Get to know our panelists before our 'Women in Print' discussion on April 22nd at IPCNY
Rocío Aranda-Alvarado
Graduated in art history from the City University of New York – the CUNY Graduate Center, USA (2000). Her dissertation was dealing about modernist movements in Harlem and Havana between 1925 and 1945. Rocío Aranda-Alvarado works for the Museo del Barrio as associated curator and then curator, since 2009, and after the renovation of the museum. There, occupying this position, she participated in curating El Museo del Barrio’s biennials, The (S) Files. Lately, she was part of the curatorial team of the exhibition Caribbean : Crossroads of the Worldat the Queens Museum of Art, at El Museo del Barrio and in The Studio Museum in Harlem, in New York, USA, 2012-2013. Before that, Rocío Aranda-Alvarado was curator for the Jersey City Museum, from 2000 to 2009. There she curated, amongst others, the exhibitions Hair Tactis, 2010 ; Beth Gilfilen : The Big Hunch @ The Majestic, 2008 ; 99 Cents, by Colwyn Griffith, 2007 ; The Feminine Mystique, 2007 She also curated independently : Dominican York Proyecto Grafica at the NoMAA in New York (2012) ; Viewpoints at Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark (2011) ; Boundless Discourse at the Ramapo College of New Jersey Art Galleries, USA (2010) ; Encountersat Governors Island, USA (2010) ; Color/form at the Praxis Gallery in New York, USA (2010) ; Contemporary Humanism at the A.I.R Gallery in Brooklyn, USA (2009) ; Flo : art ,text, new media at the Center for Book Arts in New York, USA (2009) or Urban Renewal : Afro-Caribbean Art & Artists in New York City at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, USA (2000).In 2011, she was jury for the NEXUS NJ, a contemporary art exhibition in the Arts Guild in New Jersey.
Dusica Kirjakovic
Dusica Kirjakovic, the Lower Eastside Printshop’s Executive Director, holds a MFA in Printmaking from Belgrade University in former Yugoslavia. She is an arts administrator and educator who has served the Printshop since 1992. She oversees all programs and activities, supervises staff, instructors, and volunteers, and worked closely with the Board of Directors and the Board Committees. Kirjakovic has overseen the residency programs since joining the organization. She implemented critical improvements in the programs, such as expanded financial support for artists, hiring two master printers to collaborate with artists, improved selection and evaluation process, improved outreach and information dissemination, more exposure opportunities for artists, and other augmentations. In 2005, she led the Printshop’s capital expansion in order to provide more studio space and better working environment for artists in residence.
Judith k. brodsky
Judith K. Brodsky is Distinguished Professor Emerita, Department of Visual Arts, Rutgers University; Founding Director of the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper renamed the Brodsky Center in her honor; co-founder with Ferris Olin of the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art (recently renamed The Women and Arts Collaborative) and The Feminist Art Project, a national program to promote recognition of women artists and with Olin; co-organizer and co-curator of The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society (2012), which focused on women artists, filmmakers, writers, and composers of the Middle East; she was also founder and chair of the international city-wide print festival, Philagrafika (2010), which took place in Philadelphia; past national president of ArtTable, the College Art Association, and the Women's Caucus for Art; a former dean and associate provost as well as chair of the art department at the Rutgers campus at Newark. She was a contributor to the first comprehensive history of the American women's movement in art, called The Power of Feminist Art. Brodsky along with Olin and Muriel Magenta was an organizer of Momentum, a project focusing on women and transgender artists who use technology, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. She is currently working on a catalogue raisonné covering the first 30 years of the Brodsky Center. The publication date is projected to be 2018 and will coincide with an exhibition celebrating the Brodsky Center’s 30th anniversary at the New Jersey State Museum. Active in policy-making positions in the art world, Brodsky presently serves on the boards of the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the International Print Center New York.
A printmaker and artist, Brodsky's work is in the permanent collections of over 100 museums and corporations, among them The Library of Congress; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The Stadtsmuseum, Berlin; the Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Rhode Island School of Design Museum; The Newark Museum; and the Fogg Museum at Harvard. She has a Master of Fine Arts from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University where she majored in art history. She works in series. Her last series was titled Memoir of an Assimilated Family. It consists of over 100 etchings based on old family photographs. Her current series is The 20 Most Important Scientific Questions of the 21st Century.
