ORG CONTEMPORARY. ARTIST RETREAT 2016

#CAMPTC16

2 Introduction 3 The Contemporary Team 4 Artists 9 Consultants 15 Guests 17 Speakers + Seminars 18 Schedule at a Glance 19 Main Building Map 20 Campus Map — Places to Know — Emergency Contacts Welcome to The Contemporary’s inaugural Artist Retreat, convening 50 artists and dozens of national arts consultants including critics, curators, gallerists, and collectors, for three days of intensive professional development, community building, and networking. We believe that this weekend will be a testament to the richness of the field and the power of community, and we kindly ask that you be open, present, and engaged. This retreat is inspired by the important cultural work happening in Baltimore, and is generously supported by the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation and Surdna Foundation.

The Contemporary is a nomadic, non-collecting art museum based in Baltimore, Maryland. Our mission expands the idea of a museum as an incubator that commissions site-specific and subject-oriented projects. We engage diverse audiences and advance contemporary art through projects and educational programming. Our work is inspired by three guiding principles: artists matter, collaboration is key, and audience is everywhere.

Thank you for joining us.

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2 Artist Retreat 2016 | Introduction The Contemporary Team

Deana Haggag Ginevra Shay Molly Young Executive Director Artistic Director Intern

Dominiece Clifton Lizzie Smith Monika Borkovic Advancement Manager Intern Intern

Erica Goebel Lee Heinemann Olivia Obineme Volunteer Education Director Photographer

Erin Stellmon Lu Zhang Stephanie Wallace Volunteer Deputy Director Volunteer

The Contemporary Team | Artist Retreat 2016 3 has been a member and resident at the artist cooperative, Artist Housing, Inc, located in the heart of Baltimore City. Artists Christina is an instructor and Ceramics Manager at the Columbia Art Center in Columbia, Maryland. She has also taught sculpture and 3D design at Howard Community College and Towson University.

Antonio McAfee D. Watkins Antonio McAfee is an artist living in D. Watkins is a columnist for Salon. His Baltimore, MD. He received his BFA in work has been published in the Photography from the Corcoran College Times, Guardian, Rolling Stone, and of Art. He also earned his MFA in Photog- Adam Holofcener other publications. He holds a Master’s raphy from the University of Pennsylva- Adam Holofcener grew up in Baltimore in Education from Johns Hopkins Uni- nia, where he was awarded The Dedalus County and now lives in Baltimore City. versity and an MFA in Creative Writing Foundation MFA Fellowship. In 2010, As of late, his work has focused on build- from the University of Baltimore. He is he was a Fulbright student scholar in ing electro-acoustic environments with a college professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, where he Max/MSP, improvising on the electric Colette Veasey-Cullors Baltimore and founder of the BMORE studied Art and Culture Management at and nylon string guitar, dipping his toe Colette Veasey-Cullors is Chair of the Writers Project. Watkins has been the the University of Witwatersrand. McAfee into hip-hop/club/r&b, and peddling pop Undergraduate Photography program recipient of numerous awards including is currently an instructor at Montgomery music in the ABAB format. at MICA. Colette has exhibited her Ford’s Men of Courage and a BME College and Corcoran School of Art at work throughout the at Fellowship. Watkins is a lifelong East George University. museums, including The Baltimorean. He is the author of The African American Museum in Los Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir and The Angeles, The African American Museum Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While in Philadelphia and The Museum of Black in America. Fine Arts Houston/Glassell School of Art. Her work is included in the publication BLACK: A Celebration of a Culture by Deborah Willis, Ph.D. She has worked with a number of community-based organizations and programs, including: Alice Valenti Art Source South Africa, Communities Alice Valenti is from Baltimore, Mary- Audrey Gair in Schools, Project Row Houses, Art on land, where she lives and works. She re- Audrey Gair was born and raised in Purpose, 901 Arts, National Building ceived a BFA from the Maryland Institute Miami, FL. She stayed in Baltimore Museum, Open Society Institute and College of Art, an MA from Drexel Uni- after graduating from MICA and now Johns Hopkins’ Baltimore Youth Film versity, and an MFA from Towson Univer- Dave Eassa has a studio in East Baltimore. Recent Arts Program. sity. Valenti has taught drawing and art Dave Eassa is a painter and activist projects include Something Crossed My appreciation at Towson University and living and working in Baltimore. Recent Mind, a multimedia fashion event that at the Community College of Baltimore solo and two person exhibitions include she both planned and participated in County, respectively. She has exhibited “The Road to Rio” at Little Berlin “WIDE as a designer, 20/15 Night Visions, her her work locally and nationally, in states EYED” with Nicole Dyer at Savery first solo exhibition, and Brass in Pocket, including Maryland, Delaware, Rhode Gallery both in Philadelphia, PA. He has Third Chorus, with Bb Gallery. Island and New York, and has received shown nationally and internationally several awards for her work, including in exhibitions, most notably at LVL3, an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation SessionSpace, Sophiajacob, Marianne grant as well as research and travel Boesky Gallery, artSTRAND, Reh Kunst, awards from Towson University. Current Space and Casa das Artes Curtis Miller Criação Ambiente Utopias. Eassa is Curtis Miller moved from Texas to currently a Baltimore Community Fellow Baltimore in 2011 to attend Maryland with the Open Society Institute. He is Institute College of Art’s Hoffberger the founder and director of Free Space, School of Painting. Upon graduation in which brings arts classes to incarcerated 2013, he moved to the Hamilton neigh- individuals within the Maryland prison Christina McCleary borhood of Baltimore with his wife and system. Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, daughter and works out of his basement Christina McCleary earned a BFA at the studio. Along with painting, he enjoys Maryland Institute College of Art in 1996 cooking Indian and Asian food, sharp- and later an MFA at MICA’s Rinehart ening his kitchen knives and listening to School of Sculpture in 2004. She actively witch house music. He has shown work exhibits her work in solo/group shows throughout Texas, Baltimore, DC and throughout Maryland. Since 2000, she New York.

4 Artist Retreat 2016 | Artists from the Academy of Art University found” and how objects often enmesh from the Instituto Allende in San Miguel in San Francisco and later that year themselves into the complex realities de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. Her attended the Illustration Master Class of identity and self. The rich combina- work is in the collection of the Baltimore at Amherst College. His commissions tion of the collected and the natural Museum of Art, Mint Museum of Craft + have included book illustrations, album that filled her childhood living room Design, Spencer Museum of Art, and the covers, and murals as well as private continue to be a point of inspiration for Smithsonian American Art Museum. portraits. In 2012, his work was selected her work. She is also the founder BALTI as the People’s Choice for the Black GURLS, a women of color arts collective Art In America Juried Art Exhibition focused on “cultivating platforms and and displayed at the Harlem Fine Arts creative safe space”, currently based in Dirk Joseph Show. He was a semifinalist in the 2013 Baltimore’s . Dirk Joseph is a visual artist working in Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series. He was the mediums of painting, sculpture, pup- on Afropunk.com’s “Best of 2014” list. petry, animation, and short story writing. He is currently working towards a Master He has free-lanced as a graphic designer of Fine Arts in Studio Art at Towson and web animator while being an arts University in Maryland, where he is also facilitator in the public school system. an adjunct professor of drawing. Khadija Nia Adell Dirk has exhibited his artwork in several Khadija Nia Adell is a young multi-me- group and solo shows, and also exhibits dia artist, independent curator, writer his work at a few street festivals each year. and scholar, invested in social activism He is part of an artist co-op called Artist and entrepreneurship. Born and raised Housing Inc. and partners with com- Jerrell Gibbs in Miami, FL, she is a transplant to munity-based organizations to facilitate Jerrell Gibbs is a multifaceted visual Baltimore as of 2011. Through her com- creative workshops. Dirk performs puppet artist, born and raised in Baltimore, bined written, visual arts, and curatorial shows for kids and adults as a member of Maryland. He uses multiple creative practice, Adell aims to provoke human the Drapetomaniacs puppetry group and tools to create his engaging artwork, consciousness through discussion, in a group called “String Theory.” such as acrylic paint, spray paint, graf- contemplation, and action. As a cultural Hoesy Corona fiti markers, and newspaper. His most content producer she is interested in Hoesy Corona is a multidisciplinary notable paintings incorporate cartoon promoting, preserving and adding to the artist and founding co-director of imagery; specifically “Franklin”, from rich legacy and history of the African Labbodies performance art laboratory. Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts ” characters. Diaspora. As an honors graduate of His sculptural and performance based Jerrell’s paintings can be found in local Maryland Institute College of Art, and a works have been deeply influenced by Baltimore book stores as well as several founding member of Baltimore-based his queer immigrant experience in the private collectors in various cities. He artist collective BALTI GURLS, Adell is United States. Formative encounters showcased his art in the Harlem Fine committed to creating opportunities, with racism, discrimination, xeno- Arts Show in 2015. Gibbs’ passion for networks, and platforms for female phobia and otherness have shaped the raising awareness on social issues that identified artists of color. Erin Fostel ways in which he creatively interprets affect the community is transparent Born and raised in Baltimore, Erin spent and records the contemporary world through all of his artwork. He likes to her early years copying characters out of in new and compelling ways. His work leave messages for deeper conception her brother’s X-men comic books, and has appeared at The Baltimore Museum amongst his critics. writing highly dramatic soap operas on of Art, VisArts, Grace Exhibition Space, her grandmother’s typewriter. A love for Washington Project for the Arts, and drawing and storytelling led her to the among others. He Maryland Institute College of Art. Upon was a LightCity Winter 2016 artist in graduating in 2004, she stayed in Bal- residence in Baltimore’s Station North, timore and has maintained a studio in a recipient of a MSAC Individual Artist various locations around town. She loves Award and was recently selected as an Kimi Hanauer to draw. Even though she appreciates that artist to watch by Creative Capital’s ‘On Kimi Hanauer is a Baltimore-based the world is full of amazing colors she Our Radar.’ artist from Pittsburgh, PA, via Tel Aviv. enjoys pushing the tonal boundaries of Kimi graduated from the Maryland charcoal, which is her primary medium. Joyce J. Scott Institute College of Art in 2015 with Joyce J. Scott is a versatile artist from a BFA in interdisciplinary sculpture. Cur- Baltimore. She is a printmaker, weaver, rently, she is the lead organizer of Press sculptor, performance artist, and Press; a resident artist at Refugee Youth educator, most known for her work Project and Penthouse Gallery; and in jewelry, beadwork, and glass. Her Program Manager at Station North Arts art reflects her take on all aspects & Entertainment, Inc. of American popular culture, her ancestry, and the immediate world of Jenné Afiya her neighborhood. Her pieces serve as a Jenné Afiya lives and works in her native commentary for issues regarding race, Hasani Claxton city of Baltimore. As a photo-based politics, sexism, and stereotypes. She Hasani Claxton earned his BFA in 2009 artist, her work often reflects on “the received her BFA from the MICA and MFA

