ArtTable

AT Together | Educators with Riva Blumenfeld
2020-04-30 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Texas
Image: Courtesy of Riva Blumenfeld
In this time of crisis, ArtTable is reaching beyond geographic barriers to form a platform for connectivity for our community across professions. Each weekly session will bring together individuals within a particular profession in the art world for the exchange of ideas, to share resources and to network. Members are invited to participate in a 45 minute open discussion to focus on how women in the visual arts are handling issues relating to our field. Members and non-members welcome. We ask that you sign up for the event that matches your role and needs.
This session is for Educators and will be facilitated by Riva Blumenfeld, museum educator.
How to take part!

Register for this event here
Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link
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Riva Blumenfeld began her career as an educator at the Brooklyn Museum and then became an art dealer specializing in contemporary art & printmaking which she has been pursuing for over 25 years. Since closing her public gallery in January 2002, she has been teaching adult classes in contemporary galleries at the 92nd Street Y and since 2004 she’s been working with school groups at the Guggenheim Museum and families and access groups at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Additionally, she was the New York chapter chair of ArtTable and on the board of the Lower Eastside Printshop.

VIRTUAL | ATCONNECT with Roberta Bantel
2020-04-29 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Texas
Image: Roberta Bantel
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
How to take part!

Click here to Register for this event
Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link
Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center and select the “Zoom Client for Meetings” option. Alternatively, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link.
For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

ArtTable CONNECT virtual lunch breaks
This April, ArtTable is expanding its CONNECT program to intimate online discussions open to members nationally across chapters. Originally designed to further encourage one-to-one networking amongst its members in DC, CONNECT is transitioning to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.
Join us for these “Ask Me Anything” session via Zoom to take advantage of learning more about different sectors of the art world while respecting social distancing.

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

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

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

Register for this event here
Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link
Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center and select the “Zoom Client for Meetings” option. Alternatively, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link.
For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

This program is for ArtTable members only!

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

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

In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!

How to take part!

Click here to Register for this event
Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link
Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center and select the “Zoom Client for Meetings” option. Alternatively, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link.
For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

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

Virtual | ArtTable X Come to Your Census Discussion and Happy Hour!
2020-04-24 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Texas
Image: Art+Action’s Come to Your Census campaign. Featured artwork from left to right: Masako Miki, Conversation with Plates, 2018., Clare Rojas, Untitled, 2020., Joel Daniel Phillips, Charlie Lee #3, 2017.
Join ArtTable for a conversation with the creative collaborators behind- Come to Your Census: Who Counts in America? a digital art and civic experience organized by Yerba Buena Arts Center as part of Art+Action’s arts-driven COME TO YOUR CENSUS arts-driven campaign, galvanizing communities to participate in the 2020 Census. As part of ArtTable’s curatorial perspective virtual programming, we’ll be speaking with the curators, artists, and creative collaborators involved in this initiative, as an important model of how now more than ever, arts institutions are embracing collaboration and leaning into their role to advocate with and inspire our communities.
This event will be followed by a 10 minute Census-taking ‘happy hour.’ For all who take their 2020 Census and send proof to Art+Action, they will be gifted an art sweatshirt by artists Arleene Correa Valencia + Ana Teresa Fernández as part of their collaboration SOMOS VISIBLES. This ongoing project takes a political stance on visibility through the use of high visibility ready-to-wear safety gear present throughout many labor industries, and as it relates to the invisibility of the undocumented in the U.S.—and within COME TO YOUR CENSUS campaign, as it relates to being seen and counted in the 2020 Census. Read more about SOMOS VISIBLES—made possible through the generous support of Levi’s—and the artists’ work here.
How to take part!

Register for this event here
Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link
Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center and select the “Zoom Client for Meetings” option. Alternatively, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link.
For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

