https://www.mcw-projects.com/about-me daily 0.75 2016-06-03 https://www.mcw-projects.com/work daily 0.75 2020-03-27 https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward daily 0.75 2024-11-12 https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2024/11/12/julie-rodrigues-widholm monthly 0.5 2024-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/e58cbff8-8028-4030-82cb-42e682506019/IMG_6297_Original.jpeg The Path Forward Interview Series - Julie Rodrigues Widholm “The world has changed and art museums haven’t, so we must fearlessly take bold steps to test out new ideas and models inside-out that will ensure we play a vital role in our communities well into the future.” https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2024/11/12/jessica-may monthly 0.5 2024-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/75d32492-42e4-4b22-8a40-851e52257da3/JessicaMay_KennyJohnson_1.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - Jessica May “The great thing about this role is innovation and creativity are both imperative and a lot of fun. I was brought up in a museum world in which the bywords were “protection” and “preservation”. I no longer find these the most important concepts: instead we are looking at ways to think about transformation, caretaking, shared authority, and—of course—engagement. I find these conceptual shifts exciting because they push us closer to where both our audiences and our stakeholders want us to be." https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2024/11/12/rehema-c-barber-williams monthly 0.5 2024-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/f49da5a7-0eaf-4044-8168-62289be10ab3/IMG_1935_Preferred+Headshot.JPG The Path Forward Interview Series - Rehema C. Barber Williams “I joined this field several years ago because I believe that art museums aren't simply repositories for art or historical artifacts for the posterity of the general public. In the 21st century, art museums should be centers for cultural exploration and wonder. They should also be spaces that nurture critical and sometimes difficult dialogue. But mostly, art museums should build and be engaged deeply within their communities in order to foster belonging, trust, and the understanding that art offers: opportunities for appreciation of our everyday experiences, just as much as the extraordinary moments of life.” https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2024/4/7/nbxzjm5p1tga4ljibjjhm2et3vmks4 monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/a9f82822-8a7b-4290-b47a-dec9e265b98c/Catherine_Almonte+10+2+%281%29.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Social Impact Strategist: Catherine Almonte Catherine Almonte works at the intersection of art, equity, and community with extensive cross-industry experience spanning fine art, government, and nonprofit organizations. As the current Global Head of Equity and Impact at Sotheby’s, Cat leads the organization's social impact efforts, steering a comprehensive endeavor to foster a more diverse and inclusive arts industry. A seasoned social impact strategist, disruptor, and organizer with over a decade of experience, Cat brings together the greater arts community to take on some of the world’s greatest challenges. Cat has spent most of her career guiding organizations through periods of complex and systematic transformation. From Managing Director of The Broad Room, where she provided training for women on topics related to government and politics, to Deputy Director for Communications at NYC Census 2020, a role that contributed to New York City achieving its strongest-ever results for historically undercounted communities, to leading government and community relations at the Brooklyn Museum - Cat has worked diligently to build bridges between institutions and the communities they are meant to serve. Rooted in her origins in the Dominican Republic and upbringing in New York, her journey is a testament to the transformative power of art when coupled with a commitment to fostering inclusivity and driving positive change for society. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2024/4/7/upeaucnpni12pbd9pz8tj7ns3jw32o monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/4beb87f4-f9c9-4aa8-91ee-0ee527c44942/BS_GaryHat.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Impact and Equity Funder: Gary Steuer Gary Steuer joined the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation as President and CEO in 2013. Since that time, he has led the foundation’s transformational efforts to deepen its investments in arts, culture and leadership, as well as a heightened focus on bringing an equity lens to everything the foundation does. This has led to a dramatic increase in the foundation’s investment in communities of color and other historically marginalized communities, as well as a deepening utilization of impact investing to ensure the foundation’s assets are deployed in a mission-aligned way. Prior to joining BSF, Gary served as the Chief Cultural Officer and Director of the Office of Arts, Culture & the Creative Economy for the City of Philadelphia. He also served as Vice President of Private-Sector Affairs and Executive Director, Arts & Business Council for Americans for the Arts in New York. Gary also spent 12 years as President and CEO and Director of New York Programs for Arts and Business Council Inc. in New York, prior to its merger with Americans for the Arts. Before his stint at the Arts and Business Council, Gary spent significant time in the theatre and cultural industry holding Director positions at National Actors Theatre, New York State Council on the Arts and Vineyard Theatre. He holds a Bachelors of Arts from New York University, where he also completed studies for a Masters of Arts in Performing Arts Management, as well as studying at the Stern School of Business. Gary has been a regular writer and speaker on topics such as cultural policy, philanthropy, creative economy, arts management, equity and impact investing. He has served on many local and national boards, including Grantmakers in the Arts, Philanthropy Colorado (which he chaired), Clyfford Still Museum, Alliance for Nonprofit Management, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Gary grew up in New York City, going to public School, including Music & Art High School which is now part of the LaGuardia High School for the Arts. He played basketball, was an avid cyclist, and deeply absorbed the diversity and cultural riches of New York. After growing up as one of five sons, he has been delighted to be the proud father of three daughters, as well as grandfather to three girls. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2024/4/7/l04gfkpqu2a2erchvrxodxxbojqrig monthly 0.5 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/ea64bc0c-4875-456a-a72a-230082f72a08/0487-Edit.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Artist Grantmaker: Patton Hindle Patton Hindle is a creative strategist, cultural worker, and systems change-maker. She is the Executive Director of Artadia, a nonprofit grantmaker that centers artists in their vital role in society through providing funding and professional development in 7 US cities. Most recently, Patton was the Head of Forward Funds, Kickstarter’s first social impact program that she built and ran. She also served as the Head of Arts at Kickstarter for 5 years, working closely with artists, collectives, arts organizations, and cultural institutions around the world to help them realize creative and ambitious ideas; she still maintains her deep engagement with these communities. Additionally, Patton advises artists, for profit, and nonprofit creative organizations on business and organizational strategies. Patton was the co-founder of Chinatown gallery yours mine & ours and the Director of Gallery and Institutional Partnerships at Artspace. She is a co-author of the second edition of How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery and was a 2019 Catherine Hannah Behrend Fellow at 92Y Women inPower in New York. Patton serves as an advisor to Mellon Foundation, on the Board of Directors of The Laundromat Project, the Board of Advisors of the Arts Funders Forum, and as a mentor for New Inc.. She was raised in London and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. Photo credit: Yekaterina Gyadu https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2023/5/11/miki-garcia monthly 0.5 2023-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/14efd7b2-0cb4-4417-bc16-d5abad997107/MG3.jpeg The Path Forward Interview Series - The University Art Museum Director: Miki Garcia Miki Garcia was appointed Director of the Arizona State University Art Museum in December 2017. She was recently the Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara from 2005-2017. Prior to this, she worked at the Public Art Fund, N.Y. from 2001 to 2004. From 1999 to 2001 Garcia was a Curatorial Associate at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego and has also worked at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin and the San Antonio Museum of Art. At MCASB, Garcia worked with numerous emerging as well as internationally recognized artists including, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Sanford Biggers, Michele O’Marah, Mickalene Thomas, Dasha Shishkin, Tam Van Tran, and Mario Ybarra, Jr. She has also completed numerous scholarly and professional publications and has taken part in juries and guest lectures including most recently Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue, Creative Capital, The Santo Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. As Director of ASUAM, Garcia manages the staff, facilities, budget, public relations, audience development, fundraising, programs, and exhibitions. In addition, she leads ASUAM with respect to curatorial and program development and community involvement. Garcia holds a BA from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY and a MA in Latin American art from the University of Texas at Austin. She speaks Italian and Spanish, and is passionately committed to making contemporary art accessible to all communities. ASU Art Museum’s mission is to be a meeting point for the exchange of new ideas, perspectives and experiences among artists, students and the public through our exhibitions, residencies, collections and programs. The museum forges meaningful connections across all areas of research in order to create a better, more sustainable future. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2023/5/11/peterbraxton monthly 0.5 2023-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/76609d08-481b-4df0-8a44-dd843dd0a91f/Professional+Photo.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Private Equity & Family Office Expert: Peter Braxton Peter Braxton works with various Independent Sponsors, Venture Capital Groups and Family Offices. Peter has been serving the financial needs for ultra-high net worth individuals and their families for more than 15 years, delivering holistic advice and creative solutions across the spectrum of private capital markets on both the buy and sell side. Earlier in his career Peter was a US Air Force Instructor Pilot, with over 3,000 Flight hours, including 1,000 Combat hours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Following his military service, Peter joined Credit Suisse, Chicago, as a Private Banker. From there he was the COO/Chief of Staff for DOM Capital Group, a single-family office and private investment group of the Dominick’s Grocery Store Family, and most recently worked with Envoi, a management owned private family office dedicated to servicing high net worth clients and Blue Marlin Partners, a Private Equity Firm. Peter is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, Distinguished Graduate of Joint Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training, and holds an MBA from Washington University in St Louis. He currently serves on the board of the Tuskegee Next Foundation and is a Faculty member of the Ultra High Net Worth Institute. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2023/5/11/larissa-wild monthly 0.5 2023-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/18b218ff-dee7-423c-9a9b-078930dbdd1f/LW+2.png The Path Forward Interview Series - The Art World Navigator: Larissa Wild Larissa Wild is a highly qualified and experienced professional in the field of fine art consulting and appraising. She is the President and Founder of Larissa Wild Fine Art Consulting, LLC, a company she established in 2016, when she decided that "regular" jobs are overrated. Larissa has also been the host and founder of The Art Elevator Podcast since 2021. Larissa has served in various leadership roles in the International Society of Appraisers (ISA). She was a Director on the ISA Board of Directors from 2020 to 2021 and the Chair of the ISA Fine Art Committee in 2019-2020. She also served as the Chair of the ISA Awards Committee in 2018. Larissa has a Private Client Services Designation and is a Certified Member of the International Society of Appraisers with a Fine Art Designation. She has a Certificate in Art Market Economics from Christie's Education and is a member of ArtTable, a professional organization that promotes women's leadership in the visual arts because, let's face it, the art world could use a little more girl power. Larissa has completed the qualifying and continuing education requirements of the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) since 2016. She exceeds the Personal Property Appraiser Qualification Criteria adopted by the Appraisal Foundation's Appraiser Qualification Board (AQB). She has successfully completed qualifying examinations in various appraisal-related fields, including Appraisal Valuation Theory, Market Research and Analysis, Appraisal Ethics, Methodology, Identification and Authentication, Federal Regulations and Functions, Legal Issues, and Narrative Report Writing Standards. Larissa has extensive experience in the art world, having worked as an art consultant for a number of galleries in the Vail region of Colorado, USA. She has volunteered as a Museum Assistant for the Australian Center for Photography and a Collection Assistant for the Australian Museum in Sydney, Australia, and worked with many high net worth individuals in building, managing and appraising art collections in her current business. She holds a B.A. in Fine Art from the National Art School in Sydney, Australia, and has taken graduate courses in Canberra University Architectural School and Historic Preservation at Colorado Mountain College. