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DC | Spanish Ambassador Residence in Washington D.C.
2020-02-11 12:30 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Spanish Ambassador Residence, 2350 Foxhall Rd NW, Washington, DC, 20007, United States
Image: Spanish Ambassador Residence
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Join ArtTable DC for a visit to the art collection at the Spanish Ambassador Residence followed by a seated lunch hosted by the Spanish Ambassador’s wife, Mrs. Sol Oyarzum de Cabanas.
Until the late 1990s, the residence of the Spanish Ambassador was the magnificent Beaux-Arts mansion located in the 16th street and designed by renowned American architect George Oakley Totte. When built, in 1922, it was part of a project conceived to develop the surrounding area as the center of social and diplomatic life in Washington, DC. The building is today the Cultural Center of the Spanish Embassy.
In 1996, the government of Spain commissioned Rafael Moneo, Spain’s most celebrated architect and winner of the 1996 Pritzker Architecture Prize (the profession’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize) to build a new residence in Foxhall road.
The addition of the Moneo building makes this stretch of Foxhall an architectural oddity, in a distinguished sort of way, for directly across the street is the Kreeger Museum, designed by Philip Johnson in 1963. Johnson was the first Pritzker laureate, back in 1979.
The embassy reflects some of Spain’s more characteristic architectural traits in the use of bricks for the external walls and in the colorful Andalusian tiles that decorate the greenhouse-like patio extension that sits on the house’s southern façade.
Inside, numerous paintings and works of art represent the best of the Spanish artistic tradition, from Royal portraits to Flemish tapestries as well as some paintings by today’s most recognized Spanish Contemporary artists.
This program is for ArtTable members only.
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Thank you to Mrs Sol Oyarzum de Cabanas and his excellency the Spanish Ambassador.

NORTHWEST | An Evening With the Founders of Wa Na Wari
2020-02-10 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Wa Na Wari, 911 24th Ave, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Image: The Founders of Wa Na Wari. Photo by Susan Fried.
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The Northwest Chapter of ArtTable invites you to join us for an evening of conversation and art with the founders of Wa Na Wari. Wa Na Wari is a center for Black art and culture in Seattle’s historically redlined Central District neighborhood, sited in a 5th-generation Black-owned home.
Co-Founder Inye Wokoma is the 2019 recipient of the 2019 Neddy at Cornish Grand Prize. Current Artists include Amir George, Abroad and Abound, Shurvon Hayes, In The Presence of Black Art: Healthy and Happy Mandala, Ronald Hall, Selected Works, and Jaleesa Johnson, Being/Conjured. Appetizers, wine, and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided.
“​Two of us, Inye Wokoma and Elisheba Johnson, are Black artists directly impacted by Seattle’s displacement and affordability crisis. Inye Wokoma’s grandmother is 93 years old and living with Alzheimers. As the guardian of her estate she has been fighting on her behalf to maintain ownership of the homes she and her husband worked their entire lives for. Elisheba Johnson, born and raised in Seattle, has a job with the City of Seattle and still cannot afford to live in the city. Their stories are reflective of what the housing crisis looks like for Black artists in Seattle. ​Two of us, Jill Freidberg and Rachel Kessler, are white artists using art and stories to challenge white supremacy, especially as it is expressed through gentrification and displacement.”
Thank you to Elisheba Johnson.

NOCAL | Reading at the (Art)Table
2020-02-09 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | To be provided upon registration
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Join ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter for our book club, Reading at the (Art)Table. For this session, we will be reading “Marcel Duchamp and the Art of Life “by Jacquelynn Baas.
Please Join Us for Our Discussion and Brunch!
Wishing You All a New Year of New Books, New Ideas, and New Imaginings …!

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Thank you to Jan Wurm for organizing.

Chicago | Photography and the Black Arts Movement in Chicago
2020-02-06 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60603, United States
Image: Billy Abernathy, Mother’s Day, 1962. Gelatin silver print. The Art Institute of Chicago, gift of the Illinois Arts Council, 110.1976.
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Michal Raz-Russo Associate Curator of Photography, Art Institute of Chicago, will give a behind-the-scenes look at selections from the Art Institute’s collection that represent photography’s important role within the Black Arts Movement in Chicago.
In the mid-1960s, as the Black Arts Movement was gaining momentum in Chicago, an informal network of street photographers and independent photojournalists formed in the city’s South and West Sides. Included among them are works by Darryl Cowherd, Bob Crawford, Roy Lewis, and Robert A. Sengstacke produced in connection with Wall of Respect (1967–71), a revolutionary outdoor mural; and projects such as Mikki Ferrill’s decade-long documentation of an improvised South Side club, The Garage (1970/80). Through intimate images of their communities in the city’s South and West Sides, these artists explored ideas about black identity, aesthetics, and visibility that have far-reaching influence and implications.
Michal Raz-Russo is the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Associate Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago. Among her exhibitions at the Art Institute are Never a Lovely So Real: Photography and Film in Chicago, 1950–1980 (2018); Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem (2016); Sharp, Clear Pictures: Edward Steichen’s World War I and Condé Nast Years (2014); Dayanita Singh (2014); and The Three Graces (2011). She is also the curator of the biennial Ruttenberg Contemporary Photography Series, which has presented solo exhibitions of new work by artists such as Sara Deraedt (2019), Leigh Ledare (The Plot, 2017), and Deana Lawson (2015).
ArtTable Chicago’s executive committee will be meeting for drinks and lite bites at the Gage restaurant following the program, please join us if you’re able!
The Gage Restaurant
24 S. Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60603
from 7 – 8:30 p.m.

