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Virtual | Professional Empowerment: Taxation Insights on Art Transactions, with Galina Portnoy
2021-05-26 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s Professional Empowerment program 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. Please join us and Galina Portnoy, CPA, Director at Marks Paneth Accountants & Advisors for a discussion on issues of taxation in the art world. We will touch upon how similar art transactions are treated differently by the IRS depending on who is conducting the transaction (artist vs. dealer vs. investor vs. collector), art inclusion in estate planning, art transactions and crypto currency, among other essential topics!
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About Galina Portnoy
Galina Portnoy, CPA, is a Director in the Private Client Services Group at Marks Paneth LLP. For more than 20 years, Ms. Portnoy has provided tax, accounting and consulting services to high-net-worth individuals, family partnerships and their related entities. She has advised on a broad range of complex issues, including strategic income tax planning and execution, gifts and estates, philanthropy, matrimonial accounting, business management and planning, real estate and other transactions, multi-state taxation and financial planning.
Ms. Portnoy has extensive experience advising artists, art dealers and art investors, as well as educators and researchers. In addition, her clients include hedge fund managers, investment advisors, real estate investors and providers of legal, financial and real estate-related services. She also oversees engagements that provide concierge services to high-net-worth individuals and their related entities.
Ms. Portnoy has represented clients before the Internal Revenue Service, as well as the State and City of New York, including on income tax, residency and UBT issues.
Before joining Marks Paneth LLP in 2016, Ms. Portnoy was a CPA at another accounting firm and, prior to that, worked in a variety of private and publicly traded organizations in a tax and accounting capacity. She is based in the firm’s New York City headquarters.
Thank you to ArtTable’s New York Chapter Programming Committee for organizing this program.

Images:

Header image courtesy of Kyle E. Krull
Galina Portnoy, courtesy of the speaker

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

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

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

Image: Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama

Virtual | AT Connect with Silvia Karman Cubiñá
2021-05-24 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s AT Connect program series encourages members to network, connect, and ask questions outside of their regular areas of expertise. In this session we will hear from Silvia Karman Cubiñá, Executive Director and Chief Curator of The Bass in Miami Beach and a member of ArtTable’s Florida Chapter.
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About the Speaker

Since 2008, Silvia Karman Cubiñá has held the position of Executive Director and Chief Curator of The Bass in Miami Beach. During her tenure, Ms. Cubiñá led a $12 million institutional transformation, complete with a building renovation by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Arata Isozaki and David Gauld. Throughout this time, the museum’s annual budget and full-time staff quadrupled and the board grew from three members to thirty. Prior to The Bass, Ms. Cubiñá was the Director of The Moore Space, Miami, from 2002-2008. She also held the position of Adjunct Curator at INOVA, the Institute of Visual Arts at University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee.
Ms. Cubiñá has curated numerous exhibitions, lectured extensively, and has participated in grant panels and award selection committees, including serving as a juror for both the Guggenheim Museum’s Hugo Boss Award 2006 and the 2008 Biennale de Lyon. In 2007, she was a finalist for the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement and a fellow in the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) fellowship program. Ms. Cubiñá served on the Knight Foundation National Arts Advisory Board and, in 2012, she was awarded the distinction of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. In 1997, she was the Puerto Rico commissioner to the Bienal de São Paolo.
In her role as Chief Curator of The Bass, Ms. Cubiñá has organized more than 30 major exhibitions including: Where Do We Go From Here: Selections from la Colección Jumex (2009), Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves (2011), Ugo Rondinone: good evening beautiful blue (2017), The Haas Brothers: Ferngully (2018), Haegue Yang: In the Cone of Uncertainty (2019) and Mickalene Thomas: Better Nights (2019), all while at The Bass; Jim Lambie: Paradise Garage (2004), Miami Calling…Jonathan Monk (2005), Allora & Calzadilla: Clamor (2006) and Kalup Linzy (2008) during her time at The Moore Space; and Pepón Osorio: Door to Door (2002).
Married and a mother of two, Ms. Cubiñá is fluent in English, Spanish and French; proficient in Italian.

Images:

Silvia Karman Cubiñá, Executive Director and Chief Curator, The Bass. Photo by Nick Garcia.
The Bass, Miami Beach, Florida. Photo by Zachary Balber. Courtesy of The Bass.

Virtual | Demystifying Art World Anti-Money Laundering & Compliance Regulations
2021-05-20 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
11am ET | 10am CT | 8am PT
Anti-money laundering (AML) regulations are very much in play in the United Kingdom and throughout the European Union, putting more obligations on art dealers. While legislation regarding anti-money laundering for the US market is still uncertain, we live in a global age where art market professionals need to be aware of and understand regulations in different countries. Join us and expert panelists Susan J Mumford (CEO of ArtAML and former gallerist), Azmina Jasani (Partner, Art & Cultural Property Law Group), and Megan Noh (Co-chair, Pryor Cashman’s Art Law Group), and moderated by Eileen Kinsella (Senior Market Reporter, artnet News), for a discussion on these new regulations coming out of Europe, and the implications for international transactions when involved parties are on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
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About the Speakers
Azmina Jasani is a Partner in the Art & Cultural Property Law Group at Constantine Cannon and a leading art law and luxury assets specialist. She is valued by her clients for her “effective”, “diligent” and “straightforward” style and for her dual qualifications and experience in New York and London, which they deem “a real asset.” Azmina represents clients on a variety of matters, including disputes involving issues of authenticity, provenance, title and copyright as well as disputes relating to artist-gallery relations and looted or illegally exported cultural property. She is also often instructed by art and luxury businesses to help them comply with regulations pertaining to anti-money laundering, consumer protection, import and export, data protection, bribery and introductory commissions.
Azmina lectures at the Institute of Art & Law, Queen Mary School of Law, Sotheby’s Institute of Art and the Courtauld Institute of Art. She received her Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and her B.A., summa cum laude, from Queens College, City University of New York.
Megan Noh co-chairs Pryor Cashman’s Art Law Group. With over 15 years of combined experience in private practice and both in-house legal and business positions in the auction world, Megan is sought after for her extensive knowledge of the complex issues impacting today’s art market, including specifically with respect to transactional matters and artists’ rights. Megan’s practice is uniquely holistic in its representation of members of almost every segment of the art market, and she is known for her ability to negotiate a transaction from both sides of its key issues—whether it’s an auction house consignment agreement, a museum exhibition loan agreement, or an artist-gallery representation agreement.

Susan J Mumford is a serial entrepreneur in the art market. Having arrived in the UK from the USA in 2000, she ran a gallery in Soho, London, from 2006-11. When the art world entered a new era following the credit crunch of 2008, she founded the Association of Women Art Dealers (AWAD), an international multi-chapter non-profit network connect women and women-identifying art dealers on a global basis. This was followed by the creation of Be Smart About Art, an online-accessible professional development platform that helps creative professionals thrive in a changing world. In 2018, she embarked upon ArtAML, which unites technology and art market know-how to help dealers keep dealing and buyers keep buying in the face of anti-money laundering legislation that hit the art market in 2020.
Eileen Kinsella (moderator) is a journalist who has been covering the international art market, and the intersection of art and finance, for more than 20 years. After starting as a news assistant on the national news desk of the Wall Street Journal in New York, she moved to the Money & Investing section of the paper where she wrote stories on commercial real estate, mutual funds, equity markets and investment trends. Kinsella joined the paper’s newly debuted “Weekend Section” in 1998 with expanded coverage of the art market, where she first started reporting on art.
Kinsella spent more than a decade at ARTnews magazine as a contributing writer and editor of a newsletter that covered a wide range of issues related to the international art market, including auction sales, gallery shows, and legal developments that impact issues of authenticity, ownership and international repatriation. She has covered numerous high-profile art-fraud related cases and trials and appeared as a guest on numerous CNBC art market news segments and its “American Greed” series, as well as BBC News, BBC Radio, NPR, Reuters, and numerous podcasts Artnet News’s own The Art Angle.
She has appeared on and moderated numerous art market panels around the world and made presentations on art crime including at New York University’s Visual Arts Administration Program, and at the Foundation for Appraisal Education (FAE’s) conference in Philadelphia in 2016. Since 2014, Kinsella has been senior market reporter for Artnet News, based in New York.