Before COVID-19 changed our lives and took hold of our collective psyche, independent curator, activist and ArtTable member Amy Kisch was commissioned by San Francisco’s Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs (OCEIA) to develop an arts-driven campaign to mobilize communities around the 2020 Census. Understanding that the Census determines the distribution of federal money and political power across the U.S., Kisch, together with Amy Schoening and Brittany Ficken, formed Art+Action, the first-ever coalition for civic participation across art, creative, community, business, technology, philanthropy, activist, and government sectors. Art+Action approached Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), inviting them to enter into a partnership to amplify and expand this work. YBCA eagerly accepted this call to collaboration—becoming a Lead Partner in the coalition and Art+Action’s headquarters
Meet the participants:
Ashara Ekundayo is a Detroit-born, Oakland-based, inter-disciplinary independent curator, artist, creative industries entrepreneur and organizer working internationally across cultural, spiritual, civic, and social innovation spaces. Through her company AECreative Consulting Partners she places artists and cultural production as essential in equitable design practices, real estate development, and movement building. Some of her ventures Evolve Oakland (formally known as Impact Hub Oakland), Omi Arts Project + Space, and Ashara Ekundayo Gallery gained international attention for their groundbreaking methodology and courageous programming and have been featured in publications such as Black Enterprise, Forbes and The Guardian. Ashara is also a “pleasure activist” and her creative arts practice epistemology requires an embodied commitment to recognizing joy in the midst of struggle.Currently she serves as Chief Creative Catalyst for the Bay Area Girls & Womxn of Color Collaborative, sits on the Advisory Board of the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music, and is the Co-Founder of See Black Women – a curatorial collective whose mission is to center and present an understanding of Black feminist thought and creative culture through exhibition, publication and policy. Her new media platform and forthcoming book, “Artist As First Responder” excavates, documents, and nurtures the next generation of cultural workers whose practices save lives.
re.riddle’s founder and principal and ArtTable member, Candace Huey, brings her extensive knowledge of and experience in the art world to her projects. Huey has worked for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Bonham’s auction house, Alameda County Arts Commission and various galleries in the Bay Area where she curated exhibitions showcasing the work of 20th century masters and contemporary artists. As an independent curator, she conceptualized and produced exhibitions for cultural institutions such as Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, Consulado General de México, Consulado General de España, and Consulat Général de France, San Francisco. She consults on collection portfolio and development for private clients in San Francisco, Hong Kong, Chicago, London and Paris.
Huey holds degrees from The Courtauld in London and U.C. Berkeley, and has presented her academic research on 17th century Dutch Art at renowned conferences in the United States and the Netherlands. She currently teaches art history at a private university, sits on the executive council for SECA SFMoMA, de Young Museum College Programs Advisory, ArtTable and is an active member of Artadia San Francisco Council and Headlands Center for the Arts.
Sarah Cathers is the Director of Public Life at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco where she develops the organizational focus on radical hospitality; participation rich public spaces; deep and generative relationships with community; and a culture of invitation. Making sure that people, aka ‘the public’, are at the center of everything we do at YBCA, Sarah works alongside other departments to lead projects out of traditional roadblocks and help connect the work we all do in a more holistic manner.
She has 24 years of experience in arts leadership, curation and operations, including producing 7 years of the renowned SFFilm Festival and 9 years at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. She has performed in and produced stage and film works for SFMOMA and Di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, designed costumes for independent short films and music videos and was an internationally touring performance artist. She has served on the Board of The Lab, one of San Francisco’s most beloved experimental performance spaces and managed a 15-artist gallery and studio space in her hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
Martin Strickland is the Associate Director of Public Life at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco where he develops the organizational focus on radical hospitality; participation rich public spaces; deep and generative relationships with community; and a culture of invitation. Making sure that people, aka ‘the public’, are at the center of everything we do at YBCA, Martin works to commit the model of the art institution as a public resource — to pledge the institution to artistic practitioners and constituencies who understand art and culture as forms of knowledge and experience that support civic inquiry.
He has curated multiple exhibitions and public programs, including co-curating YBCA’s signature triennial Bay Area Now 8 in 2018, and has collaborated with Lucía Sanromán on The City Initiative, a series of exhibitions and public programs featuring architects designers, planners and artists that focus on creating provocative works in the urban environment. Prior to YBCA, he worked as the programs assistant at the Arts Research Center, UC Berkeley, as an independent contractor with the San Francisco Arts Commission, and as a community organizer for public health in New Orleans.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is one of the nation’s most innovative contemporary arts centers. Founded in 1993, YBCA’s mission is to generate culture that moves people.
Amy Kisch is the Founder + Artistic Director of Social Impact for the Art+Action Coalition. For over two decades, Kisch has worked as a strategist and cultural producer, developing major global, art, culture, and brand initiatives for high-profile private, corporate, institutional, and non-profit clients including Sotheby’s, ABC TV, The Armory Show, AT&T, NYFA, and the Williamsburg Gallery Association, among others. Having spent six years in clinical and community social work, her projects are underscored by efforts to democratize access, while upholding integrity and quality in curatorial vision and programming. In 2018, Kisch launched Collect For Change™—collaborating with artists to offer artwork with a portion of sales benefiting a charity selected by each artist.
Brittany Ficken is cultural producer who has worked in the arts for the last eight years at art museums, arts organizations, and on various independent projects. She is the Executive Producer and Project Director of Art+Action, an arts-driven cross-sector coalition for civic participation—mobilizing around the 2020 Census—headquartered at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and powered by San Francisco’s Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs.
Brittany Ficken is the Co-Director of The Painting Salon, a bi-monthly roaming lecture series that creates conversation around contemporary art in the San Francisco Bay Area. From 2016-2019, Brittany Ficken worked with Headlands Center for the Arts to manage the production of outdoor public artworks in the National Park, produce events, fundraise, manage Board relations, and to run the artist limited edition program. While in the Bay Area, Brittany has also worked with McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, Rena Bransten Gallery, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Previously, in New York, Brittany Ficken developed arts programming and communications for Artis. She also worked on the Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ annual benefit art exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery. From 2012-2014 Brittany Ficken was Assistant Curator at City Ice Arts in Kansas City. In 2012 she worked with the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art. The same year, Brittany Ficken co-founded Archive Collective, an active organization that provides opportunities for communities to engage with photography by hosting group critiques, gallery visits, artist talks, studio visit, and local and traveling exhibitions.

CANCELED: ANNUAL BENEFIT & AWARD CEREMONY⎪Honoring Susan Unterberg
2020-04-24 12:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Texas
Your health and the health of our supporters is important to us. It is with a heavy heart that we have decided to cancel this year’s annual benefit and award ceremony.
This is a signature ArtTable event that we look forward to each year as an opportunity to bring our network together from around the world celebrating the women who make a difference in the art world.
The excitement around this year’s event in celebration of our 40th anniversary as well as our honoree Susan Unterberg and our awardees Wassan Al-Khudairi, Erin Christovale, Lauren Haynes and Jami Powell has been incredible. These women are an inspiration to us all.

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

ArtTable Benefit and Award Ceremony Honorary Benefit Co-Chairs:
Susan K. Freedman
Lowery Stokes Sims
Barbara Tober
2020 Benefit Supporters and Host Committee Ruby Supporters Alva Greenberg Gold Supporters BlackRock Bloomberg Philanthropies Agnes Gund Susan Unterberg Bronze Supporters ArtTable Northern California Chapter Susan K. Freedman Carol Cole Levin Marian Goodman Gallery Elizabeth Smith Barbara Tober HOST COMMITTEE Jody and John Arnhold Arlene Bascom Catherine Behrend Brian Wall Foundation Courtney Burbela Peggy Danziger Linda Fischbach Milly Glimcher Thelma Golden Donna Harkavy Patricia E. Harris Julia P. Herzberg Barbara T. Hoffman Raymond Learsy Susana Torruella Leval Melissa Osterwind The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Lyn M. Ross Mary Sabbatino Ann Schaffer Lowery Stokes Sims Ellen Taubman MATRON/PATRON Jane Borthwick Lori Chemla Marna Clark Eileen Ekstract Elaine Goldman Marilyn Hoffman Sandra Lang Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz *list as of February 24, 2020

ArtTable Benefit Journal: Ad Deadline Extended to April 3!
We are still planning to share our Annual Benefit Journal with our members + friends digitally. This a wonderful opportunity to show your support for our honorees or promote your business and services. See the link below for journal rates and sizes!
Journal advertising rates
For more information please contact Jonquil Schaller-Harris at jharris@arttable.org

