News from Our Fellows
September 2023
Nadia Ramirez Estrada (2023 Fellow, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)) is continuing to work with LACE in their LACE Postgraduate Fellowship, PST ART Research Assistant role.
Sophia Bae (2023 Fellow, Capital One Art Collection) has been hired to continue her work on the creation of a printed catalog highlighting select pieces in the Capital One Center permanent art collection.
November 2022
Larissa Nez (Diné)(2021 Fellow, Montclair Art Museum) has joined the team at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics as their Borderlands Curatorial Fellow.
September 2022
Stefanie Jason (2022 Fellow, Amant Foundation) will continue working with Amant Foundation as a Research Fellow after the end of her fellowship.
Larissa Nez (Diné)(2021 Fellow, Montclair Art Museum) has joined the team at the Forge Project as their Digital Indigenous Storytelling Fellow, where she writes, designs, and produces content regarding Turtle Island and Indian Country.
July 2022
Alejandra Lopez Oliveros (2021 Fellow, Project for Empty Space) is starting a Ph.D. Program in Art History at Rutgers University.
June 2022
Andrea Lewis (2021 Fellow, Philadelphia Museum of Art) is the new assistant to the Global Editorial Director of Architectural Digest.
April 2022
Kendra Greendeer (2021 Fellow, Portland Museum of Art) has been featured in the article Ho-Chunk graduate students elevate Native voices in their studies, highlighting the work that she and three other Ho-Chunk graduate students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are doing to elevate the voices and experiences of Native American people, and to make academic and cultural spaces more accessible and beneficial to the Ho-Chunk community.
January 2022
Frances Melgarejo (2021 Fellow, AMERINDA) is guest curating an exhibition featuring Indigenous contemporary art in Pompano Beach, Florida. She was presented with this opportunity by another ArtTable member, whom she met through a virtual networking event.
Frances will also be participating in The Aspen Institute’s 2022 Spring Workshop Series: Building DEAI Capacity to Host BIPOC Internships/Fellowships.
Nidhi Gandhi (2021 Fellow, Brooklyn Museum) has joined the team at the San Jose Museum of Art as the Curatorial and Programs Associate.
October 2021
Alejandra Lopez-Oliveros (2021 Fellow, Project for Empty Space) is the new Gallery / Collection Assistant at Another Space, a gallery in New York, NY established by the Daniel and Estrellita B. Brodsky Family Foundation to broaden international awareness and appreciation of art from Latin America.
August 2021
Sarika Sanyal (2021 Fellow, Public Art Fund) is the new Associate Director at Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND).
May 2021
Marcela C. Guerrero (2005 Fellow, Catherine Clark Gallery) has been promoted to Jennifer Rubio Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
April 2021
Jewel Ham (2020 Fellow, The Arts Student League) is curating a virtual exhibition entitled “Wrist Game.” This collaborative digital experience will feature a roster of Black visual artists and musicians, as so often one genre influences the other.
Jewel says, “This will be my first independent curatorial role and, although this project will be available to engage with entirely online, I am looking forward to sharing its community nature with you.” Wrist Game will open officially on April 14, but in the meantime, please enjoy the Pre-site – featuring the “set list” of artists, a few upcoming events, and a written overview of the show by clicking here.
“As a curator, Jewel aims to reimagine the traditional gallery space, amplifying the work of powerhouse Black artists. Inspired by her own studio practice as well as the idea of “curating a mood” and the music video feeling that comes with finding your song, she came into this project wanting to visualize a vibe. Although not personally musically inclined, the unapologetic nature of Black femme rap and other lyrical genres has fueled Jewel’s artistic practice from the start.
“After interning for Spotify in 2019 and going viral for my experiences there, it became clear that the system for giving visual artists and designers credit where due on major projects simply did not exist. As the Black experience and its accompanying culture continue to define popular and consumer culture alike, Jewel felt it was time to create a table of our own. In partnership with Treble, a community-driven virtual music resource space, she hopes to further amplify the work of Black contemporary artists across the world, as they set today’s cultural stage.”
February 2021
Alana Hernandez (2015 Lila Harnett ArtTable Diversity Fellow) will join the CALA Alliance in Phoenix, AZ as Executive Director & Curator on March 1, 2021.
Sua Mendez (2020 Fellow, The Morgan Library & Museum) is the new Collections Management & Archives Intern at the South Street Seaport Museum in New York.
Chelsea Adewunmi (2020 Lila Harnett ArtTable Diversity Fellow, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum) has applied her love for art, culture, and African American studies to the role of Associate Producer for the new HBO documentary film, “Black Art: In the Absence of Light” (2021).
October 2020
Carola Reyes (2020 Fellow, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) recently joined the team at Sotheby’s in New York as Associate Cataloguer, Contemporary Art Day Sale.
June 2020
Get to know Erica Rawles (2020 Fellow, The Laundromat Project) in this new profile from The Laundromat Project.
Nana Yoshida (2018 Lenore G. Tawney Foundation ArtTable Diversity Fellow) has started blogging about fashion, culture, and social changes of New York City, as part of larger book project on “Designing in Brooklyn: 20 years of Fads, Fashion, and Social Change, 1997-2017.”
Jovanna Jones (2017 Elaine Goldman ArtTable Diversity Fellow) reached her PhD candidacy and has begun working on her dissertation project, currently titled “American Gothic: Housing, Visual Culture, and the Aesthetics of Black Space,” that will be examining the image and politics of housing in documentary photography, architectural plans, and American painting from the Depression Era to Postwar Renewal. In addiiton, most recently she received a special citation for the inaugural Gordon Parks Foundation Essay Prize at Harvard for my paper entitled “Social Photography and the Racial Politics of Place.” As a graduate intern at the Harvard Art Museums, Division of European and American Art, under the supervision of Ethan Lasser, Curator, she has been working on text for the museum’s upcoming Winslow Homer (Fall 2019,) and contributing early research for a retrospective exhibit on Dave Drake, an enslaved potter in South Carolina in the 19th century.
Kimberly Jacobs (2016 Catherine Hannah Behrend Fellow, Philadelphia Museum of Art) was appointed in September 2018 as the first Joyce Blackmon Curatorial Fellow at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee.
Alyssa Velazquez (2016 Kress Foundation Fellow, Columbia Museum of Art) is leaving her position as a Curatorial Research Associate at the Columbia Museum of Art in South Carolina, a position which she was offered after completion of her felllowship, has just been appointed as the Curatorial Assistant, Decorative Arts and Design, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA beginning this summer.
Ashley DeHoyos (2015 Arttable/Kress Fellowship, Philadelphia Museum of Art) was appointed in Fall 2018 as the Assistant Curator, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas.
Erika Hirugami (2015 ArtTable/Kress Foundation Fellow, Columbia Museum of Art ) has accepted the position of Curatorial Director at the KNOW Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. This coming Fall, she will also be beginning her Ph.D. studies in Chicana and Chicano Studies at UCLA. Her thesis will focus on the convergence of aesthetics and transnationalism, with a special concern for undocumented Mexican experiences. Her ultimate academic goal is to generate resources about, for, and with undocumented Latinx artists.
We wish all of our past and present Fellows continued success with their achievements and look forward to following their career paths!