Artists | Artist Retreat 2016 5 ally, most recently at Open Lens Gallery in Philadelphia, PA. She received her MFA in 2012 and is currently a Lecturer at Towson University in the Department of Art + Design and Art History. Donadio runs Color Wheel Digital Printing, a fine-art print service in Baltimore.

Kyle Tata Laure Drogoul Leyla Rzayeva Kyle Tata is a Baltimore based artist Laure Drogoul lives in Baltimore. Leyla Rzayeva is an Azerbaijani and working primarily in photography, Laure works with a wide range of media Russian American artist, and Profes- artist books, and other printed material. including projects in which she creates sional Printer at Clubhouse Lithography His practice situates both found and sculpture, performances and events Workshop. Leyla is an enthusiast of personal imagery under an array of that invite the viewer to be an active works on paper and printed material. artistic processes that comment on the participant. She has exhibited and per- Her paintings show simple truth about material history of photography. His formed internationally and nationally, two dimensional art, that line and shape Magali Hébert-Huot work has been featured at galleries and including The International House of belong to a flat surface. Originally from Québec City, Magali institutions including Spudnik Press & Japan in Tokyo, Corcoran Gallery of Hébert-Huot currently resides in Balti- Gallery, Chicago, IL (2014); The Walters Art, Washington Project for the Arts, more. After studying visual arts at Cam- Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (2014); , PS122 and pus Notre-Dame-de-Foy, she completed , Baltimore, MD (2013); The Center for Architecture in New York. her BFA at Emily Carr University in Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, DC She has received Maryland State Artist 2012 and her MFA at Maryland Institute (2016); Aqua Art Miami, Miami, FL Awards and a Franklin Furnace Award College of Art - Rinehart School of Sculp- (2015). Tata was a 2014 Walter & Janet for performance art and has been a ture in 2015. She has a rigorous studio Sondheim Prize Finalist and recipient of a US/Japan Creative Artist practice, investigating and synthesizing was awarded a 2015 Hamiltonian Fellow- Fellowship. Drogoul directs The 14Karat her interests in sculpture, printmaking, ship. He currently teaches at Baltimore Cabaret and is a co-organizer and cura- site intervening structures and icons. School for the Arts. tor of the Transmodern Festival. Lisa Dillin She has exhibited work in ‘Fresh Paint Lisa Dillin is a Baltimore-based interdis- / New Construction’ at Art Mûr Gallery ciplinary artist working primarily in Montréal in 2012, and has recently in sculpture and participatory art shown at (e)merge Art Fair in DC and practices. Dillin earned her BFA in Open Space in Baltimore. She is the photography from Atlanta College of 2015 recipient of the ISC Outstanding Art and her MFA in sculpture from Student Achievement in Contemporary Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work has Sculpture Award and a 2016-2018 Hamil- been selected for exhibition at various tonian Fellow. venues including the Baltimore Museum of Art and The Contemporary Museum L. E. Doughtie Lauren Adams in Baltimore, MD, Hamiltonian Gallery L.E. Doughtie is a Baltimore based Lauren Adams currently teaches and Washington Project for the Arts interdisciplinary artist whose practice painting at MICA. She has exhibited in Washington, D.C., Vox Populi and encompasses drawing, sculpture and at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Practice Gallery in Philadelphia, PA, as installation. Doughtie was born in Nymans House National Trust (Sussex, well as Nurture Art and Transmitter in Dallas, TX in 1985. He received a BA England), Royal NoneSuch Gallery, The , NY. Dillin was a 2012 Sond- from Tulane University in New Orleans, Mattress Factory, Conner Contemporary, heim Prize Finalist, and a 2014 MSAC LA and a MFA from Maryland Institute and CUE Art Foundation. Recent projects Individual Artist award recipient. College of Art in the Mount Royal school include Smack Mellon in Brooklyn and Malcolm Peacock in Baltimore, MD. Doughtie was a 2015 Plug Projects in Kansas City. Her work Malcolm Peacock is an artist living and Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize about ecological disasters in America, working in Baltimore. He received his Semi-Finalist, and has shown around American Catastrophe Report, was re- BFA from Virginia Commonwealth Uni- the U.S. and Canada including Maryland cently on view at American University in versity in 2016. His works are dedicated Art Place, Arlington Arts Center, and the Washington, D.C. She is the recipient of to sharing the emotions, thoughts, and Nasher Sculpture Center. the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Award, feelings that are born out of particular a 2014 Sondheim Prize finalist with an lived experiences held by different exhibition at The Black individuals. Drawing, sculpture, and a 2016 Pollock-Krasner Foundation video, writing, and performance, are all Award. Lauren is a founding member of forms that can be found in his practice. Ortega y Gasset Projects, a project space Liz Donadio Personal narratives, historical events, launched in New York in 2013. Liz Donadio is a photographer & video artist who searches for quiet moments in urgency, and site specificity are com- her surrounding landscapes, using an- bined in attempts to transcend known alog and digital media. Donadio’s work spaces and traditionally accepted ideas has been exhibited and screened nation- about Black individuals. Malcolm’s work

6 Artist Retreat 2016 | Artists has been shown in Virginia, Maryland, Neighborhood Voices at Creative Alliance, and Oregon. He is a recipient of the 2016 and is a programmer, historian and art- Gerald Donato scholarship and one ist at the Oak Hill Center for Education of six recipients of the 2015 Anderson and Culture. In 2016 Cullins founded Gallery student exhibition awards. an online gallery for young people of color called 4c Gallery and began organizing and curating shows with Earthseed Collective.