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2022/10/23/the-cultural-producer-abby-pucker monthly 0.5 2022-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/3223235a-e24c-4e32-8f6d-06863cd84f0a/OGMag-JulieeeLogan-7-4.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Cultural Producer: Abby Pucker Abby Pucker is a cultural producer who builds initiatives sitting at the nexus of the creative economy and civic engagement. She is interested in leveraging the collective power and resources of this next generation of wealth and creative talent to find more sustainable solutions to building a just and equitable creative economy. Abby is particularly focused on Chicago and recently launched a Chicago-based platform called Gertie. Gertie is a community platform made up of culturally curious young professionals who engage with the city and each other in new ways. Gertie provides membership access to programming in partnership with Chicago’s most exciting institutions, artists and cultural movers & shakers – the ones you know and the ones you should get to know. To this end, most recently, Abby produced Skin in the Game, a 50 artist exhibition in Chicago's Fulton Market neighborhood in partnership with Jeff Shapack and Alec and Jennifer Litowitz. The second project from the Gertie platform is (A)Part Chicago — a guidebook and cookbook to the city through 26 civic leaders who have helped build the arts and culture ecosystem in Chicago. As Mass Moca’s inaugural Creative Producer in Residence, Abby is working in partnership with Moca’s new Executive Director Kristy Edmunds on a festival in North Adams that aims to show the ways in which the creative economy and artists can work in partnership with local businesses and the community to spur economic development for the city as a whole. Prior to producing under the Gertie banner, Pucker produced and launched Madison Wells' Chicago-based immersive art experience, Nevermore Park, based on Hebru Brantley's Flyboy. Her film credits include Emily Cohn’s “CRSHD,” which premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and was released in virtual theaters May 2020, “When Jeff Tried to Save the World” starring Maya Erskine, and Erica Rose’s “Girl Talk” which premiered at Outfest in 2018. Additionally, she is a board member of The Marshall Project, Pioneer Works, Ghetto Film School, and the progressive American political organization, Run for Something. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2022/10/23/miranda-gonzalez monthly 0.5 2022-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/801c7128-4a9c-4935-bf7d-2d9d488418f4/Miranda+Gonzalez_2603-1_HiRes.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Decolonization Advocate: Miranda Gonzalez Miranda is currently a Producing Artistic Director at UrbanTheater Company (UTC) in Humboldt Park Chicago, has a background in diversity equity and inclusion, and is a graduate of DePaul University’s Business of Sciences. She has 20 yrs of experience in social justice and operational management, along with 15 years in sales management and strategies. Her niche of developing anti-oppressive praxis and operationalizing antidotes to white supremacy culture characteristics granted her an invitation to film a TedxTalk on decolonizing theater. She currently collaborates with BLVE Consults and Culture Change Lab supporting arts organizations and funders in reimagining strategic planning, operational assessments, communication strategies, and collective structures. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2022/10/23/xsvf3g34uob3xf64600dj3jlj16lky monthly 0.5 2022-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/b60ab445-380f-44a2-8c10-2fddfe106fb6/Brian+Loevner.jpeg The Path Forward Interview Series - The System Change Agent: Brian Loevner Brian Loevner (he/him) is an executive leader, consultant & producer. Most recently, he was the Managing Producer of The Second City from 2015-2017, managing all theatrical production in Chicago with a yearly budget of over $12 million dollars. From 2004-2013, Brian served as the Managing Director of Chicago Dramatists. As a fundraiser, Brian has raised over $5 million dollars for organizations and productions in the last 10 years. In addition, Brian successfully pitched the MacArthur Foundation, ending in the creation of a program to provide cashflow loans to arts organizations during the 2008 recession. Brian has also produced over 150 theatrical productions with companies such as The Kennedy Center, The Lyric Opera of Chicago, Hubbard Street Dance, LaJolla Playhouse, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Famous Door Theatre and Timeline Theatre. Further, his work as a consultant has been in assisting non profits, such as One Aim Illinois, Calgary Arts Development, Chicago Fringe Opera and many others in building strong teams of professionals, creating systems for success and planning for the future. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2022/5/4/the-artist-steve-locke monthly 0.5 2022-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/381c7789-93de-4450-a5dd-44a61d420e55/Steve+Locke_Ross+Collab_1.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Artist: Steve Locke Steve Locke, 2021. Photo by Ross Collab https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2022/5/24/the-directors-joyce-tsai-amp-anna-boatwright monthly 0.5 2022-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/e6aaa911-1a38-4d26-96b4-0a2cc066fc0a/0FBCBF4C-F476-4FD9-96E4-246D79C4F94A.JPG The Path Forward Interview Series - The Directors: Joyce Tsai & Anna Boatwright Joyce Tsai, PhD is director of the Clyfford Still Museum. She is an internationally acclaimed curator, scholar, and teacher. She arrived at CSM in 2021 from the University of Iowa, where she served as Chief Curator of the Stanley Museum of Art and Associate Professor of Practice in the School of Art and Art History. During her tenure at the University of Iowa, she led initiatives that have positioned the museum as a major catalyst for innovative, high impact teaching, research, and outreach. Dr. Tsai is trained as an intellectual historian and art historian -- Princeton, AB (History, cum laude); Johns Hopkins University, MA (German), PhD (Art History and Humanities). Tsai’s book, László Moholy-Nagy: Painting after Photography (UC Press, 2018) garnered critical acclaim for its integrated approach to avant-garde art, practice, and theory and is winner of the Phillips Collection Book Prize. She has published extensively in the field of technical art history with conservators and conservation scientists at the National Gallery of Art, Harvard Art Museums, Guggenheim, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. Anna Boatwright joined the Clyfford Still Museum in November 2021. Anna moved to Denver from New York where she spent the past 9 years helping institutions including The Frick Collection, The Brooklyn Museum and the Met Museum with strategy, operational management and development. While at the Frick, Anna led planning and management of the museum’s renovation and expansion project with design partner Selldorf Architects. Anna also executed the Frick’s two-year residency, Frick Madison, in the iconic Whitney Breuer building. Anna completed undergraduate studies at Mount Holyoke College, her Masters in Art and Museum Studies at Georgetown University, and her MBA at Columbia Business School. About the Clyfford Still Museum: Designed by Allied Works Architecture to display the revolutionary art of one of the 20th century’s greatest artists, the Clyfford Still Museum opened in November 2011 in Denver’s Golden Triangle Creative District. Considered one of the most important and mysterious painters of the 20th century, Clyfford Still (1904-1980) was among the first generation of abstract expressionist artists who developed a new and powerful approach to painting in the years during and immediately after World War II. The Museum’s collection represents more than 93% of the artist’s lifetime output. As the steward of Still’s art and legacy, the Museum’s mission is to preserve, exhibit, study, and foster engagement with its unique collections; generate outstanding exhibitions, scholarly research, educational and other cross-disciplinary programs that broaden the definition of a single-artist museum; and be a gathering place for the exploration of innovation and individual artistic endeavor. Connect with the Clyfford Still Museum on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or at clyffordstillmuseum.org. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2022/5/24/the-designer-activist-jessica-watson monthly 0.5 2022-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/9ae25f67-c068-46c9-a9f5-e0540d8b9b2f/JWatson_Headshot_Horizontal.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Designer Activist: Jessica Watson Jessica Watson is the CEO and Creative Director of Points North, a creative services studio based in Baltimore, MD. This studio believes good design can change the world. Points North challenges the status quo by cultivating work that bring people, passions, and causes together. With over a decade of experience working with brands and marketing for diverse companies and global foundations, she knows what drives brand loyalty and conversions—and it’s not about jumping on the bandwagon of the latest trend, it’s about the passion you have for your work and how well you connect with the people you serve. Whether working from her hometown of Baltimore, or across the ocean from a café in Portugal, Jessica has always been drawn to culture, communities, and the common threads that weave us all together. As part of a desire to give back, she participates in several initiatives in Baltimore, and leads Have A Nice Day Project. This is a quarterly community gathering where people write positive messages on coffee cup sleeves that are then donated to local cafés. Her work has been featured on ABC2 News, FOX 45, and in the Baltimore Business Journal, Baltimore Magazine, and The Baltimore Sun. Jessica holds a BA in communication from McDaniel College and a certificate in writing from University of Washington. When she’s not designing, you’ll often find her working remotely across the US and around the globe, kayaking on a lazy river, or planning her next big travel adventure. Follow Jessica here and Points North here. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2022/1/4/the-x-ebon-m-bishop monthly 0.5 2022-05-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/11e19668-f3ea-48dd-987d-625a8b63eace/EMB+Headshot.JPEG The Path Forward Interview Series - The Cultural Change Agent: Eboné M. Bishop - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2021/12/17/the-board-leader-christopher-alfieri monthly 0.5 2022-05-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/13fc6388-c936-45f4-8529-51f60eabdf2c/Chris+A+photo.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Next Gen Board Leader: Christopher J. Alfieri - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2022/1/4/bb887ki77mxzj2g2xqszfvd8zlbdzg monthly 0.5 2022-05-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/384104f2-774c-4dfb-9c7d-3a8a0c66926f/IMG_2006.JPG The Path Forward Interview Series - The Advisor: Victoria Burns - Make it stand out Photo Credit: Lauren Pressey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/781b6fba-a56f-4f83-a79f-7e20f4384d12/IMG_0633.jpeg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Advisor: Victoria Burns - Make it stand out Private Collection: Samuel Levi-Jones https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/9f427f76-689c-42fe-909a-13f1970130cc/IMG_0827.jpeg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Advisor: Victoria Burns - Make it stand out Private Collection: Yoshitomo Nara, Otis Kwame Quaicoe, Jaume Plensa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/41bbca39-9cff-48a3-9fe1-9584b56630c6/IMG_2319.jpeg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Advisor: Victoria Burns - Make it stand out Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine , Glenn Kaino “Bridge” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/540f6254-5bb6-4eac-9ec6-7321ed772f0c/IMG_5392.jpeg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Advisor: Victoria Burns - Make it stand out Private Collection: Hank Willis Thomas https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2021/7/6/the-path-forward-interview-series-the-collector-scott-hunter monthly 0.5 2021-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1626110658431-CH9KRI5YXRGV27AY8F4N/IMG_6746.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Patron: Scott J. Hunter Scott J. Hunter, PhD, specializes in pediatric neuropsychology and pediatric psychology. In the clinic and in his research, Scott focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of learning, developmental, and neurobehavioral disorders, with particular interests in the neuropsychological complications of medical illness and its treatment in pediatric patients, executive function development, subcortically-based neurodevelopmental disorders, and the identification of neurological and behavioral risk factors that contribute to developmental disabilities. Scott is an expert in the neuropsychological and psychosocial aspects of many childhood-onset conditions, including learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), epilepsy, childhood cancers, hydrocephalus, neurofibromatosis and autism. He is also an expert on the impact environmental and socioeconomic factors have on neuropsychological development and disabilities; he has conducted federally and foundation supported research on HIV/AIDS across the lifespan of youth and homelessness and trauma, and their impact on neurocognitive development. He is co-author and co-editor of five books; has written numerous articles and book chapters on his research and clinical interests; and has given presentations based on his research findings at conferences around the world. Scott is a respected collector of contemporary art, across mediums. His collection, while international in scope, has a particular focus on emerging to mid-career artists, specifically ones with a strong connection to Chicago, and who emphasize intersectionality and materiality in their work. Some of the artists represented in his collection include Elijah Burgher, Julien Cruzet, Amanda Williams, Candida Alvarez, Cauleen Smith, Theaster Gates, Matthias Dornfeld, Etel Adnan, Glenn Fogel, Roni Packer, Anthony Pearson, Cameron Spratley, Natoaka Hiro, William J. O’Brien, Christopher Culer, Brittney Leanne Williams, and Nicole Eisenman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1626110995909-SPJF39UUC3SROQEV2YX5/IMG_4340.