career artists in a wide range of media. “Art needs space in the real world—a home in the heart of the community that’s larger than a studio but less rarified than a global gallery showroom. Artists need a place where they can find their audience without economic pressure—a point of entry between a phone app and a collector’s wall. Collectors need an environment that is welcoming and invites discovery, where they can always find a treasure to take home with them.”

Keiser’s photographic and curatorial work reflects her long experience in publishing, the arts, and horticulture. As Senior Editor at Oxford University Press she was responsible for establishing their academic and scholarly journals program in the United States, acquiring titles in fields ranging from cultural studies to financial economics and fine art to neuroscience.Deeply involved in gardening and the natural world, she was Manager of the Rock and Native Plant Gardens at The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY; Associate Director of the Garden Conservancy, Garrison, NY; and founder and principal of Greystone Gardens, Inc., a design-build firm working with private and corporate clients. Her gardens have been featured in the New York Times and Garden Design magazine, as well as in Japanese and German publications.

As an artist she has always been concerned with building large structures out of small units, entire worlds out of miniature elements. The recipient of an NEA grant she created site-specific installations commissioned by public and private institutions, including the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Rockefeller Center, New York, NY; and the International Design Conference in Aspen, CO. Keiser attended Pomona College and holds a BFA in painting from The Cooper Union and a diploma from The New York Botanical Garden School of Professional Horticulture.

Katharine Overgaard is a Founding Partner at Analog Diary (Beacon), and Director at Franklin Parrasch Gallery (New York). Her expertise lies in art writing and research, gallery and artist strategy, and collector and institutional relations. In spring 2022, she co-founded Analog Diary with fellow veteran art dealers Derek Eller, Abby Messitte, and Franklin Parrasch.

Analog Diary organizes exhibitions which reimagine what a gallery can show by collapsing boundaries and arbitrarily assigned categories. Analog Diary is a space where thinking about art without the mind clutter of an Instagrammable frame of reference is possible. Analog Diary is a Member of the New Art Dealers Alliance.

Overgaard has been an ArtTable member since 2022, was born and raised in Western Massachusetts’ Pioneer Valley. She earned a dual major B.A. in Studio Art and Art History from Drew University (Madison, NJ) and lives in Upper Manhattan.

Virtual | Meet the 2023 ArtTable Fellows!
2023-07-26 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | New York
9am PT / 10am MT / 11am CT / 12pm ET

Please join us for a virtual meet & greet with the 2023 ArtTable Fellows! This year ArtTable was able to award 20 fellowship positions to emerging professionals throughout the country, all thanks to generous donations from individuals, foundations, and corporations. The fellows will discuss their projects and their experience with the ArtTable Fellowship Program so far. This is a wonderful opportunity to meet our current fellowship cohort and learn more about the ArtTable Fellowship Program and the opportunities it provides to emerging professionals.

Through the generous support of individuals, foundations, corporations, and government agencies, ArtTable has supported 147 women-identifying and nonbinary fellows, partnered with a total of 78 leading art organizations nationwide so far, and dispersed over $451,000 since the Fellowship’s inception.

Registration for this program is free and open to all, with a suggested donation of $15.00 to continue to support the program. We hope to see you there!

Can’t make the program at this time? Register anyway to receive a recording after!

Please note that this program will offer automatic closed captioning services. If you require additional accommodations, please email programs@arttable.org.

About the ArtTable Fellowship Program
Established in 2000, the ArtTable National Fellowship provides quality real work experiences and mentorship to women-identifying and non-binary emerging professionals from backgrounds generally underrepresented in the visual arts field. During the paid, five-to-eight-week summer program, the fellows will work closely with established leaders in the field to gain exposure to a range of professional activities at leading museums and arts organizations. They also receive one-on-one mentoring from leading professionals who are ArtTable members and are specialized in their areas of interest.
The 2023 ArtTable Fellows
Inés Arango-Guingue | The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center | New York, NYSophie Bae | Capital One Art Program | Tysons, VATelease Bowen | VoCA (Voices in Contemporary Art) | New York, NYSandy Cheng | Tephra Institute of Contemporary Arts (Tephra ICA | Reston, VAAngella d’Avignon | Black Cube | Englewood, COYhanni Durdin-James | IBe’ Arts Institute | Hopewell, VAGreta Goldbart | Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art | New York, NYPhilana Li | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art | Kansas City, MOKarla Mendez | Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism | Los Angeles, CADarla Migan | The Morgan Library & Museum | New York, NYRebecca Miralrio | Museum of the City of New York | New York, NYJaBrea Patterson-West | Project for Empty Space | Newark, NJLibbi Ponce | Chrysler Museum of Art | Norfolk, VANadia Ramirez Estrada | Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)| Los Angeles, CAYunyao Que | Laumeier Sculpture Park | Sappington, MOKarina Teichert | Art Papers | Atlanta, GAStephanie Xiomara Tinsley | Carolee Schneemann Foundation | New Paltz, NYYaning Xing | Balboa Art Conservation Center | San Diego, CAFiona Yu | Amant | Brooklyn, NYSara Zielinski | A.I.R. Gallery | Brooklyn, NY
Click here to read more about the ArtTable Fellowship Program, the 2023 Fellows, and the projects they are working on this summer.
2023 Fellowship Supporters
ArtTable is grateful for our new supporter, SRI Fine Arts Services, and thanks its continued support from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Lenore G. Tawney Foundation, The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, Leon Polk Smith Foundation, Herschel Supply Co. and Capital One Art Program, among others, along with the invaluable support of individuals, including Lila Harnett, ArtTable’s founder and original donor of this program, and also the help of our Impact Initiatives Committee Members and Mentors involved in the program. A list of all supporters of the ArtTable Fellowship can be found here.
The “Meet the Fellows” program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
For more information on how to contribute to this program or to participate, visit arttable.org/impact.

To learn more about participating in this program as a Host Organization or Fellow, email smangaluz@arttable.org.

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National | ArtTable Reception at the 2023 Seattle Art Fair
2023-07-29 11:00 (America/New_York) | Seattle Art Fair, Lumen Field Event Center, 800 Occidental Ave S, Seattle, Washington, 98134, United States
Join ArtTable members from around the country for a private brunch reception in the VIP area of the Seattle Art Fair!

Brunch registration includes one Select VIP Pass which includes Select VIP Preview HoursThursday, July 27th, 2023: 5-6 pm and the opening evening 6-9 pm; as well as regular fair hours Friday, July 28th: 11 am-7pm; Saturday, July 29th: 11 am-7 pm; Sunday, July 30th: 11am-6 pm.Seattle Art Fair, a one-of-a-kind showcase for the vibrant arts community of the Pacific Northwest, and a leading destination for the best in modern and contemporary art, returns to the Lumen Field Event Center for its seventh edition in July 2023. Working alongside Beneficiary Partner Seattle Art Museum, Artistic Director Nato Thompson, and the fair’s dedicated Host Committee, the Seattle Art Fair, founded by the late Paul G. Allen, is a celebrated and productive week bringing together the region’s strong collector base, the Pacific Northwest’s top museums and institutions, and an array of innovative public programming.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $45

Member Guests- $65

Public-$70

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ArtTable is a 501.c.3 organization and all programs are non-refundable. Should a program be postponed by ArtTable for any reason, the purchaser’s ticket will be honored for the rescheduled program. Should a program be canceled and not rescheduled, the purchaser will receive credit to be used toward a future program. Please email programs@arttable.org with any questions.

About Kelly Freeman
Kelly Freeman directs AMP’s suite of art fairs, sourcing and placing domestic and international galleries. She develops special projects and exhibitions – opportunities to appeal to a high end, collecting audience, shaping unique spaces and events to retain visitors year after year. Kelly also oversees all marketing and communications, focusing on reaching the right audience for each event. Kelly also consults across AMP immersive events business, working to develop strong content and drive quality attendance.
Kelly previously worked with UBS and Citigroup’s Business Development Departments and has also managed the sales teams of several New York City contemporary art galleries.

