Category: Curation

Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation at TYWLS (The Young Womens Leadership School) The Year of Freedom Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation’s robust arts education programming brings hands-on art making into schools throughout NYC and in Jersey City. Each year has an overarching theme, and each semester culminates in a professionally curated and installed exhibition of student work:…

20th Anniversary of The Bead Project at UrbanGlass In 2017, Ghislaine Sabiti and I were invited to co-curate a milestone exhibit to honor 20 years of The Bead Project at UrbanGlass. The Bead Project is a scholarship program for creatively inclined, economically disadvantaged women. Over the course of ten classes at UrbanGlass, students learn flame-working…

Artists Who Write, Parts I and II Co-curated by Jenny Douglas and Iviva Olenick, Artists Who Write highlights the literary works of artists with professional practices in the visual and performing arts and celebrates the spirit of multiplicity, . In our first of two presentations, Yazmany Arboleda, Kent Shell and Seldon Yuan brought us to unexpected places. Our second series,…

Crafting Home at The Brooklyn Cottage, March 2014 Featuring work by: Cynthia Alberto, Jenny Belin, Courtney Buckland, Karl Larson, Katherine Matos, Anne Mourier, Meghan Willis, and Seldon Yuan, and Iviva Olenick Curator’s statement: The home is a haven where we can explore who we are; experiment with boundaries between family, lovers and friends; experience intimacy for the first time; meditate and create. Through diverse…

Totems & Talismans: Transmuting the Sacred October–November 2014 at The Brooklyn Cottage Works by Nicola Ginzel, Jack Henry & Ian Trask Co-curated by Iviva Olenick and Jenny Douglas Totems & Talismans opens Wednesday, 10/29 from 7-9pm at The Brooklyn Cottage, Brooklyn, NY, not far from the Brooklyn Museum. The thinking that sparked this show: The artists in Totems…