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DC | BreakfastTable with Dana Prussian
2020-02-06 08:00 - 09:00 (America/New_York) | Boulangerie Christophe, 1422 Wisconsin Ave NW, DC, 20007, United States
Image: Dana Prussian
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Join us for an informal conversation with Dana Prussian, Vice President, Art Services Specialist at Bank of America Private Bank.
Dana Prussian is Vice President, Art Services Specialist at Bank of America Private Bank, based in New York City. In this role, Dana helps drive the bank’s art opportunities across all divisions nationally, with a specific focus on Central South, South Atlantic, and Southeast divisions. She works directly with art collecting clients and prospects to meet their needs through art lending, consignment, wealth planning, and philanthropy.
Dana joined Bank of America Private Bank (formerly U.S. Trust) in January 2019 from Bessemer Trust where she was a Client Advisor for three years. At Bessemer, Dana helped cultivate a book of clients and advised them on a wide array of services, including investment management, trust and estate planning, real estate, and art services. Prior to Bessemer, Dana began her career at Christie’s before going on to Barclays.
She earned a dual Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Political College, Columbia University.
Dutch treat, cash preferred. Street parking, rideshare encouraged.
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Thank you to Jaynelle Clarke Hazard.

NY | Private Viewing of "Pan y Circo: Appease, Distract, Disrupt" at Another Space
2020-02-05 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | To be provided upon registration
Image: Héctor García, Fellinesca, Cd. de Mexico, 1955. Gelatin silver print. Estrellita B. Brodsky Collection
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Join ArtTable for a viewing of Pan y Circo: Appease, Distract, Disrupt at Another Space.
Featuring Kathryn Andrews, Diane Arbus, Maria Fernanda Cardoso and Ross Rudesch Harley, Maurizio Cattelan, Gabriel Chaile, Felipe Jesus Consalvos, Pablo Curatella Manes, Bruce Davidson, Paz Errázuriz, Héctor Fuenmayor, Hector García, Anna Bella Geiger, Victor Grippo, Bob Gruen, Philippe Halsman, Addie Herder, Anna Maria Maiolino, Mary Ellen Mark, Leo Matiz, Hermanos Mayo, Miralda, Bruce Nauman, Laure Prouvost, Rubén Ortíz Torres, Rosângela Rennó, Miguel Rio Branco, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, Javier Téllez
ANOTHER SPACE is pleased to announce the exhibition Pan y Circo: Appease, Distract, Disrupt, taking its title from the popular Spanish expression used to describe populist governments’ use of giveaways and entertainment to distract the public’s attention. Originally attributed to the Roman poet Juvenal, ‘Panem et circenses,’ referred to Ancient Rome’s use of free wheat and costly circus games to appease the populace as the Empire collapsed. Curated by Estrellita Brodsky in collaboration with ANOTHER SPACE, the show will examine the work of international artists from the late 19th century to the present and their fascination with the world of circus performers and other forms of spectacle, most often as a tool for political and social critique. Other artists in the exhibition focus on food and hunger as a reflection of facile and failed economic policies. Scheduled to open on Thursday, September 12, the exhibition will remain on view through January 2020.
From Diane Arbus, Bruce Davidson, Héctor García and Paz Errázuriz’ poignant portraits of life on the road in the 1950s-80s to Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman or Bruce Nauman’s images of unnerving clowns, the circus is often just a lens to reflect on social anxieties and poverty of those attending as well as those participating. Anna Maria Maiolino, Victor Grippo, Miralda, Laure Prouvost and Anna Bella Geiger reflect on food and hunger as powerful symbols of hope and despair. In many ways, the objects seem to de-stabilize power structures and embody the most absurd yet the most poetic of mixed emotions, simultaneously conflicting reactions of attraction and repulsion towards frightening and mundane absurdity.
A human cannonball flying over the US-Mexico border in Javier Téllez’s notorious 2005 video One flew over the void (Bala Perdida), offers a prescient take on the current administration’s use of the southern wall as a political circus. Coinciding with one of the most spectacular presidential campaigns in U.S. history, the exhibition ultimately aims to reflect on the increasing role of spectacle and entertainment as economic motivators and an integral part of the U.S. political arena.
Thank you to Estrellita Brodsky and Julia Herzberg.

NY | Conversation: Women Leaders in the Arts
2020-02-04 19:00 (America/New_York) | Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY, 11238-6052, United States
Anne Pastnernak. (Photo: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders); Nathalie Bondil. (Photo: Jean-François Brière); Kaywin Feldman. (Photo: Courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
This event is free, but please click here to RSVP. Seating is first come, first served. NOTE: The rest of the Museum is closed on this date.
ArtTable in partnership with Artnet and the Brooklyn Museum presents a conversation with women leaders in the arts.
The directors of three major metropolitan museums—Nathalie Bondil (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts), Kaywin Feldman (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), and Anne Pasternak (Brooklyn Museum)—come together to discuss the changing role of museums in the twenty-first century. In a conversation moderated by Alison Stewart, host of WNYC’s live daily show All Of It, the three leaders reflect on their experiences at the helm of encyclopedic museums, explore the challenges museums will face in the future, and consider how cultural institutions can become more accessible, inclusive spaces for community engagement and social justice.
The Brooklyn Museum is committed to making our galleries and programs accessible to everyone. To request accommodations, such as assistive listening devices, ASL interpretation, or open captioning, contact us at access@brooklynmuseum.org.

SOCAL | Photo L.A. with Shana Nys Dambrot
2020-02-02 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Barker Hangar, 3021 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, CA, United States
Image: Anja Niemi, The Fictional Roadtrip, 2018. Courtesy Galerie XII, Los Angeles.
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Join us for a Sunday afternoon walkthrough of Photo L.A. with Shana Nys Dambrot!
You may have already activated your VIP passes for this year’s Photo L.A. (if not, see link below), but to truly experience the fair, join us for a walkthrough with ArtTable member, art critic, curator, author, and LA Weekly Arts Editor Shana Nys Dambrot.
Photo L.A. brings the best of the photography world to the Barker Hanger with a collaborative platform that links dealers and collectors with artists and galleries from around the globe. The longest-running international photographic art fair on the West Coast, Photo L.A. 2020 will host a roster of 65-75 local and international galleries and dealers, collectives, leading not-for-profits, art schools, and global booksellers. With erudition, penetrating insight, and wit, Dambrot will highlight trends and the fair’s most notable works.
ArtTable Members are invited to the 28th edition of Photo LA!
A collaborative platform that links the international photography community; World-class artists/photographers, galleries, dealers, & publishers.
January 30th – February 2nd, 2020
The Historic Barker Hangar–Santa Monica, CA
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3021 Airport Avenue3021 Airport AvenueThank you to Marina Erfle, Director of VIP Relations, Photo L.A.