Image: Courtesy of the Seattle art fair

Berkeley, CA | Reading at the (Art)Table: "The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington"
2023-08-13 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Gilman Grill, 1300 Fourth Street, Berkeley, California, 94710
The Northern California Chapter’s book club, Reading at the (Art)Table, will meet to discuss The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead. We hope you can join us at brunch for lively conversation and a view of this extraordinary life in art and world history! This story chronicles the development of a young woman artist at the heart of the surrealist movement in Europe prior to the outbreak of World War II with intimate recounting of dangers, mental illness, immigration, and rebuilding life and studio practice in Mexico.

“An intimate portrait of this wild child of surrealism and tells her fascinating story as recounted during a series of meetings in the later stages of her life.” —Tate etc.

This program is free to attend (optional donation) and open to ArtTable members.Registration is required below.

Not a member? Join today!

Image: Book cover of The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead.

New York | "Women Choose Women" at Frampton Co, Bridgehampton
2023-08-18 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Frampton Co, Exhibition The Barn | 141 Maple Lane, Bridgehampton, 11932
There’s still plenty of time to enjoy The Hamptons this summer! Join ArtTable at Exhibition The Barn—Frampton Co’s Fine Art space in Bridgehampton, New York. “Women Choose Women” spans the 1950s to today, including work by Lynne Drexler, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Nanette Carter, Elizabeth Osborne, and Susan Vecsey. This exhibition is curated by Christine Berry and Martha Campbell, co-founders of Berry Campbell, and Elena Frampton, principal of Frampton Co. Berry Campbell is known for bringing to light artists who were overlooked due to age, race, gender or geography, particularly women of Abstract Expressionism. Frampton Co focuses on contemporary art and design with emphasis on promoting emerging and undiscovered mid-career artists. We’ll enjoy a tour of the exhibition with Christine Berry & Elena Frampton, and then relax and network with a glass of Prosecco or seltzer, courtesy of the gallery.The exhibition “Women Choose Women” derives its name and curatorial focus from a significant event at the New York Cultural Center in 1973. Curated by Lucy Lippard and a committee of female artists, this groundbreaking exhibition marked the first major display of women artists in New York. It left a profound impact not only within the art community but also in society at large. The 2023 exhibition, bearing the same name, follows in the footsteps of its predecessor, embodying a collaborative and effective approach. It firmly believes that advocating for women in the arts remains just as vital today as it was half a century ago.Thank you to Courtney Burbela for her work on this event.Transportation to Bridgehampton is self-serve:Visit the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) website or Hampton Jitney website to book train or bus travel to Bridgehampton. (The train is approximately 2.5 hours from downtown Manhattan; bus and car vary according to traffic conditions. Please note that Friday evening commuter traffic can be heavy in the area.)The gallery is a 5-minute walk from the train and Jitney stops.Link to Google Maps

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $10

Member Guests – $20

Non-Members – $25

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Image: Ethel Schwabacher “Wild Honey” 1961. Oil on linen 84″ x 70″ (c) Estate of Ethel Schwabacher, courtesy of Berry Campbell.

About the Curators

(c) Blaine Davis Portrait. Martha Campbell, Christine Berry, Elena Frampton

Elena Frampton founded Frampton Co on Cinco de Mayo 2015, following nearly two decades at the helm of a successful bi-coastal design practice and honing her craft at some of New York’s most prestigious interior design firms. Through a wholly-integrated approach, Elena makes sense of every space and brings out its spirit. Her knack for clever solutions that strike a balance between pragmatism and personality draws even the most cautious of clients into her process.With an infectious enthusiasm for art and a rigorous understanding of design theory, she is an expert in creating consistently one-of-a-kind environments that transcend boundaries. Elena’s innate ability to shape space goes back to a childhood of balancing two worlds, between her maternal Mexican family in Los Angeles and the Midwestern farm on her father’s side. Her experience of navigating the desert landscapes of Arizona at college, with its bounty of interventions, inspires the construction of the layers and ‘reveals’ that characterize her design and curatorial practice. This, combined with her keen eye for detail, is key to the surprising combinations and unexpected applications that make her stand out as an unparalleled talent uniquely positioned in both the art and design worlds. Her curious nature and strong desire to forge connections fuels a constant search for new forms of creative expression. The vision culminates with Exhibition The Barn; the Bridgehampton gallery where she curates an ever-changing display of notable and under-the-radar works and her own original furnishings,F Collection.

Christine Berry and Martha Campbell opened Berry Campbell in the heart of Chelsea in 2013. The gallery has a fine-tuned program representing artists of post-war American painting that have been overlooked or neglected, particularly women of Abstract Expressionism. Since its inception, the gallery has developed a strong emphasis in research to bring to light artists overlooked due to age, race, gender, or geography. This unique perspective has been increasingly recognized by curators, collectors, and the press. Berry Campbell has been included and reviewed in publications such as Art in America, Artforum, Artnet News, Artnews, The Brooklyn Rail, Huffington Post, the New York Times, and Wall Street Journal.

New York | Annual Leadership Series: The Future of Gender-Based Organizations
2023-09-05 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | 22 Vanderbilt, 335 Madison Ave, New York, New York, 10017
Welcome to ArtTable’s 2023 Annual Leadership Series panel discussion on Tuesday, September 5 in New York City! “The Future of Gender Based Organizations” engages the arts and business communities in a critical examination of how organizations dedicated to addressing existing gender-based disparities in wages and opportunities can continue to research, advocate, network, and address inequities—particularly as the culture moves forward into a more evolved understanding of gender identity. In the panel discussion, we will consider the value and meaning of gender-based organizations, their changing roles, purposes, and goals, and the context and consequences of leading such organizations in a changing political and cultural moment. The program will continue to establish ArtTable as an advocate for equality within and beyond the art community. Our panel features: Alyssa Nitchun, Executive Director of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art; Subha V. Barry, President of Seramount; Alicin Williamson, Chief Diversity and Culture Officer, Yahoo!; and Jessica L. Porter, Lila Harnett Executive Director of ArtTable. Sociologist Dr. Gillian Gualtieri will moderate this important discussion. We’ll open with time to network and socialize over refreshments and light bites.This signature ArtTable program was initially launched in 2016, and since its inception, the series has been featured during Armory Show week, fostering engaging conversations among prominent women-identifying and nonbinary professionals. It has provided a platform for these influential voices to discuss the most pressing and relevant topics within our industries. We are proud to partner with the Women’s Forum of New York, a leading organization that is similarly committed to equity, advocacy, and community engagement. Women’s Forum Members can register here.

The program will be moderated by Dr. Gillian Gualtieri, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Barnard College, with panelists:

Subha V. Barry | President of Seramount

Alyssa Nitchun | Executive Director of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art

Alicin Williamson | Chief Diversity and Culture Officer of Yahoo!

Jessica L. Porter | Lila Harnett Executive Director of ArtTable

Admission:

ArtTable & Women’s Forum Members – $35

Non-members/Guests – $45

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REGISTER HERE

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 Speakers

Subha V. Barry is a C-suite leader and an Advisor who brings a unique perspective on the alignment of corporate culture to talent strategy and business results. As a transformational change agent, she has a proven record of identifying and accelerating new business creation, driving sales, and increasing profitability. She is president of Seramount, now part of EAB. Seramount is a strategic professional services firm dedicated to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace. Here, she drives the firm’s vision, strategy, and business development.

Prior to Seramount, Subha was SVP and Chief Diversity Officer at Freddie Mac, where she served on the firm’s management committee and led their Foundation. During her 20+ years at Merrill Lynch, Subha was a Managing Director and the company’s first Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion, driving strategy, infrastructure and execution with a lens on both global and local community.

She has taught Gender Policy at Columbia University and speaks passionately about the ability to drive innovation by embracing diversity and creating a culture of inclusion. She serves on a number of boards aligned with her passions—education, cancer research, and women’s advancement.

A native of India, Subha holds a BA from Bombay University and an MBA and MS in Accounting from Rice University. She enjoys golfing, reading poetry and rallying for social change. She has two grown children and lives in Naples, Florida and New Hope, PA with her husband.

