Category Archives: Lectures

Pricing Your Artwork: A Primer for Emerging Artists Join us for an informative panel discussion about how artists can determine and rationalize the prices of their artwork, even at the early stages of their professional career. Moderated by New York Academy of Art Senior Critic, Dexter Wimberly, this panel will explore some of the key factors artists should consider when… Read More

Join Katarina Feder, Co-founder and CEO of ARSNL and Charlie Jarvis, Co-founder of Fairchain for an in-depth conversation about resale royalties, intellectual property, and the future of your artwork. This panel will be moderated by New York Academy of Art Senior Critic, Dexter Wimberly.   Katarina Feder Co-founder and CEO of ARSNL Katarina Feder is a founder and CEO of… Read More

 Matthew Hansel lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He earned a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art and an MFA from the Yale University school of Art. He has been featured extensively in solo exhibitions, including at The Hole, NY, USA (2021), Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy (2018) and PM/AM, London, UK (2017). Hansel has also featured in… Read More

Carrie Ann Baade’s oil paintings dialog with the past through complex iconography and imagery that quote from Renaissance and Baroque canvases. She constructs layered narratives that resemble fantastical parables as her compositions interlace the strange beauty in the unexpected, the uncanny, the disregarded, and the unconventional. Her work rejects a rational vision of life in favor of one that asserts… Read More

From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of How to Be an Artist, now, in Art Is Life: Icons & Iconoclasts, Visionaries & Vigilantes, & Flashes of Hope in the Night, Jerry Saltz draws on two decades of work to offer a real-time survey of contemporary art as a barometer of our times. Chronicling a period punctuated by dramatic… Read More

I’ve always been interested in portraying some kind of fantasy, then showing that it’s completely constructed. There are always dark messages hidden behind beauty, and the act of sculpting is about listening to that inner voice that warns you about something lurking beneath the surface. —Rachel Feinstein In richly detailed sculptures and multipart installations, Rachel Feinstein investigates and challenges the… Read More

Canadian artist Zachari Logan works mainly with large-scale drawing, ceramics and installation practices. Exploring the intersections between identity, memory and place,Logan re-wilds his body as an expression of queerness. Logan has exhibited widely throughout North America, Europe and Asia and is found in private and public collections worldwide, including; National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Remai Modern, McMichael… Read More

Kyle Staver earned her BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1976 and her MFA from Yale University in 1987. In 2015, she was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Prize. She is a member of the National Academy ofDesign. She has had 2 solo exhibitions at… Read More

Matt Bollinger received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. His work has been exhibited in solo shows in New York, Los Angeles,Paris, and London. Recent museum exhibitions have been at the AkronArt Museum (2022),Westmoreland Museum of American Art (2022), South Bend Museum of Art (2020), theSchneider Museum (2018)… Read More

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE) Chris Cook, Executive Director In 2015, Chris Cook moved to Omaha, Nebraska from Miami, Florida to join the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts as the Executive Director. In this role he drives Bemis’s long-range strategies, provides creative direction, and oversees the financial advancement and operations of the 41-year old artist-founded nonprofit. In 2019… Read More