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COMING UP THIS MONTH: ARTADIA'S FIRST NATIONAL PUBLICATION, GUEST EDITED BY FRANKLIN SIRMANS, HOT OFF THE PRESS ARTADIA WELCOMES THREE NEW BOARD MEMBERS FROM ATLANTA, HOUSTON, AND NEW YORK EXHIBITIONS EXCHANGE SHOW "EMBODYING" AT ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER THROUGH MARCH 20 BOSTON CURATORIAL ROUNDTABLE FEBRUARY 15 ...AND NEWS ABOUT OUR AWARDEES!
BOOK LAUNCH | NATIONAL 5 CITIES / 41 ARTISTS / ARTADIA 08/09 We are excited to announce the arrival of our first national publication surveying two years of Artadia Awardees. The 168-page, full-color publication includes essays by foremost curators and thinkers in Artadia's program cities and features over 140 artworks and comments by Artadia Awardees 2009 Atlanta, 2009 Boston, 2008 Chicago, 2008 Houston, and 2009 San Francisco. Full biographies of the 41 artists are also included. "Looking at the art and artists associated with Artadia over the last two years is a perfect opportunity to assess the first decade of this young millennium," writes guest editor and chief curator of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Franklin Sirmans in his opening essay. Go to our website to look at sample pages. Support artists by buying the book online. Funding for Artadia's inaugural biennial publication is provided by two anonymous family foundations, Judith Alexander Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, The Graue Family Foundation, Houston Endowment, Inc., and many generous individuals.   BOARD NEWS | NATIONAL REBECCA DESMAN, JOHN GUESS, JR., AND LOUIS CORRIGAN JOIN ARTADIA'S BOARD Artadia is thrilled to introduce three distinguished arts philanthropists to its national board. Artadia founder and president, Chris Vroom, said of the appointments: "Louis Corrigan, John Guess, Jr. and Rebecca Desman exemplify the kind of engaged philanthropy that serves as a model for all Americans. We are proud to welcome them to our Board." Artadia congratulates Louis Corrigan on winning the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center's Nexus Award for his dedication to contemporary arts in Atlanta. Read a recent interview with Corrigan on Burnaway. To learn how you can get involved in Artadia please contact Executive Director Lila Kanner at 212-727-2233 x207 or lilakanner@artadia.org.   EXHIBITIONS EXCHANGE | ATLANTA ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER FEATURES ARTADIA AWARDEES 2009 SAN FRANCISCO IN "EMBODYING" SHOW Artistic Director Stuart Horodner curated the first of two exhibitions that feature the Artadia Awardees 2009 from San Francisco. Embodying includes Awardees James Gobel, Allison Smith, and Richard T. Walker, as well as Joe Biel and Stephen Schofield, whose work has been influenced by issues of identity and community, literature, pop culture, and encounters with nature. A second show with Bay Area 2009 Awardees Moses Nornberg, Brion Nuda Rosch, Leslie Shows, and Weston Teruya will follow this summer. The seven Artadia Awardees 2009 Atlanta were shown at Boston's Mills Gallery earlier this winter. Read reviews of this and past Exhibitions Exchange shows on our website. Don't miss the panel on Saturday, February 19, 11 am when three leading arts curators discuss their local communities with Stuart Horodner including Diane Barber, Co-Executive Director/Visual Arts Curator, DiverseWorks Art Space, Houston, TX; Kristan Kennedy, Visual Art Curator, PICA, Portland, OR; and Raechell Smith, Director/Curator, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO. The Artadia Exhibitions Exchange is made possible through lead funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts. Additional support is provided by two anonymous family foundations, Judith Alexander Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, The Graue Family Foundation, Houston Endowment, Inc., and many generous individuals.   ARTADIA DIALOGUES | BOSTON PANEL DISCUSSION AT SIMMONS COLLEGE FEATURES PROMINENT BOSTON CURATORS AND SAN FRANCISCO CURATOR MARY ELLYN JOHNSON Artadia's Exhibitions Exchange curator Mary Ellyn Johnson (Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute) will be participating in a panel discussion in Boston hosted by the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science along with curators Pieranna Cavalchini (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum), Jen Mergel (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), João Ribas (MIT List Visual Arts Center), Mary Schneider Enriquez (Harvard Art Museum), and Lisa Tung (MassArt). The conversation is moderated by Amanda Bowen (Harvard Fine Arts Library). Mary Ellyn will be in town to conduct studio visits with the 2009 Boston awardees in preparation for their show in San Francisco this summer. Simmons Conference Room, Simmons College 300 The Fenway, Boston 6:30–8:30 