Workshop
February 5, 2004, 6:30pm
Reading Between the Lines: Advice and information on artist residencies, grants, and studio programs.
Speakers: Erin Donnelly, Associate Director of Visual & Media Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; Brad Hampton, 2003 Skowhegan resident; and Carol Sun, Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipient
Calling all artists!
Continuing our program of Survival Skills Workshops we are pleased to offer the following FREE talks.
Erin Donnelly, Associate Director of Programs, is also an independent curator. At the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, she manages the artists' residencies, exhibitions, public programs, and public art projects. She has worked on exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Grey Art Gallery, New York University; The Art Gallery at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art and collaborated on visual art projects with Visual AIDS and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. In 2000, she was awarded a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellowship, Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art. She received her BA in Art History and MA in Museum Studies both from New York University.
Brad Hampton is an artist whose works have been exhibited at Artists Space (Painting as Paradox) and Marlborough Chelsea Gallery as well as featured at the Sandra Gering Gallery. He received his MFA in painting from Parsons in 2002 and attended the Skowhegan residency in the summer of 2003. Brad exhibited and was artist-in-residence at Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan last October and will show a new body of work at the Seo Hwa Gallery in Seoul, South Korea this April where he will also lecture at the Korean National Museum. Brad lives and works in New York City.
New York based artist Carol Sun is a recent recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, with an upcoming exhibition at the Asian American Arts Center in New York. She has had solo shows at the Bronx Museum of Art and the Neuberger Museum, as well as here at Artists Space. Carol Sun has been included in a number of publications including Art Journal, Asian Pacific American Journal, The New York Times and Art Papers. In addition, she has taught extensively in the New York area at both Parsons School of Design and Cooper Union. Awards include MTA Arts for Transit received in 2003, an Art Matters Fellowship in 1996 as well as the now non-existent NYSCA artist grant. Additionally, she has served on a number of different panels including the NEA, Artists Space, Franklin Furnace, and NYSCA. Her artwork can be seen in the collections of the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, The Bronx Museum of Art, the Metropolitian Transit Authority, and the Federal Reserve Bank of NY to name just a few.