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NoCal | Curator Guided Tour of 'Judy Chicago: A Retrospective' at the de Young Museum
2021-10-14 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, California, 94118, United States
Join Claudia Schmuckli, Curator-in-Charge of Contemporary Art and Programming at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, for a guided tour of the Judy Chicago: A Retrospective exhibition at the de Young Museum. Meet up with your fellow NoCal members at the entrance to the exhibition on October 14th at 11am. Following the tour, enjoy a no-host lunch with Schmuckli at the de Young Café.
This program is $5 and open to ArtTable members only. Members may bring a guest for an additional $10. Please note that museum admission and lunch are not included.
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Please read before registering:
Covid-19 Guidelines:
In accordance with an order from the San Francisco Department of Public Health, all individuals regardless of vaccination status must wear a mask while inside the de Young museum. Proof of vaccination is not required for regular museum visits to the de Young., but is a requirement to attend some onsite events.
The museum continues to have safety measures in place to ensure a safe and healthy environment for visitors and staff. The measures include frequent cleaning of high-touch areas, sanitizing stations, and Plexiglass shields at the Tickets and Membership Desks.
*The museums reserve the right to deny entry, refuse service to, or revoke the admission of any visitor who does not comply with safety guidelines.
If you are showing COVID-19 symptoms, please stay home. This is critical to the health and safety of museum staff and communities.
Accessibility:
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are committed to offering services that make its collections, exhibitions, and programs accessible to all visitors. Programs and visiting options for individuals with disabilities as well as other underserved populations in the community are crucial for creating equity in access to the arts. Please click here to read more about accessibility options at the de Young Museum, and email programs@arttable.org if you need assistance in setting up accommodations for this program.
Getting There:
John F. Kennedy Drive is currently closed to vehicular traffic from Kezar Drive to Transverse Drive. Paid parking is available in the Music Concourse garage; access from the Fulton Street and 10th Avenue entrance. A limited number of accessible parking spots are available in the garage. For information on public transportation, please visit the SFMTA website. Cars have the ability to drop off visitors in front of the de Young using Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr. This is accessible via the intersection of MLK and Music Concourse drive.

About Claudia Schmuckli
Claudia Schmuckli is the inaugural Curator-in-Charge of Contemporary Art and Programming at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Since joining in the fall of 2016, she has developed a dynamic program of exhibitions, commissions, and acquisitions that dialogue with the institution’s sites, buildings, and collections in view of a self-critical reassessment of the Museums’ histories and identities.
Currently on view at the Fine Arts Museums are her most recent exhibitions Wangechi Mutu: I am Speaking, Are You Listening? at the Legion of Honor and Judy Chicago: A Retrospective, at the de Young. Prior to these presentations, Schmuckli curated Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI, the first major museum exhibition in the United States to reflect on the political and philosophical stakes of artificial intelligence and Specters of Disruption, an exhibition drawn from the Museums’ Collections, which connected the geological and colonial underpinnings of the de Young Museum to the current conditions in Northern California. Other projects include interventions at the Legion of Honor by Alexandre Singh, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Sarah Lucas, and Urs Fischer, as well as projects by Lisa Reihana, Leonardo Drew, Ranu Mukherjee, Matt Mullican, and DIS at the de Young.
Previously, Schmuckli was the director and chief curator of the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, where she organized over thirty exhibitions including solo shows dedicated to The Propeller Group, Matthew Ronay, Analia Saban, Slavs and Tatars, Candice Breitz, Tony Feher, Johan Grimonprez, Gabriel Kuri, Chantal Akerman, and Amy Sillman, among many others. Schmuckli began her career in New York as a curatorial assistant at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and an assistant curator at the Museum of Modern Art. She is a Swiss citizen and holds an MA degree in art history from the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany.
About the exhibition
Pioneering feminist artist Judy Chicago’s retrospective spans her early engagement with the Californian Light and Space Movement in the 1960s to her current body of work, a searing investigation of mortality and environmental devastation, begun in 2015. The exhibition includes approximately 130 paintings, prints, drawings, and ceramic sculptures, in addition to ephemera, several films, and a documentary. Together, these works of art chart the boundary-pushing path of the artist named Cohen by birth and Gerowitz by marriage, who, after trying to fit into the patriarchal structure of the Los Angeles art world, decided to change her name and the course of history.
Organized on the heels of the 40th anniversary of Chicago’s landmark installation, The Dinner Party, in San Francisco and opening in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote across the United States, Judy Chicago: A Retrospective pays homage to an artist whose lifelong fight against the suppression and erasure of women’s creativity has finally come full circle.

Thank you to Dorothy Dávila, ArtTable Board Member, for organizing this program, and to Claudia Schmuckli for her time and expertise.

Images:

The de Young Museum, courtesy of hisour.com.

Virtual | An Insider's Tour of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, with Mira Lapidot
2021-10-26 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
8am PT/ 9am MT / 10am CT / 11am ET
Please join us for a virtual tour and discussion with Mira Lapidot, Chief Curator at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Mira will be joining us from Israel to talk about the museum’s history and architecture while giving us an insider’s look at its current collection and collecting practices. The discussion will be followed by a Q & A session.
Admission

ArtTable Circle Members– Free
All other ArtTable Members – $10
Non-Members – $15
Members may bring a guest for $5.

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Accessibility: This program will offer automatic closed captioning. If you require additional accommodations, please email programs@arttable.org.

About the Speaker
Mira Lapidot (born 1971) is the Chief Curator of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art as of March 2021. She is the artistic director of the TAMA’s exhibition program, working within the matrix of Israeli and international, Modern-Contemporay art, overseeing all aspects of exhibition-making and publications, directing the acquisitions agenda, and fostering relationships with artists. She arrived at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art after 22 years at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, where she served as Chief Curator of the Arts, from 2012 to 2020. During her tenure, Lapidot directed eleven curatorial departments of the Fine Arts Wing, also leading the Wing’s exhibition and acquisitions program; she oversaw close to a hundred exhibitions and special exhibits, as well as dozens of Museum publications, and managed thirty curatorial staff members. Under her guardianship, the museum vastly expanded and enriched its collections. She has cultivated relationships with donors in Israel and around the world, led art-acquisition groups, managed the museum’s award process, and promoted collaborations with cultural institutions, universities, and international museums. As the acting curator of the Department of Contemporary Art (2016 to 2020), she has curated exhibitions by leading artists, notable among them Ai Weiwei: Maybe, Maybe Not (2017), which was attended by more than 400,000 visitors; Christian Boltanski: Lifetime (2018); and most recently, Julian Rosefeldt’s tour-de-force film installation Manifesto (2019). Lapidot holds a master’s degree in Art History and a bachelo’s degree in Natural Sciences and Art History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Thank you to Michelle Perr, member of the ArtTable New York Chapter Program Committee for organizing this program.

Images:

Facade of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Virtual | Marcela Guerrero & Daisy Nam on Donna Huanca's exhibition at Ballroom Marfa
2021-10-27 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
9am PT / 10am MT / 11am CT / 12pm ET
Please join Marcela Guerrero, Jennifer Rubio Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Daisy Nam, Curator at Ballroom Marfa, for a discussion on Donna Huanca’s exhibition ESPEJO QUEMADA, on view at Ballroom Marfa through January 22, 2022. The two will also discuss Guerrero’s work on influential recent exhibitions of contemporary art from Latin America, including the exhibitions Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 at the Hammer Museum.
Donna Huanca presents a series of new works commissioned by Ballroom Marfa in her exhibition ESPEJO QUEMADA. Huanca creates experiential installations that incorporate paintings, sculptures, video, scent and sound. The profound experiences and memories of Huanca’s first visit to Marfa in 2005 inspired the work in the exhibition. The artworks draw on visual, cultural, and mythological cues informed by feminism, decolonialism and the artist’s personal and familial histories, while simultaneously engaging with the biodiversity, geology, and dark skies of Far West Texas. The sky was particularly striking for Huanca–animated with cosmic and extraterrestrial forces while also revealing the natural rhythms of the sun and moon.
ESPEJO QUEMADA, Huanca’s first exhibition since the pandemic, uses mirrors as formal and metaphorical devices to respond to changing conditions. The title, which translates to “burnt mirror” in English and is purposefully feminized in Spanish, alludes to Huanca’s feminist praxis. “Espejo Quemada” suggests reflections of the current moment, portals to the past and future, and catalysts for combustion and change. Click here to read more about the exhibition!
Admission

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

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Accessibility: Please note that live closed captioning will be available for this program. Please email programs@arttable.org if you require additional accommodations.

About the Speakers
Marcela Guerrero is the Jennifer Rubio Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Recently, she was part of the curatorial team that organized Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945. In summer 2018, Guerrero curated the exhibition Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art. From 2014 to 2017 she worked as Curatorial Fellow at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, where she was involved in the much-lauded exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985, organized as part of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative and guest-curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Andrea Giunta. Prior to her position at the Hammer, she worked in the Latin American and Latino Art Curatorial department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) where she served as Research Coordinator for the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA). Guerrero’s writing has appeared in a variety of publications and has contributed articles to numerous exhibition catalogues. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Guerrero received her BA from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, and holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Daisy Nam is the curator at Ballroom Marfa, a contemporary art space located at the borderlands of Far West Texas. She recently co-edited a publication, Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the arts with Paper Monument. Previously from 2015–19, she was the assistant director at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University where she organized exhibitions, publications, and public programs working closely with artists to engage with the campus community and public at large. Prior, she curated and produced seven seasons of talks, screenings, performances, and workshops from 2008–2015 as the assistant director of public programs at the School of the Arts, Columbia University. Curatorial residencies and fellowships include: Marcia Tucker Senior Research Fellow at the New Museum, New York (2020); Bellas Artes, Bataan, Philippines (2020); Surf Point in York, Maine (2019); Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Korea (2018). She holds a master’s degree in Curatorial and Critical Studies from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in Art History and Cinema Studies from New York University. She has taught at RISD, and lectured at Lesley University, Northeastern, SMFA/Tufts, SVA as a visiting critic.

