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Members met at the New Museum after our Annual Benefit & Award Ceremony for a private tour of Faith Ringgold: American People led by Curatorial Assistant, Madeline Weisburg.

Bringing together over fifty years of work, the exhibition provides the most comprehensive assessment to date of the artist’s vision. Artist, author, educator, and organizer, Faith Ringgold is one of the most influential cultural figures of her generation. Her career links the multi-disciplinary practices of the Harlem Renaissance to the political art of young Black artists working today. For sixty years, Ringgold has drawn from both personal autobiography and collective histories to both document her life as an artist and mother and to amplify the struggles for social justice and equity. From creating some of the most indelible artworks of the civil rights era to challenging accepted hierarchies of art versus craft through her experimental story quilts, Faith Ringgold has produced a body of work that bears witness to the complexity of the American experience.

ArtTable Board, Circle, and Benefit Host Committee Members were invited to join us for an evening of refreshments and networking with friends and colleagues.

This event took place on ArtTable Day, officially declared by the Mayor of New York City in 2005 to mark ArtTable’s 25th Anniversary. Over 15 years later, we continue to acknowledge this day and celebrate our incredible community of professional women in the arts!

Our sincerest thanks to our host for the evening, Nohra Haime, for welcoming us into her home.

National Portrait Gallery curator Dorothy Moss led an in-person tour of her major exhibition on the poignant work of the artist Hung Liu, who sadly passed away from cancer just a few weeks before the show opened. Dr. Moss provided an overview of the exhibition and shared additional insights into her close working relationship with the artist.

Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for March’s BreakfastTable with Chela Mitchell of Chela Mitchell Art.

Mitchell is an art advisor committed to helping collectors build diverse art collections. She has worked with institutions, corporations, and art collectors, informing their acquisitions in the emerging, mid-career, and established markets. Mitchell is a voice for change in the art world, often speaking on panels and actively fighting for the equity of artists and art professionals.

Please join us for a discussion about the development of alternative art spaces, specifically throughout the Southern California region. In this virtual discussion, we will hear from several professionals who have either founded or currently run alternative art spaces in the Southern California region, and will address questions like, what makes an art space “alternative?” How are these spaces addressing the underserved needs within the local art world? Our panelists will speak to how their respective organizations are implementing alternative methods in order to reach their goals and further their missions.

Panelists: Jordan Karney Chaim, Art historian, writer, and independent curator; Kristine Schomaker, Director, Shoebox Projects; Joy Silverman, Former Executive Director, LACE; Board Member, Feminist Center for Creative Work

The discussion was moderated by Liza Shapiro, Director & Co-founder of CURA.

The world is abuzz about NFTs, and it does not come as a shock that the space is awash with male artists. Yam Karkai, the sole artist behind the World of Women (WoW), is a critical voice in the NFT space not just for women but for collective diversity in the crypto community. Join Yam and Yennefer, Head of Communications at WoW, for a virtual discussion about Yam’s vision for this project, how she became a part of the NFT space, the seemingly overnight success of World of Women, and her thoughts on how NFT projects stay relevant in a booming crypto market.

A virtual tour of Emma Amos: Color Odyssey with exhibition curator Shawnya Harris, curator of African American and African Diasporic Art at the Georgia Art Museum.

At the end of the tour, Harris will be joined by Laurel Garber, Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, who oversaw the museum’s installation of the show and contributed to the catalogue, as well as Curator of Contemporary Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Jodi Throckmorton, who curated the exhibition Joan Semmel: Skin in the Game*. They will discuss the coincidence of major retrospectives by two extraordinary, under-appreciated artists of the same generation, working at the same time in the same city, and connections between the two artists’ work. Shelley Langdale, Curator and Head of Modern Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, will moderate.

ArtTable’s New York Chapter held their annual holiday party virtually with art games and festive cocktails. We also honored the year’s New York Chapter Leadership Award recipient, Randy R. Rosen!

A conversation between author Donna Stein Korn and art advisor Dorothy Goldeen about Donna’s newest book, The Empress and I: How an Ancient Empire Collected, Rejected and Rediscovered Modern Art. The book was written to reflect Donna’s work to assemble a collection of contemporary art for a new Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, Iran under the auspices of the Imperial Empress Pahlavi, wife of the Shah of Iran. She writes about how she worked curatorial miracles through her connections with colleagues especially in the USA and with encouragement from the Shabanou and some obstacles from other government members.