Exhibition Tour – Page 20

New York | ‘Ruth Orkin: Expressions of Life’ Tour at Fotografiska

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 [email protected] 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 Parking
36 E 21st St, New York, NY
(212) 473-9365

Icon Parking
41-47 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 TRANSIT
Public 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

DC | ‘Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful’ Tour & Discussion at the Phillips Collection

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 [email protected] 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

NoCal | Curator Tour of ‘New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century’, at BAMPFA

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.

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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

NoCal | Curator Guided Tour of ‘Judy Chicago: A Retrospective’ at the de Young Museum

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 [email protected] 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.

New York | Curator Guided Tour of Amant

Join Ruth Estévez, Amant’s Artistic Director for a private tour of The Amant Foundation’s 21,000 square foot multi-building SO-IL designed “art campus” in East Williamsburg. Opened in June 2021, the complex serves as Amant’s new headquarters, as well as the home for its exhibitions, public events, archival projects, performances, and residency program. Conceived as a research and process-oriented platform, Amant provides a public forum that presents and supports the practices of both established and under-recognized artists working across diverse creative fields.

We will also tour the inaugural exhibition, “Grada Kilomba: Heroines, Birds and Monsters” the first solo exhibition of the artist in the United States. Working with theory, performance, film, and literature, Kilomba reveals the narratives of the colonial past, giving space to the silenced voices whose traumas are ever present. In her own words: “What if history has not been told properly? What if our history is haunted by cyclical violence precisely because it has not been buried properly?”

The tour will culminate with light snacks in the bookstore. Registrants will also receive a list of nearby restaurants where we can continue the conversation after the tour.

This program is free and open to ArtTable members only. Not an ArtTable member? Join today!

Please read before registering:

Covid-19 Guidelines:

To ensure a positive and safe experience, and in keeping with the ‘Key to NYC’ requirements outlined by the New York City Mayor’s Office, as well as CDC recommendations, Amant adheres to the following protocols:

From September 2nd, Amant will require all visitors (12+) to show proof they have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine authorized for emergency use by the FDA or WHO. For more information regarding this requirement, visit Key to NYC.

Amant recommends that all visitors (age 2+) wear face coverings while inside of Amant and maintain the 6-ft social distancing rule when interacting with any staff and other visitors. Additional masks are available at the reception desk.

Accessibility:

Amant is committed to making its space as welcoming as possible for all visitors. Entry at 315 Maujer St. is step-free and suitable for wheelchair users. The galleries, the bookstore, and the restroom facilities are also wheelchair accessible. All the on-site visitor and exhibition related materials are available in English and Spanish. Printed and digital copies can be found at the reception desk. Amant offers descriptive audio guides, as well as large print materials, for all the exhibitions. ASL interpretation for events at Amant is available on request. Amant requires two weeks’ notice to confirm an interpreter.

Thank you to Randy Rosen, Judith Richards, and Regan Lynn Larroque of the New York Chapter Programs Committee for organizing this program.

About the Speaker

Ruth Estévez is a curator and stage designer. Her research work focuses on artistic practices that explore how the spoken and written language operates within the visual arts, contemporary culture and politics.

She is the co-curator of the 34th São Paulo Biennial, which opens in September 2021. From 2018 to 2020 she was senior curator-at-large at the Rose Art Museum in Waltham, and curator of Idiorhythmias, the performance program at MACBA in Barcelona. She was Redcat Gallery Director in Los Angeles and Chief Curator at the Carrillo Gil Museum in Mexico City, where she also founded LIGA, Space for architecture, a non for profit platform focused on spatial practices.

Images:

Amant facade – Photographed by Rafael Gamo
Artwork image courtesy of Grada Kilomba and Goodman Gallery
Ruth Estévez

Philadelphia | Mural Mile Walking Tour with Mural Arts’ Jane Golden

10am ET

Join Executive Director of the City of Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program Jane Golden for an exciting walking tour! Get to know Mural Arts Philadelphia’s world-renowned collection along the Mural Mile. Explore the culturally-rich and bold Center City! We will get up close and personal with murals that tell the intimate and inspiring stories of Philadelphia, its leaders, and citizens. The “Mural Mile” highlights art tucked in out-of-the-way corners to soaring additions to the cityscape. The tour will include an array of murals selected by Golden such as Russell Craig’s “Crown”, (2020), Amy Sherald’s “Untitled”, (2019), Euhri Jones and David McShane, “Water Gives Life”, (2018), Meg Saligman’s “Philadelphia Muses”, (1999), and Jonathan Laidacker’s “Philadelphia Microcosm”, (2019), among others.

We’re pleased to be able to offer ArtTable members & friends a discounted rate for this tour – $10 for ArtTable members and $15 for non-members. 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.
We strongly encourage all attendees to wear a mask while in close proximity to others not from your immediate household.

Accessibility: Please email [email protected] if you require accessibility information for this program.

Getting There: The tour will begin at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Lenfest Plaza Paint Torch Sculpture (128 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102). This tour is not a loop, it ends in the general vicinity of 12th and Walnut Streets. Directions will be shared with all registered attendees in advance of the program.