About Ballroom Marfa
Ballroom Marfa is an internationally recognized non-collecting contemporary art museum located in Marfa, a rural town of less than 2,000 people in Far West Texas. Established in 2003 by Virginia Lebermann and Fairfax Dorn, the contemporary art and performance space is housed in a 1920s-era ballroom and is free and open to the public. With generous support from individuals and foundations, Ballroom commissions new site-specific and site-inspired projects and gives artists and musicians the opportunity to engage with the magnificent landscape of the Big Bend. Read more about Ballroom Marfa here.
This program is presented in collaboration with Ballroom Marfa.
Public programs for ESPEJO QUEMADA are generously supported by Humanities Texas.

Images:

Installation view, SCRYING CON DIOS(A), 2021, in Donna Huanca: Espejo Quemada, June 26, 2021–January 2, 2022, Ballroom Marfa. Courtesy the artist and Ballroom Marfa. Photograph by Makenzie Goodman.
Marcela Guerrero, Photo by Javier Romero
Daisy Nam

Virtual | A Brief History of Digital Art, Before and Beyond NFTs, with Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan
2021-10-28 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
9am PT/ 10am MT / 11am CT / 12pm ET
If you’re curious to know more about the history of digital art before and beyond NFTs, join Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan as she offers a brief survey of digital art since the 1960s. Her talk will emphasize digital art’s major artists, practices, and themes, as well as the evolution of its relation to traditional arts institutions, such as galleries and museums.
NFTs have brought digital art into the spotlight, but they also have cast a long shadow over the decades-long history of digital art that preceded them. Even the artistic projects that were made with and about blockchain technologies just five years ago seem to have been erased in the rush to hail this “revolutionary” development in contemporary art.
Admission

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

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Can’t make the program at this time? Register anyway to receive a recording after!

Accessibility: This program will offer automatic closed captioning services. If you require additional accommodations, please email programs@arttable.org.

About Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan
Tina Rivers Ryan is an Assistant Curator of modern and contemporary art at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. Most recently, she co-curated the exhibition Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art, which opened October 16th and runs through January 16th, 2022. An art historian by training, Ryan is a specialist in the history of art and technology since the 1960s and has written extensively on topics ranging from kinetic light environments to virtual reality. Over the past decade, her work has appeared in publications from museums such as The Met, the Walker Art Center, and Pirelli HangarBicocca. She also is an active critic for Artforum; her essay on NFTs, “Token Gesture,” appeared in its May 2020 issue. Ryan holds five degrees in art history, including a BA from Harvard and PhD from Columbia.

Thank you to Regan Lynn Larroque, Programs Committee Co-Chair for ArtTable’s New York Chapter, for organizing this program.

Images:

Frame from Chris Torres’s Nyan Cat, 2011, GIF.
Tina Rivers Ryan

NoCal | Curator Tour of 'New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century', at BAMPFA
2021-10-28 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | BAMPFA, 2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
Join Claire Frost, Curatorial Assistant at BAMPFA, for a guided tour of New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Afterwards, join Claire and your fellow ArtTable members at a nearby outdoor patio for no-host drinks and a discussion under guidance of local writer/curator and ArtTable member, Marcia Tanner.
This program is $5 and open to ArtTable members only. Members may bring a guest for an additional $10. This includes entry to the museum but not post-tour drinks.
Not an ArtTable member? Join today!

Please read before registering:
Covid-19 Guidelines:
In accordance with an order from the San Francisco Department of Public Health, all individuals regardless of vaccination status must wear a mask while inside the museum. All staff and visitors are required to wear face coverings. BAMPFA has increased sanitizing high-touch areas using products approved for use against COVID-19. Hand sanitizer stations are available throughout the building.
If you are showing COVID-19 symptoms, please stay home. This is critical to the health and safety of museum staff and communities. Please click here for additional health and safety guidelines at BAMPFA.
Accessibility:
The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) is wheelchair accessible. A wheelchair is available at the admissions desk for visitor use. Assisted listening devices are available at the admissions desk for all film programs. Please click here for additional accessibility information at BAMPFA.
Getting There:
BAMPFA is located at 2155 Center Street, between Oxford Street and Shattuck Avenue, in downtown Berkeley. BAMPFA is Bartable and parking is available. Please click here for more information.

About the speakers

Claire Frost is Curatorial Assistant at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. In addition to BAMPFA, she has held positions at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, ArtSpan, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Intersection for the Arts. A Bay Area resident since 2011, she took a two year hiatus to attend grad school in Chicago, where she received her MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017. Her graduate studies focused on the intersection of identity and historiography and the way in which artists’ communities are documented, particularly in relation to second wave feminism and conceptual art. She is the founder and curator of the apartment galleries COLLABO in Chicago, and Claire Frost in San Francisco.
Former PR Director at SFMOMA and Executive Director of the San Jose ICA, art writer and independent curator Marcia Tanner has organized three exhibitions of contemporary feminist art: Bad Girls West, 1994, the Wight Art Gallery, UCLA; Brides of Frankenstein, 2005, San Jose Museum of Art; and We Interrupt Your Program, 2008, Mills College Art Museum. She has been an ArtTable Member since 1987.] Her Berkeleyside review of New Time can be found here.
About the exhibition
New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century is a major survey exploring recent feminist practices in contemporary art. In 1980 Lucy Lippard argued that feminist art is “neither a style nor a movement” but rather “a value system, a revolutionary strategy, a way of life.” Taking Lippard’s statement as a point of departure, the exhibition examines the values, strategies, and ways of life reflected in current feminist art. In keeping with Griselda Pollock’s observation that “feminism is a historical project and thus is itself constantly shaped and remodelled in relation to the living process of women’s struggles,” New Time aims to demonstrate that feminism in the twenty-first century is multifaceted, encompassing many complex issues and perspectives, and therefore cannot be reduced to a single subject, style, or agenda. Although artworks made since 2000 are the primary focus, the objects and installations on view span several generations, mediums, geographies, and political sensibilities. In this way the project seeks to convey the heterogeneous, intergenerational, and gender-fluid nature of feminist practices today. Click here to read more about the exhibition.
Thank you to Kitty Teerling, Artigo Tours, for organizing this program.

Images:

Linda Stark: Stigmata, 2011; oil on canvas over panel; 36 x 36 in.; BAMPFA, purchase made possible through a gift of the Paul L. Wattis Foundation.
Claire Frost

DC | BreakfastTable with Christine Neptune
2021-11-04 08:00 - 09:00 (America/New_York) | Bluestone Lane, 1367 R St NW, Washington, DC, 20009, United States
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for November’s BreakfastTable with Christine Neptune, founder of Neptune Fine Art and Principal of gallery neptune & brown. We will meet at Bluestone Lane (1367 R St NW) where you can purchase coffee/breakfast, and then at 8:15 am we will walk two blocks to gallery neptune & brown (1530 14th St NW) and hear from Christine about her extensive career and experience in a wide range of curatorial and consulting services in the fine arts market. Guests will also have a chance to view the gallery’s current photography exhibition, Frank Stewart: Diary of a Globetrotter.

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. Masks are optional though strongly encouraged. Drinks are allowed in the gallery for vaccinated individuals.
Accessibility:
Please email programs@arttable.org if you require accessibility information for this program.
Getting There:
The nearest public transportation is the U Street Metro Station. Street parking is available.

About Christine Neptune
Christine Neptune founded Neptune Fine Art in 2001 after nearly twenty years of professional experience working in auction houses, museums, and fine art galleries in Manhattan. Her first tiny gallery in NYC was located on East 72nd Street, exhibiting Modern and Contemporary art. After working with increasingly large pieces and publishing editions, she moved to a space on 25th Street in Chelsea.
In 2011 she made the personal and professional move to Washington, DC to share an exhibition space with her husband, gallery owner Robert Brown.
Neptune Fine Art has collaborated with established artists including Jennifer Bartlett, Vija Celmins, Wolf Kahn, James Siena, Adam Pendleton, Mickalene Thomas, and Jenny Holzer as well as many artists in the District of Columbia/Maryland, Virginia region. Neptune Fine Art has placed editions in The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Baltimore Museum of Art; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; Cincinnati Art Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and more.
Christine also works with private collectors to handle discreet and confidential acquisitions and sales for clients worldwide. She regularly meets with clients in her gallery in Washington, D.C. and by appointment in New York City. She has been an ArtTable member since 2000!
About the exhibition

gallery neptune and brown is delighted to present its second exhibition with Frank Stewart. During the past two years, when it wasn’t possible to travel and take photographs, Stewart combed through his archives. The resulting exhibition is a varied collection of photographs spanning the last thirty years. Many of the photos have never before been on view. Stewart’s work centers around communities in Africa and its diaspora in the United States and in Cuba, starting in the 1970s. In the same period, he began photographing jazz clubs and their musicians. For more about the exhibition, visit gallery neptune and brown’s website.

Thank you to Shelley Langdale, Programs Co-Chair of ArtTable’s Washington DC Chapter, for organizing this program.

Images:

Christine Neptune
Three Young Camels, Timbuktu, Mali, 2006
Only God to Watch My Back, NY, 1988

NoCal | First Thursday Coffee Break on Location - Sightglass Coffee
2021-11-04 08:30 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Sightglass Mission, 3014 20th St, San Francisco, 94110
8:30am PT
All ArtTable members are welcome to join the Northern California Chapter in the early morning of Thursday, November 4th, to share a cup of coffee before your workday gets started. Get your coffee, tea, and/or pastry at this local Mission coffee shop and catch up with other members during this in-person outdoor coffee break together. Accessible seating is available.
This program is free and open to ArtTable members only. Members may bring one additional guest. 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 additional accessibility information for this program.
Thank you to ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter Leaders for planning and hosting this program.

Image courtesy of Sightglass Coffee, Mission.

