ArtTable

Metro Atlanta | New Chapter MeetAT at Cultured South!
2021-09-25 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cultured South Fermentation Co., 1038 White Street SW, Atlanta, GA, 30310, United States
You are invited to the first networking and membership recruitment event of ArtTable’s newest chapter – ArtTable Metro Atlanta! ArtTable has been the premier professional organization supporting women in the visual arts since 1980. As an ArtTable chapter, we will continue ArtTable’s mission through programming and engaging members to explore the infinite possibilities in Georgia. Our first gathering includes an opportunity for current and prospective members to meet and discuss what being an ArtTable member is all about. You will meet with ArtTable Metro Atlanta Chapter Leaders Waduda Muhammad, Nisa Floyd, and julia elizabeth neal to discuss the benefits of ArtTable, how the organization can be a resource for you, and have an opportunity to hear from all attendees about your roles in the art community and your professional goals.
ArtTable’s Metro Atlanta Chapter will plan most of its events/programs in the city of Atlanta. However, ArtTable Metro Atlanta will also plan trips throughout the state and via international virtual excursions. As an ArtTable member you can participate in virtual national programming as well as visit any in-person program hosted by ArtTable regardless of location.
This first chapter meet-up will take place at Golda Kombucha (1038 White St SW, Atlanta, GA 30310) in southwest Atlanta on September 25 at 12pm. Interested participants that would like to carpool can reach out to julia, Nisa, or Waduda for accommodations or concerns about accessibility. Please share this opportunity among your own networks, and we look forward to meeting you!
This program is free and open to current and prospective ArtTable members. Registration is required (see below). All attendees are responsible for their own purchases at the venue.
Not a member? Join today!

Please read before registering:
Covid-19 Guidelines:

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.
Masks are highly encouraged for those who have not been vaccinated.

Accessibility:

Outdoor seating and accessible parking are available.

Getting There:

Cultured South (AKA Golda Kombucha) is located at 1038 White St SW, Atlanta, GA 30310 in southwest Atlanta. Interested participants that would like to carpool can reach out to julia, Nisa, or Waduda for accommodations or concerns about accessibility.

About ArtTable
ArtTable is the foremost professional organization dedicated to advancing the leadership of women in the visual arts. Through our membership network and community initiatives, we expand professional opportunities for women from diverse backgrounds and at all stages of their careers, supporting and fostering a stronger future for all women in the arts. ArtTable members can connect with the 1200+ members and gain a network of professional peers spread across 7 countries, including the U.S., where we have 10 chapters, located in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington DC. In addition to members across the country outside these areas, members of ArtTable can be anywhere in the world! Read more about ArtTable’s mission, programs, impact initiatives, and history.”
About the venue – Cultured South

Cultured South Fermentation Company is the creation of brewmaster, Melanie Wade, founder of Atlanta’s first and only kombucha company, Golda Kombucha. Wade brews kombucha tea using her Grandma Golda’s original recipe and has been since college. With Golda’s heirloom culture, Wade expanded her kombucha business across the Southeast, premiering smooth flavor combinations like peach ginger, lavender lemonade and strawberry mint in 2013. Golda Kombucha can now be found in over 100 Kroger and Whole Foods markets.

Thank you to ArtTable’s Metro Atlanta Chapter Leaders, julia elizabeth neal (Communications Chair), Nisa Floyd (Programming Chair), & Waduda Muhammad (Co-Chair).

Images:

ArtTable Metro Atlanta; Golda Kombucha

Philadelphia | Mural Mile Walking Tour with Mural Arts' Jane Golden
2021-09-25 10:00 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
10am ET
Join Executive Director of the City of Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program Jane Golden for an exciting walking tour! Get to know Mural Arts Philadelphia’s world-renowned collection along the Mural Mile. Explore the culturally-rich and bold Center City! We will get up close and personal with murals that tell the intimate and inspiring stories of Philadelphia, its leaders, and citizens. The “Mural Mile” highlights art tucked in out-of-the-way corners to soaring additions to the cityscape. The tour will include an array of murals selected by Golden such as Russell Craig’s “Crown”, (2020), Amy Sherald’s “Untitled”, (2019), Euhri Jones and David McShane, “Water Gives Life”, (2018), Meg Saligman’s “Philadelphia Muses”, (1999), and Jonathan Laidacker’s “Philadelphia Microcosm”, (2019), among others.
We’re pleased to be able to offer ArtTable members & friends a discounted rate for this tour – $10 for ArtTable members and $15 for non-members. Not an ArtTable member? Join today!
Please read before registering:
Covid-19 Guidelines:

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 strongly encourage all attendees to wear a mask while in close proximity to others not from your immediate household.

Accessibility: Please email programs@arttable.org if you require accessibility information for this program.
Getting There: The tour will begin at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Lenfest Plaza Paint Torch Sculpture (128 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102). This tour is not a loop, it ends in the general vicinity of 12th and Walnut Streets. Directions will be shared with all registered attendees in advance of the program.

About Jane Golden
Jane Golden has been the driving force of Mural Arts Philadelphia since its inception in 1984, overseeing its growth from a small city agency into the nation’s largest public art program. Under Golden’s direction, Mural Arts has created over 4,000 works of transformative public art through community engagement. In partnership with innovative collaborators, she has developed groundbreaking and rigorous programs that employ the power of art to transform practice and policies related to youth education, restorative justice, environmental justice and behavioral health.
Sought-after nationally and internationally as an expert on urban transformation through art, Golden has received numerous awards for her work, including the Philadelphia Award, the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Award, as well as the Katharine Hepburn Medal. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She also serves on the Mayor’s Cultural Advisory Council and the board of directors of The Heliotrope Foundation. Click here to read more about Mural Arts Philadelphia!

Thank you to ArtTable Philadelphia Chapter Co-Chairs Laurie McGahey and Rachel Zimmerman for organizing this program. Thanks also to Jane Golden, Executive Director, and Genny Boccardo-Dubey, Chief Advancement Officer at Mural Arts Philadelphia.

Image:

Mural Mile walking tour, April 2, 2019. Photo by Steve Weinik.

Virtual | Reading at the (Art)Table - 'The Free World: Art & Culture in the Cold War' - Louis Menand
2021-09-19 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
2pm ET | 1pm CT | 11am PT
Join Reading at the (Art)Table as we delve into ‘The Free World: Art and Culture in the Cold War” by Louis Menand, hosted by ArtTable’s Northern California chapter. This deep and detailed history shines a light on the art and culture of the period from WWII through the war in Vietnam.
This program is for ArtTable members only. Not a member? Join today!
How to take part:

Click here to Register for this program. Please note that registration for this program will close at 4pm ET/1pm PT on Friday, September 17.
You will receive a registration confirmation via email that contains the Zoom link. If you need to download the Zoom app, you may do so here.
For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

Thank you to Jan Wurm, ArtTable Northern California Chapter, for organizing this program.
Image: The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand

New York | A Tour of Harlem's Monuments
2021-09-18 10:00 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | Maryland
Please join us for an in-person tour of monuments and memorials throughout Harlem. Attendees will enjoy a leisurely walk through the most Northern and less traveled parts of Central Park around the Harlem Meer, along the way viewing three monumental memorials to Duke Ellington, Frederick Douglas, and Harriet Tubman. The tour will be guided by ArtTable member Cathie Behrend.
This program is open to ArtTable members for $10 and non-members for $15. Space is limited and waitlisted registrants will be notified if space becomes available. There will be a fair amount of walking involved so please prepare accordingly! The rain date for this program is Sunday, September 19 at the same time.
Not a member? Join today!

Please read before registering:
Covid-19 Guidelines:

Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed.
While masks or face coverings are no longer required for outdoor gatherings, we encourage all attendees to wear one when in close proximity to others who are not in their immediate household.

Accessibility:

Please note that this program will cover a distance of approximately 1.5 miles from 110th Street to 121st Street via St. Nicholas Avenue. Sidewalks and benches are available for the whole distance and are wheelchair accessible.

