Monday, April 14, from 9 AM—1 PM
BRIC (647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY)
Join us on Monday, April 14 at BRIC for "ArtViews: Gender & Cultural Norms," a free half-day symposium organized by American Federation of Arts (AFA) in collaboration with A.I.R. Gallery.
This event will feature three panels on gender and equity in the arts, as well as networking opportunities for professionals across the field. Our panelists will consider gender and its intersections amidst evolving cultural norms, reflect on the relationship between motherhood and cultural work, and address persistent barriers for women artists in the art market.
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Panelists:
Pamela Council is an interdisciplinary artist using dark humor, bright colors, nostalgic smells, and an Afro Americana camp aesthetic to create works of veneration and playful catharsis. They have created public art for Times Square Arts and exhibited at Studio Museum in Harlem and New York Historical.
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 FineArts Boston, and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.
Roxana Fabius (Uruguay) is a curator and art administrator. Between 2016 and 2022 she was Executive Director at A.I.R. Gallery, the first artist-run feminist cooperative space in the U.S. 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 activates spaces for profound collective experiences, using diverse mediums like photography, sound, installation, and sculpture. Her recent work, Monuments to Motherhood, is a series of bronze sculptures honoring the unyielding support caregivers provide across generations. It will be on view at Prospect Park, NY, from May 2025 to May 2026.
Stamatina Gregory, a curator and art historian, has taught at UPenn, NYU, Parsons, and Sotheby’s Institute. They have organized exhibitions for ICA Philadelphia, ICA LA, Austrian Cultural Forum, and Venice Biennale and are Head Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections at Leslie-Lohman Museum.
Florence Lynch is a New York-based art dealer and the Senior Director at Jenkins Johnson Gallery. She previously served as the Director of Sales and Public Relations at Elizabeth Dee in NYC, followed by the position of Senior Director at Marc Straus Gallery. Lynch supports various organizations, including the Madison Square Park Conservancy as an Arts Council member.
Lisa Kim is the inaugural director of the Ford Foundation Gallery, an exhibition space within the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice. Previously, she was director of cultural affairs at Two Trees Management Company. She serves on the advisory board of A.I.R. Gallery and is a member of the board of directors of ICOM-US.
Hall W. Rockefeller is the founder of Less Than Half, a membership platform dedicated to helping culturally curious women find meaning in art by teaching them how to collect, support, and invest in women artists. Rockefeller regularly brings her feminist perspective on art to essays and articles for Hyperallergic.
Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva is a New York based writer and art historian specializing in queer art and culture. Previously, Soboleva was a Vilcek Curatorial Fellow at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender and LGBTQ+ History at the New-York Historical.
Marissa Del Toro is Assistant Director of Exhibitions and Programs at NXTHVN in New Haven, CT. Since 2021, she has co-directed research and communications at Museums Moving Forward. Previously, she was a 2021–2022 Curatorial Fellow at NXTHVN and a 2018–2020 DAMLI Curatorial Fellow at Phoenix Art Museum.
Dr. 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 is the director of NYU’s Center for Black Visual Culture/Institute of African American Affairs.
Dr. 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.
American Federation of Arts's public programs are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Berkley Asset Protection, Huntington Block, the Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation, and the American Chai Trust.