Workshop
September 21, 2004, 6:30pm
Collecting Retirement: The Artists Pension Trust New York, a new model for the financial security of artists.
Panel discussion with David A. Ross, President; Pamela Auchincloss, Director; Simon Watson, Selection Committee Member; Kehinde Wiley and Naomi Fisher, artists in the Artists Pension Trust New York
Calling all artists!
Continuing our program of Survival Skills Workshops we are pleased to offer the following FREE talks.
David A. Ross is an art museum professional and educator. He is currently the chair of the MFA Art Practice program at the School of Visual Arts. Ross is the co-founder and president of the Artists’ Pension Trust, a pioneering financial planning program for working artists; has lectured at various universities across the country; and has served as a juror and commissioner at a broad range of international shows and exhibitions.
Pamela Auchincloss has engagements in the commercial, institutional, not-for-profit, and corporate sectors alongside community services, education, and art-related board participation. She serves as Director for the Artist Pension Trust.
Simon Watson is an independent curator, art advisor, and cultural event marketing specialist based in New York and São Paulo. He is a selection committee member of The Artists Pension Trust.
Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977, Los Angeles) is an American artist best known for his portraits that render people of color in the traditional settings of Old Master paintings. Wiley’s work brings art history face-to-face with contemporary culture, using the visual rhetoric of the heroic, the powerful, the majestic and the sublime to celebrate Black and brown people the artist has met throughout the world. Working in the mediums of painting, sculpture, and video, Wiley’s portraits challenge and reorient art-historical narratives, awakening complex issues that many would prefer remain muted.
Naomi Fisher (b. 1976, Miami) explores ecology through a feminist lens, sourcing inspiration from her tropical surroundings and her experiences going on field expeditions and visiting the laboratory of her Botanist father. Her research tracks the continuous presence of natural forms in material culture, the power of surrealism and speculative fiction, and green-tech as material and communication strategy.