Getting There:

This program will take place in the neighborhood of Harlem, New York. The closest subway stops are Central Park North (110 Street) along the 2 or 3 lines and 110 Street along the 4 or 6 lines. The specific meeting address will be shared with registrants in advance of the event.

About the speaker
Catherine Hannah Behrend (Cathie) is the Founder of VenturesinVision, providing customized public art tours in the boroughs for the 92Y, the patrons of WNET/PBS, other not- for-profit organizations and private clients. Cathie has just completed working for 14 years as an Adjunct Instructor at the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Graduate Program in the Art Market and NYU’s Center for Applied Liberal Arts. Cathie has Master Degrees in Art and Business Administration from NYU. She also studied international business at INSEAD. She wrote her M.A. Thesis on Christo and her M.B.A Thesis on Decentralizing City Park Operations. Cathie is a longstanding Board member of the 92nd Street YMCA , the Financial Women’s Association of New York and the Simmons College Leadership Council, amongst others. Cathie also completed a three year term as Co-Chairperson of Programming for ArtTable. She founded the still on-going Simmons College New York City Art Administration Summer Institute in 2002. Cathie served under six NYC Mayoral administrations prior to her transition to teaching and tours with positions ranging from managing street and park festivals, to leading the economic development efforts to keep and attract Fortune 500 and global financial companies to NYC. She was appointed to the Mayor’s Council on New Media established to foster synergy between arts organizations and Internet companies and managed the annual Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in Science and Technology. She also represented Cultural Affairs on the Mayor’s Committee on Graffiti. Her last city government position was Deputy Director of the Percent for Art Program in the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs from 1995-2007. Percent for Art mandates that one percent of the construction budget of city-eligible capital projects must be spent on the integration of art into architecture. During her tenure, 125 projects were initiated or completed – many with world renown artists. Her biggest inspiration was working in the Education Dept at the Philadelphia Museum of Art as an intern.
Thank you to Cathie Behrend, ArtTable New York Chapter Program Committee member, for organizing this program.

Image: Harriet Tubman memorial in Harlem, by Alison Saar.

Virtual | Let's Connect! Fall National Networking Event
2021-09-13 17:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
5pm ET | 4pm CT | 2pm PT
We invite all ArtTable members to join us for our next virtual national networking event! Our first national networking event took place in May 2021 and allowed members from all over to share ideas and make new connections! We are thrilled to offer our members this opportunity to connect with each other nationwide. Participants will go into breakout rooms to chat, connect, see old friends and make new ones! This is a great opportunity for members from all over the country (and the world!) to form new connections and find ways to collaborate with one another.
This program is Free for all ArtTable members. Not a member? Join today!
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.
(You will receive an email confirmation containing the Zoom link.)
Can’t join us for this event? Don’t worry, there will be plenty more opportunities to connect with members in the future! In the meantime, we hope you can join us for another upcoming virtual program or support other ArtTable initiatives!

National | ArtTable at The Armory Show
2021-09-11 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Javits Center, 429 11th Avenue, New York, 10001
Please join us for the annual ArtTable Brunch at The Armory Show! This is a great time for members and friends from across the country to come together and network at New York’s premiere art fair, now to take place annually in September at the Javits Center. We will be joined by The Armory Show’s Executive Director, Nicole Berry. Your ticket covers access to the fair, early private access to the VIP Lounge, and a light breakfast.

Please read before registering:
Covid-19 Guidelines:

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.
Please note that The Armory Show requires that all individuals wear a mask indoors, regardless of vaccination status. This will be strictly enforced.
In addition to masks, The Armory Show also requires that each attendee provide the following before entry to the fair:
(1) PROOF OF FULL VACCINATION STATUS IN PAPER FORM, DIGITAL APPLICATION, OR THE NEW YORK STATE EXCELSIOR PASS.
OR
(2) PROOF OF A NEGATIVE COVID-19 TEST RESULT (I.E., PCR/NAAT) TAKEN WITHIN 72 HOURS OF ENTERING THE JAVITS CENTER.
Please review The Armory Show’s full Health and Safety Plan before registering.

Accessibility:

The Javits Center has sidewalk ramps, automatic doors at all street levels, restrooms and elevators accessible for persons with mobility impairments. For more information regarding accessibility, please visit the Javits Center website.

Getting There:

The Armory Show is easily accessible by car, taxi, and public transportation. For detailed directions visit the Javits Center website.

About The Armory Show
In 1994, four New York art dealers had the ambitious goal of creating a new art fair to support their artists and attract global attention. They succeeded. The result was a groundbreaking cultural moment that has become vital to the New York art market and beyond. While much has changed over the years, our ingenuity and ambition have not. The Armory Show is a galvanizing force in the art world and essential to New York’s cultural landscape.
Now in September at the Javits Center, The Armory Show will kick-off New York’s fall arts season. We have always been a gateway to New York’s art scene, hosting the world’s best galleries and linking collectors and galleries with museums and institutions across the city. And our updated timing coupled with the proximity to Chelsea and the High Line will create increased access to the city’s vibrant culture.
At our core, The Armory Show is dedicated to ensuring galleries and New York’s art community continue to thrive. We pave the way for its success and strive to be a platform in which it is easier to buy, sell and discover art.
Click here to read more about the fair.

DC | BreakfastTable with Nicole Dowd
2021-09-10 08:00 - 09:00 (America/New_York) | Washington, DC, Washington, DC, 20008
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for September’s “Dutch Treat” BreakfastTable with Nicole Dowd, Apple’s Head of Programming, Washington DC. She will be discussing her work supporting local artists, arts programming during a pandemic, and how globally-expansive work can evolve into hyperlocal initiatives. We will be holding this BreakfastTable program “en plein air” following local healthy and safety standards. This program is free and open to ArtTable members only.
Not a member? Join today!

Please read before registering:
Covid-19 Guidelines:

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.

Accessibility:

The location for this program is wheelchair accessible.

Getting There:

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

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

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

Images:

Nicole Dowd, courtesy of the speaker

NoCal | First Thursday Coffee Break On Location - Flywheel Coffee Kiosk
2021-09-02 08:30 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Flywheel Coffee Kiosk, 678-650 Stanyan Street, San Francisco, CA, 94117, United States
8:30am PST
All ArtTable members are welcome to join the Northern California Chapter in the early morning of Thursday, September 2nd, to share a cup of coffee before your workday gets started. Get your coffee, tea, and/or pastry at this local family owned coffee shop kiosk (inside Golden Gate park, across from Page Street) and catch up with other members during this in-person outdoor coffee break together.
This program is open to ArtTable members only. First Thursdays Coffee Break is a recurring event and is donation based.
Not an ArtTable member? Join today!
Please read before registering:
Covid-19 Guidelines:

Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed.
While masks are no longer required outdoors for fully vaccinated individuals, we highly recommend wearing a mask or face covering when in close proximity to persons not from your household.

A list of attendees will be shared with all registrants for reference in advance of the program.
Please email programs@arttable.org if you would like accessibility information for this program.
Thank you to ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter Leaders for planning and hosting this program.

Virtual | NoCal Artist Talk with Lava Thomas
2021-08-19 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
10am PT
ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter is very pleased to present an Artist Talk with Lava Thomas. Thomas tackles issues of race, gender, representation and memorialization through a multidisciplinary practice that spans drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, and site-specific installations. Drawing from her family’s Southern roots, current socio-political events, intersectional feminism and African American protest and devotional traditions, Thomas’s practice centers ideas that amplify visibility, healing, and empowerment in the face of erasure, trauma and oppression.
This program is free and open to members of ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter only. Members may bring one additional guest.
How to take part:

Click here to Register for this program.
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.

Not an ArtTable member? Join today!