NY | Book Talk: 'Unspeakable Acts...' with Nancy Princenthal
2020-01-30 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | To be provided upon registration
Image: Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s by Nancy Princenthal.
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Join ArtTable for a conversation with Nancy Princenthal on her most recent book, “Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s,” about how artists have made sense (or not) of sexual violence against women. Nancy will be in dialogue with artist Lisa Corinne Davis at the home of Laura Kruger.
Nancy is a former Editor of Art in America had has contributed to Artforum, Parkett , the Village Voice and the New York Times. She has received the 2016 PEN American award for biography, a book on Agnes Martin, and has written catalogue essays in monographs on Louise Fishman, Nancy Rubins, Mark di Suvero, Robert Mangold, Ann Hamilton Shirin Neshat, Joyce Kozloff, Alfred Jaar, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Chuck Close, Deborah Butterfield, and others as well. She has taught at Princeton, Yale and is currently on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts.
“Nancy Princenthal is an award-winning author of many books on important topics in art. In “Unspeakable Acts,” she delves into the links between violence and silence, art and terror, and how pioneering women made them into art… Princenthal is also deft at drawing a roadmap through the political, social and aesthetic divisions of the ‘70s”- Hyperallergic
Lisa Corinne Davis is an artist whose works have been exhibited in museums and galleries across the country. Her works are in numerous public and private collections. She has received numerous awards and grants and has taught art for the past 25 years at Parsons School of Design Cooper Union School of Art, Yale University and is currently a Full Professor at Hunter College. Lisa also writes essays on her own work, that of others and on what it means to be Black in the American Art World today.
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Thank you to Susan Halper, Laura Kruger and Lori Shepard for organizing this program.

DC | Around the Table Book Group
2020-01-28 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
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Join ArtTable DC for our member’s book club focusing on books by artists or about the visual arts. We read a mixture of fiction, memoir, and biography, plus anything else that seems interesting. This book club is open to all members. Please register online in advance.
This month we’ll discuss “The Great Man” by Kate Christensen.
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NY | The Aesthetics of Femininity through the Ages at The Winter Show
2020-01-27 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | The Winter Show, Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street, New York, United States
Image: Max Colby. Cadmium Wilt. Crystal and plastic beads, sequins, found fabric, trim, fabric flowers, polyester batting, thread. 12 x 12 x 16”. 2018.
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ArtTable, in collaboration with the Winter Show, invites guests to investigate the aesthetics of femininity throughout the ages in antiques, fine and decorative arts. Touching on examples included in this year’s show, we’ll be engaging dealers, scholars, writers and experts in a lively panel to explore expressions and appearances of femininity. How has the feminine been employed by makers and designers of the past? We’ll be breaking down cliches and contemplating how feminine aesthetics reflect periodical trends and power structures. This conversation will be moderated by Elissa Auther, Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and the William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design.

Elissa Auther is the Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD). Previously, she was the Windgate Research Curator at MAD and Visiting Associate Professor at the Bard Graduate Center, where her teaching focused on the intersection of craft and contemporary art. She has published widely on a diverse set of topics, including the history of modernism and its relationship to craft and the decorative, the material culture of the American counterculture, and feminist art. Her monograph, String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art (University of Minnesota Press), focuses on the broad utilization of fiber in art of the 1960s and 1970s and the changing hierarchical relationship between art and craft expressed by the medium’s new visibility. Auther is also an accomplished curator. Her exhibitions include West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977, Pretty/Dirty, the retrospective exhibition of the painter and photographer Marilyn Minter, and Improvisational Gestures, a survey exhibition of the sculptor and performance artist Senga Nengudi. Her most recent exhibitions for the Museum of Arts and Design include Surface/Depth: The Decorative After Miriam Schapiro and Vera Paints a Scarf: The Art and Design of Vera Neumann. A feminist public intellectual, Auther founded and co-directed for ten years the program “Feminism & Co.: Art, Sex, Politics,” which focused on issues of women and gender through the lens of creative practice.
Panelists:
Max Colby, artist
Through lush, detailed work in embroidery and textiles, Max Colby reframes traditional notions of domesticity, power, and gender through a queer and non-binary lens. Colby has exhibited internationally including Jane Lombard Gallery, Wave Hill, and Museum Rijswijk. Colby’s work has been featured in the Huffington Post, NBC Out, Gay City News, and The Evergreen Review, among others. They were recently an artist in residence at the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan, The Wassaic Project, MASS MoCA and a Leslie-Lohman Museum Queer Artists’ Fellow. Born in West Palm Beach, Colby received their BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University. They live and work in Brooklyn.
Elizabeth Feld, Managing Director; Director, Furniture & Decorative Arts, Director, American Decorative Arts, Hirschl & Adler
Elizabeth has just celebrated her 20th anniversary at Hirschl & Adler Galleries, where she serves as Managing Director as well as Director of American Furniture and Decorative Arts. Since 1999, she has curated six furniture and decorative arts exhibitions for the gallery, all with extensive accompanying catalogues, as well as five exhibitions of the work of contemporary artist MacArthur grant recipient Elizabeth Turk, one of the gallery’s represented living artists.
Elizabeth served as the Chairman of the Winter Antiques Show Dealers’ Committee for six years and is a regular lecturer on the subjects of furniture, decorative arts, and the art market in general.
Gabriella Picone, Director of Communications, R&Company, and founder of Idda Studio

Gabriella Picone is a New York-based artist working in painting, textiles, and ceramics. She is currently the Director of Communications at R & Company, the renowned design gallery based in New York City. She plays an integral role in the conception and promotion of numerous exhibitions, international fairs, and projects for the contemporary and historical artists represented by the gallery, all bridging fine art and collectable design. Prior to her current role, she worked at leading New York creative agency Black Frame developing branding and marketing strategies for a range of art, design and fashion clients including Lindsey Adelman, MoMA PS1, Jean Nouvel, David Kordansky Gallery, Nike, and RxArt. She has also worked with Frieze Art Fair and was part of the inaugural team to launch the first Frieze Art Fair in New York. She continually maintains her own studio practice as a painter and is the founder of idda studio, an emerging design studio that specializes in fabric artworks for women that are both wearable and sculptural.