Marian April Glebes Morgan Dowty Marian April Glebes is an emerging Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, conceptual and mixed-media artist. Morgan Dowty is an artist based in Bal- In 2015, Glebes became the inaugural timore, Maryland. She earned her BFA Artist-In-Residence at the Baltimore Mu- from Washington University in St. Louis seum of Art’s Patricia and Mark Joseph in May of 2015 with a concentration in Margaret Rorison Centre for Education. She received a printmaking and a second major in Art Margaret Rorison is a curator and 2015 Rubys Individual Artist Award from History. Morgan currently works as the filmmaker from Baltimore. She works the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance Curatorial Assistant for the Department with language, sound and imagery to Mary Anne Arntzen and an Our Town Creative Placemaking of Prints, Drawings & Photographs at create installations, films and live 16mm Mary Anne Arntzen was born in Grant from the National Endowment for the Baltimore Museum of Art. projections. Rorison’s work has screened California and currently lives in the Arts in 2011. Glebes’s work has been at Anthology Film Archives, Ann Arbor Baltimore, MD. In 2004 she earned a included in solo and group exhibitions, Film Festival, Edinburgh International BFA in painting from Boston University, including shows at Arlington Arts Center, Film Festival, Images Festival, The Mary- and in 2010 earned a MFA from the Co-Prosperity Sphere, Adkins Arbore- land Film Festival, Mono No Aware VI & Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). tum’s Gallery and Outdoor Sculpture Bi- VII, Sonic Circuits Festival, Microscope In 2013 she mounted a solo exhibition ennial, and in Baltimore, MD at MICA’s Gallery, The Moscow Museum of Modern with ICA Baltimore. Her work has been Decker & Meyerhoff Galleries, Goucher Art and The High Zero Festival. Rorison shown in California, New England and College’s Silber Gallery, Evergreen Man- is the recipient of a 2016 Rubys Artist throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. sion and Sculpture Garden, The Creative Project Grants in media and perform- She has completed residencies at the Alliance, and Current Space. She curates ing arts, a recipient of The MSAC 2016 Wassaic Project, Vermont Studio Center exhibitions and temporal public art Individual Artist Awards and a 2015 and Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. Arntzen installations for a number of Baltimore Nick Peelor Sondheim Semi-finalist. In 2012 she teaches at MICA, George Washington venues including Artscape, Transmod- Nick Peelor is an artist based in Balti- launched Sight Unseen, a new experi- University, and the Community College ern Festival, Case[Werks] Gallery, and more, MD. His work navigates the space mental film series. of Baltimore County and is a member of SpaceCamp, which Glebes co-founded in between shopping mall fountains, Bob the ICA Baltimore advisory board. 2015. In the Spring of 2012, she joined Ross landscapes and Pizza Hut roofs. His the Maryland Institute College of Art’s sculptures manipulate the surfaces of part-time faculty in the General Fine the everyday to explore our physical and Arts Department. emotional relationships with consumer and domestic environments.

Margo Elsayd Margo is a Baltimore based artist. She Megan Lewis received her BFA with a concentration Megan Lewis is a professional illustrator. in sculpture at George Mason University. Utilizing various mediums, she aims to Her work has been exhibited through- create works of art that focus upon sto- Markele Cullins out the DMV region, most notably in ries that reflect a critical view of social, Markele Cullins is an artist and poet Pangelica conjunction with Transformer Gallery historical and cultural issues. Lewis is a born and based in Baltimore, MD. His Pangelica is a performance & sound art- in Washington DC. Margo’s work has freelance artist living in her hometown work focuses on Black and Queer spiritu- ist. A multi-instrumentalist with roots in been featured in Hyperallergic and The of Baltimore, Maryland, and has recently ality, traditions and healing as well classical music, she pushes the boundary Atlantic. Currently, Margo works as a taken on the role as muralist. Her latest as strategies for dealing with intersec- of what it means to be an interdisciplin- Teaching Artist for Baltimore Youth Arts mural “Lady Liberty Please Know Thy tionality and different forms of oppres- ary artist. Her experimentation with and is a finalist for an Open Society In- Self” made national news with singer sion. He has displayed work at Haystack makeup & costuming transcend the stitute Fellowship, to transform a sterile, Alicia Keys on A&E Shining a Light: A School of Crafts, Centre Stage, The Beats conventions of music performance. Behavioral Health institution into a Concert for Progress on Race in America. and Eats Festival, CCBC Essex, Jordan space that is more conducive to healing. She was a 2014 – 2015 Urban Arts Lead- Faye Contemporary and the 14 Karat ership Member of the Greater Baltimore Cabaret. He currently attends UMBC, Cultural Alliance (UALP). interns at the Bromo Arts and Entertain- ment District, is a committee member of

Artists | Artist Retreat 2016 7 has received a handful of project grants Currently, Garcia is the co-founder of for her work in The Station North Arts HYRSTERIA Zine, a literary publication and Entertainment District. She is a focused on social difference; and com- founder and the Executive Director of mittee member of Oak Hill Center for AREA 405, and a founder/owner of Oliver Education and Culture, a non-tradition- Street Studios. She lives and works in the al school for social movement building. Station North Arts and Entertainment District in Baltimore.

Phaan Howng Shannon Wallace Phaan Howng is an American born Tai- Shannon Wallace is a photographer, wanese visual artist who complements writer, and freedom fighter from East her paintings with sculpture and instal- Baltimore. Merging her journalism lation about an Earth post-humanity in degree from Bowie State University with order to create conjectures that initiate her love for photography, Wallace’s work a dialogue about the current crises of focuses on the experiences, identities Theresa Chromati world ecology and of the Anthropocene and struggles of black life. Wallace is Theresa Chromati is a mixed media epoch. She received her MFA from currently pursuing an MFA in Commu- Sydney Spann artist born and based in Baltimore. Maryland Institute College of Art’s nity Arts at MICA in addition to being a Sydney Spann is an electronic-acoustic Chromati received her BFA at Pratt In- Mount Royal School of Multidisciplinary freelance writer and photojournalist for musician and performance artist based stitute before moving back to Baltimore Art graduate program in 2015 and her the Afro American Newspaper. in Baltimore. Drawing from musique where she is currently working on a new BFA in Painting from Boston University concrete, folk music, and pop motifs, she body of work which combines textured in 2004. Howng has been an Artist in uses field recordings, archival samples, layers of digital and hand drawn stylized Residence at Vermont Studio Center and chance operations, generative processes, figures. Her 2 dimensional compositions has shown her work throughout the East and her voice as soundscaping and story- illustrate women’s identity and their in- Coast, from Boston down to Washington telling tools. She performs in and outside teraction with body consciousness, lust, D.C. and internationally in Toronto, of Baltimore in galleries and spaces and relation to the the masculine body. Ontario, Canada. including The Walters Art Museum, In- tra Phenom (NYC), Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church, the High Zero Experimental Music Festival, and Gallery Stephen Towns Four. She releases music through Ehse Stephen Towns is a visual artist current- Records under the solo-project moniker ly based out of Baltimore. Towns’ work Sunatirene. In May 2016, she received a is deeply rooted in race and its effects BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture and on American society. Towns is also a Sound Art from the Maryland Institute program coordinator in MICA’s Office College of Art and became a member of of Community Engagement, where he the Earthseed Collective. Tiffany Jones Saida Agostini works with members of the MICA com- Artist Tiffany Jones’ photographic work Saida Agostini is a queer Afro-Guyanese munity facilitating community projects. is versatile and varied, but is always in- poet, program director and clinician. fluenced by history, current events, and A Cave Canem Fellow, she is currently societal assumptions. Jones has exhibit- working on her first book, Uprisings in ed her artwork in various galleries and a Nation of Joy. Her work is centered museums in Massachusetts, New York, in the voices of Black queer and trans Virginia, and Maryland. These include folks, women and others often erased the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New during conversations on state and family York, Artisphere in Virginia, Baltimore violence. With the help of a grant from Museum of Art, James E. Lewis Museum, the Research Associates Foundation, Tanya Garcia and Sheila and Richard Riggs Galleries Saida has launched the Rooted Collec- Tanya Garcia is an artist, curator, and all in Baltimore. She is currently a tive, a group of Black LGBTQ activists organizer based in Baltimore whose resident artist of School 33 located in dedicated to creating peer owned healing Stewart Watson media include photography, video, and Federal Hill and is working as an arts spaces. Her poetry has been featured or Stewart Watson received her BFA from installation. Garcia works artistically instructor with Baltimore City youth. forthcoming in the Barely South Review, The Pennsylvania State University and with communities to create spaces for Jones also serves on the advisory board Delaware Poetry Review, Pluck!, TORCH her MFA from The University of Mary- dialogue around identity and social and is the programs committee chair for Literary Arts, Beltway Poetry Quarterly land. She is a 2014 finalist for the Janet difference. In 2011, Garcia received her the New Day Campaign. and Black Girl Dangerous. Saida is the & Walter Sondheim Prize, exhibiting Bachelors degree in Psychology from the Director of Community Engagement & recently at The Walters Art Museum, College of Charleston. In 2014, she re- Youth Policy at FreeState Legal and also Gallery Four, The University of North ceived her MFA in Community Arts at the teaches courses at Trinity University. Carolina Pembroke, and Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY. Watson has received Maryland Institute College of Art. From Individual Artist Grants from Maryland there Garcia became the first Creative Al- State Arts Council. She is the winner of liance Community Art Fellow supported the 2010 Sadat Art for Peace Prize, and by the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation.

