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Event | Doctor’s Hours for Film/Video, New Media, and Multidisciplinary Artists

This Monday, April 1 event will offer one-on-one individual consultations with industry professionals.

Are you a film/video, new media, or multidisciplinary artist in need of some career advice? The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is pleased to announce an upcoming session of its popular Doctor’s Hours program, which is designed to provide creatives with practical and professional advice. Starting at 11:00 AM on Monday, March 11, you can register for 20-minute, one-on-one appointments with up to three arts professionals to ask questions and receive actionable tips for advancing your arts career.

Title: Doctor’s Hours for Film/Video, New Media, and Multidisciplinary Artists Program Date and Time: Monday, April 1, 2019, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM   Location: The New York Foundation for the Arts, 20 Jay Street, Suite 740, Brooklyn NY, 11201 Cost: $38 per 20-minute appointment; three appointment limit per artist Register: Please click here to register

If you can not participate in our Doctor’s Hours program on April 1, you can book a one-on-one remote consultation via Skype through our new Doctor’s Hours On Call program.

Read our Tips & FAQs in English and Spanish to make the most of your Doctor’s Hours appointment. For questions, email learning@nyfa.org.

Consultants

Livia Bloom Ingram, Film Curator and Vice President of Icarus Films Icarus Films is a distribution firm that The New York Times calls "a haven for nonfiction films that are at once socially conscious and supremely artful." Ingram has presented programs at venues including the Cinémathèque Française, Museum of the Moving Image, and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). She is the editor of the book Errol Morris: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi, 2009), and her writing has appeared in journals including Cinema Scope, Cineaste, Filmmaker, and Film Comment.

Iyabo Boyd, Independent Film Producer, Writer/Director, and Entrepreneur Boyd is currently producing the feature documentary For Ahkeem by Emmy-winning directors Jeremy Levine and Landon Van Soest. She previously held positions at filmmaker support institutions Chicken & Egg Pictures, Tribeca Film Institute, Hamptons Film Festival, and IFP. In 2015, Boyd started the Brown Girls Doc Mafia, a collective for women filmmakers of color, and in 2016 she founded the documentary consulting firm Feedback Loop. Boyd is a 2016 Sundance Creative Producers Fellow, and a 2016 Impact Partners Creative Producers Fellow. She graduated from NYU’s Tisch School with a BA degree in Film & Television in 2006. 

Peter Gynd, Director, Lesley Heller Gallery Gynd is an independent curator, fifth generation artist, and the director at Lesley Heller Gallery in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Gynd studied at the Alberta College of Art and Design and has exhibited in both Canada and the United States. Notable exhibitions curated by Gynd include a permanent exhibition at the Foundation Center, NY; an acclaimed two-person presentation at SPRING/BREAK Art Show (2015); and group exhibitions at Present Company, NY; NARS Foundation, NY; the Northside Festival, NY; Lesley Heller Workspace, NY; and at the Dynamo Arts Association, Vancouver, Canada. Gynd’s exhibitions have been featured in Hyperallergic, The Carnegie Reporter, Blouin Artinfo, and Gothamist. Gynd has been a guest visitor at Residencies Unlimited, Kunstraum, and ChaNorth Artist Residency, and a guest juror at 440 Gallery and Sweet Lorraine Gallery.

Dr. Les Joynes, Multimedia Artist Joynes' work has been documented in Art Monthly, Sculpture Magazine, NHK Television, and in two recent books on site-specific art. He is co-author of Going Beyond: Art as Adventure and Museum 2050 (Cambridge Scholars, 2018). A Visiting Professor at Renmin University, Beijing, Joynes has given lectures on multi-media art at Cambridge University; Columbia University; University of California; and Peking University, Beijing. In New York, he is a scholar on art and visual cultures at Columbia University and serves on the Editorial Board for ProjectAnywhere, a collaborative project between University of Melbourne, Australia, and Parsons School of Design, The New School. Recently selected as a ZERO1: Art and Technology Artist, Joynes is also recipient of the Erasmus Scholarship for the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts, Paris; the Japan Ministry of Culture Scholarship, Tokyo; and the Fulbright-Hays Award. He has also been a Fellow at University of the Arts London and the Bauhaus, Dessau. 

Matthew Lyons, Curator, The Kitchen As Curator at The Kitchen, Lyons has organized numerous exhibitions, performances, and other programs since 2005. Recent work includes projects with Chitra Ganesh, Trajal Harrell, nora chipaumire, Xaviera Simmons, Sarah Michelson, Aki Sasamoto, Constance DeJong, Kembra Pfahler, and Katherine Hubbard. Upcoming work includes projects with Moriah Evans and Lea Bertucci. During his tenure, he has organized group exhibition including The Rehearsal; The View from a Volcano: The Kitchen’s SoHo Years 1971-1985; One Minute More; Just Kick It Till It Breaks (catalog); Between Thought and Sound: Graphic Notation in Contemporary Music (catalog); and The Future As Disruption. He has also worked on the group exhibitions Dance Dance Revolution at Columbia University, Character Generator at Eleven Rivington Gallery, and Two Moon July at Paula Cooper Gallery. Lyons has contributed catalog essays on the work of Mika Tajima and Vlatka Horvat, and other writing has appeared in Document Journal, Flash Art, PERFORMA 07: Everywhere and All at Once, and Work the Room: A Handbook of Performance Strategies. He is Contributing Editor at Movement Research Performance Journal, having edited its “Six Sides, Typologically Distinct: Black Box / White Cube” series, which he initiated, between 2009-2015.

Blandine Mercier-McGovern, Content Strategy & Film Acquisitions, Distribution Executive Mercier-McGovern is a passionate and innovative film acquisition, content strategy, and distribution executive based in Brooklyn. While Head of Licensing & Content Strategy at Kanopy and Head of Distribution at Cinema Guild, Blandine discovered, acquired, and led the release of hundreds of award-winning films, from the big screen to video-on-demand. She’s an avid podcast and audiobook listener, and was a ”Made in NY” Women’s Film, TV and Theatre Fund panelist in 2018.

Anne Wheeler, Curatorial Associate, The Whitney Museum of American Art Wheeler is a New York-based artist, curator, writer, and art historian. She received her BA degree from the University of California, Berkeley, double-majoring in English and the Practice of Art, and is now an ABD doctoral candidate in Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU, specializing in Modern and Contemporary Art. Wheeler joined the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2010 at the founding of its Panza Collection Initiative research project, and served as assistant curator for the major international loan exhibitions On Kawara – Silence (2015) and Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better (2016). With Shawna Vesco, Wheeler curated the apexart Franchise Program exhibition Un-Working the Icon: Kurdish 'Warrior-Divas' in Berlin, Germany, in 2017. Wheeler is currently working as a curatorial associate at the Whitney Museum of American Art, guiding the acquisition of a major gift from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation as she completes her doctoral dissertation titled 'Language as Material: Rereading Robert Smithson.'

Lauren Zelaya, Acting Director of Public Programs, Brooklyn Museum Zelaya is a cultural producer, curator, and museum educator based in Brooklyn, NY. At Brooklyn Museum, Zelaya curates and produces the Target First Saturdays and other free and low-cost public programs that invite over 100,000 visitors a year to engage with special exhibitions and collections in new and unexpected ways. As a curator, advocate, and educator, Zelaya is committed to collaborating with emerging artists and centering voices in our communities that are often marginalized, with a focus on film and performance and creating programming for and with LGBTQ+, immigrant, and Caribbean communities. In her spare time she hosts a bi-weekly radio show celebrating creatives in Brooklyn and is a screener for the Brooklyn Film Festival. Known and respected equally for her nail art and her fierce commitment to bringing art and culture to the people, Zelaya was named one of Brooklyn Magazine’s “30 Under 30″ in 2018. Previously, she worked in education at the Queens Museum and the Museum of the Moving Image, and with emerging artists in Queens as a program coordinator with the Queens Council on the Arts. She is a proud alumna of the Brooklyn Museum’s Education and Public Programs Fellowship and received her BA degree in Art History and Film Studies from Smith College.

Event Accessibility

The New York Foundation for the Arts is committed to making events held at the NYFA office at 20 Jay Street in Brooklyn accessible. If you are mobility-impaired and need help getting to NYFA’s office for events held on premises, we are pleased to offer complimentary car service from the wheelchair accessible Jay Street-MetroTech subway station courtesy of transportation sponsor Legends Limousine. Please email learning@nyfa.org or call 212.366.6900 ext. 252 between 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM at least three business days in advance of the event to coordinate. The elevator access point for pickup is at 370 Jay Street, on the NE corner of Jay and Willoughby Streets.

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Image: Doctor’s Hours, September 2017, Photo Credit: NYFA Learning

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Event | Online Doctor’s Hours for Visual & Multidisciplinary Artists

Monday, June 29 Doctor’s Hours event will offer remote one-on-one consultations with art professionals.

