BreakfastTable – Page 4

VIRTUAL | BreakfastTable with Alice Walker

Image: Alice Walker

In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!

How to take part!

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

ArtTable East Coasters, bring your breakfast and join the DC chapter for a virtual informal conversation with Alice Walker who is an expert in using storytelling, human centered design and technology to create indelible experiences for museums and cultural attractions.

This event will start 30 minutes later than usual to allow adequate time for coffee brewing and breakfast making!

As Managing Director for Art Processors (artprocessors.net), she is on the executive team, heads up their global business development, marketing and product development practices, and manages staff in Melbourne, San Francisco, Atlanta and New York City. Their projects range from location-aware guides and exhibition design to immersive sound installations, augmented and virtual reality experiences, and wearables for institutions such as the Smithsonian Institution, the J. Paul Getty Center, the Venetian and Bellagio in Las Vegas, Portland Museum of Art, and numerous Australian museums, zoos and aquaria.

Her former roles include serving as Antenna International’s Creative Director and Digital Media Director for 9 years, heading up Pentagram Design’s interactive team in their NYC studio, and educational media roles at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and SFMOMA.

Alice resides with her family in Bethesda, MD and is part of Art Table’s DC Chapter.

DC’s BreakfastTable normally takes place at Boulangerie Christophe. The bakery is open and we encourage members in DC to place and order for this event and those in other locations to support local businesses!

Thank you to Ruth Abrahams and Ashley Templeton!

DC | BreakfastTable with Lily Siegel

Image: Lily Siegel

Click here to Register!

Join us for an informal conversation with Lily Siegel who is the incoming Executive Director of Hamiltonian Artists in Washington, DC.

Prior to joining Hamiltonian, she was Executive Director and Curator at Greater Reston Arts Center in Virginia and held curatorial positions at The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Current projects include concurrent exhibitions of the work of Moira Dryer (b. 1957, Toronto, Ontario; d. 1992, New York)–Moira Dryer: Yours for the Asking at Greater Reston Arts Center in Virginia, through April 18, 2020, and Moira Dryer: Back in Business at The Phillips Collection, on view February 8–April 19, 2020.

Dutch treat, cash preferred. Limited street parking, rideshare recommended.

Who’s attending this event? Click here to see who’s registered!

VIRTUAL | Artist Breakfast with María Elena González

Image: MARÍA ELENA GONZÁLEZ (b. 1957). Camo (Boogie Woogie), 2015. Silkscreen, 25 3/4 x 16 1/2 in. Signed, dated, and inscribed (at lower left): 4/20; (at lower center): “Camo Boogie Woogie”; (at lower right): M. E. González 2015.

In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is required and open to all. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!

How to take part!

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

This breakfast conversation will now take place at noon East Coast Time, so as to accommodate our Pacific/ Central time members!

Join ArtTable for Artist Breakfasts, a series of conversations with artists. These intimate monthly breakfasts feature leading figures in the visual arts in discussion with curators, academics, and critics. This month we will hear from María Elena González, whose ongoing Tree Talk series has taken place at Mills College and most recently, at Brattleboro Museum and Art Center in Vermont.

Cuban-born artist María Elena González is an internationally recognized sculptor based in based in New York City and the Bay Area, CA . González interweaves the conceptual with a strong dedication to craft in her complex installations and poetic arrangements, exploring themes like identity, memory, and dislocation. Over a career spanning thirty years she has won the Prix de Rome (2003), and more recently, the Grand Prize at the 30th Biennial of Graphic Arts at Ljubljana, Slovenia (2013). She was a Guggenheim Fellow (2006) and has been awarded grants from numerous foundations including Pollock-Krasner, Joan Mitchell, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Penny McCall. She has served as the Sculpture Commissioner for New York City’s Design Commission and has also taught at Cooper Union School of Art, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the San Francisco Art Institute among others.In 2017 González’s work will be featured in Home: So Different, So Appealing, to be presented by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and organized in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [as part of the Getty-funded Pacific Standard Time exhibition program]. Additionally, in 2017 her work was exhibited at the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) in Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago. González’s work can be found in numerous public collections including the Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland; Museum voor Modern Kunst, Arnhem, The Netherlands; Museum of Art, The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; The Museum of Arts and Design, New York; and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Who’s attending this program? Click here to see who’s currently registered!

