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Virtual | Pecha Kucha!
May 28, 2020 | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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We’re kicking off summer with a virtual Pecha Kucha!
The Pecha Kucha format highlights members’ projects and initiatives across different visual arts professions. Creative and fast-paced, each presentation provides an opportunity to share and learn more about what have been working on during and the evolution of projects during our current crisis.
About our participants:
Laila Abdul-Hadi Jadallah: Drawing Out the Artist in Everyone: Creating Accessible Art Education Opportunities in the Online Space
Laila Abdul-Hadi Jadallah is the Managing Director of Washington Studio School, a nonprofit arts organization in Washington, D.C. where she is responsible for fundraising, communications, operations, and strategies, including partnerships and community outreach in collaboration with the Artistic Director. Ms. Jadallah has over 12 years of experience in the nonprofit sector and art consulting in communications, exhibition development and cultural heritage protection having held positions at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Art Fraud Insights, LLC, and International Arts and Artists. She received her BA in Integrative Studies/Arts & Culture from George Mason University’s School of Integrative Studies. She also holds certificates from SPEOS Photographic Institute Paris in photography and Harvard Business School Online in Business Fundamentals.
Ilaria Conti: Labor, Art, and Auratic Conditions
Ilaria Conti is an independent curator and cultural worker with a focus on social justice and engaged artistic practices, epistemological pluralism, and the relationship between institutional infrastructures and public engagement. She is the Vice President of African Art Dialogues, a non-profit organization producing the African Art in Venice Forum. Most recently, she served as Research Curator at the Centre Georges Pompidou for Cosmopolis, a multiyear platform devoted to research-based art. Previously, she was Exhibitions and Programs Director at CIMA New York, Assistant Curator of the 2016 Marrakech Biennale, and Samuel H. Kress Interpretive Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other positions. Her curatorial projects include Is This Love? Art / Labor / Auratic Conditions (2020), Cosmopolis #2: Rethinking the Human (2019), Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence (2018), Cosmopolis #1: Collective Intelligence, (2017); 6th Marrakech Biennale: Not New Now (2016); and Méxtasis (2016). She holds a BA and an MA in Contemporary Art History and Curatorial Studies from the University of Rome La Sapienza and an MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University.
Susan Power: Cuban Sculptor Agustín Cárdenas: Expanding the Canon
An independent scholar and curator based in Los Angeles and specializing in modern and contemporary art, Susan L. Power holds a doctorate from the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She has lectured and published internationally on the reception and dissemination of surrealism in North America as well as artist-designed strategies of display, from surrealist exhibitions to contemporary interventions in institutional and commercial settings. Most recently, she contributed a catalog essay on the American reception of Rumanian artist Victor Brauner published in partnership with the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Her current scholarship focuses on the work of Cuban sculptor Agustín Cárdenas, with recent essays in the exhibition catalogue Agustín Cárdenas: Mon Ombre Après Minuit, currently at the Maison d’Amérique Latine, Paris, France until June 10, 2020, and “Agustín Cárdenas: Sculpting the ‘Memory of the Future,’” in the forthcoming issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Surrealism and the Americas. She has worked in curatorial and educational roles at the Musée d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Marciano Art Foundation.
Masha Turchinsky: Small Museum, Big Footprint
Masha Turchinsky is Director and CEO of the Hudson River Museum, where she oversees the largest cultural organization in Westchester County, New York. With a mission to connect diverse communities through the power of arts, sciences and history, the HRM’s collections include nineteenth-century to contemporary American art; Glenview, a Gilded Age home on the National Register of Historic Places; an environmental teaching gallery; a state-of-the-art planetarium; and an amphitheater dedicated to the performing arts. Under Turchinsky’s direction, the Hudson River Museum garnered the 2019 Engaging Communities Award from the Museum Association of New York for the collecting initiative and exhibition Through Our Eyes: Milestones and Memories of African Americans in Yonkers and the 2019 Award for Excellence in Publications for Maya Lin: A River Is a Drawing by the Greater Hudson Heritage Network. She is currently overseeing a $10+ million capital expansion and improvement project at the Museum. Previously, Turchinsky worked for nineteen years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Digital and Education Departments, overseeing teams dedicated to original content and design. While at the Met, she also served as delegate to the board of trustees. As a consultant, she has worked with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the New York Botanical Garden. She is a member of the Association of Art Museum Directors and currently serves on ArtTable’s national Board of Directors. Turchinsky holds an EdM in International Educational Development from Teachers College, Columbia University, an MA in Education from New York University, and a BS in Russian Studies from Georgetown University.
Thank you to Hope Davis, New York Chapter, and Roni Feinstein, Southern California Chapter.
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