Have a new body of work no one has seen? Have a new website? Ready for some feedback? Come to NYFA's Doctor's Hours for individual, 20-minute one-on-one consultations with local curators, critics and gallerists. Get practical and professional advice in person from one or more arts professionals. Each appointment is $25, with a three appointment limit and the opportunity to share your work will be provided.

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May CONSULTANTS:

Nicole J. Caruth, Writer and Independent Curator
Nicole J. Caruth is a writer, independent curator, and cultural worker living in Brooklyn, New York. Her writing has appeared in a range of publications including ARTnews, Big Red & Shiny, C Magazine, Gastronomica, Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art, and Public Art Review. She has contributed to the Phaidon Press books Vitamin D2 and Vitamin Green, and to exhibition catalogues published by the Studio Museum in Harlem, CUE Art Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Center for Book Arts, and various galleries. Caruth has worked for non- and for-profit art spaces in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, including Arario Gallery, ArtCycle.com , and the Brooklyn Museum. Currently, she is Digital Content Editor at Art21; and Director of With Food in Mind, a nomadic nonprofit that she founded in 2012.

Jonathan Durham, Director of Visual Arts at Abrons Art Center/Henry Street Settlement
Jonathan Durham serves as the Director of Visual Arts at Abrons Art Center/Henry Street Settlement in Manhattan’s Lower East Side and has published reviews in Modern Painters Magazine. Durham recently curated the exhibitions Insurance Is Not Always Assured, Rick Cary: CREDO, Jayson Keeling: Behind the Green Door and Systemic Risk at NURTUREart. Jonathan Durham is an artist based in New York City. His sculptures, performances, videos, and 2-dimensional works explore subjects of belief, doubt, humor and the body as a sculptural application. He received his MFA in sculpture from UCLA in 2000 and has taught courses in drawing and sculpture at Rice University, University of Houston, and the University of Virginia. In 2007 he completed a two-year residency at the Core Program Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. His work has been exhibited internationally including Recess, New York (2011), Mixed Greens Gallery, NY, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY, the Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Learning by Doing at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Outpost, CTRL Gallery, Material Culture, Fort Worth, Library Project, Galerie fur Gegenwartskunst, Bremen, Germany. He is the recipient of an Aunspaugh 5th Year Fellowship from the University of Virginia where he received a dual BA in Fine Arts and Psychology. Durham’s drawings, sculptures and videos are in numerous private and public collections including the Aurora Picture Show Video Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Jan Garden Castro, Art Historian and Critic
Jan Garden Castro is a contributing editor for Sculpture Magazine (16 cover stories), Ceramics Art and Perception, and other periodicals; author of The Art & Life of Georgia O’Keeffe, Sonia Delaunay: La Moderne, two poetry books; an arts lecturer and essayist; and co-editor of two books. Castro’s fields span art history, world literatures, and philosophy. Her writings, some at www.Sculpture.org and at, www.JanCastro.com , cover a range of topics, media, and world cultures. Castro has written about emerging to eminent artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Eric Fertman, Zang Huan, Maya Lin, Alexander McQueen, Bruce Nauman, Cecilia Paredes, Soo Sunny Park, Martin Puryear, Cai Guo-Qiang, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Nari Ward (forthcoming), Kiki Smith, Swoon, and Sanford Biggers (forthcoming). She has researched art in Paris and Peru and has curated a traveling exhibition in Japan. Before moving to New York, Castro won two national awards as well as local awards as a co-founder, executive director, editor, and program director for River Styx, a St. Louis-based nonprofit arts corporation focusing on multicultural, intermedia arts programs in performance and in print. Please also visit: jangardencastro.blogspot.com

Gabriel de Guzman, Curator
Gabriel de Guzman is the Curator of Visual Arts at Wave Hill, where he organizes the Sunroom Project Space series for New York City emerging artists and coordinates thematic group exhibitions in Wave Hill’s Glyndor Gallery. He is also a curator of Bronx Calling: The Second AIM Biennial, opening in June 2013 and featuring 73 artists who participated in the Bronx Museum of the Arts’ Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program in 2012–13. In spring 2013, he served as guest curator of the group exhibition Dimensions Variable: Multiracial Identity at Rush Arts Gallery, New York. Before joining Wave Hill’s staff in 2010, he was Neubauer Family Foundation Curatorial Assistant at The Jewish Museum, where he served as coordinator for the exhibitions Houdini: Art and Magic, Susan Hiller: The J. Street Project, Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered, and Schoenberg, Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider, as well as career-spanning surveys of the work of Louise Nevelson and Joan Snyder. Mr. de Guzman contributed an essay in the Bronx Calling catalogue, an entry in Masterworks of The Jewish Museum, as well as chronologies and biographical texts in catalogues for Houdini, Warhol’s Jews, Louise Nevelson, and Schoenberg, Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider. He earned an M.A. in art history from Hunter College, City University of New York, and a B.A. in art history from the University of Virginia.