Thank you to ArtTable’s Artist Breakfast Committee and Julia Herzberg.

CHICAGO | BreakfastTable at The Arts Club of Chicago

Image: The Arts Club

Click here to Register!

Please join us for the first in a series of visits to see the permanent art collections of Chicago’s private social clubs.

The first will be a welcoming and friendly networking breakfast at The Arts Club of Chicago with a bespoke tour of their phenomenal permanent art collection, including the architecture and history of the club.

Members and Non-Members, Visitors and Chicagoans all welcome.

NY | Artist Breakfast with Ilana Harris-Babou

Image: Ilana Harris-Babou, Decision Fatigue

Click here to REGISTER!

Join ArtTable for Artist Breakfasts, a series of conversations with artists. These intimate monthly breakfasts feature leading figures in the visual arts in discussion with curators, academics, and critics. This month we will hear from Ilana Harris-Babou, whose work was included in last year’s Whitney Biennial and whose exhibition Decision Fatigue, opens this month at Hesse Flatow.

About the artist:

Ilana Harris-Babou uses music videos, cooking shows, and home improvement television as material in an abject exploration of the American Dream. She works primarily in ceramic sculpture and video installation, and frames messy scenes with studio lighting and HD video in order to ask questions about intimacy, violence, and consumption.

Harris-Babou showed in the 2019 Whitney Biennial and in a 2017 exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. In a well-reviewed New York gallery show she parodied Restoration Hardware’s rugged chic aesthetic. Her Reparation Hardware video, inspired by the chain’s own video promoting its salvaged wood furniture line, suggests a hypothetical reparations plan for the descendants of enslaved Americans.

Harris-Babou received an MFA in New Genres from Columbia University and a BA in Art from Yale University. She has exhibited her work throughout the United States and Europe. See more about Ilana here and here.

Who’s attending this program? Click here to see who’s currently registered!

Thank you to ArtTable’s Artist Breakfast Committee and Karen Flatow.

DC | BreakfastTable with Dana Prussian

Image: Dana Prussian

Click here to Register!

Join us for an informal conversation with Dana Prussian, Vice President, Art Services Specialist at Bank of America Private Bank.

Dana Prussian is Vice President, Art Services Specialist at Bank of America Private Bank, based in New York City. In this role, Dana helps drive the bank’s art opportunities across all divisions nationally, with a specific focus on Central South, South Atlantic, and Southeast divisions. She works directly with art collecting clients and prospects to meet their needs through art lending, consignment, wealth planning, and philanthropy.

Dana joined Bank of America Private Bank (formerly U.S. Trust) in January 2019 from Bessemer Trust where she was a Client Advisor for three years. At Bessemer, Dana helped cultivate a book of clients and advised them on a wide array of services, including investment management, trust and estate planning, real estate, and art services. Prior to Bessemer, Dana began her career at Christie’s before going on to Barclays.

She earned a dual Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Political College, Columbia University.

Dutch treat, cash preferred. Street parking, rideshare encouraged.

Who’s attending this program? Click here to see who’s currently registered!

Thank you to Jaynelle Clarke Hazard.

NY | Dutch Treat Breakfast at Sant Ambroeus

Click here to REGISTER

Join us for an informal Dutch-treat breakfast at Sant Ambroeus Madison Avenue. Enjoy breakfast while catching up and networking with ArtTable members in a casual cafe setting. Sant Ambroeus is less than a 5-minute walk from the Met Breuer and surrounding museums.

To view the menu and for more information, visit Sant Ambroeus.

Subways:

6 to 77th Street

Who’s attending this program? Click here to see who’s currently registered!