SOCAL | A Saturday in Pomona: Ceramics, Networking Lunch, and Artist Todd Gray!
2020-01-25 10:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA), 399 N Garey Ave, Pomona, CA, 91767, United States
Image: Todd Gray leading a tour of Todd Gray: Euclidean Gris Gris, September 2019.
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Join ArtTable for an extraordinary day in Pomona with visits to the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA), the Pomona College Museum of Art, and the Williamson Gallery at Scripps College.
At AMOCA, Executive Director Beth Ann Gerstein will lead us on a tour of Julie Green: Flown Blue. Bringing together over 800 plates, platters, and dishware, the exhibition explores the artist’s longstanding engagement with secondhand porcelain and stoneware dishes, drawing from both the large-scale political works for which Green is acclaimed and more recent works interrogating societal gender biases and personal histories.
Following a self-pay group lunch at a restaurant nearby, acclaimed photographer, performance artist, and sculptor Todd Gray will conduct a walkthrough of TODD GRAY: Euclidean Gris Gris at the Pomona College Museum of Art. The exhibition consists of a site-specific wall drawing and an evolving selection of photographs from Gray’s ongoing artistic examination of the legacies of colonialism in Africa and Europe. Los Angeles-based Gray, whose work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions internationally including the Whitney Biennial 2019, is currently serving as artist-in-residence at the college.
At the Williamson Gallery, we will be treated to a preview of the 76th Scripps College Ceramic Annual: Duality and Context. The exhibition features work by eleven artists whose ceramics engage with and offer a variety of perspectives on the environment.
The schedule for the day will be as follows:
10:30 AM Meet at AMOCA for a tour of the Julie Green and other exhibitions on view with Beth Ann Gerstein.
12:00 PM Group self-pay lunch at a nearby restaurant.
1:30 PM Visit to Pomona College Museum of Art and exhibition walkthrough with Todd Gray.
3:00 PM Preview 76th Scripps College Ceramic Annual at the Williamson Gallery, Scripps College. For those who can stay, the Ceramic Annual Lecture with Garth Johnson, Curator of Ceramics at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, will be held at the Humanities Auditorium at Scripps at 4:00, followed by the opening, with live music and light refreshments, at the gallery, from 7:00 to 9:00.
Please note that yet another James Turrell Skyspace–Diving the Light, 2007–is less than a ten-minute walk away from both the Pomona Museum Art and the Williamson Gallery. We will make a stop when time permits!
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Thank you to with thanks to Alexandra Ehrlich and Roni Feinstein

NY | Dutch Treat Breakfast at Sant Ambroeus
2020-01-24 08:30 - 10:00 (America/New_York) | Sant Ambroeus Madison Avenue, 1000 Madison Avenue, New York, 10021, United States
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Join us for an informal Dutch-treat breakfast at Sant Ambroeus Madison Avenue. Enjoy breakfast while catching up and networking with ArtTable members in a casual cafe setting. Sant Ambroeus is less than a 5-minute walk from the Met Breuer and surrounding museums.
To view the menu and for more information, visit Sant Ambroeus.
Subways:
6 to 77th Street

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Thank you to Ingrid Dinter for organizing this program and Lori Shepard.

NY | Curatorial Perspective: Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 with Jennie Goldstein
2020-01-23 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York) | Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Image: Liza Lou, Kitchen, 1991-96. Beads, plaster, wood and found objects, 96 × 132 × 168 in. (243.8 × 335.3 × 426.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Peter Norton 2008.339a-x. © Liza Lou. Photograph by Tom Powel, courtesy the artist
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Join ArtTable NY for an early morning curatorial walkthrough of Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 with Jennie Goldstein, assistant curator, Whitney Museum, and co-curator of this exhibition.
Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 foregrounds how visual artists have explored the materials, methods, and strategies of craft over the past seven decades. Some expand techniques with long histories, such as weaving, sewing, or pottery, while others experiment with textiles, thread, clay, beads, and glass, among other mediums. The traces of the artists’ hands-on engagement with their materials invite viewers to imagine how it might feel to make each work. For more information see here.
Jennie Goldstein is an Assistant Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Most recently she co-curated Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019, which is on view until early 2021. Other exhibitions include Christine Sun Kim: Too Much Future (2018) and An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney Museum, 1940 – 2017 (2017-2018).
Please meet in the Whitney’s Lobby at 8:50 AM.
Thank you to ArtTable member, Jennie Goldstein.

ArtTable Circle ⎟ JPMorgan Chase Collection Tour
2020-01-22 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | JP Morgan Private Bank, 390 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
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POSTPONED: DC | Curator's Talk and Preview of Moira Dryer
2020-01-18 15:30 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Greater Reston Arts Center, 12001 Market St #103, Reston, VA, 20190, United States
Image: The Power of Suggestion, Moira Dryer, 1991
This event has been postponed! Check back soon for a new date.
Greater Reston Arts Center (GRACE) will present a selection of works by artist Moira Dryer (b. 1957, Toronto, Ontario; d. 1992, New York, New York) in conjunction with the major exhibition of Dryer’s early work at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, entitled Moira Dryer: Back in Business. Both exhibitions are curated by GRACE Executive Director and Curator Lily Siegel.
Dryer is primarily known for her large abstract paintings on wood panels. This exhibition will provide an intimate look at the artist’s practice through works given as gifts to friends and family, many never previously shown publicly. Her work has been exhibited extensively across the United States in institutions such as Boston’s Institute for Contemporary Art; Whitney Museum of Modern Art; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Dryer’s work is included in the permanent collections of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Museum of Modern Art, New York. This exhibition is generously supported in part by Robert and Theresa Goudie and ARTSFAIRFAX.
3:30 pm – Private champagne toast with ArtTable
4 – 6 pm – Curator’s talk & Opening Reception
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Thank you to Elizabeth Denholm, Advancement Officer, Greater Reston Arts Center.

