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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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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*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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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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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!

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

About the Artist

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

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.

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

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

Please note health, safety, and procedural information:

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

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

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

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

Admission:

ArtTable Members $25

Guests $35

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Please note that this event is now waitlisted! Click “Register Here” to add your name.

Thank you to Susannah Haworth Dunn for spearheading this event!

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

Curator-Led Tour of "El Dorado: Myths of Gold" at the Americas Society
2023-11-15 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue, New York, 10065
Join ArtTable for a curator-led tour of Pt I: El Dorado: Myths of Gold, exploring the legend of El Dorado as a foundational myth of the Americas. Artists in the show include Olga de Amaral, Denilson Baniwa, Bruno Baptistelli, Andrés Bedoya, Wendy Cabrera Rubio, Leda Catunda, Chiriquí artist, Coclé artists, william cordova, Juan Covelli, Covens & Mortier, Harmonia Rosales, Tiago Sant’Ana, Julia Santos Solomon, Moara Tupinambá, Laura Vinci, and Alberta Whittle.

During the colonization of the Americas, colonial fantasies of an Indigenous kingdom replete with gold and precious stones quickly permeated the European imagination, galvanizing the invasion of the continent and serving as a justification for genocide as well as the destruction of ancestral territories and the environment. As we come to terms with the long-term sociopolitical and environmental effects of this dynamic, there is a pressing need to reevaluate its influence on our identification as human beings and members of a globalized society. By placing historical and contemporary artworks together, the exhibition facilitates dialogues between past and present to investigate how the myth has shaped the value of gold, as well as that of territories, peoples, religious beliefs, and nature.

Thank you to Julia P Herzberg, PhD for coordinating this program.Please see AS/COA website for exhibition funding acknowledgments.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $10

ArtTable Member Guests – $20

Public – $25

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

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: Alberta Whittle, Jamestown Mythology: Amonute, 2023. Laser-engraved woodblock print on Somerset Satin 300 gsm paper with saliva embossed in gold, 23 5⁄8 × 26 5⁄8 inches (60 × 67.5 cm). Courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow.

Aimé Iglesias Lukin is an art historian and curator. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, she has lived in New York since 2011. Her Ph.D. in art history from Rutgers University, titled “This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York 1965–1975,” became a show at Americas Society in 2021. She completed her M.A. at The Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and her undergraduate studies in art history at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Her research received grants from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Terra and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations, and the ICAA Peter C. Marzio Award from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her writing has been presented at conferences internationally and published by prestigious museums and academic journals, including the New Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim Museum. She curated exhibitions independently in museums and cultural centers and previously worked in the Modern and Contemporary Art Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, and Fundación Proa in Buenos Aires.

Tie Jojima is an associate curator at Americas Society in New York and a PhD candidate in art history at the Graduate Center, CUNY, specializing in modern and contemporary Latin American art, with a focus on Brazilian art. Her larger research interests encompass performance and media art in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as contemporary Asian diasporic art practices in Latin America.

Curator-Led tour of "Making Their Mark" with Cecilia Alemani
2023-11-28 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Shah Garg Foundation, 548 West 22nd Street, New York, New York, 10011
Making Their Mark is a major exhibition showcasing the works of more than 80 of the most significant women artists from the last eight decades. Curated by Cecilia Alemani, Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art and Curator of the 59th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, the exhibition marks the first public viewing of the Shah Garg Collection: a groundbreaking body of work by women collected by Komal Shah and Gaurav Garg.

Making Their Mark includes historic and contemporary artworks by Jennifer Bartlett, Lynda Benglis, Firelei Báez, Cecily Brown, Judy Chicago, Sonia Gomes, Sheila Hicks, Jacqueline Humphries, Mary Heilmann, Charline von Heyl, Joan Mitchell, Julie Mehretu, Elizabeth Murray, Howardena Pindell, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Joan Semmel, Joan Snyder, Amy Sillman, Mary Weatherford, and Anicka Yi, among many others.