About Jane Golden

Sought-after nationally and internationally as an expert on urban transformation through art, Golden has received numerous awards for her work, including the Philadelphia Award, the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Award, as well as the Katharine Hepburn Medal. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She also serves on the Mayor’s Cultural Advisory Council and the board of directors of The Heliotrope Foundation. Click here to read more about Mural Arts Philadelphia!

Thank you to ArtTable Philadelphia Chapter Co-Chairs Laurie McGahey and Rachel Zimmerman for organizing this program. Thanks also to Jane Golden, Executive Director, and Genny Boccardo-Dubey, Chief Advancement Officer at Mural Arts Philadelphia.

Image:

Mural Mile walking tour, April 2, 2019. Photo by Steve Weinik.

Northwest | Our Very Own Art Walk – Deconstructed Art Fair VIP Tour

4pm PT

Back by popular demand, the Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair is returning in August 2021, celebrating the resilience of visual arts in Seattle with over 40 galleries, art institutions and non-profit organizations participating in the Fair, which runs online and in person from August 5 – 31, 2021.

We invite ArtTable members and non-members to join us for an exclusive ArtTable Art Walk of galleries participating in the Fair – August 14, 2021, 4pm – 6pm PT. Gallerists will chat with the group from their doorways and there will be several options available to enjoy the artwork: look through the windows while chatting outside, look online in advance, since the entire Fair will be documented virtually, or take a few moments inside.

Please join us for special access to exhibition overviews from leading galleries in Seattle’s Pioneer Square, ending with an optional traditional Art Fair *champagne and shrimp* reception at J. Rinehart Gallery, hosted by ArtTable Northwest co-Chair Judith Rinehart.

This program is free for ArtTable members, who may bring an additional guest for $5.
It is open to non-members as well for $15.

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 or face coverings are no longer required outdoors for fully vaccinated individuals, we strongly encourage you to wear one while in close proximity to others who are not in your immediate household.

Accessibility: Please email [email protected] if you require accessibility information for this program.

Getting There: The exact meeting location will be shared with attendees before the program.

Thank you to ArtTable Northwest Chapter Co-Chairs Gina Broze, Jessica Landau, & Judith Rinehart.

Image:

Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair

Virtual | Art in Public Spaces with Sonia Romero, Danielle Brazell, Felicia Filer, & Heidi Zeller

10:30 am PT/12:30pm CT/ 1:30pm ET

On July 6, members of ArtTable’s Southern California chapter met for a walkthrough of Sonia Romero’s unique and powerful Metro Arts mural project in the historic Mariachi Plaza’s Gold Line Station in Boyle Heights. As a result of this successful event, we are following up with part two!

Join us for a virtual discussion on the current state of public art in Los Angeles and Romero’s public art projects — especially as we emerge from the pandemic with an increased awareness of the profound value of art in activated public spaces across all the city’s diverse communities.

Romero unpacks the community and history-centric content of the work, as well as offers insight as to how the project came into fruition over the course of more than five years. Additionally, we are honored to welcome to this conversation with the perspectives of LA Metro’s head of Cultural Programming Heidi Zeller, Director of the City of L.A.’s Public Art Division Felicia Filer, and the Department of Cultural Affairs General Manager Danielle Brazell.

Admission

Current ArtTable Members – $10
Members may bring a guest for an additional $5
Non Members – $15

Not an ArtTable member? Join today!

Accessibility: Please email [email protected] if you require accessibility information for this program.

About the Speakers

Sonia Romero is a Los Angeles artist known for her paper-cut and printmaking aesthetics which she incorporates into both her fine art and public art commissions. Born in 1980, she grew up in an artistic household in Echo Park before formally studying at the Rhode Island School of Design. After returning to California, she began working as a public artist, and was the artist in residence at Avenue 50 Studio in Northeast Los Angeles from 2007-2014. (soniaromero)

Danielle Brazell is a visionary national arts and cultural leader, passionate about the roles that arts, culture, and creativity play in advancing civic belonging, equity, economic prosperity, and social connectedness. Her career spans thirty years, first as an artist, teaching artist, cultural producer, and administrator, and now as the General Manager of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA). A passionate advocate, she advances the agency’s mission to enhance the quality of life in the city. Ms. Brazell provides executive leadership to a staff of 84 full-time employees and over 200 part- time employees, including a robust roster of teaching artists. Ms. Brazell works with the progressive agency’s Community Arts, Grants Administration, Public Art, and Marketing, Development, Design, and Digital Research division directors, and the Performing Arts Program and General and Administrative Support Program directors, to implement an annual budget of $22 million and a robust $150 million portfolio of capital projects, facilities, programming, and initiatives of free and low-cost publicly accessible arts and cultural services citywide. Prior to 2014, Ms. Brazell was the Executive Director of Arts for LA, a highly visible arts advocacy organization serving the greater Los Angeles region. Under her stewardship, Arts for LA became a formidable coalition advancing the arts in the largest county in the country. Ms. Brazell was previously the Artistic Director of Highways Performance Art Space and the Director of Special Projects for the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. She serves as a board member of Americans for the Arts and DataArts.