Virtual | Reimagining Memorials and Memory, with Judy Baca
2021-11-04 18:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
3pm PT/ 4pm MT / 5pm CT / 6pm ET
Join our conversation with Judy Baca, Los Angeles-based artist, educator, scholar/activist, community arts pioneer, UCLA professor emeritus, and founder of the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARCinLA). Judy has produced numerous murals in Los Angeles and elsewhere since the early 1970’s, and is particularly renown for The Great Wall of Los Angeles (also known as The History of California).
“I want to produce artwork that is beautiful and inspirational, and beyond decorative. I excavate public spaces to hear public voice, and to create public consciousness about the presence of people who are often the majority of the population but are not represented in a visual way. By telling their stories I hope to give voice to those least heard and to visualize a more whole American story. I call this creating sites of public memory.” – Judy Baca
This program will highlight Baca’s artistic practice as a tool for both people and place. She will present several of her murals which dramatically document both told and untold American stories of the disenfranchised. Baca will also share her wisdom, personal perspective, and vast experience on how to effectively reimagine memorials and memory. Cathie Behrend, ArtTable New York member who co-organized this series, will introduce the program and speaker. There will be ample time for questions so come prepared with your inquiry about Memorials and Memory.

Admission

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

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Can’t make the program at this time? Register anyway to receive a recording after!

Accessibility: This program will offer automatic closed captioning services. If you require additional accommodations, please email programs@arttable.org.

About Judy Baca
One of America’s leading visual artists, Dr. Judith F. Baca, grew up in Los Angeles and has been creating public art for more than four decades. In 1974, Baca founded the City of Los Angeles’ first mural program which produced over 400 murals and employed thousands of local participants, evolving into an arts organization known as the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC).
Dr. Baca, now Professor Emeritus, was a University of California senior professor of Studio Art (1980-96), founded UC’s Cesar Chavez Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in 1993, and has long been a professor in UC’s Chicano/a Studies and World Cultures Department in UCLA’s School of Art and Architecture. She continues to serve as SPARC’s artistic director, and within the UCLA@SPARC Digital/Mural Lab, now uses digital technology as she co-creates murals promoting social justice and participatory public art projects. Her honors include a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2015 Rockefeller Fellowship and over 50 awards from various community groups. Judy Baca’s artwork is included in the collections of The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, among others. The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in L.A. has recently acquired The History of California archive; and currently, the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, CA presents a major retrospective of Judy Baca’s practice.
Her most well-known work, ‘The Great Wall of Los Angeles,’ created between 1976-1983, runs for one-half mile in the Tujunga Wash, a flood control channel of the Los Angeles River, featuring images of California’s pre-history into the 1950’s. In 2017 it was named to the National Register of Historic Places. In 2021, Baca and SPARC received a $5 million Andrew Mellon Foundation grant to extend The Great Wall’s imagery for another half mile to include narratives up to the present and develop further interpretive material.

Thank you to Cathie Behrend, former Deputy Director of New York’s Percent for Art Program and founder of VenturesinVision, and Lori Shepard, ArtTable member (New York Chapter), for organizing this program series.

Images:

Portrait of Judy Baca at the 2004 partial restoration of the Great Wall of Los Angeles. Background mural detail from the 1950’s section “Forebearers of Civil Rights.”
3 mural images: Judith F. Baca(c)1976, Great Wall of Los Angeles, detail from the 1950’s section “Division of the Barrios and Chavez Ravine,”; detail from the 1950’s section “Asians Gain Citizenship and Property,”;detail from the 1950’s section “Olympic Champions 1948-1964 Breaking Barriers.”
Judy Baca at the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC).

All images courtesy of the SPARC Archives.

Virtual | Self-Mythology and the Unreliable Narrator in the Life & Times of Sam Francis
2021-11-07 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
11am PT/ 12pm MT / 1pm CT / 2pm ET
Please join Gabrielle Selz, Jeremy Stone, and Debra Burchett-Lere as they probe the self-mythologizing narratives of artists and personalities of the 20th Century. This talk will focus on discoveries Selz made in her new book, Light on Fire, the first comprehensive biography of Sam Francis.

Light on Fire traces the extraordinary and ultimately tragic journey of a complex and charismatic artist who first learned to paint while encased for three years in a full-body plaster cast. Francis portrayed himself as a pilot who heroically crashed his plane in the Arizona desert; a story Selz reveals is a fabrication that was repeated by all the male historians who wrote about his illustrious career. For indeed, Francis’s color-saturated paintings went on to fetch the highest prices of any living artist. His restless desire resulted in five marriages and homes on three continents. His entrepreneurial spirit led to the founding of MoCA, Lapis Press, a reforestation program, and several nonprofits. Light on Fire captures the art, life, personality, and talent of a man who sought to resolve in art, the contradictions he couldn’t resolve in life.

Admission

ArtTable Circle Members– Free
All other ArtTable Members – $5
Non-Members – $7

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Accessibility: Please email programs@arttable.org if you require specific accommodations.

About the Speakers
Debra Burchett-Lere brings a range of professional international art-world experiences as an author, curator, and executive director of the artist-endowed Sam Francis Foundation, California. Her background includes key positions at the fine-art limited editions print studio Gemini G.E.L. and the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA). For over twenty-five years, Debra has collaborated on museum exhibitions including projects with the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; the Milwaukee Art Museum; Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC; the Jeu de Paume, Paris; Kunsthalle- der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn; Fundacio Caja de Madrid; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

In addition, Burchett-Lere has authored books and catalogues including publications by the Getty Museum Conservation Institute, Los Angeles and the University of California, Berkeley (UC Press). She has worked as a grant writer for university art programs, an art consultant, and accredited appraiser with the Appraisers Association of America, NYC. Her recent volunteer board services include positions for ArtTable, NYC and the Brand Associates of the Brand Library and Arts Center, Glendale, CA.

ArtTable member Gabrielle Selz is the award-winning author of Unstill Life: Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction (W.W. Norton 2014) and Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis (UC Press, 2021), the first comprehensive biography of one of the most important American abstract artists of the 20th century. Her essays and art reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Hyperallergic, Square Cylinder, Art & Object, Art Papers, The Rumpus, and The Huffington Post, among others. She makes her home in Oakland, CA. For more information, visit: https://gabrielleselz.com.

Jeremy Stone, also an ArtTable member, is a former gallerist, art advisor/appraiser, and collector who has advised many important private collectors, museums, and institutions. Her expert witness work over the past 25 years has included legal cases across the United States and the government of Canada. She has served on the board and held office on multiple levels with ArtTable, the American Society of Appraisers, and the San Francisco Art Dealers Association.

Jeremy specializes in Post-War, modern, and contemporary art. Her collection includes Hank Murta Adams, Robert Arneson, Elmer Bischoff, Squeak Carnwath, John Chamberlain, Willem de Kooning, Nancy Drosd, Sam Francis, Mike Henderson, Mildred Howard, David Huffman, Kazuko Inoue, Franz Kline, John Graham, Rick Hickam, David Huffman, Gaston Lachaise, Joanne Leonard, Robert Mapplethorpe, Grace Munakata, Edith Schloss, Richard Sheehan, Katherine Sherwood, Lorna Simpson, Louise M. Stanley, Pia Stern, Masami Teraoka, Wayne Thiebaud, Ai Wei Wei, and John Zurier, among many others.

Thank you to Gabrielle Selz, Jeremy Stone, and ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter Leaders for organizing this program.

Images:

Light On Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis by Gabrielle Selz

CANCELLED | Virtual | An ArtTable Friendsgiving, with The Artisan's Palate
2021-11-08 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
3pm PT/ 4pm MT / 5pm CT / 6pm ET
Come celebrate Friendsgiving with ArtTable and The Artisan’s Palate! We will be joined by founder and chef Christa Csoka and artist Melissa Herriott for a conversation about how The Artisan’s Palate came to be, the importance of art, food, and community, and the local arts scene in Charlotte, North Carolina. We’ll also be making a specialty cocktail called “The Weight of the World,” inspired by a series of paintings by Herriott that were on view at The Artisan’s Palate during her time as featured artist. See below for the ingredients so you can make the cocktail with us!
After the discussion and drinks, we’ll go into breakout rooms for a classic ArtTable networking session.
RECIPE: The Weight of the World
Ingredients:

1 ½ oz Reposado Tequila
½ oz Mezcal
1 oz Blood Orange Puree (Alternative: blood orange soda OR 1/2 oz orange juice + 1/2 oz grapefruit juice)
½ oz Blood Orange Aperitif (vermouth) (Alternative: sweet vermouth)
1 fresh lime
Smoked Chili Bitters (Alternative: any bitters will work if smoked chili is unavailable)
Orange Zest
Sal de Gusano (worm salt; or substitute with chili salt) (Alternative: just mix some salt and chili powder!)

How to make it:
Serve this cocktail in a Rocks Glass with a large ice cube. Stir all ingredients except bitters in a glass pitcher. Pour over your ice cube. Put in 3-4 dashes of bitters after the mix is in the glass (do not put these on the cube, but around the edges). Put worm salt/chili salt on the ice cube and garnish with an orange zest on the glass. Voila!
This program is free for ArtTable members and $10 for non-members. Members are encouraged to bring a friend for an additional $10.
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Accessibility: Automatic closed captioning will be available for this program. Please email programs@arttable.org if you require additional accommodations.

About the Speakers
Owner and chef Christa Csoka’s love for entertaining and passion for food began when she was a child, helping her mother host dinners and events for officers and cadets at West Point.
Csoka has over 30 years’ experience in the service industry, including working as a chef at French restaurants in NYC and Chicago and catering in Austin, New York, and Charlotte. She has lived in and visited many cities all over the world, all of which have given her a diverse culinary perspective and palate. After graduating from the French Culinary Institute in New York, Christa moved to Charlotte in 2003 to be closer to family. Although she was not immediately immersed in the culinary world of Charlotte, she kept her love of cooking alive by catering on weekends and special events as well as hosting many themed parties and events over the years. This would launch the idea of the Artisan’s Palate. The inclusion of art as part of a whole experience was always her passion and she envisioned a space in which food, drinks, music and art co-existed in harmony – and that is how The Artisan’s Palate came to be.
Melissa Herriott is a Charlotte-based abstract artist and interior stylist working in multiple mediums. Her paintings are full of color, texture, and symbolism. Melissa is an award-winning artist, featured in QC Exclusive Magazine and the KNOW Book of Women. Melissa’s hope is that her work sparks conversation, inspires, and allows you (if even for a moment) to get lost inside of it.