Images:

Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2021. All rights reserved.
Azmina Jasani, courtesy of Constantine Cannon
Megan Noh, courtesy of Pryor Cashman
Susan J Mumford, courtesy of the speaker
Eileen Kinsella, courtesy of the speaker

Virtual | Discovering Digital - Immersive Technology & Art with Laura Hertzfeld & Nancy Baker Cahill
2021-05-18 18:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
6pm ET | 5pm CT | 3pm PT
Discovering Digital is a new programming series developed by ArtTable’s New York Chapter Programs Committee. Each discussion will explore different aspects of new media initiatives in the art world. These virtual conversations are led by experts in the field and appeal to all who are interested in digital media.
As COVID-19 has created a higher demand for art that can be experienced in the public space, immersive technologies like augmented reality and virtual reality have become synonymous with what’s marketable and accessible in our current pandemic world. Artist Nancy Baker Cahill and journalist/producer Laura Hertzfeld will discuss immersive art, the creative process, and the possibilities and perils of the brave new world of NFTs – as well as provide insight on how to get started in the digital art world.
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About Nancy Baker Cahill

Nancy Baker Cahill is a new media artist who examines power, selfhood, and embodied consciousness through drawing and shared immersive space. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of 4th Wall, a free Augmented Reality (AR) art platform exploring resistance and inclusive creative expression. Her recent AR public art project, Liberty Bell, commissioned by Art Production Fund, earned features in the New York Times, frieze Magazine, Artnet, Smithsonian Magazine and the Washington Post, among many other publications. The project, on view through 2021, spans six historic and culturally significant sites along the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S. and appeared in Artnews’ list, The Defining Public Artworks of 2020. Baker Cahill was also included in ARTnews’ list of 2021 Deciders.
Her 2018 TED talk, Augmented Reality (AR) as an Artist’s Tool for Equity and Access, launched her international public speaking practice. She has since delivered keynotes at the 2019 Games For Change, 2020 A.W.E. (Augmented World Expo) and has spoken at the Hirshhorn Museum and numerous academic institutions and conferences. Baker Cahill is an artist scholar in the Berggruen Institute’s inaugural Transformations of the Human Fellowship, and will begin a residency focused on AR monuments at Oxy Arts this summer. She is the Art and Creative Technologies Advisor for the XRSI Safety Initiative, and is a member of the Guild of Future Architects. In May 2021, she will receive the Williams College Bicentennial Medal of Honor.
About Laura Hertzfeld
Laura Hertzfeld is an Emmy-winning producer, writer, and editor with over a decade of experience helping news organizations develop online content, engagement and distribution strategies. She leads the XR Partner Program at Yahoo Ryot Labs, building AR and VR projects for Verizon Media’s news partners. Laura was a 2018-2019 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University where she researched the intersection of art, immersive storytelling, and journalism. She previously led Journalism 360, an immersive storytelling initiative from Google News Lab, Knight Foundation, and ONA. She has held leadership roles at Entertainment Weekly, Ora TV, and PBS.org and was an editor on the original Yahoo News team.

This program is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation has been a leader in providing grants enabling emerging and established artists to focus on their work. Funding helps artists to create new work, acquire art supplies, rent studio space, and prepare exhibitions. The Foundation also provides grants to organizations that directly engage with artists, such as artist residency programs. Please visit www.pkf.org for more information.
Thank you to Regan Lynne Larroque, ArtTable’s New York Chapter Programming Committee Co-Chair, for organizing this program.

Images:

Hollow Point 101, LUMINEX: Dialogues of Light, Courtesy of Nancy Baker Cahill
Nancy Baker Cahill, courtesy of the speaker
Laura Hertzfeld, courtesy of the speaker

Virtual | Reading at the (Art)Table - 'Consuming Stories: Kara Walker' by Rebecca Peabody
2021-05-16 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
2pm ET | 1pm CT | 11am PT
Join us for Reading at the (Art)Table as we delve into the new selection, “Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race,” by Rebecca Peabody. Peabody uses the work of contemporary American artist Kara Walker to investigate a range of popular storytelling traditions with roots in the nineteenth century and ramifications in the present.
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Thank you to Jan Wurm, ArtTable Northern California Chapter, for organizing this program.
Image: “Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race” by Rebecca Peabody

New York | Tour of 'Maya Lin: Ghost Forest' at Madison Square Park
2021-05-14 10:00 (America/New_York) | Madison Square Park (Exact meeting spot TBA), Madison Square Park, New York, NY, 10010, United States
Please join us for an in-person tour of ‘Maya Lin: Ghost Forest’ on view at Madison Square Park in New York City. The tour will be led by Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Deputy Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator at Madison Square Park Conservancy and ArtTable member.
This program is open to ArtTable members only. The program fee is $15. Light refreshments will be provided, and the meeting spot will be circulated prior to the program.
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Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed. We recommend reading the Madison Square Park Conservancy’s policy regarding Health and Safety regulations at the park before registering.
For the health and safety of our hosts, staff, and attendees, we require that you wear a mask or face covering for the duration of the program and maintain social distance between each person not from the same household. Masks will not be provided. Anyone without a mask will not be admitted to the program. There will be no exceptions.

About the exhibition
Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest, a towering stand of fifty haunting Atlantic white cedar trees, is a newly-commissioned public art work. Lin brings her vision as an artist and her agency as an environmental activist to this project, a memory of germination, vegetation, and abundance and a harsh symbol of the devastation of climate change. The height of each tree, around forty feet, overwhelms human scale and stands as a metaphor of the outsized impact of a looming environmental calamity. Click here to read more.

About Brooke Kamin Rapaport

Brooke Kamin Rapaport is Deputy Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator at Madison Square Park Conservancy in New York. She was the Commissioner and Curator of the U.S. Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale with the exhibition Martin Puryear: Liberty / Libertà.

Thank you to Ingrid Dinter, Principal at Dinter Fine Art and ArtTable New York Chapter Program Committee member, for organizing this program.