Making Their Mark introduces a broader audience to the mission of the Shah Garg Foundation, located in the historic former home of DIA Chelsea at 548 West 22nd Street. The Foundation is committed to championing the work of women artists, from the modern era through the present day, with Making Their Mark introducing its curatorial vision to the public for the first time.The evening will begin with an informal reception at 6 PM and progress to the exhibit tour at 7 PM.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $20

Member Guests – $30

Public – $35

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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.

Thank you to Cara Blumstein for her assistance with this event!

Images: Install Views – Credit Tom Powel Imaging, Courtesy Shah Garg Foundation.Cecilia Alemani, Courtesy of the High Line. Photo Liz Ligon.

About the Curator

Cecilia Alemani is an Italian curator based in New York. Since 2011, she has been the Donald R. Mullen, Jr Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art, the public art program presented by the High Line in New York. In 2022, she curated The Milk of Dreams, the 59th International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia. In 2018, Alemani served as Artistic Director of the inaugural edition of Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires. In 2017, she curated the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Cecilia’s full bio is available here.

Guided Tour of Hollyhock House with Abbey Chamberlain Brach
2023-11-30 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Hollyhock House, 4800 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, 90027
This is a bespoke tour for only ten people: don’t miss your chance for this behind-the-scenes tour with Hollyhock House Site Director & Curator Abbey Chamberlain Brach—book your ticket today!

“Now, with a radical client like Miss Barnsdall, a site like Olive Hill, a climate like California, an architect head on for freedom, something had to happen… So this Romanza of California came out on Olive Hill.” —Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography, 1943

Heiress Aline Barnsdall (1882-1946) created a revolutionary life: a feminist, traveler, single mother by design, supporter of experimental Chicago theatre, close friend of Emma Goldman, early patron of The Hollywood Bowl, and champion of revolutionary causes. Barnsdsall commissioned an equally iconic home from Frank Lloyd Wright, intended to be the center of an Olive Hill arts complex. Barnsdall gifted Hollyhock House and Barnsdall Park to the City of Los Angeles in 1927, and it was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019.“Hollyhock House has inspired generations of artists, architects, and designers. It is a harbinger of California Modernism and designed by Wright in response to the region, capturing the drama of Hollywood and embracing building traditions of the American southwest.” —Hollyhock House Education Thank you to ArtTable Board Vice-President, Felice Axelrod!Admission:

ArtTable Members $25
Member Guests $35

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*THIS EVENT HAS A WAITING LIST: PLEASE CLICK “REGISTER HERE” TO ADD YOURSELF TO IT!

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

Image: Stan Ecklund, Courtesy City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

Abbey Chamberlain Brach is Site Director & Curator at Hollyhock House, part of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. She manages interpretation, restoration, and preservation, including a major restoration of the Residence A guest house begun in 2017. From 2012 to 2018, Abbey worked at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as part of the decorative arts and design department—contributing to exhibitions on twentieth-century design dialogues between California and Mexico, the Arts and Crafts movement, and Peter Zumthor’s design for LACMA.Abbey earned her master’s degree in American History at the University of Delaware, while working in the curatorial department at Winterthur Museum. She served as the Curator & Director of Education at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum and the Assistant Education Coordinator for the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, operating El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park and Casa de la Guerra.

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

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

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

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

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $10

Member Guests – $20

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Thank you to Ashley Templeton for organizing this program.

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

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

VIP Access Passes | Miami Art Week 2023
2023-12-05 10:00 - 2023-12-10 18:00 (America/New_York) | California
ArtTable VIP Access Passes for fairs taking place during Miami Art Week are now live and available to all ArtTable members for purchase! To secure your pass, login to the member portal and select your preferred available pass option. Participating fairs and remaining pass types indicated below; we look forward to seeing you in Miami in early December!