About Lava Thomas
A deeply resonating voice in contemporary art, Lava Thomas’s work is included in the National Portrait Gallery’s triennial exhibition, The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today. Her work has been exhibited in various institutions including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., the International Print Center, New York, NY; the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA; the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; and the California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the United States Consulate General in Johannesburg, South Africa; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; the M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA and the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, CA.

Thank you to ArtTable Northern California Chapter Leadership for organizing this program.

Image:

Lava Thomas in her studio

Northwest | Our Very Own Art Walk - Deconstructed Art Fair VIP Tour
2021-08-14 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
4pm PT
Back by popular demand, the Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair is returning in August 2021, celebrating the resilience of visual arts in Seattle with over 40 galleries, art institutions and non-profit organizations participating in the Fair, which runs online and in person from August 5 – 31, 2021.
We invite ArtTable members and non-members to join us for an exclusive ArtTable Art Walk of galleries participating in the Fair – August 14, 2021, 4pm – 6pm PT. Gallerists will chat with the group from their doorways and there will be several options available to enjoy the artwork: look through the windows while chatting outside, look online in advance, since the entire Fair will be documented virtually, or take a few moments inside.
Please join us for special access to exhibition overviews from leading galleries in Seattle’s Pioneer Square, ending with an optional traditional Art Fair *champagne and shrimp* reception at J. Rinehart Gallery, hosted by ArtTable Northwest co-Chair Judith Rinehart.
This program is free for ArtTable members, who may bring an additional guest for $5.
It is open to non-members as well for $15.
Not an ArtTable member? Join today!
Please read before registering:
Covid-19 Guidelines:

Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed.
While masks or face coverings are no longer required outdoors for fully vaccinated individuals, we strongly encourage you to wear one while in close proximity to others who are not in your immediate household.

Accessibility: Please email programs@arttable.org if you require accessibility information for this program.
Getting There: The exact meeting location will be shared with attendees before the program.
Thank you to ArtTable Northwest Chapter Co-Chairs Gina Broze, Jessica Landau, & Judith Rinehart.

Image:

Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair

POSTPONED - Philly | Mural Arts Philadelphia: Mural Mile Walking Tour
2021-07-24 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
This program has been postponed. The new date will be updated in the coming weeks.

10am ET
Join Executive Director of the City of Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program Jane Golden for an exciting walking tour! Get to know Mural Arts Philadelphia’s world-renowned collection along the Mural Mile. Explore the culturally-rich and bold Center City, getting up close and personal with murals that tell the intimate and inspiring stories of Philadelphia, its leaders, and citizens. The “Mural Mile” highlights art tucked in out-of-the-way corners to soaring additions to the cityscape. The tour will include an array of murals selected by Golden such as Russell Craig’s “Crown”, (2020), Amy Sherald’s “Untitled”, (2019), Euhri Jones and David McShane, “Water Gives Life”, (2018), Meg Saligman’s “Philadelphia Muses”, (1999), and Jonathan Laidacker’s “Philadelphia Microcosm”, (2019), among others.
We’re pleased to be able to offer ArtTable members & friends a discounted rate for this tour – $10 for ArtTable members and $15 for non-members. Not an ArtTable member? Join today!
Please read before registering:
Covid-19 Guidelines:

Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed.
While masks or face coverings are no longer required outdoors for fully vaccinated individuals, we strongly encourage you to wear one while in close proximity to others who are not in your immediate household.

Accessibility: Please email programs@arttable.org if you require accessibility information for this program.
Getting There: The tour will begin at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Lenfest Plaza Paint Torch Sculpture (128 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102). This tour is not a loop, it ends in the general vicinity of 12th and Walnut Streets. Directions will be shared with all registered attendees in advance of the program.

About Jane Golden
Jane Golden has been the driving force of Mural Arts Philadelphia since its inception in 1984, overseeing its growth from a small city agency into the nation’s largest public art program. Under Golden’s direction, Mural Arts has created over 4,000 works of transformative public art through community engagement. In partnership with innovative collaborators, she has developed groundbreaking and rigorous programs that employ the power of art to transform practice and policies related to youth education, restorative justice, environmental justice and behavioral health. Sought-after nationally and internationally as an expert on urban transformation through art, Golden has received numerous awards for her work, including the Philadelphia Award, the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Award and the Katharine Hepburn Medal. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and serves on the Mayor’s Cultural Advisory Council and the board of directors of The Heliotrope Foundation. Click here to read more about Mural Arts Philadelphia!

Thank you to ArtTable Philadelphia Chapter Co-Chairs Laurie McGahey and Rachel Zimmerman for organizing this program. Thanks also to Jane Golden, Executive Director, and Genny Boccardo-Dubey, Chief Advancement Officer at Mural Arts Philadelphia.

Image:

Mural Mile walking tour, April 2, 2019. Photo by Steve Weinik.

Virtual | Meet the 2021 ArtTable Fellows!
2021-07-22 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12:00pm ET
Join us for a discussion with the 2021 ArtTable Fellows! This year is especially exciting as ArtTable was able to award 16 fellowship positions to emerging professionals throughout the country, all thanks to generous donations from individuals and foundations. The fellows will discuss their projects and overall experience with the ArtTable Fellowship Program so far. This is a wonderful opportunity to meet our current fellowship cohort and learn more about the ArtTable Fellowship Program and the opportunities it provides to emerging professionals. We are pleased to celebrate over 20 years of this impactful program. Click here to read more about our Impact initiatives!
Registration for this program is open to anyone, with a suggested donation of $15.00 to continue to support the program. We hope to see you there!
How to take part:

Click here to Register for this program.
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.

Not a member? Join today!
Can’t make the program at this time? Register anyway to receive a recording after!
Accessibility: Please note that this program will offer live closed captioning. If you require additional accommodations, please email programs@arttable.org.

About the ArtTable Fellowship Program
Since the year 2000, ArtTable has conducted a Fellowship Program to address the marked lack of diversity in arts employment. The Fellowship provides quality experiences and mentorship to female-identifying graduate students and emerging professionals from backgrounds generally underrepresented in the field to aid their transition from academic to professional careers. Through one-on-one mentoring relationships at select museums and cultural institutions, fellows have the opportunity to work with established leaders and gain exposure to a range of professional activities.
The 2021 ArtTable Fellows

Sarah Ahmed | LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Los Angeles, CA
Nidhi Gandhi | Brooklyn Museum | Brooklyn, NY
Kendra Greendeer | Portland Art Museum | Portland, OR
Alison Guh | The Morgan Library & Museum | New York, NY
Molly Hatesohl | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum | New York, NY
Andrea Lewis | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Philadelphia, PA
Alejandra Lopez-Oliveros | Project for Empty Space | Newark, NJ
Frances Melgarejo | American Indian Artists Inc. (AMERINDA) | New York, NY
Larissa Nez | Montclair Art Museum | Montclair, NJ
Alitzah Oros | Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) | Los Angeles, CA
Juliana Ramirez Herrera | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | Houston, TX
Sarika Sanyal | Public Art Fund | New York, NY
Zoe Toledo | Materials & Applications (M&A) | Los Angeles, CA
Joy Tucker | Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center | Oklahoma City, OK
Dada Wang | Museum of Chinese in America | New York, NY
Ashleigh Yallaly | Museum of Arts and Design | New York, NY
Click here to read more about the ArtTable Fellowship Program, the 2021 Fellows, and the projects they are working on this summer.

