Julie Mehretu and the Art of Ending Mass Incarceration Program
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ART FOR JUSTICE FUND CELEBRATES JULIE MEHRETU AND THE ART OF ENDING MASS INCARCERATION PROGRAM — It Takes Artists, Advocates and Allied Donors HELENA HUANG, PROJECT DIRECTOR, ART FOR JUSTICE FUND — Love and Gratitude to Julie Mehretu AGNES GUND, FOUNDER, ART FOR JUSTICE FUND — Exploring Change, Erasure and Renewal PAMELA JOYNER, COLLECTOR AND PHILANTHROPIST & RUJEKO HOCKLEY, ASSISTANT CURATOR, WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — Reimagining Justice, Healing and Repair JULIE MEHRETU, ARTIST & DARREN WALKER, PRESIDENT, FORD FOUNDATION — Turning Art into Justice EMILY-JANE KIRWAN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY — Making an Impact SHERRILL ROLAND, INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST & SYRITA STEIB, FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, OPERATION RESTORATION — Building Safe and Healthy Communities CATHERINE GUND, GOVERNING BOARD, ART FOR JUSTICE FUND — Hear My Song RHIANNON GIDDENS, GRAMMY AWARD WINNING MUSICIAN SPEAKER BIOS Agnes Gund is president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art and chair of its International Council. She is also chair of MoMA PS1. Ms. Gund joined the MoMA Board in 1976 and served as president from 1991 until 2002. Ms. Gund is founder and chair emerita of Studio in a School, a non-profit organization she established in 1977 in response to budget cuts that virtually eliminated arts classes from New York City public schools. A philanthropist and collector of modern and contemporary art, Ms. Gund serves on the boards of the Cleveland Agnes Museum of Art, the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies, and the Gund Morgan Library & Museum. Founder and Director of Aubin Pictures, Catherine Gund is an Emmy- nominated producer, director, writer, and activist. Her media work focuses on strategic and sustainable social transformation, racial justice, arts and culture, HIV/AIDS, reproductive justice, and the environment. Catherine’s films have screened around the world in festivals, theaters, museums, and schools; on PBS, the Discovery Channel, Sundance Channel, Netflix, and Amazon Prime. Catherine currently serves on the boards of Art for Justice, Art Matters, Catherine Baldwin for the Arts, and is the Chair of The George Gund Foundation. She Gund co-founded the Third Wave Foundation which supports young women and transgender youth and DIVA TV. Rujeko Hockley is an assistant curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is the curator of the mid-career survey Julie Mehretu, which opened in March 2021, and co-curated the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Previously, she was Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she co-curated Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond (2014) and was involved in exhibitions highlighting the permanent collection as well as artists LaToya Ruby Frazier, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Kehinde Rujeko Wiley, Tom Sachs, and others. Rujeko serves on the Board of Art Matters, as Hockley well as the Advisory Board of Recess. Helena Huang is project director for the Art for Justice Fund. She has held leadership positions in both the foundation and advocacy world. Helena was a program manager for two national philanthropies for nearly 10 years: at the Open Society Foundation (1997-2002) and the JEHT Foundation (2002-06) where she worked in support of grassroots advocacy and public-private partnerships addressing criminal justice reform. Later, she co-founded and directed Oregon Voice, a state civic engagement organization. Before joining Ford, Helena Helena served as senior director of Philanthropy and Communications for the State Huang Voices Network. She holds an MPA from the Columbia School of International Affairs and a BA from Cornell. Pamela J. Joyner has nearly 30 years of experience in the investment industry. She is the Founder of Avid Partners, LLC where her expertise has been the alternative investment arena. Currently, Ms. Joyner is focused on her philanthropic interests in the arts and education. She is a Trustee of The Art Institute of Chicago, the J. Paul Getty Trust, SF MoMA and the Museum of Modern Art. Ms. Joyner also serves on the board of the Art & Practice Foundation. Her philanthropic involvements have included serving as a Pamela J. Trustee of Dartmouth College, the New York City Ballet, and the San Francisco Joyner Ballet Association. Emily-Jane Kirwan is an Executive Director at New York’s Marian Goodman Gallery. Founded in 1977, it is frequently recognized by Forbes and others as one of the most influential galleries in the world. The gallery represents luminary artists including Julie Mehretu, Gerhard Richter, Rineke Dijkstra, Tacita Dean, Cristina Iglesias, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Turner Prize recipient and Oscar winning artist and film maker Steve McQueen. Emily-Jane is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin in The History of Art & English Literature Emily-Jane and of University College Dublin in Arts Administration. She is