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ArtViews: Gender and Cultural Norms

Monday, April 14
9:00 AM- 1:00 PM

BRIC
647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY

Presented in collaboration with A.I.R. Gallery

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The American Federation of Arts (AFA) is excited to present ArtViews: Gender and Cultural Norms, a thought-provoking symposium exploring gender, identity, and equity in the arts. This event, part of AFA’s ArtViews series, will bring together artists, curators, scholars, and arts professionals to discuss the evolving landscape of representation in the art world. 

Through engaging panels and networking opportunities, participants will have the chance to rethink the historical label of “woman artist” in today’s intersectional landscape, examine the impact of American culture and policies on art careers, and address barriers to gallery representation and access to the art mark.

This symposium is free and open to the public with registration.

For questions and additional information, please contact events@amfedarts.org.

About the panelists:

Pamela Council

Pamela Council is an interdisciplinary artist creating works of veneration and playful catharsis. These mixed media dedications to the unsung, including their series “Fountains for Black Joy,” use dark humor, bright colors, nostalgic smells, and an over sweetened Afro Americana camp aesthetic to help the medicine of history go down. ArtNews called their public art debut, “A Fountain For Survivors” for Times Square Arts, one of the defining artworks of 2021. Council has also exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York Historical, and The New Museum. Council has been awarded numerous fellowships including Jerome Hill, Guggenheim, MacDowell, and Joan Mitchell. Council is an alumnus of Columbia University and Williams College, which awarded them a Bicentennial Medal as a distinguished alumna.

Alison Croney Moses 

Alison Croney Moses (b. 1983) is a Boston based artist primarily working in wood, investigating craft, community, identity, and motherhood. Her work is in the collections of the Detroit Institute of the Arts, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Rose Art Museums, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. She is a recipient of the 2022 USA Fellowship in Craft, and 2023 Boston Artadia Award, a finalist of the 2024 LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize and the recipient of the 2024 Black Mountain College International Artist Prize. She was named one of the 2023 WBUR 10 Makers and is currently one of the Triennial Accelerator Artists for the 2025 Boston Public Art Triennial. Alison holds an MA in Sustainable Business & Communities from Goddard College, and a BFA in Furniture Design from Rhode Island School of Design.

Roxana Fabius 

Roxana Fabius (Uruguay) is a curator and art administrator. She currently lives and works in New York City. Between 2016 and 2022 she was Executive Director at A.I.R. Gallery, the first artist-run feminist cooperative space in the U.S. During her tenure at A.I.R. she organized programs and exhibitions with artists and thinkers such as Gordon Hall, Elizabeth Povinelli, Jack Halberstam, Che Gosset, Regina José Galindo, Lex Brown, Kazuko, Zarina, Mindy Seu, Naama Tzabar and Howardena Pindell among many others. These exhibitions, programs and special commissions were made in collaboration with international institutions such as the Whitney Museum (New York) Google Arts and Culture and The Feminist Institute and Frieze Art Fair in New York and London. She is currently curating the 2024 exhibition series “Cantando Bajito” at the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York, and is the Director of Programs and Curator at The Neighborhood.

Molly Gochman

Molly Gochman, an artist and activist deeply engaged in social practice, focuses on activating spaces for profound collective experiences. Her practice encompasses a diverse range of mediums including photography, sound, installation, and sculpture. Through these mediums, she often challenges and subverts conventional material boundaries to foster interaction, play, exploration, and meaningful dialogue. Gochman frequently explores concepts encompassing human connection, environment, and community, rooted in the belief that life’s experiences shape us. Guided by the concept that “life leathers us,” her works not only aim to aesthetize but also reflect the passage of time through weather, wear, and change. Her practice continues to evolve with a desire to actively engage participants, inspire meaningful dialogues, find commonality, and discover shared human experiences. She has exhibited her work at The Ukrainian Museum, New York; NYC Parks Art in the Parks; NADA House, New York; Lincoln Center, New York; Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston; Diverse Works, Houston; Chashama, New York; Sara Roney Gallery, Sydney; Grace Farms, New Canaan; Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston; Zilkha Hall, Houston; Elsewhere, Greensboro and other traditional and non-traditional exhibition spaces. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Guilford College. Originally from Texas, Molly is currently based in New York.