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

Virtual | Art in Public Spaces with Sonia Romero, Danielle Brazell, Felicia Filer, & Heidi Zeller
2021-07-21 13:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
10:30 am PT/12:30pm CT/ 1:30pm ET
On July 6, members of ArtTable’s Southern California chapter met for a walkthrough of Sonia Romero’s unique and powerful Metro Arts mural project in the historic Mariachi Plaza’s Gold Line Station in Boyle Heights. As a result of this successful event, we are following up with part two!
Join us for a virtual discussion on the current state of public art in Los Angeles and Romero’s public art projects — especially as we emerge from the pandemic with an increased awareness of the profound value of art in activated public spaces across all the city’s diverse communities.
Romero unpacks the community and history-centric content of the work, as well as offers insight as to how the project came into fruition over the course of more than five years. Additionally, we are honored to welcome to this conversation with the perspectives of LA Metro’s head of Cultural Programming Heidi Zeller, Director of the City of L.A.’s Public Art Division Felicia Filer, and the Department of Cultural Affairs General Manager Danielle Brazell.
Admission

Current ArtTable Members – $10
Members may bring a guest for an additional $5
Non Members – $15

Not an ArtTable member? Join today!

Accessibility: Please email programs@arttable.org if you require accessibility information for this program.

About the Speakers
Sonia Romero is a Los Angeles artist known for her paper-cut and printmaking aesthetics which she incorporates into both her fine art and public art commissions. Born in 1980, she grew up in an artistic household in Echo Park before formally studying at the Rhode Island School of Design. After returning to California, she began working as a public artist, and was the artist in residence at Avenue 50 Studio in Northeast Los Angeles from 2007-2014. (soniaromero)
Danielle Brazell is a visionary national arts and cultural leader, passionate about the roles that arts, culture, and creativity play in advancing civic belonging, equity, economic prosperity, and social connectedness. Her career spans thirty years, first as an artist, teaching artist, cultural producer, and administrator, and now as the General Manager of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA). A passionate advocate, she advances the agency’s mission to enhance the quality of life in the city. Ms. Brazell provides executive leadership to a staff of 84 full-time employees and over 200 part- time employees, including a robust roster of teaching artists. Ms. Brazell works with the progressive agency’s Community Arts, Grants Administration, Public Art, and Marketing, Development, Design, and Digital Research division directors, and the Performing Arts Program and General and Administrative Support Program directors, to implement an annual budget of $22 million and a robust $150 million portfolio of capital projects, facilities, programming, and initiatives of free and low-cost publicly accessible arts and cultural services citywide. Prior to 2014, Ms. Brazell was the Executive Director of Arts for LA, a highly visible arts advocacy organization serving the greater Los Angeles region. Under her stewardship, Arts for LA became a formidable coalition advancing the arts in the largest county in the country. Ms. Brazell was previously the Artistic Director of Highways Performance Art Space and the Director of Special Projects for the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. She serves as a board member of Americans for the Arts and DataArts.
Felicia Filer is the public art director for the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. She has overseen the commission and fulfillment of over 200 permanent public art projects throughout the city. In Summer 2016, Filer co-produced the city’s inaugural Public Art Biennial, CURRENT: LA Water. The Biennial commissioned 15 original, temporary public art installations and 150 public programs. A native of Los Angeles, she earned an MBA in finance and marketing from Claremont Graduate University. (linkedin)
Heidi Zeller is LA Metro’s Senior Manager of Cultural Programming. Zeller is an arts organizer and cultural planner with a focus on the role of art in enriching public space and civic dialogue. At LA Metro, she produces Metro Art Presents, a series of arts and cultural events at historic Union Station. She is a proud native Angeleno. (ciclavia)
Thank you to Shana Nys Dambrot & Ceci Moss, ArtTable SoCal Chapter Co-Chairs, for organizing this program.

Images:

Headshots of the speakers, clockwise from top left: Sonia Romero, Danielle Brazell, Felicia Filer, & Heidi Zeller

Partner Program | Author Talk - Art: Creating With Judy Chicago
2021-07-20 20:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
July 20, 2021 at 8pm
PBS Books presents this Author Talk with Judy Chicago about her book The Flowering: The Autobiography of Judy Chicago. Chicago will be in conversation with ArtTable’s Lila Harnett Executive Director, Jessica Porter!
This event will be a time for viewers to get to know America’s most dynamic living artist. Known for her extraordinary and genre-defying art, such as The Dinner Party, Birth Project, Holocaust Project, and more, Chicago is a trailblazing feminist and a champion of using art to express visions and challenge boundaries. PBS Books is honored to learn more about Chicago alongside viewers nationwide, as she explores her own personal journey to becoming a multi-talented American icon. This special event will showcase the stories behind her works and celebrate her lifelong aim: a more just and equitable world for all beings.
Click here to read more about the book and the artist.
The event will be live streamed on the PBS Books Facebook Page.

Images courtesy of the artist and PBS Books.

NoCal | Curator Chat: Dr. Elaine Yau on 'Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective' at BAMPFA
2021-07-16 12:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | BAMPFA, 2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
12:30pm PT
Connect in-person with your fellow Northern California ArtTable members and guests during an outdoor picnic and discussion with Dr. Elaine Yau, Associate Curator for the Eli Leon Living Trust Collection of African American Quilts. Dr. Yau co-curated the exhibition, Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). This show is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work to date, featuring approximately seventy quilts, pieced tops, embroideries, assemblages, and decorated objects by one of the most brilliant and inventive quilt makers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
BAMPFA opens at 11:00am; museum admission will be complimentary for all registered ArtTable members the morning of July 16th if you wish to view the exhibition in-person at your own leisure. The outdoor conversation with Dr. Yau will begin at 12:30pm at the small patio/plaza at the top of the BAMPFA lawn surrounded by stone seating and shade. Bring your own picnic and enjoy!
Click here to read more about the exhibition.
This program is free for ArtTable members and $10 for non-members. Members may bring a guest for an additional $5.
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Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed.
While masks or face coverings are no longer required outdoors for fully vaccinated individuals, we strongly encourage you to wear one while in close proximity to others who are not in your immediate household.

Accessibility: Please email programs@arttable.org if you require accessibility information for this program.
Getting There: Directions will be shared with all registered attendees in advance of the program.

About Dr. Elaine Yau
Elaine Y. Yau is Associate Curator of the Eli Leon Living Trust Collection of African American Quilts at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA); where she is curating an exhibition from Leon’s historic bequest of approximately 3,000 quilts. Along with Larry Rinder, she served as co-curator of Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective in 2020. The Smithsonian American Art Museum has supported her research, as well as the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art; and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Dr. Yau later earned her doctoral degree at the University of California, Berkeley in History of Art with an emphasis in Folklore in 2015.

Thank you to Dorothy Davila, ArtTable Board Member and NoCal Committee Member, for organizing this program.

Images:

Exhibition installation image courtesy Impart Photography.
Elaine Yau, courtesy Katie Cleese Photography

New York | Guided Tour of 'Kusama: Cosmic Nature', at The New York Botanical Garden
2021-07-15 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, 10458
Join us for a guided tour of artworks by Yayoi Kusama on the grounds, the Haupt Conservatory, and the Art Gallery of the New York Botanical Garden. The tour will be led by Joanna Groarke, Director of Public Engagement at the New York Botanical Garden, who will guide us through monumental floral sculptures, spectacular installations, and the full breadth of Kusama’s fascination with the natural world.
The tour will begin at 5:30pm and end at approximately 7pm. Then, attendees will be free to explore the garden independently until closing time at 9pm. This program will take place rain or shine.
Click here to read more about the exhibition!
This program is open to ArtTable members only. Admission is $50 for ArtTable Circle members and $60 for all other ArtTable members.
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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.
At the New York Botanical Garden, visitors are required to wear face coverings, regardless of vaccination status, indoors and in high density areas where it may be difficult to maintain six feet of distance. Please review the full list of guidelines here. We will alert attendees if there are updates to these guidelines between now and July 15.

Accessibility: All NYBG buildings, seasonal exhibitions, and tour vehicles are accessible for wheelchairs, walkers, and personal 3- and 4-wheeled electric scooters. However, due to the Garden’s naturally varied topography, portions of the historic landscape may be inaccessible. An Accessibility Guide with recommended wheelchair routes is available at the Garden or can be downloaded here. Learn more about accessibility and read our Service Animal Policy here.
Getting There: NYBG is easily accessible via Metro-North Railroad and by subway (B, D, and 4 trains to Bedford Park Blvd. Station and 2 train to Allerton Ave. Station). NYBG is only 20 minutes from Grand Central Terminal to Botanical Garden Station on Metro-North’s Harlem local line. We recommend using public transportation, taxi, or other rideshare services to avoid parking delays. Drop-off and pickup location for these services is 2900 Southern Blvd., Bronx, NY 10458. Detailed directions can be found here.

