Join artist Stephanie Williams in conversation with artist Amina Ross on the specific challenges and considerations one must account for in engaging in multidisciplinary work.
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Mentor Presentations
Criticism and Theory for Artists and Curators
Virtual mentor presentation
Thursday, September 15, 2022
6–7pm ET
Join Tim Doud, Hamiltonian mentor, artist, and professor of art at American University, in conversation with Michele Carlson, multidisciplinary practitioner and professor at George Washington Corcoran School of Art, and Jordan Amirkhani, Curator at Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought, New Orleans. They will discuss the use of criticism and theory for artists and curators.
Join Hamiltonian Mentor Isabel Manalo, guest speaker Charys Wilson and Ian Jehele, who will discuss the possibility of living and working in Berlin as an artist that operates outside the typical artist residency framework.
Museums and Wealth: Who Benefits from Public Collections?
Virtual mentor presentation
Thursday, June 23, 2022
12–1pm ET
Join Hamiltonian mentor Terence Washington and guest speaker Dr. Nizan Shaked, who will discuss issues Shaked takes up in her 2022 book Museums and Wealth: The Politics of Contemporary Art Collections. How exactly are art museums and ultra-wealthy people invested one another? How does being placed in a public collection affect an artwork's value? Art museums and extreme wealth are good friends—this is increasingly clear. Through readings of history and theory, Shaked explains how that relationship works and how it might be restructured more equitably. This topic will be of great interest to museum workers, social justice advocates in and out of the art world, and especially artists, on whose work we all depend.
About
Terence Washington is an independent curator, educator, and writer. He currently works as a guest curator on the curatorial team for the Philip Guston Now exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He was previously the program director at NXTHVN, a residency and gallery space in New Haven, Connecticut, and an organizer of public programs at the National Gallery of Art. Washington’s publications include forthcoming essays on the work of Kevin Beasley and Holly Lynton as well as contributions to photobooks by Zora J. Murff.
Nizan Shaked is author of Museums and Wealth: The Politics of Contemporary Art Collections (Bloomsbury Academic 2022). For her book The Synthetic Proposition: Conceptualism and the Political Referent in Contemporary Art (Manchester University Press, 2017) Shaked was awarded the 2019 Smithsonian American Art Museum Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art, and a Wyeth Foundation for American Art/College Art Association Publication Award in 2015. Shaked teaches contemporary art history, museum and curatorial studies, at California State University Long Beach.
Digital Distribution for Artists: NFTs and the Economics of Immaterial Art
Virtual mentor presentation
Thursday, April 14, 2022
6–7pm ET
Join Hamiltonian mentor and alumnus Jonathan Monaghan, who will discuss topics, such as art markets; best practices for digital media; and concerns and issues surrounding crypto art. The digital age makes it easier than ever for artists to disseminate their work to audiences worldwide. Getting proper remuneration is a different story. How can visual artists sell digital media or other immaterial artforms? How can these artists support themselves in the digital age? Digital marketplaces and the explosion of interest in NFTs and cryptocurrency have given rise to new audiences, patronage, and support for artists. At the same time, this space is fraught with issues.
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Supplementary readings
“Making the Multiple Singular: Artistic NFTs, Speculation and Redistribution”
By Anthony Masure and Guillaume Helleu, translated by Aviva Cashmira Kakar
“The Skeptics’ Introduction to Cryptoart and NFTs for Digital Artists and Designers”
By Justin Cone
“The Third Web”
By tante
Through and with Images: Artist Strategies of (In)Visibility
Virtual mentor presentation
Thursday, March 26, 2023
6–7pm ET
Hamiltonian is pleased to present Through and with Images: Artist Strategies of (In)Visibility with Gina Osterloh, current Hamiltonian Mentor. Gina Osterloh will share key artist strategies particularly by women of color who amplify their relationship to visibility, invisibility, and the function of representation through photographic and video works. Artists include performance and video artist Nao Bustamante, Miami-based artist Antonia Wright, and selections from Gina Osterloh’s own work.
About
Gina Osterloh is an artist whose photographic practice embodies the printed image, drawing, film, and performance to explore the resonances between the physical body and its representational imprint, trace, or stand-in. She has exhibited internationally and nationally in places, such as Hong Kong, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Yogyakarta, Madrid, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Columbus, and New York City. Recent solo exhibitions include Gina Osterloh at Higher Pictures; Slice, Strike, Make an X, Prick! at François Ghebaly Gallery; Nothing to See Here There Never Was at Silverlens Gallery; Group, Dynamic at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), and Anonymous Front at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, the New Yorker Magazine, Hyphen Magazine, Art Asia Pacific, Asian Art News, Art Papers, Giant Robot, Artforum Critics Pick, and KCET Artbound. Honors and awards include a Fulbright in the Philippines, a Woodstock Center of Photography residency, and a Create Cultivate Grant with LACE and the LA County Arts Commission.