Image: Installation view of ‘Ghost Forest’, courtesy of Maya Lin Studio and Madison Square Park Conservancy; Brooke Kamin Rapaport courtesy of MSPC

Virtual | Curatorial Perspective: 'Estamos Bien - La Trienal 20/21' at El Museo
2021-05-13 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s Curatorial Perspective program series invites curators to present and discuss timely exhibitions and initiatives. Please join us for a discussion with Curator Susanna V. Temkin and Guest Curator Elia Alba about El Museo del Barrio’s first national large-scale survey of Latinx contemporary art, featuring more than 40 artists from across the United States and Puerto Rico: ESTAMOS BIEN – LA TRIENAL 20/21.
Admission

Non-Members – $15
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About the Speakers

Susanna Temkin (middle) is a Curator at El Museo del Barrio, where she most recently organized the museum’s fiftieth anniversary exhibition, Culture and the People: El Museo del Barrio, 1969-2019, drawing from objects from the Permanent Collection. Prior to this, she served as Assistant Curator at Americas Society in New York, as well as the research and archive specialist at the Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., where she assisted in co-authoring the digital catalogue raisonné of artist Joaquín Torres-García. Temkin earned her master’s and PhD degrees from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where her research concentrated on modern art in the Americas, with a focus on Cuba. She has published essays and reviews in the Rutgers Art Review, Burlington Magazine, and Hemispheres, and authored the chronology of Concrete Cuba: Cuba Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s, produced by David Zwirner Books.
Elia Alba (right) is a multidisciplinary artist, who works in sculpture, photography and video. She has exhibited at El Museo del Barrio, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Smithsonian Museum of Art, Washington D.C.; Perez Art Museum Miami; National Museum of Art, Reina Sofía, Madrid; as well as at the 10th Havana Biennial. Alba has received the Studio Museum in Harlem Artist-in Residence Program; the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and most recently the Anonymous Was A Woman award. Elia is also a published author. Her recent book, The Supper Club, (Hirmer, June 2019), was critically acclaimed by The New York Times and produced by the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation. Elia brought together artists, scholars and performers of diasporic cultures to examine race and culture in the United States through photography, food and dialogue.
Thank you to Julia P. Herzberg, PhD, Program Committee Member of ArtTable’s NY Chapter for organizing this program.

Images:

Estamos Bien Banner Logo, courtesy of the museum
Chief Curator Rodrigo Moura, Curator Susanna V. Temkin, and New York-based artist and Guest Curator Elia Alb

Virtual | AT Local - NoCal First Thursday Coffee Break
2021-05-06 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
12pm PT
AT Local virtual programs present opportunities to connect as a local chapter online. This NoCal First Thursday Coffee Break event is for members of ArtTable’s Northern California chapter. Stay tuned for AT Local events near you!
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All members of ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter are encouraged to join us on May 6th at 12:00 pm for our monthly Virtual First Thursday Coffee Break.
There finally seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel, and some of us are even meeting up in person. But we still look forward to seeing you again virtually for this fifth edition of our coffee breaks together! As things slowly start opening up, we can still share with each other how we have been holding up during this turbulent year, the art we’ve seen in person, virtual programming that we have enjoyed, and whatever else is new within our community.
This is a Northern California members only event. Virtual First Thursdays Coffee Break is a reoccurring event and is donation based.
Thank you to ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter Executive Committee for planning and hosting this program.

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

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

About Deirdre MacWilliams

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

Images:

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

Virtual | Curatorial Perspective: 'Plural Possibilities & the Female Body' at the Henry Art Gallery
2021-05-05 18:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
6pm ET | 5pm CT | 3pm PT
ArtTable’s Curatorial Perspective program series invites curators to present and discuss timely exhibitions and initiatives. Join Curator Nina Bozicnik and Associate Curator of Collections Dr. Ann Poulson to discuss Plural Possibilities & the Female Body, currently on display at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. Shamim M. Momin, Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Henry and ArtTable’s 2010 New Leadership Awardee, will introduce the discussion. Across painting, photography, and sculpture and a range of artistic strategies from abstraction to documentary, the exhibition explores the gendered construction and deconstruction of the female body and its representation, and creates a counterpoint to persistent myths and reductive ideas about femininity and gender norms. Artists include: Hannah Wilke, Kiki Smith, Chakaia Booker, Patty Chang, Zanele Muholi, Wangechi Mutu, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Catherine Opie, Mickalene Thomas, Lisa Yuskavage, and more.
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About the Speakers
Nina Bozicnik is Curator at the Henry Art Gallery, where she has organized exhibitions including most recently Bambitchell: Bugs & Beasts Before the Law (2021), Carrie Yamaoka: recto/verso (2019), & Between Bodies (2018-19). She has also organized presentations & projects for the museum with artists including Demian DinéYazhi´ (2018), Chris E. Vargas & the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art (2016-17), & Michelle Handelman (2015), among others. Prior to the Henry, Bozicnik held curatorial positions at the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; and the Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts.
Dr. Ann Poulson is the Associate Curator of Collections at the Henry Art Gallery. Before joining the Henry, she worked with international organizations in the arts, heritage, and design, including the National Portrait Gallery, London; the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum; and Sotheby’s. She received her PhD in Modern British History from King’s College London; has an MA in the same from the University of Durham, UK; an MA in Fashion History and Museum Practice from the Fashion Institute of Technology, NY; and a BA in Art History from Brigham Young University, UT.
Thank you to Lori Shepard, ArtTable New York Programming Committee member, for organizing this program.

Images:

Installation view of Plural Possibilities & the Female Body, 2021, the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Photo: Jueqian Fang
Nina Bozicnik, Photo: Jonathan Vanderweit.
Dr. Ann Poulson, courtesy of the Henry Art Gallery

Virtual | Deaccessioning: Competing Needs, Contested Terrain, & the Future of the American Museum
2021-04-27 13:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
1pm ET | 11pm CT | 10am PT
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American art museums are at a critical crossroads. The economic fallout from COVID-19 coupled with the urgent need to address systemic racism and social injustice are converging to create a looming state of emergency. These intertwined crises have given rise to debates about who and what museums are for, and what role permanent collection objects play in fulfillment of their missions. At the forefront of these discussions is the controversial practice of collection deaccessioning. A succession of headlines announcing the consignment of valuable art from high-profile institutions to auction houses throws into relief just how important it is, at a time when art collections are increasingly seen to be in tension with addressing equity needs. This clash of priorities exists in the face of eroding resources, and raises existential questions about the nature of museums and the public they serve, as well as considerations of ethical guardrails and legislative oversight.
We invite you to join ArtTable and our expert panel on April 27 from 1-2 PM (EST) for a lively conversation about this pressing issue. We will hear from Dr. Jill Deupi, Beaux Arts Director & Chief Curator of the Lowe Art Museum (University of Miami); Katie Wilson-Milne, Partner at Schindler, Cohen & Hochman LLP; and Sara Raza, former Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator for the Middle East & North Africa; moderated by Hope Davis, fine art appraiser, Hudson River Museum trustee, and member of the ArtTable New York Programs Committee.
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About the Speakers
Dr. Jill Deupi is the Beaux Arts Director and Chief Curator of the Lowe Art Museum (University of Miami). Prior to assuming this position, Deupi was Director and Chief Curator of University Museums at Fairfield University, where she was also an Assistant Professor of Art History. Deupi is a Trustee of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), co-chairs the Task Force for the Protection of University Collections (AAMG), and chairs the City of Coral Gables Arts Advisory Panel. She is also a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, the Leading Change Institute, and the Getty Leadership Institute.
Katie Wilson-Milne is a Partner at Schindler, Cohen & Hochman LLP. Katie advises clients in the art, cultural and creative communities, including art galleries, other art businesses, collectors, artists, and not-for-profit organizations on matters related to the purchase, sale, lending and financing of art, as well as gallery, auction house, and museum relationships and corporate governance. She also represents clients in the art world in disputes involving representation, collaborations, contracts, copyright, authenticity, title, provenance and appraisals. Katie also teaches and speaks regularly on art law topics. She is the former Secretary of the Art Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association and co-hosts the Art Law Podcast with Steven Schindler.
Sara Raza is the former Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator for the Middle East and North Africa. She has curated exhibitions of visual art art and culture for over a decade (2004-2018) internationally, in both an independent and institutional capacity, for museums, festivals and biennials, focusing on global art practices from Asia and the Middle East. She has also curated a number of public programs of artist talks and symposia to accompany her projects.
Hope Davis (moderator) is a fine art appraiser and a trustee of the Hudson River Museum in Westchester, NY. Beginning at Sotheby’s, her professional experience brought her to M. Knoedler & Co., where as Director of American Art, she organized major exhibitions on James McNeill Whistler (Margaret MacDonald, Curator), and Winslow Homer (Lloyd Goodrich, Curator). She established Hope Davis Fine Art in the late 1980s, specializing in late 19th-20th century American art. Now living in the Berkshires, she also curates exhibitions and promotes contemporary regional artists through Davis Gregory Art.