About The Artisan’s Palate
The Artisan’s Palate is a restaurant, art gallery and gathering space in the NoDa neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina. It offers a unique menu of craft cocktails, wine and share plates in a neighborly, relaxed atmosphere with a focus on art and those who create it.
Over the years the NoDa community has seen most of its galleries close, but The Artisan’s Palate is working to change that. The space includes a gallery that features local artists monthly. Guests are introduced to immersive experiences, crafted by Chef and Owner, Christa Csoka. These experiences converge all five senses through food, beverage, art, music and more based on each collection.
The Artisan’s Palate is an inclusive destination for its customers – from local coffee during the day, to rustic-yet-refined plates and curated cocktails at night, to savory and sweet brunch on Sunday. They also sell wine, coffee, and art in support of local artisans all within a creative, community environment.

Images:

Interior shot of The Artisan’s Palate gallery, featuring work by Melissa Herriott
Headshots provided by the speakers
Interior shot of The Artisan’s Palate, courtesy of The Artisan’s Palate

New York | 'Ruth Orkin: Expressions of Life' Tour at Fotografiska
2021-11-09 15:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Fotografiska, 281 Park Avenue South, New York, NY, 10010, United States
Please join ArtTable’s New York Chapter and Mary Engel, director of the Ruth Orkin Photo Archive, for a special in-person tour of Expressions of Life at Fotografiska.
Expressions of Life is an emotional, inspiring, and romantic chronicle of the pioneering photographer and filmmaker Ruth Orkin. Featuring landmark photographs from her work across Hollywood, New York City, Israel and Italy, the exhibition celebrates the Orkin’s centennial, and showcases her as a master of intimacy, warmth, and boldness behind the camera.
From photographs of her monumental cross country bicycle trip at age 17 and behind-the-scenes of MGM Studios as the first “messenger girl” in 1941, to European adventures and spontaneous, cinematic New York City moments – Expressions of Life spotlights some of her most renowned photographs: American Girl in Italy (1951), Bernstein in Green Room, Carnegie Hall, NYC, (1950), and Einstein at Princeton luncheon, NJ (1953), among others.

This program is $5 for ArtTable members and $10 for non-members.
Please note that entry to the exhibition is paid separately, which must be done on-site. Pricing is $13 for general admission and $8 for seniors. The ArtTable program fee goes to support this in-person walk-through.

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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. Fotografiska New York is open to the public and to members with guidelines in place for the safety and well-being of our guests and staff. Proof of vaccination is required in order to enter Fotografiska. Please have this documentation with you when you join the program and ready to present at the museum. Accessibility Fotografiska is fully wheelchair accessible. Please email programs@arttable.org if you require more information. Getting There Fotografiska is located at at 281 Park Ave South, New York, NY 10010. If you prefer to drive, there are several public parking lots close by: Champion Parking36 E 21st St, New York, NY(212) 473-9365 Icon Parking41-47 E 21st St, New York, NY(212) 674-9528 Manhattan Parking Gramercy Corp.32 Gramercy Park S # 1, New York, NY(212) 533-0863 PUBLIC TRANSITPublic transportation is a great way to get to Fotografiska. The closest subway stations are the 23rd Street Station on the 6 and the R/W lines. Several city buses stop nearby, including the M1, M2 and M3. Citibike is available at the northeast corner at Park Ave S, & 20th Street.

About Mary Engel
Mary Engel is the founder and president of the American Photography Archives Group, APAG, an award winning filmmaker and the director of the Orkin/Engel Film and Photo Archive. Engel has been the director of the Ruth Orkin Photo Archive since its inception in 1985. She is responsible for all aspects of managing the archive including sales, licensing, marketing, legal issues, preservation and social media. Engel works with photography galleries, museums and auction houses in the United States and abroad. She has published four catalogs of photography.
Engel’s first film “Ruth Orkin: Frames of Life” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1996. It went on to screen at many other festivals. The film was selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as one of the “Outstanding Documentaries of 1996.” Her film “Morris Engel: The Independent” premiered on Turner Classic Movies, TCM in 2009. Engel is also a contributing producer of “Ordinary Miracles: The Photo League’s New York” released in 2011.
Engel has recently participated on panels at POWarts and Photoville, and has lectured at Harvard University, New York University, Brooklyn Historical Society, St. Louis Art Museum, Central Park Conservancy, and has appeared at the Avon Theater, (Stamford, CT), Loews Jersey (Jersey City, NJ) Film Forum (New York, NY) and the Egyptian Theater (Park City, Utah). She has been published in The New York Times, the American Society of Media Photographers magazine, Photo District News and Film Comment.
Engel is the 2017 recipient of the Griffin Museum of Photography – Focus Spotlight Award. She also completed the 2017 Seminar on Strategy for Artist-Endowed Foundation Leaders, presented by the Aspen Institute Artist-Endowed Foundations Initiative (AEFI).

Thank you to ArtTable member Susan Halper and Sarah McNaughton, New York Chapter Programs Committee Co-Chair, for organizing this program.

Images:

American Girl in Italy 1951© Ruth Orkin Photo Archive
Mary Engel

Virtual | AT Connect with Tiffany Williams
2021-11-10 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
9am PT / 10am MT / 11am CT / 12pm ET
ArtTable’s AT Connect program series encourages members to network, connect, and ask questions outside of their regular areas of expertise. In this session we will hear from Tiffany Williams, Assistant Curator at Art in Embassies and a member of ArtTable’s Washington, DC Chapter.
Admission

ArtTable Circle Members – Free
All other ArtTable Members – $5
Non-Members – $10
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 Tiffany Williams
Tiffany Williams is an advocate for the arts as a tool for cultural diplomacy and dialogue, critical thinking, and self expression. For ten years, she has worked for the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Art in Embassies (AIE). Serving ten years in total at AIE, she has curated dozens of exhibitions for U.S. Ambassadors on six continents. Tiffany has assisted on and co-curated several permanent U.S. embassy collections, including those in Harare, Zimbabwe; N’Djamena, Chad; Niamey, Niger; and Nogales, Mexico. Previously, she served as a Henry Luce Curatorial Assistant Fellow for The Corning Museum of Glass. Tiffany holds a BA from Virginia Commonwealth University as well as an MA in the History of Decorative Arts from George Mason University in partnership with the Smithsonian.

New York | 'Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone' at the New Museum
2021-11-11 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, 10002
Please join us for a curatorial welcome and self lead walkthrough of Soft Water Hard Stone, the fifth New Museum Triennial which brings together works across mediums by forty artists and collectives from around the world. The title of the exhibition is taken from a Brazilian proverb, versions of which are found across cultures: Água mole em pedra dura, tanto bate até que fura (Soft water on hard stone hits until it bores a hole).
The title speaks to ideas of resilience and perseverance, and the impact that an insistent yet discrete gesture can have in time. It also provides a metaphor for resistance, as water—a constantly flowing and transient material—is capable of eventually dissolving stone—a substance associated with permanence, but also composed of tiny particles that can collapse under pressure.
In this moment of profound change, where structures that were once thought to be stable are disintegrating or on the edge of collapse, the 2021 Triennial recognizes artists re-envisioning traditional models, materials, and techniques beyond established paradigms. Their works exalt states of transformation, calling attention to the malleability of structures, porous and unstable surfaces, and the fluid and adaptable potential of both technological and organic mediums.
Soft Water Hard Stone is curated by Margot Norton, Allen and Lola Goldring Curator at the New Museum, and Jamillah James, Senior Curator, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA), with Jeanette Bisschops, Curatorial Fellow, and Bernardo Mosqueira, ISLAA Curatorial Fellow.

This program is $10 for ArtTable members. Capacity is limited. 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. Proof of vaccination is required for museum entry. In compliance with the Mayor's Emergency Executive Order 225 issued on August 16, 2021, the New Museum requires visitors 12 years of age and older to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to enter the Museum. Visitors 18 years of age and older must also show an ID bearing the same identifying information as proof of vaccination. Vaccinated visitors ages 12–17 without an ID must be accompanied by a vaccinated adult with an ID. All visitors ages 4 and up are still required to wear a mask, regardless of vaccination status. Accessibility HEARINGAssistive listening devices, headsets, and neck loops are available for most programs at the New Museum. Headsets and neck loops are available for Audio Tours. WHEELCHAIRSThe New Museum and its programs are accessible to people using wheelchairs. All galleries and facilities are wheelchair accessible. Two wheelchairs are available in the Coat Check free of charge. Please call in advance to reserve one if you need a wheelchair during your visit. Please click here to read more about accessibility at the New Museum. Getting There The New Museum is located at at 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002. Please click here for driving directions and here for nearby parking. The New Museum is accessible via the N, R, J, Z, 6, B, D, F, and M subways.

About the speaker
Jeanette Bisschops is a curator and writer from Amsterdam based in New York. She is currently a Curatorial Fellow at the New Museum, New York. Between 2016 and 2019, Bisschops served as Curatorial Assistant for Time-Based Media at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and has curated multiple exhibitions as an independent curator. She holds a Master’s in Psychology from Maastricht University and a Master’s in Art History from the University of Amsterdam.

Thank you to Regan Lynn Larroque, New York Chapter Programs Committee Co-Chair, for organizing this program.