NOCAL | ArtTable + Untitled: Re-Imagining Equity in the Art World 2020
2020-01-18 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Untitled, Art San Francisco Pier 35, 1454 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA, United States
Image: Surrogate: Mother to Myself, 2017 Indira Allegra. Redwood, 600 feet of cotton lead line rope, brass, steel. 65 x 54 x 18 IN | 165 x 137 x 4.5 CM

For ArtTable’s third panel discussion at Untitled’s San Francisco edition and to celebrate ArtTable’s 40th year advocating for women working in the visual arts, three noted San Francisco artists working in diverse media will discuss their art practices, concerns and challenges, and where the equity movement might lead in coming years.
Featuring artists Indira Allegra, Katherine Vetne and Erica Deeman, will joined by Heidi Rabben, Senior Curator at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. The conversation will be moderated by James Voorhies, Chair, Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice, California College of the Arts, with an audience Q&A to follow.
Are you an ArtTable member? Email programs@arttable.org to receive a discounted passcode for this event and Untitled’s program.
Thank you to Tracy Freedman, Executive Committee, ArtTable Northern California.

NY | Curatorial Perspective: Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler
2020-01-13 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | American Folk Art Museum, 2 Lincoln Square, NY, United States
Image: Aloïse Corbaz (1886, Lausanne, Switzerland–1964, Gimel, Switzerland) Untitled (“l’Amérique Stubborn Président”) 1953 Colored pencil, graphite, and sewn paper cutouts on paper 47 x 30 in. Collection of Audrey B. Heckler. © L’association Aloïse Photography © Visko Hatfield, courtesy of the Foundacion to Promote Self Taught Art and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.
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Join ArtTable and Valérie Rousseau, PhD, Senior Curator & Curator of Self-Taught Art and Art Brut at The American Folk Art Museum, for a curatorial walk- through of Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler.
The collection of Audrey B. Heckler is emblematic of the growth of the field of self-taught art in the United States, which manifests a strong interest for African American artists, a consistent attention on American classics, a curiosity for European art brut, and a search for international discoveries. For the last twenty-seven years, Heckler—a long time and committed patron of the American Folk Art Museum—has surrounded herself with excellent examples by the most significant artists associated to this art niche, among them Emery Blagdon, Aloïse Corbaz, William Edmondson, August Klett, Augustin Lesage, Martín Ramírez, Thornton Dial, and Anna Zemánková. For more information see here.
Thank you to Valérie Rousseau and Elisabeth Rochau- Shalem, NY Programs Committee Chair, for organizing this program.

SOCAL | Exclusive Preview Walkthrough: Hearing: Michal Heiman at American Jewish University
2020-01-12 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Platt and Bornstein Galleries American Jewish University, 15600 Mulholland Drive, Bel Air, CA, 90077, United States
Image: Michal Heiman, Mask: Plate 34, by Dr. Hugh W. Diamond, ca. 1855, Return: Asylum (The Dress, 1855-2019), 2016. Courtesy of the artist.
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Following our studio visit with the artist at 18th Street Center for the Arts, we invite you to join us for a special preview walkthrough with curator and fellow SoCal ArtTable member Rotem Rozental of Hearing: Michal Heiman, her first West Coast one-woman show. One of the foremost artists working in Israel today, Heiman’s cross-disciplinary practice incorporates photography, archival research, critical theory, psychoanalysis, gender and performance. In this exhibition, the artist explores the forgotten histories of women who have been confined to asylums, inviting the audience to engage with their untold stories.
ArtTable members and their guests are invited to attend the opening reception after the walkthrough at 3:00 pm.
Born and based in Tel Aviv, Michal Heiman is an artist, curator, founder of the Photographer Unknown archive (1984), and creator of the Michal Heiman Tests (M.H.Ts) 1–4. Heiman teaches at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and is a member of the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. For over three decades, Heiman has been developing methodologies that operate between art, therapy, photography, human rights, theory, and practice. She studies neglected histories and their visual aspects, focusing on the history of women, questions of identity, the history of aesthetic production in psychoanalysis, and the role of archives. In 2015, she founded the public-benefit corporation An Academy of Her Own, which advocates gender equality in various academic institutions. For more on Michal Heiman: https://www.heimanmichal.com
Rotem Rozental is the Chief Curator of the American Jewish University in Los Angeles and serves as the Assistant Dean of the Whizin Center and the Director of the Institute for Jewish Creativity (IJC). She has contributed as a consultant, editor, writer, educator and organizer to international publications, such as Photographies, Philosophy of Photography, Artforum.com, Tablet.com, and Uncertain State, as well as cultural non-profits and organizations, among them Dia:Beacon, The Liverpool Biennial, The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, and the Jerusalem Season of Culture. Traversing the domains of technology, media and art, her scholarly and curatorial projects have been supported by Artis, Independent Curators International, NurtureArt and the Center for Jewish History (NYC).
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NOCAL | Artist Breakfast with Mildred Howard
2020-01-11 11:30 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Julia’s Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, CA, United States
Image: Mildred Howard, Tap — Investigation of Memory, Installed 2019 Oakland Museum of California.
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The Northern California ArtTable Chapter is delighted to present our first Artist Breakfast with Mildred Howard. A voice for cultural heritage, historical perspective, and moving remembrance, Howard has orchestrated public art, monumental installation, and striking assemblage for a resounding affirmation of human struggle and survival.
An educator and inspirational figure for younger artists, Mildred Howard has created a sweeping body of work that has filled the decades with visual rhythms and echoing forms. From bottle houses to tap shoes, Howard has mapped out territories of memory and mourning, hope and loss. The recipient of the Lee Krasner Award for a lifetime of artistic achievement, the Nancy Graves Award, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, Howard has also received the Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute.
This signature ArtTable program is expanding thanks to generous funding from 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.
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Thank you to Jan Wurm, NoCal Chapter Co-Chair, for organizing this program.