pm Free and open to the public   AWARDEE SPOTLIGHT | INTERNATIONAL IN THE MIDST OF HISTORY IN THE MAKING THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST TWO ARTISTS REVISIT THE PAST With a longtime artistic interest in the area—but not anticipating the eruption of unrest in the region—Eric Gottesman (2009 Boston) and his collaborator Toleen Touq are currently traveling through the Middle East along the defunct Hejaz, a narrow-gauge railway designed at the turn of the 20th century to connect Istanbul with Mecca in Saudia Arabia, via Syria and Jordan. Their trip will culminate in a exhibition that will restage the dream of regional cohesion. Working with artists from the countries through which the train once ran, they intend to repopulate the Hejaz with installations, performances on movable platforms, and archival projects using remnants of the rail lines, all of which will take place on the rails in Jordan. You can follow their travels on their blog and read about their encounters along the way with bus drivers in Syria, train conductors in Turkey, and many more.   AWARDEE NEWS Nathaniel Donnett (2010 Houston) won a 2011 Idea Fund Grant for his project "What's the New News." Kota Ezawa (2005 San Francisco) will be in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts this year. Gisela Insuaste (2004 Chicago Driehaus) is currently in residence at The MacDowell Colony. Cecil McDonald, Jr. (2006 Chicago) is a 3Arts Teaching Artist Award Recipient. Julia Oldham (2006 Chicago) was accepted into the Cuts and Burns Residency program at The Outpost in Queens. Karyn Olivier (2004 Houston) is the recipient of the 2010 William H. Johnson Prize. Amie Siegel (2009 Boston) is the winner of the 2010 James and Audrey Foster Prize at The Institute of Contemporary Art | Boston. Travis Somerville (2000 San Francisco) was awarded a 2010 Painters & Sculptors Grant by The Joan Mitchell Foundation. Hank Willis Thomas (2007 San Francisco) is a Du Bois Fellow at Harvard University this spring semester. Jason Villegas (2004 Houston) is a Workspace Resident at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council until May 2011. Bernard Williams (Chicago 2001) is in residence at A Studio in the Woods at Tulane University in New Orleans.     ON THE HORIZON Artadia will host its Annual Armory Party March 3 to kick off the New York art fairs! Stay tuned for Artadia's Armory Art Fair Guide, which will be sent out at the end of the month. Mark your calendar for the exhibition of Artadia Awardees 2008 Chicago curated by Diane Barber at DiverseWorks Art Space in Houston, opening March 11, 2011. Allison Peters Quinn travels to Houston in April to conduct studio visits with the 2010 Houston Awardees in preparation for their Hyde Park Art Center show in Chicago this summer.   OTHER ARTADIA NEWS Artadia is on Facebook! Become a fan and check out the photos from all of our events including our book launch party, generously hosted by Sotheby's. Subscribe to the Artadia Insider Newsletter   Artadia is thankful for the support of our National Media Sponsor:   Top banner (left to right): 5 Cities / 41 Artists / Artadia 08/09 cover detail, designed by Ahoy Studios; Allison Smith, A Good Haul (Or, an inventory of objects found by Huck and Jim in the house that was floating down the flooded Mississippi River), 2011, installation view at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, courtesy the artist; two guests look at 5 Cities / 41 Artists / Artadia 08/09 during the launch party, generously hosted by Sotheby's. Listings (top to bottom): Claire Beckett, Jabal Village Mosque, National Training Center, Fort Irwin, CA, 2008, 2008, archival ink jet print, 30 x 40 inches, courtesy Carroll and Sons, Boston; Melika Bass, still from Waking Things, 2011, 16mm to video, color, sound, 34 mins, courtesy the artist; Katrina Moorhead, A garland of smalllandic verse, 2010 , lamb skull, aluminum leaf, size, bells, tartan, thread, courtesy Inman Gallery, Houston; Deva Graf, announcement image for solo show at Silverman Gallery, San Francisco; Soody Sharifi, Fashion Week (Maxiatures series), 2010, archival inkjet print, 40 x 60 inches, courtesy LTMH Gallery, New York; Nick Cave, Untitled, 2009, digital c-print, courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; Benji Whalen, Seven Deadly Sins, Polymer clay, 8 x 8 x 10 inches, courtesy the artist.		