SUPERFIERCE panel discussion on October 10

Join Superfierce this Tuesday, October 10, 6:30 - 8:30 for a FIERCE FEMALE FOUNDERS panel discussion and a special presentation by Veuve Clicquot head wine maker Gaelle Goossens.

View the art in the SUPERFIERCE Exhibition and be part of this info-sharing collective of women in business. Featuring Panelists: Donna Harris - Cofounder, 1776 and General Partner, 1776 Seed Fund, Angie Fetherston - CEO Drink Company, Kerra Michelle - Founder BUREAU + Kerra Michelle Interiors, Shelly Bell, BEACON board member and Founder/CEO of Black Girl Vision and Ms. Print USA. Moderated by Michelle Gloden Schoenfeld. 

This event is open to the public. Please feel free to stay and enjoy the exhibit! Please RSVP. superfiercdc@gmail.com. www.superfierce.org,   Facebook.com/BeSuperfierce

FIERCE FEMALE FOUNDERS 
Tuesday, October 10, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

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Blind Whino

700 Delaware Avenue SW

Washington, District of Columbia 20024

blindwhino.org

What We Want Is Free: An Exploration of the Field of Non-profit Visual Arts Organizations

Tuesday, March 3, 6:30 – 8pm
The Goethe Institut
812 7th St NW
Washington, DC

In tandem with Transformer’s current Summer Camp program - a four-week series of creative events (February 7 – March 7) investigating art as action, engagement, social exchange, and interactivity, Transformer presents What We Want Is Free: An Exploration of the Field of Non-profit Visual Arts Organizations. This ninth panel in Transformer’s on-going FRAMEWORK Panel Series will examine the importance of non-profit visual arts organizations with small to medium sized budgets – 'alternative art spaces' and/or 'artist spaces' - and their impact on the past, present, and future of contemporary visual art. Transformer is presenting this panel in partnership with The Goethe-Institut who will host the event in their theatre. Participation is free.

Participating panelists include: Mark Allen, Director, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA; Wendy Clark, Visual Arts Specialist, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC; Steven Rand, Executive Director, Apexart, NYC; Victoria Reis, Executive & Artistic Director, Transformer, Washington, DC; and Don Russell, Executive Director, Provisions Library, Washington, DC. The panel will be moderated by Ryan Hill, Transformer Board Member, and Manager of Interpretive Programs & Curatorial Research Associate, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden.

Questions to be addressed include: What is a Visual Arts Organization (VAO)? How did the field of non-profit alternative arts organizations/artist spaces begin and what were they an alternative to? What are some different models of current non-profit VAOs – how has the field changed since its inception, the culture wars of the early 90s? How do these VAOs educate audiences, support artistic careers, enhance our society? In what ways do these organizations facilitate discovery and usher in new artistic concepts?

The panel discussion will be followed by a thirty minute question-and-answer segment with the audience.

For more information, please visit the Goethe-Institut’s website at http://www.goethe.de/.

Emerge Exposed Panel Discussion Next Tuesday

Tuesday, March 3, 7 to 9 p.m.
Flashpoint's Mead Theater Lab
(entrance at the end of the gallery)



Panelists include Theo Adamstein, founder of FotoweekDC and president of Chrome Imaging, Jason Horowitz, photographer, Veronica Jackson, collector and principle of the Jackson Design Group, and Paul Roth, Senior Curator of Photography and Media Arts for the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Moderated by Philippa P.B. Hughes from The Pink Line Project.

Hughes said about the discussion, "We've assembled a stellar group of speakers for our panel who will discuss various topics concerning collecting photography. How do you get started? What are the various processing techniques? What do edition sizes mean? How do you preserve photographs? What are the different forms of photographic art? Why collect photography? And so much more!" Please RSVP to info[at]thepinklineproject[dot]com. $10 suggested donation at the door. -DCist

Looking Back, Looking Forward

Roundtable
Thursday, May 29, 6:30 pm

Look back at African American art of the 20th century and forward to its development in the new millennium. Dr. David C. Driskell (artist, collector, and emeritus professor at the University of Maryland) and Dr. Elizabeth Hutton Turner (vice provost for the arts and professor, University of Virginia, and former Phillips senior curator) are panelists. The moderator is Dr. Leslie King-Hammond (dean of graduate studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art). Jacob Lawrence is the starting point for a consideration of the role of African American art within the larger context of contemporary American art. In collaboration with the Millennium Arts Salon.

Free; reservations are not required.

Phillips Collection
1600 Twenty-first Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
www.phillipscollection.org

After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art

One of my readers brought this very interesting panel discussion about a new book to my attention. Thank you Josephine!

A panel discussion on the exhibition and book in which four prominent critics and curators describe the impact of women artists on contemporary art since the advent of the feminist movement.

The panel consists of:

Eleanor Heartney is an independent cultural critic and author residing in New York City. Currently, she is contributing editor for Art in America and Artpress and co-president of AICAUSA, the American Section of the International Art Critics Association. She has written for most major cultural publications including Art News, New Art Examiner, the Washington Post, Sculpture, and the New York Times.

Helaine Posner, Adjunct Curator for the American Federation of Arts and is the author of the The Masculine Masquerade: Masculinity and Representation and Kiki Smith.

Nancy Princenthal, art critic who has contributed to Art in America magazine since 1985. She is a contributing editor to Art on Paper and the editorial adviser and a regular contributor to Art/Text. She has taught at Bard College, Princeton University, Yale University, Rhode Island School of Design, and Parsons School of Design.

Sue Scott is Adjunct Curator of Contemporary American Art at the Orlando Museum of Art.

A look at 12 outstanding artists (Marina Abramowicz, Louise Bourgeois, Ellen Gallagher, Ann Hamilton, Jenny Holzer, Elizabeth Murray, Shirin Neshat, Judy Pfaff, Dana Schutz, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, and Nancy Spero) and their impact on contemporary and younger artists. - The New School

The New School
New York, NY
Oct 10th, 2007