Tag: BreakfastTable

Cheryl Numark will host this gathering at her Washington DC home and discuss what it means to be a contemporary art advisor in 2023, as well as alternative forms of artist representation outside of the traditional gallery setting. This will be an opportunity for both artists and collectors to consider the evolving dynamics of artist representation and glean valuable insight into the multi-faceted role of an art advisor/gallerist who has worked to build meaningful collections and support artists throughout her career.

For the health and safety of all guests, please have an up to date COVID vaccine or wear a mask. Venue address will be disclosed via email to all registered guests two days prior to the event.

Admission:

• ArtTable Members – complimentary
• Member Guests – $10

Not a member? Join today!

Thank you to ArtTable’s DC Chapter for organizing this program.

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Meet Anne Helmreich, the newly appointed director of the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, who leads the world’s preeminent and most widely used research center dedicated to collecting, preserving, and making accessible primary sources documenting the history of the visual arts in America. The Archives’ holdings, dating from the 18th century to the present day, encompass more than 30 million items from artists, collectors, art historians, art dealers, and critics, as well as other voices from across the art world. The Archives stewards more than 6,400 collections and 2,500 oral history interviews.

Registration will be finalized by the morning of Monday, November 6!

Admission:

• ArtTable Members – complimentary
• Member Guests – $10

Not a member? Join today!

* PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS FULL WITH A WAITING LIST: PLEASE CLICK “REGISTER HERE” TO ADD YOUR NAME *

Thank you to ArtTable member Madeleine Sargent for organizing this program.

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Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter in October for BreakfastTable with Caroline Mariz, Director of the Cultural Exchange Programs at International Arts & Artists! Caroline will offer insights into her experience providing exchange opportunities and J-1 visa facilitation for students, professionals, artists, and researchers from around the world participating in programs across the United States. In her role at IA&A Caroline works closely with the State Department, American museums, art institutions, cultural organizations, and design firms. Her work demonstrates a career path for women and nonbinary arts professionals; and how one can work directly with arts institutions, art professionals, and the State Department. Mariz will provide a different lens into what it means to create cross-cultural connections while supporting international artists in concrete ways.

Admission:

• ArtTable Members – complimentary
• Member Guests – $10

Not a member? Join today!

Thank you to ArtTable member Nora van Trotsenburg for organizing this program.

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Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter in May BreakfastTable with Debrah Dunner, founder and owner of Aesthetica Art Services and Washington, D.C. and Regional Representative for Freeman’s Auction. Debrah will speak about her specialization in Fine Art, Decorative Arts, and Contemporary American Craft appraisals, and a wide range of art related services including advising, consulting, investments, sales, consignments, collection management, and artist management. Also, fun note: Debrah assisted in cataloging the personal collection of the artist Sam Gilliam, a highlight of her career!
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Prior to starting her own business, Debrah worked as the Assistant Curator for the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, the Craft and Decorative Arts branch of the national museum. While employed at the Renwick, Debrah assisted in the creation of numerous exhibitions and scholarly publications including the monumental 40th anniversary exhibition 40 Under 40: Craft Futures, and the internationally recognized exhibition WONDER. As of January 1, 2020, Debrah became the Washington, D.C. Regional Representative for Freeman’s Auction, based in Philadelphia, PA. Established in 1805, Freeman’s is the oldest auction house in America, and one of the country’s first family owned businesses. Serving the Washington, D.C. region including all of Maryland and Northern Virginia, Debrah represents Freeman’s by facilitating consignments and servicing customers with any art related needs.

This program is free for ArtTable members and $10 for member guests and non-members.

Not a member? Join today!

Image: Deborah Dunner, courtesy of the speaker.

Thank you to ArtTable member Ashley Templeton for organizing this program.

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Join ArtTable in Washington, DC for a BreakfastTable program with Fatima Al-Dosari, Executive Director of the Qatar America Institute for Culture. Come learn about her journey and her efforts to further strengthen cultural understanding, dialogue, appreciation, and long-term partnerships between her home country, Qatar, and the United States.