Alyssa Nitchun is Executive Director of The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (LLMA), where she oversees the Museum’s many initiatives and long-term growth. Alyssa was the first queer woman to be selected by the Board to lead LLMA and in her two years as Director, she is already ushering the Museum into the future, building a queer, revelatory, radically affirming art Museum, that centers people and collective meaning making. Prior to her appointment at LLMA, Alyssa had a career in cultural consulting and nonprofits, spending time advising artists and cultural institutions on realizing thought-provoking projects in the Middle East and Europe.

Alyssa also served as Acting Executive Director at the public art organization Creative Time, where she spent nearly seven years working in development, communications, and team management. She previously oversaw Institutional Giving for the public media organization, StoryCorps and was the Director of Development for the CUNY Graduate Center’s Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. Alyssa has held multiple creative positions in the worlds of art, fashion, and music, and received an MA in Gender Politics with a focus in Queer theory from New York University. In her current role at The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, Alyssa is expanding the Museum’s purpose beyond its position as an art museum, into a hub for community and creative expression, actively shaping a better future for LGBTQIA+ people with artists leading the way.

Alicin Reidy Williamson is a global diversity and strategy executive. Her experience includes being a Managing Principal at strategic policy firm, The Raben Group, SVP of Public Affairs and Corporate Responsibility for MTV Networks and Viacom, Chief Inclusion Officer at Endeavor and she now serves as Chief Diversity and Culture Officer at Yahoo!. In her current role, Alicin leads global diversity and inclusion, employee engagement and culture for the company. In her partnerships, she’s developing the external relationships that will increase Yahoo’s diversity footprint as a thought leader in this space. Alicin currently sits as a board member of The Dalton School, She Should Run, March on Washington Film Festival and is an advisor for the Council on Juvenile and Family Court Judges and chairs a joint collaboration of veteran service organizations, Hire Heroes and Operation Homefront.

Jessica L. Porter is ArtTable’s Lila Harnett Executive Director. She joined ArtTable as the executive director in 2018, after 4 years on the Board of Directors and 8 years of membership. Porter is responsible for developing the long-range strategy of ArtTable, providing leadership and oversight in fundraising to meet financial goals, and directing communications and brand management. In 2020, she was the first to assume the name of ArtTable’s founder as the Lila Harnett Executive Director.

Prior to this role, she was the Executive Director of the New York Artists Equity Association, Inc (NYAEA)—a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1947. In 2001, Porter launched Porter Advisory, working as an independent curator, creating exhibitions and advising artists on career advancement. From 2006 to 2017, Porter founded and directed Porter Contemporary, a Chelsea art gallery, where she was responsible for strategy, business development and market growth, marketing, communications, and talent acquisition. Porter has spoken on CNBC about art collecting and investment in emerging artists, to the Harvard Business Women’s Association about starting an art collection, and has participated in panel discussions on topics including art and music, women in the art industry, art and social justice, contemporary visions of Picasso and art collecting. Porter has served as part of the Leadership Advisory Board for the Girl Scouts of Greater New York’s annual Women of Distinction Fundraiser. She also enjoys coaching little league softball and supporting girls in sports. Porter has a Bachelor’s in Art History and French Language and Literature from the University of Delaware and a Juris Doctor from the University of Maryland.

Gillian Gualtieri, PhD, is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Barnard College, where she teaches classes in the sociology of art, race and ethnicity, gender, organizations, and culture. Previously, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University and a postdoctoral fellow at New York University. In 2018, Gillian received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Gillian has published research on symbolic compliance and sexual harassment on college campuses (in Sociological Forum), inequality in the art world (Poetics; SNAAP Report), and racial and gender inequality in fine dining (Social Problems; Poetics). Gualtieri is the lead researcher on ArtTable’s 2023 Survey on Working in the Arts. Gilliangualtieri.com

National | ArtTable Annual Brunch Reception at The Armory Show 2023
2023-09-09 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Armory Show at the Javits Center, 429 11th Av, New York, New York, 10001
Please join us for ArtTable’s Annual Brunch at The Armory Show! This is a great time for members and friends from across the country to come together and network at New York’s premiere art fair, taking place annually in September at the Javits Center in New York City. Your ticket covers access to the fair, early private access to the VIP Lounge, and refreshments.

ArtTable members won’t want to miss this year’s show, featuring an all-women lineup of fair curators! Eva Respini chief curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, curates the Platform section, which features large-scale and site-specific works. Chief curator of Forge Project in Taghkanic, New York, Candice Hopkins, curates the Focus section, which covers solo and dual artist presentations. Adrienne Edwards, director of curatorial affairs at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, will chair the event’s sixth annual Curatorial Leadership Summit.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $55

Member Guests – $65

Non-Members – $75

Combo Ticket – $65 for Members / $100 for Non-Members – Save when registering for this event and ArtTable’s Annual Leadership Series on Tuesday, September 5.

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PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE WAITLISTED FOR THIS EVENT! THIS PAGE WILL UPDATE IF MORE TICKETS BECOME AVAILABLE!

Thanks to The Armory Show, for welcoming the ArtTable community with partner and VIP passes.

Thanks to our friends at Photofairs, who have shared VIP passes.

ArtTable members have enjoyed access to Art on Paper: thank you!

Gratitude to Superfine Art Fair for welcoming ArtTable members.

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

Image: Vincent Tullo, courtesy of The Armory Show 2022.

Dallas, TX | Tour of Helen Houp Fine Art Conservation
2023-09-12 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | HELEN HOUP Fine Art Conservation, 2626 Lombardy Ln Ste 106, Dallas, Texas, 75220
Immerse yourself in a behind-the-scenes tour of the Helen Hope Fine Art Conservation studio led by Helen Houp herself. We will see artwork in the process of being treated, discuss the different techniques Helen uses, and the difference between conservation versus restoration. This is a unique opportunity to see a conservation studio up close. Please note, it is limited to 10 members only. Confusion sometimes arises over the terms conservator and conservation and restorer and restoration. In conservation, it’s of paramount importance that in treating a work that the intent of the artist is preserved. Conservators use reversible materials in their treatments, provide narrative reports on the condition of the work as received and the treatment procedures employed with supporting photographs. The practice of conservation involves a thorough examination, scientific analysis, and research to reveal the materials employed in the execution of the work and the extent of the damages present. Based on these findings a regimen of conservation treatment is determined. Traditionally, restorers have not been guided by the principles as stated above. Their emphasis is placed on what may be a short term rejuvenation rather than the long term preservation of the work of art.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Guests – $25

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Image credit:

About the Conservator:

Helen Houp is a paintings conservator with over 30 years experience preserving works of art. Following her graduation from the University of California, Santa Barbara she joined the conservation staff of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas and there received training in painting conservation. Since 2001, she has conducted a private conservation practice from her 2200 square foot studio/lab in Dallas, Texas. She has treated paintings from diverse eras and movements, works by Rembrandt to Rauschenberg and works from the folk to the contemporary art genre. In addition to the conservation treatment of the work of well known artists, she has treated the paintings and murals of distinguished regional artists and the treasured heirlooms of individuals as well. Her clients include major art museums, institutions of higher learning, corporations, art dealers, ardent collectors, and individuals. In addition to the treatment of paintings, accomplished conservators associated with Helen A. Houp Fine Art Conservation assist in the conservation of objects, photographs and works of art on paper. helenhoup.com

National | Artist-Led tour of "Flower Atlas" with Miya Ando
2023-09-12 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Brookfield Place, 230 Vesey St, New York, New York, 10281
You won’t to miss the opportunity for an artist-guided tour of a botanical wonderland with Miya Ando! Imagine a world where time is not measured in months, days, and hours, but in flowers. Flower Atlas envisions this unique concept. In this artistic creation, the year 2023 is represented by 365 signature flowers, each blooming on a different day somewhere on Earth. Curated by Kendal Henry at Brookfield Place.

Special thanks to Brookfield Place for welcoming the ArtTable Community!Venue Sponsor: Brookfield PropertiesCommissioning Entity: Arts Brookfield

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $10

Member Guests – $20

Public – $25

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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.ArtTable’s Artist Talks are made possible by the Pollock Krasner Foundation.

