Author Archives: Nicholas Burkhalter

**PLEASE NOTE THIS LECTURE IS AT 1 PM ON SEPTEMBER 25 Navigating Social Media: Sharon Louden talks with social media guru Robin Cembalest about navigating social media to increase visibility and stay connected.   Described by artnet as “one of the leading lights of art-world social media,” Robin Cembalest is a journalist and editorial strategist. The former longtime executive editor… Read More

SARAH PETERS (b. 1973) lives and works in Queens, NY. Peters was educated at Virginia Commonwealth University (MFA), The University of Pennsylvania (BFA), and The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (Certificate). The artist is a recipient of awards and residencies from John Michael Kohler, WI and New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), NY (2011); The Fine Arts Work Center,… Read More

Vincent Desiderio and Daniel Maidman continue the conversation begun in their book “Theseus: Vincent Desiderio on Art,” holding a back and forth about art and ideas. Audience questions will be taken, and copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.

Collaboration, Social Media, Exchange in the Art World: Sharon Louden in conversation with the dynamic JiaJia Fei and Antwaun Sargent about their dynamic high-profile friendship, their presence on social media and their take on the art world today.   JiaJia Fei is a digital strategist with a decade of experience working at the intersection of digital marketing, branding, web, mobile,… Read More

Erik Parker was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1968. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996 and a Master of Fine Arts from SUNY Purchase in 1998. Parker has been awarded several honors throughout his career, including the Durhurst Family Scholarship (1997(, Rose Scholarship (1997), and the Rema Hort-Mann Foundation Grant… Read More

Born in New York City in 1931, Cunningham grew up in Pittsfield, Massachusetts where he studied art with Ben Shahn. He graduated from Harvard College in 1953 and served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He returned to New York and studied painting with Edwin Dickinson and drawing and anatomy with Robert Beverly Hale at the Art Students… Read More

Jago is an eclectic artist and sculptor, whose works are distinguished by their technical mastery, expressive exuberance, and vigorously in-depth psychological characterizations. Drawing on his study of the great renaissance and baroque masters, his work is born of continuous research of material, and thematic synthesis within a complex cultural and conceptual framework. Nicknamed the Social Artist, Jago has succeeded in… Read More

November 7: Creating Visual Histories: the Role of Art History Today: Sharon Louden moderates a conversation with Yasmeen Siddiqui and Alpesh Kantilal Patel as to how artists become part of art history today. How can art history be relevant and be a bridge into the public realm?   Yasmeen Siddiqui is the founder of Minerva Projects, an incubator space launched… Read More