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Patron: Scott J. Hunter - Make it stand out Matt Nichols https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1626111031074-RZAUE1MA1ODBU7YPQ3M4/IMG_4342.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Patron: Scott J. Hunter - Make it stand out Molly Zuckerman-Hartung https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1626111057690-KP91UEU5WBNI6VG9S4F5/IMG_4741.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Patron: Scott J. Hunter - Make it stand out From L top down: Kate Levant, Anthony Pearson, William J. O'Brien, Julien Cruzet (3 pieces - large photo left, small painting to right, and foreground sculpture), JP3, kg (Karolina Gnatowski), Tony Lewis, Victoria Fu, Nazafarin Lotfi, Erin Jane Nelson, Emma Robbins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1626111091541-HQZ3UUDJ7BG3OO24U73W/IMG_4341.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Patron: Scott J. Hunter - Make it stand out Sculpture by William J. O'Brien https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1626124749233-ADUQJHWWMKOYPRDHGX65/F1AC0921-89F0-40E4-9B62-4B759A975BA6.JPG The Path Forward Interview Series - The Patron: Scott J. Hunter - Make it stand out Counterclockwise from top: Gotscha Gozalishvilli, Theaster Gates, Iris Bernblum, Sanaz Sohrabi https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2021/7/6/the-path-forward-interview-series-rose-lejeune monthly 0.5 2021-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1625603454427-ND5480OKHFMYOG1JME9V/Rose+Lejeune+headshot.jpeg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Collection Amplifier: Rose Lejeune Rose Lejeune is a curator and researcher with a specific interest in commissioning and collecting context-based, social and performative practices. She has built a reputation for strategic overview and curatorial innovation and in 2020 was named in ArtNet’s Intelligence Report as a “global innovator” for her work on expanding collections. Rose is the Director of Performance Exchange, a UK-wide project working to embed performance within public and private collections. Rose is also the Associate Curator for the Delfina Foundation’s Collecting as Practice programme where she developed the groundbreaking programme that looks at the politics and economics of global collections. In 2021, she is curating the live programme for Abu Dhabi Art for the second time, and is a guest curator for LOOP, the video art fair, in Barcelona. Rose’s current curatorial activities have developed following a decade of working with public organisations throughout the UK to commission for non-gallery situations. This includes as Curator at Art on the Underground, and Education Projects Curator at the Serpentine Gallery. Rose holds a BA in Philosophy and Art History, and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art. Finally, Rose is currently a PhD candidate in Curating at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where her research focuses on histories of performance art in, and out, of the art market. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2021/7/6/the-path-forward-interview-series-joey-flores-and-jonathan-td-neil monthly 0.5 2021-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1625604707050-QJWNLLVEO6T8UFD1SCTO/Joey+Flores.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Artist Accelerators: Joey Flores and Jonathan T.D. Neil Joey Flores is an artist and LA-based entrepreneur with 20 years creating rapid growth for companies. In 2011, as founding CEO of the artist marketing platform Earbits, he secured seed investment from Y Combinator, the world’s leading accelerator program, which offers capital, mentoring, networking, and other benefits. After attending the program, he raised $1.7M from top investors, grew the company to work with over 15,000 artists and 600 record labels, and led it to acquisition for $8M in 2015. The extent to which that investment program impacted the company’s success, and Joey Flores’s career, cannot be overstated. Since then, he has helped two organizations launch their own accelerator investment programs – the Queensland University of Technology in Australia, and as a volunteer, The Hidden Genius Project in California, which mentors black male youth in technology and entrepreneurship. Having been through the world’s best accelerator and built two others, he is now bringing the same powerful investing approach to the world of fine art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1625604774202-1WR3DV1RWBYFKNFGXNK6/Jonathan+Neil.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Artist Accelerators: Joey Flores and Jonathan T.D. Neil Prior to Inversion Art, Jonathan T. D. Neil was the Founding Director of the Center for Business & Management of the Arts at Claremont Graduate University and of Sotheby’s Institute of Art – Los Angeles. Jonathan has written extensively on contemporary art and artists for ArtReview, Hyperallergic, Modern Painters, Ikon, The Art Newspaper, and The Brooklyn Rail. He is the editor, with Alexander Nagel, of Bending Concepts: The Held Essays on Visual Art, 2011-2017 (2019) and has contributed numerous essays for museum and gallery catalogues and exhibitions for artists such as Robert Longo, Tara Donovan, Eve Sussman, Robert Lazzarini, Rosson Crow and Ryan McGinness. In 2018 he penned an op-ed for ArtReview championing many of the ideas Inversion is working to realize. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2021/3/30/nico-wheadon monthly 0.5 2021-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1617471212510-2FFF4MB47X9NYAFDJSF8/Nico+Wheadon_Photo+By+Isaiah+Watkins+2019.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Cultural Strategist: nico wheadon nico wheadon is founder and principal of bldg fund, LLC, an innovation platform for BIPOC artists, entrepreneurs and neighbors. She is an independent art advisor, curator, educator and writer who adopts interdisciplinarity as a strategy for building a more responsive cultural ecosystem. An advocate for BIPOC and womxn artists in all endeavors, she uses her myriad platforms to expand the canon of contemporary art, whilst cultivating a community of professional practice and collective care. Through her consultancy, NICO WHEADON PROJECTS, she delivers cultural strategy and curatorial guidance to artists, cultural institutions, entrepreneurs, foundations and government agencies. An independent curator, nico has produced group exhibitions for international art fairs, and both nonprofit and commercial galleries. An artist-first advocate in these spaces, she works to recalibrate the relationships between BIPOC and womxn artists, and the broader art market economy. An arts writer and contributor to Art Handler Magazine, Artnet News, The Brooklyn Rail, Dossier, and C&, nico’s first manuscript—Cultivating The Cultural Commons: A Toolkit For Civic Engagement Within, Beyond & Through The Museum Space (working title)—is slated for publication in Summer 2021. The book brings together over forty pioneering voices from the field to reflect on canon-shifting practice currently taking place within, beyond, and through the museum space. nico is an adjunct professor at Barnard College, Brown University and Hartford Art School, teaching at the intersections of art history, creative and cultural entrepreneurship, and museum studies. Her scholarship centers artist- and community-led innovation, and manifests art history’s contemporary relevance in our evolving cultural ecosystem. Beyond the classroom, nico has designed professional development curricula, for nonprofits and for-profits alike, that are informed by her unique perspective as a practitioner working across sectors. A thought leader in the field, nico currently serves as: a board governor at the National Academy of Design; an advisory board member for Lubin School of Business’ Transformative Leadership Program; a guide at the Institute of Possibility; and a cohort member of Arizona State University’s Readying the Museum initiative. In recent posts, nico served as Inaugural Executive Director of NXTHVN (2019-2020); Inaugural Director of Public Programs and Community Engagement at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2014-2019); Curatorial Director of Rush Arts Gallery (2007-2010); and Curatorial Assistant at The Studio Museum in Harlem (2006-2007). nico holds an MA in Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship from Goldsmith's College University of London (2011), and a BA in Art-Semiotics from Brown University (2006). https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2021/3/30/darryl-chappell monthly 0.5 2021-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1617472374807-EG6Y6CE52N10X7ESPCMB/darryl+chappell+photo.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Emerging Artist Funder: Darryl Chappell Mr. Chappell is a start-up entrepreneur, strategic advisor and process excellence executive achieving greater than USD$84 million in cost savings, revenue generation or loss mitigation in financial services, manufacturing and nonprofit organizations. Mr. Chappell has more than 20 years of experience, in the United States and abroad, as a catalyst for change inspiring partners, customers, employees and management to embrace new and creative ways of thinking and behaving resulting in tangible, mutually beneficial and measurable outcomes. Mr. Chappell is fluent in English and Spanish, and currently resides in Montevideo, Uruguay. He also holds the Six Sigma Master Black Belt certification to promote and support business area improvements. Mr. Chappell is the founder, president and chairman, of the Darryl Chappell Foundation (The Foundation). The Foundation is a private 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing grants to other nonprofit organizations to enable aspiring artists to achieve their highest potential. The Foundation has awarded over $45,000 to three nonprofit organizations within its first year of existence. Mr. Chappell also serves on the Executive Committee of the board of directors for the Center for International Policy (www.ciponline.org) headquartered in Washington, D.C.. Prior to establishing The Foundation, Mr. Chappell served as the Director of the Innovation Lab (iLab) at the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, known as Freddie Mac (www.freddiemac.com), from 2017 to 2019, in McLean, Virginia. As the iLab Director, Mr. Chappell conducted internal business crowdsourcing challenges resulting in 75 business ideas with involvement from over 400 employees. Mr. Chappell also organized a human- centered design strategic team to train over 6,000 employees in design methodologies. Mr. Chappell earned a Masters in International Public Policy from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins in Washington D.C., and a Masters in Business Administration from The University of Chicago Booth School. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2021/4/1/the-auction-innovator-shlomi-rabi monthly 0.5 2021-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1617471978018-M6TVLV85JNBUXS2XV7JY/Shlomi+Rabi.png The Path Forward Interview Series - The Auction Innovator: Shlomi Rabi Shlomi Rabi is a twenty-year veteran of the auction world. As an immigrant from the Middle East raised in Central America, Shlomi’s passion for the arts is informed by his desire to champion and empower creatives whose vision and voices are too often marginalized. Most recently he held the position of Vice President, Head of the Photographs Department at Christie’s, and prior, Head of Sale at Phillips, New York. During his tenure in the auction industry, Shlomi closely worked on multiple institutional collaborations, which included the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Aperture Foundation, and Elton John AIDS Foundation. Among his achievements is an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Alternate Media for his writing for NBC5 Chicago Street Team, shared with his team in 2008. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/10/30/the-path-forward-interview-series-victoria-rogers monthly 0.5 2020-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1604093440965-VEISKF74HLGL8N9E3KHC/0O8A5364+%281%29.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Next Gen Trustee: Victoria Rogers Victoria Rogers is a creative business strategist living in NYC. Victoria is a MFA Candidate at Parsons, art collector, Trustee at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and Creative Time, and Co-chairwoman, Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/10/27/the-path-forward-interview-series-joshua-rogers monthly 0.5 2020-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1603847723003-U3V3K5A26GG9RW0WDXB6/Josh+Rogers.