Stamatina Gregory 

Stamatina Gregory is a curator and art historian. They have taught art history, critical theory, and writing at the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Parsons/The New School, and Sotheby’s Institute, and have organized exhibitions for institutions including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, the Santa Monica Museum of Art/ICA LA, Austrian Cultural Forum, and the 55th Venice Biennale. They are the Head Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.

 

Florence Lynch

Florence Lynch is a New York-based art dealer and the Senior Director at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, which has locations in both San Francisco and New York. In her role, she liaises with the gallery’s roster of both emerging and established artists and introduces new talents to the program. Lynch represents the gallery at relevant global events and travels regularly to support institutional and client development while maximizing business opportunities in new markets. 

Lynch previously served as the Director of Sales and Public Relations at Elizabeth Dee in New York; followed by the position of Senior Director at Marc Straus Gallery. She was co-owner of Lynch Tham, a contemporary art gallery established in 2013 on the Lower East Side. Furthermore, Lynch is the founder of the Florence Lynch Gallery, an internationally recognized contemporary art gallery that was formerly located in New York’s Chelsea gallery district. With over 20 years of experience in the art world, she has also worked as an independent curator, critic, and lecturer. 

Lynch has conducted interviews and authored essays on notable figures including Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, Jenny Holzer, David Hammons, Nan Goldin, and Robert Longo. 

She has held adjunct positions at Teachers College, Columbia University in the ARAD Master’s Program teaching Principles and Practices in the Visual Arts, as well as in the School of Graduate Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, in the Art Market Department. Her memberships and community involvements include Arts Council Member for Madison Square Park Conservancy, being a member of the A.I.R Advisory Board, participating in the Advisory Council of the Alumni Association of the NY Studio School, and being a member of ARTTABLE, The Leadership Organization for Professional Women in the Visual Arts.

Lisa Kim

Lisa Kim is the inaugural director of the Ford Foundation Gallery, an exhibition space within the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice in New York City. Since 2018, she has led the development of the gallery’s exhibitions and public engagement programs to advance the mission and values of the Ford Foundation. Prior to her appointment at the Ford Foundation, she was director of cultural affairs at Two Trees Management Company, a real estate development firm in Brooklyn, NY. There she fostered artistic and creative community development through overseeing the company’s arts philanthropy and public art initiatives, producing the annual DUMBO Arts Festival from 2011 to 2014, and managing the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. Lisa served as the director of the New York City Percent for Art Program from 2006 to 2008, supporting the commissioning and installation of public artworks, and for 12 years she oversaw the exhibitions, collections, construction, and expansion for Gagosian Gallery in New York. Lisa holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art History with a concentration in Visual Arts from Barnard College and a Master of Industrial Design from Pratt Institute. She serves on the advisory board of A.I.R. Gallery and is a member of the board of directors of ICOM-US.

Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva

Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva is a New York based writer and art historian specializing in queer art and culture. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. Her writings have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Ursula Magazine, Artforum, frieze, and Hyperallergic. She has contributed to numerous artist monographs and exhibition catalogues, including Chitra Ganesh (2024), Robert Indiana: The Sweet Mystery (2024), and Fire Island: A Century of Art (forthcoming). Previously, Soboleva was a Vilcek Curatorial Fellow at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender and LGBTQ+ History at the New-York Historical. She is the recipient of the 2022 Baxter St. Camera Club’s Guest Curatorial Initiative, and the 2025 Dora Maar House Fellowship. She is currently completing her book manuscript “What Happens After: Art, AIDS, and Lesbian Histories” and co-editing the first monograph on TRIAL BALLOON, a lesbian-run gallery and project space active in the early 1990s, forthcoming with Karma. 

Marissa Del Toro

Marissa Del Toro is Assistant Director of Exhibitions and Programs at NXTHVN in New Haven, CT. Since 2021, Del Toro has also worked with Museums Moving Forward as Co-Director of Research and Director of Communications. Previously, she served as 2021-2022 Curatorial Fellow at NXTHVN and as the 2018-2020 Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative (DAMLI) Curatorial Fellow at Phoenix Art Museum. She holds her MA in Art History from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and is originally from Southern California, where she received her BA in Art History from the University of California, Riverside.