Images:

Soft Water Hard Stone

DC | 'Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful' Tour & Discussion at the Phillips Collection
2021-11-12 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | The Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St NW, Washington, DC, 20009
Join ArtTable’s DC chapter for a special guided tour of Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful at The Phillips Collection with Renee Maurer, coordinating curator for the exhibition, and Gwendolyn Everett, Howard University Professor of Art History. In addition to an overview of the exhibition, among the topics to be discussed during the tour will be new insights gained after spending time with the works assembled for the exhibition, now that the show has reached its second venue; current politics of exhibition organization, challenges and opportunities for representing multiple voices/perspectives, and enriching visitors’ understanding of Alma Thomas, her work, and her impact on the art world in DC and beyond. Jonathan Walz, Director of Curatorial Affairs & Curator of American Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Georgia, and one of the co-curators of the exhibition will join in the conversation.

This program is $5 to attend and is open to ArtTable members only.
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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. The Phillips Collection requires that museum visitors 12 years of age and over show proof of vaccination or a same-day negative COVID-19 test upon entry, along with a government-issued photo ID. Proof of a negative same-day COVID-19 test must come from a health care provider. Results from a self-administered COVID-19 test will not be accepted. All safety COVID-19 protocols including mask-wearing and physical distancing will be followed. All visitors over the age of two are required to wear face masks, regardless of vaccination status, unless an individual is unable to wear a face covering due to a medical condition. Masks must cover both your mouth and nose, without gaps between your mask and face. Patrons who do not or cannot comply with the policy will not be allowed into the museum. For those who are unable to visit us in person, or who prefer to enjoy the Phillips from home, we continue to offer numerous online options. Following DC government, DC Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines, The Phillips Collection has developed new cleaning, safety, and operational protocols. Please stay at home if you are feeling sick. Please do not visit the Museum if you have a fever or any covid-19 symptoms, have tested positive for covid-19 within the past 14 days, or have had close contact with anyone who is confirmed or is suspected of having covid-19. Please click here to read more about health & safety protocols at The Phillips Collection. Accessibility The Phillips Collection is committed to ensuring that the museum’s facilities, services, exhibitions, and programs comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. Reasonable accommodations are in place to ensure that people with disabilities have equal physical and communications access, as defined by federal law. If you have specific questions or concerns, please call 202.287.2151 or email reservations@phillipscollection.org in advance of your visit. All galleries and public facilities of the museum are wheelchair accessible. A limited number of wheelchairs is available at the coat check. Elevators are available throughout the museum; a wheelchair lift is also available between Goh Annex Floor 3 and the bridge walkway to House Floor 2U. Please see a museum assistant for access to the lift. The Center for Art and Knowledge also has an elevator available for its public programs. Service animals are welcome. American Sign Language and a limited number of assistive listening devices for programs and tours are offered by request. Please click here to read more about accessibility at The Phillips Collection. Getting There The Phillips Collection is located at 1600 21st Street, NW, Washington, DC, near the corner of 21st and Q Streets, NW. The museum is committed to promoting the use of sustainable transportation as a way to reduce local traffic congestion and air pollution. While we do provide driving directions, please consider other transportation options. Please click here for more detailed information on getting to the Museum via Metro, DC Circulator, Bike, or Car, as well as parking options.

About the Speakers
Gwendolyn H. Everett, art historian, museum educator, curator, and children’s book author, and ArtTable member is an Associate Professor in Art History in the Department of Art at Howard University, Washington, D.C. She formerly served as Associate Dean for the Division of Fine Arts, Director of the Howard University Gallery of Art, and Chairperson of the Department of Art. Everett received her Ph.D. from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, MA in Art History from Howard, and a BA from Spelman College, where she majored in Studio Art. She is currently co-organizing a symposium, “Alma W. Thomas and David Driskell: Journeys in Art,” with the Howard University Department of Art and the Phillips Collection to coincide with Alma Thomas and David Driskell exhibitions on view at the Phillips, November 13, 2021.
ArtTable member Renee Maurer is Associate Curator, The Phillips Collection, and coordinating curator for the Phillips’s presentation of the Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful exhibition. Other exhibitions she has coordinated include Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, guest curated by Adrienne Childs in 2020; A Modern Vision: European Paintings from The Phillips Collection and its tour (2017–2020); Toulouse-Lautrec Illustrates the Belle Époque (2017); Gauguin to Picasso: Masterworks from Switzerland (2016); American Moments: Photographs from The Phillips Collection (2015); Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life: 1928–1945 (2013); and Jasper Johns: Variations on a Theme (2012). Prior to working at the Phillips, she was a research assistant at the National Gallery of Art. She received her BA from Dickinson College and her MA from George Washington University.
About the exhibition
Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful provides a fresh perspective on the artist’s dynamic long life (1891-1978) and multifaceted career that was defined by constant creativity. This major retrospective traces her journey from semi-rural Georgia to Washington, DC, to become the first Black woman given a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art at age 80. Through artworks and archival materials, this exhibition demonstrates how Thomas’s wide-reaching artistic practices extended far beyond her studio. It helped shape every facet of her life—from community service to teaching to gardening.
Everything Is Beautiful contextualizes Thomas’s art and life within her creative community, delving into her association with Howard University, American University, and the Barnett Aden Gallery, which she helped co-found. Some of her works are placed alongside examples by her friends and contemporaries, such as Loïs Mailou Jones and Morris Louis, who also helped shape the DC art scene. The exhibition offers an intimate look at this inspiring cultural icon who used her imagination and ingenuity to lead a rich and beautiful life.
Click here to read more about the exhibition.

Thank you to Renee Maurer, Associate Curator, and Erica Harper, Educator, The Phillips Collection.

Images:

Alma Thomas, Pansies for Washington, 1969, acrylic on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Vincent Melzac)
Dr. Gwendolyn Everett
Renee Maurer
Ida Jervis, Alma Thomas at Home, 1968, gelatin silver print. Alma Thomas Papers, c. 1894–2001, Of Alma Thomas,1950s–60s, box 5, folder 36. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

Virtual | Reading at the (Art)Table - 'Culture Strike: Art & Museums in the Age of Protest' by Laura Raicovich
2021-11-14 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
11am PT / 12pm MT / 1pm CT / 2pm ET
Join us in reading “Culture Strike – Art and Museums in an Age of Protest” by Laura Raicovich and lend your voice to the discussion that promises to be lively and engaging!
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 5pm ET/2pm PT on Friday, November 12.
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: Culture Strike – Art and Museums in the Age of Protest by Laura Raikovich

Virtual | Artist Talk with Andrea Chung
2021-11-17 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
10am PT / 11am MT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET
Please join us for a virtual artist talk with Andrea Chung, whose exhibition, We Was Girls Together, was recently presented at Tyler Park Presents in San Diego.
We Was Girls Together, inspired by Toni Morrison’s book Sula, is a series of large-scale collages that celebrates the relationships of black women in all their complexities and displays Chung’s gratitude for them. As Chung says, “Our sisterhood, our love for one another, is not always visible to the unfamiliar, nor should it always be.” Click here to read more about the exhibition.
Chung’s work has recently been featured in Prospect 4 (New Orleans) and the Jamaican Biennale (Kingston, Jamaica), as well as the Chinese American Museum and California African American Museum in Los Angeles, and the San Diego Art Institute. In 2017, her first solo museum exhibition took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, You broke the ocean in half to be here. She has participated in national and international residencies, including Headlands Center for the Arts and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been written about in the Artfile Magazine, Artnet, and Los Angeles Times, as well as a number of academic essays looking at the subject of colonialism and slavery in the Caribbean. (Full bio below)
Admission

ArtTable Circle Members – Free
All other ArtTable Members – $10
Non-Members – $15
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 the Artist
Andrea Chung lives and works in San Diego, California. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design, New York, and a Master of Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. Her recent biennale and museum exhibitions include Prospect 4, New Orleans and the Jamaican Biennale, Kingston, Jamaica, as well as the Chinese American Museum and California African American Museum in Los Angeles, and the San Diego Art Institute. In 2017, her first solo museum exhibition took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, You broke the ocean in half to be here. She has participated in national and international residencies, including the Vermont Studio Center, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been written about in the Artfile Magazine, New Orleans Times, Picayune, Artnet, Los Angeles Times, and International Review of African-American Art, as well as a number of academic essays looking at the subject of colonialism and slavery in the Caribbean.

Miami Art Week 2021 | ArtTable VIP Fair Pass Packages
2021-11-29 - 2021-12-05 | Miami, Miami, FL, United States
ArtTable members enjoy special access to art fairs during Miami Art Week, taking place this year from November 29 – December 5, 2021! This year we are offering multiple levels of packages, as outlined below:

