Visiting Critic: Casey Fremont, Executive Director, Art Production Fund

Casey Fremont graduated from Boston University in 2004 with a Bachelor of the Arts, major in Art History. She began working at Art Production Fund in the fall of 2004, and currently serves as APF's Executive Director. While studying Art History in Boston, Casey spent the summers of 2000 and 2002 working as an intern at Art Production Fund, and Paul Kasmin Gallery in 2003. In September 2009 Casey Co-curated "That Was Then" at Rush Arts in New York, and in January 2010 Co-curated "Look Again" at Marlborough Gallery, New York.  Casey currently serves on the Times Square Alliance’s Midnight Moment Selection Committee, the Young Friends of Acria advisory board, and Co-Chairs the Coalition for the Homeless' annual Artwalk benefit. (Photo by Ellen Forbes Burnie)

Storm King comes to Guttenberg Arts

Visting Critic: Nora Lawrence

Nora Lawrence is curator at Storm King Art Center, where she has organized and co-organized numerous exhibitions, including Lynda Benglis: Water Sources (2015), Outlooks: Luke Stettner (2015), Zhang Huan: Evoking Tradition (2014), Outlooks: Virginia Overton (2014), Thomas Houseago: As I Went Out One Morning (2013), David Brooks (2013), and Storm King’s 2012 exhibition, Light and Landscape, which was a finalist for the International Association of Art Critics award for Best Project in a Public Space. Prior to joining Storm King, Nora was a curatorial assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art. She has also worked at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York City. Nora has co-authored several publications and also taught courses at MoMA, the School of Visual Arts, and the University of Southern California. A graduate of Pomona College, Nora Lawrence received her MA in art history from the University of Southern California, and a Master of Philosophy degree from The Graduate Center at CUNY.

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Meet our Fall 2015 Jurors!

Mary-Kay Lombino

Mary-Kay Lombino is The Emily Hargroves Fisher '57 and Richard B. Fisher Curator and Assistant Director of Strategic Planning at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College where she oversees the contemporary art and photography collections, exhibitions, and publications. Prior to joining the staff at Vassar she served as Curator of Exhibitions at the University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach for six years and Assistant Curator at UCLA Hammer Museum for five years. Her exhibitions include The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation (2013), Utopian Mirage: Social Metaphors in Contemporary Photography and Film (2007); Off the Shelf: New Forms in Contemporary Artists’ Books (2006); Candida Höfer: The Architecture of Absence (2005); UnNaturally (2003), By Hand: Pattern Precision, and Repetition in Contemporary Drawing (2001). She has also organized solo shows for numerous artists including Marco Maggi, Eirik Johnson, Phil Collins, Ken Price, Euan Macdonald, Bob Knox, Alice Könitz, and Mungo Thomson. Lombino’s 2013 publication The Polaroid Years (DelMonico Books/Prestel) recently won first place for Outstanding Catalogue from the Association of Art Museum Curators. In 2009, she was selected as one of ten fellows for the prestigious Center for Curatorial Leadership program, a six-month fellowship designed to train and support talented curators in realizing their potential for leadership in the field. Also in 2009 she was one of two recipients of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Curatorial Research Fellowship. In 2006 she was one of ten recipients of the Getty Curatorial Research Fellowship. Lombino received a B.A. in Art History from University of Richmond, Virginia in 1989 and an M.A. in Art History and Museum Studies from University of Southern California in 1995.

Omar López-Chahoud

Omar López-Chahoud has been the Artistic Director and Curator of UNTITLED. since its founding in 2012 and will lead the curatorial team of UNTITLED. 2015.As an independent curator, López-Chahoud has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions in the United States and internationally. Most recently, he curated the Nicaraguan Biennial in March 2014. López-Chahoud has participated in curatorial panel discussions at Artists' Space, Art in General, MoMA PS1, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. He is currently a member of the Bronx Museum Acquisitions Committee. López-Chahoud earned MFAs from Yale University School of Art, and the Royal Academy of Art in London.

Roberta Waddell

Roberta Waddell was Curator of Prints at The New York Public Library, after serving as Curator of Graphic Arts at The Toledo Museum of Art and Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Worcester Art Museum. For all these institutions she organized exhibitions of Old Master prints, modern and contemporary prints, photographs, and illustrated books.  Throughout her career and after her retirement from The New York Public Library in 2008, she has juried numerous contemporary print exhibitions and advised local artists.