Consultants: Monday, December 8, Doctor’s Hours for Visual Artists
Consultants: Monday, December 8, Doctor’s Hours for Visual Artists
CONSULTANT BIOS:
These bios provide an opportunity for you to research which consultants would be appropriate for the advice and feedback you are seeking. Register here for Doctor’s Hours after 11:00 AM EST on Tuesday, November 25.
Riva Blumenfeld, Art Historian and Art Educator
Since 2003, Riva Blumenfeld has been an art educator at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney and Guggenheim Museums focusing on school, family and access groups. Besides the museums, Riva conducts art tours for groups (not only in NYC, but also in Miami, New Orleans and Washington, DC), Teaching has been a new direction for Riva, previously she owned a gallery in Soho that specialized in contemporary American art and distributed prints by well known artists such as William Kentridge, Inka Essenhigh, Lesley Dill, Amy Sillman, Kara Walker and Lee Bontecou. She served on the Board of the Lower Eastside Printshop, an organization that offers many opportunities for artists to learn and improve their printmaking skills, and was Chair of ArtTable in New York City – an advocacy, membership group for professional women in the visual arts.
Christine Licata, Director of Performing and Visual Arts at Casita Maria
Her past positions include the Associate Director of Visual Arts at the Boston Center for the Arts and the Associate Curator at Taller Boricua in El Barrio, Spanish Harlem. As an Independent Curator she was recently a Guest Curator in Art in Odd Places’ performance festival AiOP 2012: MODEL. As an Art Writer, she has been published in exhibition and artist catalogs as well as written for Artlog, Degree Critical, PERFORMA 07 and Art on Paper. She has a BFA from Parsons The New School for Design and an MFA in Art Criticism and Writing from the School of Visual Arts.
Hans Tammen, Deputy Director of Harvestworks Digital Media Art Center
Hans is interested in all things interactive. At School for Visual Arts (SVA) he is currently teaching graduate students Creative Programming, in both the Computer Arts and Photography, Video and Related Media Departments. As the Deputy Director of Harvestworks Digital Media Art Center he is responsible for all interactive projects, the Artist In Residence and Education program. For 15 years he has helped countless artists create their works, explore the technical possibilities, and achieve their goals with as little time & money as possible. He has been a panelist for SIGGRAPH Asia, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference (NIME), and others.His own projects include site-specific performances and collaborative efforts with dance, light, video, and theatre, utilizing technology from planetarium projectors to guitar robots and disklavier pianos. He received a Fellowship from the New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) in the category Digital/Electronic Arts in 2009 for the ENDANGERED GUITAR – a hybrid guitar/software instrument used to control interactive live sound processing. His THIRD EYE ORCHESTRA open form compositions for large ensembles and live sound processing are inspired by Earle Brown’s Available Forms, and based on numerous scored “building blocks” that are constantly rearranged when performed. A generous grant from MAPFund allowed him to produce a piece for his DARK CIRCUITS ORCHESTRA, using 14 performers of self-designed electronic instruments and lights.
Harrison Tenzer, Post-War and Contemporary Art Department at Christie’s
Harrison Tenzer is currently a cataloguer in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Department. His duties include researching artworks from the 1940s to today that are included in Christie’s sales. He also oversees the production of catalogues for specific sales and assists with sales and pricing of artworks. He graduated from University of Pennsylvania in 2011 and has been at Christie’s since then.
Roberta Waddell, Curator, Art Historian
Roberta Waddell was formerly Curator of Prints at The New York Public Library, until spring of 2008 when she retired. After receiving her Ph.D. in Art History from Johns Hopkins, she was Print Specialist at the Library from 1972 to 1977, Curator of Graphic Arts at The Toledo Museum of Art from 1977 through 1984, and Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Worcester Art Museum in 1984 and 1985, before returning to The New York Public Library in 1985. Ms. Waddell has organized numerous exhibitions on Old Master prints, modern and contemporary prints, photographs and illustrated books. At the Library her primary responsibilities were for the public service of the Print Room’s original print and reference collections, and for the ongoing building of the Print Collection, with a particular emphasis on contemporary prints and artists’ books.
Sarah Walko, Program Director of Marble House Project
Sarah Walko is an artist and director of arts organizations. She is currently the Program Director of Marble House Project, a non profit arts organization in New York City and Dorset, Vermont. Previous to this she was Executive Director of Triangle Arts Association. Prior to moving to New york city she was Curator of Savannah College of Art and Design. Her fiction and non fiction essays have been published by While Whale Review Literary Journal and Hyperallergic Art Blog where she is a regular contributing writer. She continues to do independent curatorial projects and recently curated shows at galleries such as Fridman Gallery in Manhattan and Radiator Arts in Long Island City. She has participated in many artists residency programs including IPark and the Elizabeth Foundation. This past year she was invited visiting artist at Savannah College of Art and Design and Roger Williams College. She is currently working on new sculpture/installations, film and other curatorial projects.
Andrea Wenglowskyj, Curator, Artist, Co-Founder of Kind Aesthetic
Andrea was born in Rochester, NY and works and lives in Brooklyn, NY. She has her Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Tufts University, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the State University of New York at New Paltz. She has exhibited her work nationally, and was a 2011 Fulbright Fellow in Ukraine, where she researched the country’s contemporary art scene. Previous to that she worked with Storefront for Art and Architecture and the UBS Art Collection. In 2012, she co-founded Kind Aesthetic, a creative agency that uses art, design and communal action to give voice to ideas so that they can exist and thrive in the real world, and developed DELVE, a suite of services and events that helps artists and creatives best communicate what they do in person, online and in writing. She is also a member of the artist and curatorial collective ||| (3-art).
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