Stephen Hepworth, Curator
Stephen Hepworth is a British born curator with over 16 years experience as a senior curator and director of a range of art venues in Europe and America. He has curated over 80 exhibitions and taught extensively on both continents. Previous to his move to the United States in 2007, to relaunch the University Art Gallery at the University of California, San Diego, he was based in London where he worked at Bloomberg Space, Jerwood Gallery, and The Tannery. He moved to New York in 2009 to become Director of Programs at Participant Inc, and currently is an art consultant and the curator of independent projects most recently Set-up at Jousse Entreprise, Paris (2012), others include exhibitions for the British Council, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art and the Arnolfini in Bristol, UK. His exhibitions demonstrate an involvement with emerging artists as well as working with those who are already established, and others who have contributed to highlighting different approaches to making and thinking.

Shinnie Kim, ISCP and Curator
Shinnie Kim is an art administrator and independent curator based in New York where she serves as Program Manager at International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP). ISCP is a leading nonprofit, residency-based contemporary art institution in Brooklyn for emerging to mid-career artists and curators from around the world. Kim has been working for other numerous nonprofits in various capacities and was in charge of the artist opportunities workshop at Dumbo Arts Center in 2008 and 2009. She was on selection panel for Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL) and Rotating studio program at Artists Alliances Inc. (AAI) and recently invited, as a design critic for Meeting Artists' needs, a professional development workshop at Cue Foundation. In 2011-12, she participated in 5C5C, an international curatorial project where she co-curated a traveling exhibition with five other curators from Berlin, Paris, Rome and Seoul. Kim has studied at Université Paris 8, France and CUNY- Hunter College, New York.

Stephen Maine, Art Critic, Curator, Educator
Stephen Maine is a freelance art critic, independent curator and teacher. He is a member of the International Association of Art Critics, American Abstract Artists, and the College Art Association. Contributing Editor at artcritical.com, he has also written frequently for Art in America, artnet.com, Art on Paper, The New York Sun, The Brooklyn Rail and Artillery. Recent curatorial projects include “The Incipient Image” at Lesley Heller Workspace, “Wall Works” at The Painting Center, and “239 Days” at Allegra La Viola Gallery. Maine teaches in the graduate department of Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.

Kimberly Marrero, Curator, Private Art Advisor
Kimberly Marrero is a private art advisor and independent curator based in New York City. She has organized many high profile public exhibitions working directly with celebrated artists and art institutions worldwide. Ms. Marrero manages various private art collections for her domestic and international clients. She has also enjoyed a longtime affiliation with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in New York, serving as an active Education Committee member as well as a Sackler Arts Museum Lecturer. She is a devoted advocate for Arts & Education and has established a number of grants to support various Arts & Educational Programs for institutions through out the five boroughs of New York City.

Julie McKim, Director of Kunsthalle Galapagos
Julie McKim is the Director of Kunsthalle Galapagos located in DUMBO, Brooklyn. She has worked at The Kitchen, PERFORMA, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she was the curatorial assistant for Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933 and Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer. Her independent curatorial projects include Middle Ground: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, Undercurrent: Pratt MFAs at White Box, At Arms Length, NURTUREart, and There is No Synonym for Hope, Smack Mellon. Most recently she co-curated YOU ARE FREE with Daniel Kingery, which opened in Berlin in 2010 and traveled to Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna. She studied Art History at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Columbia University, and currently serves on the NURTUREart Advisory board.

Ryan Steadman, Curator
Brooklyn-based artist, writer, and curator Ryan Steadman has been a regular contributor to artforum.com and Modern Painters since 2011. In this short time, he has reviewed exhibitions by acclaimed artists such as Agnes Denes and Eugen Schoenebeck, as well as written essays on New York-based artists as diverse as Anthony Goicolea and Ethan Greenbaum. After having curated exhibitions in various spaces in Boston and New York, Steadman was recently appointed curatorial advisor to the UNTITLED. Art Fair in Miami Beach, where he is also organizing the artist-run and non-profit sections of the fair. Before this, he worked for such well-known galleries as Feature Inc. and Peter Freeman Inc. Ryan E. Steadman has shown his paintings regularly since 2001, with solo exhibitions at Baumgartner Gallery, Envoy Enterprises and Karma, all in Manhattan. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at Greenberg van Doren Gallery and Room East, among others. Steadman earned an MFA from Pratt Institute in 1999, and a BFA from University of Georgia in 1997.  

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