Category Archives: Lectures

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

Kristina Newman-Scott serves as President of BRIC, a leading arts and media institution anchored in Downtown Brooklyn whose work spans contemporary visual and performing arts, media, and civic action. She is the first immigrant and first woman of color to serve in this position and one of the very few women of color leading a major New York cultural institution…. Read More

Salman Toor’s sumptuous and insightful figurative paintings depict intimate, quotidian moments in the lives of fictional young, brown, queer men ensconced in contemporary cosmopolitan culture. Toor playfully engages the history of European painting, particularly certain Baroque, Rococo, Romantic, and Impressionist masters with whom he shares an aesthetic kinship; he disrupts entrenched attitudes toward gender and race prevalent within this tradition… Read More

  Kate Fowle is the director of MoMA PS1. She was appointed in 2019 after six years as the inaugural chief curator of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, and director-at-large at Independent Curators International, New York. During her tenure at Garage, she oversaw the institution’s transition from art center to internationally recognized, public-facing museum, establishing new infrastructure… Read More