Structuring an Artist Talk
Virtual mentor presentation
Thursday, January 27, 2022
6–7pm ET
Hamiltonian is pleased to present Structuring an Artist Talk, with Michael Dax Iacovone, 2008 Hamiltonian alumni. This lecture will present fundamentals in creating a compelling artist talk for both virtual and in-person formats. I will go over what to and what not to do when presenting your work in a professional manner. I will demonstrate how to tailor your talk to your audience, how to reference your influences without seeming derivative, and how to get your point across while leaving room for the audience to interact and ask questions.
About
Michael Dax Iacovone spends his time investigating public space, walking through cities, driving across bridges and borders, and digging trenches in the desert. He is interested in formulas and creating systems to experience spaces, leave marks, and generate art. He has a BS in Photography from the State University of New York, an MI in Contemporary Art History from Middlesex University in London, an MFA in Photography from VCU, and an MFA in Studio Art from MICA. His work has been exhibited internationally in Sarajevo, Belgrade, Warsaw, Budapest, Paris, Warsaw, London and Pyramiden (a soviet ghost town in the Arctic Circle). Domestically he has exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St.Louis, Orlando, Baltimore, Salt Lake City, and Washington DC, among other places. He has written art reviews and articles for Sculpture Magazine, BMoreArt, and The Brooklynite.
Roadmap to O-1 Visas
Virtual mentor presentation
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
7–8pm ET
Join Hamiltonian Artists for a panel discussion, Roadmap to the O-1 Visa, with artist mentor Naoko Wowsugi. We will discuss the process of applying for an artist visa aka the O-1 visa in the United States. In support of international artists and art professionals in the US, our panels will address the O-1 Visa process and what an international artist has to go through, examine the role art communities can play, and inspire wider audiences to build solidarity for the survival of international artists. Wowsugi will share her extensive immigration experience and will be joined by curator Adriel Luis and immigration attorney David Camacho.
About
Naoko Wowsugi is a first-generation immigrant and community-engaged artist who lives and works in Washington, DC. Wowsugi's interdisciplinary projects, ranging from conceptual photography to socially-engaged art, explore the nature of belonging and inclusive community building while highlighting and fortifying everyday communal and interpersonal identities.
Wowsugi received an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and a BFA from both the Kansas City Art Institute and Osaka University of Arts in Japan. Notable exhibitions and fellowships include “Fungus Among Us” at Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC (2019); “Ae Kai: A Culture Lab on Convergence," presented by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Honolulu, HI (2017); "The Outwin: American Portraiture Today," at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (2016) and The Hamiltonian Artists Fellowship in Washington, DC. (2014–2016).
Adriel Luis is a community organizer, artist, writer, and curator who believes that collective liberation can happen in poetic ways. His life’s work is focused on the mutual thriving of artistic integrity and social vigilance. He is a part of the iLL-Literacy arts collective, which creates music and media to strengthen Black and Asian coalitions, and is creative director of Bombshelltoe, a collaborative of artists and leaders from frontline communities responding to nuclear histories. Luis is the Curator of Digital and Emerging Practice at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, where he advocates for equitable practices in museums and institutions. His ancestors are rooted in Toisan, China, and migrated through Hong Kong, Mexico, and the United States. Adriel was born on Ohlone land.
Luis has curated projects in a range of venues including several museums across the Smithsonian in Washington DC.; MoMA and Pearl River Mart in New York City; Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, Australia; Silo Park in Auckland, Aotearoa; Atom Bar in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and an abandoned Foodland in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. His writing has appeared in Poetry Magazine, the Asian American Literary Review, and Smithsonian Magazine. He has spoken at the Tate Modern, Yale University, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the China Academy of Fine Arts. His performance venues include the Brooklyn Academy of Music, SXSW, the John F. Kennedy Center, and the American University of Paris. He has a degree in human ecologies from UC Davis in Community and Regional Development and a minor in Asian American Studies.
David Camacho is an immigration attorney who has been working with artists and creative professionals for over a decade. His practice focuses on collaborating with international professionals to obtain their immigration goals in the United States through an efficient and thorough process. Having worked as an actor in theater, and as a vocal performer, David brings his creative background to the forefront when developing and presenting his clients’ cases.
Camacho received his Bachelor’s of Music degree from New York University, studying musical theater and vocal performance at the Steinhardt School. He received his Juris Doctor from Seton Hall University School of Law, obtaining a concentration in Entertainment Law and Intellectual Property. He further received the ABA/BNA Award for Excellence in the Study of Intellectual Property Law. He is admitted to practice law in the State of New York.