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July 2012
NYFA Panel
Shifting Geographies: Current Perspectives on International Residencies
Wednesday, July 25, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Location:
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
20 Jay Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
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As the artist residency has become prevalent as a platform for cultural exchange, a growing number of artists worldwide are exposed to the complexities of practicing their art and living in another country, city, and/or community over a period of time. This NYFA panel will look at trends in international residency programs such as the diversification and dispersal of residency formats, the challenges of existing funding structures, and the art space as a shelter for human rights defenders. Services and resources on residencies for artists will also be discussed and attendees will have the opportunity to ask panelists for practical tips through a Q & A session at the end.
Panelists:
Kari Conte is a curator, writer and Director of Programs and Exhibitions at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP)in New York, a non-profit, residency-based contemporary art institution for artists and curators. Prior to this, she was based in London, where she worked at the Whitechapel Gallery and received an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art. She has organised over 30 international exhibitions and has lectured on the history of exhibitions at Bard College and the Royal College of Art, as well as on residencies at the Goethe-Institut and Independent Curators International (ICI). She recently curated a new commission by Ursula Mayer for Performa 11, New York and is currently working on the first monograph of artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles, to be published in 2012 by Kunstverein, Amsterdam.
Cecily Cook is the Senior Program Officer at the Asian Cultural Council. Ms. Cook received an M.A. degree in Folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989. Ms. Cook was then hired as director of the Refugee Arts Group, a non-profit organization supporting traditional arts conservation programs for Southeast Asian refugee communities. In 1993 she served as a full-time traditional arts consultant for the New England Foundation for the Arts. From 1990 to 1995 Ms. Cook co-directed the Cambodian Artists Project, a partnership of Cambodian dancers and musicians in the United States and Cambodia. In 1994 Ms. Cook joined the staff of Asian Cultural Council (ACC), a New York based foundation supporting cultural exchange between Asia and the U.S., where she is involved in evaluating proposals, designing grantee programs, and all aspects of the Council’s work.
Eriola Pira is an independent curator and the Program Director of The Foundation for a Civil Society’s Young Visual Artist Award (YVAA) Program, a network of 10 countries-wide artist awards in Central and Eastern Europe and residency program in New York. Eriola holds a B.A. in Media Communication and Art History and an M.A. in Visual Culture Theory from New York University. She is an alumna of the Inaugural Curatorial Intensive Program of Independent Curators International.
Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria is the Director and Co-founder of Residency Unlimited in New York City. Formerly, Sebastien was the assistant director of the international residency program at Location One. Since 2001, he has been closely involved in the development of the artist-run Flux Factory. He has collaborated on group projects organized by Flux Factory, within institutions such as the Queens Museum of Arts and the New Museum.
Moderator:
Sidd Joag, Director of freeDimensional, comes from backgrounds in the visual arts and social sciences, having spent several years prior to joining fD, working with community arts projects in New York, India, China and co-founding an artist residency/exchange program in Southwestern China, focused on ethnic minority cultural preservation in the China-Burma borderlands. Sidd has an MSc in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science with concentrations in Crime, Control and Globalisation, Cultural Theory and New Media and a B.A. in Sociology from New York University. His paintings, installations and experimental films have been seen in the United States, Canada, India, the Philippines, China and Northern Ireland. He is a co-founder of Zero Capital Arts, which supports low-cost socially and politically engaged creative projects and exhibitions.
Admission: Free. Space is limited. To RSVP, please click here.
