Please join us as we welcome Natessa Amin, Anne Ishii, and Lucia Olubunmi R. Momoh for a fall 2022 MFA Professional Development panel discussion. Our guests will share information regarding gallery representation, curatorial relationships, self-organized exhibition making, publishing, and online publicity and presence. Food will be served!
Confirmed panelists:
Natessa Amin (MFA’15) is an artist and educator based in Philadelphia and co-director of FJORD Gallery. She has exhibited her paintings, sculptures, and installations throughout the U.S. and internationally with notable solo projects at CUE Art Foundation, NY and The Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA. Residencies include the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Wassaic Project, Lacawac Sanctuary & Biological Field Station, and the Golden Foundation for the Arts. In 2019, Amin's work was featured at Abu Dhabi Art and India Art Fair presented by Galerie Isa (Mumbai) and was recently included in a traveling survey exhibition of women and nonbinary artists working in abstraction in the Mid-Atlantic area which travelled from The Delaware Contemporary, DE to the American University Museum Katzen Center, D.C. in the spring of 2022. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Moravian University in Bethlehem, PA.
Anne Ishii is the Executive Director of Asian Arts Initiative, which has operated with a mission to “create community through the power of art” in the North Chinatown neighborhood of Philadelphia since 1993. Anne is a writer and editor by trade, with a background in Japanese letters. Her work hinges on issues relating to gender and sexuality. In 2013 she co-founded MASSIVE GOODS: a lifestyle brand and arts agency representing queer and feminist artists from Japan. MASSIVE has produced multiple volumes of graphic novels and a line of clothing and accessories. She has been published in BUST, Nylon, Slate, Publishers Weekly, the Village Voice, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other publications. She has translated and rewritten over twenty books.
Lucia Olubunmi R. Momoh is a curator and writer from Sacramento, currently based in Philadelphia, where she works as the Constance E. Clayton Curatorial Fellow at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Momoh previously served as Curatorial Associate for Prospect.5 Yesterday we said tomorrow, Curatorial Assistant at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and Curatorial Fellow at the New Orleans Museum of Art. She has curated exhibitions at museums and galleries, including the Museum of Sonoma County and the Front Gallery in New Orleans; and her writing has appeared in publications such as burnaway, 64 Parishes, and The Iron Lattice, a Print Magazine. She holds an MA in Art History from Tulane University and a BA in Art History and French from the University of Oregon.
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