Participating Fairs:

Art Basel Miami Beach

UNTITLED

NADA Miami

SCOPE Art Show

Design/Miami

VIP Access Pass Levels Available:

Silver Level (ArtTable Members Only) – $85

Gold Level (ArtTable Members Only) – $135

Diamond Level (ArtTable Members Only) – $155

Annual Miami Beach Brunch Reception | SCOPE 2023
2023-12-08 10:30 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | Scope Miami Beach | 2023, 801 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, Florida, 33139
Please join us for ArtTable’s Annual Brunch during Miami Art Week, set to take place this year at SCOPE Miami Beach! This is a great time for members and friends from across the country and worldwide to come together and network. SCOPE Miami Beach returns to its bespoke pavilion on the sands of Ocean Drive and 8th Street, welcoming more than 150 diverse contemporary exhibitors. Your ticket includes day-of access to the fair.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $55

Member Guests – $65

Non-Members – $75

Thank you to our friends at SCOPE for their support of ArtTable’s mission to advance the leadership of women-identifying and nonbinary professionals in the visual arts!

Berkeley, CA | Reading at the (Art)Table: Katy Hessel "The Story of Art Without Men"
2023-12-10 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Gilman Grill in Berkeley, 1300 4th street, Berkeley, California, 94710, United States
Join the Northern California Chapter in Reading at the (Art)Table as we move through the centuries of “The Story of Art Without Men” by Katy Hessel. Here is an opportunity to marvel at art in every shape and form by women who wielded brush, hammer, and fire across continents and conventions to pursue their art.

This program is free to attend (optional donation) and open to ArtTable members.Registration is required below.
Please Note: The event will take place outdoors. In the event of inclement weather, the event will take place indoors with masking suggested for those at risk.

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

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

Admission:

ArtTable Members – complimentary

Member Guests – $10

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

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

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

Virtual | New Member Orientation & Member Portal Walkthrough
2023-12-14 16:00 - 17:00 (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.
Not a member? Join today!

(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!

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

Host spaces will include:

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

Kim Cooper studio

Cianne Fragione studio

Philip Livingston studio

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $30

Member Guests – $35

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

Curator-Led Tour of Kindred Worlds at the Hudson River Museum
2024-01-06 13:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Hudson River Museum, 511 Warburton Ave, Yonkers, New York, 10701
Join Alyssa Alexander, Independent Curator and Arts Administrator, and Karintha Lowe, Mellon Fellow in the Public Humanities, for a tour of Kindred Worlds: The Priscila & Alvin Hudgins Collection. Get an insider’s look into the Hudgins family and their vital legacy of Black American collectorship, and learn how themes of myth, memory, and leisure flow through this formally stunning and historically significant artworks.

Following the tour, attendees will be hosted by Jessica L. Porter, Lila Harnett Executive Director of ArtTable, and Masha Turchinsky, ArtTable Board Member and the Director of the Hudson River Museum, at her historic Glenview home for a light reception.

Alyssa Alexander is a curator, exhibitions manager, and arts administrator based in Brooklyn. With a background in journalism and critical writing, she is currently building a curatorial practice and pursuing more in-depth cultural and art-historical research that centers artists of African descent, with a special focus on woman-identifying artists of the Caribbean. She is dedicated to working with emerging artists and institutions to cultivate a more accessible and equitable creative economy.

Karintha Lowe, PhD, American Studies program at Harvard University, is the Mellon Public Humanities Fellow at the Hudson River Museum and Sarah Lawrence College. She researches and writes about Asian American women’s experimental artmaking practices. An interdisciplinary scholar and curator, Lowe has also worked at the New York Historical Society and the Museum of Chinese in America, where she developed public programming and exhibitions on twentieth-century American art.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Non Members – $25

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Thank you to Masha Turchinsky for organizing this program.

Curator-Led Tour of Marie Laurencin with Cindy Kang
2024-01-11 15:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Barnes Foundation, 2025 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19130, United States
Join ArtTable Members for an intimate look at the fall exhibition Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris, the first major US exhibition dedicated to French artist Marie Laurencin (1883-1956) in over 30 years. Laurencin’s highly original painting style defied categorization, as she moved seamlessly between the male-dominated avant-garde, literary and artistic circles, and the realms of fashion, ballet, and decorative arts. The exhibition is co-curated by Simonetta Fraquelli and Cindy Kang. Presenting more than 50 works, from self-portraits to collaborative decorative projects; from early cubist paintings to her signature work—feminine and discreetly queer, this exhibition examines how Laurencin’s visualization of a “Sapphic modernity” subtly but radically challenges existing narrative of modern European art.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $10

Member Guests – $15

Public – $20

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Thank you to Katie Adams for organizing this program.