About Yayoi Kusama
Click here to read about Yayoi Kusama and her lifelong artistic practice.
About Joanna Groarke
Joanna L. Groarke is Director of Public Engagement and Library Exhibitions Curator at The New York Botanical Garden, where she is part of the team that develops Garden-wide exhibitions and interpretive materials. She has developed exhibitions and programs for more than fifteen years for institutions including The New York Botanical Garden; the Irish Arts Center, New York; and Tufts University Art Gallery, Somerville, Massachusetts.

About the New York Botanical Garden
The New York Botanical Garden is an advocate for the plant world. The Garden pursues its mission through its role as a museum of living plant collections arranged in gardens and landscapes across its National Historic Landmark site; through its comprehensive education programs in horticulture and plant science; and through the wide-ranging research programs of the International Plant Science Center.Established in 1891, The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is distinguished by the beauty of its landscape, collections, and gardens, and the scope and excellence of its programs in horticulture, education, and science. Click here to read more.

Thank you to Lori Shepard from the ArtTable NY Chapter Program Committee member for organizing this program.

Images:

Dancing Pumpkin, 2020. Courtesy of the New York Botanical Garden. Photo by Robert Benson Photography.
Joanna Groarke, courtesy of the speaker
New York Botanical Garden, courtesy of NYC The Official Guide

Virtual | Artist Talk with Charlotte Caspers
2021-07-15 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
2pm ET | 1pm CT | 11am PT
ArtTable’s Artist Talk series is made possible by the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Originally formatted as in-person Artist Breakfasts, ArtTable has moved most programming into the virtual realm during the pandemic. Please join us for a virtual Artist Talk with Charlotte Caspers.
Admission

Non-Members – $10
ArtTable Members – $5
ArtTable Circle Members – Free
Members may bring an additional guest for $5

How to take part:

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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 Charlotte Caspers
Charlotte Caspers (Ghent, 1979) is an artist who makes use of historical painting techniques and materials in a contemporary way. Central to her work is the subtle communication of materials, of human beings as makers, with nature as the basis of everything. She connects these themes with her specific form language and with her clearly recognisable aesthetics. Caspers studied Art History at Radboud University in Nijmegen and took the postgraduate course in painting restoration at Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg in Maastricht (SRAL). She specialized in historical painting materials and techniques and has made historical reconstructions for numerous museums and institutions, including the Van Gogh Museum, the Rijksmuseum, Tate Britain, Princeton and Duke University, and Dutch television. For ten years, Caspers has been a guest lecturer in historical painting techniques at the Department of Conservation and Restoration at the University of Amsterdam.

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.

Images:

Colour composition maple tree, 2019. 93 x 72 cm. Oak panels, mineral pigments in distemper, graphite, & goldleaf. Image courtesy of the artist.
Charlotte Caspers, courtesy of the artist; Photo by Joris Hilterman

Northwest | AT Local - Olympic Sculpture Park Summer Meet-up
2021-07-08 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Olympic Sculpture Park, 2901 Western Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98121
5:00pm PST
Current and prospective members are welcome to join ArtTable’s Northwest Chapter leaders for this summer meetup!
This meet-up is for members and non-members, as our summer party, and is an opportunity to network and catch up with friends. As part of the current Covid-19 guidelines, the OSP asks visitors to keep moving while in the park – and so we will congregate at 5pm from the Trust for Public Lands Terrace, next to the Paccar Pavilion, and from there we will walk through the park while we catch up. Please dress accordingly for walking!
This will be our first in-person event in 20 months, and we hope our members and potential members will be excited to see each other in person again! We will have have a current or former Seattle Art Museum employee there to give us a bit of a guided tour and answer questions as we walk – but the primary purpose of this meet up is to network and catch up with friends.
Admission

Current ArtTable Members – Free
Members may bring a guest for an additional $5
Prospective ArtTable Members – $10

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Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed.
While masks are no longer required outdoors for fully vaccinated individuals, we highly recommend wearing a mask or face covering when in close proximity to persons not from your household.
Click here to read more information on OSP’s policies and guidelines.

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About the Olympic Sculpture Park
The Olympic Sculpture Park is a preeminent art and public space on the Seattle Waterfront, offering 9 acres of park, waterfront, views and permanent and temporary sculpture. Currently home to more than 20 permanently installed sculptures by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Louise Nevelson, Beverly Pepper, Ginny Ruffner, Teresita Fernández, Alexander Calder, Tony Smith, and more. It was built on a formally disused and polluted industrial site, which is also the traditional homelands of the Duwamish, and the customary territories of the Suquamish and Muckleshoot Peoples, and connects the waterfront Piers of Seattle to Myrtle Edwards Park – with its own monumental (and often overlooked) sculpture Adjacent, Against, Upon (1976), by Michael Heizer.
Click here to read more.
Thank you to ArtTable’s Northwest Chapter Leaders Gina Broze, Jessica Landau, and Judith Rinehart for organizing this program.

Images:

An overhead view of Olympic Sculpture Park; Photo by Benjamin Benschneider

NoCal | AT Local - First Thursday Coffee Break on Location: Music Concourse, Golden Gate Park
2021-07-08 08:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Music Concourse, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, 94118, United States
8:00am PST
All members of ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter are welcome to join us in the early morning of Thursday, July 8th, to share a cup of coffee before your workday gets started. Bring your own coffee, tea, and/or pastry and meet and catch up with other members during this first in-person outdoor coffee break together.
We will meet at the benches across the street from the DeYoung Museum, directly East of Monumental Reckoning, a public installation by artist and See Black Womxn co-founder Dana King. This work, unveiled on Juneteenth 2021, represents the first Africans stolen from their homeland and sold into chattel slavery in 1619. King’s installation consists of 350 ancestral sculptures that encircle the vacant plinth of the slaveholder Francis Scott Key, that was toppled by protesters on Juneteenth of 2020.

This is a Northern California members-only event. First Thursdays Coffee Break is a recurring event and is donation based.
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Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed.
While masks are no longer required outdoors for fully vaccinated individuals, we highly recommend wearing a mask or face covering when in close proximity to persons not from your household.

A list of attendees will be shared with all registrants for reference in advance of the program.
Please email programs@arttable.org if you would like accessibility information for this program.
Thank you to ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter Executive Committee for planning and hosting this program.

Images:

Dana King, Monumental Reckoning, installation view. Photograph by Candace Huey.

Virtual | Asian American Perspectives at the Whitney Museum, with Xin Wang
2021-07-07 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
Please join us and Xin Wang, art historian and John Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art, for a presentation on Asian American Perspectives, drawing on contemporary artists works from the Whitney Museum’s collection.
Admission

ArtTable Circle Members – Free
All other membership levels – $12
Non-members – $15

How to take part:

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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 Xin Wang
Xin Wang is the John Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. She is an art historian and curator whose past curatorial projects include Ink Art: Past and Present in Contemporary China, Metropolitan Museum of Art (2013); Field Meeting of Asian Contemporary Art Week (2014, New York), Lu Yang’s solo debut in New York THE BANK SHOW: Vive le Capital and THE BANK SHOW: Hito Steyerl (2015), Art in China since the 1990s (2018, Ulm, Germany), to highlight a few projects. Her writing has appeared in E-flux journal, Artforum, Kaleidoscope, Hyperallergic and Leap.
Xin is currently pursuing her PhD in modern and contemporary art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and holds an MA in Art History from Columbia University and a BA in Art History, Mathematics, and Psychology from Hamilton College. She is currently planning an exhibition that explores Asian Futurisms for The Museum of Chinese in America in New York City and manages the discursive archive on Asian Futurisms at afuturism.tumblr.com.