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Next Gen Collector: Joshua Rogers As CEO of Arete Wealth, Joshua Rogers is the steward of the firm’s financial management products and services, offered through more than 30 offices and over 140 advisors nationwide. The company – a full-service Broker Dealer, Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) and Insurance firm – focuses on wealth management for high-net worth individuals and institutions, alternative investment access, venture capital and private equity programs. The firm has boasted year-over-year revenue growth rate under Joshua’s tenure after he founded the company in 2007. With nearly 20 years of experience in financial services, Joshua is a seasoned financial executive, a visionary leader and an accomplished business developer across multiple industries. His industry affiliations include an elected position to represent all 3,000 registered small financial services firms across the country on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s National Adjudicatory Council (FINRA’s NAC). NAC reviews disciplinary and membership proceedings to ensure the market integrity of financial firms and advisors. In 2018, Joshua applied his financial expertise as a managing member of Windy City Crypto LLC, which administers investment options in the expanding and evolving cryptocurrency market. Prior to entering the financial services industry, Joshua left Georgetown Law to pursue innovation and co-invent several patents, including the ‘name your own price’ e-commerce concepts that drive Priceline.com. His inventor career took a turn towards financial services when he rose in the ranks of a brokerage firm on Wall Street, then American Express Financial Advisors, and finally Ameriprise Financial. He lived in New York City then Washington DC before relocating to Chicago. In his expanded business and community works, Joshua lends executive perspective to the board of the Chicago chapter of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) as well as the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCAC). He is a past board member of Threewalls, a non-profit art gallery that supports Chicago artists, and Illinois Humanities, an organization with a focus on public policy, media, business and arts. Joshua is a graduate of St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he is an elected Board Member with oversight of the university’s Finance, Investment and Audit committees. He also teaches Entrepreneurship at both St. John’s Annapolis and Sante Fe campuses. Joshua finds energy to lead an accomplished professional career by balancing it with his personal interests including global travel. He’s also a voracious reader, a published writer, an art collector and passionate follower of all things in the realm of aesthetics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1604102699460-D9JAHMOY69JS5G0JAWBI/Screen+Shot+2020-10-30+at+6.04.34+PM.png The Path Forward Interview Series - The Next Gen Collector: Joshua Rogers william cordova, “it may assume different shapes at different times”, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1604102848993-GBHLCFZ945DXG7TW1D81/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-30%2Bat%2B6.06.08%2BPM.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Next Gen Collector: Joshua Rogers Maia Cruz Palileo, “The Quiet One”, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1604102954582-DEZHNULO8637X5FKKLZV/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-30%2Bat%2B6.08.30%2BPM.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Next Gen Collector: Joshua Rogers Elijah Burgher, “Don’t Confuse Trust and Control”, 2013 https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/10/30/the-path-forward-interview-series-vincent-uribe monthly 0.5 2020-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1604094252347-E4N63QW7MBALO1KSFWE3/Vuribe4+-+1.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Next Gen Creative Entrepreneur: Vincent Uribe Vincent Uribe is a creative entrepreneur based in Chicago, IL. Vincent is the Founding Director of LVL3, an artist-run exhibition space and online publication platform he established in 2010 while attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). LVL3 is dedicated to fostering creative networks for emerging to established artists from around the world. In addition to running LVL3, Vincent is the Art Director at Arts of Life, working to advance the creative arts community by providing artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities a collective space to expand their practice and strengthen their leadership. Motivated by his passion for art, music, fashion, design, and travel, Vincent works as a tastemaker, connecting and promoting creative entrepreneurs and artists across the globe. Vincent holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Visual and Critical Studies from SAIC. Photo: Vincent Uribe and dog Milo @ LVL3 https://www.instagram.com/LVL3official/ https://www.instagram.com/circlecontemporary/ https://www.instagram.com/the_arts_of_life/ https://www.instagram.com/equityarts/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1604096881904-5Z74P8PBJOWCVGH7BEK5/echosinrainopening+-+1.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Next Gen Creative Entrepreneur: Vincent Uribe LVL3 Echoes In Rain opening reception, from L->R: Kaitlyn Albrecht (LVL3 Communications Manger), Vincent Uribe, Emily Endo (featured artist), Maddy Olson (Gallery Manager), Hyun Jung Jun (featured artist). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1604096999014-Z26FT2TDHFWRDT5UK0F8/4.+Entrelazar.JPG The Path Forward Interview Series - The Next Gen Creative Entrepreneur: Vincent Uribe Arts of Life's Circle Contemporary gallery Entrelazar 8.30.19 – 10.11.19. Guest curated by Edra Soto. Featured artists: Candida Alvarez, *Renata Berdes, *Aria Carter, Dianna Frid, Diana Gabriel, Maria Gaspar, Melissa Leandro, *Susan Pasowicz, *Linda Ruzga, Edra Soto, *Maria Vanik, *Debbie Vasquez, Vanessa Viruet, Allison Wade, *Jean Wilson. *indicates Arts of Life Studio Artist. 8.30.19 – 10.11.19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1604097051192-SA8TG7BKMDYHQT60XBDA/echoesinrain-62.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Next Gen Creative Entrepreneur: Vincent Uribe Echoes In Rain, a two-person exhibition at LVL3 featuring work by Emily Endo and Hyun Jung Jun. 10.17.20 - 12.20.20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1604097108719-D30YTRL26CZA2I5YK0QQ/HPAC.JPG The Path Forward Interview Series - The Next Gen Creative Entrepreneur: Vincent Uribe LVL3 featured in Artist Run Chicago 2.0 @ Hyde Park Art Center 9.01.20 - 11.1.20: an exhibition celebrating the work of fifty artist-run spaces and organizations that fuel Chicago’s independent art scene. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/9/24/the-path-forward-interview-series-the-x-suzanne-deal-booth monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1601079493830-9018MXX3SCJN3DF9JTDB/SDB+1.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Arts Supporter: Suzanne Deal Booth Suzanne Deal Booth, an arts advocate, advisor and collector, has long been committed to the recognition, preservation and conservation of visual arts and cultural heritage. A native of Texas, Deal Booth graduated cum laude with a degree in art history from Rice University followed by a Master of Arts in art history and conservation from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts and Conservation Center. As a work/study student at Rice and NYU, she had the opportunity to work directly under the tutelage of art collector and philanthropist Dominique de Menil. This marked the beginning of a meaningful exposure to sophisticated cultural patronage, and has served as an ongoing inspiration throughout Deal Booth’s career and life. While in NYC, she worked with the artist James Turrell on his Skyspace at MoMA’s PS1, and later assisted on his installation at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Deal Booth has worked at several notable institutions including les Monuments Historiques, France, The Kimbell Art Museum, The Menil Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Trust. Her post-graduate fellowship, funded by the Kress Foundation, took place at Centre Pompidou, Paris, where she restored important 20th century paintings for the museum’s permanent collection. Suzanne Deal Booth is the Founder of The Friends of Heritage Preservation (FOHP) and has served as Director since 1998. The charitable organization has successfully participated and contributed to 80 preservation and conservation projects around the world. Deal Booth currently serves on boards of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Menil Collection, Centre Pompidou Foundation, Ballroom Marfa, The Contemporary Austin, and Calder Foundation. She is also a member on the Leadership Council at The Blanton Museum of Art Museum and the Art Committee of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Deal Booth also served as a gubernatorial appointee on the board of the California Cultural and Historical Endowment for the State of California. In 2001, she and her family established the Suzanne Deal Booth Rome Prize Fellowship for Historic Preservation and Conservation at the American Academy in Rome. Through Suzanne Deal Booth’s patronage, a Skyspace by James Turrell, Twilight Epiphany, was realized in 2012 on Rice University’s campus in Houston, Texas. In 2016 she created the Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize - a biennial, unrestricted award of $100,000 given to an artist selected every two years, which also includes a solo exhibition and scholarly publication. The first recipient was Rodney McMillian. The prize was expanded to $200,000 and renamed through a partnership with FLAG Art Foundation, and the second prize was awarded to Nicole Eisenman. Deal Booth’s current endeavors include establishing and cultivating Bella Oaks, an organic vineyard and olive orchard in Napa Valley, CA, which produces a unique and celebrated Cabernet Sauvignon wine. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/9/24/the-path-forward-interview-series-pasteur-m monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1601159639929-B5PWZLY8LMJWKXEGTTJU/61DF146B-389F-4563-B2A9-2A579AB12FC6-A569BD66-30EB-4D25-A3AA-002D4B96E5F7.JPG The Path Forward Interview Series - The Visual Artist: Pasteur Mudende Born in Kigali, Rwanda, Pasteur Mudende is a unique talent, one whose artistic gift lands outside the normal order. Some of his favorite childhood memories were the days spent admiring the beauty of African art in galleries. Which is why he is heavily influenced by stunning African silhouettes and French Impressionism as well. His emotional, plaintive minimal paintings often express feelings of loneliness and sometimes deal with racy subject matter and are in between a confidence and fragile state. Pasteur’s calm, creative and analytical compositions are reflected by lambent from light to dark that makes his work a transformative simplicity unfolding with forthright beauty, clarity and grace. “You cannot be born in Rwanda and have lived in Cities like Nairobi, New York, San Francisco, and not feel the need to create culturally-relevant art that engage people with valuable experiences.” His art is embedded in his life experience and in the idea of the importance of a profound expression of self. Art that is imbue with emotions, prestige, challenges and redefines creativity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1601159717733-WBYM7B8P3UAQG7O1GFO1/6C53F9C5-7292-4671-897B-5C2A28DDC306_1_201_a.jpeg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Visual Artist: Pasteur Mudende https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1601159744434-OLER51Q7L67IZ9C6BTJT/BEED777C-C596-48C5-8A2C-9F07B38DA7A9_1_201_a.jpeg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Visual Artist: Pasteur Mudende https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1601159768846-CX9IO2BY81MEOI4S8NAU/F3BB4235-CB48-4591-961E-8779445D1E0F_1_201_a.jpeg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Visual Artist: Pasteur Mudende https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1601159791482-SE7QB51F15T4V4JCXE5G/FA95D48A-9F1E-4A0B-8FB8-CFD052949F49_1_105_c.jpeg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Visual Artist: Pasteur Mudende https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1601159824639-SE2OCV50XU9V3E03O66H/IMG_3427.JPG The Path Forward Interview Series - The Visual Artist: Pasteur Mudende https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/9/24/the-path-forward-interview-series-claire-bruekel monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1601077439713-RAECMMDQFDNRK0ZC2BMN/931_the-districts-new-curator-claire-breukel_2804.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Curator: Claire Breukel Claire Breukel is the Curator for Dacra. As Curator, Breukel is responsible for managing Dacra’s diverse and expansive cultural programming in the Miami Design District. Her role includes selecting, developing and coordinating unique performances, exhibitions, events and activations in collaboration with emerging and established artists and institutions. Breukel also manages the Craig Robins Collection, a private contemporary art collection, arranging exhibitions showcasing the Collection throughout the year. Prior to joining Dacra in 2020, Breukel worked as Executive Director and Curator for the Robert S. Wennett and Mario Cader-Frech Foundation, establishing the art program Y.ES Contemporary. In 2018, Breukel co-produced the (RED) Auction curated by Theaster Gates and Sir David Adjaye. In 2013, she co-produced the (RED) Design Auction at Sotheby’s New York curated by Jony Ive and Marc Newson. In 2012, Breukel helped establish and operate the public art program Unscripted for Bal Harbour Village bringing notable artists and creative speakers to Miami. Between 2010-2012 she worked as Art Advisor for the Miami Downtown Development Authority, and from 2008 to 2010, Breukel served as the curator for PUMA and worked on arts sponsorships and partnerships. Breukel moved to Miami in 2003 to work with the Rubell Family Collection and served as the first Executive Director of Locust Projects. During the course of her career Breukel curated exhibitions in Cape Town, Vienna, Prague, New York, Miami and El Salvador. She has written for Harvard’s ReVista, Whitewall, Arte Aldia, Eikon, ArtPulse, Women’s Review, and Hyperallergic.com among other titles. