Paula Lalala: An active artist for over 30 years, Paula Lalala has been curating art shows since 1992 and has facilitated exhibition of work by hundreds of artists, many of whom are internationally acclaimed and celebrated. She has presented her own work, which incorporates a vast range of media and public participation, internationally in galleries, museums and public spaces. Her numerous projects include the Autodidact Institute, an organization that espouses the benefits of and facilitates self-directed learning; The Landscape Preservation Society, an art based collaborative project whose primary goal is raising funds to protect open spaces through the sale of nature based artworks; and The Paula Lalala MVSEVM, a life long large scale autobiographical artwork.
Robyn Love: Robyn Love is a visual artist who has presented exhibitions and created site-specific projects internationally. She was curator at Queens Theatre in the Park for four years, presenting over 20 exhibitions in the Theatre’s unique building, which dates from the 1964 Worlds Fair. She has worked collaboratively with hundreds of people to present new work in Cheongju, South Korea, Dallas, TX, Wave Hill in the Bronx, and Gillams, Newfoundland, among other locations. She has received awards from The Saltonstall Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and the Canada Council.
Sasha Chavahavdze: Sasha Chavchavadze is an artist whose interdisciplinary projects have bridged the fields of visual art, historical inquiry and community. She is the founder and a creative director of Proteus Gowanus, an interdisciplinary, community-based exhibition and project space that was an inclusive, cultural hub in the Gowanus for ten years. She is the lead artist of two Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary collectives: the D’Amico Gowanus Laboratory Collective and the Battle Pass Collective. Her Cold War project Museum of Matches included public installations, publications and an interactive “one-room Cold War museum,” open to the public from 2005 – 2011. Chavchavadze has exhibited her work widely for twenty years in the U.S. and abroad.
Portia Munson: Portia Munson has been curating shows and serving on the exhibition committee for the Kleinert James Center for the Arts (Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild) for over ten years. Widely regarded as a seminal feminist artist, Portia Munson’s exhibition history encompasses over 20 solo shows. Her work has been shown in major public and private exhibition spaces since the early 1990s, including White Columns (NY), the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NY) Mass MOCA (MA),Art Omi (Omi, NY), Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (Philadelphia, PA), and ARS 95, Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki, Finland), and is in numerous private and public collections including New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, 21C Museum (Louisville, KY), Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, MO), Cleevland Clinic Foundation (Lyndhurst, OH, and the U.S. Department of State. She is represented by PPOW Gallery in New York, NY.
Hye Ryung Na: Na, Hye Ryung is a New York City based artist, who was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea. She is working in drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, photography, performance and video. Her work has been internationally presented in Canada, England, Germany, Italy, Norway, Russia, South Korea and the United States. She received her BFA from Parsons the New School for Design. Na currently lives and works in New York City, United States.
Eva Melas: Eva Melas works and lives as an artist in New York City. She has exhibited at a number of venues including the John Michael Kohler Arts Center and the Armory SOFA show. Most recently, she has exhibited with Proteus Gowanus, the BKBX, TWAT, and Brooklyn Souvenir. Her installation was shown in the NY times Art section in June 2015. Her work appears in, Art/Industry Collaboration and Revelation (Ruth De Young Kohler), Confrontational Ceramics (Judith Schwartz), TedXGowanus Talk 2013, and the NY Times (Westchester) review 2008. Her awards include the John Michael Kohler Arts and Industry Residency and an Empire State Crafts Alliance Grant. She attended Cooper Union, The School of Visual Arts (BFA), and has an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.
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