Images:

Sarah Sze, (not yet titled), 2000, Chromogenic print mounted on aluminum; courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Arthur and Susan Fleischer, © Sarah Sze

SoCal | Artist-Led Walking Tour of Sonia Romero's 'Hecho A Mano'
2021-07-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Mariachi Plaza Metro Station, 1831 E 1st St, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, United States
12:00pm PST
Current and prospective members are welcome to join ArtTable’s SoCal Chapter leaders for an in-person, artist-led walking tour of Sonia Romero’s Hecho A Mano. On view at the Mariachi Plaza Metro Station in Boyle Heights, the mural was just recently completed this past year.
The mural Hecho A Mano was commissioned by Metro Art, and it highlights the historic and contemporary stories of Latinx, Jewish, and Japanese makers and workers from Boyle Heights, featuring an eclectic mix of objects that intertwine the artist’s personal connection to Boyle Heights with those of individuals from the neighborhood. In reference to the work, Romero states that, “There is a certain homemade and handmade quality that has been created by generations of people raising families and creating livelihoods in the neighborhood. I wanted to capture and honor this quality through the metaphor of the hand, by painting this mural by hand.”
Later this summer, join us for an upcoming virtual roundtable discussion focused on the public art scene in Los Angeles. More details to be announced soon!
Admission

Current ArtTable Members – $10
Members may bring a guest for an additional $5
Prospective ArtTable Members – $15

Not an ArtTable member? Join today!
Please read before registering:
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Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed.
While masks are no longer required outdoors for fully vaccinated individuals, we highly recommend wearing a mask or face covering when in close proximity to persons not from your household. For any indoor portion of this program, face masks are required per federal law.
Click here to read more information on the LA Metro Safety Guidelines.

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About Sonia Romero
Sonia Romero is a Los Angeles-based artist known for her paper-cut and printmaking aesthetics, which she incorporates into both her fine art and public art commissions. Born in 1980, she grew up in an artistic household in Echo Park before formally studying at the Rhode Island School of Design. After returning to California, she began working as a public artist. Romero was the artist in residence at Avenue 50 Studio in Northeast Los Angeles from 2007-2014.
Calling upon her own experiences and perspectives as a multiracial person, Romero creates work that reflects the cultural diversity found in Los Angeles communities. She explores themes relating to the universal connectedness within humanity as well as its relationship to the environment. Her signature style is a dynamic combination of printmaking, paper-cutting, painting, and sculpture. Her oeuvre includes fine art pieces that have been showcased in many galleries and acquired for the collections of prominent institutions, such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Smithsonian. Romero’s distinctive paper-cut shapes and patterns can be found in steel, tile, or paint in one of her many large-scale permanent installations in notable locations such as Little Tokyo, the Mariachi Plaza and MacArthur Park Metro Stations and the Artesia County Public Library. Click here to see more of Sonia’s work on her website.
Thank you to Shana Nys Dambrot, ArtTable SoCal Chapter Leader, for organizing this program.

Images:

Sonia Romero, Hecho A Mano, 2020
Sonia Romero, courtesy of the artist

Virtual | DC BreakfastTable Special: Faith Flanagan Fellows
2021-07-02 08:30 - 09:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
8:30am ET
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for a presentation by the 2021 Faith Flanagan Fellows. For this special BreakfastTable, the Fellows will present their engagement projects undertaken over their course of the fellowship.
Learn more about Mehveş Lelic’s Choose-Your-Own-Adventure story titled, How to Curate an Exhibition. Sourced from anecdotes submitted anonymously by womxn working in the visual arts, the story leads the reader through a number of plot twists that either culminate in a successful or an unsuccessful exhibition. View the story here.
Johanna Obenda’s audio story profiles a handful of DC-area cultural practitioners who are working to reimagine cultural institutions and how we engage with visual arts in a variety of ways. Obenda engages healing artist Geo Edwards, Kristi Maiselman, Executive Director of Cultural DC, and Loretta Thompson, a visual artist and arts administrator for Sitar Arts Center who have each disrupted traditional approaches to arts engagement. Listen to the audio story here.
Susannah Stern hosts a conversation with Lena Galperina, Visitor Experience Director at ARTECHOUSE, Don Allen Stevenson III, Artist and XR Content Creator, and Charlotte Ickes, Curator of Time-Based Media and Special Projects, about their unique perspectives on immersive, technology-based art, opening the door to an honest look at the trend toward art as experience. Listen to the conversation here.
Special thanks to this year’s mentors: Nora Halpern, Victoria Reis, and Vesela Stretenovic.
This program is free for all ArtTable members. Members may bring 1 additional guest for $5.
Not a member? Join today!
How to take part:

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Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link.
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Thank you to Jaynelle C. Hazard and Lily Siegel, ArtTable DC Faith Flanagan Fellowship Co-Chairs, for organizing this program.

Images:

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

Virtual | Exhibition Tour - 'Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists & the Politics of Scale'
2021-07-01 16:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
4:30pm ET | 3:30pm CT | 1:30pm PT
Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale, on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, examines the approaches of women artists for whom space is a critical feature of their work, whether they take the space on a wall, the real estate of a room through sculpture and installation, engage seriality as a spatial visual practice, cast a wide legacy in art history or claim the space of their body. Curated by Jodi Throckmorton and Brittany Webb, this exhibition features more than sixty works of art from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts’ permanent collection. In this virtual exhibition tour, Dr. Brittany Webb will discuss the exhibition and the importance of women’s leadership in producing this exhibition.
This program is open to ArtTable members only.
Admission

ArtTable Members – $5
ArtTable Circle Members – Free
Members may bring an additional guest for $5

How to take part:

Click here to Register for this program.
Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link.
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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 Brittany Webb
Brittany Webb is the inaugural Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth-Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection. In this role, Webb oversees the Museum’s collections, exhibitions, and programs of 20th century art and provides instruction for the School of Fine Arts at PAFA. Webb’s first exhibition at PAFA, Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale (November 2020-September 5, 2021) is co-curated with Jodi Throckmorton, Curator of Contemporary Art at PAFA. Webb is also organizing a major retrospective exhibition and catalogue of the work of the African American sculptor John Rhoden (1916-2001) and stewards a collection of nearly 300 sculptures by Rhoden, leading PAFA’s ongoing effort to place his artworks into the permanent collections of museums around the world.
Prior to joining PAFA, Webb was a member of the curatorial staff of the African American Museum in Philadelphia. Dr. Webb holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Temple University and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Southern California.
Thank you to ArtTable Philadelphia Chapter Co-Chairs Laurie McGahey and Rachel Zimmerman for organizing this program, and Dr. Brittany Webb and Christiana Cruz-Council from PAFA.

Images:

Deborah Willis, I Made Space For a Good Man, 2009, Lithograph, gift from the collection of Winston and Carolyn Lowe in honor of Brandywine founder, Allan L. EdmundsDeborah Willis/Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 2019.18.35
Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, January 21, 2021–September 5, 2021. Photo by Adrian Cubillas, courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.

Virtual | Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
2021-06-28 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
2pm ET | 1pm CT | 11am PT
Join us for a discussion with Alexander Nemerov, author of Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York, and Sarah Kirk Hanley, an independent prints and editions expert and critic based in the New York area, who is currently writing an essay for the Dulwich Picture Gallery for their Fall exhibition of woodcuts by Helen Frankenthaler.
Dr. Nemerov’s biography of Frankenthaler encompasses her life and work beginning with her college years at Bennington, where Nemerov’s father was her English teacher, and Clement Greenberg, her first significant romantic partner, gave seminars in Art history and organized exhibitions. Nemerov concentrates his text on Frankenthaler of the 1950s which, Karen Wilkin’s review of the book writes,” she was notably strong and inventive, almost from the start at a time when artists were expected to spend years maturing before their work was considered to be worthy of attention.” Nemerov acknowledges her importance as an Ab-ex painter and also writes about Freudian sources of her lifetime romantic relationships. There is a great deal to unpack about this major abstract woman artist of the twentieth century.
Admission

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

How to take part:

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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 Alexander Nemerov
Alexander Nemerov is The Carl and Marilyn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities, as well as Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. He formerly taught Yale University where he was the Vincent J. Scully Professor of the History of Art. He has a Masters and Doctor of Philosophy in History of Art from Yale University and has published several books before the Frankenthaler. A scholar of American art, Nemerov writes about the presence of art, the recollection of the past and the importance of humanities in our lives today.