8 Artist Retreat 2016 | Artists MICA at the age of seventy. At MICA, her and landscapes with undressed bodies. nationally within a program focused on interest was costume design. Lately, her She received her MFA degree from the Post-War and Contemporary Art in both interest has shifted as she realized that University of Texas at Austin and partic- primary and secondary markets. She acting and performing are things she ipated in residencies at the Skowhegan has curated over 100 exhibitions and enjoys. In 2016, Ursula performed as an School of Painting, Creative Alliance and has placed artworks in major public and actor telling a story in Hildegard of Bin- Art342. Her recent exhibitions include private collections worldwide including gen and The Story of Mending. Currently ConnerSmith, The Delaware Contempo- MoMA, the Smithsonian(s), the BMA, Ursula is working on another crankie rary (Wilmington, DE, 2009), and Wendy Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of (hand-sewn figures and backgrounds), Cooper Gallery. She is a recipient of a Art and Design, The MET, ArtCloud Ko- as well as on a performance telling the Pollock-Krasner grant (2012) and Rubys rea, among others. A New Yorker by birth Tina Haines story of her coming to America. Aside grant (2014). Charlton is an Associate but a Baltimorean by choice, Raehse is Tina Haines (b. Philadelphia, PA 1989) from acting and performing, Ursula Professor of Art at American University a curator, lecturer, educator, consultant, graduated from MICA in 2014 with a continues to work in embroidery, quilt- in Washington, DC. She is represented by as well as a long standing Trustee of The BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture ing — often combining both elements — ConnerSmith, Washington D.C. Creative Alliance, and a Programming and now lives in Baltimore, MD. She and icon painting, retablos and German Advisory member at MAP. She has been maintains a product line of utilitarian folk art. a juror for many exhibitions & awards, ceramics recently exhibited at Printed and has authored catalogue essays and Matter’s L.A. Art Book Fair, Open Space’s articles in numerous publications. A Publications & Multiples Festival and Consultants member of the Association of Print the Chicago Zine Fest. Her sculptures Scholars and a recipient of Baltimore’s were most recently shown at Open Space Daily Record VIP Award, Raehse holds a for a two-person show “Half Past, Two MFA, BFA, and Certificate in Arts Man- Rocks Back” and Baltimore Clayworks agement. She has taught at a number of for a staff exhibition. In August of 2015 Colleges and Universities, and lectures she founded a studio center in East extensively on professional practices. A Baltimore which will host upcoming catalyst for artistic voice, Raehse enjoys ceramics workshops with support from helping local artists advance the Balti- Victor FM Torres The Contemporary’s Grit Fund. more brand. She lives with her husband, Victor FM Torres is an interdisciplinary David Tomasko, and her rabbit King and intermedia artist born in Rio de Floyd Richard I. Janeiro, Brazil. He lives in Baltimore and Alexander Jarman teaches New Media for the Creative Arts Manager of Adult & Community at George Mason University in Fairfax, Programs, The Walters Art VA. Torres holds an MFA in Intermedia Museum and Digital Arts from the University of Alexander Jarman received his Master’s Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) of Art History from San Diego State Uni- as well as a BA in Socio-Cultural versity and began his art museum career Anthropology, from the same university. in 2007 at The San Diego Museum of Torres is the founder of Vector Voltage Art. Since late 2014, he has worked at the Travis Levasseur Publishing, founding director of LIGHT- Walters Art Museum with the curatorial Travis Levasseur is an Artist and Film- HOLE, and editor of the LIGHTHOLE Art and education departments. maker living in Baltimore MD. His work Journal. In August 2015, Torres authored As he continues to explore and Ashley Minner has been exhibited at Big Law Country “Language Writes Myth Writes Reality; become enamored with Baltimore even Facilitator & Organizer, Artists U Club in Brooklyn, NY, Terrault Contem- Or, How Does the Acculturated Body more, he is proud to be a Volunteer Ashley Minner is a community based porary in Baltimore, MD, and Vox Populi Take the Role of the Culture Maker?” Educator with Jubilee Arts, as well as act visual artist from Baltimore, Mary- in Philadelphia, PA. He has produced through UMBC’s Intermedia and Digital as the organizer for the Baltimore Kissa land. She holds a BFA in General Fine a number of experimental videos with Arts MFA Program. Society and Trade Show Baltimore. Art, an MA and an MFA in Community artists in the Baltimore area. In his free Art, which she earned at Maryland time he likes to talk to electronics about Institute College of Art. A member of their feelings. the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, she has been active in the Baltimore Lumbee community for many years, and regularly visits communities throughout the U.S South and Latin America as well. Ashley works with sev- eral local and regional arts for social justice organizations including Alter- nate ROOTS. She coordinates Artists U Zoë Charlton Amy Eva Raehse Baltimore, a grassroots planning and Zoë Charlton (Baltimore, MD) creates Executive Director & Curator, professional development program run drawings that explore the ironies of Goya Contemporary Gallery by and for artists, under the Greater Ursula W Populoh contemporary social and cultural Amy Eva Raehse is Executive Director Baltimore Cultural Alliance. She is Ursula Populoh graduated from stereotypes. She depicts her subject’s and Curator of Goya Contemporary currently a PhD in American Studies Maryland Institute College of Art, MICA, relationship with their world by combin- Gallery which represents emerging and student at University of Maryland in 2015 with a BFA in Fiber. She entered ing images of culturally loaded objects mid-career contemporary artists inter- College Park, where she is studying

Artists & Consultants | Artist Retreat 2016 9 vernacular art as resistance in related Wvrdrobe—a clothing and essentials NYC. Elissa is co-founder of the art and communities of the U.S. South and brand. Wvrdrobe has served as an expe- social practice team, Tandem and TNEG Global South. Ashley is a 2016 Inno- rience haven for creatives and aspiring film studio. She recently published a vative Cultural Advocacy Fellow with artists throughout Baltimore for the past “children’s” book, P is for Pussy. the Caribbean Cultural Center African 6 years. Wvrdrobe has hosted a number Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) in NY, NY. of experiences including fashion, art, She is most inspired by the beauty of music, and spiritual health events. everyday people.

Diana Nawi Associate Curator, Pérez Art Museum Miami Diana Nawi is Associate Curator at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), where she Eric Dyer has curated exhibitions with Adler Guer- Professor, UMBC + Artist, rier, Iman Issa, and Nari Ward. Nawi has Creative Capital Fellow organized newly commissioned projects Courtney Fink Eric Dyer is an artist, experimental with Yael Bartana, Nicole Cherubini, Cara Ober Co-Founder & Co-Director animator, and educator. His award-win- Bouchra Khalili, LOS JAICHACKERS Editor, BmoreArt Common Field + Board Trustee, ning films have screened internationally (Julio César Morales and Eamon Ore-Gi- Cara Ober is the Editor and Publisher at The Andy Warhol Foundation for at numerous festivals, including the ron), Shana Lutker, and most recently, BmoreArt, Baltimore’s daily online cul- Visual Arts Chicago International Film Festival, the Matthew Ronay. Prior to joining PAMM, ture magazine and new print publication. Courtney Fink is an organizer, arts Ann Arbor Film Festival, South by South- Nawi worked as an assistant curator on Cara Ober founded BmoreArt in advocate and curator. She is the west, and the Ottawa, Annecy, Melbourne, the Abu Dhabi Project of the Solomon 2007 in order to create more visibility co-founder and co-director of Com- and London International Animation R. Guggenheim Foundation and served and community within the arts in mon Field. From 2002-2015 she was Festivals. His work has also exhibited as a fellow at the Museum of Contempo- Baltimore. Ober earned an MFA in the executive director of Southern at the Exploratorium, the Hirshhorn, rary Art Chicago and the Massachusetts painting from MICA in 2005 and a MS Exposure in San Francisco. She serves the Smithsonian National Gallery of Museum of Contemporary Art. Nawi in Art Education from McDaniel College on the Board of Directors of the Andy Art, Ars Electronica, and the Cairo and received her MA from the Williams in 1998. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa Warhol Foundation for the Visual Venice Biennales. He received his MFA College Graduate Program in the History from the American University in 1996 Arts and the Seed Fund. She currently in 2004 from the Mount Royal School of Art and her BA from the University with a BA in Fine Arts. serves as a consultant and advisor of Art at MICA, was awarded a Fulbright of California, Los Angeles, where she Cara was awarded a Mellon Arts for the Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s Fellowship in filmmaking for travel to majored in fine arts and minored in art Innovation Grant from Johns Hopkins newly launched Open Spaces Grant Denmark in 2005, and was a New Fron- history and Chicano/a studies. University in 2014 and a Grit Fund Grant Program. tier Artist at the 2007 Sundance Film from the Warhol Foundation via The She has held positions at Festival. He has been a visiting artist at Contemporary in 2015. BmoreArt was California College of the Arts and institutions such as ECNU in Shanghai, named “Best Cultural Resource” by Bal- Capp Street Project in San Francisco, Carnegie Mellon University, and CalArts. timore Magazine in 2014. Ober has been as well as Franklin Furnace in New Dyer has received Animasivo, Baltimore published by ARTnews, Hyperallergic, York. She has lectured nationally and Symphony Orchestra, and Ammerman BurnAway, Art Papers, The Baltimore internationally, has juried more then Center for Art and Technology com- Sun, Baltimore Style Magazine, Balti- 30 grant and program opportunities, missions and was recently awarded a more City Paper, and numerous others. serves as a regular nominator for Creative Capital grant and Guggenheim As Editor and Publisher at artist funding programs, and collabo- Fellowship. Dyer’s work explores a vari- BmoreArt, Ober divides her energy rates with organizations that provide ety of cyclic ideas and themes through between the daily online magazine and support to artists. Elissa Blount Moorhead zoetrope-like sculptures. He teaches BmoreArt’s brand new Journal of Art For 22 years, Courtney has been Founder, TNEG Films + animation at UMBC in Baltimore and Ideas in print. dedicated to developing the capacity of Curatorial Council Advisor, The is represented by Ronald Feldman Fine artists and the artist-centered systems Contemporary Arts, New York. that support them. She is committed Elissa Blount Moorhead, producer, to working at the vanguard of new curator, and artist has developed public ideas and in service of artists whose art, gallery based exhibition, and film work is experimental. Courtney holds and educational programs for the last 25 a BA in art history and fine arts from years. She created courses at Pratt’s and Skidmore College and recently moved Parsons Graduate Schools, co-founded back to her hometown of Los Angeles Red Clay Arts, and served as the Director after 21 years in the Bay Area. of RushKids arts. As Weeksville Heritage Center’s Director of Design, Program- ming, and Exhibitions, she developed Cheyanne Zadia Givens the programming slate and oversaw Founder & Creative Director, Gamynne Guillotte the construction of its new Cultural Wvrdrobe Director of Interpretation & Arts building. She was co-curator of Cheyanne Zadia Givens is a curator, Public Engagement, Baltimore the multi-site, FunkJazzGod&Medicine designer, and artist based in Baltimore, Museum of Art with Creative Time and WHC, and is MD. She is the founder and creator of Gamynne Guillotte is the Director of the 2016 Curator of Art in Odd Places in