Thank you to Hope Davis, ArtTable’s New York Chapter Programming Committee, for organizing this program.

Images:

Art Storage. Image via kasten-storage.com, via Widewalls
GIF Headlines courtesy of the New York Times, Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, and Artnet News

Virtual | Discovering Digital - In Beeple's Wake: The Next 5000 Days of NFTs & the Art Market
2021-04-22 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
Discovering Digital is a new programming series developed by ArtTable’s New York Chapter Programs Committee that will explore different aspects of new media initiatives in the art world. These virtual conversations will be led by experts in the field and appeal to all who are interested in digital media.
Join Meghan Doyle, cataloguer at Christie’s New York, as she takes you through a behind the scenes look at the now historic March 2021 sale at Christie’s – Beeple’s EVERYDAYS: The First 5000 Days. Minted exclusively for Christie’s, this purely-digital artwork was presented as an NFT (non-fungible token), effectively a guarantee of its authenticity. Bidding started at $100, an approachable entry price that paralleled the accessible nature of the work’s medium and content, and within an hour drew over 180 bids from across the globe, pushing the price over $1 million in the first eight minutes alone. The work eventually realized $69,356,250 with 88% of active bidders entirely new to Christie’s, thus ushering in a new art market era – one that transcends the boundaries of established collecting and traditional media. Marrying art and technology, Beeple’s EVERYDAYS opened up the art market to a new world of possibilities. There will be plenty of time for questions and lively discussion.
Admission

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About Meghan Doyle
Meghan Doyle is a Cataloguer at Christie’s New York. She joined the Post-War and Contemporary Art Department in August 2018. She has been directly involved in a diverse range of specialized auctions of Post-War and Contemporary Art including a pivotal role in the sourcing, marketing and sale of Beeple’s EVERYDAYS: The First 5000 Days, the first digital-only artwork to be offered at a major auction house, which achieved $69,346,250 in March 2021, and continues to support the development of and education around the burgeoning NFT art market.
Ms. Doyle holds BAs in Art History and Italian, with a minor in Nonprofit Management, from Pepperdine University, where she graduated as valedictorian and was named the Art History student of the year in 2018. Prior to her work at Christie’s Ms. Doyle has served in positions at a variety of museums, including The British Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art.
Thank you to Regan Lynne Larroque, ArtTable’s New York Chapter Programming Committee Member, for organizing this program.

Images:

Christie’s Inc. with copyright Beeple 2021
Meghan Doyle, courtesy of the speaker

Virtual | ArtTable's 2021 Annual Benefit & Award Ceremony
2021-04-16 12:00 (America/New_York) | California
Registration for this event is now closed. Please email benefit@arttable.org with any questions.
See below for more information on ticket levels and limited editions:

Benefit Host Committee Ticket Levels $25,000.00 - Fellowship Program Supporter Supports one ArtTable Fellowship Acknowledgement in Fellowship press release and listing on Impact webpageProminent recognition on 40th Anniversary webpage, acknowledgement in event emails, and spoken recognition during the virtual benefitPremier Video Ad (see details below)Opportunity to send dedicated e-blast to ArtTable membershipAccess to virtual benefit, VIP event, and virtual networking event for 10 guestsProvides one Mentor Ticket for a past or current Fellow$20,000.00 - 40th Anniversary Supporter Prominent recognition on 40th Anniversary webpage, acknowledgment in event emails, and spoken recognition during virtual benefit Premier Video Ad (see details below)Opportunity to send dedicated e-blast to ArtTable membershipAccess to virtual benefit, VIP event, and virtual networking event for 10 guestsProvides one Mentor Ticket for an emerging professional$15,000.00 - New Leadership Supporter Recognition on 40th Anniversary webpage, acknowledgment in event emails, and spoken recognition during virtual benefitPremier Video Ad (see details below)Opportunity to send dedicated eblast to ArtTable membershipAccess to virtual benefit, VIP event, and virtual networking event for 5 guestsProvides one Mentor Ticket for an emerging professional$10,000.00 - Gold Supporter Recognition on 40th Anniversary webpage and in event emailsPriority Screen Ad (see details below)Access to virtual benefit, VIP event, and virtual networking event for 5 guestsProvides one Mentor Ticket for an emerging professional$7,500.00 - Silver Supporter Recognition on 40th Anniversary webpage and in event emailsClassic Screen Ad (see details below)Limited-Edition Jewelry piece by Joan Hornig and Anonymous was a Woman Limited-Edition Scarf by Alice RiotAccess to virtual benefit, VIP event, and virtual networking event for 5 guests$5,000.00 - Bronze Supporter Recognition on 40th Anniversary webpage and in event emailsClassic Screen Ad (see details below)Limited-Edition Jewelry piece by Joan HornigAccess to virtual benefit and virtual networking event for 5 guests$3,000.00 - Leadership Ticket Recognition on 40th Anniversary webpage and in event emailsClassic Screen Ad (see details below)Anonymous was a Woman Limited-Edition Scarf by Alice RiotAccess to virtual benefit and virtual networking event for 2 guests$1,000.00 - Executive Ticket Recognition on 40th Anniversary webpage and event emailsTwo Limited-Edition Prints by Sara SosnowyAccess to virtual benefit and virtual networking event for 2 guests$550.00 - Friend Ticket Recognition on 40th Anniversary webpage and event emailsOne Limited-Edition Print by Sara SosnowyAccess to virtual benefit and virtual networking event for 1 guest Standard Benefit Ticket Levels $150.00 - Member Ticket $200.00 - Non-Member Ticket $150.00 - Mentorship Ticket *Please note this ticket will be donated to an individual by ArtTable. Help ArtTable provide tickets for fellowship recipients and other early career women professionals to join in our celebration! (Mentorship tickets purchased will be distributed through the national office). Exclusive Limited Editions Click on the image to view a larger version in a new tab. $500 - Limited Edition Necklace for ArtTable from Philanthropy Is Beautiful® by Joan Hornig $350 - Limited Edition Scarf celebrating 25 year of Anonymous Was a Woman, produced by Alice Riot Main Material - 100% Silk HabotaiDimensions - 36” x 36” (91cm x 91cm)Square silk scarf w/ hand-rolled, hand-stitched hemMade in USA with silk printed in Italy $250 - Limited Edition Print by Sara Sosnowy: Untitled I, edition of 350, 22" x 22", unframed $250 - Limited Edition Print by Sara Sosnowy: Untitled II, edition of 350, 22" x 22", unframed Advertising Opportunities The deadline to purchase advertisements for the 2021 Annual Benefit has passed. Please email benefit@arttable.org for more information. Premier Video Ad ($2,000 for members; $2,200 for non-members) Full-screen, five-second video ad to be played at virtual benefit and virtual networking eventInclusion in dedicated e-blast to ArtTable membership16:9 aspect ratio1920 x 1080 resolution.mp4 formatPriority Screen Ad ($700 for members, $800 for non-members) Full-screen, three-second ad at virtual benefit and virtual networking eventInclusion in dedicated e-blast to ArtTable membership16:9 aspect ratio (horizontal format)1920 x 1080 resolution.jpg or .pdf formatClassic Screen Ad ($400 for members, $500 for non-members) Full-screen, three-second ad at virtual benefit Inclusion in dedicated e-blast to ArtTable membership16:9 aspect ratio (horizontal format)1920 x 1080 resolution.jpg or .pdf format