AWARDEES ON VIEW A selection. For a complete list, check here. BOSTON Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA Claire Beckett 2009 Boston "You Are..." (solo show) February 23–March 26, 2011 Samsøn Projects, Boston, MA Hank Willis Thomas 2007 San Francisco "Hank Willis Thomas" (solo show) March 25–May 7, 2011   CHICAGO Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Melika Bass 2008 Chicago "UBS 12x12: New Artists/New Work" (solo show) February 8–27, 2011 devening projects + editions, Chicago, IL Andreas Fischer 2004 Chicago "Kabinett 5" (two-person show) January 30–March 19, 2011   HOUSTON Inman Gallery, Houston, TX Katrina Moorhead Artadia Award 2008 Houston "Landscape of a Danger" (solo show) January 15–February 19, 2010   SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA Deva Graf 2004 Chicago "Good Morning" (solo show) February 4–March 12, 2011 Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA Weston Teruya 2009 San Francisco "2 x 2 Solos" (solo show) January 25–February 25, 2010 BAM/PFA, University of California Berkeley Amy Franceschini 2005 San Francisco "A Variation on the Powers of Ten" (solo show) February 6–April 27, 2011 San Francisco Arts Commission Arthur/Allen: a collaboration between Brion Nuda Rosch 2009 San Francisco Chris Sollars 2007 San Francisco "Isn't It Obvious?" (group show)   NEW YORK LTMH Gallery, New York, NY Soody Sharifi Houston 2006 "Of Miniature Serenades & Maxiature Moments" (solo show) February 4–24, 2011 Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY Theaster Gates 2008 Chicago "Grain of Emptiness" (group show) November 5, 2010–April 11, 2011 PS1 MoMA, Long Island City, NY Amie Siegel 2009 Boston "Talent Show" (group show) December 12, 2010–April 4, 2011 Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY Nick Cave 2006 Chicago Hank Willis Thomas 2007 San Francisco "The Global Africa Project" (group show) November 17, 2010–May 15, 2011   ELSEWHERE DOMESTIC Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Nick Cave 2006 Chicago "Meet Me at the Center of the Earth" (solo show) March 10–June 5, 2011 The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA Robert Pruitt 2004 Houston New American Voices (group show) February 4–Spring, 2011 John Hope Franklin Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC Hank Willis Thomas 2007 San Francisco "Hope" and "Question Bridge" (solo shows) January 20–March 4, 2011 Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX Trenton Doyle Hancock 2003 Houston "Ball Game" (group show) January 29–March 12, 2011   INTERNATIONAL V1 Gallery Copenhagen, Denmark Melanie Schiff 2006 Chicago Benji Whalen 2002 San Francisco "Status–Somewhere Between Position and Condition" (group show) January 28–February 19, 2011 Ivan Honchar Museum Kiev, Ukraine Nestor Topchy 2010 Houston "Nestor Topchy" (solo show) Feburary 22–March 14, 2011
About Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue Artadia’s mission is to encourage innovative practice and meaningful dialogue across the United States by providing visual artists in specific communities with unrestricted awards and a national network of support. Artadia was founded as The ArtCouncil in 1997 by investment banker and art collector Christopher E. Vroom. The first awards were given in San Francisco, where Vroom was living at the time. Chicago was added as a program city in 2001. In 2003, Artadia added Houston to its roster, Boston in 2007, and Atlanta in 2009. Once Artadia commits to a community, it maintains a commitment to supporting artists in the area, and also co-sponsors public programs with a local institution. Started as an individual’s vision, Artadia’s base of support now includes private foundations, a national Board of Directors, a National Council, a Junior Council, and members who are active in supporting the core of creative culture: the individual artist. Artadia Awards are determined through a rigorous jury process that employs nationally prominent curators, artists, and critics. Artadia partners with local foundations and individuals in the host cities to raise funds that go directly to artists in that community. Artadia matches those contributions by providing the funds that administer the program. Once an artist receives an Artadia Award, he or she becomes part of a national network of lifetime support. Artadia's New York Artist Residency program brings Artadia Awardees from each of its program cities to New York for a three-month residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn. This groundbreaking addition to Artadia’s commitment to individual artists is the first of its kind in New York City for US-based visual artists and is supported by the National Endowment for Arts. Last year Artadia launched an Exhibitions Exchange program exhibiting Awardees from one partner city in another, offering Awardees crucial exposure outside of their local communities. Artadia also presents events in New York and Miami, which are intended to not only demonstrate the tremendous creativity in partner communities, but also facilitate exchange and dialogue nationwide. Support artists directly by becoming a member now! © 2011 Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue 210 Eleventh Ave., Suite 503, New York, NY 10001 | (212) 727-2233 | www.artadia.org

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