 

Dr. Deborah Willis

Deborah Willis, Ph.D. is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She has affiliated appointments with the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, and the Institute of Fine Arts, where she teaches courses on Photography & Imaging, iconicity, and cultural histories visualizing the black body, women, and gender. She is the director of NYU’s Center for Black Visual Culture/Institute of African American Affairs. Her research examines photography’s multifaceted histories, visual culture, the photographic history of Slavery and Emancipation, contemporary women photographers, and beauty.

She is the author of Kamala: Her Historic, Joyful, And Auspicious Sprint to the White House (co-authored with Kevin Merida), The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship, Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present, among others. Dr. Willis’ curated exhibitions include: “Framing Moments in the KIA” at Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts, and “Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory” at FotoFocus.

Dr. Willis was awarded the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and was a Richard D. Cohen Fellow in African and African American Art, Hutchins Center, Harvard University; a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, and an Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. Fellow. She was the Robert Mapplethorpe Photographer in Residence of the American Academy in Rome and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a recipient of the Don Tyson Prize for the Advancement of American Art by the Crystal Bridges Museum in 2022; was named the Mary Lucille Dauray Artist-in-Residence by the Norton Museum of Art and taught her a Master Class titled Home, Reimagining Interiority at Anderson Ranch in 2023. In 2024, Dr. Willis was appointed Board Chair of the Andy Warhol Foundation and elected to the American Philosophical Society.

Dr. Katharine J. Wright

Katharine J. Wright is a curator and scholar of modern and contemporary art based in New York City. She specializes in pre- and post-war American art, with a focus on design, alternative media, public art, and photography. For more than twenty years, Katharine has conducted research, organized educational programs, and held curatorial roles at major art museums including the Morgan Library and Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has curated exhibitions across the United States, Europe, and Latin America, featuring artists such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Marta Chilindron, George Lois, Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin and many more. Dr. Wright received her BA from Williams College and her MA and PhD from The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her research and writing has been published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thames & Hudson, Yale University Press, caa.reviews, and Ridiculosa. 

Discover and engage with organizations advancing gender equity in the arts :

WARE (Paris)
  • Description: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions, dedicated to creating, indexing, and distributing information on women artists of the 20th century.
ArtTable (Nationwide)
  • Email: Info@arttable.org
  • Description: A national nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the leadership of women and nonbinary professionals in the visual arts.
Artists & Mothers (NYC)
The Feminist Center for Creative Work (LA)
  • Description: A network of women based in Los Angeles promoting art and feminism.
The Feminist Institute (NYC)
  • Email: info@wccw.us
  • Description: An organization dedicated to collecting, preserving, and digitizing the history of feminist art, humanities, politics, and business.
The Feminist Art Project
Guerrilla Girls
  • Email: gg@guerillagirls.com
  • Description: An anonymous collective of feminist artists fighting sexism and racism in the art world.
Less Than Half
  • Description: A platform dedicated to increasing gender equity in the art world through research, advocacy, and programming.
The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA)
  • Address: 1250 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20005
  • Phone: (202) 783-5000
  • Description: The only major museum dedicated exclusively to championing women in the arts.
NEST: Network for Empowerment, Solidarity, and Transregionality
  • Description: Network for Empowerment, Solidarity, and Transregionality is an alliance of like-minded non-profit organizations (NGOs) and independent structures, initiated by AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions. Coming from various parts of the world, these organizations collaborate transnationally with the shared aim of highlighting women and non-binary artists and their work in the contemporary art worlds and the histories of art.
Pen + Brush (New York, NY)
  • Email: info@penandbrush.org
  • Address: 29 East 22nd Street, New York, NY 10010
  • Phone: (212) 475-3669
  • Description: A nonprofit supporting women and non-binary artists and writers through exhibitions and literary programs.
Sackler Center for Feminist Art (Brooklyn Museum)
  • Address: 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238
  • Phone: (718) 638-5000
  • Description: A space dedicated to feminist art and scholarship.
Sleek (Berlin)
  • Description: A Berlin-based arts platform promoting feminist perspectives in contemporary art.
Women’s Studio Workshop (Rosendale, NY)
  • Email: info@wsworkshop.org
  • Address: 722 Binnewater Lane, Kingston, NY 12401
  • Phone: (845) 658-9133
  • Description: A printmaking, ceramics, and book arts center supporting female-identifying artists.

Public programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. These programs are also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. We are also grateful for the generous support of Berkley Asset Protection, Huntington T. Block Insurance, Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation, and the American Chai Trust.

 

 

 

 

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