10 Artist Retreat 2016 | Consultants Interpretation & Public Engagement at Foundation, NYFA. Her work has been The Baltimore Museum of Art, where she included in ArtNEWS, Art in America, is responsible for the planning and real- Hyperallergic, ArtFCity, The New York ization of interpretive spaces, in-gallery Times, Times, The Stranger, resources, and public programs. Recent TimeOut NY, Burnaway, Artsy, and the projects include the launch of the Patri- Skowhegan Journal and exhibited at cia and Mark Joseph Education Center Socrates Sculpture Park, Seattle Art and its inaugural exhibition Imagining Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, ICA Home; in-gallery interpretation for the Philadelphia, Art in General, The Draw- newly reopened Contemporary, Ameri- ing Center, PS1 MoMA, Museum of Arts can, African, and Asian collections; and Heather Darcy Bhandari and Craft in Itami, South Elm Projects Jaimianne Amicucci BMA Go Mobile, the web-based mobile Program Director + Author + for Elsewhere Museum, Tarble Art Center, Owner, The Gray Gallery art guide for the BMA’s collection. As of Adjunct Lecturer + Consultant Portland Art Center and the Brooklyn Executive Officer, Creative Crafts September 2015, she has been serving as Heather Darcy Bhandari is the Program Museum. She studied at Cornish College Council Interim Co-Director of Education and Director of The Artist Project/LA, a new of the Arts in Seattle, Princeton Univer- Jaimianne Amicucci is a curator, Interpretation. nonprofit in Los Angeles dedicated to sity in and received her MFA designer, arts administrator and owner Ms. Guillotte received a Masters of serving emerging artists (although she from . Hart has collab- of The Gray Gallery in Winchester, VA. Architecture from the Southern Califor- is based in Brooklyn). She is also an orated on The Black Lunch Table (BLT) Her background in the arts includes nia Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) adjunct lecturer at Brown University with Jina Valentine since 2005. BLT has working with art fairs in New York like and worked for several years as a design- and the second edition of her book, ART/ taken the form of oral archiving sessions, The Contemporary Art Fair NYC and the er at Narduli Studio, an interdisciplinary WORK, published by Simon and Schuster, video-chats, peer teaching workshops, Sculptural Objects and Functional Art design practice with commissions in is scheduled for release in 2017. Bhan- salons, meetups and Wikipedia edit-a- Show. She has organized exhibitions for public art and architecture. Prior to dari sits on the board of NURTUREart thons and was awarded a 2016 Creative national arts organizations includ- this, she was the Educational Program (a nonprofit in Brooklyn that offers Capital Grant. ing the Women’s Caucus for Art and Coordinator for the MAK Center for Art opportunities to emerging artists and National Council for Education in the and Architecture, Los Angeles, where she curators), is on the board of directors Ceramic Arts. She has also independent- worked closely with educators, curators, of visual arts at Art Omi (an artist ly curated several exhibitions related to and artists to develop and implement residency in Ghent, NY), and serves as contemporary craft including Global community outreach initiatives, curricu- an advisory board member to Trestle Perspectives at Baltimore Clayworks and la, and public programs. Gallery in Brooklyn. Most recently, she Sweet and Subversive: Contemporary was a Director at Mixed Greens gallery Feminist Craft at Arc Gallery in San in New York City. During her 15-year Francisco. Currently she serves as the tenure, she curated over one hundred Executive Officer of the Creative Crafts exhibitions while managing a roster of Council, an organization representing nearly two-dozen artists. She lectures craft guilds in Washington DC with a Jackie Milad and participates in portfolio reviews and biennial exhibition started during the Artist + Gretchen Hupfel Curator panel discussions across the country. American Studio Craft Movement. of Contemporary Art, The Bhandari received a BA from Brown Uni- Delaware Contemporary versity and an MFA from Pennsylvania Jackie Milad is a practicing visual State University. Before joining Mixed artist and curator based in Baltimore Greens, she worked at contemporary gal- George Scheer City. She began her curatorial career leries Sonnabend and Lehmann Maupin, Executive Director, Elsewhere as the Co-Founder of the Transmodern both in New York City. George Scheer is the co-founder and Festival, an artist-run performance art Director of Elsewhere, a living museum and experimental media festival started and artist residency set in a former thrift in 2003. Throughout her curatorial store in Greensboro, NC. George is a career Milad has had the good fortune writer, scholar, and artist who fosters of working with many internationally creative communities at the intersec- recognized artists. She served as the Ex- James McAnally tion of aesthetics and social change. hibitions Director for the Rosenberg Gal- Director, The Luminary + Other projects include Kulturpark, a lery at Goucher College, and has held the Editor, Temporary Art Review public investigation of an abandoned position of Gallery Director and Curator James McAnally is an artist, curator and amusement park in East Berlin, and for the Stamp Gallery and Contemporary critic whose work seeks to create a space South Elm Projects, a curated series of Art Collection at University of Maryland of expanded authorship and exchange, place-based public art commissions for Heather Hart in College Park. Milad now serves as the considering the hyphens and hybrids downtown Greensboro. George holds an Artist, The Black Lunch Table Chief Curator for the Delaware Contem- between these terms. He is the founder, MA in Critical Theory and Visual Culture Heather Hart was born in Seattle and porary (formerly Delaware Center for the co-director, and curator of The Lumi- from Duke University and a BA from the lives in Brooklyn, NY. She was an artist Contemporary Arts) in Wilmington. She nary, an incubator for new ideas in the University of Pennsylvania in Political in residence at Joan Mitchell Center, earned her MFA from Towson University arts based in St. Louis, MO. McAnally Communications. Currently, George is Santa Fe Art Institute, Robert Blackburn where she was a recipient of a competi- also serves as the executive editor and pursuing a PhD in Communication and Printmaking Workshop, McColl Center tive Graduate Fellowship. Jackie received co-founder of Temporary Art Review, an Performance Studies, writing about the of Art Innovation, Bemis Center for Art, her BFA from Tufts University and the international platform for contem- cultural economy of art and urbanism. LMCC Workspace, Skowhegan, Fine Arts School of Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. porary art criticism that focuses on Work Center and at the Whitney ISP. artist-run and alternative spaces, and Hart received grants from Joan Mitchell is a founding member of Common Field, Foundation, Harpo Foundation, Jerome