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

Honorees + Presenter Bios
2020 Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Honoree
Susan Unterberg is a New York–based photographer and philanthropist whose poetic photographic and video work explores the psychological complexities of intimate relationships, especially familial ones, as well as nature and broader political themes. She was represented by Lawrence Miller Gallery, and later Yancey Richardson Gallery, and her work has been exhibited broadly in the U.S. and abroad at such institutions as the New Museum, International Center of Photography, and Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Unterberg is represented in major public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Jewish Museum, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Artists Program, American Academy in Rome, and Bogliasco. In 2019, she was awarded NYU’s Distinguished Alumni Award, as well as being honored at the Skowhegan Awards Dinner. In 2018, Unterberg stepped forward as the founder and sole funder of the Anonymous Was A Woman award, which awards 10 unrestricted $25,000 grants to women-identifying artists over the age of 40.
2020 New Leadership Awardees
Wassan Al-Khudhairi is chief curator at the Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) in St. Louis where she organized Stephanie Syjuco: Rogue States, Bethany Collins: Chorus, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Eartwitness Theatre, Guan Xiao: Fiction Archive Project, Hayv Kahraman: Acts of Reparation, Trenton Doyle Hancock: The Re-Evolving Door to the Moundverse, and SUPERFLEX: European Union Mayotte. Prior to her position at CAM, Al-Khudhairi was the Hugh Kaul Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Birmingham Museum of Art where she organized the first large-scale exhibition of the museum’s contemporary collection, Third Space/shifting conversations about contemporary art. She was invited to be a curator for the 6th Asian Art Biennial in Taiwan in 2017 and co-artistic director for the 9th Gwangju Biennial in South Korea in 2012. Serving as the founding director of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar, Al-Khudhairi oversaw the opening of the museum in 2010 and co-curated Sajjil: A Century of Modern Art and curated Cai Guo-Qiang: Saraab.

Erin Christovale is associate curator at the Hammer Museum and co-founder of Black Radical Imagination with Amir George. Notable exhibitions include a/wake in the water: Meditations on Disaster (2014) at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Memoirs of a Watermelon Woman (2016), and A Subtle Likeness (2016), both at ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, S/Election: Democracy, Citizenship, Freedom (2016) at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, the critically acclaimed Made in L.A. 2018 (2018) with Anne Ellegood, and belonging (2019) at the Hammer Museum.

Lauren Haynes is the curator of contemporary art at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and curator of visual arts at the Momentary in Bentonville, AR. Haynes was co-curator of the 2018 Crystal Bridges’s exhibition The Beyond: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Art and is co-curator of the 2019 exhibition Crystals in Art: Ancient to Today. Haynes is currently leading the curatorial team working on the exhibition State of the Art, which opened at both Crystal Bridges and Momentary in February 2020. Prior to joining Crystal Bridges in October 2016, Haynes spent nearly a decade at the Studio Museum in Harlem. As a specialist in African-American contemporary art, Haynes curated dozens of exhibitions at the Studio Museum and contemporary art institutions in New York. Haynes was a 2018 Center for Curatorial Leadership fellow. Haynes is co-curator of the inaugural Tennessee Triennial for Contemporary Art taking place across Tennessee in 2021.

Jami Powell is the Hood Museum’s first associate curator of Native American art and was recently appointed as a lecturer in Native American Studies at Dartmouth. Powell is a citizen of the Osage Nation and has a PhD in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to working at the Hood, she was a faculty lecturer at Tufts University. She has also worked as a research assistant at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, was a Mellon Fellow at the Peabody Essex Museum, and has conducted research projects at the Field Museum of Natural History and the Denver Art Museum. Powell’s research examines representations of Indigenous peoples in museums as well as the interventions contemporary Indigenous artists make through creative acts of self-representation. Powell is currently working on a book manuscript from her dissertation titled Stitching an Osage Future: Aesthetic Resistance and Self-Representation. She has also published articles in Museum Anthropology, Panorama, Museum Management, and Curatorship, and is an editorial advisor for First American Art Magazine. Powell has served on curatorial advisory boards for the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Yale University. She is currently working on several exhibitions including Form and Relation: Contemporary Native Ceramics, Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange (CIPX) Dartmouth, and This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World.
Presenters
Amy Sherald was born in 1973 in Columbus, GA, Sherald documents contemporary African-American experience in the U.S. through arresting, otherworldly portraits. Sherald subverts the medium of portraiture to tease out unexpected narratives, inviting viewers to engage in a more complex debate about accepted notions of race and representation, and to situate black heritage centrally in the story of American art. Sherald received her MFA in painting from Maryland Institute College of Art (2004) and her BA in painting from Clark-Atlanta University (1997). She was the first woman and first African-American ever to receive first prize in the 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition from the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC; in February 2018, the museum unveiled her portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama. Sherald has also received the 2018 David C. Driskell Prize from the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the 2018 Pollock Prize for Creativity, and the 2017 Anonymous Was A Woman grant. Her solo exhibition “Heart of the Matter” opened at Hauser &Wirth in NYC in September 2019. Alongside her painterly practice, Sherald has worked for almost two decades alongside socially-committed creative initiatives, including teaching art in prisons and art projects with teenagers.

Shinique Smith is known for her monumental artworks of bundled fabric and gestural calligraphy that resonate on a spiritual and social scale which have been featured in acclaimed exhibitions such as Revolution in the Making: Women Abstract Sculptors 1940-2016; 30 Americans: Rubell Family Collection; UnMonumental: The Object in the 21st Century; New Museum, and Frequency; Studio Museum in Harlem. Smith’s works are held in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, LACMA, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), and Whitney Museum among others. She earned her MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, where Smith was awarded the Alumni Medal of Honor (2012).

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

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

Register for this event here
Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link
Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center and select the “Zoom Client for Meetings” option. Alternatively, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link.
For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

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

VIRTUAL | ATCONNECT with Alexa Kaye
2020-04-23 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Texas
Image: Alexa Kaye
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
How to take part!