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/8/16/gsj monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1597629916915-HCYYUEV5G1EHRQGJ77CQ/GJS.png The Path Forward Interview Series - The Involvement Strategist: Geoffrey Jackson Scott Geoffrey Jackson Scott is an Involvement strategist and creative development consultant, cultural organizer, and creative producer, as well as a facilitator and coach with nearly two decades of experience advancing racial equity in the arts and culture sector. He is the Co-Founder + Creative Director of Peoplmovr, a creative studio specializing in involvement. The company centers anti-racism and racial equity as part of its commitment to advancing love and collective liberation. This commitment is grounded in the belief that a more just and equitable world is possible. Recently, Geoffrey served as Consulting Director of Engagement at the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI). At MoMI, he led an ambitious two­-year community engagement and audience outreach pilot, funded by the Ford Foundation. He was directly responsible for creating policies, programs, and outreach initiatives designed to open up access for a broader public to the Museum. From 2012 - 2014, Geoffrey delivered a suite of new programming as a senior member of the in-house creative strategy team at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, where he was the Director of New Play Development and Community Engagement. At Victory Gardens, he conceived, developed, and launched a civic engagement platform designed to embrace and reflect the diversity of Chicago rooted in partnership and collaboration with community and cultural leaders from across the city. Prior to Chicago, Geoffrey spent eight seasons as the Literary Associate at New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW). At NYTW, he led the Artist of Color Fellowship program and supported the cultivation, development, and production of new work made by both emerging and established artists. A thought leader and frequent speaker and guest lecturer on advancing racial equity in arts and culture, Geoffrey serves on the boards of Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre and the Alliance of Artists Communities. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/8/22/38tqqvk70g8vye7vrfos24izrp9dk6 monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1598113245811-9X42X9MNC8UAS5RNGLBR/Helen+Toomer.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Cultural Engine: Helen Toomer Helen Toomer is a recognized leader in the arts, with over fifteen years’ experience organizing events, exhibitions and residencies. She is dedicated to uplifting women in the arts. Toomer is Founder of STONELEAF RETREAT, an artists’ residency and connective space in the Catskill Mountains of New York focused on supporting women and families, and also programs UPSTATE ART WEEKEND. She is the Executive Director of Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE) and Co-Founder of Art Mamas Alliance. Formerly, Toomer was the Director of the IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair and Collective Design Fair in New York and PULSE Contemporary Art Fair in Miami. She lectures on art fairs and professional development at universities and arts organizations in the US and the UK and was an adjunct professor at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and the Fashion Institute of Technology. Toomer co-founded and managed a contemporary art gallery, toomer labzda in New York and graduated with Bachelors in Fine Arts from the Arts Institute of Bournemouth, England. She serves on the Advisory Committees for ProjectArt, Foundwork and the Baxter St Camera Club of New York. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/8/22/fhz741hy5fc0q3yeglrk48y71wzmz2 monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1598126001688-565LOYBG40CVLK5ZWUKO/Spring+McManus.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Contemporary Art Advisor: Spring McManus Spring McManus is an independent advisor specializing in modern and contemporary art acquisitions, sales, and collection management for a portfolio of established and emerging art collectors and cultural institutions. A former associate director at Christie’s, Spring is on the board of the Fountainhead Artist Residency, a benefactor of YoungArts, and an active member at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Institute of Contemporary Art, and the Bass Museum of Art. She also serves as a senior advisor to Arts Funders Forum and Blackdove, a new technology platform to advance the video art experience for artists, collectors, and institutions. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/8/21/the-path-forward-interview-series-the-artist-and-professor-dannielle-tegeder monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1598056710847-NSM67DL5J24WGW9KFV6H/Dannielle+T.png The Path Forward Interview Series - The Artist and Professor: Dannielle Tegeder Born in Peekskill, NY, Dannielle Tegeder currently lives in Brooklyn, New York and maintains a studio at The Elizabeth Foundation in Manhattan. She received a BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase (1994), and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago (1997). For the past fifteen years, her work has explored abstraction. While the core of her work is paintings and drawings, she has recently begun to include large-scale installation, sculptural objects, video, sound, and animation Since receiving her MFA in 1997 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, her work has been presented in over 100 gallery exhibitions, both nationally and internationally in Paris, Houston, Los Angeles, Berlin, Chicago, and New York. She has participated in numerous institution exhibitions including PS1/MOMA, the New Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Several of her drawings have recently been purchased as part of the Contemporary Drawing Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, and her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Weatherspoon Museum of Art in Greensboro, NC. She is an Associate Professor at the City University of New York at Lehman College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1598056840698-7XTNT3EC8DHORUC0D0YN/IMG_0053.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Artist and Professor: Dannielle Tegeder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1598056773894-VXZDZJRDTSSH0T4WI0XS/IMG_0048.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Artist and Professor: Dannielle Tegeder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1598056789223-X9R0FIANYNHYXWMO9JEL/IMG_0049.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Artist and Professor: Dannielle Tegeder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1598056802695-FXNCKWLOL6QXJ381P6IB/IMG_0050.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Artist and Professor: Dannielle Tegeder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1598056817989-SYBRTUXB9IZMQM1PBNLR/IMG_0051.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Artist and Professor: Dannielle Tegeder https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/8/8/the-path-forward-interview-series-the-x-whitney-hardy monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1596901541541-OS8WFLTGRKEX5MJ0KEV8/1J2B1603.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Cultural Architect: Whitney Hardy Whitney Hardy is a Memphis based, Black entrepreneur, economic development thought leader, and cultural architect. She is the Founder & Executive Director of 3RDSPACE which exists to highlight and reinforce the connection between arts, people, and cities for socio-economic prosperity. Whitney applies 10+ years of entrepreneurship, public accounting, and information technology experience to solve complex challenges, find opportunities and help businesses and cities grow. She is an award-winning leader, strategist, speaker and host at conferences around the United States, and advises government entities, foundations and business leaders on economic development strategies. Her autodidactic fine arts acumen coupled with her business savvy, has made her a powerful voice around strategies for contemporary arts and culture’s role in economic development, and civic pride, innovation, social justice, and arts for art sake. She has worked with an array of national arts institutions, universities, and creative entrepreneurs around projects, ideas, exhibitions. Photo by: Elizabeth Looney Photography https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/8/4/wgzve0nqfh6npeieaea5s84ycat770 monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1596579293186-ASPZAANWIRWU4U4YO6FF/Susan+looks+to+Manhattan+at+sunset+-+Photo+credit+Chris+E+King+%28cekingphoto.com%29.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Art Market Entrepreneur: Susan J Mumford Photo by Chris E. King, www.cekingphoto.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1596579120307-8EXSEIEIN2FWS4UPI40L/Virtual+Reality+Room.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Art Market Entrepreneur: Susan J Mumford Virtual Reality Room. Photo by Chris E. King, www.cekingphoto.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1596579159348-CP5XJCK4ZUDR96ZAEAKF/Nothing-to-say-slider.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Art Market Entrepreneur: Susan J Mumford Nothing To Say. Photo by Chris E. King, www.cekingphoto.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1596579220813-U1NGMFQAPNRI4RAH5JB2/house-of-cards-slider.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Art Market Entrepreneur: Susan J Mumford House of Cards. Photo by Chris E. King, www.cekingphoto.com https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/8/7/nj6qp352iws4g2se0281b2asqox6qg monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1596825481908-D4MWA2LX5MOZWKUOYQSU/Marte+Siebenhar+by+Ekaterina+Juskowski.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Coach: Marte Siebenhar Marte Siebenhar’s passion is creativity. As a coach, consultant, and facilitator, she combines artistic creativity and business strategy. Through her firm, Cultured Innovations, Marte helps creatives, nonprofits, social impact makers, and boards across the United States become more prosperous and successful. Often called in to assist with high-stakes conversations and periods of transition and growth, Marte’s work prioritizes sustainable strategy and financial abundance. This starts with clarity and alignment around purpose, values, and value. Her Practical Creativity™ methodology seeds innovation through imagination and play. Marte is a classically trained professional musician and an alumna of Manhattan School of Music. She served as a Fellow with the Kennedy Center and The Miami Foundation. Previously, she was an arts manager, strategic planner, nonprofit executive, and marketer at Midori & Friends, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Bakehouse Art Complex, and New World Symphony. Her biweekly live interview show, Practical Creativity Live, invites individuals to unpack the role of creativity in their lives and work. Marte’s first book, Messages from the Heart: Cards for Inspiration, Reflection, and Empowerment, is available on Amazon. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/6/3/ron-varney monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1591221064552-6RB6IB7P99K93QVNP1WV/Ronald+Varney.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Art Advisor: Ronald Varney Ronald Varney has 30 years of experience in the international art market, working first at Sotheby's for twelve years before beginning his own specialist art advisory firm in 2002. He is especially skilled in serving the complex art-related needs of families and private collectors. Ronald started his career in the art world in 1989 at Sotheby's New York, where he served initially as the Director of Marketing Development and was later a Senior Vice President in the Trusts and Estates Department. He wrote for numerous Sotheby's publications and also founded Sotheby's Books. His objective in starting an independent art advisory firm was to be an advocate for private clients in navigating the challenges of an increasingly complex global art market. Ronald has written widely on the arts for such publications as Esquire, the Smithsonian, House & Garden and The Harvard Business Review. He is a cum laude graduate of Amherst College, where he was an Independent Scholar in English. His personal collecting interests include rare books, drawings, photographs, English furniture and Japanese art. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/6/23/the-path-forward-interview-series-the-nonprofit-gallery-owners-and-artists monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1593206818419-BUO4L196UVTMNK9ZSMWT/Frances_Trombly_M3A9229-%281%29.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Nonprofit Gallery Directors: Frances Trombly & Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova Frances Trombly (b. 1976 Miami, FL, USA) is an artist, Co-founder and Deputy Director of Dimensions Variable. She is based in Miami, FL, United States. She received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including a solo project at Locust Projects, Miami; and curated group shows Americana: Formalizing Craft at the Perez Art Museum Miami and united states at the The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT. Her work has been featured in various publications including The New York Times, Art Papers, Sculpture Magazine, Surface Design Journal, and The Los Angeles Times. Trombly’s work is in the permanent collection of the Perez Art Museum, Miami and NSU Art Museum, Ft. Lauderdale, among others. Trombly is represented by Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL and Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1593206852541-G3BOLXQV9898PBSLDDDK/LRC-Vert.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Nonprofit Gallery Directors: Frances Trombly & Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova (b. 1973 Havana, Cuba) is an Artist, Curator, Co-founder and Executive Director of Dimensions Variable (DV) and Fulano Inc. He lives and works in Miami, FL, United States. His work has been exhibited widely at Sculpture Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, Abrons Arts Center and White Box in New York; Museo de Bellas Artes and Factoria Habana in Havana, Cuba; ZONA MACO Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City, Mexico; Capri Palace and Villa Lena in Italy; Prosjektrom Normanns in Stavanger, Norway; PAMM, Frost Museum, The Bass, MOCA, DV and Locust Projects in Miami. His work is in many public and private collections around the world and institutions like PAMM, Frost Museum, Cintas Foundation, and The Bass. He has been written about in the New York Times, The Miami Herald, Art Nexus, Arte al Dia, Artforum, Artsy, Sculpture Magazine, Hyperallergic, The Miami Rail, and Miami Magazine. Since founding DV in 2009, he has organized and curated many projects by local and international emerging artists. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/6/12/the-path-forward-interview-series-the-cultural-financial-advisor-anna-raginskaya monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1592012334121-P7FRRQUA7IOK1WHQCUDD/edit.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Cultural Financial Advisor: Anna Raginskaya Anna Raginskaya is a financial advisor with the Blue Rider Group, and focuses on the Blue Rider Group’s engagement with the art and impact investing communities and strategic planning for non-profit clients. She also advises on wealth management issues for Next Gen clients, including entrepreneurship and philanthropy. Anna earned her BA in History of Art and Architecture from Harvard College and MBA from Harvard Business School. She is a co-chair of the Municipal Art Society Urbanists, a member of the Programming Committee of the National Academy of Design, and a partner of the VIA Art Fund. The Blue Rider Group is committed to sustainable and impact investing, actively incorporating strategies that utilize environmental, social and governance criteria to make investment decisions, helping create positive change and drive investment returns. In addition to addressing their clients' financial needs, the Blue Rider Group facilitates introductions between philanthropists and non-profits, raises awareness about organizations and helps support cultural projects. They are passionate about art and the community of people involved in making, supporting, curating, and caring for it. (Photo by Matthew Morrocco.) https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/6/12/the-path-forward-interview-series-the-prize-director-carolina-garca-jayaram monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1592093556219-ZK5OM3JLS5R54WU1FV15/2019+CJayaram+Head+Shot+1.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Prize Director: Carolina García Jayaram Carolina García Jayaram has more than two decades of experience in leading national institutions and initiatives dedicated to enriching and shaping social-impact, philanthropic and cultural communities across the United States. As the Founding Executive Director of the new Elevate Prize Foundation, Carolina is leading the Foundation’s launch and distribution of $5M in funding and professional support to a group of 10 social entrepreneurs who are tackling the most challenging problems of our time. She most recently served as CEO & President of the National YoungArts Foundation and, prior to that, as President & CEO of United States Artists, where she helped manage $25M in unrestricted awards to this country’s most accomplished artists and spearheaded an innovative $20M operating endowment campaign. While in Chicago, she was a member of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Cultural Advisory Council and was named “Chicagoan of the Year in the Arts” by the Chicago Tribune. Her philanthropic work extends to serving on the Board of Directors for Guitars Over Guns, the Advisory Council for Ruth’s List Florida (which aims to elect progressive women to public office in Florida), and on the Latin American and Latinx Committee for the Pérez Art Museum Miami. Carolina received her JD (with honors) from the University of Miami School of Law, where she is now an Adjunct Professor as well as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Law School’s Art + Sports Law LLM program. She has also studied not-for-profit management at Harvard Business School. In 2019, she delivered the commencement speech at Broward College and received an honorary degree for her commitment to community service and leadership. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/6/8/862qdtej7kedpa7qm4hu4u3l28v2i6 monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1591999530566-VRO6LT0T58ZYEYL4KJEI/RMB+.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Artist-Scholar: Rashayla Marie Brown (RMB) Artist-scholar Rashayla Marie Brown (RMB) manages an "undisciplinary" studio practice through photography, performance, words/writing, installation design, video and conceptual film direction. Exploring vulnerability and mastery at the intersections of art history, religion, and popular culture, RMB's work often uses the word and the image to enact a code of ethics beyond mere representation. A lifelong nomad and polymath who has moved 24 times, RMB began an artistic practice as a poet in London, England and the founder of the design company Selah Vibe, Inc. in Atlanta, GA. From 2013-17, RMB served as the inaugural Director of Diversity and Inclusion at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), using lived performance to invert power dynamics at influential U.S. art schools. RMB’s work has been commissioned by Bemis Contemporary, Omaha; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco; Rhodes College, Memphis; and Yale University. RMB has presented work internationally at Krabbesholm Højskole, Copenhagen; Turbine Hall, Johannesburg; Tate Modern, London; INVISIBLE-EXPORTS, New York; Qalam wa Lawh, Rabat; and La Becque, Switzerland. Grants include the Artadia Award; Franklin Furnace; US Dept. of Ed. FLAS in Arabic; and the Mayor of Atlanta's Film Grant; among others. The viral essay "Open Letter to My Fellow Young Artists and Scholars on the Margins" was shared over 10K times online as of 2020. RMB's work and words have been featured in Art Forum, Artsy, Chicago Magazine, Hyperallergic, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Prospect.4 New Orleans, Radical Presence (CAM Houston), and the cover of the Chicago Reader. RMB holds degrees from Yale, SAIC, and Northwestern, trained by Paul Gilroy (sociology), Barbara DeGenevieve (photography), and D. Soyini Madison (performance) respectively. RMB currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Artists Coalition, and is a faculty member at the SAIC and Northwestern University. (Photo by Nathan Keay) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1591999615145-FK3LFT92BTKWVM8RY2YH/RMB+RTM.png The Path Forward Interview Series - The Artist-Scholar: Rashayla Marie Brown (RMB) Rage to Master. The exhibition was initially promoted at the MCA with the following link, image and text below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1591999642876-HFZZ8DX6TVK5L1N4K1F5/RMB+RTM.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Artist-Scholar: Rashayla Marie Brown (RMB) Credibility, Viability, Accuracy Maya Angelou as a Sex Worker Can't Knock the Hustle, Archival Pigment Print, 24 x 36, 2016 On Mastery I have already quit smoking. I have also stopped texting. I cut off people who abuse or drain me. I have started chanting. I drove for 18 hours by myself to get over my fear since the accidents. I spent New Year's Eve alone in Siesta Key. It was beautiful. I want to (re)learn to sing. Speak Spanish fluently. Do pushups. I still eat too much sugar. On May 24, 2016 at 6pm upon invitation of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, I performed on the occasion of Kerry James Marshall's exhibition, Mastry. Using voiceover acting (a "voice of God" broadcast through the museum PA system), manipulated images controlled by my sister, and a procession of trans and femme folks out of the front of the museum, the performance is an affective and intellectual play on the roles of ritual, collectivity, popular culture, and religion in the way that non-Western cultures and POC artists are "included" in museums. I chant a Nichiren Buddhist chant. I chastise the audience for leaving "me" out of the canon. I sing the last vocal refrain of Prince's Purple Rain, while leading the procession. I ask the audience what do they know about auction markets. I ask if the recently deceased Prince would be ashamed of us, the visual artists. I end the performance by reading a contract to protect my work from auction market exploitation and then burn my archive of works that were not protected by this contract. By tracing the current financial exploitation of artists from the historical margins to the myths of modernity and mastery perpetuated in the Western art canon, I propose an alternative reading of art history as coloniality, a perpetually rehearsed performance whereby race and gender take their current shape. By burning my work, I change the value of works previously sold in a similar edition. This means collectors will need to maintain some awareness of my whereabouts and current production if they wish to resell it at a profit. Kerry James Marshall was present with his wife, Cheryl. He saw me use this contract. Afterwards, his charity and public work has been "flipped" at auction for record-breaking millions, and he remains uncompensated. He has publicly stated he will never do public commissions again. We are the masters, if only in spirit. Maybe this is the only place that matters. Since then, I've performed iterations of this work destroying other photographs at Michelle Grabner's Poor Farm Experiment in Wisconsin and the Icebox Project in Philadelphia, PA. I am now working on a feature-length documentary using portions of this in progress documentary . https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/6/12/the-path-forward-interview-series-the-cultural-producer-kristen-kaza monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1591999098638-X571T71ZT7V2SVW6X26F/03.05.19+Reunion+Headshots-SJensen-4.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Cultural Producer: Kristen Kaza Kristen Kaza is a Chicago-based event producer on a mission to foster community connection and activate joy through the power of parties. Kristen has produced hundreds of “parties with a purpose” with No Small Plans Productions, which collaborates with brands and institutions on events designed with an intersectional framework. Partners have included the Chicago Reader, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nike, Navy Pier, Chicago Community Trust, United States Artists and many more. She is the Co-Founder of the legendary party series ‘Slo 'Mo: Slow Jams for Queer Fam,” connecting queer community on the dance floor for nine years. In response to social distancing with COVID-19, Slo ‘Mo moved their signature party online with “Slo ‘Mo From Homo,” featuring DJ sets & dance lessons and the inaugural event garnering over 5,000 views and features in TIME, Forbes, ABC, Thrillist and more. Kristen is also the Co-Founder of Reunion Chicago, a sliding scale event space and project incubator centering women, non-binary, LGBTQ+ and BIPOC creatives, and teaches communications at her alma mater Columbia College. Whether partying, producing, listening or leading, Kristen is continuously working to help build a culture of belonging. (Photo by Stephanie Jensen) https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/5/27/bridgitt-evans monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1590688685339-KAYIMGF4X9JW8XMJIVYB/1_Bridgitt+Evans_Credit+Susan+Young.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Fund Innovator: Bridgitt Evans Bridgitt Evans cofounded VIA Art Fund in 2013 and currently serves as President with responsibility for the organization’s strategic and operational business plan. Evans is an avid contemporary art collector and philanthropist with significant business and non-profit management expertise. Previously, Evans worked for AEW Capital, a real estate investment firm where she was responsible for direct investing and portfolio management on behalf of the firm’s institutional investors. Evans has held numerous leadership positions on non-profit boards and currently serves on the Executive Committees of The Telluride Foundation and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and as a member of Harvard Business School’s Board of Dean’s Advisors. (Photo by Susan Young) https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/5/10/5v7pao5oxbs9opdx411ymafymh7bi9 monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1589563204731-7OGUWZK7LYXDOE0SWU35/Jos%2B%C2%AC_Carlos_Diaz_Chief_Curator_The_Andy_Warhol_Museum_photo_Abby_Warhola_2_300.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Chief Curator: José Carlos Diaz José Carlos Diaz is the Chief Curator at The Andy Warhol Museum and was a 2018 fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL). At The Warhol he has curated Farhad Moshiri: Go West and Andy Warhol: Revelation. Diaz is currently organizing Femme Touch, an exhibition about dynamic women in Warhol’s periphery.Prior to this Diaz was the Curator of Exhibitions at The Bass in Miami Beach where he curated commissions by Athi-Patra Ruga, Sylvie Fleury, the exhibition GOLD, and organized One Way: Peter Marino. Diaz has worked at Tate Liverpool and at the Liverpool Biennal. Diaz received a MA in Cultural History from the University of Liverpool, and a BA in Art History from San Francisco State University. Diaz serves on the Board of Trustees for the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) and chaired the Curatorial Leadership Summit at The Armory Show in New York in 2020. (Photo by Abby Warhola) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1589569373099-O6L0MR1T7D27ZHCUX570/Farhad_Moshiri_Go_West_installation_The_Andy_Warhol_Museum_1_photo_Abby_Warhola.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Chief Curator: José Carlos Diaz Farhad Moshiri: Go West Photo by Abby Warhola https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1589569419763-YBCMKYQCNGF24MEJEG3P/Farhad_Moshiri_Go_West_installation_5_The_Andy_Warhol_Museum_photo_Abby_Warhola.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Chief Curator: José Carlos Diaz Farhad Moshiri: Go West Photo by Abby Warhola https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1589569446163-LRW343361N4G4ER6UXHU/Farhad_Moshiri_Go_West_installation_The_Andy_Warhol_Museum_6_photo_Abby_Warhola.