Virtual | Benefit Week VIP Program - A Conversation with Michele Oka Doner & Marieluise Hessel
2021-04-14 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable Circle and Annual Benefit Host Committee Members are invited to join us for a virtual VIP program during Benefit Week – a conversation with renowned artist Michele Oka Doner and art collector and philanthropist Marieluise Hessel.
This program is open to ArtTable Circle and Annual Benefit Host Committee Members only. To confirm your attendance, please email programs@arttable.org. You will receive the Zoom link after your registration is confirmed.
To purchase a Host Committee ticket for the 2021 Annual Benefit, click here.
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Accessibility: Please note that this program will offer live closed captioning. If you require additional accommodations, please email programs@arttable.org.

About Michele Oka Doner
Michele Oka Doner is an internationally renowned artist and author whose work spans five decades. Her artwork is fueled by a lifelong study and appreciation of the natural world, from which she derives her formal vocabulary. Her artistic production encompasses sculpture, public art, prints, drawings, functional objects, artist books, costume and set design, video and other media. She is well known for creating over 40 public and private permanent art installations, including “A Walk On The Beach.” The mile and a quarter long bronze and terrazzo concourse at Miami International Airport is seen by 40,000,000 travelers a year. She has authored or been the subject of eight books. Oka Doner has received grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the New York State Council of the Arts, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and others. She has also received many awards, including those given by the United Nations Society of Writers and Artists, Pratt Institute “Legends” and an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Michigan, where she received her undergraduate and MFA degrees.
Oka Doner’s work can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Chicago Art Institute, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum (Smithsonian), the Louvre – Paris, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, as well as in museum collections at the University of Michigan, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and Oxford, among numerous others nationally and internationally. She maintains a studio in New York City.
About Marieluise Hessel
Marieluise Hessel is an art collector and philanthropist. She established the Marieluise Hessel Foundation and founded the Hessel Museum of Art. She is also a co-founder of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
Founded 30 years ago, CCS-Bard was the first graduate curatorial program in the United States. CCS Bard is now an international research center with a library and archives, and is dedicated to the study of late 20th and 21st century art, curatorial practice, and art in contemporary culture. It offers a master’s degree in curatorial practice, the study of museum activities, exhibitions, art criticism, and the interpretation of art. CCS-Bard’s graduate students come from all over the world. Its alumni work in museums, art institutions and non-profits all over the world.
Marieluise has been a collector of contemporary art since the late 1960’s, and her still growing collection of over 2,000 works is on permanent loan to CCS-Bard & the Hessel Museum.
The Library was established with a 7,000-volume collection donated by Marieluise from her personal library. It now holds over 37,000 volumes, including international exhibition catalogs, artists’ monographs, international art periodicals, and special collections. The Archives now house over 2,500 linear feet of physical collection holdings. They document the institutional history of CCS Bard as well as serving as the repository for the archives of select galleries, art spaces, and initiatives, and the personal papers of important contemporary art curators.
She is married to Edwin L. Artzt, Retired Chairman and CEO of Procter & Gamble.

Images:

Michele Oka Doner, Glyphs, PAMM exhibition, 2015
Michele Oka Doner, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, 2015
Marieluise Hessel, courtesy of the speaker

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

Image: Alison McNeil

Virtual | AT Local - NoCal First Thursday Coffee Break
2021-04-01 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
12:30pm PT
AT Local virtual programs present opportunities to connect as a local chapter online. This NoCal First Thursday Coffee Break event is for members of ArtTable’s Northern California chapter. Stay tuned for AT Local events near you!
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All members of ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter are encouraged to join us again on April 1st at 12:30pm for our monthly Virtual First Thursday Coffee Break. It has been too long since we’ve all seen each other in person and there is so much to talk about! The first 3 coffee breaks were a success. We shared with each other how we have been holding up during this turbulent year, art we’ve seen, virtual programming that we enjoyed, and what else is new within our community. Even though we can’t meet in person quite yet, we look forward to seeing everyone again for this fourth edition of our coffee breaks together.
This is a Northern California members only event. Virtual First Thursdays Coffee Break is a reoccurring event and is donation based.
Thank you to ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter Executive Committee for planning and hosting this program.

Virtual | Exhibition Tour of 'Stayin' Alive' with Estrellita Brodsky
2021-03-25 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
Please join us for a virtual exhibition tour of the exhibition Stayin’ Alive at ANOTHER SPACE with art historian, collector, and philanthropist, Estrellita B. Brodsky. Taking its title from the Bee Gees disco hit, Stayin’ Alive explores artists’ responses to social and environmental crises, as well as the threat to the natural and indigenous environments.
ArtTable Registration Fee*

Non-Members – $15
ArtTable Members – $10
ArtTable Circle Members – Free

*All proceeds benefit ArtTable and support our mission of advancing the leadership of womxn in the visual arts. ANOTHER SPACE is not associated with the above fees.
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Accessibility: Please note that this program will offer live closed captioning. If you require additional accommodations, please email programs@arttable.org.

About the Speakers
Estrellita B. Brodsky, PhD, is a New York-based art historian, collector and philanthropist, as well as an advocate for art from Latin America. A founding member of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Latin American Art Initiative, the Latin American Acquisitions Committee at Tate, and founder of the Pompidou Foundation’s Latin American Acquisitions Committee, she has endowed curatorial positions in Latin American art at Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate, and MoMA. Additionally, in 2015 she founded ANOTHER SPACE, a program and not-for-profit exhibition gallery established by the Daniel and Estrellita B. Brodsky Foundation to broaden international awareness and appreciation of art from Latin America.
Brodsky holds a doctorate in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University as well as a Master’s Degree from Hunter College. She curated the first U.S. museum survey of Julio Le Parc at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM): Julio Le Parc: Form into Action, (2016-2017), which she subsequently organized in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Buenos Aires, Argentina; the first U.S. retrospective of the Venezuelan kinetic artist Carlos Cruz-Diez at the Americas Society in 2008; and Jesus Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950-1970 at Grey Art Gallery, New York University, in 2012.
Thank you to Julia P. Herzberg, Ph.D. for organizing this program.