Cindy Kang, PhD, is Curator at the Barnes Foundation. Prior to joining Barnes in 2014, Dr. Kang’s curatorial experience includes work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Frick Collection; and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Dr. Kang earned her BA in art history and French from Wellesley College and her MA and PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. In addition to contributing to a number of significant publications, she has received several fellowships, including a Predoctoral Fellowship from the Getty Research Institute (2012–2013); the Theodore Rousseau Fellowship from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2011–2012); and the Harriet A. Shaw Fellowship from Wellesley College (2011–2012). Dr. Kang served as the organizing curator of the Barnes’s Marie Cuttoli: The Modern Thread from Miró to Man-Ray (2020), managing curator for Water, Wind, Breath: Southwest Native Art in Community (2022); Renoir: Father and Son (2018) and Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist (2018).

Curator-Led Tour of Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte!
2024-01-17 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | The Jewish Museum, 1109 5th Ave & E 92nd St, New York, New York, 10128
Marta Minujín in her studio on rue Delambre in Paris, with her first multicolored mattresses,1963. Marta Minujín Archive. © Marta Minujín, courtesy of Henrique Faria, New York andHerlitzka & Co., Buenos Aires

Join ArtTable for an intimiate look at the first survey exhibition in the United States of Marta Minujín, a defining force of Latin American art whose trajectory intersected with the major artistic developments of the postwar period while reflecting a singular spirit and vision infused by her sharp intellect, irreverent humor, and performative presence. Hosted by The Jewish Museum, this tour will be led by Associate Curator, Rebecca Shaykin.

This extensive exhibition includes nearly 100 works organized to reflect Minujín’s bold experimentation over six decades. The exhibition charts Minujín’s influential career in Buenos Aires as well as time spent in Paris, New York, and Washington, DC, through a range of pioneering, mattress-based soft sculptures; fluorescent large-scale paintings; psychedelic drawings and performances; and vintage film footage. The artist’s ephemeral works – happenings, participatory installations, and monumental public art – are presented through rarely-seen photographs, video, and other documentation.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $10

Member Guests – $20

Public – $25

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Thank you to Dr. Julia P. Herzberg for organizing this program.

Rebecca Shaykin is an Associate Curator at the Jewish Museum, where she has worked since 2010. She is co-curator of Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte! (2023, with Darsie Alexander). In 2019, she organized the critically-acclaimed Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art; the accompanying catalogue was a New York Times Critic’s Pick and winner of the 2019 National Jewish Book Award (Visual Arts). Additional projects include: Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist (2016, with Jens Hoffmann and Claudia J. Nahson), Helena Rubinstein: Beauty Is Power (2014, with Mason Klein); and The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951 (2011, with Mason Klein and Catherine Evans). Shaykin has played a vital role in the museum’s acquisitions program, bringing works by Candice Breitz, Elinor Carucci, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Deborah Kass, Kali Spitzer, and Carrie Mae Weems into the collection. Previously, Shaykin worked at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she assisted on Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968 (2010) and Kiki Smith: Sojourn (2010). She received her BA in Art History from Oberlin College and MA from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art.

New York | Kick off the New Year Party
2024-01-23 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Peter Freeman Gallery, 140 Grand Street, New York, New York, 10013, United States
Join ArtTable Members and their guests for a start of year celebration with wine and light bites. The event will be hosted at the Peter Freeman Gallery with Elisabetta Benassi: The Drowned World on view for guests to enjoy.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Non Members – $25

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Thank you to the Peter Freeman Gallery and Courtney Burbela for organizing this program.

Peter Freeman Gallery

Peter Freeman, Inc., founded in 1990, represents leading international artists and the estates of several generations, spanning the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, and specializes in important historical works with particular emphasis on early Pop, Minimal, and Conceptual Art.

The gallery presents at least five exhibitions each year of work we believe is especially relevant to the art of our time. Solo exhibitions highlight the rich way in which artists respond to the materials, forces, and questions of the day. Focused group exhibitions explore significant movements, themes, and ideas that continue to influence and define our culture. The historic works handled by the gallery over the past thirty years are broad-ranging and can often be defined by their rarity and significance.