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) will host the next edition of its popular Doctor’s Hours program, which is designed to provide practical and professional advice from industry professionals, online on Monday, June 29. 

This event will serve Visual and Multidisciplinary artists working in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Video, Film, Photography, New Media, Multidisciplinary, Performance Art, Socially-Engaged Practices, Folk, and Traditional Art.

Starting Tuesday, June 9 at 11:00 AM EDT, you can register for 25-minute, remote one-on-one appointments with up to three arts professionals to ask questions and receive actionable tips for advancing your arts career.

How Online Doctor's Hours works:

To adopt the online model, each consultant meets six artists over the course of three hours.

Each consultation session is 25 minutes. There will be a three appointment limit per artist.

The Online Doctor's Hours sessions take place through the Zoom platform. Please download the Zoom app before the event date to participate.

Title: Online Doctor’s Hours for Visual and Multidisciplinary Artists Program Date and Time: Monday, June 29, 2020, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT, unless otherwise noted below Location: Online through Zoom*  Cost: $25 per 25-minute appointment; three appointment limit per artist Register: The event is fully booked, please click here to sign up for the waiting list to be informed of any cancellations.

Can’t join us? You can book a one-on-one remote consultation with arts professionals via NYFA Coaching.

To make the most of your “Online Doctor’s Hours” appointment, please read the entire confirmation email you receive after completing your registration; it includes all the details you need for your session.

*We are able to offer this support via phone if you are unable to access reliable internet service.

For questions, email learning@nyfa.org.

Consultants

Ylinka Barotto, Associate Curator, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University As Associate Curator, Barotto is responsible for developing, organizing, and executing visual art exhibitions that support Moody's mission of fostering interdisciplinary conversation. Barotto is also involved in the expansion of Rice Public Art through commissions of site-specific work and is responsible for conceptualizing and coordinating the “Platform” and “Off the Wall” series. Before joining the Moody, Barotto served as Assistant Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum where she worked on major modern and postwar retrospectives and contemporary exhibitions. She helped shape the Guggenheim’s permanent collection through acquisitions of emerging artists through the Young Collectors Council and hosted and moderated conversations between contemporary artists, activists, and journalists on topics such as feminism, activism, identity, and representation for the Guggenheim Public Program. Barotto received a MA degree in curatorial studies at Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, Italy.

Alaina Claire Feldman, Director, Sidney Mishkin Gallery at CUNY’s Baruch College* Feldman is the new Director and Curator of the Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College (CUNY), where she also teaches in the MA Arts Administration program. Recent exhibitions include The Aesthetics of Learning, Minerva Cuevas: Disidencia, and Lamin Fofana: BLUES.

*Please note appointment times for this consultant will be between 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM on Monday, June 29.

Gabriel de Guzman, Curator & Director of Exhibitions, Smack Mellon Gallery At Smack Mellon, de Guzman organizes group and solo exhibitions that feature emerging and under-recognized mid-career artists whose work often explores critical, socially relevant issues. Before joining Smack Mellon’s staff in 2017, de Guzman was the Curator of Visual Arts at Wave Hill, organizing solo projects for emerging artists as well as thematic group exhibitions. As a guest curator, he has presented shows at BronxArtSpace, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, Rush Arts Gallery, En Foco at Andrew Freedman Home, the Affordable Art Fair New York, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, and the Bronx Museum's 2013 AIM Biennial. Prior to Wave Hill, he was a curatorial assistant at The Jewish Museum. His essays have been published in Nueva Luz: Photographic Journal and in catalogues for the Arsenal Gallery at Central Park, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, and the art institutions mentioned above. He earned a MA degree in art history from Hunter College and a BA degree in art history from the University of Virginia.

DJ Hellerman, Curator of Art & Programs, Everson Museum of Art A few of Hellerman’s recent curatorial productions include solo exhibitions Yoko Ono: Remembering the Future, Edie Fake: Structures Shift, and Jeff Donaldson: Dig. Recent theme-based group exhibitions include: Civic Virtue: all over the floor; Seen & Heard; Of Land & Local, an annual place-based exhibition about art and the environment; and Taking Pictures, an exhibition exploring how artists associated with the Pictures Generation anticipated and recently turned their critical attention to digital networks used in the dissemination and consumption of images. Hellerman has spoken at conferences across the country, and has written extensively on American Art, popular culture, and the post-war American City. Prior to his position in Syracuse, Hellerman served as Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Burlington City Arts. A native of Ohio, Hellerman began curating and educating people about art while helping Progressive Insurance build a collection of contemporary art designed to encourage innovation and change. He received his MA degree in Art History from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH and his BA degree in English and Philosophy from Lake Erie College in Painesville, OH. He loves live music and literature as much as he enjoys visual art.

Lilly Hern-Fondation, Programs Manager, CUE Art Foundation Hern-Fondation is a Brooklyn-based artist and writer and the Programs Manager at CUE Art Foundation, a nonprofit art space located in Manhattan that is dedicated to exhibitions, arts education, art criticism, and public programming. Prior to CUE, she served as Assistant Director of Freight+Volume on the Lower East Side, as co-founder and co-director of Nightwood Exhibits in Chicago, and as Curatorial Fellow at SAIC. Originally from Los Angeles, Hern-Fondation studied literature and photography at the University of Washington, Seattle and received her MFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Eileen Jeng Lynch, Curator, Wave Hill At Wave Hill, Jeng Lynch organizes the Sunroom Project Space for emerging artists, co-curates exhibitions in Glyndor Gallery, and is involved in all aspects of visual arts programming including publications and the annual Winter Workspace program. Recent exhibitions at Wave Hill include Figuring the Floral, Emily Oliveira: Mundo Irrealis (Wish You Were Here), Duy Hoàng: Interarboreal, Bahar Behbahani: All water has a perfect memory, and Ngoc Minh Ngo: Wave Hill Florilegium. Jeng Lynch is also the Founder of Neumeraki, which collaborates with artists, organizations, and galleries on curatorial, consulting, writing, and editing projects. Independent curatorial projects include exhibitions at The Yard: City Hall Park, Trestle Gallery, LMAKbooks+design, Sperone Westwater, Lesley Heller Workspace, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Garis & Hahn, and Radiator Gallery, among others. In 2017, Jeng Lynch initiated the ongoing Give Voice Postcard Project. She has contributed to Two Coats of Paint and On-Verge. Previously, Jeng Lynch worked at RxArt, Sperone Westwater, and the Art Institute of Chicago in the Department of Contemporary Art. She earned her MA degree in Arts Administration and Policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BA degree in Art History and Advertising from Syracuse University.

Larry Ossei-Mensah, Independent Curator and Cultural Critic, Co-founder of ARTNOIR* Ossei-Mensah uses contemporary art as a vehicle to redefine how we see ourselves and the world around us. The Ghanaian-American curator and cultural critic has organized exhibitions and programs at commercial and nonprofit spaces around the globe from New York City to Rome featuring artists such as Firelei Baez, Allison Janae Hamilton, Brendan Fernades, Ebony G. Patterson, Glenn Kaino, and Stanley Whitney to name a few. Moreover, Ossei-Mensah has actively documented cultural happenings featuring the most dynamic visual artists working today such as Derrick Adams, Mickalene Thomas, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Federico Solmi, and Kehinde Wiley.

Ossei-Mensah is also the co-founder of ARTNOIR, a 501c3 and global collective of culturalists who design multimodal experiences aimed to engage this generation’s dynamic and diverse creative class. Ossei-Mensah is a contributor to the first ever Ghanaian Pavilion for the 2019 Venice Biennial, with an essay on the work of visual artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Ossei-Mensah is the former Susanne Feld Hilberry Senior Curator at MOCAD in Detroit. He recently co-curated with Dexter Wimberly the critically-acclaimed exhibition at MOAD in San Francisco Coffee, Rhum, Sugar, Gold: A Postcolonial Paradox in 2019. Ossei-Mensah currently serves as guest curator at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Rudin Family Gallery. He also will be co-curating with Omsk Social Club the 7th Athens Biennale in Athens, Greece. Ossei-Mensah has had recent profiles in such publications including The New York Times, Artsy, and Cultured Magazine, which named him one of seven curators to watch in 2019. Follow him on Instagram/Twitter at @youngglobal or www.larryosseimensah.com.

*Please note appointment times for this consultant will be between 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM on Monday, June 29.