Consultants | Artist Retreat 2016 11 a new national network of independent leveraging the power of the arts to build management team, Dent leads the fi- art spaces and organizers. capacity and resiliency in individuals nancial and advisory services programs McAnally has presented exhibitions, and communities. A native of Baltimore, and advises awardees regarding the full talks and lectures at venues such as the she leads Art in Praxis, a consultancy realization of their projects, providing Walker Art Center, Queens Museum, the dedicated to increasing impact of mis- strategic insight and connecting them Pulitzer Arts Foundation with Ballroom sion-driven organizations and companies. to a wide range of internal and external Marfa, Cannonball, Atlanta Contem- Jess specializes in strategic thinking, resources. Previously, Dent served as the porary Art Center, Carnegie Mellon change management, and impact design, associate curator of contemporary art University, (e)merge art fair, Washington and has held support and leadership at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio, University in St. Louis, Moore College roles in the social sector for over 10 years. held curatorial staff positions at the New of Art and Design and University of She is a graduate of the University of Leslie Shepard Museum of Contemporary Art and the Missouri - Columbia, and has served as Maryland, College Park and American Principal, LS Consulting + Whitney Museum of American Art, and a Visual Arts panelist for the National University where she earned a Masters Co-Founder, Air.C was a director at Friedrich Petzel Gallery Endowment for the Arts. He is a 2015 of Science in Organization Development. Leslie Shepard is a consultant and in New York. She has also worked in film recipient of the Creative Capital | Warhol She is a National Arts Strategies Creative strategy adviser to arts, educational and and the performing arts as a scenic de- Foundation Arts Writers Grant for Short- Communities Fellow, and serves on local philanthropic organizations. signer, art director, and producer on nu- Form Writing. and national committees for several From 2001-2011 Ms. Shepard was merous projects. She has taught courses arts/social justice/creative placemaking Director of the Baltimore School for the in art history and production design at networks and grant makers. Currently, Arts, a preeminent, pre-professional Cooper Union, University of California, Jess is the Interim Director for Bromo public arts high school, recognized Davis, Columbus College of Art and De- Arts District. @jesssolomon nationally for its artistic and academic sign, and The Ohio State University. Dent achievements. She was a member of the received her BFA from Howard University, original leadership team that planned her MFA from New York University’s and opened the BSA in 1980 and served Tisch School of the Arts, and completed as Dean of Arts until her appointment as the Whitney Museum Independent Study Director. Prior to BSA, Ms. Shepard was Program in curatorial studies. Assistant Director of the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Art and Culture. Jasmine Wahi Ms. Shepard served as President Owner/Director, Gateway Project of the Board of The Greater Baltimore Spaces & Project For Empty Cultural Alliance from 2013-2015 and Space on the boards of the Baltimore Design Jasmine Wahi is a Co-Director of Gate- Joyce Yu-Jean Lee School, Strategic National Arts Alumni way Project Spaces and the Co-Founder Artist + Educator + Board Trustee, Project (SNAAP), Arts Education in and Director of Project For Empty Space. The Contemporary Maryland Schools (AEMS), Arts Everyday, In addition to these organizations, she Joyce Yu-Jean Lee is a visual artist work- The Association of Baltimore Area is on the faculty at the School of Visual ing with video installation and interac- Grantmakers (ABAG), Mayor’s Women’s Arts. Ms. Wahi also curates exhibitions tive performance in New York City. Her ​ Liz Lerman Advisory Group, and the Mount Vernon globally that predominantly deal with project, FIREWALL​ Internet Cafe​, ​​ in​ NYC Institute Professor, Herberger Cultural District. intersectional issues of cultural identity, about Internet censorship was supported Institute for Design and the Arts Ms. Shepard received an Honorary female empowerment, and race. by a 2013 Franklin FurnaceFund grant; ​​ at Arizona State University Doctor of Fine Arts degree from MICA, Her work has been featured in the a​ ​2016 Creative Engagement ​​grant from ​​ Liz Lerman is a choreographer, perform- holds an M.C.P. from the University of Wall Street Journal, , Lower Manhattan Cultural Council;​ ​and er, writer, educator and speaker, and the Maryland School of Social Work and Hyperallergic, and The Huffington Post. a 2015 grant from Asian Women Giving recipient of numerous honors, including Community Planning, and has a back- Ms. Wahi received her undergrad- Circle. The Washington Post included a 2002 MacArthur “Genius Grant” and ground in dance. uate degree in Art History from New York Lee in their “Top 10 Best Art Gallery a 2011 United States Artists Ford Fellow- She is co-founder of the soon-to-be University, and her MA in Art History Shows” in D.C. for 2012. ship in Dance. A key aspect of her artistry launched Air.C artist residency program from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. Lee holds a MFA from the Mary- is opening her process to various publics on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Jasmine Wahi lives in Brooklyn land Institute College of Art (MICA) and from shipbuilders to physicists, con- with her chihuahua, Channa. BA from the University of Pennsylvania. struction workers to ballerinas, resulting She is the recipient of a 2013 Maryland in both research and outcomes that are State Arts Council Individual Artist participatory, relevant, urgent, and us- Award; the 2011-2013 C. Sylvia and Eddie able by others. She founded Liz Lerman C. Brown Studio at the Bromo Seltzer Dance Exchange in 1976 and cultivated Arts Tower; a 2010 ​​Traveling Scholarship the company’s unique multi-generation- from The Walters Art Museum; a 2010- al ensemble into a leading force in con- 2012 So Hamiltonian Fellowship; and a temporary dance until 2011. She was an 2008-2010 Harvey Fellowship. She has artist-in-residence and visiting lecturer exhibited in NYC, Miami, Philadelphia, at Harvard University in 2011, and her Baltimore, D.C., Italy, Germany, and most recent work, Healing Wars, toured Taiwan. Lee is currently a trustee for The Lisa Dent across the US in 2014–15. Liz conducts Jess Solomon Contemporary museum in Baltimore Director, Resources & Award residencies on Critical Response Process, Director, Art in Praxis + Interim and teaches at Fashion Institute of Tech- Programs, Creative Capital creative research, the intersection of art Director, Bromo Arts District nology and New Jersey City University. Lisa Dent is Director, Resources & and science, and the building of narra- Jess Solomon is an organizational devel- You can see her work at: www.joyceyu- Award Programs at Creative Capital. As tive within dance performance at such opment practitioner and cultural worker jeanlee.com and www.firewallcafe.com. a member of the foundation’s senior institutions as Harvard University, Yale