Image: Miya Ando Flower Atlas. Image by Fadi-Kheir. Courtesy of Brookfield Place

About the Artist

Miya Ando is a Japanese/American artist based in New York. Her art is rooted in the dialectic coexistence of Eastern and Western cultures through the lens of natural phenomena. Her work is part of many public collections such as: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY; Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; Luftmuseum, Amberg, Germany; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; The Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA, as well as in numerous private collections. Solo exhibitions of her work have been presented at the Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA; the Asia Society Museum, Houston, TX; the Noguchi Museum, New York, NY; Savannah College Of Art and Design Museum, Savannah, GA; the Nassau County Museum, Roslyn Harbor, NY; and The American University Museum, Washington DC. Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, LA; Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY; and Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY. Ando has been the recipient of several grants and awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Award, and has produced several public commissions, most notably a thirty-foot-tall sculpture built from World Trade Center steel for Olympic Park in London to mark the ten-year anniversary of 9/11, for which she was nominated for a DARC Award in Best Light Art Installation. Ando was also commissioned to create artwork for the historic Philip Johnson Glass House, New Canaan, CT. Most recently, Ando received the 2023 Brookfield Place New York Annual Arts Commission. The site-specific commission Flower Atlas Calendar will premier at the Winter Garden in Brookfield Place, New York, NY in July 2023.The artist holds a bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, studied East Asian Studies at Yale University and apprenticed with a Master Metalsmith in Japan. www.miyaando.com

National | "The Private Eye in Public Art" with Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz & Lowery Stokes Sims
2023-09-13 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | West 54th St. or Zoom, New York
Beyond a traditional book launch, spend an evening with two leading lights of the art world, Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz and Lowery Stokes Sims. Their foundational contributions to ArtTable and the art community cannot be overstated; you won’t want to miss this chance to dive into their professional expertise, stories, and unique perspectives as they discuss Pomeroy Schwartz’s 2023 book The Private Eye in Public Art. Joyce will honor ArtTable’s founder, Lila Harnett, (in absentia) and foundational members Carole Morgan and Randy Rosen.

Our zoom guests will be with us for the interview; our in-person guests are welcome to network from 6-6:30 and enjoy wine and light bites—with gratitude to Joyce for hosting! (If you’re in the Washington, DC area, you can join your DC Chapter for a watch party—see below.)The Private Eye in Public Art, “is an indispensable guide to the perils, pains, and pleasures of making art for architecture, how people respond to that art, and how and why that reception may change over time. This book is for all who are involved in the creation, exhibition, and preservation of contemporary public art: artists, selection committees, scholars, students, art professionals, and the wider public.”“I have known Joyce for a long time―since 1972, when there was a glass ceiling for working women―but not for Joyce. She joined the Pace Gallery as Director of Commissions, helping artists realize their works of public art―and cracked her way through that ceiling. When I founded ArtTable, the leadership organization for professional women in the visual arts, Joyce came aboard, and to this day she is a member of that team.” ―Lila Harnett, Founder, ArtTable

For our in-person guests: this event is Bring-Your-Own-Book! Joyce would be delighted to sign your copy of The Private Eye in Public Art if you would be so kind as to bring it with you. You can purchase it on Amazon (faster delivery) or from the publisher, Oro Editions.

In-Person in NYC

*We now have a waiting list! Please click “register here” to add your name, and we will notify you if there are cancellations. You can also register for the zoom program below.*

ArtTable Members – $25

Guests – $35

Public $40

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REGISTER HERE: IN-PERSON NYC

Join us Virtually on Zoom

The interview starts at 6:30 pm Eastern, 5:30 pm Central, 4:30 pm Mountain, 3:30 pm Pacific

ArtTable Members, Guests, and Public—optional donation appreciated!

REGISTER HERE: ZOOM

Join the Washington, DC Chapter’s Watch Party!

Join Washington, DC ArtTable Chapter members to socialize, connect, and watch the livestream of Joyce & Lowery’s interview together!

• ArtTable Members and Guests—optional donation appreciated!

REGISTER HERE: DC WATCH PARTY

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

Images: Main: THE PRIVATE EYE IN PUBLIC ART. ORO Editions.Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz photo below: Costas Picadas.Lowery Stokes Simms photo below: Grace Roselli, Pandora’s BoxX Project.

Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz is a curator, lecturer and public art consultant with a unique concentration in public art policy, modern and contemporary art for architecture and the landscape in the broader context of cultural, urban and environmental revitalization. In 1968-1971 she founded “The Photographer’s Gallery,” the first gallery in New York City exhibiting photography as fine art. She was Director of Commissions at Pace Gallery in New York from 1972-1982, implementing public sculpture projects with Pace artists. In 1982 Joyce founded “Works of Art for Public Spaces, Ltd.”, dedicated to working with American and International artists creating major works of Art for Architecture. She recently established the Harold and Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz “Archives of Public Art” at the Fales Special Collections/NYU Bobst Library, of artists’ monographs, photographs and papers available for public art historical research. It now includes the archives of the Public Art fund and Creative Time. She is also one of the founding board members of ARTTABLE. joycepomeroyschwartz.com

Lowery Stokes Sims served on the education and curatorial staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1972-99), as executive director and president The Studio Museum in Harlem (2000-2007) and retired as Curator Emerita from the Museum of Art and Design (2007-2015). She has been an independent curator and consultant for the Caribbean Cultural Center, the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Craft Contemporary, Grounds for Sculpture, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Center for Art, Design & Visual Culture, University of Maryland,Baltimore County. She was Visiting Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (2018-2020) and the 2021-22 Kress-Beinecke Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. She is also one of the founding board members of ARTTABLE. Met Stories | Curator and Art Historian | Lowery Stokes Sims.

Virtual | New Member Orientation & Member Portal Walkthrough
2023-09-14 16:00 - 16:45 (America/New_York) | Zoom
1pm PT / 2pm MT / 3pm CT / 4pm ET
Welcome new ArtTable members! Please join us for a virtual orientation session where you will meet other new members and learn how to take full advantage of all the ArtTable community has to offer. This program is free and open to all ArtTable members.
Whether you are new to our community or have been a long-time member, there’s no wrong time for a refresher course! Connect with other members in a casual and relaxed online environment and learn more about what our community is all about.
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(You will receive an email confirmation containing the Zoom link.)
Accessibility: Please note that this program will offer live closed captioning. If you require additional accommodations, please email programs@arttable.org.
Can’t join us for this new member orientation? Don’t worry, we host virtual orientation sessions every 3 months! In the meantime, we hope you can join us for another upcoming program or support other ArtTable initiatives!

Washington, DC | Curator-led tour of "1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions" National Portrait Gallery
2023-09-19 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

ArtTable Members – suggested donation $10

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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).

New York | Tour of Ebony G. Patterson's "...things come to thrive..." at New York Botanical Garden
2023-09-22 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | New York Botanical Gardens, 2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, New York, 10458
Join Vice President for Exhibitions and Programming at New York Botanical Garden, Joanna L. Groarke, to usher in the first day of fall at one of New York City’s gems! Experience the beauty of gardens through the eyes of celebrated contemporary artist Ebony G. Patterson. Known for her lavishly-detailed mixed media installations, Patterson brings her signature style to the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory and New York Botanical Garden landscape and galleries in a major site-specific exhibition featuring provocative displays of art and nature. Patterson’s work explores entanglements of race, gender and colonialism while inviting visitors to contemplate their own relationships with gardens and the natural world. ArtTable members and guests will enjoy a bespoke, guided tour of the work, rain or shine, as much of it is viewable from indoors. Please note we have limited spots available. Book yours today!SUBWAY DIRECTIONS

B, D, or 4 trains to Bedford Park Blvd. Station. Take the Bx26 bus east to the Garden’s Mosholu Entrance OR walk eight blocks down the hill on Bedford Park Blvd (20 min). Turn left onto Southern Blvd. and walk one block to Mosholu Entrance.