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

DC | BreakfastTable with Juanita Hardy

Image: Juanita Hardy

Click here to Register

Please join us for an informal conversation with Juanita Hardy who in addition to her 45 years of business experience has over 35 years in the arts as a nonprofit leader, trustee, collector, and patron of the arts.

Juanita has a passion for fostering healthy, thriving, and equitable places to live, work, learn and play through her work with individuals and businesses. Hardy was Senior Visiting Fellow for Creative Placemaking for Urban Land Institute, a global non-profit committed to responsible land use and also founded Tiger Management Consulting Group after retiring from 31 years with IBM. She has been an executive coach for Right Management, a global human capital development firm, since 2006.

As a nonprofit arts leader, Hardy is the former Executive Director of CulturalDC (2013-2015), a nonprofit committed to making space for artists and art organizations and fostering cultural and economic vibrancy in communities through its creative placemaking services. She co-founded Millennium Arts Salon, an art education initiative, in 2000. Hardy was recognized by the Washington Business Journal as a Minority Business Leader in 2010. Hardy is an accomplished writer and public speaker. Her articles and essays have appeared in magazines and journals in the US and abroad. Her recent writing includes a tetralogy of articles on creative placemaking in Urban Land magazine.

Hardy serves on the board of the Mosaic Theatre Company, a non-profit theatre company based in Washington, DC. Recently she joined the board of the Mid Atlantic Art Foundation based in Baltilmore, MD, which provides support and funding for arts programming in states that comprise the mid-Atlantic region. Previously, she served on the board for ArtTable (2016-2019), a national non-profit for women professionals in the arts based in New York City. Hardy is an avid collector of fine art and, since 1985, and with her husband, has acquired many works on paper, canvas, sculptures, as well as traditional African art. Dutch treat, cash preferred.

Rideshare preferred limited street parking.

Who’s attending this program? Click here to see who’s currently registered!

Thank you to Allison Nance.

NOCAL | Artist Breakfast with Mildred Howard

Image: Mildred Howard, Tap — Investigation of Memory, Installed 2019 Oakland Museum of California.

Click here to Register!

The Northern California ArtTable Chapter is delighted to present our first Artist Breakfast with Mildred Howard. A voice for cultural heritage, historical perspective, and moving remembrance, Howard has orchestrated public art, monumental installation, and striking assemblage for a resounding affirmation of human struggle and survival.

An educator and inspirational figure for younger artists, Mildred Howard has created a sweeping body of work that has filled the decades with visual rhythms and echoing forms. From bottle houses to tap shoes, Howard has mapped out territories of memory and mourning, hope and loss. The recipient of the Lee Krasner Award for a lifetime of artistic achievement, the Nancy Graves Award, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, Howard has also received the Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute.

This signature ArtTable program is expanding thanks to generous funding from the Pollock Krasner Foundation. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation has been a leader in providing grants enabling emerging and established artists to focus on their work. Funding helps artists to create new work, acquire art supplies, rent studio space, and prepare exhibitions. The Foundation also provides grants to organizations that directly engage with artists, such as artist residency programs.

Who’s attending this program? Click here to see who’s currently registered!

Thank you to Jan Wurm, NoCal Chapter Co-Chair, for organizing this program.

DC | BreakfastTable with Ji Young Yun

Image: Ji Young Yun

Click here to Register

Join us for an informal conversation with Ji Young Yun, Curator of the Korean Cultural Center (KCC) Washington, D.C., within the Embassy of the Republic of Korea.

Ji Young Yun has curated over 80 Korean emerging artists’ exhibitions since she joined KCC in 2012. Interacting with institutes (local and international) and independent artists, Yun’s goal is to bring their perspective on Korean culture and society to the Center to share with the American community. Yun holds a Masters in Fiber Arts from Hongik University in Korea as well as a Master of Arts in Arts Management from George Mason University.

Ji Young Yun was born and raised in Korea and moved to USA in 2010 where she currently resides with her husband. Breakfast is Dutch treat, cash preferred.

Who’s attending this program? Click here to see who’s currently registered!