Impact Initiatives
Since 1980, ArtTable has been working to advance the professional leadership of women and nonbinary professionals in the visual arts. Through various programs, we educate and inform members and the public about significant developments and issues in the visual arts, support dialogue, and promote the evolving leadership role of women and nonbinary professionals in the arts. For a full description of ArtTable’s Impact Initiatives, click here.
In 2022, ArtTable established the Impact Initiatives Fund in Honor of Meg Perlman. This fund directly impacts our National Fellowship, Pay Equity Project, and Career Roundtable Initiatives, providing funding for our diversity, equity, inclusivity, and accessibility programming, and provides education and mentoring opportunities for early-career women and nonbinary professionals in our Affiliate Membership Program. Please help us to make a difference by contributing to this fund.
Click here to see ArtTable’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Action Plan, approved by ArtTable’s Board of Directors in May of 2021, and here to see ArtTable’s Strategic Plan for 2024-2027.
ArtTable Fellowship Program
ArtTable’s Fellowship Program began in 2000 to address the marked lack of diversity in arts employment. This impactful program provides quality real work experiences and mentorship to women and nonbinary emerging professionals from backgrounds generally underrepresented in the visual arts field. During the paid, five-to-eight-week summer program, the fellows will work closely with established leaders in the field to gain exposure to various professional activities at leading museums and art organizations. Fellows also receive one-on-one mentoring from leading professionals who are ArtTable members and are specialized in their areas of interest.
Through the generous support of individuals, foundations, corporations, and government agencies, ArtTable has supported 183 women and nonbinary fellows, partnered with a total of 98 leading art organizations nationwide so far, and dispersed over $665,000 since the Fellowship’s inception.
The program is open to emerging art professionals who self-identify as women or nonbinary. Applicants must be members of an underrepresented group, including but not limited to cultural, racial, ethnic, and/or socio-economic backgrounds historically underrepresented in the field. Applicants may be enrolled in undergraduate, graduate, or pre/post-doc programs or have recently graduated. Individuals returning to the field, especially after a period of absence due to circumstances such as elder care, early parenting, or military service, are encouraged to apply.
ArtTable launches its Host Organization application process each year in December and its Fellowship Application process opens each year in March. Email membership@arttable.org if you are interested in being a host organization or a fellow.
2024 ArtTable Fellowship Program
We are excited to announce the 2024 ArtTable Fellows! Read more about the 2024 ArtTable Fellow Projects here.
2024 ArtTable Fellows
Chris Adegbaju
Center for the Study of Political Graphics
Jes Allie
Locust Projects
Chenoa Baker
Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art (Tephra ICA)
Mya Bonilla
New Art Dealers Alliance
Victoria Campa
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hanna Choi
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Roxy Henriquez
The Studio Museum in Harlem
Cambria Kelley
New York Studio School
Isabel Kuh
Durón Gallery at SPARC (Social and Public Art Resource Center)
Connie Mendoza
ASU Art Museum
Paige Miller
Carolee Schneeman Foundation
Ashley Pemberton
Georgetown University Art Galleries
Vega Shah
Brooklyn Museum
Alison Siegel
Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum
Gabrielle Vazquez
The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center, Inc.
Kaitlyn Yates
The Easton Foundation
2024 Fellowship Supporters
The ArtTable Fellowship Program is made possible thanks to the invaluable help of the following supporters:
Julie Armistead
The Easton Foundation
Lila Harnett, Founder of ArtTable in 1980
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
Lenore G. Tawney Foundation
Leon Polk Smith Foundation
Elizabeth Sackler Museum Educational Trust
The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation
We are grateful for the support from The National Endowment for the Arts which has approved ArtTable for a grant to support the 2024 ArtTable Fellowship Program.
Past Fellows
Read more about ArtTable’s previous fellows and the projects they worked on here.
Press Releases
June 4, 2024 – 2024 ArtTable Fellows Announced!
February 21, 2024 – ArtTable Launches 2024 National Fellowship Program
News From Our Fellows
Click here for updates from past ArtTable fellows.
“Whitney Museum Picks Marcela Guerrero, Drew Sawyer to Curate 2026 Whitney Biennial”
Marcela Guerrero participated in the ArtTable Fellowship program in 2005 at Catharine Clark Gallery.
Career Development Roundtable
In 2009 ArtTable launched the Career Development Roundtable, one of our longest-standing and most impactful career mentoring programs, influencing the career paths of more than 2,000 students and emerging professionals.
The program, currently hosted virtually over the course of two days, is designed to give emerging leaders in arts administration, art business, museum studies, art history, curatorial studies, and arts internships an experience to meet with professionals in the visual arts to discuss career opportunities.
Every year participants have the opportunity to gather around selected tables for open and engaged conversations with leading women and nonbinary professionals, to learn about their diverse career paths and experiences, to gain insights and advice for their own career development, and to network and build future relationships with peers and mentors. This is also an opportunity for ArtTable members and the community to participate in a mentoring role.
2024 Career Development Roundtable Partnership:
Help us to expand this program
Pay Equity
ArtTable conducted a survey to collect new data about the changing contours of the artistic labor market in order to understand trends better and advocate for arts professionals, artists, and arts workers of all types. As such, we are analyzing the results of a 2023 survey instrument to capture information about arts professionals’ working conditions, career histories, and understandings of their work—now and in the past. Thank you to all who participated!
Data about arts professionals is woefully inaccessible and incomplete; we seek to remedy some of these problems and contribute valuable knowledge to our community. Through this data collection, ArtTable was able to present its findings through virtual workshops. The first of which took place in November of 2023 and focused on “The Cost of Working in the Arts,” and the second in February of 2024 focused on “The Intersectionality of Race and Gender in the Artistic Labor Market.” ArtTable held its third such workshop on May 1, 2024, “Parenting in the Artistic Labor Market: Results from ArtTable’s Pay Equity Survey.” The workshops provide a mechanism to distribute results through conversation and collaboration advancing solutions and working toward gender parity. All sessions are free, open to the public, and supported through donations to ArtTable’s Impact Initiatives Fund. All feedback will be incorporated into the final report issued in October 2024. ArtTable members can access the results through the member portal. Individuals can access the results by donating to the Impact Initiatives Fund and contacting Jessica L. Porter, Lila Harnett Executive Director of ArtTable.
Press Coverage
February 8, 2024 – ArtTable Survey Sheds Light on Hardships Faced by Arts Workers of Color
November 7, 2023 – The Hidden Costs of Working in the Art World
ArtTable Supporters
ArtTable is grateful for our institutional and cultural partners who support our programs and initiatives year round.
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