FL | Five Minute Rounds
2020-01-11 10:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | hARTVEST Project Pinecrest Gardens, 11000 Red Road, Pinecrest, FL, 33156, United States
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ArtTable Florida is thrilled to invite to 5-minute rounds. Seven of our outstanding members will be talking about their career in the arts:
Nuria Richards I Clandestina I @clandestina.washere
Sil Dibar I Art History Lecturer ♾ Founder of A Journey Through Art I @sildibar.art
Jean Blackwell Font | Co-founder Warehouse 4726 | @warehouse4726
Carola Bravo | @carolabravoart I hARTvest Project at Pinecrest Gardens
Aldeide Delgado | Art Researcher & Curator | @aldeide_delgado
Amy Galpin | Chief Curator. Frost Art Museum FIU | @agalpin1
Kimberly Jones | Vice President | FORTRESS Miami
Members, guests, and friends welcome!
Thank you to Rochi Llaneza, Florida Chair, and Nuria Richards, Florida Programs Chair, for organizing this program.

DC | BreakfastTable with Juanita Hardy
2020-01-09 08:00 - 09:00 (America/New_York) | Boulangerie Christophe, 1422 Wisconsin Ave NW, DC, 20007, United States
Image: Juanita Hardy
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Please join us for an informal conversation with Juanita Hardy who in addition to her 45 years of business experience has over 35 years in the arts as a nonprofit leader, trustee, collector, and patron of the arts.
Juanita has a passion for fostering healthy, thriving, and equitable places to live, work, learn and play through her work with individuals and businesses. Hardy was Senior Visiting Fellow for Creative Placemaking for Urban Land Institute, a global non-profit committed to responsible land use and also founded Tiger Management Consulting Group after retiring from 31 years with IBM. She has been an executive coach for Right Management, a global human capital development firm, since 2006.
As a nonprofit arts leader, Hardy is the former Executive Director of CulturalDC (2013-2015), a nonprofit committed to making space for artists and art organizations and fostering cultural and economic vibrancy in communities through its creative placemaking services. She co-founded Millennium Arts Salon, an art education initiative, in 2000. Hardy was recognized by the Washington Business Journal as a Minority Business Leader in 2010. Hardy is an accomplished writer and public speaker. Her articles and essays have appeared in magazines and journals in the US and abroad. Her recent writing includes a tetralogy of articles on creative placemaking in Urban Land magazine.
Hardy serves on the board of the Mosaic Theatre Company, a non-profit theatre company based in Washington, DC. Recently she joined the board of the Mid Atlantic Art Foundation based in Baltilmore, MD, which provides support and funding for arts programming in states that comprise the mid-Atlantic region. Previously, she served on the board for ArtTable (2016-2019), a national non-profit for women professionals in the arts based in New York City. Hardy is an avid collector of fine art and, since 1985, and with her husband, has acquired many works on paper, canvas, sculptures, as well as traditional African art. Dutch treat, cash preferred.
Rideshare preferred limited street parking.
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Thank you to Allison Nance.

SOCAL | 18th Street Studio Visits with Michal Heiman and Lita Albuquerque
2020-01-07 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 18th Street Arts Center, 1639 18th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90404, United States
Image: Lita Albuquerque. Photo courtesy of the artist and 18th Street Arts Center.
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Please join ArtTable SoCal for an exclusive evening with artists Michal Heiman and Lita Albuquerque at 18th Street Art Center.
Acclaimed Israeli artist Michal Heiman will be in residence at 18th Street in January in preparation for her exhibition Hearing opening at Platt and Bornstein Galleries at the American Jewish University on January 12, 2020 (a special preview for ArtTable is scheduled prior to the opening). Renowned installation artist and professor in the graduate studies department at Arts Center School of Art in Pasadena, Lita Albuquerque is currently, is currently one of 18th Street’s local artists in residence. Both artists will open their studios to us for a presentation of their work followed by conversation and light refreshments.
For more about Michal Heiman at AJU: https://arts.aju.edu/exhibitions/future-exhibitions/hearing-michal-heiman/
For more about Lita Albuquerque at 18th Street: https://18thstreet.org/artists/lita-albuquerque/

Image: Michal Heiman. Photo courtesy of the artist and 18th Street Arts Center.
Michal Heiman
Founded as a non-profit in 1988, 18th Street Arts Center has a long history as a space for artists. It originally served as studio space for a group of feminist artists in the 1970s – 80s, including Susanna Bixby Dakin (who ran for President in 1984), Judy Chicago, Barbara T. Smith, Linda Frye Burnham, and others. It became a hub for the West Coast arm of ACT-UP, an activist grassroots organization addressing the AIDS crisis, and was home to three of the NEA Four (Tim Miller, John Fleck, and Holly Hughes). It also grew out of early performance art and was the site of publication for High Performance Magazine, and later, Highways Performance Space (still located on the 18th Street Arts Center campus). Once 18th Street incorporated as a non-profit, it became an artist residency program with a wide range of public programs and exhibitions.
Ample street parking available.
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Thank you to Susan Power, Co-Chair SoCal and Frida Cano, Assistant Curator/Artist Residency Coordinator, 18th Street

CHICAGO | An Evening with Mariane Ibrahim and Monique Meloche
2019-12-19 17:30 - 19:30 (America/Chicago)
Left: Florine Demosthene. Before the Conflict, 2019. Mariane Ibrahim Gallery. Right: Brendan Fernandes, Kinbaku III, 2019, cast bronze, leather, walnut, and steel, 61 x 22 x 25 inches.
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Join ArtTable members and friends for an evening in West Town for private tours of Mariane Ibrahim and Monique Meloche Gallery.
The evening begins with a reception at Mariane Ibrahim where guests will have a chance to hear Mariane Ibrahim discuss Florine Démosthène’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, “Between Possibility and Actuality,” and introduce us to her newly opened space in Chicago. Guests are then invited to join us for a short walk to the Monique Meloche Gallery to see Brendan Fernandes’ “Restrain”, speak with Monique and enjoy some chocolate and bubbles.
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Thank you Sarah Milestone, Monique Meloche, and Mariane Ibrahim.