Platinum Level - Sold Out VIP Pass - Art Basel Miami Beach(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 4pm) Platinum First View Pass - SCOPE Contemporary Art Fair(First view for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 12pm) VIP Pass - Art Miami & CONTEXT(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 6:30pm) VIP Pass - NADA Miami(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Wednesday, December 1 at 10am) VIP Pass - UNTITLED ART, Miami Beach(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Monday, November 29 at 11am) $150 Diamond Level - Sold Out Day Pass - Art Basel Miami Beach(Entry for 1 for 1 day starting on Friday, December 3 at 11am) Platinum First View Pass - SCOPE Contemporary Art Fair(First view for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 12pm) VIP Pass - Art Miami & CONTEXT(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 6:30pm) VIP Pass - NADA Miami(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Wednesday, December 1 at 10am) VIP Pass - UNTITLED ART, Miami Beach(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Monday, November 29 at 11am) $140 Gold Level - Sold Out Day Pass - Art Basel Miami Beach(Entry for 1 for 1 day starting on Friday, December 3 at 11am) VIP Pass - SCOPE Contemporary Art Fair(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 4pm) VIP Pass - Art Miami & CONTEXT(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 6:30pm) VIP Pass - UNTITLED ART, Miami Beach(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Monday, November 29 at 11am) Each VIP pass is good for entry for 2 people to each fair. A day pass provides entry for 1 person. $130 Ruby Level Day Pass - Art Basel Miami Beach(Entry for 1 for 1 day starting on Friday, December 3 at 11am) VIP Pass - SCOPE Contemporary Art Fair(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 4pm) VIP Pass - Art Miami & CONTEXT(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 6:30pm) VIP Pass - UNTITLED ART, Miami Beach(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Monday, November 29 at 11am) $120 Silver Level Day Pass - Art Basel Miami Beach(Entry for 1 for 1 day starting on Thursday, December 2 at 11am) VIP Pass - SCOPE Contemporary Art Fair(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 4pm) VIP Pass - Art Miami & CONTEXT(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 6:30pm) Day Pass - UNTITLED ART, Miami Beach(Entry for 1 for 1 day starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 11am) $110 Bronze Level VIP Pass - SCOPE Contemporary Art Fair(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 4pm) VIP Pass - Art Miami & CONTEXT(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 6:30pm) Day Pass - UNTITLED ART, Miami Beach(Entry for 1 for 1 day starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 11am) $100 General Admission Level VIP Pass - SCOPE Contemporary Art Fair(Entry for 2 throughout the fair starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 4pm) Day Pass - Art Miami & CONTEXT(Entry for 1 for 1 day starting on Wednesday, December 2 at 11am) Day Pass - UNTITLED ART, Miami Beach(Entry for 1 for 1 day starting on Tuesday, November 30 at 11am) $90

Conditions:
VIP Pass Packages are available for purchase by current ArtTable members only. Members are limited to one package each. We have a limited number of packages available at each level that will be distributed on a first come first serve basis. Not an ArtTable member? Join today!

Click here to purchase your 2021 Miami Art Week VIP Pass Package!

Don’t miss these other events during Miami Art Week!
ArtTable Brunch at Design Miami/
NADA Miami Director’s Tour

Images:

Art Basel Miami Beach 2019, Courtesy of Art Basel © Art Basel

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN - Miami Art Week | ArtTable Brunch at Design Miami/
2021-12-02 11:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | DesignMiami/, Convention Center Drive & 19th Street, Miami Beach, FL, 33139, United States
Please join us for our annual ArtTable Brunch during Miami Art Week, this year at Design Miami/! This is a great time for members and friends from across the country to come together and network at the week’s only fair dedicated to collectible design artwork and objects.
Your ticket includes a light breakfast at the fair, VIP Preview Access for you and one guest, as well as return admission for duration of the fair.
Admission:

ArtTable Members – $50
Member Guest – $65
Non-member – $75

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. Face Masks Required: Face masks are required once inside the Design Miami/ tent and must not be removed. Staff will be required to wear a face mask at all times.Social Distancing Recommended: Social distancing of six feet or more is encouraged and adjustments to the exhibition floorplan have been made to allow for wider aisles and increased ventilation.Click here to read the full list of health & safety protocols during the fair. Accessibility Please email programs@arttable.org if you require accessibility information for this program. Getting There The fair is located at Convention Center Drive & 19th Street, Miami Beach, FL, USA. If you are taking an Uber or Lyft to the fair, the drop off and pick up location is on the corner of 19th Street and Meridian Ave. Nearby parking is available at the city parking garage at 1755 Meridian Ave. For more parking, please visit the City of Miami Beach Parking by clicking here.

Don’t miss these other opportunities and events during Miami Art Week!
VIP Fair Pass Packages
NADA Miami Director’s Tour

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Virtual | DC BreakfastTable with Charlotte Ickes
2021-12-03 08:00 - 09:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
7am CT / 8am ET
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for December’s BreakfastTable with Charlotte Ickes, curator of time-based media and special projects at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. She will be discussing her background as an art historian and highlighting her current work at NPG. Currently, Ickes is co-curating a yearlong virtual screening and conversation series supported by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative called Viewfinder: Women’s Film and Video from the Smithsonian.
This program is free and open to ArtTable members only. Not a member? Join today!

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

About Charlotte Ickes
Previously the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Charlotte has held fellowship appointments at the Whitney Independent Study Program, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia).
Ickes has curated and co-curated exhibitions and public programs at multiple institutions and cultural spaces. This includes the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), Slought, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Anthology Film Archives, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. In addition to her BA from Yale University, Ickes received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
Her writing has appeared in American Art, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, and several exhibition catalogues, including Descent (2016), Ginny Casey & Jessi Reaves (2017), and Anna Kunz: Color Cast (forthcoming).

Thank you to Ruth Abrahams, Graphic designer, Ruth Abrahams Design and former DC Chapter Co-Chair for organizing this program.

Images:

Charlotte Ickes. Photo by Nathan Keay.

Miami Art Week 2021 | NADA Miami Director's Tour, with Heather Hubbs
2021-12-03 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | NADA Miami, Ice Palace Studios, 1400 North Miami Ave, Miami, FL, 33136, United States
Please join us for a director-led tour of the 2021 edition of NADA Miami. We will be joined by Heather Hubbs, Executive Director of New Art Dealers Alliance, who will guide us through highlights of the fair.

This program is $10 to attend and is 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. Health & Safety Guidelines at NADA Miami Entrance:All visitors, participants, and staff (ages 2 and older) will be required to wear masks in order to enter NADA Miami. Masks must adequately cover the nose and mouth at all times. No entry will be permitted without a face covering. All visitors, participants, and staff at NADA Miami over 12 years old must provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test to enter the fair. Test results can be a negative PCR test administered within 72 hours or a negative antigen test administered within 48 hours. Alternatively, visitors, participants, and staff may choose to voluntarily provide proof of completed COVID-19 vaccination to enter the fair. Please bring your government issued ID for identification to verify your health screening. Health & Safety Guidelines at the Fair:NADA Miami will have a timed-ticketing system to allow for more space between visitors and groups. NADA Miami will have separate entry and exit locations reconfigured to create less congestion for visitors—the entrance to the fair will remain the same at the corner of North Miami Avenue and NW 14th Street. NADA Miami will have sanitizing stations spread throughout the Ice Palace Studios. Stay Home if You Are Sick:If you have had any symptoms consistent with COVID-19 within the past 3 days or you have had any recently known exposures to COVID-19 within the past 14 days, please stay home and postpone your visit. Anyone exhibiting signs of illness will not be permitted entry. Accessibility Please email programs@arttable.org if you require accessibility information for this program. Getting There NADA Miami will be held at Ice Palace Studios at 1400 North Miami Avenue, Miami, Florida.

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About the New Art Dealers Alliance
Founded in 2002, the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) is a not-for-profit 501c6 collective of professionals working with contemporary art. Our mission is to create an open flow of information, support, and collaboration within our field and to develop a stronger sense of community among our constituency. We believe that the adversarial approach to exhibiting and selling art has run its course. We believe that change can be achieved through fostering constructive thought and dialogue between various points in the art industry from large galleries to small spaces, non-profit and commercial alike. Through support and encouragement, we facilitate strong and meaningful relationships between our members working with new contemporary and emerging art; while enhancing the public’s interaction with contemporary art. Click here to read more about the New Art Dealers Alliance.

Images:

Image courtesy of NADA Miami

DC | An Evening with Italian Duo Goldschmied & Chiari
2021-12-08 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Cody Gallery of Marymount University, 1000 N. Glebe Road, 2nd Floor, Arlington, VA, 22201, United States
6pm ET
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for a special evening featuring Italian duo, Goldschmied & Chiari, who are visiting the United States for the closing of their exhibition Magnifica on view at Marymount University’s Cody Gallery. Sara Goldschmied and Eleonora Chiari will give a short talk about their exhibition, along with curator Allison Nance and Cody Gallery director, Caitlin Berry. Complimentary wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served.
This program is open to ArtTable members and guests only.

Admission

ArtTable Members – $20
Members may bring a guest for an additional $15

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Please review 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. In compliance with University and state guidelines, masks are optional for vaccinated guests and recommended for unvaccinated guests. Accessibility Please email programs@arttable.org if you require accessibility information for this program. Getting There Cody Gallery of Marymount University is located inside Ballston Center at 1000 North Glebe Road, 2nd Floor. Street parking and Capital Bikeshare are available. The gallery is located near the Metroline Orange: Ballston-MU.

About the Artists
Milan-based artists Sara Goldschmied (b.1975, Arzignano) and Eleonora Chiari (b.1971, Rome) have been working together as the artist-duo Goldschmied & Chiari since 2001. Sara and Eleonora met in the late 1990s through a shared interest in photography and feminism activism. Their shared interests soon led to joint art projects and a remarkable two-decade-long partnership. They have earned widespread respect and recognition, both in Italy and internationally, through their innovative use of photography, video, performance, and installations. Much of their work draws conceptually from philosophy, social studies, and their historical Italian background. Their dynamic of working as a duo fundamentally impacts their approach to every project. They state that their most essential tool “…is our relationship as an artist duo because it feeds our art practice, for example, so that we see multiple sides of one issue.” Magnifica was organized by International Arts & Artists in partnership with the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, DC, in collaboration with Marymount University. This project is supported by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism under the 2019 Italian Council Program.
About the Exhibition
This exhibition is a collaboration by many ArtTable Members of the DC chapter, all of whom will be in attendance. They are Allison Nance, Curator; Caitlin Berry, Cody Gallery Director; Maria Sancho-Arroyo, Catalog Essayist; Ruth Abrahams, Catalog Designer. Funds raised from this program will support the DC chapter locally, including our intern, who receives a stipend for her work coordinating chapter activities and communications. Your contribution makes a real impact on the growth and mentorship opportunities in our chapter, thank you!
In Magnifica, Goldschmied & Chiari bring together new work from their iconic Untitled Views series, stylized with billowing pink and purple shades of smoke reminiscent of abstract blooms, deconstructing the very notion of portraying an idea, a face, a sensation, an architectural space. Three vase sculptures in pink blown Murano glass debut in this exhibition; the anthropomorphic shapes of these Magnifica vases are sensual and dangerous, drawing inspiration from carnivorous pitcher plants in deep reds and purples, and from lipstick kisses in bold pinks. The artists worked with craftsmen from the Italian island of Murano to create these vases, a process which involved breathing and blowing, thus, a human mouth has created a mouth-like vase, which conceptually blows the colored smoke integral to their Untitled Views.