12 Artist Retreat 2016 | Consultants School of Drama, Wesleyan University, technique he continued as a cello player, position, Priya worked in Baltimore as Guildhall School of Music and Drama, creating haunting soundscapes. As a an AmeriCorps Community Organizer and the National Theatre Studio, among composer, Rucker felt he needed more and at the Maryland Institute College of others. Her collection of essays, Hiking than sound to express his ideas, and he Art supporting the college’s communi- the Horizontal: Field Notes from a began incorporating visual images. His ty-based art and design initiatives. Priya Choreographer, was published in 2011 by current work is seamlessly and powerful- was named a Young Cultural Innovator Wesleyan University Press and released ly interdisciplinary. by the Salzburg Global Forum in 2014. in paperback in 2014. In 2016 Liz was She holds a BA in Economics & English named the first Institute Professor at the from Wesleyan University. Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University, where Ruby Lerner she is building a new ensemble lab Consultant + Founder, Creative focused on creative research. Capital Photo Credit: JS Rosenthal Ruby Lerner is the founding Execu- tive Director of Creative Capital, an innovative arts foundation that adapts venture capital concepts to support individual artists. Under her leadership, Paula Naughton Creative Capital committed $40 million Director, Simon Preston Gallery in financial and advisory support to 511 Paula Naughton is a curator based Rebecca Jampol projects representing 642 artists. She in New York, and the founder of the Owner/Director, Gateway Project stepped down from the organization in multi-media documentary project, The Spaces & Project For Empty June 2016 to pursue consulting work and New Atlantis. Through processes of Space + Owner, Solo(s) Project independent research. collecting, creating, and curating, The House Prior to Creative Capital, Ruby Mia Jones New Atlantis brings into question the Rebecca Jampol is an arts educator, Lerner served as the Executive Director Founder, Invisible Majority role and power of photography as a gallery director and independent curator of the Association of Independent Video Mia Jones is a community organizer, ed- colonizing tool. The multi-disciplinary based in Newark, N​J. Graduating from and Filmmakers (AIVF) and as Publisher ucator, and curator based in Baltimore. approach defies traditional boundaries Rutgers-Newark in 2008, she took a of the highly regarded Independent She’s the founder of Invisible Majority, a of an art practice, and aims to give leading role in furthering the develop- Film and Video Monthly. Having worked creative community incubator providing voice to the Chagos community and act ment of the city’s burgeoning arts scene. regionally in both the performing arts space and services for Baltimore’s inde- as an agent of change. Curating and Ms. Jampol moved forward to become and independent media fields, she served pendent creative community. presentation of exhibitions also expands the driving force in a myriad of cultural as the Executive Director of Alternate into Naughton’s role as director of and educational initiatives including: ROOTS, a coalition of Southeastern Simon Preston Gallery, New York, since Jajo Art Gallery (08-09); Glocally Newark performing artists, and IMAGE Film/ 2011. Other recent curatorial exhibitions (2010); The 239 Collective (2010); Video Center, both based in Atlanta. In include “The Mind Was Dreaming, The Rutgers Future Scholars “I am”; The the late 1970s, she was the Audience World Was Its Dream” at Temple Bar NeWWalls Public Art Conference (2014), Development Director at the Manhattan Gallery, Dublin, in 2014. The Gateway Project Public Art Initiative Theatre Club, one of New York’s foremost (2014/present), Portals (2016) and re- nonprofit theaters. cently, The Newark Downtown District’s In May 2016, Lerner was awarded Entryway Program (2016). honorary doctorate degrees from the Her work revolves around the Maryland Institute College of Art and creative programming of private/public Maine College of Art. Beginning in Jan- Paul Rucker space that provides a platform for social uary 2017, Lerner will be the inaugural Artist + Creative Capital Fellow discourse and engagement. Ms. Jampol Herberger Institute Policy Fellow at Ari- Paul Rucker is a visual artist, musician, is the founder/director of the alternative zona State University and Senior Advisor and composer who uses visual images art space and studio residence, Solo(s) to the Patty Disney Center for Life and and sound to render thought-provoking Project House. She is the founder/ Work at CalArts. reflections on racial injustice and power co-director of Gateway Project Spaces, in America. A native of South Carolina, Priya Bhayana a hub for multidisciplinary creative Rucker investigates the long-term social Independent Cultural Organizer engagement. The multilevel facility is and economic effects of slavery in the Priya Bhayana is a cultural organizer split between a competitive/curated res- United States. He has collaborated with & community development practitioner idency program, a project-based gallery schools, prisons, and policy institutes based in Baltimore, MD. She works with in collaboration with Project For Empty to address issues of racially motivated organizations to build their capacity in Space, and rentable artist studios. She is violence, police brutality, and mass fundraising, long-term vision planning also the co-director of Project For Empty incarceration, and actively promotes and communications. She previously Space, a not-for-profit organization that community dialogue as part of his work. served as the inaugural Director of creates socially engaging, multidisci- He has performed and exhibited across Bromo Tower Arts & Entertainment, Inc, plinary art exhibitions and program- the country. an organization that unites, supports ming that encourage social dialogue, Sean J Patrick Carney As a double bass student in ele- and advances artists and cultural education, and systemic change for Grants & Outreach, Bruce High mentary school, Rucker mentally linked organizations toward strengthening cultural tolerance. Quality Foundation University sounds and images as he played. He the Bromo Arts District’s position as a Sean J Patrick Carney is a comedian, was inventive, experimenting with his thriving and diverse cultural corridor artist, and writer in Brooklyn, NY. He instrument to create unusual sounds, a in . Prior to this is a member of the Bruce High Quality

Consultants | Artist Retreat 2016 13 Foundation University (BHQFU), an Theater. She is a trained facilitator in artist-run, tuition-free art school that the Critical Response Process and has has operated independently since 2009. facilitated workshops on strengthening Carney’s writings appear frequently in group dynamics in community-based Art in America, VICE, and other publi- work, collaborating frequently with cations. He is the founder and director other artists and organizations to invent, of Social Malpractice Publishing, and create and curate cultural actions and a co-founder of the Conceptual Oregon events. Valeska also serves on the faculty Performance School (COPS). He’s of the Fiber and Foundation Depart- exhibited his works and performances at ments at the Maryland Institute College numerous venues including MOCA Los Sonja Cendak Taylor Renee Aldridge of Art, where she has been teaching Angeles; Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam; Grants Program Manager, Greater Co-Founder, ARTS.BLACK since 2008. White Columns, New York; Hyde Park Baltimore Cultural Alliance Taylor Renee received her MLA from Art Center, Chicago; the Banff Centre, Sonja Cendak is an arts manager with Harvard University in Museum Studies. Alberta, Canada; ROCKSBOX, Portland, over 15 years experience in grants She received her BA from Howard Oregon; and Marlborough Gallery, management, exhibition design, and University in Art History and Business New York. nonprofit administration. In her current Administration. Taylor has worked at the role at the Greater Baltimore Cultural The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African Alliance, she values providing direct & African American Art (Harvard Uni- support to artists navigating the grant versity), and has been awarded with the process. She has previously worked at Goldman Sachs Junior Fellowship at The the Kennedy Center for the Performing National Museum of American History Arts, the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art (Smithsonian Institutions). Victoria Reis Museum, and the Los Angeles County Taylor’s interests lie at the inter- Co-Founder, Executive & Artistic Museum of Art. She has consulted and section of cultural institutions, cultural Director, Transformer collaborated on projects for the Los An- representation, arts, and policy. In 2015, Victoria Reis is the Co-Founder, Execu- geles County Bicycle Coalition, the Venice she co-founded ARTS.BLACK, an online tive & Artistic Director of Transformer, a Art Walk, and the California Museum publication for art criticism from black Shervone Neckles-Ortiz Washington, DC based non-profit found- of Photography. Sonja holds a BA from perspectives predicated on the belief that Artist + Artist Support Manager, ed in 2002 that connects and promotes UCLA and MA from the University of art criticism should be an accessible Joan Mitchell Foundation emerging visual artists, and introduces California, Riverside. dialogue — a tool through which we Shervone Neckles-Ortiz manages the audiences to new and best practices question, celebrate and talk back to New York City and national programs for in emerging contemporary visual art. the global world of contemporary art. both the Creating a Living Legacy (CALL) During her tenure at Transformer, Reis Taylor Renee is currently working as Program and Professional Development has supported several hundred artists an arts administrator and writer in her Program. Before joining the Foundation, in the launch and advancement of their hometown, Detroit, Michigan. Neckles-Ortiz worked as an Art Educa- artistic careers through visionary exhibi- tion consultant and Adjunct Professor for tions and collaborations with a broad Pratt Institute and other leading NYC art range of organizational partners in DC, institutions and organizations. nationally, and internationally. As an interdisciplinary artist Reis began her career in con- Neckles-Ortiz has held residencies at the temporary visual arts at the National Youlou Arts Foundation, the Elizabeth Suzanne Seesman Association of Artists’ Organizations/ Foundation SHIFT Program, the Center Artist + Educator, Vox Populi + NAAO (1991–97), developing national for Book Arts, The Fabric Workshop & Nicola Midnight St. Claire programs and field-wide initiatives in Museum, and The Skowhegan School of Suzanne Seesman is a Philadelphia support of artist-centered and artist-run Painting and Sculpture. Previous awards based artist whose past experiences organizations and the artists they serve. include grants from Queens Arts Fund, working in education, labor rights, Valeska Populoh Following her time at NAAO and prior The Puffin Foundation, Joan Mitchell cooperative organizing, and the service Faculty, MICA + Associate Artist, to founding Transformer, Reis was the Foundation, as well as fellowships from industry, have a significant influence on Black Cherry Puppet Theater Director of Programs for the Interna- Robert Blackburn Printmaking Work- her writing, thinking, and making. She Valeska Maria Populoh works as an tional Sculpture Center (1998–1999), shop and Manhattan Graphic Center. Her holds a BFA in Sculpture from Ohio Uni- artist, educator and cultural organizer and a curatorial consultant to the DC work has been shown worldwide in both versity and an MFA from Tyler School of in her adopted hometown of Baltimore, Commission on the Arts & Humanities’ solo and group exhibitions. Her practice Art. In 2014 she received both the Cloud Maryland. Embracing a wide array of Public Art Program (2002–2004). also has included curatorial projects Artist Prize and The Ilya and Emilia tactics, from puppetry to participatory Reis is an active advocate for with Pratt Center for Community Kabakov Fellowship in recognition and performance, Valeska’s work is motivat- artists and artist run spaces, creating Development and Bedford­Stuyvesant support of her work. ed by an interest in healing and repair, and participating in national and Restoration Corporation, and at the Suzanne is also a current member in our relationships to each other and international programs and platforms Ice Box Gallery in Philadelphia. She’s of the collectively run space Vox Populi to the natural world. Valeska has per- to advance understanding for artists earned an M.A. from Teacher’s College, and a collaborator on the public pro- formed at the International Toy Theater roles in communities. In 2014, Reis Columbia University, MFA from Queens graming and on-line publishing project Festival in New York City, the Puppe- became a Founding Member of Common College and BFA from the College of New the Nicola Midnight St. Claire. teers of America Festival, and Puppet Field (commonfield.org) a new national Rochelle. Her work can be seen at www. Uprising! She has been a coordinator of network of art spaces and artist-led shervoneneckles.com. the Transmodern Performance Festival initiatives. and is the co-founder and curator of the Puppet Slamwich at Black Cherry Puppet