2 train to Allerton Ave. station. Walk three blocks west on Allerton Ave. Turn left on Bronx Park East and walk two blocks to Waring Ave. At the park entrance, walk up the small hill leading directly to the Garden’s East Gate.

Visit the NYBG website for directions by car, accessibility information, and visitor policies.

Admission

ArtTable Members – $50

Guests – $60

Public -$65

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REGISTER HERE

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

Images: Detail of Ebony G. Patterson things come to thrive…in the shedding…in the molting (2023) in the Palms of the World Gallery of the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory (NYBG Photo).

Ebony G. Patterson received her BFA in painting from Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica in 2004. She received an MFA degree in 2006 in printmaking and drawing from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

Patterson has taught at the University of Virginia; Edna Manley College School of Visual and Performing Arts; has served as Associate Professor in Painting and Mixed Media at the University of Kentucky; and was the Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been featured in biennials worldwide including Liverpool (2021), Athens (2021), São Paulo (2016), and Havana (2015). Her work is in the collections of institutions including 21c Museum and Foundation, Louisville, Kentucky; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Art and Design, New York; Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, NC; the National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston; the Pérez Art Museum Miami; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; Studio Museum in Harlem; the Virginia Museum of Fine Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Patterson is Co-Artistic Director, along with curator Miranda Lash, of Prospect.6 New Orleans, slated to open in Fall 2024.

Joanna L. Groarke is the Vice President for Exhibitions and Programming at New York Botanical Garden where she has led a team that develops exhibitions, interpretive materials and publications, and public programming integrating NYBG’s multidisciplinary mission areas of science, education, and horticulture. Her service to NYBG extends over 10 years, having previously worked as Director of Public Engagement & Library Exhibitions Curator, Curator of Interpretive Content for Public Engagement, and Interpretive Specialist. She has more than 15 years of experience creating exhibitions, events, and audience development programs for institutions including the Irish Arts Center and Tufts University Art Gallery. She will bring to her new role extensive experience in innovative, visitor-centered exhibition and program development, purposeful strategy and business planning, and building talented, motivated teams.

Her strength in program planning and implementation is complemented by her involvement with the American Alliance of Museums as a Board Member & Program Co-Chair for the National Association for Museum Exhibition. In 2018, she was awarded the Gold Davey Award for Best User Experience for the Georgia O’Keeffe Interactive Guide. Groarke holds a bachelor of arts in sociology from The College of William and Mary and a master of arts in Art History from Tufts University.

Florida | Virtual Afternoon Tea & Networking
2023-09-28 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Come and join your fellow Florida ArtTable members for a virtual networking event where we delve into the insights gathered from our summer survey. We’ll explore the types of programming that ArtTable Members residing in the Sunshine State are particularly enthusiastic about. This event will be co-hosted by Sharikay Sloboda and Barbara Chamberlain, offering a relaxing tea break during which we can engage in conversations about the events our members wish to see in our diverse region. Florida boasts a thriving art industry, and we’re eager to learn more about your contributions to it and your vision for the future of programs in our area.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – complimentary

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TEST-Program Submission Forms
2023-09-28 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | New York
Are you interested in submitting a program proposal for a Content-based program to ArtTable’s Programming Committee?

Content–based programs can happen virtually or in person anywhere in the United States. All proposed programs should be aligned with ArtTable’s mission and be focused on expanding and enriching our attendee’s art knowledge and access.

Some examples of programs are major art exhibition talks and tours, women and nonbinary artist talks or studio visits, curatorial talks and tours, information-rich panel discussions, and more. Please click here to submit your proposal.

All submissions will be reviewed by ArtTable’s Programming Committee. This committee meets 4 – 5 times per year and we suggest a lead time of four to six months for all proposals.

Content-Based Program:

Program Submission for ArtTable Programming Committee Thank you for submitting a program proposal to the ArtTable Programming Committee. Content–based programs can happen virtually or in person anywhere in the United States. All proposed programs should be aligned with ArtTable’s mission and be focused on expanding and enriching our attendee’s art knowledge and access. Some examples of programs are major art exhibition talks and tours, women and nonbinary artist talks or studio visits, curatorial talks and tours, information-rich panel discussions, and more. All submissions will be reviewed by ArtTable’s Programming Committee. This committee meets 4 – 5 times per year and we suggest a lead time of four to six months for all proposals. Your Name*FirstLast Your Email* Are you currently an ArtTable member?*YesNo Where are you located? Program TypePanel DiscussionCuratorial Talk/TourArt Exhibition Talk/TourStudio Visit: Woman/Nonbinary ArtistBehind the Scenes at an Art InstitutionOther Proposed Program Description:* Why should this be an ArtTable program? How does it fit within the organization's mission and goals?* Are you in any way affiliated with the organization/speaker/topic featured in this program proposal?*YesNo If you answered yes to the previous question, please elaborate. What is the date range for this event? ie, Exhibition Dates, etc. * Location* Proposed Speakers* Please share any links or information as evidence of the speakers' past speaking experience (other panels they have been on, lecture experience, etc.)* Program Format*VirtualIn Person If in person, please provide and name and address of the proposed location: If you have any information about the health, safety, or accessibility for this program, please add it here. Please share any additional supporting press releases, articles, etc. in relation to this program proposal:SubmitReset

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Virtual | Fine Art in Healthcare with Melissa Dallal, Ellen Rudolph, Cade Tompkins, Susana Bautista, and Jane Borthwick
2023-10-05 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual
3 pm PDT / 4 pm MDT / 5 pm CDT / 6 pm EDT

Major medical institutions take art seriously and recognize its importance in healthcare settings. Creating sophisticated cultural spaces in these environments is its own professional discipline—parallel to how art advisors collaborate with art and design partners in hospitality and corporate settings, but with its own purpose, parameters, and vision. Join us for a fascinating virtual panel discussion featuring Melissa Dallal, Project Manager, Interior Design at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Ellen Rudolph, in-house Curator and Senior Director, Cleveland Clinic Art Collection; Susana Smith Bautista, Associate Vice President and Chief Curator, AltaMed Art Collection; and curator and gallerist Cade Tompkins of Cade Tompkins Projects. The conversation will be moderated by art advisor and collection strategist—and former ArtTable Board President—Jane Borthwick.We’ll look at themes including how art advisors in this field access art and artists, and how they can identify artists from diverse and adjacent community backgrounds who can connect with the patient, staff, and visitor populations at specific locations. Art advisors also identify and present emergent talent whose work will appreciate in value and that is affordable for healthcare institutions. We will hear about evolving and innovative collaborative models where art advisors are actively incorporating the input of stakeholders including healthcare professionals, patients, and families; ultimately serving the purpose of healing and inspiration in these communities while creating a built-in stewardship of the collection.

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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.

Images: 1) Eva Rothschild, Live Edge, 2016, Aluminum sculpture commissioned for Cleveland Clinic, Taussig Cancer Center. Courtesy of the artist and Modern Art.2) The David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care at Memorial Sloan Kettering.

About the Panelists

Melissa Dallal is the Project Manager for Interior Design at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, where she brings her experience in award-winning hospitality design to the design of healthcare spaces. In her role, Melissa manages art acquisitions for the hospital’s 30+ locations throughout the New York tri-state area, working with art consultants, galleries and stakeholders to furnish art for new construction and renovation projects, while also curating special, site-specific commissions.

Melissa ensures that MSK’s art collection aligns with the hospital’s broader environmental design vision, which is to provide positive patient, staff and visitor experiences through creating moments of joy, inspiration and engagement. MSK’s large-scale, site-specific commissions “Long Island Tapestries” by artist Alexandra Kehayoglou and “New York Sculptures” by artist Kim Dickey were both recognized with the international CODA Award (Collaboration of Art + Design) in 2019 and 2020. Melissa previously worked at the Rockwell Group and was an editor at I.D. Magazine. She holds an B.A. in architecture from Columbia University and a Masters in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU’sTisch School of the Arts.