Thank you to Allison Nance and Caitlin Berry from ArtTable’s DC Chapter for organizing this program.

Image: Left: Eleonora Chiari and Sara Goldschmied. Photo by Federca Belli; Right: Goldschmied & Chiari, “Magnifica”, 2020, Murano blown glass, Image courtesy of the artists, Photo by Roberto Marossi, © Goldschmied & Chiari

Houston | Chapter Holiday Cocktail & Relaunch Party!
2021-12-09 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Foto Relevance, 4411 Montrose Blvd, Suite C, Houston, TX, 77006, United States
5:00pm CT
Join us for an ArtTable Houston Chapter Holiday Cocktail & Relaunch Party at Foto Relevance! Let’s reconnect and get re-energized about ArtTable and future events in our city. Bring your thoughts and ideas about how we can make the most of our local network!
Back in early 2020, ArtTable’s Houston Chapter was ready to launch. Members were excited about this burgeoning new chapter and a launch party was all planned. We all know what happened next. Now that the worst of the pandemic is behind us, we are excited to reconnect with each other and advance the leadership of women working in the arts in Houston.
This program is free and open to current and prospective members. We encourage current members to bring a guest/potential new member! Registration is required below.

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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 optional at this venue. Accessibility This is an accessible venue. Please email programs@arttable.org for more information. Getting There Foto Relevance is located at 4411 Montrose Boulevard, Suite C, Houston, TX 77006. Parking is available in the lot adjacent to the building, located off of Kyle Street.

Thank you to Bryn Larsen and Elise Arnoult Miller, ArtTable Houston Chapter Leaders, for organizing and hosting this program.

New York | MAD About Jewelry Holiday Edition - Private Member Tour
2021-12-09 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Museum of Arts & Design, 2 Columbus Circle, New York City, NY, 10019, United States
6:00pm ET
This December, the Museum of Arts and Design will present MAD About Jewelry, its annual show and sale featuring designs from more than 40 emerging and acclaimed US-based jewelry artists. MAD About Jewelry has become known as the ultimate pop-up shop for contemporary artist-made jewelry, where collectors and jewelry enthusiasts have the rare opportunity to meet and acquire pieces from some of the most innovative creators in the field. We are thrilled to offer ArtTable members a special private walkthrough of the show with the shows’ curator, Bryna Pomp.
This program is open to ArtTable members only. ArtTable Circle members have first access. Registration will open to all other members on Friday, November 19.
Admission

ArtTable Circle members – $10
All other ArtTable Members – $15

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Please review 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. For the protection of staff and visitors, the Museum’s health and safety policies adhere to Centers for Disease Control recommendations, as well as Federal, State, and City guidelines. All visitors over the age of twelve and Museum staff must provide proof of vaccination against Covid-19 to enter the building.Face coverings must be worn by all staff members and all visitors over the age of two.Enhanced cleaning of high-touch surfaces throughout the day; with hand-sanitizer units stationed throughout the building for visitors to use regularly.Social distancing throughout the galleries and the Store at MAD.Please use the stairs if you are able.Visitors who are feeling unwell, have a fever of 100°F or higher, tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 14 days, or had close contact with anyone who is confirmed or suspected of having Covid-19 should not visit the museum.To learn more about MAD’s response to Covid-19, please click here. Accessibility The Museum offers people with disabilities free admission and a $15 discount on Individual and Dual/Family memberships. For tickets, please inquire at the Visitor Services desk or contact info@madmuseum.org to reserve a ticket in advance. For membership information, please call the membership office at 212.299.7732. Please click here for more information about accessibility at the Museum of Arts and Design. If you require accommodations for this particular program, please email programs@arttable.org. Getting There The Museum is located at 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 11001. It is easily accessible by subway via the A, B, C, and 1 lines.

Thank you to Bryna Pomp and the Museum of Arts and Design.

Image: Photo courtesy of the Museum of Arts and Design

NoCal | Chapter Holiday Party
2021-12-09 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Jessica Silverman Gallery, 621 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94108
6:00pm PT
Join ArtTable’s NoCal Chapter for our annual Holiday Party, back in-person! We will gather at Jessica Silverman Gallery for an artist-led tour of Sadie Barnette’s exhibition Inheritance, followed by an informal opportunity to connect with the artist. Reunite with fellow ArtTable members and invite guests and prospective members to join in supporting ArtTable’s mission to advance the leadership of women in the visual arts!
The tour will run from 6:00pm – 7:00pm. Following the tour, we will gather at Bar Fluxus’ outdoor terrace for drinks and an opportunity to catch up with colleagues and friends from 7:00pm – 8:00pm. Admission includes one glass of wine or champagne.
Admission

ArtTable members – $30
Non-members – $35

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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. All guests will be asked to show proof of vaccination before entering the gallery, and will be required to remain masked throughout our time at the gallery. Guests will also be asked to show proof of vaccination at Bar Fluxus, but may remove their masks once on the terrace. We ask everyone to respect social distancing, and be mindful and respectful of other guests so that we can have a safe and comfortable event. Accessibility Please email programs@arttable.org if you require accessibility information for this program. Getting There Jessica Silverman Gallery is located at 621 Grant Ave, San Francisco, CA 94108. We encourage all guests to use public transportation, as parking is limited near the gallery. If driving, the gallery recommends parking at St. Mary’s Square Garage on California (entrance between Grant and Kearny) or at metered parking on the street.

Thank you to ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter Leadership Committee for planning and hosting this program.

Image: Sadie Barnette, Family Style, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco. Photo: Philip Maisel.

Virtual | An Evening with Barbara Earl Thomas
2021-12-10 18:00 - 19:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
6pm PT / 7pm MT / 8pm CT / 9pm ET
ArtTable’s Northwest Chapter invites members and guests to celebrate the holidays by spending a virtual evening with esteemed artist Barbara Earl Thomas. She will be joined in conversation by Nina Bozicnik, Curator at the Henry Art Gallery, discussing the current exhibition, Packaged Black: Derrick Adams and Barbara Earl Thomas.
This special event promises to be a fun, informative, and intimate evening for ArtTable members and friends. Time will be set aside for questions from the audience. The evening will be peppered with chances to win exciting prizes through a raffle, and of course there will be a chance to connect with each other during some lively chat roulette.
Program:
– 6:00-6:10pm: Welcome + Thanks
– 6:10-6:40pm: Live conversation with Barbara Earl Thomas and Nina Bozicnik
– 6:40-6:50pm: Q&A
– 6:50-6:55pm: Introduction of new Chapter Leaders
– 6:55-7:05pm: Breakout rooms
– 7:05-7:15pm: Raffle
Raffle items include:

A chance to make a reservation at TOMO Seattle for 2 + a bottle of wine.
Reservations at this new restaurant sell out each month in minutes – but this item is the opportunity to make a reservation outside of their online reservation system for a date of your choice. Dinner will cost the winner $78/person, but TOMO will generously include special VIP gratis extras (bubbles, snacks, dessert). A bottle of wine (or non-alcoholic drinks) will be included with dinner (up to $75)
Midnight Bloom glass stud earrings by Kait Rhoads ($115)
A set of champagne coupes by Decicio Glass (created by Greg Clark) & a bottle of champagne.
An Individual-level Membership to the Henry ($45)
The forthcoming catalog from the Seattle Art Museum: Barbara Earl Thomas: The Geography of Innocence (donated by Lucia | Marquand)
Young, Gifted & Black: A New Generation of Artists: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art (Art Catalog)
Four Generations: The Joyner / Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art (Art Catalog)

More raffle items to be announced!

Admission (includes one raffle ticket)

ArtTable Members – $10
Non-Members – $15

Additional raffle tickets:

1 ticket – $15
4 tickets – $60
8 tickets – $120

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

About the speakers
Nina Bozicnik is Curator at the Henry Art Gallery, where she has organized exhibitions including most recently Packaged Black: Derrick Adams and Barbara Earl Thomas (2021); Will Rawls: Everlasting Stranger (2021); Bambitchell: Bugs & Beasts Before the Law (2021), Carrie Yamaoka: recto/verso (2019), & Between Bodies (2018-19). She has also organized presentations & projects for the museum with artists including Demian DinéYazhi´ (2018), Chris E. Vargas & the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art (2016-17), & Michelle Handelman (2015), among others. Prior to the Henry, Bozicnik held curatorial positions at the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; and the Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts.
Barbara Earl Thomas earned her BA and MFA from the University of Washington. She has been the recipient of the Howard S. Wright Award, Stranger Genius Award, Mayor’s Arts Award, and Hauberg Fellowship. Thomas has completed residencies at the Pilchuck School of Glass, Stanwood; Museum of Glass, Tacoma; and Goathead Press, Tieton. She has held solo exhibitions at the Evansville Museum of Arts and Science; Seattle Art Museum; Bainbridge Island Art Museum; and Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham. Thomas has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including at the Bellevue Arts Museum; Northwest African American Museum, Seattle; and Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art. Her work is included in the public collections of the Portland Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, and Tacoma Art Museum. She is represented by the Claire Oliver Gallery in New York.
About the exhibition
Packaged Black brings together the work of artists Derrick Adams (b. 1970, Baltimore, MD) and Barbara Earl Thomas (b. 1948, Seattle, WA) in a collaborative, multi-media installation developed from their shared dialogue about representation, Black identity, and practices of cultural resistance. This exhibition is a synthesis of a multi-year, intergenerational, and cross-country exchange between New York-based Adams and Seattle-based Thomas that began after the two artists exhibited work alongside each other in a group show at the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2017. For this exhibition, Thomas draws upon the role of media and fairytales in shaping social expectations and her own conception of self. She is presenting all new work, including an immersive installation conceived as a ‘transformation room’ and a series of new cut-paper portraits of friends and colleagues that riff on the concept of the royal court.