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Chief Curator: José Carlos Diaz Farhad Moshiri: Go West Photo by Abby Warhola https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1589569472667-0SOJ74TK28GB9DUVRYPF/Reveleation_Install_1_The_Andy_Warhol_Museum_Photo_Abby+Warhola.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Chief Curator: José Carlos Diaz Andy Warhol: Revelation Photo by Abby Warhola https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1589569496227-NKQ7I5L124WAG9GNZPJB/Reveleation_Install_2_The_Andy_Warhol_Museum_Photo_Abby+Warhola.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Chief Curator: José Carlos Diaz Andy Warhol: Revelation Photo by Abby Warhola https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1589569513119-3FKAJ2SW6X6EW0E5VE0L/Reveleation_Install_4_The_Andy_Warhol_Museum_Photo_Abby+Warhola.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Chief Curator: José Carlos Diaz Andy Warhol: Revelation Photo by Abby Warhola https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/5/30/ry9jd1obq9qddisoy5swuoy07dgrte monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1590873391360-EUVD027B6R80TFDM5R2N/EBR+2.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Museum Director: Elysia Borowy-Reeder As Executive Director and Chief Curator of the MOCAD, Elysia Borowy-Reeder plays an essential role in establishing the vision, goals, and strategic plans for the museum. Fulfilling MOCAD’s mission through close collaboration with key stakeholders, she tirelessly works to sustain the museum and to secure its permanent future in Detroit for generations to come. She joined MOCAD as Executive Director in April of 2013 and in 2019 added Chief Curator to her title. She is former Founding Director of CAM Raleigh and served in leadership positions at MCA Chicago, MAM, and SAIC. Having curated over 40, she holds two master degrees from MSU, was named a 2008 Getty Museum Leadership Fellow, and attended Yale School of Management and Antioch College. She is currently completing her National Arts Strategies with a notforprofit certificate from Harvard Business School. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/5/15/glenn monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1589563019067-TLNVD7U05FX7FG8K0FK1/909-2.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Curator: Allison Glenn Allison M. Glenn is the Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. She was a member of the curatorial team for State of the Art 2020, which opened simultaneously at Crystal Bridges and the Momentary in early 2020. She also spearheaded the adaptation of Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal… (2020) at Crystal Bridges, the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s work, organized by the Portland Art Museum. In her role, Glenn shapes how public sculpture activates and engages the museum’s 120-acre campus with outdoor exhibitions such as Color Field (2019). She has produced exhibitions within the galleries that explore concepts of identity and language in contemporary art such as Small Talk (2019) and Personal Space (2018). Prior to working at Crystal Bridges, Glenn was the Manager of Publications and Curatorial Associate for Prospect New Orleans’ international art triennial Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp. In 2018, she authored her first publication, Out of Easy Reach, co-published by DePaul Art Museum, Gallery 400 at University of Illinois-Chicago, and Rebuild Foundation, and distributed by the University of Chicago Press. Glenn’s writing has been featured in numerous exhibition publications, including those produced by The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Kemper Museum of Art, Prospect New Orleans, DePaul Art Museum, Rebuild Foundation, the California African American Museum, University at Buffalo Art Galleries, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. She has contributed to Hyperallergic, ART21 Magazine, ART PAPERS, Pelican Bomb’s Art Review, and Newcity, among others. Glenn sits on the Board of Directors for ARCAthens, a curatorial and artist residency program based in Athens, Greece that supports and promotes growth in Athens’ visual arts community. She received dual master’s degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Modern Art History, Theory and Criticism and Arts Administration and Policy, and a Bachelor of Fine Art Photography with a co-major in Urban Studies from Wayne State University in Detroit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1589578703563-L61XAKNJEUI6RQDZTVY8/2N9A0978-Edit.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Curator: Allison Glenn State of the Art 2020 installation at the Momentary. Image by Dero Sanford. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1589578742886-48CQ3AZCNOUEVGIB1HVF/Harris_Kasimu+L.Come+Tuesday+%28Sportsman%27s+Corner%29.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Curator: Allison Glenn L. Kasimu Harris, Come Tuesday (Sportsman’s Corner), 2018, archival pigment print, 25 ¼ x 37 in., Courtesy of L. Kasimu Harris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1589580578976-WLUSNV5VC00QZNI5FWOF/DJI_0368-Edit.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Curator: Allison Glenn Nancy Rubins, Monochrome II, 2010-2018, stainless steel, stainless steel wire, and aluminum, 33 × 55 × 35 ft. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2017.21. Photo: Stephen Ironside. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/5/10/3rtn6wcp2q6cbq7t2j536rhq80rmp4 monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1589649222280-KWGUFF1002C2HB22Y2OA/CWagner_Headshot_White+Background_Smile.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Foundation Founder: Charlotte Wagner Charlotte Wagner is the Founder and CEO of Wagner Foundation, a Boston-based foundation. Charlotte serves on the Boards of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, VIA Art Fund, and Partners In Health. She also serves on the Tate North American Acquisitions Committee. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/5/6/8diwfnmbkppdokh3dx1hi570sged5e monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1589649340724-40Y4TOMSBRGH7AQQ5J2B/IMG_1164.JPG The Path Forward Interview Series - The Gallery Director: Jesse Penridge Jesse Penridge is a long time gallery director, advisor and independent curator. He is a Certified Member of the Appraisers Association of America and active in many of New York's nonprofit arts organizations. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/5/8/fyopkmqvpofecaiz7ik9opvwlm862f monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1588910993106-OMXXZ2UR3Y49ARGWIPIL/Frederick+Janka.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Regional Arts Champion: Frederick Janka Frederick Janka is Executive Director of the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, and has over 15 years of experience as an administrator and curator in contemporary art museums and galleries in the United States and Mexico. Frederick received his Bachelor of Arts in Visual and Critical Studies from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. He is currently a member of the Arts Advisory Committee for the City of Santa Barbara, and the Santa Barbara Advisory Board for KCRW. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/5/8/uxxjd04q27tydvq0s9zhcf5vzjcd3s monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1588887933595-J80TB2I3DEVUMYCXOYMI/Kambui.JPG The Path Forward Interview Series - The Visual Artist: Kambui Olujimi Kambui Olujimi was born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn and received his MFA from Columbia University in New York City. Olujimi’s work challenges established modes of thinking that commonly function as "inevitabilities." This pursuit takes shape through interdisciplinary bodies of work spanning sculpture, installation, photography, writing, video and performance. His solo exhibitions include; Zulu Time, at Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, A Life in Pictures, at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Solastalgia, at Cue Arts Foundation, and Wayward North at Art in General. His works have premiered nationally at The Sundance Film Festival, Studio Museum in Harlem, MoMA P.S.1, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Mass MoCA. Internationally his work has been featured at The Jim Thompson Art Center in Bangkok; Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Finland and Para Site in Hong Kong among others. Olujimi has been awarded residencies from Black Rock Senegal, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and MacDowell Colony. He has received grants and commissions from numerous institutions including The Jerome Foundation, NFYA/ NYSCA Fellowship and MTA Arts & Design. News media and periodicals such as The New Yorker, Art Forum, Art in America, Brooklyn Rail, CNN, PBS, and The New York Times and have featured Olujimi’s artwork. Monographs on his past project include Zulu Time (2017), Walk the Plank (2006), Winter in America (in collaboration with Hank Willis Thomas, 2006), The Lost Rivers Index (2007), and Wayward North (2012). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1588888745275-QBTTYVVNIQAF46E7ZX64/IMG_8668.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Visual Artist: Kambui Olujimi Untitled from Walk With Me Me, series, 2015 - 2020. Ink and graphite on paper. 11x14 inches. Walk With Me is a series of 100 portraits of my Guardian Angel, Catherine Arline, who passed in 2014. The work explored the allusive and ineffable nature of commemoration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1589149346417-27H0UYDORT6E2MZ2Z5WJ/WWM+2020+new.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Visual Artist: Kambui Olujimi Untitled from Walk With Me Me, series, 2015 - 2020 Ink and graphite on paper 11x14 inches Walk With Me is a series of 100 portraits of my Guardian Angel, Catherine Arline, who passed in 2014. The work explored the allusive and ineffable nature of commemoration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1589149379391-3CUX9OLRAA5ITMGSJLJ5/High+Road.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Visual Artist: Kambui Olujimi High Road, 2020 Ink and graphite on paper 20 x 27 inches North Star asks: What does the Black body, devoid of the “inescapable” gravity of oppression, look like? What is the Black body in zero gravity? As a trans-media project, North Star will re-contextualize the site of blackness and Black bodies within art history and contemporary art, intersecting with Afro-Futurism, Fluxist, and histories of space exploration in post-colonial Africa. The project will be comprised of a short film, large-scale ink paintings and holographic sculptures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1588889089267-CT8AE9OBNIQ71NISQKG3/Twin+Flight.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Visual Artist: Kambui Olujimi Twin Fall, 2020 Ink and graphite on paper, 52 x 44 inches https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/5/8/rhqelwv0bq4gms68eapzxye3n8q37x monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1588885835829-BLOALFZG45TB4DE0O10I/JCDHIEN_QL0A8653-X.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Dance Company Founder: Stefanie Batten Bland A Jerome Robbins awardee, Stefanie Batten Bland's interdisciplinary practice interrogates contemporary and historical culture. She situates her work at the intersection of installation and dance-theatre. Based in New York City since 2011, she founded Company SBB in France while head choreographer at the Paris Opera Comique. SBB and her collaborating artists are in permanent residence at University Settlement, the Company is regularly produced by La MaMa Experimental Theater, which co-presented her latest work Look Who's Coming to Dinner with FIAF’s 2019 Crossing the Line Festival. She has been commissioned by Ailey II, Gina Gibney Dance, Spoleto Festival Italy, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Rire Woodbury, Singapore Frontier Danceland, Brooklyn Museum and others globally. SBB directs dance cinema films that have been shown internationally and creates for fashion and lifestyle partners including Louis Vuitton, VanCleef & Arpels and Hermes. Known for her unique movement aesthetic, she served as movement director for Eve’s Song at the Public Theater - Forbes 2018 Best Theatre List. She is choreographer for American Ballet Theatre’s inaugural Women's Movement Initiative, Movement Director for the EU and United Nations, and choreographed for Juilliard New Dances. SBB is a 2019 fellow for New York University’s Center for the Ballet Arts, has been featured in global media including The New York Times, Dance Europe Magazine, Brooklyn Rail, Marie Claire, TV 5 Monde and Dance Teacher Magazine. As a performer Batten Bland’s experience encompasses the range of our generation's great creators. These include American dance postmodernists such as Bill T. Jones, Lar Lubovitch, Sean Curran, European Grotowski influenced physical-theatre such as Hungarian Pal Frénak, German tanz-theater founder Pina Bausch, French musical theater director Jérôme Savary, French-West African contemporary dance with choreographer Georges Mômboye and British immersive physical-theatre makers PunchDrunk. SBB’s experiences in these contexts are to understand and embody materials, movement and voice as infused elements that successfully produce physical, text-based performance and innovative scholarship. SBB received her MFA in interdisciplinary arts from Goddard College and lives in SoHo with her family, where she grew up as the daughter of artists. www.companysbb.org (Photo: JC Dhien) https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/5/1/the-path-forward-interview-series-the-artist-shaun-leonardo monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1588282041357-U6RGLCXNN3TDFD8BHQBA/190710_NYT_Mirror_Echo_Tilt_0006.