Having joined Cleveland Clinic in 2019, Ellen Rudolph is Curator and Senior Director of the Art Collection. She leads the program in its mission to create meaningful interactions with contemporary art placed throughout the Enterprise. Rudolph oversaw the art installation at Cleveland Clinic London hospital and commissioned artists Jacolby Satterwhite, Sandra Cinto and Eva LeWitt for site-specific projects in Cleveland and Florida. She also led a collaborative exhibition of work by Derrick Adams at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic, Rudolph was Chief Curator at the Akron Art Museum, where she staged ambitious exhibitions and drove notable acquisitions, including works by Mickalene Thomas, Nick Cave, Yinka Shonibare and Jenny Holzer among others. Rudolph has served as Executive Director of the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage and also worked at Progressive Corporation and Sotheby’s New York. She has Art History degrees from Northwestern University (BA) and Case Western Reserve University (MA).

As a trusted art advisor and strategist, Jane Borthwick specializes in managing diverse and specialized collections. Jane advises families, private collectors, foundations, and museums in creating strategies for initiating, building, or dispersing art collections. She has handled the marketing and sales plans for the estates of prominent artists. Jane has sold works by Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Joan Mitchell, Henry Moore, Louise Bourgeois, Fairfield Porter, Louise Nevelson, and Andy Warhol, among other artists. Jane has been quoted in The New York Times, Private Asset Management, and Private Wealth Focus and speaks frequently on best practices in art collection management. She is a graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Business School. Jane is a past Board President at ArtTable, and recipient of the ArtTable 2020 Chapter Leadership Award.

Cade Tompkins Projects focuses on advancing and exhibiting contemporary art, featuring work by emerging artists as well as mid-career and established artists in various mediums including painting, sculpture, printmaking, video, drawing, and installation. Clients range from major museums to new collectors as well as corporations, hospitals, and seasoned art connoisseurs. She is interested in finding art for clients at all levels of collecting.

Cade Tompkins has been a contemporary art dealer for over 40 years. Her gallery opened in September 2009 and to date has featured over 50 exhibitions by represented artists. Tompkins graduated from the Appraisal Studies in Art program at the Rhode Island School of Design. Cade Tompkins Projects has exhibited gallery artists at Master Drawings New York 2018, 2020, and 2022; Art in an Airstream during the IFPDA Print Fair 2016; SPRING/BREAK Art Show (2016-2023); and the E/AB Fair (2006-2013) and the forthcoming IFPDA Fair 2024 in New York. Cade Tompkins is a member of the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA); Candidate Member of the American Society of Appraisers (ASA); ArtTable, the national professional organization advancing leadership of women in the visual arts; and a sustaining member of the Association of Print Scholars (APS). Gallery Services include Curation of Corporate and Private Collections, Fine Art Appraisals, Installation, Placement and Framing Consultation.

Susana Smith Bautista, Ph.D., is the Associate Vice President and Chief Curator of the AltaMed Art Collection at AltaMed Health Services. She is an art historian, curator, and museum leader for over 25 years with the Mexican Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, and LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes. She has been an independent consultant for strategic museum projects around the United States, she worked as an art critic while living in Greece, and was an independent curator with a focus on Chicano/a, Latino/a, and Mexican art. Dr. Bautista obtained her doctorate degree in Communication and her Master’s degree in Art History/Museum Studies, both from the University of Southern California. She has taught in universities, published extensively, lectured around the world on the topic of museums, and served on the Board of Directors for the American Alliance of Museums.

Berkeley, CA | Reading at the (Art)Table: Kathan Brown "Know That You Are Lucky"
2023-10-08 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Gilman Grill, 1300 Fourth Street, Berkeley, California, 94710
Join Reading at the (Art)Table for a discussion of Know That You Are Lucky by Kathan Brown. From Europe to the United States, this memoir of fifty years of printmaking reveals the cross-pollination that includes East and West Coasts, Northern and Southern California, as well as the collaborative influence of Japan.

Kathan Brown has authored eight books, including Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood, which was published by Chronicle Books in 1996. Artforum’s Bookforum describes her work as “the next best thing to being there.” Brown is additionally known as the editor of the “MAGIC SECRETS” instructional series for printmakers, which is published by Crown Point Press. She has contributed articles to significant publications including “A John Cage Reader” (published by Wesleyan University Press in 1983), the “Cambridge Companion to John Cage” (published in 2002), and The Guardian in 2002.

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Image: Book cover of The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead.

National | Philadelphia, PA | Artist-Led Tour of Chelsey Luster's "Finding Home" Philadelphia
2023-10-10 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Vox Populi Gallery, 319 N. 11th Street, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19107
Join ArtTable for an artist talk and exhibition tour with Chelsey Luster! Luster’s immersive solo exhibition “Finding Home” at Vox Populi Gallery tells the stories of their models’ safe spaces through mixed-media paintings, text, and film. Each model’s individual story informs the creation of these imaginative havens that come together to form a physical safe space. The exhibition acts as a place of healing for black and queer people and the respective communities. Luster highlights their identity and perspective through the luminescence of black skin with fluorescent undertones and the vibrance of queerness through shimmering overlays of glitter. Other materials, such oil and acrylic paints, fabric, glue, market on paper, wood panels, found objects, and canvas, come together to materialize these idyllic realms.
“At the beginning of my practice, I focused on self-portraiture and explored the lack of security and safety as a Queer Black woman through depictions of unsettling bathroom scenes in “The American Bathroom” series. This body of work critiqued our failed incarceration system and the unhinged violence I experienced along with others in my community through large-scale erie-colored oil paintings on wooden panels. I developed creative programming and community building with other Queer, Women, and Black-led organizations and community leaders through talks, fellowships, and residencies that allowed me to collaborate on performances and discussions on Black and Queerness with regards to self-autonomy, community discussions, and collage workshops that welcomed people of all artistic backgrounds to create work that explored identity. Through this work, I shared the universal feeling of wanting to feel safe with individuals of all backgrounds. Through the relationships formed and stories I heard during the creation of “The American Bathroom” series, I knew that our stories could not end with trauma and violence. I discovered that creating a sacred space within myself and others in my community leads to healing, peace, and safety. This inspired my current project “Finding Home.” “
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Image: Chelsey Luster. Luster, 20″ x 30″, 2023

Chelsey Luster is a Philadelphia-based visual artist and educator from Baltimore, Maryland. Luster’s visual art work explores the complexities of safe spaces in Queer and Black culture through mixed medium paintings and installations. Luster is a Vox Populi member and has been awarded the Mural Arts 2022 Black Artists Fellowship and the 2021 Center for Emerging Artists fellowship. Luster is the Exhibition Manager at Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens and has independently curated multiple art exhibitions with art institutions in Philadelphia including IceBox Project Space, Da Vinci Art Alliance, William Way LGBT+ Center, and the Center for Emerging Visual Artists. Luster holds a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the Temple University’s Tyler School of Art.

Rosa Lowinger in Conversation with Nereida Garcia-Ferraz at District Reads
2023-10-11 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Istituto Marangoni Library, 3704 NE 2nd Ave. Floor 5, Miami, Florida, 33137
Join ArtTable members and the Miami Design District community as Cuban artist Nereida Garcia-Ferraz interviews conservator Rosa Lowinger, “one of the few prominent Latinas in the field of art and architectural conservation” about her moving memoir, Dwell Time. Book signing and rooftop reception to follow. Please note that we have limited tickets, and an October 5 RSVP deadline.Rosa Lowinger is a Cuban-born, Miami-raised art conservator specializing in sculpture and architecture. She is the founder and co-chief conservator of RLA Conservation of Art + Architecture, a firm with offices in Miami and L.A. A graduate of NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts Conservation Program, and a Fellow of American Institute for Conservation and the Association for Preservation Technology, Rosa was the 2008-09 Rome Prize Fellow in Conservation at the American Academy in Rome, where she researched the history of vandalism and iconoclasm. She has curated the exhibitions “Concrete Paradise: Miami Marine Stadium at the Coral Gables Museum” and “Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure, American Seduction” at the Wolfsonian. Her books include Tropicana Nights: The Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub, and Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile and Repair. Nereida Garcia Ferraz is a Cuban-born artist whose practice encompasses painting, photography, video, sculpture, and social art projects exploring identity and feminist themes, nature, beauty, and the physical world. Her work has been exhibited by or is in collections of institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Yale University, The San Francisco Art Institute, The Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City, and MDC Museum of Art and Design.Thank you to Miami Design District and DISTRICT READS!