14 Artist Retreat 2016 | Consultants Guests

Carlyn Thomas George Ciscle Jeannie L. Howe Director, Terrault Gallery + Curator-in-Residence, Maryland Executive Director, Greater Executive Programs Assistant, Insitute College of Art + Founding Baltimore Cultural Alliance Greater Baltimore Cultural Director, Curatorial Practice Alliance MFA, MICA + Founder, The Abbey Parrish Contemporary Co-Director & Co-Founder, Platform

Jessica Hyman DJ Trillnatured + BALTI GURLS Debra Rubino Vice President of Strategic Hunter Bradley Communications, MICA + Co-Director, Springsteen Aisha Pew Board Vice President, The Owner, Dovecote Cafe Contemporary

Jessica Lanzilloti General Manager, Everyman Theatre + Board Treasurer, The Jane Brown Contemporary President & Executive Director, B. Cole Doug Bothner Robert W. Deutsch Foundation Executive Director, Brioxy Partner, Ziger/Snead Architects + Board Trustee, The Contemporary

Joanna Golden Creative Director, Pie in the Jason Lowy Sky + Board Trustee, The Bodil Ottesen Vice President of Wealth Contemporary Art Historian & Educator + Board Management, UBS Financial Trustee, The Contemporary Elizabeth Méndez Berry Services + Partner, The Murray Program Officer, Thriving Group + Board Trustee, The Cultures, Surdna Foundation Contemporary

Guests | Artist Retreat 2016 15 Joanne Gold Melissa Webb Tamar Cloyd Collector + Educator + Board Exhibition Manager, School 33 Art Grants Coordinator, Sheridan Trustee, The Contemporary Center Libraries and University Museum at Johns Hopkins University + Board Trustee, The Contemporary

John Brothers Michael Anthony Farley President, T. Rowe Price Senior Editor & Curator, Art F City Foundation + Program for Charitable Giving Terry Squyres Principal, GWWO Inc./Architects + Board President, The Contemporary

Pierre Bennu Co-Director, Exittheapple Karen Stults Director of Community Engagement, MICA + Board Trustee, The Contemporary Timothy Darden Songwriter & Producer, BlacKostume Music

Sarva Girdhar Medical Doctor + Board Trustee, The Contemporary

Margo Benson Malter Member, Open Space

16 Artist Retreat 2016 | Guests Speakers + Seminars

THURSDAY FRIDAY

Ruby Lerner Heather Hart Sean J Patrick Carney PM PM PM Founder, Creative Capital; Artist, The Black Lunch Table; Grants & Outreach, BHQFU; Creative Capital is an innovative The Black Lunch Table is an ongoing Bruce High Quality Foundation 7:30 7:30 arts foundation that adapts 8:30 collaboration with Jina Valentine. 9:00 Universiy is New York’s freest art venture capital concepts to support First staged in 2005 at Skowhegan school, a learning experiment where individual artists. It has awarded School of Painting and Sculpture, artists work together to manifest $40 million to 642 groundbreaking BLT augments the dominant creative, productive, resistant, artists nationwide through history of contemporary art with useless, and demanding interactions funding, counsel and career the testimonies of living, working, between art and the world. A 501(c) development services. Creative African American artists. The Black (3) nonprofit organization, BHQFU Capital’s Professional Development Lunch Table cultivates audience offers completely tuition-free courses workshops have empowered nearly contingency—participants become on a variety of subjects during fall 12,000 creative minds to strengthen constituents as they find their agency and spring semesters, hosts public their careers and enrich their within the project. BLT provides site, programs and exhibitions year- communities. prompt, and premise; participants round, and operates cost-free artist fill that space with discourse. studio residency programs.

SATURDAY

Project Grants: From the Rubys to Creative Capital AM featuring Lisa Dent (Creative Capital) and Sonja Cendak (Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance); moderated by Deana Haggag (The Contemporary); requested by 74% of attending artists. 9:30

Galleries, Collectors, and Sales On Residencies AM

featuring Heather Bhandari (The Artist Project/LA + OR featuring George Scheer (Elsewhere), James McAnally ART/WORK + Mixed Greens), Jackie Milad (The Delaware (The Luminary + Temporary Art Review), and Shervone

10:30 Contemporary), and Suzanne Seesman (Vox Populi + Nicola Neckles-Ortiz (Joan Mitchell Foundation); moderated by Midnight St. Claire); moderated by Joyce Yu-Jean Lee (The Lu Zhang (The Contemporary); requested by 62% of Contemporary); requested by 66% of attending artists. attending artists.

Financial Literacy: Budgeting + Taxes PM featuring Cara Ober (BmoreArt) and Jessica Lanzillotti (Everyman Theatre + The Contemporary); requested by 62% of attending artists. 12:00

Civics in the City PM featuring Jess Solomon (Art in Praxis + Bromo Arts District); requested by 72% of attending artists. 2:00

Artists & Parenting MFA? Real Estate: Buying & Talking About Your Work PM facilitated by Elissa facilitated by Lu Zhang Renting facilitated by Leslie Blount Moorhead (The Contemporary) facilitated by Priya Shepard (LS Consulting + 3:00 (TNEG Films + Bhayana (Independent Air.C) and Liz Lerman The Contemporary) Cultural Organizer) (Arizona State University)

Common Field: a visual arts organizing network One-on-One Conversations PM featuring Courtney Fink (Common Field) assigned sessions between artists and consultants. 4:30

Speakers + Seminars | Artist Retreat 2016 17 START TIME END TIME EVENT LOCATION

2:00 PM 5:00 PM Arrival and Check-in FRONT LOBBY

5:00 PM 5:30 PM Welcome + Orientation JUBILEE

6:00 PM 7:30 PM DINNER (Assigned Seating, see personalized schedule) HARVEST DINING HALL THURSDAY

7:30 PM 8:20 PM Keynote: Ruby Lerner JUBILEE

9:00 PM 10:30 PM Mingling DECK + BACK LOBBY

8:00 AM 9:15 AM BREAKFAST HARVEST DINING HALL

9:15 AM 11:00 AM Introduction + Artist Presentations JUBILEE FRIDAY

11:00 AM 11:30 AM COFFEE + SNACK BREAK LOBBY

11:30 AM 1:00 PM Artist Presentations JUBILEE

1:00 PM 2:00 PM LUNCH HARVEST DINING HALL

2:20 PM 4:30 PM Artist Presentations JUBILEE

4:30 PM 5:00 PM COFFEE + SNACK BREAK LOBBY

5:00 PM 7:00 PM Artist Presentations JUBILEE

7:00 PM 7:15 PM Remarks JUBILEE

7:15 PM 8:30 PM DINNER (Assigned Seating, see personalized schedule) HARVEST DINING HALL Lecture: Heather Hart on Black Lunchtable 8:30 PM 9:30 PM and JUBILEE Lecture: Sean J Patrick Carney on BHQFU

9:30 PM 11:00 PM Bonfire with S'mores OUTDOORS (SEE CAMPUS MAP)

8:00 AM 9:15 AM BREAKFAST HARVEST DINING HALL

9:30 AM 10:30 AM Project Grants: From the Rubys to Creative Capital JUBILEE

Galleries, Collectors, and Sales BEIT MIDRASH SATURDAY 10:30 AM 11:30 AM or or On Residencies CITRON

12:00 PM 12:45 PM Financial Literacy: Budgeting + Taxes JUBILEE

1:00 PM 2:00 PM LUNCH HARVEST DINING HALL

2:00 PM 2:45 PM Civics in the City JUBILEE Seminars (Assigned): Artists & Parenting MULTIPLE LOCATIONS 3:00 PM 4:00 PM MFA? See personalized schedule for Real Estate: Buying + Renting assigned seminar and location Talking About Your Work

4:00 PM 4:30 PM COFFEE + SNACK BREAK LOBBY

MULTIPLE LOCATIONS Common Field (Assigned) See personalized schedule for 4:30 PM 7:00 PM One-on-One Conversations One-on-One Conversations and locations

7:00 PM 7:30 PM COFFEE BREAK LOBBY

7:30 PM 9:00 PM DINNER (Assigned Seating, see personalized schedule) HARVEST DINING HALL

9:00 PM 12:00 AM Dance Party JUBILEE

8:00 AM 10:00 AM Check-Out MAIN LOBBY

10:00 AM 12:00 PM BREAKFAST HARVEST DINING HALL

SUNDAY SUNDAY 10:30 AM 11:00 AM Closing Remarks HARVEST DINING HALL

18 Artist Retreat 2016 | Schedule at a Glance Lower Level

Beit Midrash

Main Level

Harvest Dining Hall Jubilee Orchard Vineyard

Second Level

Citron

Main Building Map | Artist Retreat 2016 19 Campus Map

Places to Know

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