Images:

Installation view of Stayin’ Alive
Estrellita Brodsky, courtesy of the speaker

Virtual | Curatorial Perspective: 'Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And' at the Brooklyn Museum
2021-03-23 18:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
6pm ET | 5pm CT | 3pm PT
ArtTable’s Curatorial Perspective program series invites curators to present and discuss timely exhibitions and initiatives. Please join us for a discussion with Catherine Morris, Sackler Senior Curator at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and writer and co-curator of the exhibiton, Aruna D’Souza, for a discussion of the Lorraine O’Grady retrospective currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum.
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About the Exhibition
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of one of the most significant contemporary figures working in performance, conceptual, and feminist art. Lorraine O’Grady replaces either/or ways of thinking with the endless loop of “both/and,” challenging the fixed positions of self and other, here and there, now and then, all while reflecting on the poignancy of lives lived within dualistic frameworks. The artist addresses her own experience as a person marked by racial hybridity―her family histories connect the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and the United States―who is nonetheless definitively a Black woman. Through her exploration of legacies of cultural interconnection and reciprocal influences, O’Grady sheds light on the ways Blackness has always existed at the heart of Western modernism.
The exhibition features twelve of the major projects O’Grady has produced over her four-decade career and also debuts a much-anticipated new installation. In addition to works presented in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, five of O’Grady’s projects are installed in collection galleries throughout the Museum, highlighting the artist’s long engagement with art historical omissions and institutional failings related to the creative agency of those excluded from the canon. O’Grady’s radical revisionism of the 1980s and 1990s anticipated themes that have been embraced by a younger generation of artists and thinkers, inspiring them to resist and reshape a world structured by difference and inequity.
About the Speakers
Catherine Morris is the Sackler Senior Curator for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Since 2009, Catherine has curated a number of exhibitions for the Sackler Center including the award-winning Materializing “Six Years”: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art (co-curated with Vincent Bonin); Twice Militant: Lorraine Hansberry’s Letters to “The Ladder”; Between the Door and the Street: A performance initiated by Suzanne Lacy; “Workt by Hand”: Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts; Kathë Kollwitz: Prints from the “War” and “Death” Portfolios; Rachel Kneebone: Regarding Rodin; Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes, 1913–1919; Matthew Buckingham: “The Spirit and the Letter”; Lorna Simpson: Gathered; Sam Taylor-Wood: “Ghosts”; Kiki Smith: Sojourn; and Healing the Wounds of War: The Brooklyn Sanitary Fair of 1864. She was also the in-house curator of Eva Hesse Spectres 1960 and Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968.
Before joining the Brooklyn Museum, Catherine was an independent curator. Among some of the projects she organized are Decoys, Complexes, and Triggers: Women and Land Art in the 1970s at SculptureCenter, Long Island City; 9 Evenings Reconsidered: Art, Theatre, and Engineering in 1966 for the M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center; and Gloria: Another Look at Feminist Art of the 1970s at White Columns, New York. From 2004 until 2009, she was Adjunct Curator of Contemporary Art for the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she curated shows of Josiah McElheny, Lucy Gunning, and Cameron Martin. In 2004, she received a Penny McCall Foundation Award for Independent Curating and Writing.
Aruna D’Souza writes about modern and contemporary art, intersectional feminisms and other forms of politics, and how museums shape our views of each other and the world. Her most recent book, Whitewalling: Art, Race, and Protest in 3 Acts (Badlands Unlimited), was named one of the best art books of 2018 by the New York Times. Aruna’s work appears regularly in 4Columns.org, where she is a member of the editorial advisory board. Her work has also been published in The Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, ArtNews, Garage, Bookforum, Momus, Art in America, and Art Practical, among other places. She is currently editing two forthcoming volumes, Making It Modern: A Linda Nochlin Reader, and Lorraine O’Grady’s Writing in Space 1973-2018, and is co-curator of the upcoming retrospective of O’Grady’s work, Both/And, which will open in March 2021 at the Brooklyn Museum.

Thank you to Ingrid Dinter, Principal Dinter Fine Art and Program Committee Member of ArtTable’s NY Chapter for organizing this program.

Images:

Lorraine O’Grady (American, born 1934). Rivers, First Draft: The Woman in White eats coconut and looks away from the action, 1982/2015. Digital chromogenic print from Kodachrome 35mm slides in 48 parts, 16 × 20 in. (40.64 × 50.8 cm). Edition of 8, plus 2 AP. Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York. © Lorraine O’Grady / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Catherine Morris, courtesy of the Brooklyn Musuem
Aruna D’Souza, photo credit Dana Hoey

Virtual | AT Local - Chicago Coffee Break
2021-03-18 08:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
8am CT
AT Local virtual programs present opportunities to connect as a local chapter online. This Chicago Coffee Break event is for members of ArtTable’s Chicago chapter. Stay tuned for AT Local events near you!
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Join members of ArtTable’s Chicago Chapter for an informal virtual coffee break! Pour yourself a warm beverage and meetup with members online. We look forward to hearing your recent news, celebrating collective wins and learning more about how we can support one another in these rather unusual times.
Thank you to ArtTable’s Chicago Chapter Executive Committee for planning and hosting this program.

Virtual | Where Are We Now? Revisiting the State of Fine Art Shipping in a Post-Pandemic World
2021-03-17 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
Since the start of the pandemic, fine art shippers, registrars, and collections managers have had to find inventive solutions to moving artwork during a global lockdown. Back in July 2020, when the art world was still adapting to new pandemic-related regulations, ArtTable hosted a virtual conversation on this topic, where we discussed evolving logistical measures and responsibilities taken on by arts institutions and spaces within and outside of the US. As we approach the one year mark of the pandemic in the US, we revisit this conversation with new insights and discuss other factors that continue to affect the shipping sector of the art market, like new regulations between the US and the UK, continued gallery closures and staff reductions, and shifting exhibition and fair schedules.
What have shipping agents and registrars learned in the past year about adapting their tried and tested methods? How are museums, art galleries, or private collections faring amid ever-changing regulations? And what can we expect in the coming months? Join us for what is sure to be a fascinating discussion with Jacqueline Cabrera (Cabrera + Art + Management), Tina Sullivan (Masterpiece International), and Anna Marris (Constantine International).
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About the Speakers
Jacqueline Cabrera is currently Principal at Cabrera + Art + Management, Host of the Registrar Hour and past President and founding board member of the Association of Registrars and Collection Specialists. From 1996 – 2016 she worked at the J. Paul Getty Museum as a registrar at both the Getty Villa and Getty Center museums. Jacqueline has also served as Chair of the Registrar’s Committee Western Region and as a board member for the Western Museum Association. Prior to joining the Getty in 1996 she was the Registrar at the Long Beach Museum of Art and previously a Painting Department Assistant at Sotheby’s.
Tina Sullivan is the Vice President of Fine Arts at Masterpiece International. She has worked in the fine art logistics industry for the past 23 years. She started at Masterpiece International in 1997 as their in-house licensed Customhouse Broker, and now
serves as the Vice President of Fine Arts, overseeing all fine art operations on the West Coast. Tina is a licensed Customhouse broker and has a strong understanding of U.S. Customs and U.S. Fish and Wildlife regulations.

Anna Marris started her career in the fine arts logistics world at Wingate & Johnston (London) in 1984. She then went on to work for MOMART for 25 years where in 1996 she became the first female Director in the Art transport Industry. In 2015 she rejoined the Constantine (parent company of W&J) as Associate Director, again the first female Director for the company.

Thank you to Jacqueline Cabrera from ArtTable’s SoCal Chapter for organizing this program.