“An insightful tale that reveals a kaleidoscope of worlds that Lowinger navigates to chart a life in colors and materials, joys and calamities, rendering lives that were forced into exile many times but always eager to build a sense of home and purpose. A moving account filled with the eccentricities of life, family, and the love of something (and its preservation) that is sometimes beyond words.”— Hrag Vartanian, Co-founder & Editor-in-chief: Hyperallergic

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Image: Rosa Lowinger. photo by Scarlett Freund.

Washington, DC | BreakfastTable with Caroline Mariz
2023-10-12 08:00 - 09:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

*WAITING LIST* | Guided Tour of "Judy Chicago: Herstory" at the New Museum
2023-10-13 16:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | The New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, New York, 10002, United States
Judy Chicago is scheduled to make a cameo appearance for ArtTable members at an exclusive tour of “Judy Chicago: Herstory”! This comprehensive exhibition celebrates Judy Chicago’s iconic six-decade career. It showcases the diversity of her artistic contributions, spanning a wide range of media including painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, textiles, photography, stained glass, needlework, and printmaking. This multi-faceted approach reflects Chicago’s versatility as an artist and her commitment to pushing the boundaries of traditional artistic practices.

The “City of Ladies” exhibition-within-the-exhibition is a unique concept that brings together artworks and archival materials from more than eighty artists, writers, and thinkers. This juxtaposition allows visitors to explore the connections and dialogues between Chicago’s work and the creative contributions of other women throughout history.“Judy Chicago: Herstory” is curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, Gary Carrion-Murayari, Kraus Family Senior Curator, Margot Norton, Chief Curator, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (former Allen and Lola Goldring Senior Curator at the New Museum), and Madeline Weisburg, Assistant Curator.

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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.

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Featured Image: Judy Chicago, Through the Flower 2, 1973. Sprayed acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 in (152.4 x 152.4 cm). Collection Diane Gelon. © Judy Chicago/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Donald Woodman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.Artist photo (below): Judy Chicago 2023 by Donald Woodman.

About the Artist

Judy Chicago‘s contributions to feminist art and her exploration of women’s history and culture have left a lasting legacy in the art world, inspiring generations of artists and pushing the boundaries of traditional artistic practices for over sixty years.

Chicago’s work has been exhibited in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Throughout her career, Chicago has remained steadfast in her commitment to the power of art as a vehicle for intellectual transformation and social change and to women’s right to engage in the highest level of art production. She has become a symbol for people everywhere, known and respected as an artist, writer, teacher, feminist and humanist whose work and life are models for an enlarged definition of art, an expanded role for the artist, and women’s right to freedom of expression. In 2018 Chicago was named both one of Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” and a 2018 “Most Influential Artist” by Artsy Magazine. In 2019, she received the Visionary Woman award from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

Her work is in the collections of the British Museum, Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), National Gallery (Washington DC), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Getty Trust and Getty Research Institute, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, The Nevada Museum of Art, The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and over twenty-five university art museums such as Brandeis, Cornell, Harvard, Illinois, Michigan, UCLA, Canterbury (New Zealand) and Cambridge (UK). judychicago.com

Tour of Candice Lin's "Lithium Sex Demons In The Factory" with Summer Guthery
2023-10-14 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Canal Projects, 351 Canal St New York, NY 10013
Canal Projects introduces “Lithium Sex Demons in the Factory,” the inaugural New York solo show for Los Angeles artist Candice Lin. Our tour will be hosted by Artistic Director Summer Guthery. This project, a collaborative effort between Canal Projects and the 14th Gwangju Biennale, involves the recreation of a lithium battery factory as a site-specific installation. This endeavor seamlessly extends the artist’s persistent exploration of themes of globalization, intricate trade networks, the nature of materials, and the dynamics of labor.Canal Projects is a nonprofit, women-led contemporary art institution dedicated to supporting forward-thinking international artists at pivotal moments in their careers. Through production, exhibition, research and interpretation of this work they foster artistic practices that challenge and reflect the current moment.

Candice Lin has gained recognition for her innovative use of diverse materials: from tea and cactus tinctures to fungi and deceased bats—accentuating their unique characteristics, such as scents and flavors. Lin repurposes presentation techniques commonly linked with anthropology and natural history, investigating their colonial narratives. Her work has been exhibited at Portikus, Frankfurt (2018); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2017); Bétonsalon—Center for Art and Research, Paris (2017); Human Resources, Los Angeles (2017); New Museum, New York (2017); SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York (2017); Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (2016); and Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles (2013), among others. She is the recipient of several residencies, grants, and fellowships, including a California Community Foundation Award (2014), Fine Arts Work Center Residency (2012), Frankfurter Kunstverein Deutsche Börse Residency (2010), and Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2009).

Thank you to ArtTable NY Chapter Member Diana McClure for initiating this program.

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Image: Candice Lin, Lithium Sex Demons in the Factory, 2023. Installation view, 14th Gwangju Biennale (Apr 7 – Jul 9, 2023). Commissioned by the 14th Gwangju Biennale and Canal Projects. Image courtesy the artist, François Ghebaly Gallery and the Gwangju Biennale Foundation. Photo: glimworkers.

About the Curator

Summer Guthery is the Artistic Director of Canal Projects, a new non-profit organization in New York City’s Soho neighborhood. Prior to this she was the Director of JOAN, a not-for-profit exhibition space focusing on emerging and underrepresented artists and the Curator of Performance and Public Programming at LAXART in Los Angeles. In 2013 & 2011 she was the Assistant Curator of Performa Biennial 2013 & 2011. Her writing can be seen in Frieze, Artforum, ArtReview, and Art in America. Guthery received an M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.

Reception and Collection Visit with Juanita Hardy
2023-10-17 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | 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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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.

Artist-Led Tour of Elizabeth Turk's "Written in Stone" at Hirschl & Adler
2023-10-24 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 41 E 57th St 9th floor, New York, NY, 10022, United States
As our culture shifts, artists are the witnesses, reflecting back to us how our world is changing; memorializing the endangered, and mourning the lost. Artist Elizabeth Turk speaks through one of our most permanent media, marble, to immerse us in a conversation about the fragility of handwritten language. Turk herself will guide the ArtTable group on a tour of Written in Stone, with Hirschl & Adler Managing Director, Elizabeth Feld.

Elegant and understated, the beauty of calligraphic scripts has resonated across cultures and time. Elizabeth Turk: Written in Stone, a group of twenty-three hand-carved marble sculptures made over the past decade, marks the change caused by technological communication – the ubiquitous keyboard and AI – and seeks to question the transformation of everyday handwriting. What happens when the curved lines of a scripted passage no longer hold meaning, or even exist? Or when the generations of tomorrow merely glance at a handwritten letter, fail to understand it, cannot decipher it, and simply move on, losing the nuances to history? Through this new body of work, Elizabeth Turk conveys this fundamental shift with unmatched grace and technical dexterity. There is an obvious paradox in a memorial of something as ephemeral and humancentric as script created with a solid, seemingly permanent rock gilded with a mineral, gold leaf. Long after the changes of this moment take place, these sculptures will remind us of the strength, endurance, and lasting importance of what we have left behind.

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ArtTable Members – $15

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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.Artist Talks are presented with support from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

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Featured Image: Elizabeth Turk (b. 1961) Passage 8, 2016-2023 Marble and gold leaf, 8 3/8 x 23 x 2 1/2 in. © Eric Stoner, Courtesy of Hirschl & Adler Modern and the Artist.Photo Below: © Eric Stoner, Courtesy of Hirschl & Adler Modern and the Artist.