Click here to Register for this event
Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link
Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center and select the “Zoom Client for Meetings” option. Alternatively, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link.
For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

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

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

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

VIRTUAL | ATCONNECT with Concetta Duncan
2020-04-15 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Texas
Image: Concetta Duncan
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
How to take part!

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

Virtual | Care of Modern and Contemporary Paintings with Rustin Levenson, President and Founder, ArtCare Conservation
2020-04-10 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Texas
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is required and open to all. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
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ArtTable’s professional empowerment series invites experts to share their professional experiences, knowledge and skills. Each session presents an opportunity to engage with and learn more about a topic, issue or skill that directly impacts the professional lives of our members. During this session we’ll hear directly from Rustin Levenson, President and Founder, ArtCare Conservation.
The materials and techniques of Modern and Contemporary paintings offer unique challenges for those responsible for assessing, shipping, handling, and treating works. This session will discuss the history of recent artists’ materials and how they impact the life of their paintings. Rustin will outline best practices for handling and shipping these works. For those assessing works,
examples of treatments will give insight into the impact of damage and conservation.
Rustin Levenson has worked on the painting conservation staff of the Fogg Museum, the Canadian Conservation Institute, The National Gallery of Canada, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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

VIRTUAL | BreakfastTable with Alice Walker
2020-04-09 08:30 - 09:30 (America/New_York) | Texas
Image: Alice Walker
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
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ArtTable East Coasters, bring your breakfast and join the DC chapter for a virtual informal conversation with Alice Walker who is an expert in using storytelling, human centered design and technology to create indelible experiences for museums and cultural attractions.
This event will start 30 minutes later than usual to allow adequate time for coffee brewing and breakfast making!
As Managing Director for Art Processors (artprocessors.net), she is on the executive team, heads up their global business development, marketing and product development practices, and manages staff in Melbourne, San Francisco, Atlanta and New York City. Their projects range from location-aware guides and exhibition design to immersive sound installations, augmented and virtual reality experiences, and wearables for institutions such as the Smithsonian Institution, the J. Paul Getty Center, the Venetian and Bellagio in Las Vegas, Portland Museum of Art, and numerous Australian museums, zoos and aquaria.
Her former roles include serving as Antenna International’s Creative Director and Digital Media Director for 9 years, heading up Pentagram Design’s interactive team in their NYC studio, and educational media roles at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and SFMOMA.
Alice resides with her family in Bethesda, MD and is part of Art Table’s DC Chapter.
DC’s BreakfastTable normally takes place at Boulangerie Christophe. The bakery is open and we encourage members in DC to place and order for this event and those in other locations to support local businesses!
Thank you to Ruth Abrahams and Ashley Templeton!

VIRTUAL | ATCONNECT with Maria Sancho-Arroyo
2020-04-08 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Texas
Image: Maria Sancho-Arroyo, Sotheby’s Institute of Art
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
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ArtTable CONNECT virtual lunch breaks
This April, ArtTable is expanding its CONNECT program to intimate online discussions open to members nationally across chapters. Originally designed to further encourage one-to-one networking amongst its members in DC, CONNECT is transitioning to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.
Join us for these “Ask Me Anything” session via Zoom to take advantage of learning more about different sectors of the art world while respecting social distancing.
We’ll kick start this series with a virtual lunch hour with Maria Sancho-Arroyo to learn more about the global art market and this moment of fluctuation during COVID-19.
Maria has over 25 years of international experience in the art world, first at museums – National Museum of Catalan Art, MNAC, in Barcelona and at the Louvre in Paris- then at Sotheby’s Auction House in London. During her time at Sotheby’s, she gained experience in all aspects of the auction world with a focus on business and client development. She has participated in numerous auctions and worked closely with all Sotheby’s European offices. Maria has given lectures on art market trends at the London and New York Sotheby’s Institute, Georgetown University and Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) and is a regular contributor to the “Giornale dell’Arte”, the Italian edition of the Art newspaper. She is involved with art charitable organizations and is the co-chair of ArtTable DC chapter since June 2019.
Maria is currently adjunct faculty at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York teaching various Art Market topics within the MA Art Business and online courses.
She is fluent in Spanish, Italian, French and English and hold and MS in Science (chemistry) from Zaragoza University and MA in Museum management by the Institut National du Patrimoine in Paris, France.
This program is hosted by Concetta Duncan, Maria Sancho-Arroyo and Caitlin Berry

POSTPONED: ArtTable Circle | Special Collection Visit: Ellen Cantrowitz
2020-04-07 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Texas
Image courtesy of Ellen Cantrowitz
In light of the developments concerning COVID-19, we have decided to postpone this special event. All registrations will be held for this event and we hope to be in touch with a new date. Alternatively, your account will be credited for a future ArtTable event.

April 7th is ArtTable Day! In 2005, the Mayor of New York City declared ArtTable Day to be April 7, to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of ArtTable’s founding. Now fifteen years on from this proclamation, and during the year of our 40th Anniversary, we’re celebrating ArtTable Day again with a day of national celebration in chapters across the country!
Celebrate with a visit to the Upper East Side home of long time ArtTable member, art dealer, and collector Ellen Cantrowitz, for an intimate reception and tour of her personal collection, featuring work by Frank Stella, Jean Dubuffet, Joseph Cornell, Huma Bhabha, Yayoi Kusama, Henri Matisse, Philip Guston, Cindy Sherman, Alex Katz, Louise Nevelson, Glenn Ligon, Sol Lewitt, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Isamu Noguchi, Shinique Smith and more!
The full Address will be sent to registrants upon confirmation.
Thank you to Ellen Cantrowitz.
We are closely monitoring the developments concerning the Coronavirus, (COVID-19) and will follow any suggested protocols from the CDC or any other governing body as they relate to our events, programs and travel opportunities.

VIRTUAL | Reading at the (Art)Table
2020-04-05 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Berkeley location to be provided on registration
Image: As Radical As Mother As Salad As Shelter: What Should Art Institutions Do Now?
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This program is for ArtTable members only!

