Curatorial Meetups NYC

AR Curatorial Meetup is an informal monthly gathering, inviting freelance independent female curators to join for a conversation with our guest speakers, every 3rd Wednesday of the month.

January 2020

Guest speaker, Laura B. Greig, co-founder of American Cyborg

Laura is the founder of American Cyborg, art collective and LLC, takeing a different approaches to the creation, curation, organization, and interpretation of art, and Rookery, an art archiving software that helps people write the narrative of their art collection, and share it with others.

November 2019

Guest speaker: Ninth Street Collective (Courtney Childress, Audra Lambert, Shama Rahman, Melinda Wang, Heather Zise)

Ninth Street Collective is a group of art administrators, gallerists, curators, writers and critics who want to help artists succeed. With a focus on professional development, they offer one-on-one consultations with artists in-person and online, and serve as a hub for resources for artists. .

July 2019

Guest speaker: Josephine Heston, Assistant Director at A.I.R. Gallery

Josephine Heston is a curator, writer, and editor based in New York. She is a co-founder of rehearsal, a residency for experimentation in a social context, and was formerly Editor in Chief of the Journal of Art Criticism. She is currently the Assistant Director at A.I.R. Gallery and will be joining CUE Art Foundation as their Programs Associate this fall. Her past research has engaged with queer and affect theories, as well as histories of alternative art spaces in New York, and her programming often explores platforms for sharing resources among emerging artists, writers, and arts workers.

Artists in Residence, Inc., also known as A.I.R. Gallery, was established in 1972 as the first not-for-profit, artist-directed and maintained gallery for women artists in the United States. The organization was founded by a group of twenty women artists, which have included Judith Bernstein, Agnes Denes, Harmony Hammond, Ana Mendieta, Howardena Pindell, and Nancy Spero. A.I.R has been functioning as a space for self-identified women artists ever since, developing a unique cooperative model through which scarce assets have been shared and women’s issues have been raised.

March 2019

Guest speaker: Adam Yokell, Founder of Foundwork

Foundwork is a platform designed to help connect artists and collaborators across the global contemporary art community. The project was inspired by Adam Yokell’s experience running Hometown, a gallery in Brooklyn where he worked primarily with emerging artists. Seeing the limitations that artists, curators, and gallerists often face trying to branch out and connect with new collaborators, Adam decided to develop Foundwork as an informational resource specifically for this group. For more information please visit this page.

February 2019

Guest speaker: Kelly Schroer, Curator at Artfare

Kelly Schroer is an art advisor and independent curator. She was a member of the sales team at David Zwirner gallery in New York from 2010 – 2018, where she worked with top clients, colleagues, and artists in the field. In addition to her role advising clients privately, Kelly is the founder and curator of Strongroom, a non-profit organization producing site-specific contemporary art installations in Newburgh, NY. Since last Spring, Kelly has also been curating a new platform for artists called Artfare, which connects artists and patrons directly through exhibitions, studio visits, and a digital app

December 2018

Guest speaker Rachel Gugelberger, Curator and Director of NLE Lab.

NLE Curatorial Lab, is a four-month professional development intensive for emerging curators and cultural workers interested in direct experience curating site-responsive and community-centered curatorial programs in unique spaces.

Gugelberger has organized projects including the inaugural Southeast Queens Biennial, curated by the 2017 NLE Lab; Jameco Exchange, a site-responsive exhibition and socially engaged education platform in Jamaica, Queens (2016); and Hold These Truths (2017) and Bring in the Reality (2015), exhibitions that presented works at the intersection of activism and storytelling. She is co-founder of 1@111, a series of process-oriented discussions that focus on a single work, curatorial premise or proposition.