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Ambitious Art Projects and How To Make Them Happen: Four Artists' Stories from NYFA on Vimeo.
New York Foundation for the Arts
November 20, 2010
Visual artist and NYFA Artist-as-Entrepreneur Boot Camp graduate Rachel Selekman moderates a discussion with fellow Boot Camp colleagues about the practical things (e.g., funding, budgeting, marketing and publicity) needed to get their work in front of the public. The panelists, representing four different disciplines, are visual artist Michelle Jaffe, musician and band leader Travis Sullivan, filmmaker Isabel Sadurni and writer Rachel Somerstein.
Bios:
Michelle Jaffe
Michelle Jaffe has been the recipient of numerous awards from NYFA: Fiscal Sponsorship, Artist as Entrepreneur Boot Camp residency, & an Education Opportunity grant. From NYSCA: an Individual Artist grant to produce Wappen Field, a large-scale sculpture and sound installation. She has been awarded an Individual Artists Initiative grant as well as a Peer Leader Circle award from the Queens Council on the Arts. She has attended artist residencies at the MacDowell Colony & at Djerassi, and was Artist-in-Residence to the Computer Music Department at Brooklyn College in 2003. Recent solo sculpture exhibitions include New Work 2010 at Susan Berko Conde Gallery, Wappen Field: A Work in Progress at The Broadway Gallery, courtesy of the Malka Lubelski Cultural Foundation, site specific installations Bed of Nails, Iraq 4000 at Djerassi and Between the Clock and the Bed at the "PS1's Backside" exhibition. Solo shows were presented in 2004 at Susan Conde Gallery & at 150m3 Largus Austellungs & Projektraum in Cologne, Germany. Other significant group shows include those at Lehman College Art Gallery, the Museum of Art at Middlebury College, the 2006 Bellevue Sculpture Biennial, the Islip Art Museum, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Sacred Heart University, amongst others.
Isabel Sadurni
Isabel Sadurni is proud to have been a participant in NYFA’s Artist as Entrepreneur program, 2010. She has shot, edited and produced several feature films, including the features 100 People: Voices of a City and Flamenco: Aqui y Alli and has worked as Editor for the award-winning feature, Tootie’s Last Suit and A Case of Mistaken Identity, shot by Albert Maysles. Her documentary and narrative films have been screened internationally and are included in the collection of the Musee de l’Homme in Paris. While living in Paris, she created the award-winning short film Tu Me Souviens, for which Isabel was honored as the featured artist for Ninthletter, an on-line arts and literary journal. Her most recent documentary films, Power of the Sun, won the prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award in collaboration with the 100 People Foundation on the subject of innovations in solar energy in Africa and the Philippines. As a writer, she has been published in ArtNews, Wired, Variety and Filmmaker and ArtForum.online.
Isabel is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley’s Department of Philosophy and Stanford University’s Graduate Program in Communications for Video and Film.
Her upcoming film, THE KITE, an adolescent love story about a Muslim boy who unexpectedly befriends a Hindu girl is currently in development. To find out more, please visit: www.isabelsadurni.com
Rachel Selekman
Brooklyn-based sculptor Rachel Selekman has had solo exhibitions at Priska Juschka Fine Art, NYC (2003, 2004, and 2006); Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne (2005); the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington (2001); and KAOS Galerie, Cologne (1996). Her work has been included in group shows at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna; Museo d’Arte Universidad Nacional, Bogota, Columbia; Wave Hill, Bronx, NY; Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY; and the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA; among many others. Selekman received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 1997 and a Henry Street Settlement residency in 2007. Her sculptures and works on paper are in numerous public and private collections including three works on paper in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC. Selekman received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and she has worked in the visual arts—in galleries, as director of the 92nd Street Y Art Center, and presently as the archivist and project coordinator of the Dan Flavin Estate—for over fifteen years.
Rachel Somerstein
Rachel Somerstein’s essays and reporting have appeared in ARTnews, Guernica: A Magazine of Art & Politics, n+1, and Wired, among other publications. Currently she’s staff writer at Next American City, where she writes about urban redevelopment and the politics of public space. In Syracuse, where she recently relocated, Rachel has had the opportunity to blend her passion for the arts and community development by launching a Syracuse-based incarnation of FEAST (Funding Emerging Artists through Sustainable Tactics). With two cofounders, Rachel launched DISHES -- Dine In. Support Happenings. Enliven Syracuse! -- a community-based group that supports grassroots art projects. As an educator, Rachel has taught fiction and nonfiction writing at New York University’s Stern School of Business and Lehman College. She holds a BA from Cornell University and an MFA from NYU. She’s currently at work on a collection of short fiction and a novel.
Travis Sullivan
In 1999, Travis Sullivans debut album As We Speak was hailed by critics as “...simply one of the the best indie releases heard in the past year...” (Todd Jenkins, All About Jazz), and Sullivan was praised by jazz writer Bill Milkowski (Jazz Times) as “...a promising new talent on the scene.” Since then, Sullivan has established himself as a notable contributor to the New York City jazz scene as a composer, arranger, alto saxophonist and pianist. After premiering at New York Citys Knitting Factory in September of 2004, Travis Sullivans latest project The Bjorkestra has received a tremendous response from both fans and the press alike. The 18-piece band performs the music of Islandic pop artist Bjork as arranged and conducted by Sullivan. Travis has been interviewed by such major publications such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post, and The Boston Globe described the project as being “the hippest of the NYC downtown jazz scene. Sullivans interview regarding jazz music and the genres link to Bjork was recently heard by two million listeners on the BBC radio show The World. Sullivans appearances as a bandleader include The Williamsburg Jazz Festival, several prominent New York City performance venues such as Symphony Space and Joes Pub, and a performance with Grammy nominated tenor saxophonist Donny McCaslin at NYUs Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. Also an accomplished composer, Sullivans work “Last Tango in NYC”, a piece for accordion, clarinet, trombone, and electric guitar, was recorded by the eclectic chamber quartet The Four Bags for their 2004 CD Offshore.
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