Alice Russotti, Curator, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) As Curator at LMCC, Russotti is focused on programming at the Arts Center at Governors Island and public art partnerships with LMCC’s downtown supporters. Originally from London, Russotti graduated from high school in Costa Rica and has since lived in New York City, London, and Singapore. She started her career in the arts on the commercial side, first at Christie’s, New York, and then with Sotheby’s, London, in the Post-War & Contemporary department. Finding the secondary market’s lack of interaction with artists and their process frustrating, she started working at The Vinyl Factory, London, curating and producing multimedia, cross-disciplinary installations in the Brewer Street Car Park that were free and open to the public. Russotti holds a BA degree from Brown University in Art History and a MA degree from the Sotheby’s Institute in Contemporary Art and Theory.

This program is presented by NYFA Learning. Sign up here to receive NYFA News, a bi-weekly organizational email for upcoming awards, resources & professional development. NYFA Learning also offers the monthly free Con Edison Immigrant Artist Program (IAP) Newsletter, if you are interested in opportunities, professional development, events, tips and advice specific to immigrant artists. 

Image Detail: Mark Ferguson (Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts ’17); NYFA Artist's Statement; 2017; graphite, crayon, tape on synthetic paper

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Event | Online Doctor’s Hours for Visual & Multidisciplinary Artists

Monday, April 27 Doctor’s Hours event will offer remote one-on-one individual consultations with industry professionals.

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) will host the next edition of its popular Doctor’s Hours program, which is designed to provide practical and professional advice from industry professionals, online on Monday, April 27. 

It will serve Visual and Multidisciplinary artists working in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Video, Film, Photography, New Media, Multidisciplinary, Performance Art, Socially-Engaged Practices, Folk, and Traditional Art. 

Starting Tuesday, April 7 at 11:00 AM EDT, you can register for 25-minute, remote one-on-one appointments with up to three arts professionals to ask questions and receive actionable tips for advancing your arts career. Please note that a few of these time-slots will be reserved for students and artists at The Art Students League of New York, as part of an ongoing partnership with NYFA. 

How Online Doctor's Hours works:

To adopt the online model, each consultant will meet with six artists over the course of three hours.

Each consultation session is 25 minutes long. There is a three appointment limit per artist.

The Online Doctor's Hours sessions take place through the Zoom platform. Please download the Zoom app before the event date to participate.

Title: Online Doctor’s Hours for Visual and Multidisciplinary Artists Program Date and Time: Monday, April 27, 2019, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM EDT Location: Online through Zoom* Cost: $25 per 25-minute appointment; three appointment limit per artist Register: Register here.

Can’t join us? You can book a remote one-on-one consultation with arts professionals via NYFA Coaching.

To make the most of your Online Doctor’s Hours appointment, please read the entire confirmation email you receive after completing your registration; it includes all the details you need for your session.

*We are able to offer this support via phone if you are unable to access reliable internet service.

For questions, email learning@nyfa.org.

Consultants

Daniel Aycock, Founder and Director, Front Room Gallery  Aycock established The Front Room Gallery in New York in 1999. The space is dedicated to exhibiting artwork by emerging and mid-career artists, with a concentration in photography as well as drawing, conceptual art, video, audio art, sculpture, and installation. The gallery presents work that is innovative in practice and concept, challenging social perceptions while establishing context within the familiar. Aycock has curated exhibitions internationally at universities, museums, artist’s residencies, and art fairs. He has been a guest juror/critic at Association of Media Photographers (ASMP), NY; School of Visual Arts (SVA), NY; International Studio Curatorial Project (ISCP), NY; FotoFest, TX; and many others. In 2001, he started WAGMAG, Brooklyn Art Guide, a monthly printed publication listing all of the arts institutions in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA degree in Photography from Texas Tech University and his Master’s Degree from SVA.

Heather Bhandari, Independent Curator, Co-Founder of The Remix  In addition to her work as an independent curator and co-founder of the project-based curatorial team and podcast, The Remix, Bhandari is an adjunct lecturer at Brown University where she teaches professional practice to visual arts majors and is Partner and Program Director of Art World Conference (AWC), a business and financial literacy conference for visual artists which debuted in New York City in April of 2019 and Los Angeles in February of 2020. The second edition of her book, ART/WORK, was published by Simon and Schuster in October of 2017. Bhandari is on the board of directors of visual arts at Art Omi, an artist residency in Ghent, NY, and is on the advisory board of Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. She was on the board of NURTUREart for nearly a decade. From 2000 to 2016 she was a director of Mixed Greens, a commercial gallery in Chelsea where she curated over 100 exhibitions while managing a roster of nearly two-dozen emerging to mid-career artists. Most recently, she was the Director of Exhibitions at Smack Mellon, a nonprofit in Brooklyn, NY. Recent curatorial projects include a solo exhibition of Keith Lemley’s work at Urban Glass in Brooklyn, NY and the group exhibition Fertile Ground at the David Winton Bell Gallery in Providence, RI, that included work by Maria Berrio, Zoë Charlton, and Joiri Minaya. She and her AWC co-organizer Dexter Wimberly were recently listed in the Observer's "Arts Power 50: Changemakers Shaping the Art World in 2019." Bhandari received a BA degree from Brown University and a MFA degree from Pennsylvania State University. Her career began at contemporary galleries Sonnabend and Lehmann Maupin, both in New York.

Rachel Gladfelter, Director, Pace Prints  As Director of Pace Prints in Chelsea, Gladfelter has coordinated projects from concept to exhibition by Keith Haring, Jon Kessler, and Shepard Fairey, among others. An expert on print publishing, printmaking, and papermaking, she has lectured and taught classes on the subject extensively. She has also curated and juried independent exhibitions in New York and abroad. Prior to her 12-year tenure with Pace Prints, she was the Studio Director at Dieu Donné where she collaborated with contemporary artists in handmade paper.

Peter Gynd, Gallery Director, Lesley Heller Gallery  Gynd is a fifth generation artist and independent curator from Vancouver, Canada. He studied at the Alberta College of Art and Design and has exhibited in both Canada and the US. Notable exhibitions curated by Gynd include a permanent exhibition at the Foundation Center, NY; an acclaimed two-person presentation at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NY; and group exhibitions at Present Company, NY; NARS Foundation, NY; the Northside Festival, NY; Lesley Heller Workspace, NY; and at the Dynamo Arts Association, Vancouver. Gynd’s exhibitions have been featured in Hyperallergic, The Carnegie Reporter, Blouin Artinfo, and Gothamist. He has been a guest critic at Residencies Unlimited, Kunstraum, and ChaNorth Artist Residency; a consultant for NYFA’s Doctors Hours program; guest lecturer at Pratt Institute; and a guest juror at 440 Gallery, Equity Gallery, and Sweet Lorraine Gallery. Recent projects include curating a solo exhibition of sculptural works by Jody MacDonald at Radiator Gallery and serving as a guest juror for the second edition of the Art Fair 14C.

Nicole Kaack, Associate Director, A.I.R. Gallery A.I.R. Gallery is a non-profit arts organization founded in 1972 to support the work of women-identifying and non-binary artists. Independent of her role at A.I.R. Gallery, Kaack is an active curator and critic. She has organized exhibitions and programs at The Kitchen, Hunter College, CRUSH CURATORIAL / HESSE FLATOW, and Small Editions, among other spaces. Kaack's writing has been published by Whitehot Magazine, artcritical, Art Viewer, SFAQ / NYAQ / AQ, Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, and Sound American. Kaack is co-founder of the publishing platforms prompt: and Not Nothing.

Isabella Kapur, Curatorial Assistant, The Drawing Center  During her time with The Drawing Center, Kapur has co-curated exhibitions including As If: Alternative Histories From Then to Now (2019) and The Pencil Is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists (2019–2020) and helped organize Edie Fake: Labyrinth (2019–2020), and, most recently, Curtis Talwst Santiago: Can’t I Alter. She has also worked as an art historian and researcher with The Brooklyn Museum’s “ASK Brooklyn Museum” program.

Jamie Stevens, Curator, Artists Space  In addition to his work at Artists Space, Stevens has held curatorial positions at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; Cubitt Gallery, London; Chisenhale Gallery, London; and has served as a member of the acquisitions committee for the British Council Collection of Contemporary Art. He is currently a candidate in the Respecialization Program at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York.

Yulia Topchiy, Independent Curator of Contemporary Art & Co-Founder, Assembly Room  Topchiy specializes in art curation, creating public programming initiatives, event production, and performances, with a passion for creating intimate, immersive, original and engaging experiences of art. Topchly works with an extensive network of emerging and established artists in all fields of practice and advises galleries, non-profits, art museums, and independent curators on special projects and exhibitions.

Monika Wuhrer, Curator and Director, Open Source Gallery  Wuhrer is an Austrian artist, curator, and director of Open Source Gallery. After studying in Milan, Italy, Wuhrer returned to her native country where she completed her Masters of Arts in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. She moved to New York in 1999 and found Open Source Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Open Source Gallery is an arts-based non-profit organization inspired by the open source movement. In the spirit of this free exchange of knowledge, they provide a forum where art intersects with the community and the world at large.