JENNIFER FARRELL
Jennifer Farrell, has recently been appointed Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is a scholar and curator who has a long history of working at institutions throughout New York and New England. Ms. Farrell comes to the Metropolitan Museum from overseeing the exhibitions department and curating exhibitions of contemporary art at the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia. Before that, she was director of the New York-based Nancy Graves Foundation, which maintains the archive of the late sculptor, printmaker, and painter Nancy Graves and makes grants to artists. Before joining the Nancy Graves Foundation, Ms. Farrell served as a senior fellow and then assistant curator of prints, drawings and photographs at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. The newly appointed curator’s previous curatorial credits includes “Empire/State: Artists Engaging Globalization,” which she co-curated while enrolled in the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2002, Suzanne McClelland, Found Poems from a Lost Time by Suzanne McClelland, Jasper Johns: Early Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation, Postwar British Prints, and Vinland: Recent Work by Cindy Bernard. She also published “Get there First and Decide Promptly” : the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Postwar Art, which received the Frick Collection’s 2013 Sotheby’s Prize for a Distinguished Publication in the History of Collecting in America. Ms. Farrell has a Ph.D. in art history and a certificate in film studies from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a B.A. in art history from Smith College
Graduated in art history from the City University of New York – the CUNY Graduate Center, USA (2000). Her dissertation was dealing about modernist movements in Harlem and Havana between 1925 and 1945. Rocío Aranda-Alvarado works for the Museo del Barrio as associated curator and then curator, since 2009, and after the renovation of the museum. There, occupying this position, she participated in curating El Museo del Barrio’s biennials, The (S) Files. Lately, she was part of the curatorial team of the exhibition Caribbean : Crossroads of the Worldat the Queens Museum of Art, at El Museo del Barrio and in The Studio Museum in Harlem, in New York, USA, 2012-2013. Before that, Rocío Aranda-Alvarado was curator for the Jersey City Museum, from 2000 to 2009. There she curated, amongst others, the exhibitions Hair Tactis, 2010 ; Beth Gilfilen : The Big Hunch @ The Majestic, 2008 ; 99 Cents, by Colwyn Griffith, 2007 ; The Feminine Mystique, 2007 She also curated independently : Dominican York Proyecto Grafica at the NoMAA in New York (2012) ; Viewpoints at Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark (2011) ; Boundless Discourse at the Ramapo College of New Jersey Art Galleries, USA (2010) ; Encountersat Governors Island, USA (2010) ; Color/form at the Praxis Gallery in New York, USA (2010) ; Contemporary Humanism at the A.I.R Gallery in Brooklyn, USA (2009) ; Flo : art ,text, new media at the Center for Book Arts in New York, USA (2009) or Urban Renewal : Afro-Caribbean Art & Artists in New York City at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, USA (2000).In 2011, she was jury for the NEXUS NJ, a contemporary art exhibition in the Arts Guild in New Jersey.
KRISTEN SCHIELE
Kristen Schiele, Received a BFA from Indiana University and an MFA from American University; she also studied at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. She has had solo shows at Lu Magnus, Sloan Fine Art, and Freight and Volume Gallery in New York City; the Soap Factory in Minneapolis, and Curators Without Borders Gallery in Berlin. Schiele has also participated in group shows across the United States, including Cheim and Read and Caren Golden in New York City, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington D.C. She has held residencies at the Provincetown Work Center, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Lower East Side Printshop. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York and co-runs KAYROCK prints.
DANNIELLE TEGEDER
Dannielle Tegeder was born in Peekskill, NY, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York and maintain 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 my work is paintings and drawings, recently begun to include large-scale installation, sculptural objects, video, sound, and animationSince receiving a MFA in 1997 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the work has been presented in over 100 gallery exhibitions, both nationally and internationally in Paris, Houston, Los Angeles, Berlin, Chicago, and New York. Numerous institution exhibitions include PS1/MOMA, The New Museum, The Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, and Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Several drawings have recently been purchased as part of the Contemporary Drawing Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, and work is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and The Weatherspoon Museum of Art in Greensboro, NC. She has held three full time university positions at Cornell University, SUNY Purchase, and the City University of New York at Lehman College where she is currently now an Associate Professor of Art and has been a visiting artist in over forty institutions including the Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art, Rhode Island School of Design, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Ontario School of Art and Design, CCA in San Francisco, Brandeis University, Princeton University, Rice University. University of Houston, and others. She is the recipient of several residencies and grants including TheYaddo Foudation (2012, 2009, and 2007), The Triangle Foundation Residency and Workshop (2012), Elizabeth Foundation in New York (2012-2006), The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Studio Residency at Governor’s Island (2012), Smack Mellon Studios and Artist Stipend (2008), Banff Centre for the Arts, Artist Residency in Banff, Canada (2007), The Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2005), Lower East Side Print Fellowship Edition Award, (2004) National Studio Program, P.S.1/MOMA Affiliate, Clocktower, New York, NY, (2003) ART OMI, Omi International Arts Center, Omi, NY, (2003) Henry Street Settlement Studio Fellowship, NY, (2002) The Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Fellowship, NY (2001), The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, (2000) and The Ragdale Foundation Residency Program, Lake Forest, IL, (2000)
