The global pandemic is causing significant challenges in the art community. Our panelists will engage in a discussion about how they are dealing with this time of disruption. They will answer questions and give advice to our students as they prepare to graduate in May.
Confirmed panelists:
Erica Battle (C’03) is the John Alchin and Hal Marryatt Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Her curatorial work focuses on artistic production from the neo avant-garde until today, with interests particularly rooted in global art histories, the intersections of sound and performance with traditional media, and the role of contemporary art within encyclopedic museums. Battle is currently serving as curatorial lead for the special exhibition that will inaugurate the Museum’s expanded contemporary galleries opening in Fall 2020. Select past projects include: Agnes Martin: The Untroubled Mind (2018); Rachel Rose: Wil-o-Wisp the inaugural Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media, a collaborative initiative between the PMA and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy (exhibition and publication 2018); Bruce Nauman: Contrapposto Studies, I through VII (exhibition 2016; publication 2018); the Philadelphia presentation of International Pop, a major exhibition originating from the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2015-16); Allora & Calzadilla: Intervals, a collaboration between the PMA and the Fabric Workshop and Museum (2015); Dancing around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp (exhibition and publication 2012); and Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens, the official U.S. entry to the 53rd Venice Biennale, which garnered the Golden Lion for Best National Participation in 2009.
Erica Ehrenbard is a sculptor based in Philadelphia with a practice that spans fine art, design, research, and metal fabrication. Her artwork can be found in galleries as well as public & private spaces, and she has collaborated with architects, artists, and designers to progress creative projects across many scales and industries. After revitalizing an early-20th-century carriage house into a metalworking studio, she founded Carriage Creative Co., which provides custom fabrication services to fellow artists, designers, and admirers of metal. Erica was born in New York City and raised in New Jersey, earning a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2012. She has since been awarded residencies with Vermont Studio Center and Chashama, as well as a blacksmith scholarship with Center for Metal Arts. Erica's work has been acquired by private collectors and she is currently producing a public artwork for the City of Philadelphia."
Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib have been collaborators since 2008. They are recipients of several honored awards including a 2015 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Pew Fellowships in the Arts and Fellowships from CFEVA and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Their work has been widely exhibited both domestically and abroad at venues including, Fondazione MAXXI (Rome), New Media Gallery (Vancouver), The Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), UCLA Hammer Museum, PS1/MoMA, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Arizona State University Art Museum. They have been artists-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Banff Centre, Millay Colony for the Arts and Marble House Project. Nadia Hironaka serves as a professor and department chair of film and video at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Matthew Suib is co-founder of Greenhouse Media.
Danny Orendorff is a curator and writer working as Executive Director of Vox Populi, a non-profit gallery, performance space and art collective in Philadelphia, PA. Founded in 1988, Vox Populi serves as an enduring model for how a radically independent and experimental arts organization can sustain itself through collective effort and constant evolution. Formerly, Orendorff was Curator of Public Programs for the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City and Program Director for non-profit Chicago gallery Threewalls. As an independent curator, Orendorff has organized large group exhibitions for such venues as DePaul Art Museum (Chicago, IL), The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design (Asheville, NC), SFCamerawork (San Francisco, CA), and The Charlotte Street Foundation (Kansas City, MO), amongst others. He has taught in the Fiber & Material Studies Departments of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Tyler School of Art at Temple University. More info: DanDannyDaniel.com
Jessica Vaughn (MFA’11) was born in Chicago, IL. Vaughn holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania (2011) and a Bachelor of Humanities/Arts from Carnegie Mellon University (2006). She participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2013. Her work has been exhibited at MOMA PS1, Studio Museum in Harlem, Project Row Houses, and in galleries in the US and abroad. She has been published in Artforum, The New York Times, Modern Painters Magazine, among others.
*Students were sent a link of the recording of this session.
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