This program is presented by NYFA Learning. Sign up here to receive NYFA News, a bi-weekly organizational email for upcoming awards, resources & professional development. NYFA Learning also offers the monthly free Con Edison Immigrant Artist Program (IAP) Newsletter, if you are interested in opportunities, professional development, events, tips and advice specific to immigrant artists. 

Image: Amy Aronoff for NYFA

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Event | Doctor’s Hours for Visual & Multidisciplinary Artists with Museum Curators and Professionals

This Monday, February 24 event will offer one-on-one individual consultations with art professionals.

Are you a visual or multidisciplinary artist in need of some career advice? New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is pleased to announce its first Doctor’s Hours program in 2020. The February 24 event serves Visual and Multidisciplinary Artists (Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Video, Film, Photography, New Media, Multidisciplinary, Performance Art, Socially-Engaged Practices, Folk, and Traditional Art) and is designed to provide artists with practical and professional advice from museum curators and arts professionals. Starting Monday, February 3 at 11:00 AM EST, you can register for 20-minute, one-on-one appointments with up to three arts professionals to ask questions and receive actionable tips for advancing your arts career.

Title: Doctor’s Hours for Visual and Multidisciplinary Artists with Museum Curators and Professionals Program Date and Time: Monday, February 24, 2020, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM EST Location: The New York Foundation for the Arts, 20 Jay Street, Suite 740, Brooklyn NY, 11201 Cost: $38 per 20-minute appointment; three appointment limit per artist Register: This event is at capacity. Please fill out this form to add your name to the waitlist.

To make the most of your “Doctor’s Hours” appointment, read our Tips & FAQs. For questions, email learning@nyfa.org.

Can’t join us on February 24? You can book a one-on-one consultation with arts professionals, in-person or remotely, via NYFA Coaching.

*For all regular participants, please note that we have a new registration platform. Please read the instructions carefully before beginning your registration.

Consultants

Jeanette Bisschops, Curatorial Apprentice, New Museum Bisschops, a Dutch curator and writer who specializes in time-based media, recently joined New Museum as a curatorial apprentice. Bisschops is particularly interested in expanding and criticizing existing narratives and structures in the art world and working with lesser-known or new voices. She is based in New York and Amsterdam, and is currently working towards the 2021 New Museum Triennial with Margot Norton and Jamillah James and organizing the upcoming “Screen Series.” 

Bisschops formerly served as assistant curator for time-based media at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, where she was involved with the conservation, acquisition, and display of the museum’s time-based media collection. She assisted with the latest edition of the museum’s biannual Municipal Art Acquisitions, titled Freedom of Movement, and organized performances by Michele Rizzo and Rory Pilgrim. Her interest in new technologies culminated in two of her most recent exhibitions: Untouched Intimacies and ART FWRD: On Technology.

Rachel Federman, Associate Curator, Modern & Contemporary Drawings, The Morgan Library & Museum Federman's recent projects include By Any Means: Contemporary Drawings from the Morgan and Drawing the Curtain: Maurice Sendak’s Designs for Opera and Ballet (catalog). Before joining the Morgan, she was Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where she helped organize the retrospective Bruce Conner: It’s All True. She has published essays on Conner, Paul McCarthy, Allen Ruppersberg, and Andy Warhol, among others. She holds a PhD degree from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Larissa Harris, Curator, Queens Museum of Art Harris' exhibitions at Queens Museum include Red Lines Housing Crisis Learning Center, a project on home finance by artist and urban designer Damon Rich; The Curse of Bigness, which featured major works by Survival Research Laboratories, J. Morgan Puett, and Dexter Sinister, among others; the first U.S. solo presentation of Korean video and performance artist Sung Hwan Kim; 13 Most Wanted Men: Andy Warhol and the 1964 World's Fair (with Nicholas Chambers); and a 50-year survey of the work of Mierle Laderman Ukeles (with Patti Philips). Upcoming is a group exhibition titled After the Plaster Foundation and Ulrike Muller's first New York museum presentation, a new commission titled The Conference of the Animals (organized with Sophia Lucas), both opening April 5, 2020.

David Horowitz, Assistant Curator, Modern & Contemporary Drawings, Guggenheim Museum Since joining the Guggenheim’s curatorial department in 2015, Horowitz has contributed to a number of special exhibitions and supported the management of the museum’s permanent collection. He is the curator of Marking Time: Process in Minimal Abstraction (2019–20) and co-curator of R. H. Quaytman + ×, Chapter 34 (2018–19). Additionally, he worked closely on Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future (2018–19) and Agnes Martin (2016–17), as well as Guggenheim Collection: Brancusi (2017–20) and Guggenheim Collection: Early Modernism (2016–17). Horowitz also regularly assists in the continued care and stewardship of the permanent collection. While mostly focused on the postwar period, he has conducted research on works from all parts of the museum’s holdings. He holds a BA degree in English language and literature from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an interdisciplinary MLA degree from Johns Hopkins University. He is currently pursuing a MA degree in art history at Hunter College.

Kelly Long, Curatorial Assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art Long has supported such Whitney Museum exhibitions as Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium and Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World, and was a part of the curatorial team that organized Rachel Harrison Life Hack, the artist’s first full-scale survey exhibition. She is a member of the Whitney’s Equity and Inclusion Working Group, and helps to manage the museum’s Photography Acquisitions Committee.

Prior to moving to New York, Long achieved PhD Candidacy at the University of Rochester, where her research focused on the engagement of postmodern and contemporary art with housing, exploring notions of being and belonging, access, and ownership in the art of our time. Her published works include catalogue essays for Gail Thacker: Fugitive Moments (2019) and Chiharu Shiota: The Hand Lines (2014). She was an invited speaker at the Frick Collection and the Institute of Fine Arts’ Annual Symposium on the History of Art in 2015. Long holds a MA degree in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester and a BA degree in Art History from Vassar College, with a minor in Women’s Studies.

Jocelyn Miller, Curatorial Associate and Editorial Manager, MoMA PS1 Miller has been a member of MoMA PS1's curatorial team since 2011. She is currently organizing the upcoming exhibition Julie Becker: I must create a Master Piece to pay the Rent, and recently organized Elena Lopez Riera: Those Who Desire (2019); Maria Lassnig: New York Films 1970-1980 and Body Armor (both 2018); Past Skin (2017); and Meriem Bennani: FLY (2016). She also organized Projects 106: Martine Syms at The Museum of Modern Art (2017). She has co-organized solo exhibitions with Titus Kaphar, Reza Abdoh, Naeem Mohaiemen, Ian Cheng, Mark Leckey, Cao Fei and Simon Denny, as well as career retrospectives of the artists Maria Lassnig and James Lee Byars, the latter both at MoMA PS1 and Museo Jumex, Mexico City. She also serves as Editorial Manager for MoMA PS1's curatorial department, overseeing museum publications, and served as Editor for the 2015 Greater New York “Readers series.” She received her BA degree in Comparative Literature from Princeton University.  

Ana Torok, Curatorial Assistant, Drawings and Prints, The Museum of Modern Art Torok is a curator and art historian based in New York City, specializing in postminimal and conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her MA degree in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art and her BA degree from Barnard College, Columbia University. Before joining The Museum of Modern Art, she worked in the curatorial departments of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art, while organizing exhibitions independently.

Lauren Argentina Zelaya, Director of Public Programs, Brooklyn Museum Zelaya joined Brooklyn Museum as a Museum Education and Public Programs Fellow in 2012, becoming a full-time staff member in 2015. As Director of Public Programs, Zelaya curates and produces First Saturdays and other free and low-cost public programs that invite more than 150,000 visitors per year to engage with the museum’s special exhibitions and collections in new and unexpected ways. As a curator, advocate, and educator, Zelaya is committed to collaborating with emerging artists and honoring voices in our communities that are often marginalized, with a focus on film and performance, and creating programming for and with LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities. Most recently, she co-curated the exhibition Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall. Other projects include “Feminist Film Night,” “Cuerpxs Radicales: Radical Bodies in Performance,” and “Black Queer Brooklyn on Film.” Previously, she worked in education at the Queens Museum and the Museum of the Moving Image, and with emerging artists in Queens as a program coordinator with the Queens Council on the Arts. Zelaya participated in the Tate Intensive (2019) and New York Foundation for the Arts’ Emerging Leaders Program (2018), and was named one of Brooklyn Magazine's "30 Under 30" in 2018.

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Event | Doctor’s Hours for Visual, Multidisciplinary, and New Media Artists

This Monday, November 4 event will offer one-on-one consultations with industry professionals.

Are you a visual or multidisciplinary artist in need of some career advice? The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is pleased to announce an upcoming session of Doctor’s Hours for Visual, Multidisciplinary, and New Media Artists, a program designed to provide artists with practical and professional advice from arts consultants. Artists who work in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Video, Film, Photography, New Media, Multidisciplinary, Performance Art, Socially-Engaged Practices, Folk, and Traditional Art are encouraged to participate.