Images:

Courtesy of The ARTA blog
Jacqueline Cabrera, courtesy of the speaker
Tina Sullivan, courtesy of the speaker
Anna Marris, courtesy of the speaker

Virtual | AT Local - SoCal Show & Tell
2021-03-16 20:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
8pm ET/ 7pm CT/ 5pm PT
For this informal Show & Tell event, members of ArtTable’s SoCal Chapter are invited to come together via Zoom to share current projects and activities with one another! This will be an opportunity to connect with old and new members, and learn more about each other’s professional and creative practices. All are welcome to speak but are not required to! You can join and just listen to what your fellow members share.
This Show & Tell program is for members of ArtTable’s SoCal Chapter only.
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Thank you to ArtTable’s SoCal Chapter Co-Chairs, Shana Nys Dambrot, Jacqueline Cabrera, & Ceci Moss!

Image: Salvation Mountain by Leonard Knight, Calipatria, CA; photo by Jamie Elvidge

Virtual | Reading at the (Art)Table - 'Just Us: An American Conversation,' by Claudia Rankine
2021-03-14 14:00 (America/New_York) | California
2pm ET | 1pm CT | 11am PT
Join the Northern California Chapter’s Reading at the (Art)Table book group for a discussion of our latest book selection, “Just Us: An American Conversation,” by Claudia Rankine. With essays, poems, and images, Just Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together, even and especially in breaching the silence, guilt, and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness. Rankine’s questions disrupt the false comfort of our culture’s liminal and private spaces – the airport, the theater, the dinner party, the voting booth – where neutrality and politeness live on the surface of differing commitments, beliefs, and prejudices as our public and private lives intersect.
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Virtual | Curatorial Perspective: 'Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond'
2021-03-12 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s Curatorial Perspective program series invites curators to present and discuss timely exhibitions and initiatives. Please join us for a discussion with Rachel Seligman, Malloy Curator at the Tang Museum, and Minita Sanghvi, Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and Business at Skidmore College, about the exhibition Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond.
The exhibition includes artwork a multitude of notable female artists, including Gina Adams, Jordan Casteel, Guerrilla Girls, Martine Gutierrez, Julie Mehretu, Joan Mitchell, Catherine Opie, Howardena Pindell, Wendy Red Star, Faith Ringgold, Deborah Roberts, Tschabalala Self, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Shinique Smith, Mickalene Thomas, Marie Watt, Carrie Mae Weems, among many others!
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About the Speakers
Rachel Seligman is the Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs and Malloy Curator at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY). Her curatorial practice includes many interdisciplinary collaborative projects on subjects including Solomon Northup, democracy and citizenship, social class, activism and civil rights, pattern in art and science, and sugar, among others. Seligman is the co-author of Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave (Praeger, 2013), as well as numerous exhibition catalogues including Classless Society (Tang, 2014), Machine Project (DelMonico-Prestel, 2016), and Sixfold Symmetry (Tang, 2018). She has a BA from Skidmore College and an MA in Art History from George Washington University. She has chaired the Visual Arts Panel of the New York State Council on the Arts. Seligman has also served on numerous panels and committees for regional and national arts organizations.
Dr. Minita Sanghvi is an assistant professor in the management and business department at Skidmore College where she teaches business, marketing, as well as a first year seminar on gender and politics in the United States. Her research centers around gender and intersectionality in marketing and consumption. Palgrave MacMillan published her book Gender and Political Marketing in the United States and the 2016 Presidential Election: An Analysis of Why She Lost in 2019. In addition, she has published articles in Journal of Marketing Management and Journal of Business Research. Dr. Sanghvi was elected to the Saratoga Springs Public Library Board in 2019 for a 5-year term. She is the co-curator of the exhibition titled Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond along with Rachel Seligman at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College.

Images:

Installation view of Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond
Rachel Seligman, courtesy of the speaker
Minita Sanghvi, courtesy of the speaker

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

Image: Rayna Andrews

Virtual | AT Local - NoCal First Thursday Coffee Break
2021-03-04 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
12:30pm PT
AT Local virtual programs present opportunities to connect as a local chapter online. This NoCal First Thursday Coffee Break event is for members of ArtTable’s Northern California chapter. Stay tuned for AT Local events near you!
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All members of ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter are encouraged to join us again on March 4th at 12:30pm for our monthly Virtual First Thursday Coffee Break. It has been too long since we’ve all seen each other in person and there is so much to talk about! The first two coffee breaks were a success. We shared with each other how we have been holding up during this turbulent year, art we’ve seen, virtual programming that we enjoyed, and what else is new within our community. Even though we can’t meet in person quite yet, we look forward to seeing everyone again for this third edition of our coffee breaks together.
This is a Northern California members only event. Virtual First Thursdays Coffee Break is a reoccurring event and is donation based.
Thank you to ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter Executive Committee for planning and hosting this program.

Virtual | Artist Talk with Angela Fraleigh
2021-03-03 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s Artist Talk series is made possible by the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Originally formatted as in-person Artist Breakfasts, ArtTable has moved all programming into the virtual realm during the pandemic. Please join us for a virtual Artist Talk with Angela Fraleigh.
Please join us after the discussion for 10-15 minutes of virtual networking in Zoom Breakout Rooms! In pre-pandemic times, ArtTable programs were a time for members and non-members to connect with old friends and meet new people, and we aim to simulate that in the virtual realm!
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About Angela Fraleigh
Angela Fraleigh (b. 1976) earned her MFA from Yale University School of Art and her BFA from Boston University. Her solo exhibitions include Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY; Inman Gallery in Houston, TX; PPOW Gallery in New York, NY; Peters Projects in Santa Fe, NM; and James Harris Gallery in Seattle, WA. She has exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, and has been the recipient of several awards and residencies including the Yale University Alice Kimball English grant; The Sharpe-Walentas Program Brooklyn, NY; and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE. Fraleigh has created site-specific solo projects for the Edward Hopper House Museum and Study Center (Shadows Searching for Light, 2018) and the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site (Lost in the Light, 2015), the Everson Museum of Art (Between Tongue and Teeth, 2016) and the Delaware Art Museum (Sound the Deep Waters, 2019).
She currently lives and works in Allentown, PA, where she is a Full Professor and Department Chair at Moravian College. Fraleigh’s debut solo exhibition with Hirschl & Adler Modern, Fluttering still, is on view now through March 12, 2021.
This program is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation has been a leader in providing grants enabling emerging and established artists to focus on their work. Funding helps artists to create new work, acquire art supplies, rent studio space, and prepare exhibitions. The Foundation also provides grants to organizations that directly engage with artists, such as artist residency programs. Please visit www.pkf.org for more information.
Thank you to Hirschl & Adler Modern for helping to make this program possible.