The Northern California Chapter book club, Reading at the (Art)Table, has selected a new publication by Paper Monument. We will be reading “As Radical As Mother As Salad As Shelter:What Should Art Institutions Do Now?”
Paper Monument’s new anthology surveys thirty curators, educators, and art administrators on the contemporary role, responsibilities, and possibilities of the art institution.
Paper Monument is a non-profit art press intent on presenting smart, serious writing that is accessible to a wide audience. Through our books and journal of contemporary art, we explore topics often overlooked by mainstream journalism.
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Thank you to Jan Wurm.

POSTPONED: NOCAL | ArtTable New Member Happy Hour at Bonhams' New SF Location
2020-04-02 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Bonhams, 601 California Street, Suite 150, CA, 94108, United States
In light of the developments concerning COVID-19, we have decided to postpone this special event. All registrations will be held for this event and we hope to be in touch with a new date. Alternatively, your account will be credited for a future ArtTable event.
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ArtTable is kicking off spring early with a special happy hour welcoming new and potential ArtTable members! Hosted by our friends at Bonhams, members and guests are invited to come and view the newly-opened Bonhams gallery space, enjoy their exhibition on view, and meet new and potential members.
All are invited to bring a guest who would like to learn more about ArtTable membership and its benefits and connect with members of the Northern California chapter.
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Thank you to Amelia Manderscheid, VP Senior Director in Contemporary Art, Bonhams
We are closely monitoring the developments concerning the Coronavirus, (COVID-19) and will follow any suggested protocols from the CDC or any other governing body as they relate to our events, programs and travel opportunities.

VIRTUAL | Artist Breakfast with María Elena González
2020-04-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | ONLINE EVENT
Image: MARÍA ELENA GONZÁLEZ (b. 1957). Camo (Boogie Woogie), 2015. Silkscreen, 25 3/4 x 16 1/2 in. Signed, dated, and inscribed (at lower left): 4/20; (at lower center): “Camo Boogie Woogie”; (at lower right): M. E. González 2015.
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is required and open to all. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
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Register for this event here
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This breakfast conversation will now take place at noon East Coast Time, so as to accommodate our Pacific/ Central time members!

Join ArtTable for Artist Breakfasts, a series of conversations with artists. These intimate monthly breakfasts feature leading figures in the visual arts in discussion with curators, academics, and critics. This month we will hear from María Elena González, whose ongoing Tree Talk series has taken place at Mills College and most recently, at Brattleboro Museum and Art Center in Vermont.
Cuban-born artist María Elena González is an internationally recognized sculptor based in based in New York City and the Bay Area, CA . González interweaves the conceptual with a strong dedication to craft in her complex installations and poetic arrangements, exploring themes like identity, memory, and dislocation. Over a career spanning thirty years she has won the Prix de Rome (2003), and more recently, the Grand Prize at the 30th Biennial of Graphic Arts at Ljubljana, Slovenia (2013). She was a Guggenheim Fellow (2006) and has been awarded grants from numerous foundations including Pollock-Krasner, Joan Mitchell, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Penny McCall. She has served as the Sculpture Commissioner for New York City’s Design Commission and has also taught at Cooper Union School of Art, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the San Francisco Art Institute among others.In 2017 González’s work will be featured in Home: So Different, So Appealing, to be presented by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and organized in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [as part of the Getty-funded Pacific Standard Time exhibition program]. Additionally, in 2017 her work was exhibited at the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) in Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago. González’s work can be found in numerous public collections including the Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland; Museum voor Modern Kunst, Arnhem, The Netherlands; Museum of Art, The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; The Museum of Arts and Design, New York; and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
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Thank you to ArtTable’s Artist Breakfast Committee and Julia Herzberg.

POSTPONED: ArtTable Circle Collection Visit⎪Landy Collection of Feminist Art
2020-04-01 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Texas
Image courtesy of Kathleen Landy
In light of the developments concerning COVID-19, we have decided to postpone this special event. All registrations will be held for this event and we hope to be in touch with a new date.
Join us at the Upper East Side home of Kathleen Landy, Founder, and President of the Feminist Institute, as we gather for cocktails and conversation and a tour of her outstanding collection of Feminist Art. From the halls of Womanhouse to the walls of A.I.R., this collection is a snapshot of feminist art dating from the ‘60s to today. Artists represented include: Miriam Schapiro, Judy Chicago, Faith Wilding, Carolee Schneemann, Hannah Wilke, Joan Jonas, Judith Bernstein, Rebecca Horn, Dana Schutz, Cindy Sherman, Mary Beth Edelson and more.
The full address will be sent to registrants upon confirmation.
Special thanks to ArtTable board member Kat Griefen.

