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ArtTable invites you to join us in celebration of two honorees–Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Awardee, Linda Goode Bryant, and New Leadership Awardee, Niama Safia Sandy.  

Linda Goode Bryant is a distinguished social activist, gallerist, and filmmaker based in New York City. Renowned for her groundbreaking initiative, Just Above Midtown (JAM), established in 1972, Bryant pioneered a commercial gallery showcasing Black artists and artists of color, emphasizing artistic freedom. Forty years after its founding, JAM was the subject of a 2022 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces, which brought together works from the fourteen years of JAM alongside a series of performances, installations, and activations across New York City.

Niama Safia Sandy is a New York-based cultural anthropologist, curator, producer, multidisciplinary artist, and educator. Niama’s work delves into the human story, often with stories of the Global Black diaspora at its center. She currently hosts and produces a weekly conversation series FOR/FOUR, featuring Black women and non-binary persons in the arts and culture. Niama recently helped found The Blacksmiths, a new coalition of culture workers standing together to forge support for Black liberation against anti-Black racism in the academy and at presenting institutions. Through The Blacksmiths, Niama has produced resources and public events engaging communities, activists, artists across disciplines, and more to close the gaps in appropriate opportunities for Black artists, curators, and administrators on the global stage.

Join us at Bohemian National Hall on the Upper East Side as we honor two trailblazing arts professionals–Linda Goode Bryant, presented with the Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Award, and Niama Safia Sandy, presented with the New Leadership Award. The evening promises to be a momentous occasion you won’t want to miss.

Can’t join us in New York? Support ArtTable by donating today, purchasing an advertisement or message, or sponsoring an early career visual arts professional to attend the benefit by purchasing a mentorship ticket.


Annual Benefit & Award Ceremony Program

Tuesday, April 16
Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, New York
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Celebration, Drinks and Bites

Honoring
Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Awardee

Linda Goode Bryant

Social Activist, Gallerist, and Filmmaker

and

New Leadership Awardee

Niama Safia Sandy

Cultural Anthropologist, Multidisciplinary artist, Independent Curator, and Educator

With Special Remarks by

Sophie Bae

Assistant Art Registrar, Collection and Exhibition Manager George Mason University
ArtTable Fellowship Alumna

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VIP Reception

Hosted by Hill Art Foundation
By invitation only
Special-access event for ticket holders at Member Friend Ticket level ($550) and above, ArtTable Circle Members, and ArtTable Board Members.

Monday, April 15th

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To join our Host Committee, please register here.


Benefit Co-Chairs

Valerie Cassel Oliver

Kendal Henry

Host Committee

Mentorship & Equity
Agnes Gund

Visionary
Elizabeth Fearon Pepperman
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers
Susan Unterberg

Community
The Marieluise Hessel Foundation

Leadership
Milly Glimcher

Executive
Carol Cole Levin
Fairfax Dorn
Lowery S. Sims

Member Friend
Dr. Annette Blaugrund
Sylvia Brown
Charlayne D. Haynes
Kendal Henry
Julia P. Herzberg, PhD
Courtney Maier Burbela
Melissa Osterwind
Ellen Taubman

Linda Goode Bryant is a distinguished social activist, gallerist, and filmmaker based in New York City. Renowned for her groundbreaking initiative, Just Above Midtown (JAM), established in 1972, Bryant pioneered a commercial gallery showcasing Black artists and artists of color, emphasizing artistic freedom over financial gains. Her dedication to fostering artistic dialogue led the gallery to host exhibitions of notable figures like Janet Olivia Henry, Randy Williams, Ishmael Houston-Jones Maren Hassinger, and many more. Forty years after its founding, JAM was the subject of a 2022 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces, which brought together works from the fourteen years of JAM alongside a series of performances, installations, and activations across New York City.