Questions?: Contact NYFA's Immigrant Artist Project, at i.outreach@nyfa.org or 212-366-6900 x249. www.nyfa.org/immigrantartists
June 2012
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Join us for a 2012 Cultural Community Event:
Thursday, June 28th, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Co-presented with Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA)
As more and more artists engage with alternative ways to support their creative projects, such as crowd-sourcing or bartering, many are now exploring social entrepreneurship as an option. But what is "social entrepreneurship" exactly? This mini-workshop will explore the way social enterprise has been defined and invite participants to engage with concepts and tools they can apply to their own ventures. Case Studies will be shared, including The Laundromat Project and Word Up Bookstore. Q & A to follow. This event is open to artists engaged or interested in social change initiatives. About the Presenter: Risë Wilson, Founder, The Laundromat Project Risë Wilson is the Program Manager for Leveraging Investment in Creativity’s Space for Change program, which aids arts organizations and community leaders in imagining and planning for a 21st century art space. Risë is also the Founder of The Laundromat Project (The LP), an emerging social enterprise that mounts public art projects in neighborhood laundromats as a way of increasing the quality of life in communities of color living on low incomes. In order to launch The LP Risë pursued a practical education in non-profit arts management by holding positions in both large-scale and grassroots cultural institutions such as the MoMA, ICP, the Painted Bride, and Art Sanctuary. Her work has earned national recognition; she was a 2004 Echoing Green fellow and a 2008 Douglas Redd fellow in art and community development. Risë holds a BA from Columbia University where she was a Kluge Scholar, and an MA from NYU where she was a MacCracken Fellow. She is former faculty at Parsons, the New School for Design, where she helped product design students apply their creative talents to the public sphere, and is currently in the process of launching a coaching and consultant practice to help organizations and individuals "focus on purpose." Admission: Suggested donation of $5 to Word Up Bookstore at the door. Space is limited. To RSVP, please click here. Questions?: Contact NYFA's Immigrant Artist Project, at i.outreach@nyfa.org or 212-366-6900 x249. www.nyfa.org/immigrantartists
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May 2012
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Join us for a FREE Seminar! BEST PRACTICES FOR ARTISTS:
Led by Andrea Arroyo, Visual Artist and Independent Curator As a working artist, you may be comfortable making art alone in the studio, but if you’re aiming to get your art out into the world, you’ll need a little help. So join us for this seminar, covering well tested practices in the field! From networking to marketing, we’ll help you better approach opportunities in the gallery world and beyond. There will also be plenty of time for Q & A at the end of the seminar to cover your specific needs. Date and Time: Location: This seminar is co-presented with the New New Yorkers Program of the Queens Museum of Art
About the Presenter: The seminar is free, but space is limited. To RSVP, please click here. Questions?: |
Registration is Open! NYFA Individual Consultations for Visual Artists
The NYFA Individual Consultations for Visual Artists is in partnership with NYFA Learning and No Longer Empty (NLE). NLE partners with the Bronx community and expands the audience for contemporary art through the exhibition This Side of Paradise, which came out of a commission from the Mid-Bronx Senior Citizens Council to turn the Andrew Freedman Home into a community arts center.
As part of NLE’s comprehensive programming for this exhibition, NYFA is offering these consultations, which are open to Bronx visual artists and artists residing in other boroughs. They provide artists with practical and professional advice from arts professionals who have extensive experience in supporting artists in the visual arts. Our professionals can provide you with expert feedback on activities such as how to develop a project, put together a portfolio, find resources, and research spaces in which to exhibit or perform. Each in-person appointment is $15 for a 30-minute session. NOTE: An artist can register for up to two sessions with two different consultants.
