PANELISTS
Lisa Dent (Director, Resources &
Award Programs at Creative Capital). As a member of the foundation’s senior
management team Dent leads the financial and advisory services programs and
advises awardees regarding the full realization of their projects, providing
strategic insight and connecting them to a wide range of internal and external
resources. Previously, Dent served as the associate curator of contemporary art
at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio, held curatorial staff positions
at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art,
and was a director at Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York. She has also worked
in film and the performing arts as a scenic designer, art director, and
producer on numerous projects. She has taught courses in art history and
production design at Cooper Union, University of California, Davis, Columbus
College of Art and Design, and The Ohio State University. Dent received her BFA
from Howard University, her MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the
Arts, and completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in curatorial
studies.
Matt King (Artist, Educator) Matt King's work
examines the strangeness of everyday objects, and how their definition,
production and circulation intersect with lived experience. His work in
sculpture, photography, and drawing has been shown in solo exhibitions at The
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, The University of Georgia, Werkstätte
(NY), Massimo Audiello (NY), Reynolds Gallery (Richmond, VA) and Fourteen30
Contemporary (Portland, OR) as well as group exhibitions at Jane Lombard, Guild
& Greyshkul, Luhring Augustine, Stux Gallery, and the Vienna Kunsthalle. He
received his MFA from Bard College and is a graduate of Cooper Union and the
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Honors include a 2012-2013 VMFA
Visual Arts Fellowship, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and visiting artist
residencies at Fiskars Village, Finland, NCCA in St. Petersburg, Russia,
and at the American Academy in Rome. He lives and works in Richmond, VA
where he is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sculpture + Extended
Media at Virginia Commonwealth University. www.mattkingstudio.com
Isabel Manalo (artist, educator, writer,
Founder and Director of The Studio Visit) is an interdisciplinary visual artist
whose work personally addresses ideas of power and identity as defined by race,
ethnicity, geography and class. Combining photography, drawing, painting,
sewing and writing, her work embraces visual clues and coding as inspired by
the ancient art of Filipino tattooing, maps and the history of cartography
while also honoring the genre of abstract expressionism. She has been showing
her work internationally since 1999 and her work is included in a number of
public and private collections such as the National Academy of Sciences in
Washington, DC, the permanent collections of the US Embassies in Bulgaria,
Kazakhtsan and Nepal, to name a few. Her work has been shown at the
Orlando Museum of Art, the McLean Project for the Arts, Arlington Arts Center,
Maryland Art Place, the Katzen Arts Center, and the Corcoran Gallery
of Art and has been the subject of group and solo shows in Baltimore, Chicago,
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Philadelphia, Orlando, New York and
Berlin.
Isabel
is also an Independent Curator, Writer and the Founder and Director of The Studio Visit (TSV), an online art
journal featuring artists in their studios. Her experience as an academic
educator inspired the creation of TSV in 2008. The focus on studio practice and
process is the emphasis of TSV and further emphasizes this mission through the
art critique. www.isabelmanalo.com
Caitlin Strokosch (Executive Director, Alliance of
Artist’s Communities)
Caitlin
has been involved in professional arts management for nearly two decades; she
has served the Alliance since 2002 and was appointed Executive Director in
2008. During her tenure with the Alliance, she launched "New Voices of
Modern Arab Literature" -- a collaboration of more than 20 residency
programs around the world to support emerging Arab writers; produced
"Surviving to Thriving" -- a major study on the sustainability of
artist residency centers in the U.S.; and initiated the Alliance's consulting
services, working with clients that include the Taiwanese Ministry of Culture,
McColl Center for Visual Art, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and
the Rhode Island Foundation. Caitlin has actively sought new resources for the
residency field and since being appointed director has developed new funding
partnerships with the Ford Foundation, Pew Fellowships in the Arts, 3Arts, and
the Rockefeller Foundation, among others. She edited the third edition of Artists Communities: A Directory of Residencies That Offer Time and
Space for Creativity and has authored numerous reports, essays, and
articles about artist residencies and support for today's artists. Under her
leadership, the Alliance membership has grown by 40%, conference attendance has
doubled, and the organization has granted more than $2 million in funds to
artists and residency programs. www.artistcommunities.org
PANEL
CHAIRS
David J Brown is an accomplished arts and
culture administrator, curator, and organizational consultant, functioning as
an active partner, collaborator, producer, and director. His activities in the
field includes positions as Chief Curator and the HOME House Project Director,
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art; Curator, Contemporary Arts Center,
Cincinnati; Director of Exhibitions, Maryland Institute, College of Art; and
Deputy Director of Art, Taubman Museum. He served on the board for the
Washington Project for the Arts and has worked on a contract basis for many
museums and galleries. He has organized well over one hundred and fifty
large-scale exhibitions and community-based projects and has worked with
notables such as Yoko Ono, Roy Lichtenstein, David Byrne, Lesley Dill, and many
others. Brown is a published writer and has presented numerous
public lectures at museums, universities and conferences. His book, The HOME House Project: the future of affordable
housing is currently available through M.I.T Press. www.davidjbrown321.com
Niku
Kashef is
interdisciplinary
artist, educator and independent curator, interested in projects that engage
the greater community. Her work explores geography, biography and place, both
as a physical location, our perceived relationship to it and how this
experience is shaped.
Niku has
exhibited at national and international venues, including the Monterey Museum
of Art and The Museum of Arts & Crafts-ITAMI in Japan. She is active on committees
for the arts including as a past-President and current Director on the board of
the Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art, Chair for the College Art
Association's Services for Artists Committee, the Julius Shulman Institute, and
as a former National Board member of the National Women’s Caucus for Art and
member of ArtTable. Niku has held artist talks and workshops at National and
International institutions including the University of California, Santa
Barbara; the Vermont Studio Center; the Yucun Museum of Art in China and the
Hungarian Multicultural Center, the later two of which retain permanent collections
of her work. Most recently she has been a visiting Lecturer at the London
College of Communications in the UK and Shandong Normal University in Jinan,
China. With an MFA in Visual Communication she is a Lecturer of Art at
California State University, Northridge and a Participating Adjunct at Woodbury
University. Niku lives and works in Los Angeles. www.nikukashef.com
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