In 2006, Peter Freeman partnered with Galerie Nelson to establish what would eventually become Peter Freeman, Inc., Paris in 2013. The gallery, both in New York and in Paris, has always presented historically significant works in conversation with newer work by living artists. For this reason, much of our business has been with museums.

Peter Freeman also publishes scholarly books, including a catalogue raisonné Robert Mangold: Early Works, with text by Robert Storr; the first US catalogue on the works of Charlotte Posenenske; several catalogues on Medardo Rosso; James Ensor: Paintings, with text by Xavier Tricot; the first monograph of Catherine Murphy, with text by John Yau and Svetlana Alpers; a facsimile edition of Mangelos’s Pythagoras with an essay by Branka Stipančić; and the artist book Tide, a collaboration with Silvia Bächli and the writer Jamaica Kincaid.

Glendale, CA | Curatorial Walkthrough of If Memory Serves: Photography, Recollections and Vision at the Brand Library & Art Center
2024-02-02 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | The Brand Library, 1601 W. Mountain, Glendale, California, United States
Join Dr. Rotem Rozental, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Los Angeles Center of Photography, for a walkthrough of the exhibition If Memory Serves: Photography, Recollections and Vision. Our hard drives may fail. Our phones might break. We may forget an image that was once cemented in our minds. Our relationships with images and devices that hold our memories define how we understand our position in the world. If Memory Serves emerges from the moments those devices fail us, our recollections betray us and our pictures refuse to bring back the people they once captured. This exhibition emerges from the intersection of our haunting pasts, possible futures, and our connections to photographic images, technologies and the systems that ask to speak for our photographs.The exhibition begins with and honors Aline Smithson, a mentor, photographer and educator, whose work with artists is redefining photographic practice. If Memory Serves celebrates her immense contribution to photography and further comments upon the reach of her stewardship and pedagogy. The participating artists have all been studying with and from her. Seen together, their works offer profound insight into our co-existence with photography, suggesting meeting points between personal experiences and broader societal issues and conflicts – from privacy to grief, from representation to immigration.Artists: Aurora Wilder Collective (Jennifer Pritchard in collaboration with Patrick Corrigan and DALL-E), Elizabeth Bailey, Dena Elisabeth Eber, Sarah Hadley, Diane Hemingway, Rohina Hoffman, Susan Lapides, Annette LeMay Burke, Annie Omens, Lori Ordover, Safi Alia Shabaik, Aline Smithson, Rosalie Rosenthal

If Memory Serves: Photography, Recollections and Vision | Honoring Aline Smithson

Admission:

ArtTable Members – Free

Member Guests – $5

Public – $10

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Rotem Rozental, Ph.D, is the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Center of Photography. Between 2016-2022, she served as Chief Curator at American Jewish University, where she was also Assistant Dean of the Whizin Center for Continuing Education and Senior Director of Arts and Creative Programming. Her upcoming book, Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement was published by Routledge in March 2023, and was named recipient of the Jordan Schnitzer First Book Award by the Association for Jewish Studies.

Rotem is a lecturer at USC Roski School of Art and Design Critical Studies Department. She mentors artists worldwide and contributes regularly to magazines, journals and exhibition catalogues. Her writings about contemporary art and image-based media, as well as Jewish and Israeli art, were published in Artforum.com, Photographies, Jewish Currents, Tablet and Forward, among other outlets.

Virtual Workshop | Intersectionality of Race and Gender in the Artistic Labor Market
2024-02-07 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Virtual
9 am PST / 10 am MST / 11 am CST / 12 pm EST

VIRTUAL | Intersectionality of Race and Gender in the Artistic Labor Market

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 on the Intersectionality of Race and Gender in the Artistic Labor Market. Then, attendees will collaboratively respond to the presentation and begin to build solutions and suggestions that will be incorporated into our published findings and circulated among members. The solution is not individual, but, rather shared. In this second workshop of ArtTable’s Pay Equity Initiatives, we hope this program will be a collaborative effort in 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.

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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