Starting Monday, October 14 at 11:00 AM, you can register for 20-minute, one-on-one appointments with up to three arts professionals to ask questions and receive actionable tips for advancing your arts career.

Title: Doctor’s Hours for Visual, Multidisciplinary, and New Media Artists Program Date and Time: Monday, November 4, 2019, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Location: The New York Foundation for the Arts, 20 Jay Street, Suite 740, Brooklyn NY, 11201  Cost: $38 per 20-minute appointment; three appointments limit per artist Register: Please click here to register.

To make the most of your “Doctor’s Hours” appointment, read our Tips & FAQs. For questions, email learning@nyfa.org.

Can’t join us in November? You can book a one-on-one remote consultation session via Doctor’s Hours On Call. Review the bios of Sarah Hart Corpron, Michelle Levy, and Maria Villafranca, and check their availability in October to schedule your appointment.

Consultants

Alaina Claire Feldman, Director and Curator, Mishkin Gallery at the City University of New York (CUNY) Baruch College Feldman recently organized the exhibitions The Aesthetics of Learning, Lise Soskolne: The Work, and Minerva Cuevas: Disidencia as Director and Curator of the Mishkin Gallery at CUNY’s Baruch College. From 2011-2018, she was Director of Exhibitions at Independent Curators International (ICI) and curated the traveling exhibition The Ocean After Nature as well as edited the subsequent catalogue. She was the Managing Editor of ICI’s Sourcebook Series and produced artist-centric publications. Her projects have included long-term support of artists, collectives, archives, and educational opportunities, particularly those beyond the traditional Western cannon. Feldman was previously an editor at the French arts journal May Revue. As a writer, her work has been published in Afterall, Flash Art, The Graduate Center Latinx Studies Guide, and in catalogues and anthologies for museums around the world. Feldman has lectured and taught at the University of Porto, The School of Visual Arts, NYU, Center for Feminist Pedagogy, and with ICI’s Curatorial Intensive. She was the 2017 Annual Beckwith Lecturer at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Tufts, Boston. She is a member of the International Advisory Board of Casa S. Roque – Centro de Arte (CSR), Portugal.

Rachel Gugelberger, Curator, Residency Unlimited Gugelberger is a cultural producer with a focus on place-based practices around social, cultural, and civic issues. Projects include (after)care, a site-specific exhibition in a former emergency waiting room at Kings County Hospital in East Flatbush, Brooklyn (2019); the inaugural Southeast Queens Biennial (2018); Jameco Exchange, a site-responsive exhibition and socially-engaged education platform in a vacant storefront in Jamaica, Queens (2016); and Hold These Truths (2017) and Bring in the Reality (2015), exhibitions that presented works at the intersection of activism and storytelling at the Nathan Cummings Foundation in Manhattan. Gugelberger is the co-founder of “1@111,” a series of process-oriented discussions that focus on a single work, curatorial premise, or proposition. Independent curatorial projects have focused on the intersection of information, data, and art, including: Once Upon a Time There was the End, the Center for Book Arts, New York, NY; Data Deluge, Ballroom Marfa, TX; and Library Science, Artspace, New Haven, CT. She is the former curator at No Longer Empty (NLE), a non-profit organization that curates site-responsive and community-centered exhibitions, education, and programs in unique spaces, and also served as director of the NLE Curatorial Lab program. Gugelberger has served as co-director of Sara Meltzer Gallery and curator at Exit Art in New York, where she curated the organization’s final exhibitions Every Exit Is an Entrance: 30 Years of Exit Art and Collective/Performative (co-curator). Gugelberger holds an M.A. degree in Curatorial Studies in Contemporary Art and Culture from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, NY.

Peter Gynd, Director, Lesley Heller Gallery Gynd is an independent curator, fifth generation artist, and the director at Lesley Heller Gallery in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Gynd studied at the Alberta College of Art and Design and has exhibited in both Canada and the U.S. Notable exhibitions curated by Gynd include a permanent exhibition at the Foundation Center, NY; an acclaimed two-person presentation at SPRING/BREAK Art Show (2015); and group exhibitions at Present Company, NY; NARS Foundation, NY; the Northside Festival, NY; Lesley Heller Workspace, NY; and at the Dynamo Arts Association, Vancouver Canada. Gynd’s exhibitions have been featured in Hyperallergic, The Carnegie Reporter, Blouin Artinfo, and Gothamist. Gynd has been a guest visitor at Residencies Unlimited, Kunstraum, and ChaNorth Artist Residency, and a guest juror at 440 Gallery and Sweet Lorraine Gallery.

Sally Eaves Hughes, Curatorial Assistant, Dia Art Foundation Hughes is a curator specializing in contemporary art across the Americas. As the Curatorial Assistant at Dia Art Foundation, she has assisted on exhibitions of work by Dan Flavin, Sam Gilliam, Renata Lucas, Dorothea Rockburne, and Andy Warhol, as well as the Artists on Artists Lecture Series. Previously, Hughes held positions at numerous institutions in New York, Boston, and Chicago, including David Zwirner, The Whitney Museum of American Art, MIT’s art department, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Hughes holds an M.A. degree in Modern and Contemporary Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies (MODA) from Columbia University.

Eileen Jeng Lynch, Curator, Wave Hill As Curator of Visual Arts at Wave Hill, Jeng Lynch organizes the Sunroom Project Space for emerging artists, co-curates exhibitions in Glyndor Gallery, and is involved in all aspects of visual arts programming, including publications and the annual Winter Workspace program. Current and recent exhibitions at Wave Hill include Figuring the Floral, Emily Oliveira: Mundo Irrealis (Wish You Were Here), Duy Hoàng: Interarboreal, Bahar Behbahani: All water has a perfect memory., and Ngoc Minh Ngo: Wave Hill Florilegium. Jeng Lynch is also the founder of Neumeraki, which collaborates with artists, organizations, and galleries on curatorial, consulting, writing, and editing projects. Independent curatorial projects include exhibitions at The Yard: City Hall Park, Trestle Gallery, LMAKbooks+design, Sperone Westwater, Lesley Heller Workspace, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Garis & Hahn, and Radiator Gallery. In 2017, Jeng Lynch initiated the ongoing grassroots, multi-state advocacy initiative “Give Voice” Postcard Project. She has contributed to Two Coats of Paint and On-Verge. Previously, Jeng Lynch worked at RxArt, Sperone Westwater, and the Art Institute of Chicago in the Department of Contemporary Art. She earned a M.A. degree in Arts Administration and Policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a B.A. degree in Art History and Advertising from Syracuse University.

Matthew Lyons, Curator, The Kitchen Lyons has organized numerous exhibitions, performances, and other programs at The Kitchen since 2005. Recent work includes projects with Moriah Evans, Chitra Ganesh, Trajal Harrell, nora chipaumire, Xaviera Simmons, Sarah Michelson, Aki Sasamoto, Constance DeJong, Kembra Pfahler, and Katherine Hubbard. Upcoming work includes projects with Lauren Bakst and Ka Baird. He’s worked on group exhibitions The Rehearsal, The View from a Volcano: The Kitchen’s Soho Years 1971-1985, One Minute More, Just Kick It Till It Breaks (catalog), Between Thought and Sound: Graphic Notation in Contemporary Music (catalog), and The Future As Disruption, also at The Kitchen. In addition to his work at The Kitchen, Lyons has worked on group exhibitions Dance Dance Revolution at Columbia University, Character Generator at Eleven Rivington Gallery, and Two Moon July at Paula Cooper Gallery. He has contributed catalog essays on the work of Mika Tajima and Vlatka Horvat, and other writing has appeared in Document Journal, Flash Art, PERFORMA 07: Everywhere and All at Once, and Work the Room: A Handbook of Performance Strategies. He is Contributing Editor at Movement Research Performance Journal, having edited the “Six Sides, Typologically Distinct: Black Box / White Cube” series, which he initiated, between 2009-2015.

William Stover, Independent Curator Stover has been a curator of contemporary art for over 18 years and has held positions in a number of important and diverse institutions including the Carnegie Museum of Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Independent Curators International (ICI), and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Stover is one of the founding directors and co-curator for the non-profit arts organization Re-Sited, New York, which is dedicated to re-evaluating the psychology of the “exhibition site” – its particularities, materiality, and direct relationship to the work of art.