Image Credits

We tell beginnings, 2021; Oil and watercolor on canvas over panel, 56 x 48 in.; Courtesy of the artist and Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York; Photo © Ken Ek
Angela Fraleigh, courtesy of the artist

RESCHEDULED | MFA Artists Talk: Recent Cadogan Scholarship Awardees
2021-02-25 20:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
8:30pm ET | 7:30pm CT | 5:30pm PT
This program has been rescheduled to a later date. Stay tuned for updates.
In support of Bay Area MFA candidates, the Northern California Chapter invites you to join us on Thursday, February 25 (8:30pm ET/ 7:30pm CT/ 5:30pm PT) for a visit with recent Cadogan Scholarship Awardees Dominique Birdsong, Amy Elkins, and Claudia Huenchuleo Paquien.
The distinction is part of The Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Award and the Edwin Anthony and Adalaine Boudreaux Cadogan Scholarships (aka The Murphy Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards). These awards help fuel the forward-thinking visual arts movement that makes the Bay Area unique. Established in 1986, the awards were designed to further the development of the region’s MFA students and to foster exploration of their artistic potential.
The winners receive financial awards and have their work displayed in an exhibition at SOMArts Cultural Center. As universities and students have been impacted by COVID-19 this past year, the 2020 exhibition, curated by artist, curator, and educator Kevin B. Chen, made the pivot online so awardees can celebrate safely from their homes. We are pleased to present this Artists Talk by three of the year’s talented awardees.
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About the Artists
Dominique Birdsong is a San Francisco-based artist working in a variety of media, from acrylic paint to concrete, plaster, and resin cloth. Her work explores the relationship between death and identity. Reflecting on a personal experience of loss, she states, “The impact that it has on me is extreme, prompting me to question my identity: who I am now and who I was before I lost them.” Birdsong completed her BFA from Humboldt State University. She is currently an MFA candidate at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Amy Elkins works primarily in photography and with a series-based approach that oscillates between formal, conceptual and documentary. She has spent the past fifteen years researching, creating and exhibiting work that explores the multifaceted nature of masculine identity as well as the psychological and sociological impacts of incarceration. Elkins received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She is currently an MFA candidate in the Art Practice program at Stanford University. She has exhibited and published both nationally and internationally.
Claudia Huenchuleo Paquien is a multimedia artist based in San Francisco. An urban Mapuche descendant, born and raised in Chile, her work reflects on feelings of sadness, nostalgia, and dislocation as collective constructions in attunement to places and territories. Through collage, photography, and installation, her work interrogates the way in which memory, culture, and race function in relation to Indigenous contemporary identities and new systems of knowledge. Huenchuleo Paquien graduated from University of Concepción, Chile, with a degree in psychology. She completed a Post Baccalaureate in Visual Arts at UC Berkeley Extension. She is currently a third year MFA candidate at San Francisco State University.
Thank you to Northern California Chapter Executive Committee members Donna Napper, Co-Chair and Maren Jones, Finance Chair for organizing this program.

Images clockwise from top left: Dominique Birdsong, A Conversation, 2019, clay, concrete, red LED light and wood base; Amy Elkins, Holding Pattern, 2020, pigment print on adhesive fabric, stop motion animation on two 13” Clear Tech Televisions, print on cotton, used prison uniforms, stainless steel hangers, industrial steel pipes and fittings. Claudia Huenchuleo Paquien, Kallfü Füdo, 2020, photograph. Images courtesy of the artists.

Virtual | Equity & Representation in Contemporary Art - A Panel Discussion for Black History Month
2021-02-25 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
Over the course of time in America, large swaths of art history have been omitted, erased, or ignored. This absence has created a significant void in the narrative around how people of African descent and people of color have contributed to the artistic canon.
The impact presents significant disadvantages for artists of color. From artists that have difficulty gaining representation, to art historians overlooking Black and Brown artists’ contributions, to collectors that do not have access to works they would like to acquire, the playing field has never been level. Bias shows up in art schools, in institutions, in hiring practices, in the primary and secondary art market, and in the critical voices that influence all of the above.
Recent news of high-profile curatorial appointments are a move in the right direction. However, there is significant work that remains to be done. What kind of new and inclusive art world can we as art professionals help to create ?
Join us for this interactive session on a very timely and important topic. The discussion will address questions surrounding this subject including:

What are the barriers to equity and representation and how can we, as leaders, make a difference toward that goal?
What does it feel like to be an “outsider” in the art world?
Why does diversity and representation matter?
How can institutions and art spaces be more accessible to all?
Black art is “hot” right now. Why?
How does diversity in art help us to understand each other in a complex multicultural society?

Panel Participants:

June Edmonds, Award-Winning Artist, Los Angeles, CA
Chela Mitchell, Art Advisor and Founder of Komuna House Global Arts Club, New York, NY
Dr. Kimberli Gant, McKinnon Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Moderated by Lynne Toye, Founder of Art Unpacked, New York, NY

Please join us after the discussion for 10-15 minutes of virtual networking in Zoom Breakout Rooms! In pre-pandemic times, ArtTable programs were a time for members and non-members to connect with old friends and meet new people, and we aim to simulate that in the virtual realm!
Admission

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

About the Speakers
June Edmonds was born in Los Angeles, where she lives and works. Edmonds received her MFA from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, and a bachelor’s degree from San Diego State University. She also attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and is the recipient of the inaugural prestigious 2020 AWARE Prize, which recognizes an outstanding solo presentation of work by a female artist at the Armory Show. Edmonds is also the 2020 Harpo Foundation Grant recipient and a recipient of the 2018 City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Grant (COLA). She attended the Paducah A.I.R. residency in Kentucky in 2017 and is slated to go to Vermont Studio Center Residency in 2021 or 2022. Edmonds uses abstract painting to explore how color, pattern, repetition, movement and balance can serve as conduits to spiritual contemplation and interpersonal connection. She has exhibited nationally and has completed several works of public art with the city of Los Angeles and the Department of Cultural Affairs, including an installation at the MTA Pacific Station in Long Beach, CA. Her paintings are held in collections throughout the United States including the California African American Museum, Los Angeles and the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA.
Kimberli Gant, PhD is the McKinnon Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Chrysler Museum. She has held curatorial positions at the Newark Museum, The Contemporary Austin, and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan
Art. She has curated numerous exhibitions including Brendan Fernandes: Bodily Forms, Multiple Modernisms, Wondrous Worlds: Art & Islam through Time & Place, and De-Luxe. Kimberli holds Art History degrees from the University of Texas Austin, Columbia University, and Pitzer College.

Chela Mitchell is an art advisor at CMA, a firm committed to helping collectors build diverse art collections. Chela has worked with some influential institutions, corporations and art collectors, informing their acquisitions in the emerging, mid-career and established markets. Chela has become a voice for change in the art world, actively fighting for equity of artists and art professionals. This work inspired the creation of Komuna, a global arts club with a special focus on artists and people of color.
Before devoting herself fulltime to the art world, Chela worked as a fashion stylist at Net-a-Porter, Barney’s, Intermix and Vogue Japan. She has worked closely with artists like Solange, Iman Omari and Young Paris.
Chela has been featured in Forbes, The Los Angeles Times, ArtNews, Artnet News, NR Magazine and 10 Magazine. She is a proud graduate of Rutgers University and lives in Manhattan with her husband, daughter and French mastiff, Harlem.

Lynne Toye is a curator, change agent, and artist advocate building a community of support for artists of color. She is focused on educating and cultivating new collectors and forming strategic alliances with stakeholders in the art market. She founded Art Unpacked in 2020 to provide access to the art market through curated events, lectures, studio visits and salons. She is on the African American Culture Committee of the Montclair Art Museum and also currently serves as the Chief Administrative Officer at Harlem School of the Arts. Lynne holds degrees from the University of Virginia and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Thank you to Lynne Toye for organizing this program exclusively for ArtTable.

Images:

June Edmonds
Dr. Kimberli Gant
Chela Mitchell
Lynne Toye

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

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

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

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