About the Artist

Born in Pasadena and raised in Orange County, Elizabeth Turk earned her M.F.A. at the Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. A recipient of awards including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2010), a Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Fellowship (2010), and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2011), Turk is internationally recognized for transforming her signature medium of marble into strikingly intricate objects that defy convention and challenge our preconceptions of what marble can do. Through the use of electric grinders, dental tools, and files, Turk pushes her medium to its limit, creating in each sculpture a provocative tension between the intrinsic strength of the stone and its inherent fragility, while speaking to larger conceptual and spiritual concerns of time, matter, and space.

During the twenty-two years that Turk has been represented by Hirschl & Adler Modern, the gallery has mounted five solo exhibitions of her work, each accompanied by publications; as well as a solo Art Kabinett at Art Basel Miami Beach (2012), a solo presentation at Masterpiece London (2014), and a solo presentation at the ADAA Art Show in 2017.

Turk’s work resides in numerous prestigious private and public collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; the Jewish Museum, New York, NY; American University, Washington, D.C. (formerly, the Corcoran Gallery of Art) and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; the Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC; The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; the Catalina Museum for Art & History, CA; and the Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Memphis, TN. Institutional monographic exhibitions include Tipping Point: Echoes of Extinction, Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI (2022); Double Take, with Mel Chin, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park (2022), Elizabeth Turk: Heaven, Earth, Home, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, VT (2018-19); Elizabeth Turk: Sentient Forms, Laguna Art Museum, CA (2015); Elizabeth Turk: Wings, The Dayton Art Institute, OH (2013); and Elizabeth Turk, The Collars: Tracings of Thought, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC (2004). Turk lives and works in Santa Ana, CA, and New York, NY, and is the cofounder of ET Projects, a Foundation that infuses civic spaces with interdisciplinary communal art.

Elizabeth Feld is the Managing Director and Director, Furniture & Decorative Arts at Hirshl & Adler. She curated the gallery’s 50-anniversary exhibition, Of the Newest Fashion: Masterpieces of American Neo-Classical Decorative Arts (2001–02). In 2006, she co- curated Elizabeth Turk: The Collars and In Pointed Style: The Gothic Revival in America, 1800–1860, both accompanied by extensive catalogues; and in 2007, For Work & For Play: A Selection of American Neo-Classical Furniture. More recent exhibitions include: Elizabeth Turk: Recent Sculpture (2008); The World of Duncan Phyfe: The Arts of New York, 1800–1847 (2012), a celebration of the gallery’s 60th anniversary; Elizabeth Turk Cages (2012); Alexander Creswell: Fire & Light (2012); Very Rich & Handsome: American Neo-Classical Decorative Arts (2014–15); Elizabeth Turk: Tensions (2016); Augmenting the Canon: Recent Acquisitions of American Neo-Classical Decorative Arts (2018); and Elizabeth Turk: Tipping Point: Echoes of Extinction (2019).Elizabeth is a regular lecturer on American Decorative Arts and the antiques and art market. Elizabeth offers advisory services for clients in a range of specialties both within and beyond the gallery’s area of expertise. Elizabeth served as the Chairman of the Winter Antiques Show Dealers’ Committee for six years. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from The University of Pennsylvania and has a Master’s Degree in Fine and Decorative Arts from Sotheby’s Institute.

Helen Zughaib Artist Talk & Studio Visit
2023-11-01 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | 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!

Admission:

ArtTable Members $10

Guests $20

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This program is at capacity: please click “Register Here” to join the waitlist—we may be able to welcome a few more people!

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.

Virtual Workshop | First Findings from the Survey on Gender & Pay Equity
2023-11-07 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Virtual
4 pm PST / 5 pm MST / 6 pm CST / 7 pm EST

Reporting Results and Sharing Solutions: First Findings from ArtTable’s Survey on Gender and Pay Equity

Since the fall of 2022, ArtTable has conducted a survey to better understand compensation—and compensation inequity—in the arts, with a particular focus on gender and compensation. At this collaborative workshop, Dr. Gillian Gualtieri will present the findings from our first white paper report: “Costs of Working in the Arts.” Then, attendees will collaboratively respond to the findings and begin to build solutions and suggestions that will be incorporated into the final document and circulated among members. The solution is not individual, but, rather shared, and we hope this program will be the first in a series of evidence-based workshops informed by and informing our continued research.Add your voice to this important conversation!

The Impact Initiatives Fund supports ArtTable’s annual fellowship program, Career RoundTable events, this Pay Equity project, as well as various mentorship opportunities at the organization. Please consider a contribution to this fund with your registration.

We want to convey our appreciation to Hyperallergic for their support as our media sponsor.

Admission:

Complimentary with optional donation

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After registration, you will receive an email containing the Zoom link.All virtual programs offer live automatic closed captioning.

Gillian Gualtieri, PhD, is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Barnard College, where she teaches classes in the sociology of art, race and ethnicity, gender, organizations, and culture. Previously, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University and a postdoctoral fellow at New York University. In 2018, Gillian received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Gillian has published research on symbolic compliance and sexual harassment on college campuses (in Sociological Forum), inequality in the art world (Poetics; SNAAP Report), and racial and gender inequality in fine dining (Social Problems; Poetics). Gualtieri is the lead researcher on ArtTable’s Survey on Working in the Arts. Gilliangualtieri.com

*Waiting List* BreakfastTable with Anne Helmreich
2023-11-09 08:00 - 09:00 (America/New_York) | 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!

Admission:

ArtTable Members – complimentary

Member Guests – $10

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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.

Artist-Led tour of Sheila Pepe's "My Neighbor's Garden" at Madison Square Park
2023-11-09 09:30 - 10:30 (America/New_York) | Madison Square Park, 11 Madison Ave, New York, New York, 10010, United States
Join us for a tour of “My Neighbor’s Garden” with artist Sheila Pepe on November 9 at Madison Square Park. Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Artistic Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator, will introduce the artist and her first outdoor exhibition. “My Neighbor’s Garden,” places colorful and optimistic canopies of crocheted material, as well as unexpected materials including paracord, shoelaces, outsize rubber bands, and climbing vines, and extends from the park’s extant physical structures such as light poles. In the months preceding the exhibition, Pepe gathered novice and expert crocheters at her Brooklyn studio for crochet sessions towards the fabrication of the project. Pepe will speak about the project, offer insights into the collaborative process, as well as situating the exhibition within the context of her career as a whole. The event will wrap up with a Q&A.Press coverage of the exhibition:

The New York Times

NY1 News

WNYC

The Brooklyn Rail

WFUV and the What’s What Podcast

Special thanks to Truth Murray-Cole for spearheading this event!

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $25

Public – $30

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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.

ArtTable’s Artist Talks are made possible by the Pollock Krasner Foundation.

Images: Sheila Pepe, Crane, Madison Square Park.Sheila Pepe, photo by Rachel Stern.

About the Artist

Sheila Pepe was born in Morristown, New Jersey in 1959. She lives and works in Brooklyn. Pepe received a BA from Albertus Magnus College in New Haven; a BFA in ceramics from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The artist’s mother taught her to crochet in the 1960s. Pepe discovered women artists who were a generation or two older and associated with the feminist art movement–Lynda Benglis, Eva Hesse, and Nancy Spero–as a crucible to launch her sculptural investigations. www.sheilapepe.com

About the Curator

Brooke Kamin Rapaport is deputy director and Martin Friedman chief curator at New York’s Madison Square Park Conservancy, which she joined in 2013. She was commissioner and curator of the 2019 United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale with the exhibition Martin Puryear: Liberty/Liberta. A major catalogue published by Gregory R. Miller accompanied the Venice exhibition. At Madison Square Park Conservancy, she is responsible for the outdoor public sculpture program of commissioned work by contemporary artists including Diana AI-Hadid, Tony Cragg, Abigail DeVille, Leonardo Drew, Teresita Fernandez, Maya Lin, Josiah McElheny, Martin Puryear, Erwin Redl, Arlene Shechet, and Krzysztof Wodiczko. She is the founder of Public Art Consortium, a national initiative of museum, public art, and sculpture park colleagues launched in 2017. Rapaport was a curator of contemporary art at the Brooklyn Museum and a guest curator at The Jewish Museum. She sits on the boards of three artist-endowed foundations and the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College.