NY | ArtTable NY Holiday Party at Poster House!
2019-12-17 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | The Poster House, 119 W 23rd Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
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Celebrate the holidays with ArtTable New York at The Poster House!

Welcome new ArtTable Members!

Support our chapter’s programs!

Enjoy festive food, drinks, and a photo booth!

Congratulate Denise Murrell, ArtTable’s NY Chapter Leadership Awardee!

Win amazing prizes in the silent auction!

This year’s exhibition will take place at the Poster House, the first museum in the United States dedicated exclusively to posters. On view during this celebration will be America Got Grabbed: 20/20 Insight: Posters from the 2017 Women’s March, as well as, Baptized By Beefcake: The Golden Age of Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana.

ArtTable New York Chapter Leadership Award

Denise Murrell. John Pinderhughes/Columbia University

This year ArtTable awards Denise Murrell with the New York Chapter Leadership Award. This award celebrates ArtTable members who are exceptional professionals, with the intention of recognizing their outstanding performance and contribution to the field. We look forward to presenting this award at this year’s New York Holiday Party at Poster House.

ArtTable’s New York Programs Committee is thrilled to announce Denise Murrell as the recipient of this year’s New York Chapter Leadership Award. Murrell’s dissertation and subsequent curatorial direction of Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today that began at The Wallach (with a sold-out 40 + ArtTable member tour), before traveling to the Musee D’Orsay, Paris, this Spring, received an overwhelming amount of praise for its situation of black female subjects as central to the development of modernity.

Celebrated as “A sweeping re-examination of the history of modern art at the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University.” –Alison Stewart, WNYC, and, “-a historically significant and aesthetically illuminating show that centers on the black female form as she appears and reappears in the work, lives, and imaginations of a number of painters, photographers, and filmmakers.”–Hilton Als, The New Yorker, Posing Modernity has altered the way that many of our members, and the art world at large, interpret the key players in art history.

Last week Denise Murrell was named associate curator for 19th- and 20th-century art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, a newly created position that will involve her working closely with both the museum’s modern and contemporary department and its European painting department. She will begin this role in January.

Poster House is the first museum in the United States dedicated exclusively to posters.
Through exhibitions, events, and publications, Poster House presents a global view of posters from their earliest appearance in the late 1800s, to their present-day use. Poster House takes its mission from the medium, aiming to engage and educate all audiences as we investigate this large format graphic design and its public impact.

Posters explore:

mass communication and persuasion
the intersection of art and commerce
control of the public domain

For a poster to succeed, it must communicate. By combining the power of images and words, posters speak to audiences quickly and persuasively. Blending design, advertising, and art, posters clearly reflect the place and time in which they were made. Through them, Poster House explores everything from avant-garde design, to changing societal norms, and all the fads and fashions over the last 160 years.

Poster House was founded in 2015 with an eye towards filling a long-acknowledged gap in the New York cultural landscape. While there are several poster museums around the world, New York, with its long relationship with advertising and design, did not have such a dedicated public institution. After several years of planning and construction, Poster House opened its doors on June 20, 2019.

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Thank you to Judith Richards, Louky Keijsers Koning, Linda Fischbach, and the Holiday Party Committee, as well as Julia Knight, Director Poster House.

NOCAL | ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter Leadership Award Celebration and Holiday Party
2019-12-17 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Haines Gallery, 49 Geary Street, #540, California, 94108, United States
Image: Suzanne Lacy with the Rape Map at LAPD headquarters, January 2012. Photo: Neda Moridpour
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Join ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter for a special celebration honoring ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter Leadership Awardee Suzanne Lacy.
ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter invites you to join in this recognition of artist and educator, Suzanne Lacy for her long career probing and illuminating the histories and cultures of women through performances engaging communities in active participation. Her impact on California and generations of young artists in the San Francisco Bay Area has opened important dialogue through her commitment as an educator and advocate for revelatory process.
We look forward to sharing these festivities with you as we gather to raise a glass to Suzanne Lacy and ArtTable Northern Californian members together!
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DC | Holiday Celebration at the Middle East Institute's Arts & Culture Center!
2019-12-16 17:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Middle East Institute’s Arts & Culture Center, Middle East Institute's Arts & Culture Center, Washington, DC, 20036, United States
Image: Artwork by Walid Siti, from Speaking Across Mountains: Art of the Kurdish Diaspora
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Celebrate the holidays with ArtTable DC at the Middle East Institute’s new Arts & Culture Center!
Welcome new ArtTable Members!
Support our chapter’s programs!
Enjoy festive food & drinks!
Join ArtTable DC chapter to celebrate the holidays with a festive reception at the Middle East Institute’s new Arts & Culture Center, with a special tour of “Speaking Across Mountains: Art of the Kurdish Diaspora” curated by Heba ElKayal.
Family and prospective members are welcome.
“Speaking Across Mountains: Kurdish Artists in Dialogue” features nine contemporary artists from Iraq, Syria, and Turkey whose work offers audiences a rare opportunity to connect with Kurdish voices and experiences beyond the headlines. Through painting, video, photography, and installation, the artists reflect on themes that have long shaped the Kurdish experience, such as displacement, exile, memory, and gender, while giving voice to the resilience of Kurdish communities in the face of decades of persecution. Featured artists include Sherko Abbas, Serwan Baran, Kani Kamil, Hayv Kahrman and Walid Siti of Iraq; Savas Boyraz, Zehra Dogen and Şener Özmen of Turkey; and Khadija Baker and Bahram Hajou of Syria. The exhibition opens on December 6, 2019 and runs through February 20, 2020.
The Middle East Institute’s (MEI) new Art Gallery is a unique platform in Washington, DC dedicated to exhibiting modern and contemporary art, video and photography from the Middle East and North Africa. Housed in the Middle East Institute’s newly renovated historic headquarters in Dupont Circle, the gallery showcases up to five exhibitions annually featuring established and emerging artists from the region and the diaspora.
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NW | ArtTable Northwest Holiday Party!
2019-12-16 17:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Pottery Northwest, 226 1st Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
Image: Sculpture by Patti Warashina
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The Northwest Chapter of ArtTable and Pottery Northwest invite you to celebrate the holidays with clay!

