Distance Consultations for Visual Artists

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is pleased to announce Distance Consultations, a program designed to provide support for international and national artists living outside of NYC. The Distance Consultation Program has been developed in response to a need from artists who are unable to attend our popular program Doctor's Hours on site in Dumbo. Our January 2013 session provided consultations for artists nationwide and internationally.

Participants were able to book via phone or skype, one-on-one individual appointments with NYFA consultants. The sessions provide an opportunity for practical advice and feedback on presentation of your work, your website or an upcoming application.

January 2013 Consultants:

Edwin Ramoran,Curator
Edwin Ramoran is an independent curator. He was the Guest Lead Curator for the performance and public art festival titled Art in Odd Places 2012: MODEL which took place in October along 14th Street. He is a recipient of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts’ Curatorial Fellowship Grant and the apexart Outbound Residency. Previous positions include Assistant Curator at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Director/Curator at Longwood Arts Project/Bronx Council on the Arts, Director of Exhibitions and Programs at Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, and Program Director of Arkipelago, a Filipino arts collective. He has been a guest curator at the P.S. 1/MoMA, Museum of Chinese in the Americas, PERFORMA 05 at Artists Space, Boston Center for the Arts (forthcoming), Center for Book Arts, Clemente Soto Velez, Corridor Gallery, Dixon Place, Dieu Donné Papermill and Gallery, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Krause Gallery, South Asian Women's Creative Collective, The LGBT Center, and Visual AIDS.

Judith Page, Curator, Writer and Art Educator
Judith Page is a nationally recognized artist, curator, writer and educator living in Brooklyn, New York. Over the past twenty-five years, Page has mentored hundreds of artists beginning with her tenure as Curator/Director of the Art Galleries at Valencia College in Florida; subsequently as Founding Program Director of Aljira Emerge; and through her teaching at Maryland Institute College of Arts and currently in the MFA Fine Arts Program at the School of Visual Arts. In addition, she has given numerous lectures and workshops aimed at helping artists develop their careers, receive grants and fellowships, and exhibit their art. She has served on many grants panels and juries, most recently for the States of NJ and PA, and for the Carriage House Projects at Islip Art Museum. She has organized over 200 exhibitions, and written articles, essays and criticism for publications such as Sculpture magazine and for individuals. An essay on Annette Messager is included in A Sculpture Reader: Contemporary Sculpture since 1980. Page is currently working on a book about the world's first atomic artist that will be published in 2013.

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