Tamas Veszi, Founder, RadiatorArts Veszi was born in Budapest in 1972 and from a very early age became familiar with contemporary art, painting, video art, performance, and conceptual thinking. He left Hungary at 17, finished his high school education in Israel, and was later accepted to the art school “Instituto Per L’Arte E IL Restauro” in Florence. He lived and worked in Paris before returning to Israel to work as a jeweler and jewelry designer. In 1996, Veszi applied for a Green Card and moved to New York. In 1998, he and several other residents of 70 Commercial Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, formed the “Greenpoint Riverfront Artists" group. They generated several performances, rooftop independent film screenings, and the annual “Open Studio Tour.” He received his B.F.A. degree from Pratt Institute in 2000, and received his M.F.A. degree in 2006 from Brooklyn College, where he studied under Elisabeth Murray and Vito Acconci. He has his first solo show at Allannederpelt Gallery in 2010, and has since participated in several exhibitions in New York and internationally. In 2016, Veszi participated in the EFA Shift Residency program, which provides peer support and studio space for artists who work in arts organizations. He is currently working on a solo exhibition in Hungary and a two person show in New York City, and continues to live and work in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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Announcing | Doctor’s Hours “On Call” Consultant Maria Villafranca

Villafranca can help you manage career transitions, develop marketing and communications strategies, implement new revenue models, and more.

Are you an artist, creator, or arts administrator in need of some career advice? New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is pleased to introduce Maria Villafranca as its newest Doctor’s Hours On Call consultant. Doctor's Hours On Call is designed to provide practical and professional advice from arts consultants that can be scheduled at your own convenience online.

Villafranca is a nonprofit management consultant with more than 15 years of experience in leadership roles at NYC-based arts organizations. She specializes in helping artists and creatives manage career transitions, develop marketing and communications strategies, and implement new revenue-generating models, and can provide feedback on fellowship applications, grant proposals, and marketing plans from digital strategies to media relations. Villafranca is also available to assist individuals looking for a job in the arts with cover letter and resume review, and can help current arts administrators navigate complicated situations such as asking for a raise or managing a difficult employee.

You can register for 30-minute or 45-minute (recommended for large grant application review) one-on-one appointments with Villafranca. Helpful instructions are available here.

Title: Doctor’s Hours On Call  Program Duration: Appointments available September 25 through November 30, 2019 Location: Online via Skype Cost: $65 per 30-minute appointment or $90 per 45-minute appointment; both include advance material review Register: Click here to register  Questions: Email learning@nyfa.org with the subject line: “Doctor’s Hours On Call”

September sessions are also available with consultants Sarah Hart Corpron and Michelle Levy; please click here to register.

Consultant Bio: Maria Villafranca is a nonprofit management consultant with more than 15 years of experience in leadership roles at NYC-based arts organizations. She has a background as a writer, and brings an editorial eye and compassionate approach to her sessions. Most recently, she was the inaugural Director of Communications at the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, where she partnered with board and staff to develop core values while working with grantees and organizational partners around the country to promote freedom of artistic expression. In addition to launching the foundation’s digital strategy and social media presence, she placed feature stories for the foundation in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Artforum, Hyperallergic, and more. 

Previously, Villafranca worked at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) for ten years where she established NYFA’s first communications and online resources department, supervised staff, and helped launch NYFA’s racial equity initiatives. During her tenure at NYFA, she also raised income through advertising and strategic partnerships, and increased annual revenue by over 700%. She has presented on nonprofit management, creative careers, and artist resources at organizations across the country, and has held positions at the Pace Gallery, Marbella Gallery, and the Dactyl Foundation for the Arts & Humanities. She has a BA degree in Art History and English from Rutgers University and an MFA degree in Fiction from Brooklyn College. She currently lives in Philadelphia with her husband, son, and pug.

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Event | Doctor’s Hours for Visual, Multidisciplinary, and New Media Artists

Monday, September 9 Doctor’s Hours event will offer one-on-one consultations with industry professionals.

Are you a visual or multidisciplinary artist in need of some career advice? New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is pleased to announce an upcoming session of Doctor’s Hours for Visual, Multidisciplinary, and New Media Artists, a program designed to provide artists with practical and professional advice from arts consultants. Artists who work in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Video, Film, Photography, New Media, Multidisciplinary, Performance Art, Socially-Engaged Practices, Folk, and Traditional Art are encouraged to participate in this Monday, September 9 event.

Starting Monday, August 12 at 11:00 AM, you can register for 20-minute, one-on-one appointments with up to three arts professionals to ask questions and receive actionable tips for advancing your arts career.

Title: Doctor’s Hours for Visual, Multidisciplinary, and New Media Artists Program Date and Time: Monday, September 9, 2019, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Location: New York Foundation for the Arts, 20 Jay Street, Suite 740, Brooklyn NY, 11201 Cost: $38 per 20-minute appointment; three appointment limit per artist Register: Click here to register.

To make the most of your “Doctor’s Hours” appointment, read our Tips & FAQs. For questions, email learning@nyfa.org.

Can’t join us on September 9? You can book a one-on-one remote consultation session with Michelle Levy, Interdisciplinary Artist, Writer, and Cultural Organizer, via Doctor’s Hours On Call. Appointments are available on Mondays and Wednesdays, 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM, from September 4 to October 30, 2019.

Consultants

Shira Backer, Assistant Curator, The Jewish Museum Backer is Leon Levy Assistant Curator at the Jewish Museum, where she has worked on exhibitions including Martha Rosler: Irrespective; Masterpieces and Curiosities: Elaine Lustig Cohen; and The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin. She was formerly Assistant Curator at the American Federation of Arts. She holds a MA degree in art history from Bryn Mawr and a BA degree in philosophy from Barnard College.

Nova Benway, Executive Director, Triangle Arts Association As Executive Director of Triangle Arts Association, Benway oversees artist studios hosting local and international artists, as well as a public program series of talks, screenings, performances, and other events. Triangle is part of the Triangle Network, a global network of artists and visual arts organizations that support professional development and cultural exchange amongst artists, curators, and other arts professionals throughout the world. Benway is also Visiting Faculty at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.

Lindsey Berfond, Assistant Curator for Public Programs, Queens Museum At Queens Museum, Berfond has collaborated closely on exhibitions; community engagement; and programming with artists, thinkers, cultural producers, and communities. She earned her BA degree in Art History from New York University and her MA degree from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. She has contributed to exhibitions and other programming at institutions such as Art in General, Queens Museum, NURTUREart, and SculptureCenter. Berfond co-curated the Queens International 2016, the Queens Museum’s biennial exhibition of artists living and/or working in the borough. 

Jennifer Gerow, Curator of Contemporary Art, BRIC BRIC is a not-for-profit cross-disciplinary organization based in Downtown Brooklyn that presents and incubates work by New York based artists. At BRIC, Gerow has curated the group exhibitions Public Access/Open Networks and Reenactment and the solo exhibition Mary Mattingly: What Happens After. She has also co-curated three iterations of the BRIC Biennial. She also leads BRIC’s contemporary art fellowships, residencies, and open call opportunities. Gerow graduated with a MA degree in Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA degree in Literature from the University of Virginia. She has previously held positions at the International Center of Photography and the Detroit Institute of Arts. She has presented talks and collaborated with numerous New York institutions including Residency Unlimited, A Blade of Grass, Electronic Arts Intermix, Wassaic Project, Green-Wood Cemetery, Trestle Gallery, and the New York Public Library.

Gabriel de Guzman, Curator & Director of Exhibitions, Smack Mellon Gallery As Curator & Director of Exhibitions at Smack Mellon, de Guzman organizes group and solo exhibitions that feature emerging and under-recognized mid-career artists whose work often explores critical, socially relevant issues. His recent exhibition, EMPATHY (Fall 2018), addressed the divisive political climate and featured artists who revealed a capacity for empathy by creating work that reflected on other’s experiences and values across social, political, and cultural divides. Before joining Smack Mellon’s staff in 2017, de Guzman was the Curator of Visual Arts at Wave Hill, organizing the Sunroom Project Space series for emerging artists as well as thematic group exhibitions in Wave Hill’s Glyndor Gallery.

As a guest curator, he has presented shows at BronxArtSpace, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Rush Arts Gallery, En Foco at Andrew Freedman Home, Carriage Barn Arts Center, the Affordable Art Fair New York, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA), and the Bronx Museum’s 2013 AIM Biennial. Prior to Wave Hill, he was a curatorial assistant at The Jewish Museum, where he coordinated exhibitions on Louise Nevelson, Harry Houdini, Joan Snyder, and Andy Warhol, as well as Schoenberg, Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider. His writings have been published in catalogues for Wave Hill, the Bronx Museum, Dorsky Gallery, BronxArtSpace, the Arsenal Gallery at Central Park, The Jewish Museum, Rush Arts Gallery, NoMAA, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, and Nueva Luz: Photographic Journal. He earned a M.A. degree in art history from Hunter College and a B.A. degree in art history from the University of Virginia.

