Author Archives: Nicholas Burkhalter

Curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah and Robyn Gibson (MFA 2018) the exhibition is on view at the Academy February 10 – March 7, 2021. PARALLELS & PERIPHERIES: Practice + Presence is focused on how the New York Academy of Art’s BIPOC artistic community (i.e. students, faculty, alumni, and visiting critics) uses their practice and platform to assert their presence within the… Read More

Christopher Carroll is the Program Manager at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture where he has been responsible for the logistical and technical support of the School’s application and programming efforts for the past 10 years. He also serves as the manager of the School’s Media Lab and Lecture Series during its nine-week summer program in Maine. A visual artist,… Read More

Gabriella Calandro is the Director of Grants and Curatorial Affairs at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), and oversees the delivery of over $3.5 million in arts funding annually to artists across the US through NYFA awards and grants programs. Throughout her career Gabriella has worked in the nonprofit arts sector in Australia and New York City holding… Read More

Anne Harris has been painting slowly, and drawing quickly, variants of self-portraiture for the last thirty years. She has exhibited at venues ranging from Alexandre Gallery (NYC), DC Moore Gallery (NYC)and Nielsen Gallery (Boston), to theNational Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute, The Portland Museum of Art, the California Center forContemporary Art and the North Dakota Museum of Art. Her… Read More

Sandra Bloodworth is Director of Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Arts & Design (A&D), the program responsible for visual and performing arts throughout the transit system. Sandra joined MTA Arts & Design as a manger in 1988 and has served as the director for 24 years. She has worked with hundreds of artists through A&D’s permanent art commissions, digital arts, graphic… Read More

Photo credit: Namsa Leuba Billie Zangewa (b. 1973, Blantyre, Malawi; lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa) creates intricate collages composed of hand-stitched fragments of raw silk. These figurative compositions explore contemporary intersectional identity in an attempt to challenge the historical stereotype, objectification, and exploitation of the black female form. Beginning her career in the fashion and advertising industries, Zangewa employs her… Read More

  Chris Wilson splits his time between Baltimore, Maryland, and New York City  and works as a visual artist and a social justice advocate. Through his work, he investigates societal injustices, human relationships, and public policies. His artwork is collected and displayed internationally. He is also the founder of the Chris Wilson Foundation, which supports social entrepreneurs and prison education, including… Read More

Larry Ossei-Mensah, MOCAD’s Susanne Feld Hilberry Senior Curator uses contemporary art as a vehicle to redefine how we see ourselves and the world around us. The Ghanaian-American curator and cultural critic has organized exhibitions and programs at commercial and nonprofit spaces around the globe from New York City to Rome featuring such artist as Firelei Baez, Allison Janae Hamilton, Brendan… Read More

  Ian Alteveer is the Aaron I. Fleischman Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He recently co-curated retrospectives for Kerry James Marshall (2016), Marisa Merz (2017), and David Hockney (2017–18). He organized three Roof Garden Commissions at the museum for Pierre Huyghe (2015), Dan Graham with Günter Vogt (2014), and Imran… Read More