About Sarah Kirk Hanley
Sarah Kirk Hanley is an independent prints and editions expert and critic based in the New York area. Her critical writing focuses on prints by women artists, artists of color, as well as work grounded in socio-political themes. Her past experiences include Consultant for Auctionata and 1st Dibs (2009-19); Assistant Vice President , Christie’s Print Department (2006-2009); Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, Milwaukee Art Museum (2000-2005). She writes extensively for Art 21 Magazine and Art in Print.

Thank you to Susan L Halper, President , Susan L Halper Fine Art, Inc. for organizing this program.

Images:

Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York, courtesy of Penguin Random House
Alexander Nemerov, courtesy of Penguin Random House
Sarah Kirk Hanley, courtesy of the speaker

New York | Dutch Treat Breakfast at Madison Square Park
2021-06-25 09:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Madison Square Park (Exact meeting spot TBA), Madison Square Park, New York, NY, 10010, United States
Join us for an informal Dutch Treat Breakfast at Madison Square Park! An ongoing, informal, occasional get together for current and prospective members, Dutch Treat programs are a great way to meet, mingle, and network in a casual setting. Grab a coffee and breakfast from some of the nearby cafes (Starbucks, Caffe Lavazza at Eataly, and Flatiron Green Cafe are all great, nearby options!) and meet us at the fountain on the south side of the park. We’ll hang out, chat, and enjoy Maya Lin’s installation, “Ghost Forest.”
This program is free and open to all, current and prospective members. The rain date is tentatively set for Friday, July 9.
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Accessibility: Madison Square Park, as a public, open green space, is free and fully accessible to patrons of all abilities; including by not limited to individuals with physical, visual, and auditory disabilities, owners of special care animals, and wheelchair users. There are no steps or stairs within Madison Square Park, or between the sidewalk and the park. Ramp access for wheelchairs and strollers as well as access for individuals with impaired mobility is available for all the park’s pathways and lawns, in compliance with ADA regulations. For more information or to request accommodations, please call 212.520.7600.
Getting There: Take the R or W train to 23rd Street

About Madison Square Park
Madison Square Park is a seven-acre green space at the heart of New York City that has been public land since 1686. Over the centuries, it has played a part in the city’s rich history, providing space for everything from the invention of baseball to fundraising efforts for the Statue of Liberty.
Just like New York City, Madison Square Park is a place where many different people and things come together. Surrounded by landmark architecture and vibrant businesses, it is home to some of the world’s best art and horticulture exhibitions. It is a public garden, a playground, an open-air museum, a dog park, a performance venue, an eatery, an arboretum, a gathering place, and a sanctuary. It is a space that belongs to everyone, and that each of us can make our own.
The park is managed by Madison Square Park Conservancy, a non-profit that is fully funded by the community.
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Thank you to Ingrid Dinter, Principal Dinter Fine Art, and ArtTable NY Chapter Program Committee member for organizing this program.

Images:

Maya Lin, “Ghost Forest”; courtesy of Maya Lin Studio

Virtual | Luise Kaish and Women Artists in America, with Gail Levin
2021-06-24 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
Please join us for a discussion with Gail Levin, Distinguished Professor of Art History, American Studies, and Women’s Studies at the City University of New York. Levin is Judy Chicago’s and Lee Krasner’s biographer, and an acknowledged authority on Edward Hopper, having written his catalogue raisonné, his biography, and many other publications. She is the editor and author of Theresa Bernstein: A Century in Art; a co-editor of Ethics and the Visual Arts; as well as contributor to the recently published monograph Luise Kaish: An American Art Legacy. Levin will speak about the work of pioneering artist Luise Kaish, in the context of the history of women artists in America.
Luise Clayborn Kaish (1925–2013) was a pioneer. A key figure in the New York art scene of the late 20th century, her multidisciplinary practice and process-oriented work spanned a range of mediums, materials, techniques, and themes. The strength and breadth of her work—monumental sculptures in bronze, oil paintings, watercolours, lithographs, collage—and the prestigious awards and fellowships she received set her apart as an early female leader in the visual arts. Dedicated to absorbing world cultures through travel and research, Kaish studied a broad range of subjects from architecture, design, and engineering to spiritualism, metaphysics, and the cosmos. Through her wide-ranging practice, she explored the spaces and connections between material, natural, and spiritual worlds. The publication Luise Kaish: An American Art Legacy celebrates her immense talent, highly individual point of view, far- reaching influence, pursuit of the sublime, and passion for life.
Admission

Non-Members – $10
ArtTable Members – $5
ArtTable Circle Members – Free
Members may bring an additional guest for $5

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This program is generously supported by the Kaish Family Art Project.

Images:

Luise Kaish at work on the Ark of Revelation, MacDougal Street Studio, New York, circa, 1962.

Virtual | Artist Talk with Shahzia Sikander
2021-06-22 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 Shahzia Sikander.
Shahzia will talk about individual works she created from 1988 to 2003, elaborating on the evolution of her unique visual lexicon as she negotiated a language between the pictorial traditions of Central and South Asia and contemporary practices, through the lens of her experience from Pakistan to the US as an immigrant pre and post 9/11 and how that period’s shifting socio-political culture shaped her broader practice.
Admission

Non-Members – $10
ArtTable Members – $5
ArtTable Circle Members – Free
Members may bring an additional guest for $5

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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 Shahzia Sikander
Pioneering Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander is one of the most influential artists working today. Sikander is widely celebrated for expanding and subverting pre-modern and classical Central and South-Asian miniature painting traditions and launching the form known today as neo-miniature. By bringing traditional and historical practice into dialogue with contemporary international art practices, Sikander’s multivalent and investigative work examines colonial archives to readdress orientalist narratives in western art history. Interrogating ideas of language, trade, empire, and migration through imperial and feminist perspectives Sikander’s paintings, video animations, mosaics and sculpture explore gender roles and sexuality, cultural identity, racial narratives, and colonial and postcolonial histories.
Sikander earned a B.F.A. in 1991 from the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan. Her seminal thesis work, The Scroll (1989–1990) which initiated the start of the neo-miniature movement, garnered awards, exhibitions and press, as well as led to increased enrollment in the NCA’s miniature painting department. Subsequently, Sikander was appointed as a lecturer in miniature painting at the school. The artist then moved to the United States to pursue an M.F.A. at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1993 to 1995; from 1995 to 1997, she participated in the Glassell School of Art’s CORE Program at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (2006) and the State Department Medal of Arts (2012), Sikander’s innovative work has been exhibited and collected internationally.
Shahzia Sikander will be the subject of a traveling exhibition titled Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities. The exhibition will open at The Morgan Library in New York in June 2021, followed by the RISD Museum in Providence, Rhode Island in November 2021, and then the MFA Houston in Texas in Spring 2022. On the occasion of these exhibitions, there will be a major new monograph printed. Extraordinary Realities is an exhaustive examination of Sikander’s work from 1987 to 2003, charting her early development as an artist in Lahore and the United States, and foregrounding her critical role in bringing miniature painting into dialogue with contemporary art. Edited by Jan Howard and Sadia Abbas, with contributions by Gayatri Gopinath, Faisal Devji, Kishwar Rizvi, Sadia Abbas, Jan Howard, Vasif Kortun, Dennis Congdon, Bashir Ahmed, Rick Lowe, and Julie Mehretu.