VIRTUAL | How Can We Think of Art at a Time Like This? with Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen
2020-03-31 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Texas
Image: Marilyn Minter. Lithium, 2019.
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is required and open to all. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
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Join ArtTable for a conversation with curators Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen on responsive online curatorial action and collaboration! Pollack and Verhallen are the co-curators of, How Can We Think of Art at a Time Like This? an online exhibition that serves as a platform for the exchange of ideas at this time of crisis. On March 14th, 2020, in quick reaction to the US’s gallery and museum closures, the two writers-curators and longtime collaborators immediately spent the weekend to kick start a group show to respond to the crisis.
“We invited artists who are considered thought leaders, artists who struggle with futuristic pessimism, political outrage and psychic melt-downs. The invited artists have responded with unbridled enthusiasm and we will be posting new artists every day for the foreseeable future.”
Click here for How can we Think of Art at Time Like This?
Barbara Pollack is the author of Brand New Art from China: A Generation on the Rise published in 2018 by I.B. Tauris. Her first book was The Wild, Wild East: An American Art Critic’s Adventures in China, published in May 2010 by Timezone 8 Books. She is a leading authority on Chinese contemporary art and has been a featured speaker at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of New Champions in China, also known as Summer Davos.
Since 1994, Pollack has written extensively on contemporary Chinese art for such publications as Artnews, Art & Auction, the Village Voice, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, and many others. In addition to articles, Pollack has contributed major catalogue essays for such leading artists as Li Songsong, Lin Tianmiao, Wang Gongxin, Zhao Zhao, Sun Xun, and Tu Hongtao. Several of her essays were included in the China Art Book, published by Dumont Literatur in 2007.
Pollack was the lead curator of many shows of Chinese contemporary art including the groundbreaking My Generation: Young Chinese Artists, the first exhibition of the 1980s generation of Chinese artists in the U.S. which was shown at the Tampa Museum of Art and Museum Fine Arts, St. Petersburg in 2014 and traveled to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art and the Orange County Museum of Art in 2015. She has also curated in China most notably Tu Hongtao: A Timely Journey, at the Long Museum West Bund in November 2018and Sun Xun: Prediction Laboratory at Yuz Museum, also in Shanghai in 2016. In 2022, she will present Mirror Image: Changing Chinese Identity at the Asia Society Museum in New York.
Based on her research in this field, she received two grants from Asian Cultural Council in 2008 and 2016 and the prestigious Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation arts writers grant in 2008. Additionally, Pollack is an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and frequently lectures on contemporary art at universities and museums throughout the United States and Asia.
Anne Verhallen is a New York-based curator, writer and artist agent. As director of the fine art division at CXA, she has worked on projects for many leading artists, including Kehinde Wiley, Robert Wilson, Friedrich Kunath and Lily Kwong.
Her independent curatorial projects include Virtually There, a performance conceived by Roya Sachs and Mafalda Milllies at MANA Comtemporary with collaborating artists the Compana Brothers, Kate Gillmore and Heather Row. She also writes monthly for Arte Fuse. Born and raised in the Netherlands, Verhallen started her career as a high-fashion model working for Vogue, Hermes, Marc Jacobs, exclusively for Givenchy and with leading photographers such Inez and Vinoodh, Roe Etheridge and Daniel Jackson. Currently, as an independent curator, she seeks to cultivate the intersection between technology, design, art and health.

POSTPONED: NOCAL | Minnesota Street Project Artist Studios Tour
2020-03-28 10:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Minnesota Street Projects, 1240 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, California, 94107
Image: Ode to Yves, Narrative History of the Lightbulb, 2006. Courtesy of Catherine Wagner.
In light of the developments concerning COVID-19, we have decided to postpone this special event. All registrations will be held for this event and we hope to be in touch with a new date. Alternatively, your account will be credited for a future ArtTable event.
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Join ArtTable members for the exclusive opportunity to meet selected artists and tour their studios at the Minnesota Street Project arts complex in San Francisco.
Located across the street from a hub of contemporary art galleries is the 1240 building at MSP which houses private studios for artists ranging from emerging to prominent local talent. Members will have the chance to spend time with a handful of current studio artists and explore these artists’ work in depth.
Entrepreneurs and collectors Deborah and Andy Rappaport founded Minnesota Street Project in 2016, and since then it has firmly established itself as a key destination in the Bay Area’s art scene. The art center offers economically sustainable spaces for art galleries, artists, and related nonprofits. The Studio Program at MSP was created to address rapidly diminishing opportunities in San Francisco, by providing artists stability via affordable private studios situated within a campus environment.
Please note that the number of attendees for this program is limited, and registration is currently open to ArtTable members only.
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Thank you to Donna Napper, ArtTable Northern CA Co-Chair, Dorothy Davila, ArtTable Board Member, and Brion Nuda Rosch, MSP Studio Program Director.

POSTPONED: SOCAL | BookTable: The Mythic Heroines of the New York School
2020-03-24 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Home of Victoria Burns in View Park, next to Baldwin Hills
Image: Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, and Grace Hartigan in 1957. Photograph by Burt Glinn.
In light of the developments concerning COVID-19, we have decided to postpone this special event. All registrations will be held for this event and we hope to be in touch with a new date. Alternatively, your account will be credited for a future ArtTable event.
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Join us for a discussion of Mary Gabriel’s acclaimed book, Ninth Street Women, in the art-filled home of ArtTable member Victoria Burns!
Join ArtTable for what promises to be an enlightening and stimulating evening in which we will analyze and discuss Mary Gabriel’s Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art, published in 2018. While the story of Abstract Expressionism’s emergence in New York in the late 1940s and 1950s has been much told, the role played by women artists associated with the movement has rarely been the subject of review. Set amid the turbulent social and political period of the time, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting — not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come. Or did they? What can we learn by looking back at their art, careers, and lives and from considering their impact both in their own time and today?
The evening will begin with a brief presentation on the book and the five artists it highlights by ArtTable SoCal Co-chair Roni Feinstein, who teaches a class on this subject at UCLA Extension. A group discussion will follow.
Victoria Burns will graciously host us that evening in her View Park home, which houses a collection heavy in photography, with works by Zhang Huan, Adam Fuss, Ori Gersht, Hank Willis Thomas, Dawoud Bey, and Richard Mosse, among others. Also represented in the collection are Pae White, Jesse Mockrin, Owen Kydd, Andrea Bowers, and a host of others.
Refreshments will be served.
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With thanks to Victorian Burns and Roni Feinstein.