Michelle Levy, Interdisciplinary Artist, Writer, and Cultural Organizer From 2008 to 2018, Levy was Founding Director of EFA Project Space, an interdisciplinary, socially-engaged exhibition program of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York City, where she also founded the SHIFT Residency (2010), a program that fosters the creative practices of artists who work for arts organizations. Through her role at EFA, she has supported the work of over 500 artists and independent curators, fostering dialogue around ethics, visibility, identity, and care. From 2000-2008, Levy was Program Manager of International Print Center New York. She is currently working as an independent consultant for artists.

Levy’s art practice uses research and storytelling to investigate the mediated spaces where identity is constructed. Her current project, “Paulina,” enlists archives, travelogues, and cross-cultural collaboration with Polish artist Patrycja Dołowy to draw out a story based on one woman’s found-testimony from 1945. For 2018/19, she was an artist fellow at POLIN Museum for the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, and received grants from the US Embassy in Warsaw and Asylum Arts along with project support from the Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw and FestivALT, Kraków. Levy holds a MFA degree in Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice from The City College of New York, and a BA degree in Studio Art from Wesleyan University.

Ysabel Pinyol, Curatorial Director, Mana Contemporary Pinyol studied architecture in Barcelona and Chicago before opening a gallery in Barcelona and relocating to New York, where she now lives and works. She joined Mana Contemporary as a Chief Curator in 2010. In 2014, she co-founded Mana Residencies in Jersey City and Chicago, a yearly residency program for mid-career artists. She is currently developing a cultural exchange program in Miami, featuring a residency program for Latin American artists. She continues to create new exhibitions and special projects for Mana Contemporary.

Steven Sergiovanni, Art Advisor & Curator Sergiovanni’s experience as director, gallerist, and dealer hinges on a continued methodology of transparency. With over 20 years experience in the gallery world, Sergiovanni was the former Director of Mixed Greens, a gallery established in the late 1990s to support emerging artists so they could gain a wider audience. Mixed Greens had a reputation as an approachable and inventive gallery where artists were given their first New York solo exhibitions. It was also a gallery that pioneered promoting artists online and in experimental spaces. Prior to Mixed Greens, Sergiovanni worked for several galleries including Jack Shainman, Charles Cowles, Holly Solomon, and Andrea Rosen.

Sergiovanni is a member of the New Art Dealer’s Alliance (NADA) and was the former Vice President of the Board of Directors for Visual AIDS, a contemporary arts organization committed to HIV prevention and AIDS awareness. He is the co-founder of The Remix, a project-based curatorial team established to exhibit the work of underrepresented artists. The Remix’ first podcast was released in Summer 2018. He regularly speaks at institutions such as FIT, NYU, and New York Academy of Art. He is currently a visiting professor at Pratt Institute, teaching the courses “Professional Practices” and “Artist as Curator.” Sergiovanni holds a BA degree in Art History from Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX and a MA degree in Arts Administration from New York University.

Anne Wheeler, Director of Programs, One Million Years Foundation Wheeler is a New York-based curator, writer, and historian in Modern and Contemporary Art. In 2019, Wheeler joined the One Million Years Foundation, established by the artist On Kawara in 2001, as its inaugural Director of Programs. From 2018–19, Wheeler worked as a curatorial associate at the Whitney Museum of American Art, guiding the acquisition of a major gift from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. Wheeler curated the apexart Franchise Program exhibition Un-Working the Icon: Kurdish ‘Warrior-Divas’ in Berlin, Germany (2017). Wheeler joined the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2010 at the founding of its Panza Collection Initiative research project and served as assistant curator for the major international loan exhibitions On Kawara – Silence (2015) and Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better (2016). She received her BA degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in English and the Practice of Art, and is now an ABD doctoral candidate in Art History at The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her in-progress doctoral dissertation is titled “Language as Material: Rereading Robert Smithson.”

Adeze Wilford, Curatorial Assistant, The Shed Prior to her work at The Shed, Wilford was an inaugural joint curatorial fellow at The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Museum of Modern Art. She organized Vernacular Interior at Hales Gallery (2019); Excerpt (2017) at the Studio Museum; and Black Intimacy (2017), a film series at MoMA. Other curatorial projects include Harlem Postcards (2016/2017) and Color in Shadows, the 2016 “Expanding The Walls” exhibition at Studio Museum. Prior to this, Wilford was the Public Programs and Community Engagement assistant at the Studio Museum. She graduated from Northwestern University with a BA degree in Art History and African-American Studies.

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Event | Doctor’s Hours for Visual & Multidisciplinary Artists with Museum Curators

June 17 event will offer individual consultations with museum curators.

Are you in need of some career advice? The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is pleased to announce an upcoming session of Doctor’s Hours for Visual and Multidisciplinary Artists, a program designed to provide artists with practical and professional advice from arts consultants. Artists working in the disciplines of Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Video, Film, Photography, New Media, Multidisciplinary, Performance Art, Socially-Engaged Practices, Folk, and Traditional Art are encouraged to participate.

Starting Monday, May 20 at 11:00 AM EST, you can register for 20-minute, one-on-one appointments with up to three museum curators to ask questions and receive actionable tips for advancing your arts career.

Title: Doctor’s Hours for Visual and Multidisciplinary Artists with Museum Curators Program Date and Time: Monday, June 17, 2019, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Location: The New York Foundation for the Arts, 20 Jay Street, Suite 740, Brooklyn NY, 11201 Cost: $38 per 20-minute appointment; three appointments limit per artist Register: Register here to participate

To make the most of your Doctor’s Hours appointment, read our Tips & FAQs. For questions, email learning@nyfa.org.

Can’t join us on June 17? You can book a one-on-one remote consultation with an arts professional via Doctor’s Hours On Call.

Consultants

Francesca Altamura, Curatorial Assistant, New Museum Altamura is a curator and a New Yorker who holds a MFA degree in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a MA degree with Honors in History of Art from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. At the New Museum, she recently curated Sydney Shen: Onion Master in the Window Gallery (on view until July 28) and is co-curating, with Curator Margot Norton, Diedrick Brackens’ forthcoming solo Lobby Gallery presentation, darling divined (June 4 - September 8). She has assisted on exhibitions including Nari Ward: We the People; Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel; John Akomfrah: Signs of Empire; Thomas Bayrle: Playtime; the 2018 New Museum Triennial Songs for Sabotage; and Strange Days: Memories of the Future, an off-site exhibit held in conjunction with The Store X Vinyl Factory at 180 The Strand in London. Learn more about Altamura on her website and Instagram account, @itmefrankig.

Ylinka Barotto, Assistant Curator, Guggenheim Museum Since joining the curatorial staff in 2014, Barotto has assisted on such large-scale modern and postwar retrospective exhibitions as Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting (2015); Moholy-Nagy: Future Present (2016); Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim (2017), which showcased masterworks from the Guggenheim’s modern collection; and Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892–1897 (2017), for which she contributed to the catalogue text entries on many of the show’s artists. Barotto provided curatorial support for Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away (2018), and at present is assisting on Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection (2019–20), the first artist-curated exhibition ever mounted at the museum. In addition to her involvement with the exhibition program, Barotto is one of the organizing curators for the Young Collectors Council, which acquires the work of emerging artists for the museum’s permanent collection. She has also hosted conversations with contemporary artists, activists, and journalists on topics such as feminism, activism, and identity and representation. Barotto received a MA degree in curatorial and museum studies at Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, and she is currently working toward a MA degree in art history at Hunter College, City University of New York, with a focus on postwar and contemporary feminism.

Barbara Paris Gifford, Assistant Curator, Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) Paris Gifford is an Assistant Curator with a focus on Fashion and Contemporary Jewelry at MAD in New York City. During the past five years, she has served as part of the curatorial team for several exhibitions and various mediums, including La Frontera: Encounters Along the Border (jewelry), Counter-Couture: Handmade Fashion in an American Counterculture (fashion), Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years (ceramics), and Ebony Patterson: buried again to carry on growing… (contemporary art and jewelry). Gifford is curating two upcoming MAD exhibitions, The World of Anna Sui (fashion), which opens in September 2019, and 45 Stories in Jewelry, opening in February 2020. She has written for many publications including Metalsmith Magazine, Modern Magazine, The Journal of Modern Craft, and for the catalogs La Frontera: Encounters Along the Border, Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years, and Ralph Pucci: The Art of The Mannequin. She holds a MA degree in the History of the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture from Bard Graduate Center.

Sophia Marisa Lucas, Assistant Curator, Queens Museum Lucas recently organized Queens International 2018: Volumes, the eighth iteration of the museum’s biannual exhibition of Queens-based artists. The exhibition comprised a partnership with the Queens Library including installations in branches and system-wide programming. Lucas has also co-organized QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship exhibitions by Sable Elyse Smith (2017) and Julia Weist (2017) with Hitomi Iwasaki and supported Larissa Harris on Maintenance Art (2016), a museum-wide retrospective of Mierle Laderman Ukeles. Previously, she contributed to exhibitions and programming at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Art and Design, New York; The Artist’s Institute, New York; and Slought Foundation, Philadelphia. She is currently working with QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship recipient American Artist on a solo project (forthcoming October 2019).