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

Images:

“Cholee Kay Peechay Kiya? Chunree Kay Neechay Kiya? (What Is under the Blouse? What Is under the Dress?)”, 1997; Vegetable Color, dry pigment, watercolor and tea on wasli paper; Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
“Hood’s Red Rider No. 2”, 1997; Vegetable Color, dry pigment, watercolor, gold and tea on wasli paper; Collection of Susan and Lew Manilow

Virtual | Professional Empowerment: Repatriation of Cultural Heritage w/ Leila Amineddoleh
2021-06-16 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
Please join us for a discussion with Leila Amineddoleh, internationally recognized expert on art and cultural heritage crime and law and Founder of Amineddoleh & Associates, LLC on the topic of repatriation of cultural heritage.
For centuries, sought-after art objects and antiquities have been subject to high-profile ownership disputes. From the smuggling of religious artifacts out of the Holy Land to Hitler’s extensive looting of artistic property, cultural objects have been targeted by rapacious collectors and leaders. The British Museum’s ownership of the Parthenon Marbles is perhaps the best-known cultural heritage debate, yet legal battles are often not the focus of such intense public scrutiny. The presentation will examine antiquities disputes, including a discussion of the laws that regulate ownership of cultural heritage and the evolution of the art market.
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. If you have a topic or idea for a Professional Empowerment program, email us at programs@arttable.org!
Admission

Non-Members – $15
ArtTable Members – $10
ArtTable Circle Members – Free
Members may bring an additional guest for $5

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How to take part:

Click here to Register for this program.
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.

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

About Leila Amineddoleh
Leila A. Amineddoleh represents art collectors, museums, galleries, dealers, non-profit organizations, artists, estates, foundations and foreign governments. She has been involved in matters related to multi-million dollar contractual disputes, international cultural heritage law violations, the recovery of stolen art and antiquities, authentication disputes, art-backed loans, and the purchase and sale of hundreds of millions of dollars of art and collectibles. As a specialist in art authentication and title disputes, Leila advises clients on the acquisition and sale of fine art and cultural heritage.
Leila began her career as an intellectual property law litigator. She continues to work with artists and entrepreneurs to develop their intellectual property portfolios and protect their works and artistic rights.
Leila has lectured at esteemed institutions, including the Frick Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She has appeared in major news outlets, including the NY Times, ABC News, LA Times, Forbes, The Guardian, TIME Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. She has been published in legal journals and has had scholarly contributions published in books, including Nazi Law: From Nuremberg to Nuremberg and The Provenance Research Handbook.
Leila teaches International Art & Cultural Heritage Law at Fordham University School of Law, in addition to Art Crime and the Law at New York University.

Images:

Part of the Elgin Marbles, were originally part of the Parthenon in Athens. Photo: by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images. via artnet news.
Leila Amineddoleh, courtesy of the speaker

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

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

New York | Tour of 'RE:GROWTH, A Celebration of Art, Riverside Park, & the New York Spirit'
2021-06-11 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Riverside Park, Riverside Blvd, New York, 10069
Please join us for an in-person tour of ‘RE:GROWTH, A Celebration of Art, Riverside Park, and the New York Spirit‘ on view at Riverside Park in New York City. The tour will be led by Independent Curator Karin Bravin. We will also be joined by artists Blanka Amezkua, Dahlia Elsayed, and Jean Shin, who will speak about the pieces they have on view in the show.
This program is open to ArtTable members only. The program fee is $15. The exact meeting spot will be circulated prior to the program. During the tour we will walk for approximately 10-12 blocks, so please prepare accordingly!
All attendees are invited to stick around after this program to meet the New York-based 2021 ArtTable Fellows! More details on this to come.
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Registration for this program is limited to 20 attendees. Waitlisted registrants will be notified if space becomes available.

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Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed. While masks are no longer required outdoors for fully vaccinated individuals, we highly recommend wearing a mask or face covering when in close proximity to persons not from your household.

About Karin Bravin

Karin Bravin is a curator with a strong focus on site-specific, public and installation art projects. In 2006 she curated and produced Studio in The Park, a three month exhibition of eleven art installations in Riverside Park. The projects were sited in unexpected places: under tunnels, on baseball backstops, in the Hudson River, and along the meandering paths. In 2009 she became consultant for the Downtown Alliance, where she selected and oversaw several art projects on construction barriers in lower Manhattan. Among some of her other projects, she curated 19 site -specific works at Lehman College and several installations for a gallery during Bushwick Open Studios. She is the curator and consultant for The Public Arts Commission of Lewes, Delaware and on the arts advisory committee for The Stirner Arts Trail in Easton Pennsylvania.
Since 1991, Karin Bravin and her husband, John Post Lee, have owned and operated BravinLee programs, a contemporary art gallery in New York. They focus their attention on their exhibition program, artist rug program, site-specific/public art program and an artist book program. They curate outside of the gallery, lecture, teach, participate in art fairs, and foster an active art advisory. Bravin received her BA in art history from Dartmouth College.
About Blanka Amezkua
Blanka Amezkua is formally trained as a painter; she attended the Accademia di belle Arti in Florence, Italy and received her B.A. from California State University Fresno. Her work and projects have been shown in the United States, Mexico, Belgium and Greece. In cultural establishments such as: MoMA-P.S.1, Exit Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, El Museo del Barrio, Queens Museum of Art, Towson University, Dorsky Gallery, The Taller Boricua, The Block Gallery among others. You can read more about Blanka’s work and projects on her website.
Mentions of Blanka’s work and projects are included in ARTnews, the New York Times, TimeOut, Daily News, Art21:blog, athinorama, Athens News, Queens Chronicle, International Museum of Women, WNYC, as well as other publications.
About Dahlia Elsayed
Dahlia Elsayed is an artist and writer who makes text and image based work that synthesizes an internal and external experience of place, connecting the ephemeral to the concrete. She writes short fictions for created landscapes that take the form of narrative paintings, print and installation. Her work has been exhibited at galleries and institutions throughout the United States and internationally, including the 12th Cairo Biennale, Robert Miller Gallery, BravinLee Programs, The New Jersey State Museum and Aljira Center for Contemporary Art. Her work is in the public collections of the Newark Museum, the Zimmerli Museum, Johnson & Johnson Corporation, the US Department of State, amongst others. Dahlia has received awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Edward Albee Foundation, Visual Studies Workshop, the MacDowell Colony, Women’s Studio Workshop, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the NJ State Council on the Arts. She received her MFA from Columbia University, and lives and works in New Jersey. Ms. Elsayed is Professor of Humanities at CUNY LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY. You can view more of her work on her website.
About Jean Shin
Born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in the United States, is nationally recognized for her monumental installations that transform everyday objects into elegant expressions of identity and community engagement. For each project, she amasses vast collections of a particular object—prescription pill bottles, sports trophies, sweaters—which are often sourced through donations from individuals in a participating community. These intimate objects then become the materials for her conceptually rich sculptures, videos, and site-specific installations. Distinguished by her meticulous, labor-intensive process, and her engagement of community, Shin’s arresting installations reflect individuals’ personal lives as well as collective issues that we face as a society.
Shin attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1999 and received a BFA and MS from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She is a tenured Adjunct Professor of Fine Art at Pratt Institute and a recipient of Pratt’s 2017 Alumni Achievement Award. She lives and works in Brooklyn and Hurley, NY. You can view her full bio and see more of her work on her website.

Images:

Digital rendering of Letha Wilson, ‘Double Arc Leaves and Lava (Hawaii California),’ courtesy of Karin Bravin.
Karin Bravin, courtesy of the speaker.
Blanka Amezkua, courtesy of Greece-Is. Photo by Nikos Kokkas
Dahlia Elsayed, courtesy of the artist.
Jean Shin, courtesy of the artist.
