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ArtTable is a 501.c.3 organization. All programs are non-refundable.

Image: Chela Mitchell, courtesy of the speaker.

Thank you to Tiffany Williams, Communications Chair of ArtTable’s Washington, DC Chapter for organizing this program.

Please read before registering:

ArtTable is a 501.c.3 organization. All programs are non-refundable.

About Kate Haw

From 2013-2019, Kate Haw was Director of the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.Leading the world’s largest resource for the study of American art, she set the direction for collecting, preservation, and dissemination of a growing collection of more than 30 million documents and nearly 2,500 oral histories, providing leadership in the field on emerging research trends and adoption of digital tools in the study of art history. Under her leadership, the Archives significantly expanded its holdings on first-wave feminist, African American, Latinx, and LGBTQ artists and built an endowment to ensure worldwide digital access to these materials.

Prior to joining the Smithsonian, Kate held curatorial roles at the National Gallery of Art and the American Federation of Arts, where she helped to organize exhibitions including Johannes Vermeer; Georges de La Tour and His World, Gerard Ter Borch; Degas and the Dance; American Impressionists Abroad and at Home; and The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India. In 2004 she transitioned to fundraising and institutional leadership, serving as Director of External Affairs at the American Federation of Arts from 2004-2006 before becoming Co-Director of the renowned Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in New York and Maine from 2006-2011. Among her achievements at Skowhegan was the establishment of a comprehensive archive and the school’s oral-history program.

Kate received a bachelor’s degree in art history and religion from Sweet Briar College in Virginia as well as a master’s degree in art history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Image: Kate Haw, courtesy of the speaker.

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

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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. 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:

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

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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.
• Masks are optional at Compass Coffee for fully vaccinated individuals. It is strongly encouraged that all attendees wear a mask regardless of vaccination status when in close proximity to others who are not in your immediate household.

Accessibility:

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

Getting There:

• The nearest public transportation is Farragut West Metro Station. Street parking and parking lots are available.

About Karyn Miller

Karyn Miller serves as the Golden Triangle Business Improvement District’s (BID) Director of Planning, Art, and Activation. She leads the BID’s urban planning, creative place-keeping, public art, and design projects in DC’s central business district. Karyn previously served as Arlington Art Center’s Curator and Director of Exhibitions, conceiving of and delivering a year-round exhibition schedule and public art program. Prior to that, Karyn spent more than a decade building relationships with the region’s artists and arts community at CulturalDC and at ConnerSmith Gallery. Karyn graduated from The Catholic University of America with a BA in Art History. She later received a MA in Art and Museum Studies from Georgetown University. She has served as a lecturer at The Catholic University of America and as an adjunct professor at George Mason University.

About Social Spaces

Social Spaces is a community-focused initiative to bring people together in a safe and distanced manner along Pennsylvania Avenue west of the White House. These temporary public space activations transform the vast, sprawling avenue by creating more intimate, human-scaled places in the form of three public art installations. Social Spaces creates dialogue and celebrates cultures through intentionally designed gathering spaces. Learn more here!

Thank you to Alison Nance, Co-Chair of ArtTable’s Washington DC Chapter, for organizing this program.

Image:

1. Karyn Miller, courtesy of the speaker

Please read before registering:

Covid-19 Guidelines:

• Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed.

Accessibility:

• The location for this program is wheelchair accessible.

Getting There:

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

About Nicole Dowd

Nicole Dowd moved to Washington, DC in 2005 and has spent the last decade falling in love with everything arts and culture in the District. This past February, she joined Apple as Head of Programming and is working on locally-impactful cultural programs and initiatives based out of Carnegie Library.

Previously Nicole was the Director of Arts Programs at Halcyon, an incubator for socially-conscious and civic-minded artists and social entrepreneurs. In 2017 she helped to launch Halcyon’s Arts Lab Fellowship program, which supports emerging artists and creators seeking to hone their artistic and entrepreneurial practices. Prior to her work at Halcyon, Nicole managed the Hamiltonian Artists Fellowship program. Her work focused on professional development and exhibition opportunities for DC-based emerging artists.

She received a master’s degree in exhibition design from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and studied fine art, art history, and journalism at The George Washington University.

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

Images:

1. Nicole Dowd, courtesy of the speaker

8:30am ET

Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for a presentation by the 2021 Faith Flanagan Fellows. For this special BreakfastTable, the Fellows will present their engagement projects undertaken over their course of the fellowship.