Thank you to ArtTable’s Northwest Chapter Leaders Jessica Landau, Judith Rinehart, and Gina Broze for organizing this program.

Image: Barbara Earl Thomas. Installation view of Packaged Black: Derrick Adams and Barbara Earl Thomas, 2021, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. Photo: Jueqian Fang, courtesy of the Henry Art Gallery

Philadelphia | Chapter Holiday Gathering at InLiquid!
2021-12-11 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | InLiquid, 1400 N American Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19122, United States
11:00am ET
Please join us for a holiday gathering at InLiquid! Mix and mingle with fellow ArtTable members with light refreshments and a special opportunity to view photographer Ada Trillo’s exhibition Young Americans.
This program is open to current and prospective ArtTable members and guests!
Admission

Prospective Members – $20
ArtTable Members – $15
Members may bring a guest for an additional $20.

Not a member? Join today!

Please review 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. Proof of vaccination is required and masks are to be worn in common areas. Accessibility The venue is located on the first floor and is accessible by ramp. Street parking is available. Getting There InLiquid Gallery is located in the Crane Arts Building, Gallery 108, at 1400 N American Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122.

About the Exhibition
Young Americans is a project and exhibition featuring the work of award-winning photographer, Ada Trillo and the voices of young Philadelphian photographers. Ada Trillo is a fine art documentary photographer based in Philadelphia, PA and Juarez, Mexico. Her work is concerned primarily with human rights issues facing Latinx Americans. Trillo has become known for her representation of young people enduring forced prostitution and braving the difficult conditions of mass migration along the southern USA border.
Trillo will be collaborating with photographer and teaching artist Tony Rocco and his teen Photography Without Borders (PWB) students in Philadelphia. Photography Without Borders engages Philadelphia’s inner-city teens in photography-based learning and cultural exchanges. Young students gain technical and artistic skills and are encouraged to explore autobiographical storytelling.

Thank you to Philadelphia Chapter Leaders Rachel Zimmerman, Laurie McGahey, and April Williamson for organizing this program, and the staff of Inliquid.

Image: Photo by Ada Trillo

SoCal | Grinstein Family Art Collection Visit
2021-12-11 13:00 - 15:30 (America/Chicago) | Grinstein Family Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA
1:00pm PT
Join us for a private tour of the Grinstein Family Art Collection. This prolific collection was a lifetime passion for Elyse and Stanley Grinstein, who collected art for over 50 years. Elyse, an architect, and Stanley, a cofounder of Gemini G.E.L., the landmark publisher of artist editions, are widely beloved for their support of art and artists.
In addition to a tour of the grounds and the home’s first floor, we will be speaking with members of the Grinstein family about the collection and their relationship with the many represented artists, such as Oldenburg, Lichtenstein, and Rauschenberg, just to name a few.
In the Press: Opening the Doors of Gemini, a Family Home Brimming With Historic Art (2016)
This program is open to ArtTable members only.
Admission:

ArtTable Circle Members – $40
All other ArtTable Members – $55

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Please review 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 required for all visitors for the duration of the tour, regardless of vaccination status. Proof of vaccination will also be required and must be shown at the door. Accessibility Please note that the residence is not wheelchair accessible. Please email programs@arttable.org if you have any questions or concerns regarding accessibility. Getting There The residence is located in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. The exact address and directions will be shared with all registrants.

Thank you to Jacqueline Cabrera, ArtTable Southern California Chapter Leader, for organizing this program, as well as the Grinstein Family for welcoming us into their home.

Image: Artwork by artists Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, and Claes Oldenburg in the Grinstein Art Collection. Photo by Jacqueline Cabrera.

Virtual | Preserving Cultural Heritage in Afghanistan & Beyond, with Laura Tedesco & Anna Bottinelli
2021-12-15 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
9am PT / 10am MT / 11am CT / 12pm ET
Afghanistan is currently facing an incredible crisis. Since the US left the country and Taliban forces reentered, many aspects of daily life have come into question, including how the country’s cultural heritage will be affected. Just two decades ago, when the Taliban were last in power, they called for the destruction of any and all pre-Islamic statues and sanctuaries on the land. While this new regime has promised to honor Afghanistan’s cultural heritage, history makes us skeptical.
One woman who has spent many years living and traveling throughout Afghanistan, overseeing the preservation of its archaeological sites, artifacts, monuments, and museums, is Laura Tedesco, Cultural Heritage Program Manager at the U.S. Department of State. As a cultural heritage and preservation specialist, Laura has experienced firsthand the challenges of preserving art and heritage amidst conflict, an experience she shares with Anna Bottinelli, President of the Monuments Men Foundation. Join us for a discussion about the preservation of cultural heritage in Afghanistan and beyond with these two leading experts!
Admission

ArtTable Circle members – Free
All other ArtTable members – $10
Non-Members – $15
Members may bring a guest for an additional $15.

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

About the speakers

Dr. Laura A. Tedesco serves as the Cultural Heritage Program Manager for the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs. Laura’s work is centered on supporting U.S. Embassies across the region in identifying and guiding cultural preservation projects supported by the Department of State. In 2021 there are more than 30 active projects that preserve intangible and built heritage of more than 12 nations. Now based in Washington, D.C. and Charleston, S.C., she previously worked in Afghanistan at the U.S. Embassy from 2010-2012 developing and overseeing the State Department’s large-scale initiatives to support the preservation of Afghanistan’s imperiled cultural patrimony. Prior to joining the Department of State, Laura worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for 13 years. She has also worked in the private sector field of cultural resources management, managing archaeological recovery of cultural resources for land development and corporate investment programs. Tedesco has participated in archaeological excavations in Syria, Palestine, the Republics of Armenia and Georgia, Italy, Cyprus, and in several locations across the United States. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from New York University. Laura has a popular podcast that focuses on her personal story of the challenges she’s faced as a woman carrying out heritage preservation programs in Afghanistan. The title of the podcast is Monuments Woman.
Born and raised in Florence, Italy, Anna Bottinelli earned her B.A. in History of Art from John Cabot University (JCU) in Rome, graduating Magna Cum Laude. There, she was also the recipient of numerous accolades including the 2010 JCU Excellence in Art History Award and JCU Leadership Award. In 2011, she received her M.A. in Art History at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London. She specialized in the Franciscan and Dominican Art of 13th century Italy. At the same time, Ms. Bottinelli began work as the lead Italian research assistant to #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Robert Edsel on his project to write about the Monuments Men and their preservation work in Italy during World War II. Her work contributed greatly to the success of Mr. Edsel’s acclaimed bestseller, “Saving Italy: The Race to Save a Nation’s Treasure from the Nazi.”
In 2014, Ms. Bottinelli accepted a full time research position with the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, in Dallas, Texas. By 2017, she had advanced to senior leadership positions and in December 2019, she was appointed as the Foundation’s new President, succeeding its founder, Mr. Edsel . During her tenure at the Foundation, Ms. Bottinelli has overseen numerous restitutions of cultural objects to individuals and museums in Europe. She has also served as a consultant for “Hunting Nazi Treasure,” an eight-part investigative documentary that continues to air on Discovery’s American Heroes Channel, History Channel-Canada, and Canale Focus in Italy, with additional future broadcasts planned internationally.
Today Ms. Bottinelli is considered an expert on the subject of art looting and recovery during World War II. She regularly is a point of contact for provenance attorneys seeking expert opinions on art restitution cases involving Italy. Ms. Bottinelli has close ties with the art restitution unit of the Italian Carabinieri, who have been steadfast supporters of the Monuments Men Foundation and its mission. Anna Bottinelli is currently based in Dallas with her husband and two little boys. She divides her time between the U.S. and Italy.

Images: Laura Tedesco in Ghazni, Afghanistan; Laurie Tedesco, The Monuments Woman photographed for publication by Jackie Neale October, 2021 in Charleston, SC; Anna Bottinelli

Virtual | Chicago Chapter Holiday Happy Hour!
2021-12-16 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Zoom
3pm PT / 4pm MT / 5pm CT / 6pm ET
Grab a glass of your favorite wine or mix up a festive cocktail! Catch up with fellow members you’ve missed and help us welcome new members into ArtTable’s Chicago Chapter!
As we look forward to a brighter future in 2022, let’s support one another by sharing how this year has gone and share ideas for programming and gatherings in the New Year!
This program is free and open to ArtTable members only. Click below to register!
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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.

Thank you to Diane Dinkins-Carr and Julie Gustafson, Chicago Chapter Leaders, for organizing this program.

Virtual | Reading at the (Art)Table - 'We Flew Over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold'
2022-01-09 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
11am PT / 12pm MT / 1pm CT / 2pm ET
Join us on Sunday, January 9 at 11am PT/2pm ET for our next Reading at the (Art)Table program, where we will be discussing “We Flew Over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold.” We look forward to having a lively discussion!
In “We Flew over the Bridge,” one of the country’s preeminent African American artists—and award-winning children’s book authors—shares the fascinating story of her life. Faith Ringgold’s artworks—startling “story quilts,” politically charged paintings, and more—hang in the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and other major museums around the world, as well as in the private collections of Maya Angelou and Oprah Winfrey (among others).
Her children’s books, including the Caldecott Honor Book “Tar Beach,” have sold hundreds of thousands of copies. But Ringgold’s path to success has not been easy. In this gorgeously illustrated memoir, she looks back and shares the story of her struggles, growth, and triumphs. Ringgold recollects how she had to surmount prejudices as she worked to refine her artistic vision and raise a family. At the same time, the story she tells is one of warm family memories, sustaining friendships, community involvement, and hope for the future.
This program is free and open to ArtTable members only. Not a member? Join today!

Image: “We Flew Over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold”
Thank you to Jan Wurm, ArtTable Northern California Chapter, for organizing this program.