Felicia Filer is the public art director for the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. She has overseen the commission and fulfillment of over 200 permanent public art projects throughout the city. In Summer 2016, Filer co-produced the city’s inaugural Public Art Biennial, CURRENT: LA Water. The Biennial commissioned 15 original, temporary public art installations and 150 public programs. A native of Los Angeles, she earned an MBA in finance and marketing from Claremont Graduate University. (linkedin)

Heidi Zeller is LA Metro’s Senior Manager of Cultural Programming. Zeller is an arts organizer and cultural planner with a focus on the role of art in enriching public space and civic dialogue. At LA Metro, she produces Metro Art Presents, a series of arts and cultural events at historic Union Station. She is a proud native Angeleno. (ciclavia)

Thank you to Shana Nys Dambrot & Ceci Moss, ArtTable SoCal Chapter Co-Chairs, for organizing this program.

Images:

Headshots of the speakers, clockwise from top left: Sonia Romero, Danielle Brazell, Felicia Filer, & Heidi Zeller

POSTPONED – Philly | Mural Arts Philadelphia: Mural Mile Walking Tour

This program has been postponed. The new date will be updated in the coming weeks.

10am ET

Join Executive Director of the City of Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program Jane Golden for an exciting walking tour! Get to know Mural Arts Philadelphia’s world-renowned collection along the Mural Mile. Explore the culturally-rich and bold Center City, getting up close and personal with murals that tell the intimate and inspiring stories of Philadelphia, its leaders, and citizens. The “Mural Mile” highlights art tucked in out-of-the-way corners to soaring additions to the cityscape. The tour will include an array of murals selected by Golden such as Russell Craig’s “Crown”, (2020), Amy Sherald’s “Untitled”, (2019), Euhri Jones and David McShane, “Water Gives Life”, (2018), Meg Saligman’s “Philadelphia Muses”, (1999), and Jonathan Laidacker’s “Philadelphia Microcosm”, (2019), among others.

We’re pleased to be able to offer ArtTable members & friends a discounted rate for this tour – $10 for ArtTable members and $15 for non-members. 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 or face coverings are no longer required outdoors for fully vaccinated individuals, we strongly encourage you to wear one while in close proximity to others who are not in your immediate household.

Accessibility: Please email [email protected] if you require accessibility information for this program.

About Jane Golden

Jane Golden has been the driving force of Mural Arts Philadelphia since its inception in 1984, overseeing its growth from a small city agency into the nation’s largest public art program. Under Golden’s direction, Mural Arts has created over 4,000 works of transformative public art through community engagement. In partnership with innovative collaborators, she has developed groundbreaking and rigorous programs that employ the power of art to transform practice and policies related to youth education, restorative justice, environmental justice and behavioral health. Sought-after nationally and internationally as an expert on urban transformation through art, Golden has received numerous awards for her work, including the Philadelphia Award, the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Award and the Katharine Hepburn Medal. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and serves on the Mayor’s Cultural Advisory Council and the board of directors of The Heliotrope Foundation. Click here to read more about Mural Arts Philadelphia!

Image:

Mural Mile walking tour, April 2, 2019. Photo by Steve Weinik.

NoCal | Curator Chat: Dr. Elaine Yau on ‘Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective’ at BAMPFA

12:30pm PT

Connect in-person with your fellow Northern California ArtTable members and guests during an outdoor picnic and discussion with Dr. Elaine Yau, Associate Curator for the Eli Leon Living Trust Collection of African American Quilts. Dr. Yau co-curated the exhibition, Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). This show is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work to date, featuring approximately seventy quilts, pieced tops, embroideries, assemblages, and decorated objects by one of the most brilliant and inventive quilt makers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

BAMPFA opens at 11:00am; museum admission will be complimentary for all registered ArtTable members the morning of July 16th if you wish to view the exhibition in-person at your own leisure. The outdoor conversation with Dr. Yau will begin at 12:30pm at the small patio/plaza at the top of the BAMPFA lawn surrounded by stone seating and shade. Bring your own picnic and enjoy!

Click here to read more about the exhibition.

This program is free for ArtTable members and $10 for non-members. Members may bring a guest for an additional $5.

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 or face coverings are no longer required outdoors for fully vaccinated individuals, we strongly encourage you to wear one while in close proximity to others who are not in your immediate household.

Accessibility: Please email [email protected] if you require accessibility information for this program.

Getting There: Directions will be shared with all registered attendees in advance of the program.

About Dr. Elaine Yau

Elaine Y. Yau is Associate Curator of the Eli Leon Living Trust Collection of African American Quilts at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA); where she is curating an exhibition from Leon’s historic bequest of approximately 3,000 quilts. Along with Larry Rinder, she served as co-curator of Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective in 2020. The Smithsonian American Art Museum has supported her research, as well as the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art; and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Dr. Yau later earned her doctoral degree at the University of California, Berkeley in History of Art with an emphasis in Folklore in 2015.

Thank you to Dorothy Davila, ArtTable Board Member and NoCal Committee Member, for organizing this program.

Images:

Exhibition installation image courtesy Impart Photography.
Elaine Yau, courtesy Katie Cleese Photography