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Artist: Shaun Leonardo Shaun Leonardo’s multidisciplinary work negotiates societal expectations of manhood, namely definitions surrounding black and brown masculinities, along with its notions of achievement, collective identity, and experience of failure. His performance practice, anchored by his work in Assembly – a diversion program for court-involved youth at the Brooklyn-based, non-profit Recess, is participatory and invested in a process of embodiment. Leonardo is a Brooklyn-based artist from Queens, New York City. He received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, is a recipient of support from Creative Capital, Guggenheim Social Practice, Art for Justice and A Blade of Grass, and was recently profiled in the New York Times. His work has been featured at The Guggenheim Museum, the High Line, and New Museum, with a recent solo exhibition at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). From fall 2018 through spring 2020, Leonardo enacted socially engaged projects at Pratt Institute as the School of Art, Visiting Fellow. elcleonardo.com (Photo by Lelanie Foster) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1588282216272-VQRFD7B5HXGGQ9KR6HSI/NYTimes_VincentTullo_2.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Artist: Shaun Leonardo Primitive Games - performance, 1 hr. at Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, 6/21/18. Photo by Vincent Tullo for the New York Times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1588282242096-3HU1VYFU1OZ1QJ632D9I/NYTimes_VincentTullo_3.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Artist: Shaun Leonardo Primitive Games - performance, 1 hr. at Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, 6/21/18. Photo by Vincent Tullo for the New York Times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1588282319289-Q2U3OXBB1086XSFQ0NUG/B+-+PG+%285%29.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Artist: Shaun Leonardo Workshop, Primitive Games. Photo by Seyhr Qayum, Emma Seely, and Lodewijck Kuijpers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1588282344265-DK039AISJML0YPRD5AGB/D+-+PG+%281%29.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Artist: Shaun Leonardo Workshop, Primitive Games. Photo by Seyhr Qayum, Emma Seely, and Lodewijck Kuijpers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1588282869508-SC47ON432PSFDJGQIX4H/E+-+PG+%282%29.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Artist: Shaun Leonardo Workshop, Primitive Games. Photo by Seyhr Qayum, Emma Seely, and Lodewijck Kuijpers. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/4/27/the-path-forward-interview-series-the-art-fair-president-tony-karman monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1588441629895-HBNBL8LCV2RQWIUMXM5W/2019+New+Headshot.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Art Fair President: Tony Karman Tony Karman has been active in the civic, business and cultural communities of Chicago for over 38 years. Working with select institutions, associations, government organizations, producers of special events and corporations, he has guided numerous projects from concept to conclusion. Currently, he is President | Director of EXPO CHICAGO, The International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art founding the exposition in 2012. Karman’s past work includes: Vice President | Director, Art Chicago, Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc.; Principal, KARMAN Projects Inc. – providing sponsorship acquisition, strategic brand development and marketing coordination for international clients; Director of Marketing and Development for the Auditorium Theatre Council; Associate Director, Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Chicago; Managing Director of Arie Crown Theatre–Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority; Legislative Associate for Vice Mayor David Orr, City of Chicago–Committee for Special Events and Cultural Affairs; Associate Director of the League of Chicago Theatres; and Managing Director with the Lakeside Group, producers of the Chicago International Art Exposition. Originally from Rock Island, Illinois, Karman attended Augustana College and Kansas State University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He was recently awarded a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres from the French Government and an Honorary Doctorate from Columbia College Chicago. He has traveled extensively establishing numerous professional alliances and relationships throughout the world. He is a long-time resident of Chicago, where he lives with his wife Sondra. Karman currently serves on several civic committees including the Curatorial Advisory Board – Art on the Mart, the Advisory Committee – DePaul Art Museum, Board Member – The Magnificent Mile, the national board for Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue and Chairman Emeritus of the Chicago Artists Coalition. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/4/23/the-path-forward-interview-series-the-hybrid-marsha-mack monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1587767897574-C0ASU41ZB5LQ9L7V987C/Marsha+Mack_Headshot.JPG The Path Forward Interview Series - The Hybrid: Marsha Mack Marsha Mack (San Rafael, CA) holds an MFA in Ceramics and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Women's and Gender Studies from Syracuse University, and a BFA in Ceramics from San Francisco State University. With materials ranging from glazed porcelain to melted sugar, Mack's texturally rich, process-intensive sculptures and installations honor playfulness and introspection as equals. Her ongoing interest in cultural consumption and the formation of identity serves as wellspring for visual and associative cues, giving rise to questions of personal vs universal symbol, mixed race identity, and the emotional potential of confection. Mack has presented projects and exhibitions with the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (Denver, CO), Black Cube Nomadic Museum (Englewood, CO), Lane Meyer Projects (Denver, CO), PØST Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), The Yard (Colorado Springs, CO), and the Galleries of Contemporary Art (Colorado Springs, CO). Marsha is currently the Associate Director of David B. Smith Gallery (Denver, CO), a ceramic instructor at Foothills Park and Recreation District (Littleton, CO) and is an artist in residence at RedLine Contemporary Art Center (Denver, CO). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1588484238232-I1A8IM84H2HOFIRANJVJ/Juice+Cleanse+-+Hi+Res.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Hybrid: Marsha Mack Juice Cleanse, 2019. Shower curtain, ashtray, artificial lettuce, silly straws. Dimensions variable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1588484323999-HG3YGESDFKGRVHC7R6NV/Miss+Vietnam+-+Hi+Res.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Hybrid: Marsha Mack Miss Vietnam, 2018. Ao dai dresses, wallpaper, strawberry Pocky, mixed media. Dimensions variable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1588484568471-KNDQ2RCZ0NS9KDNXVM9Y/Indoor+Culture+-+Hi+Res.JPG The Path Forward Interview Series - The Hybrid: Marsha Mack Indoor Culture, 1-9, 2017. Orchids, mulch, vinyl, strawberry air fresheners, mixed media. Dimensions variable https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/4/26/the-path-forward-interview-series-the-museum-deputy-director-holly-shen monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1587859818011-DEC8TOXW1C9LU7ISIWLF/Holly+Shen_03-15-18_0078_edit.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Museum Leader: Holly Shen Holly Shen is Deputy Director of the San José Museum of Art, where she leads programmatic and development strategy for public programs, community outreach, and digital engagement. An accomplished and passionate arts leader, Holly is inspired by the intersection of art and technology and its potential to increase equitable access to arts and cultural resources. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/4/25/the-path-forward-interview-series-the-artist-matt-nichols monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1587767503205-6ZY47LROBLGKITJ29HH0/image1.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Visual Artist: Matt Nichols Matt Nichols (b. 1981) lives and works in Los Angeles. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of California Berkeley in 2003, and was a Trustee Scholar at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, earning his MFA in 2010. He is an alum of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2015) and his work has been shown in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Stockholm. @matthewnicholsofficial. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1587860144232-RVJ5BBA2RO31N606EYK2/m.paint.04.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Visual Artist: Matt Nichols Matt Nichols. Untitled, 2020. Oil on canvas. 20”x16” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1587860239331-7JUN1I76MEEPVKC6P0RP/m.paint.08.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Visual Artist: Matt Nichols Matt Nichols. Untitled, 2020. Oil on canvas and cardboard. 18” https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/4/25/ramo monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1593713146519-BY22DNDD3164AV6WHQS6/Carolyn+Ramo-8.jpeg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Artist Advocate: Carolyn Ramo Carolyn Ramo is the executive director of the non-profit arts organization Artadia. Since assuming the role in 2012, Ramo has helped the organization provide curator-driven grants and other impactful programs to visual artists in cities across the United States and outside of market centers. Before joining Artadia, Ramo was a partner at Taxter & Spengemann, a contemporary art gallery that focused on emerging artist. Prior to that, she worked in senior positions at David Zwirner and Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery and the Whitney Museum of American Art. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/4/13/v208kvfyq2955cuh2lppw7n0gsms2n monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1587358580410-K48VFUT4WUQLG1A9SAUF/Jamie+Mayer_+copy.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Rising Philanthropist: Jaimie Mayer Jaimie Mayer currently serves as Chair of the Nathan Cummings Foundation. Mayer has spent the past fifteen years producing theatre and film, most recently serving as the Managing Director of Magic Theatre in San Francisco. Mayer has also spent the past decade as a consultant on next generation philanthropy, working with non-profits, such as Reboot, Slingshot, and America-Israel Cultural Foundation. Mayer holds an MFA in Theatre Management and Producing from Columbia University’s School of the Arts, and is currently pursuing her Executive MBA from NYU Stern School of Business. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/4/10/the-path-forward-interview-series-maureen-obrien monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1586552401358-FXZCBEXKPKHHZ3UJEN7T/Maureen+Miami+Girls+Foundation+Headshot+Hi+Res.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Chief Fundraiser: Maureen O'Brien Maureen O’Brien is the senior vice president for institutional advancement at New World Symphony, where she oversees a team of 19 responsible for a $10M+ annual fund and a comprehensive endowment/capital campaign as well as public relations and storytelling. O’Brien graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UW‒Madison, majoring in music and French. She was part of the founding team of the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix and has also held positions in NYC as director of development at Midori & Friends and assistant director of development with Orchestra of St. Luke’s. A Certified Fund Raising Executive, O’Brien has taught at Arizona State University and Prescott College and as part of NWS's Fellowship curriculum in partnership with Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. She was a featured speaker at the Association Française des Fundraisers' 2015 conference in Paris, a presenter at the 2017 CASE Winter Institute for Chief Development Officers, and a panelist with Philanthropy Miami and CFO Arts Conference. Recognized by the Phoenix Business Journal as a member of the 2015 “40 Under 40” class, she is also a graduate of Valley Leadership Class 33. O’Brien was a founding partner of Social Venture Partners Miami and has volunteered as board member for Arizona Citizens for the Arts, vice chair of Valley Leadership’s Leadership Institute, board secretary with Young Nonprofit Professionals Network Phoenix, core team member with Emerging Arts Leaders Phoenix, and cofounder of Classical Revolution PHX. O’Brien is also a flutist, singer, and pianist, and an avid social dancer of Argentine tango. She is a co-founder of Open Air Tango #onLincoln, a free monthly tango event in the heart of Miami Beach. https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/4/11/the-path-forward-interview-series-the-cultural-organization-executive-director-kate-lorenz monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59ce5a082278e7e24223a296/1586553871968-TBJQPMU4HD504K6JKU8L/Kate-Lorenz-1000.jpg The Path Forward Interview Series - The Cultural Organization Director: Kate Lorenz Kate Lorenz is Hyde Park Art Center’s Executive Director. Since assuming the role in 2010, she has led a period of transformation and growth that has made the Art Center a national leader in how an institution can cultivate an authentic community that is part of people’s daily lives, while investing in its city’s diverse artists and voices. This work was recognized with a MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions in 2016 and has served as a model for peer institutions and leaders nationally. Under her tenure, the Art Center has launched a Residency Program for local and international artists; expanded its work with teen artists from across Chicago’s south side; created a professional development program for working artists; and played pivotal roles in the careers of artists such as Amanda Williams, Theaster Gates, and many others. It has also expanded its impact and footprint through the creation of the Guida Family Creative Wing which houses studios and resources for artists at all levels. 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