POSTPONED: DC | Chapter Leadership Award Ceremony and High Tea Honoring Kim Sajet
2020-03-18 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | The University Club of Washington DC, 1135 16th St NW, Washington, DC, United States
Image: Grace Roselli, Pandora’s BoxX Project
In light of the developments concerning COVID-19, we have decided to postpone this special event. All registrations will be held for this event and we hope to be in touch with a new date. Alternatively, your account will be credited for a future ArtTable event.
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In recognition of her significant achievements as the first woman director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, ArtTable DC honors Kim Sajet with the 2020 Chapter Leadership Award. Please join us in celebrating this occasion with high tea at the University Club of Washington. Dr. Johnetta Cole, our 2018 recipient will present the award to Ms. Sajet.
High tea includes light fare, dessert, tea and champagne.
As the first woman to serve as director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Kim Sajet (pronounced Say-et) has been exploring new ways to place personal experience and creativity at the center of learning and civic awareness. Not just a place to see famous Americans, the museum explores identity as a social construct that has been shaped in equal measure by opportunity and ability, prejudice and fear. By taking a cross-disciplinary approach that merges the traditional forms of painting, sculpture, drawing and printmaking with poetry, installation art, video and performance, Sajet aims to bring history alive.
Before her current appointment, Sajet was the president and CEO of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the vice president and deputy director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the director of corporate relations at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Before arriving in the United States with her family in 1997, she served first as curator and then as director of two Australian art museums from 1989 until 1995.
Born in Nigeria, raised in Australia and a citizen of the Netherlands, Sajet brings a global perspective to the position. She earned a master’s degree in art history from Bryn Mawr College, a master’s degree in business administration from Melbourne University Business School in Australia, a bachelor’s degree in art history from Melbourne University and a graduate diploma in Museum studies from Deakin University in Australia. She has completed arts leadership training at the Harvard Business School, the Getty Institute and National Arts Strategies. In addition to 20 years of arts management experience, Sajet has written a number of scholarly publications, curated exhibitions and spoken at academic symposia around the world. Her current interests include the June 2019 study of identity politics, role-playing in online virtual worlds and the significance of celebrity in American history. She is also the host of the Portrait Gallery’s new podcast series, “Portraits,” exploring themes of art, history and biography.
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Thank you to Ruth Abrahams, Caitlin Berry, Alexa Kaye and Maria Sancho-Arroyo for organizing this program.

POSTPONED: NY | Curatorial Walk-through of Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist
2020-03-13 10:45 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Image: Agnes Pelton. Ahmi in Egypt, 1931. Oil on canvas, 36 3/16 × 24 3/16 in. (91.9 × 61.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Modern Painting and Sculpture Committee 96.175
In light of the developments concerning COVID-19, we have decided to postpone this special event. All registrations will be held for this event and we hope to be in touch with a new date. Alternatively, your account will be credited for a future ArtTable event.
Please see here for an epic graphic novel about Agnes Pelton’s life shared with Elisabeth Rouchau-Shalem, ArtTable NY Programs Chair.
Due to limited capacity, this program is currently open to ArtTable members only.
Join ArtTable NY for a first look at Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist at the Whitney Museum with Gilbert Vicario, The Selig Family Chief Curator, Phoenix Art Museum.
Agnes Pelton (1881–1961) was a visionary symbolist who depicted the spiritual reality she experienced in moments of meditative stillness. Art for her was a discipline through which she gave form to her vision of a higher consciousness within the universe. Using an abstract vocabulary of curvilinear, biomorphic forms and delicate, shimmering veils of light, she portrayed her awareness of a world that lay behind physical appearances—a world of benevolent, disembodied energies animating and protecting life. For most of her career, Pelton chose to live away from the distractions of a major art center, first in Water Mill, Long Island, from 1921 to 1932, and subsequently in Cathedral City, a small community near Palm Springs, California. Her isolation from the mainstream art world meant that her paintings were relatively unknown during her lifetime and in the decades thereafter. This exhibition of approximately forty-five works introduces to the public a little-known artist whose luminous, abstract images of transcendence are only now being fully recognized.
Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist is organized by the Phoenix Art Museum, and curated by Gilbert Vicario, The Selig Family Chief Curator. The installation at the Whitney Museum is overseen by Barbara Haskell, curator, with Sarah Humphreville, senior curatorial assistant.
Thank you to Elisabeth Rochau-Shalem, NY Programs Chair, Gilbert Vicario and Sarah Humphreville.

PA | Helen Frankenthaler on Paper
2020-03-11 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | The Arthur Ross Gallery, 220 S 34th St (In the Fisher Fine Arts Library), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104
Image: Helen Frankenthaler; Fiesta, 1973. Acrylic on paper. 22 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches (56.5 x 76.8 cm).
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The Arthur Ross Gallery invites ArtTable members for a reception and tour of Frankenthaler on Paper with the exhibition’s curator, Lynn Marsden-Atlass.
This exhibition presents ten unique paintings on paper and fourteen prints by Helen Frankenthaler that date from the 1970s to the 1990s. These rarely seen paintings on paper reflect her painterly process and were considered by the artist equal to her large-scale paintings. Renowned for her soak-stain abstract paintings, Helen Frankenthaler played a seminal role in both Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting. With a career spanning six decades, she is considered one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century.
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Thank you to Heather Moqtaderi and Lyn Marsden-Atlass.

FL | National Artist Talks: Maria Martinez-Cañas
2020-03-07 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Fortress Storage, 1629 NE 1st Avenue, Miami, Florida, 33132
Image: Frost Art Museum Installation
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ArtTable Florida is honored to announce the Florida Chapter’s artist talk with Maria Martinez-Cañas, sponsored by the Pollock Krasner Foundation. This talk will take place over delicious breakfast at Fortress Storage, Miami. Beginning in New York, these intimate breakfasts feature leading figures in the visual arts in discussion with curators, academics, and critics.
MARIA MARTINEZ-CAÑAS was born in Havana, Cuba. She received a B.F.A. in Photography from the Philadelphia College of Art and an M.F.A. in Photography from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. An artist who works with innovative, non-traditional photographic media, she has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad, with 47 one-person exhibitions and over 300 group exhibitions. She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation 2016 Photography Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship, a Cintas Fellowship; a National Endowment for the Arts award; and a Fulbright-Hays Grant, among others. Her works are included in the permanent collections of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; The Museum of Modern Art in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco; The Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC; among others. She lives and works in Miami since 1986.
ArtTable’s artist talk series began with the ongoing artist breakfast series in New York, which features high-profile artists, often in conversation with curators, scholars or writers. Since its inception in 2002, the breakfasts have brought together 4,300 women and have featured more than 160 women artists, raising the visibility of a group that continues to be underrepresented in museum or gallery exhibitions. This year the Pollock Krasner Foundation provided funding to expand the series outside of New York, to support ArtTable artist conversations in Washington DC, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle and Los Angeles. This year we’ve heard from Ilana Harris-Babou, Dana Schutz, Nona Faustine, and Mildred Howard.
Members and guests are welcome. Must register to attend.
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Thank you to Kim Jones (Fortress Storage), Maria Martinez-Cañas (artist), Rochi Llaneza (ArtTable FL Chapter Chair).