Learn more about Mehveş Lelic’s Choose-Your-Own-Adventure story titled, How to Curate an Exhibition. Sourced from anecdotes submitted anonymously by womxn working in the visual arts, the story leads the reader through a number of plot twists that either culminate in a successful or an unsuccessful exhibition. View the story here.

Johanna Obenda’s audio story profiles a handful of DC-area cultural practitioners who are working to reimagine cultural institutions and how we engage with visual arts in a variety of ways. Obenda engages healing artist Geo Edwards, Kristi Maiselman, Executive Director of Cultural DC, and Loretta Thompson, a visual artist and arts administrator for Sitar Arts Center who have each disrupted traditional approaches to arts engagement. Listen to the audio story here.

Susannah Stern hosts a conversation with Lena Galperina, Visitor Experience Director at ARTECHOUSE, Don Allen Stevenson III, Artist and XR Content Creator, and Charlotte Ickes, Curator of Time-Based Media and Special Projects, about their unique perspectives on immersive, technology-based art, opening the door to an honest look at the trend toward art as experience. Listen to the conversation here.

Special thanks to this year’s mentors: Nora Halpern, Victoria Reis, and Vesela Stretenovic.

This program is free for all ArtTable members. Members may bring 1 additional guest for $5.

Not a member? Join today!

How to take part:

1. Click here to Register for this program.
2. Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link.
3. Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center and select the “Zoom Client for Meetings” option. Alternatively, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link.
4. For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

Thank you to Jaynelle C. Hazard and Lily Siegel, ArtTable DC Faith Flanagan Fellowship Co-Chairs, for organizing this program.

Images:

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

9am ET

Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for June’s BreakfastTable featuring Allison Nance and Teddy Rodger, co-founders and curators of Plain Sight, an independent exhibition space born out of the many art space closures during the Covid-19 pandemic. Guests will gather in front of Plain Sight and learn more about Allison and Teddy’s partnership and concept behind Plain Sight, and about their current exhibition by Lee Nowell-Wilson. After, we will walk one block to Doubles Cafe for a Dutch Treat-style breakfast and conversation outdoors on their large covered patio.

This program is free for all ArtTable members. Members may bring 1 additional guest for $5.

Not a member? Join today!

About Allison Nance

Allison Nance has over 15 years of leadership experience in arts non-profit management for the visual arts. She is deeply dedicated to supporting and empowering artists as leaders, and elevating cultural exchange opportunities both abroad and locally. In addition to co-founding and curating Plain Sight, Allison is the Managing Director of The Nicholson Project, an Artist Residency Program and exhibition space in Washington, DC. She is also the curator of exhibitions at Culture House DC.

Previously, Allison was the Director of Hillyer Art Space (IA&A at Hillyer) from 2013-2020 where she facilitated a robust schedule of artist selection and mentorship, organizing and curating over 30 exhibitions and 85+ public programs annually. She fostered initiatives and key partnerships throughout DC and the surrounding region and broadened artist-focused projects between Washington, DC, and international counterparts. Allison currently serves on the Alexandria Commission for the Arts and the Washington Sculptors Group Advisory Board. She is the Programs Chair for ArtTable’s DC Chapter Executive Committee.

About Teddy Rodger

Teddy Rodger specializes in program development within the cultural sector. She delivers high-quality and thoughtful initiatives and events that connect communities around the world through the arts. She is well-versed in launching large-scale and internationally-focused arts events, fellowships, and collaborative projects that elevate organizational mission and presence on a global scale. In addition to co-founding and curating Plain Sight, Teddy is a Program Manager for the Goethe Institute. There she manages Shaping the Past, a partnership between the Goethe-Institut, Monument Lab, and the German Federal Agency for Civic Education. The partnership connects memory workers in North America and Germany to deliver public programs and a multi-city, international exhibition.

She was the Public Engagement and Events Manager at IA&A at Hillyer before its pandemic related closure in May 2020. Before that, Teddy worked as the Programs Manager at Georgetown’s The Lab for Global Performance and Politics, as well as the Producer of their international Cross-Currents festival. Amongst others, previous experience includes Assistant to Playwrights Charles L. Mee and Michi Barall, and Associate Director of Audience Development and Promotions at the hakespeare Theatre Company.

Thank you to Allison Nance, DC Chapter, for organizing this program.

Images:

1. Teddy Rodgers headshot courtesy of District Fray Magazine, photo by Rick Kessler Photography.