When will the next session take place? Wednesday, May 16th, 4-7pm Where will the consultations be held? The Andrew Freedman Home Who are the consultants? Rocío Aranda-Alvarado is Curator at El Museo del Barrio where she is currently working on the exhibition Caribbean: Crossroads of the World and the accompanying permanent collection exhibition for 2012. Most recently, she was a co-curator for El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files 2011. Her curatorial work and research focuses on modern and contemporary art of the Americas. She is the former curator of Jersey City Museum, where she organized significant retrospective exhibitions of the work of Chakaia Booker (2004) and Raphael Montañez Ortiz (2006) and group shows on various themes including Tropicalisms: Subversions of Paradise (2006), The Superfly Effect (2004), and The Feminine Mystique (2007). Ms. Aranda-Alvarado is also on the adjunct faculty of the Art Department at the City College of New York. Her writing has appeared in various publications including catalogue essays for the Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Art Nexus, Review, the journal of the Americas Society, NYFA Quarterly, Small Axe, BOMB and American Art. Shannon Brunette received her MFA at the School of Visual Arts in 2006. Currently, she is exploring a new body of work relating to cultural exchange opportunities, from Alaska video artist-in-residence focusing on climate change to a 5-week international fellowship in exchange with the traditional craftspeople of Orissa, India. Beyond her own film/video work she has curated and produced several multimedia events featuring performing, visual and media artists. Ms. Brunette is Senior Program Manager of Lambent Foundation, which focuses on innovative grantmaking and programs that explore the intersections between art, culture, creativity and justice. She is a founding member of the 21st Century Women’s Salon – promoting professional networking and personal growth among women interested in progressive causes. Ms. Brunette also serves on the advisory board of Artists on the Brink, which raises funds and awareness for various social causes through artistic collaborations. She has lived in Brooklyn, NY since 1998 and previously has worked at The Guggenheim Museum – Learning Through Art and Blue Man Productions. Raquel de Anda is an independent curator who currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. Her projects focus on collaboration based programming that cross-pollinates ideas and connects contemporary art to local community. From 2003-2010 Raquel was the Associate Curator at Galería de la Raza, a contemporary Latino arts organization founded in 1970. Recent events and exhibitions include Roots and Visions, a project of the Prospect. 1 Biennial Education Department; Strategies for the Shift, a panel series which examined the political shift in Latin America via the critical lens of the artist; ChicaChic: A New Wave of Chicana Art; The ReMuseum, a temporary public art project for the 5x5 project, Washington, D.C. and Ripple Effect: Current of Socially Engaged Art at the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC. Raquel has also juried several panels for organizations including The San Francisco Arts Commission and The National Performance Network. Gabriel de Guzman is Assistant Curator of Visual Arts at Wave Hill, where he organizes the Sunroom Project Space series for New York-area emerging artists and coordinates thematic group exhibitions in Wave Hill’s Glyndor Gallery. Prior to 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 (2010), Susan Hiller: The J. Street Project (2008), Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered (2008), and Schoenberg, Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider (2003), as well as career-spanning surveys of the work of Louise Nevelson (2007) and Joan Snyder (2005). Mr. de Guzman contributed an entry on Larry Rivers’ Portrait of Vera List, c. 1965, in Masterworks of The Jewish Museum (2004), as well as chronologies and biographical texts in the catalogues for Houdini, Warhol’s Jews, Louise Nevelson, and Schoenberg, Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider. Mr. de Guzman 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. Christine Licata is a New York based Independent Curator, Art Writer and Creative Director. From 2008 – 2011 she was the Associate Curator at Taller Boricua Galleries in Spanish Harlem and has curated with other alternative, experimental art spaces such as AC Institute and Art for Change's 2010 Hacia Afuera arts festival. Currently she is part of the curatorial team for Art in Odd Places' performance art festival AIOP 2012: MODEL and is a contributing writer for Artlog. Her writing has also been published in numerous artist catalogs as well as in Art on Paper and Degree Critical. She has a BFA from Parson School of Design and an MA in Art Criticism and Writing from the School of Visual Arts. Abbe Schriber is a Curatorial Assistant at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Among her research interests are the histories of photography and performance, public art and urban space, feminist theory and practice, and the intersections of art and political activism. Schriber has written for publications including The Brooklyn Rail, artcritical.com, and BOMBlog (forthcoming). She has worked in the curatorial departments of institutions such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, where she researched and archived Fluxus objects from the Gilbert & Lila Silverman Collection. She received a BA in Art History from Oberlin College, where she co-curated the exhibitions ‘To Make Things Visible’: Art in the Shadow of World War I, and Envisioning Edo’s Splendor: ‘The Floating World’ and Beyond. Registration Please go through our online payment system here. Questions If you have any questions, please email the Immigrant Artist Project at i.outreach@nyfa.org or call 212-366-6900 x249. Cancellation Policy: If for any reason you need to cancel your appointments, please give us 48 hours notice so that we can offer your space to our waiting list. For cancellations in advance we offer a reimbursement for your cost minus a $10 processing fee. Any cancellations 48 hours prior, we will not be able to issue a refund.
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