Bryant’s cinematic endeavors include co-directing the award-winning documentary “Flag Wars” in 2003, addressing gentrification’s impact on marginalized communities. This acclaimed work earned her a Peabody Award and subsequent Guggenheim Fellowship. Beyond film, Bryant’s commitment to community empowerment is evident in Project EATS, founded in 2008, an initiative of the Active Citizens Project, through which Goode Bryant works with a team to grow fresh produce in New York City and provide it to underserved communities in food deserts, like in the Brownsville neighborhood in Brooklyn.

Furthering her impact, Bryant founded the Active Citizen Project, utilizing art and media to mobilize youth in civic engagement. With accolades such as the 2020 Berresford Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a robust educational background, including an MBA from Columbia University and a BA from Spelman College in painting, Bryant’s multifaceted contributions resonate across disciplines, championing social change and artistic expression.

Niama Safia Sandy is a New York-based cultural anthropologist, multidisciplinary artist, independent curator and exhibition-maker, organizer, and educator. Her artistic, curatorial, and pedagogical practices all hinge upon justice, activism, creating visibility, and dialogue by elucidating connections where most had not thought to make them. The lifeblood of Sandy’s work is about making art, history and ideas accessible, and collaborating with and caring for artists across many disciplines to offer audiences contemporary interventions that challenge, reconcile, or reframe those histories toward something new and more equitable for all. She is deeply invested in multidisciplinary experiences because she believes the artificial barriers created between artistic fields often put practitioners at a disadvantage. Breaking these disciplinary and hierarchical boundaries allows us to connect with the animating spirit that spurs our work forward, and to expand our thinking about how things are connected. 

Sandy is currently the Inaugural Curatorial Fellow 2024-2025 with Antenna, New Orleans. She has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute, School of Art since Fall 2019 teaching Fine Arts graduate and undergraduate students. At Pratt, Niama is a recipient of the 2023 Faculty Development Fund and the 2022-23 and 2023-24 School of Art Dean’s Innovation Fund grants. Since 2021, she has also been the Manager of Grants and Education Programs for the Black Artists + Designers Guild (BADG). Thus far in her role, Niama has delivered over $50,000 of funding directly to artists. Sandy also served as Consulting Producer for New York Winter Jazz Fest 2021, the Inaugural Curator-and-Writer-in-Residence at Fridman Gallery (2021), and Performance Curator at TEDWomen 2021. She has served on panels and in advisory capacities for Artadia, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Bemis Center, Chamber Music America, En Foco, and many other national arts organizations.

Niama has mounted exhibitions across the United States and internationally, including Black Magic: AfroPasts/AfroFutures (2016 and 2017), Refraction: New Photography of Africa and its Diaspora (2018), In Plain Sight/Site (2018). Niama has presented, co-convened, and participated in programs at Creative Time, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, MICA, the World Around Summit, Harvard University, National Sawdust, Oberlin College, The Public Theater, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 1014 & more. Sandy has utilized her exhibition and programmatic work as a healing and generative space, a portal for transmutation to activating inquiry and reflection into our relationships with beauty, history, creativity, power, and life itself. No matter the disciplinary intersections her work crosses, she sifts through the remnants of history in the hope of lifting us all to a higher state of historical, ontological, and spiritual wholeness in the process. In recent years this has extended to the creation of new initiatives and programs.

Among Niama’s collaborative initiatives are The Blacksmiths, a national coalition of artists, presenters, and producers across disciplines specifically dedicated to transforming the way Black art professionals are stewarded into the space founded in 2020. In 2022, Sandy co-founded THIS IS A MOVEMENT, an initiative seeking to create a more equitable, non-hierarchical, collaborative, and imaginative music industry through an intersectional Black feminist lens. She is also a member of the artist collectives the Resistance Revival Chorus and the Wide Awakes.

She has completed commissioned writing on artists including Milford Graves, Dindga McCannon, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, Nate Lewis, Zina Saro-Wiwa, Rachel Stern, Brittany Leeanne Williams, and many others. Sandy and her work have been featured in The New York Times, Monopol, Teen Vogue, The Washington Post, Hyperallergic, Camera Austria, OkayAfrica, CultureType, and other publications. Her writing has been featured in Artsy, Active Cultures LA, NATAAL, and more.