involved with Kirwan the Irish Arts Center in New York City which honored her in 2019 and is a supporter of ICI (Independent Curators International). Named as one of the 100 most influential people of 2020 by Time Magazine, Julie Mehretu, (b. 1970, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) lives and works in New York City. She received a B.A. from Kalamazoo College, Michigan, studied at the University Cheik Anta Diop, Dakar Senegal, and received a Master’s of Fine Art with honors from The Rhode Island School of Design in 1997. She has since received many prestigious awards including the MacArthur Fellowship in 2005, the U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts Award in 2015, and the Liberty Julie Award for Artistic Leadership, New York in 2018. In 2017, she was elected to Mehretu the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Rhiannon Giddens uses her art to excavate the past and reveal bold truths about our present. A MacArthur Fellowship recipient, she co-founded the Grammy Award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops and has been nominated for six additional Grammys for her work as a soloist and collaborator. Rhiannon’s lifelong mission is to lift up people whose contributions to American musical history have previously been erased and to illuminate their contribution to the country’s musical origins. Named Artistic Director Rhiannon of Silkroad in 2020, Giddens is developing a program for the organization Giddens inspired by the history of the American transcontinental railroad. As Founder and Executive Director of Operation Restoration, Syrita Steib- Martin creates opportunities for formerly incarcerated women, eradicating the roadblocks she faced when returning to society after incarceration. Syrita has worked with advocates in five states to pass legislation to “ban the box” in college admissions. She served as co-chair of the healthy families committee for New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s transition team; was appointed to the Executive Board for Dillard University’s new Center for Racial Justice; Syrita was appointed by the governor to the Louisiana Justice Reinvestment Steib oversight council; and was vice chair of the Louisiana Task Force on Women’s Incarceration. Sherrill Roland is an interdisciplinary artist who creates art that challenges ideas around controversial social and political constructs and generates a safe space to process, question and share. He was born in Asheville, NC, and received an MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Inspired by his prison experience for a crime he did not commit, he founded The Jumpsuit Project to raise awareness around issues related to mass incarceration. Roland’s socially-engaged art project has been presented at Open Engagement Chicago, Oakland City Hall, and the Michigan School of Sherrill Law. Last year, he was the Southern Arts, South Arts Grand Prize winner. He is Roland a 2021 Creative Capital Awardee. Darren Walker is president of the Ford Foundation. He is a member of Governor Cuomo’s Reimagining New York Commission and co-chair of NYC Census 2020. He chaired the philanthropy committee that brought a resolution to Detroit’s historic bankruptcy. Under his leadership, Ford became the first non-profit to issue a $1 billion designated social bond in US capital markets for proceeds to strengthen and stabilize non-profit organizations in the wake of COVID-19. Darren serves on many boards, including Lincoln Center for the Darren Performing Arts, the National Gallery of Art, Carnegie Hall, the High Line, the Walker Committee to Protect Journalists, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. GOVERNING BOARD — Agnes Gund CHAIR — Catherine Gund FILM DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER, AUBIN PICTURES — Sonia L. Lopez PHILANTHROPIC ADVISOR, OFFICE OF AGNES GUND — Melissa Berman PRESIDENT AND CEO, ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS — Ava DuVernay FILM DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER, ARRAY — Darren Walker PRESIDENT, FORD FOUNDATION FOUNDING & MAJOR DONORS PHIL AND SHELLEY FOX AARONS JO CAROLE LAUDER LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD DANIEL S. LOEB MARA BURROS SANDLER DONALD MARRON* KATIE AND PAUL BUTTENWIESER MUSA AND TOM MAYER TONY AND ROBYN COLES RAYMOND J. MCGUIRE AND CRYSTAL MCCRARY EDITH COOPER AND ROBERT TAYLOR MADELINE NELSON GLENN AND AMANDA FUHRMAN CLARENCE OTIS, JR. AND JACQUELINE BRADLEY ALVA GREENBERG PETE PETERSON* AND JOAN GREENLEAF TRUST GANZ COONEY AGNES GUND PRESENT PROGRESSIVE FUND AT SCHWAB CHARITABLE MARGUERITE STEED HOFFMAN AND TOM LENTZ MADELEINE RUDIN A.C. HUDGINS LAURIE M. TISCH PAMELA JOYNER AND ALFRED MARIA H. TUTTLE GIUFFRIDA WALTON FAMILY FOUNDATION * Denotes our donors who have passed away ARTIST GIFTS MARK BRADFORD TITUS KAPHAR AND DWAYNE BETTS NICK CAVE JEFF KOONS PAULA CROWN JULIE MEHRETU MARK DI SUVERO STANLEY WHITNEY INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT ARTSY FRIEZE ART FAIRS ASPECT/RATIO PROJECTS MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY BEN & JERRY’S HAUSER & WIRTH CHRISTIE’S L.A.EYEWORKS EXPO CHICAGO LISSON GALLERY.