Fatima also leverages her wide-ranging knowledge of Qatari culture, Arabic fluency, and decade experience of cultural exchange to advance QAIC’s mission. Fatima holds an executive degree in Arts & Culture Strategy from the University of Pennsylvania, and was awarded an M.A. from Georgetown University’s Communication, Culture and Technology (CCT) Program. She received her B.A. in International Affairs and Human Development from Qatar University.

Light refreshments and breakfast will be generously provided by the QAIC.

This program is free for ArtTable members and $10 for member guests and non-members.

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Image: Fatima Al-Dosari, courtesy of the speaker.

Thank you to ArtTable member Ashley Templeton for organizing this program.

Join ArtTable in Washington, DC for February’s BreakfastTable program with Adriana Ospina, Director of the Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States. We will tour the museum and have coffee and a light breakfast. Adriana will discuss her work at the AMA, including unique aspects of directing and curating at an institution focused on cultural diplomacy.

Adriana Ospina is the Director of the Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States, as well as an ArtTable member. Since 2007, she has held the position of Educational Program Manager and, since 2014, Curator of the Permanent Collection. She has curated numerous exhibitions; among them are Fusion: Tracing Asian Migration to the Americas; Femininity Beyond Archetypes: Photography by Natalia Arias; A Gaze through the CINTAS Fellowship Program; A Selection of Works from the CINTAS Foundation; Arts of the Americas; and No Ocean Between Us: Art of Asian Diasporas in Latin America & The Caribbean 1945-Present. She has also co-curated exhibitions including Visual Memory: Home + Place; and Dialog: Landscape and Abstraction | Freya Grand and AMA Permanent Collection. Ospina edited the book “Collection of the Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States” (OAS, 2017). She participated in the College Art Association Conference in 2013 and 2020. Ospina holds an MA in Art History from George Mason University.

The Art Museum of the Americas building, completed in 1912, was designed by Paul Cret and Albert Kelsey as the residence of the Directors General of the Pan American Union, later the Secretaries General of the Organization of American States. In October of 1976, the residence officially opened its doors to the public, repurposed, as the Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, now the Art Museum of the Americas, which shares the arts of OAS member states in this Spanish colonial style building, a National Historical Landmark.

This program is free and open to ArtTable members only.
Not a member? Join today!

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Images: Adriana Ospina, courtesy of the speaker; The Art Museum of the Americas loggia, with Paul Cret and Albert Kelsey’s Spanish colonial design, emphasized the social and diplomatic activities that would take place in the building, incorporating an Italian patio with indigenous Aztec motifs.

Thank you to ArtTable member Sarah Gordon for organizing this program.

Join ArtTable in Washington, DC for a BreakfastTable program with Susan Fisher Sterling, the Alice West Director at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She will speak about building her career and the stature of the museum around the message of equity for women through excellence in the arts.

Unusual for the museum field, Sterling has dedicated her entire career to advancing the mission of the Women’s Museum. As associate curator, curator of modern and contemporary art, and then chief curator/deputy director, she spent her first 20 years organizing exhibitions and publications of contemporary women artists.

Sterling assumed the directorship of the museum in 2008. During her tenure the museum has flourished, regularly receiving the highest Charity Navigator rating of 4 stars for sound fiscal and programmatic management. Sterling also has re-energized the Museum’s programming and profile through an institutional re-brand, which includes the popular #5womenartists social media campaign, and the groundbreaking Women Arts and Social Change public programs initiative. She is currently involved in plans for a major renovation of the museum and a $55 million capital campaign, to be announced in May 2021.

A life-long champion of women through the arts, Sterling has received National Orders of Merit from Brazil and Norway. She is recognized as one of the Most Powerful Women in Washington by Washingtonian Magazine, and is a recipient of ArtTable 30th Anniversary Honors as well as the President’s Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art.

This program is free and open to ArtTable members only.
Members may bring an additional guest for $10. Not a member? Join today!

Please review the below before registering:

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Image: Susan Fisher Sterling, courtesy of the speaker.

Thank you to ArtTable member Ashley Templeton for organizing this program.