Soohyun (Sophie) Bae, born and raised in South Korea, developed a profound passion for creativity and visual art from an early age. This passion has led her to create visually appealing content that resonates with diverse audiences. She is Assistant Art Registrar, Collection Manager, and Exhibition Manager at George Mason University.

Additionally, Bae is responsible for organizing and coordinating a printed catalog showcasing a carefully curated selection of pieces from the Capital One Center art collection.

Bae is an ArtTable Fellowship Alumna who worked closely with the Capital One Art Program. This opportunity provided her with invaluable experience in developing a discerning eye for art curation and honing her research skills. The successful completion of this project provides Sophie with a solid foundation for her future endeavors and contributes to the promotion and enrichment of the Capital One Center’s permanent art collection.

She volunteered her skills in marketing and communications at ArtTable in Washington DC and works as a contractor with Art in Embassies: U.S. Department of State, further expanding her involvement in the art world. Sophie is an accomplished and creativity-oriented visual director, showcasing expertise in photography, videography, graphic design, digital asset management, exhibition management, and arts management.


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Premier Video Advertisement $1,375

  • Five-second video advertisement to be played at the Benefit
  • Inclusion in dedicated e-blast to ArtTable members
  • 16:9 aspect ratio, mp4 format, no audio. 

Priority Screen Advertisement $775

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Priority Screen Advertisement $775

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  • Inclusion in dedicated e-blast to ArtTable members
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Priority Message $200

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ArtTable’s Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Award

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“EYE” by Louise Bourgeois, is cast each year through ArtTable as a symbol of the dedication of our Distinguished Service Awardee”

ArtTable’s Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Award acknowledges and celebrates remarkable leadership in the arts. Its recipients exemplify ArtTable’s dedication to the lasting impact of the visual arts on our shared cultural life. In 2003, as a special gesture to ArtTable and the leading women it honors, Louise Bourgeois created an unnumbered, cast bronze edition to represent the award for Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts. EYE (cast bronze and silver nitrate with a polished patina) is cast each year in commendation to our awardee.

Past awardees include Shirley Pooler Kinsey, Carol Cole Levin, Barbara Tober, Susan Unterberg, Estrellita Brodsky, Marian Goodman, Lowery Stokes Sims, Marieluise Hessel-Artzt, Melva Bucksbaum & Raymond Learsy, Marguerite Steed Hoffman, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Patricia E. Harris, Lila Harnett, Yoko Ono, Toby Devan Lewis, Vishakha N. Desai, Emily K. Rafferty, Elizabeth A. Sackler, Elizabeth C. Baker, Linda Nochlin, Iris Cantor, Paula Cooper, Marcia Tucker, Lucy Lippard, Joan Mondale, Stephanie French, Dianne H. Pilgrim, Emily Rauh Pulitzer, Agnes Gund, Kitty Carlisle Hart.

ArtTable’s New Leadership Award


Maya Lin’s Seven Square Inches of Water (2014) is awarded to each recipient of ArtTable’s New Leadership Award.

ArtTable’s New Leadership Award recognizes an emerging professional who has demonstrated outstanding leadership and made considerable contributions to the visual art field in the earlier stages of their careers. This award was first introduced as part of ArtTable’s 25th anniversary celebration in 2005. This past year’s award was Seven Square Inches of Water, a limited-edition artwork by Maya Lin created to benefit the “What Is Missing?” project.

Past awardees include Storm Ascher, Deana Haggag, Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood, La Tanya S. Autry, Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Erin Christovale, Lauren Haynes, Jami Powell, Alexandra Chang, Naima J. Keith, Lauren Cornell, Sara Raza, Naomi Beckwith, Amy Sadao, Sarah Douglas, Cecilia Alemani, Shamim Momin, Christine Y. Kim, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Andrea Barnwell, Melissa Chiu, Fairfax Dorn and Virginia Lebermann, Ellen Haddigan, Bronwyn Keenan, Sheri L. Pasquarella, Maura Reilly, Natasha Schlesinger, Laura Hoptman, Marysol Nieves, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, and Olga Viso.

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