NATIONAL | The Armory Show Brunch
2020-03-07 10:00 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | The Armory Show VIP Lounge at Pier 90, 711 12th Avenue, New York, NY, 10019, United States
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Join ArtTable and Nicole Berry, Executive Director, The Armory Show for our annual brunch at the Armory show! This is a great event to meet members and friends from across the country while enjoying delicious breakfast refreshments in the Armory VIP lounge.
Tickets to this event cover access to the show, early private access to the VIP lounge, and breakfast!
The Armory Show is New York City’s premier art fair and a leading cultural destination for discovering and collecting the world’s most important 20th- and 21st-century art. The Armory Show features presentations by leading international galleries, innovative artist commissions, and dynamic public programs. Since its founding in 1994, The Armory Show has served as a nexus for the art world, inspiring dialogue, discovery, and patronage in the visual arts.
The Armory Show was founded by four New York gallerists – Colin de Land, Pat Hearn, Matthew Marks and Paul Morris – who sought a platform to present and promote new voices in the visual arts. In its 25 years, The Armory Show has stayed firm to its mission while establishing itself as an unmissable art event set in the heart of New York City.

DC | Invisible Women: The Rediscovery of Historical Women Artists in Florence
2020-03-06 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Italian Cultural Institute @ Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven St, NW, Washington, DC, 20008
Image: Violante Beatrice Cerroti, Autoritratto (Self-Portrait), 1735, detail, oil on canvas, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
This event is now at capacity. Stay tuned for information on upcoming special opportunities for ArtTable members!
The Italian Cultural Institute invites ArtTable members to celebrate International Women’s Day, with a conversation on Invisible Women: The Rediscovery of Historical Women Artists in Florence. Spots for this event are limited and reserved for ArtTable members only.
Florence is home to great masters of Italian Renaissance art such as Botticelli, Donatello, Leonardo and Michelangelo but few people know that the city nourished women artists as well. Through the joint efforts of Italian museums such as the Uffizi and the US organization Advancing Women Artists, these often-forgotten women are now being rediscovered and their works restored and exhibited once more.
Join us and conservator Elizabeth Wicks for a talk focusing on Plautilla Nelli, Artemisa Gentileschi, Violante Siries Cerroti and Violante Ferroni, and the fascinating journey of their rediscovery and conservation.
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Thank you to the IIC, Istituto Italiano di Cultura.

DC | BreakfastTable with Lily Siegel
2020-03-06 08:00 - 09:00 (America/New_York) | Boulangerie Christophe, 1422 Wisconsin Ave NW, DC, 20007, United States
Image: Lily Siegel
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Join us for an informal conversation with Lily Siegel who is the incoming Executive Director of Hamiltonian Artists in Washington, DC.
Prior to joining Hamiltonian, she was Executive Director and Curator at Greater Reston Arts Center in Virginia and held curatorial positions at The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Current projects include concurrent exhibitions of the work of Moira Dryer (b. 1957, Toronto, Ontario; d. 1992, New York)–Moira Dryer: Yours for the Asking at Greater Reston Arts Center in Virginia, through April 18, 2020, and Moira Dryer: Back in Business at The Phillips Collection, on view February 8–April 19, 2020.
Dutch treat, cash preferred. Limited street parking, rideshare recommended.
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CHICAGO | BreakfastTable at The Arts Club of Chicago
2020-03-04 08:30 - 10:00 (America/Chicago) | The Arts Club Chicago, 201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL, 60611, United States
Image: The Arts Club
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Please join us for the first in a series of visits to see the permanent art collections of Chicago’s private social clubs.
The first will be a welcoming and friendly networking breakfast at The Arts Club of Chicago with a bespoke tour of their phenomenal permanent art collection, including the architecture and history of the club.
Members and Non-Members, Visitors and Chicagoans all welcome.

SOCAL | South La Brea Gallery Shows: Raul Guerrero, Hank Willis Thomas, Lauren Halsey, Huma Bhabha
2020-02-29 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Kayne Griffin Corcoran, 1201 S La Brea Ave, Los Angeles, California, 90019
Image: Installation view of Lauren Halsey, David Kordansky Gallery, 2020
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Please join ArtTable’s SoCal Chapter for artist and director-led walkthroughs of current exhibitions Kayne Griffin Corcoran and David Kordansky galleries featuring an intergenerational array of leading artists representative of the current American artistic landscape.
Beginning at Kayne Griffin Corcoran, artist Raul Guerrero will guide us through Sonoran Desert: Flora, Fauna, Artifacts, his inaugural show with the gallery featuring recent paintings informed by his personal relationship to the Sonoran Desert. Interweaving autobiography and ethnography, Guerrero revisits issues of identity and culture, which have been central to his practice for upward of four decades.
KGC director Jamie Manné will present the work of Hank Willis Thomas on display in An All Colored Cast, the artist’s first solo show with the gallery. Drawing on sources as diverse as popular culture, postwar aesthetics, and the film industry, Thomas examines the loaded language associated with color theory and calibration charts to shed light on questions of gender, race and identity.
For more information: https://www.kaynegriffincorcoran.com/exhibitions
The program will continue across South La Brea at David Kordansky, with solo exhibitions of recent work by Angeleno artist Lauren Halsey and New York-based Pakistani sculptor Huma Bhabha.
Revisiting the visual urban fabric of South Central L.A. of her youth, Halsey packs her first show at the gallery with a colorful cacophonous maze of sculptural painting installations that engage with her ongoing concerns related to monuments, memorials, and public space in the face of gentrification and the displacement of local communities.
Characteristic of Bhabha’s range of visual and material vocabularies, her recent sculptures and drawings on view incorporate multiple processes and traditions, blending archaic and contemporary sources to create humanoid figures that address universal existential themes.
For further details: https://www.davidkordanskygallery.com/exhibitions
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Thank you to Geneen Estrada, ArtTable SoCal Communications Chair and Jamie Manné, Director Kayne Griffin Corcoran.