Jocelyn Miller, Assistant Curator, MoMA PS1 Miller, a member of MoMA PS1’s curatorial team since 2011, is currently organizing the upcoming exhibition Julie Becker: I must create a Master Piece to pay the Rent at MoMA PS1. She recently organized Elena Lopez Riera: Those Who Desire (2019); Maria Lassnig: New York Films 1970-1980 and Body Armor (both 2018); Past Skin (2017); and Meriem Bennani: FLY (2016), all at MoMA PS1. She also organized Projects 106: Martine Syms at The Museum of Modern Art (2017). Miller has co-organized solo exhibitions with Titus Kaphar, Reza Abdoh, Naeem Mohaiemen, Ian Cheng, Mark Leckey, Cao Fei, and Simon Denny, as well as career retrospectives of the artists Maria Lassnig and James Lee Byars, the latter both at MoMA PS1 and Museo Jumex, Mexico City. She serves as Editorial Manager for MoMA PS1’s curatorial department, overseeing museum publications, and served as Editor for the 2015 “Greater New York: Readers” series. She received her BA degree in Comparative Literature at Princeton University.

Nelson Santos, Interim Director of Curatorial Programs, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Santos has over 20 years of experience in the arts, advocacy, and non-profit sector, including leading the vision of a non-profit art organization with a social justice mission. He has worked with artists, creative thinkers, and community partners to produce and present public programs, exhibitions, visual art projects, and publications that embrace difference, dialogue, and inclusion. As an artist, educator, curator, and organizer, Santos believes art has the power to provoke, inspire, and unite. He has a history of successfully fostering new and innovative programs that reach diverse audiences and is a respected leader in the art, social justice, HIV/AIDS, and LGBTQ communities. Santos is on the Board of Directors of the Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR) and Queer|Art|Mentorship. 

Ana Torok, Curatorial Assistant, Drawings and Prints, The Museum of Modern Art Torok is a curator and art historian based in New York City, specializing in conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her MA degree in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art and her BA degree from Barnard College, Columbia University. Prior to working as a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art, she worked in the curatorial departments of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art while organizing exhibitions independently.

Ambika Trasi, Curatorial Assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art Trasi is an artist and arts organizer based in Brooklyn. Her work examines how coloniality of power is perpetuated, packaged, and sold in contemporary culture, and the role that memory, language, technology, and ritual play in decolonizing and identity-making in the diaspora. As Managing Director of Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) from 2013-2017, she co-organized and assisted in the curation of performance-related exhibitions and public programs held at Asia Society, The 56th Venice Biennale, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hunter College Art Galleries, the inaugural Seattle Art Fair, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. As a board member of the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC) since 2016, she organized exhibitions presented at Queens Museum (2016) and Abrons Arts Center (2017). Trasi has a BFA degree in studio art from New York University, with a minor in South Asian studies.

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Announcing | Doctor’s Hours “On Call” Consultant Sarah Hart Corpron

Fundraising, grant writing, and project management consultant available for appointments this May and June.

Are you an artist, creator, or art administrator in need of some career advice? The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is pleased to introduce new Doctor’s Hours On Call consultant Sarah Hart Corpron. The program, which debuted in March, expands upon NYFA’s popular Doctor’s Hours program to provide one-on-one remote consultations with arts consultants via Skype. Those who are interested can schedule an appointment to receive practical and professional arts career advice at their own convenience.

Sarah Hart Corpron specializes in arts and culture-specific fundraising, grant writing, business planning, and project management. Her professional focus is to provide opportunities and resources to artists interested in career growth and project planning and to support the professional lives of creators and cultural administrators in holistic and meaningful ways. Hart Corpron will be available during the months of May and June to offer feedback for artists of all disciplines on grant or funding proposals (including budgets), project proposals, and cover letter and resume review for art administrators. Participants are able to attach up to two documents for advance review. Please make sure to include a link to the desired opportunity or organization website, if applicable.

You can register for 30-minute or 45-minute (recommended for large grant application review) one-on-one appointments with Hart Corpron. Click here to view helpful instructions on how to participate in Doctor’s Hours On Call.

Title: Doctor’s Hours On Call for Curators, Filmmakers, and Visual and Multidisciplinary Artists Time: Appointments available May - June, 2019 Location: Online via Skype Cost: $65 per 30-minute appointment or $90 per 45-minute appointment; both include advance material review Register: Click here to register Questions: Email learning@nyfa.org with the subject line: “Doctor’s Hours On Call”

May sessions with Michelle Levy are still available, please click here to register.

Consultant Bio: Austin, TX-based Sarah Hart Corpron has worked within the private and non-profit arts sector for over 12 years with extensive experience in fundraising, grant writing, business planning, and public project management. She has supported artists in successful grant applications of all sizes (from local or state funding awards to larger national awards like the Creative Capital grant). She also specializes in helping artists with the development and execution of multi-disciplinary community arts projects of all sizes.

Most recently, Hart Corpron was the Director of Business Services at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), overseeing program operations that included Fiscal Sponsorship and NYFA Coaching. Prior to living in New York, she was the Programs Director at the community-focused nonprofit organization Visual Art Exchange (VAE) in Raleigh, NC. At VAE, Hart Corpron managed education and outreach programs for emerging artists as well as the organizing of an annual open-source creativity festival, SPARKcon. In addition to her work in the non-profit sector, Hart Corpron also worked as artist liaison and events manager for a private fine art gallery, ArtSource, for over three years.

Hart Corpron earned her BA degree in Art History and her BA degree in History from Sweet Briar College in Virginia, as well as a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Duke University’s Center for Continued Education. Most recently, Hart Corpron completed her Masters of Arts Administration through Goucher College. Currently, Hart Corpron is pursuing an alternate career as the Operations Director and co-owner of a family-centered dental office in Austin, TX, while maintaining a strong connection to the arts sector as an independent fundraising, grant writing, and business consultant for individual artists and as a volunteer within her creative community.

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Image: Sarah Hart Corpron, Courtesy of Sarah Hart Corpron

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Register Now | Doctor’s Hours “On Call”

Popular Doctor’s Hours program expanded to provide one-on-one remote consultations via Skype.

We are pleased to announce Doctor's Hours On Call, a new program that expands The New York Foundation for the Arts’ (NYFA) popular Doctor’s Hours program to provide practical and professional advice through one-on-one remote consultations with arts consultants via Skype. The program kicked off in March 2019 with Curator and Artist Michelle Levy, and visual or multidisciplinary artists and curators are encouraged to book 30 or 90-minute, one-on-one appointments for May or June with Levy today.

Levy will be available to offer feedback on portfolio presentation, grant proposals, applications for exhibitions and residencies, and curatorial project proposals. She specializes in writing, and can help with artist, project, and curatorial statements. Participants are able to attach up to two documents for advance review. Click here for full instructions on how to participate.

Title: Doctor’s Hours On Call for Curators and Visual and Multidisciplinary Artists Time: Schedule a May or June session with Levy Location: Online via Skype Cost: $65 per 30-minute appointment or $90 per 45-minute appointment; both include advance material review  Register: Click here to register Questions: Email learning@nyfa.org with the subject line: “Doctor’s Hours On Call”

Consultant Bio: Michelle Levy is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and cultural organizer with 18 years of exhibition and related arts programming experience with institutions in New York City. From 2008 to 2018, she was Founding Director of EFA Project Space, a rigorous cross-disciplinary exhibition program of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York City, where she also founded the SHIFT Residency (2010) to support the creative practices of artists who work for arts organizations. Levy’s initiatives at EFA received significant support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, and Trust for Mutual Understanding, among others. From 2000-2008, Levy was Program Manager of International Print Center New York, a non-profit organization dedicated to exhibiting fine art contemporary printmaking.  

Using text, imagery, live performance, and ritual, Levy's artistic investigations evolve over time, as revelations develop each subject further in art and in life. She holds a MFA degree in Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice from The City College of New York, and a BA degree in Studio Art from Wesleyan University. Recent honors include a CCNY Connor Scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, support from the Czech Consulate for a curatorial residency at MeetFactory in Prague, and the Asylum Arts/POLIN Museum Poland Retreat for Jewish Artists in Warsaw. Levy is currently in Warsaw (2018-19) conducting artistic research for her upcoming project “Paulina (She is alone).”

This program is part of NYFA Learning, which includes professional development for artists and arts administrators. Sign up for NYFA’s free bi-weekly newsletter to receive updates on future programs.

Image: Michelle Levy, Photo Credit: Kathryn Zazenski