Mingle with other ArtTable members while shopping local during ClayFest Northwest. ClayFest Northwest is an exhibition of over 40 Northwest artists working in clay – from teapots to abstract sculpture, there’s something for everyone. This festival highlights and celebrates the work that Northwest ceramic artists are making in all its infinite variety. Shop local, shop handmade, and support artists!

We’re actively growing our ArtTable Chapter! Do you know someone who may be interested in joining? Bring them, invite them, send them this invite. Has your membership lapsed? We understand. It happens. We all get busy. Come, connect and celebrate anyway!

We invite you to participate in a “white elephant” gift exchange. Bring an art-themed gift such as an object, book, or handmade item. Refreshments and appetizers will be provided.

About Pottery Northwest 50 People / 50 Years

Celebrating those who have made Pottery Northwest the community of clay it is today. Over the years, Pottery Northwest has attracted an impressive pool of noted figures who have influenced the arts culture in Seattle. Today’s community of clay evolved naturally from the students, teachers, residents, and directors who lay claim to Pottery Northwest and made it their own. Board member Anne Foster has launched 50 People50 Years as a way to celebrate those who have influenced its past and are engaged in forging its future. It’s a pleasure to share these conversations with you, once a week, in celebration of our 50th year.

Cheers! Tara, Kira, and Lorrie- ArtTable Northwest Co-chairs

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Thank you to Tara Wefers, President, Board of Directors, Pottery Northwest, and Marge Levy, Ceramic Artist, and Docent, Seattle Art Museum.

NY | Morning Walk-through of "Paris, Capital of Fashion" with Dr. Valerie Steele
2019-12-16 09:30 - 10:30 (America/New_York) | Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, 227 West 27th Street, New York, NY, 10001, United States
Image: Paris, Capital of Fashion, exhibition view. The Museum at FIT. ©The Museum at FIT
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Start your day/ week with a curator-led walkthrough of Paris, Capital of Fashion with Dr. Valerie Steele, director of The Museum at FIT and curator of this exhibition.
Paris, Capital of Fashion explores how and why Paris became the international capital of fashion. It will feature approximately 75 fashion ensembles, dating from the 18th century to the present, as well as accessories. Curated by Dr. Valerie Steele, director of The Museum at FIT, this major exhibition is accompanied by a book and symposium that took place on October 18.
The introductory gallery places Paris within the global fashion system. After the Second World War, Paris was repeatedly challenged by new fashion centers, such as London, Milan, and New York. The first section of the main gallery focuses on the rise of the Paris fashion system in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The court at Versailles was the official epicenter of fashion, but fashion professionals were based in the city of Paris and foreign visitors were amazed by the Parisian “mania” for fashion. The second section explores the growth of the Paris fashion system with its many métiers de la mode and its increased focus on feminine fashion. Particular attention is paid to the development of the haute couture, which transformed dressmaking from a small-scale artisanal craft into big business and high art. Today, globalization and technology have transformed the world of fashion. Yet Paris remains a unique fashion city.
Please enter the Goodman Center located at the Southwest corner of Seventh Avenue and 27th Street.
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Thank you to Valerie Steele, Elisabeth Rochau- Shalem and Lynn Sallaberry.

SOCAL | Celebrate the Holidays with ArtTable at the Fowler Museum
2019-12-12 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Fowler Museum at UCLA, 308 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, United States
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Join SoCal ArtTable for a festive evening at our annual holiday celebration, held this year in the lovely inner courtyard of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Come socialize and enjoy drinks and nibbles with fellow ArtTable members and their invited guests (prospective members only, please). 2019 has been an exciting time for ArtTable SoCal, a year filled with wonderful programs and growth, and we look forward to celebrating with you!

During the course of the evening, we will be treated to a private viewing and walkthrough of the beautiful exhibition Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World, the artist’s first mid-career survey. Banerjee’s sumptuous installations and sculptures assembled from myriad found objects, both natural and manmade, together with her exquisite paintings, both fascinate and intrigue while addressing the crucial global geopolitical, environmental and social issues we face today.

Born in Kolkata, India in 1963, Banerjee was raised in the United Kingdom and the United States. After receiving a B.S. degree in polymer engineering and working as a polymer research chemist, she left the profession to pursue an M.F.A. from Yale University. Based in New York City, Banerjee has exhibited internationally, with notable solo exhibitions at the Freer|Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. and the Musée Guimet, Paris. Her works are held in private and public collections worldwide, such as the Whitney Museum of American Art; Brooklyn Museum; Hammer Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi; and Centre Pompidou.

The exhibition will be open to our guests from 6:00-7:30 pm with a 30-minute walkthrough at 6:30 pm.

Light fare and refreshments will be served.

For self-service parking instructions: https://www.fowler.ucla.edu/visit/

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Thank you to SoCal Co-chair Susan Power and SoCal members Kris Lewis and Libby O’Kane.

Image: Rina Banerjee (b. 1963), Her captivity was once someone’s treasure and even pleasure but she blew and flew away took root which grew, we knew this was like no other feather, a third kind of bird that perched on vine intertwined was neither native nor her queens daughters, a peculiar other., 2011. Anglo-Indian pedestal 1860, Victorian birdcage, shells, feathers, gourds, grape vines, coral, fractured Charlotte doll heads, steel knitted mesh with glass beads, Kenyan tourist sculptures, apple gourds. 7 x 7 x 6 ft. Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Purchased with funds from the Michel Roux Acquisitions Fund, 2016.20. © Rina Banerjee. Image courtesy Rina Banerjee Archives.
