Voices In Contemporary Art

Programs: September 29 & 30, 2016voca retreat & board meetingthe annual gathering of the board, program committee and staff. Location: old stone house, brooklyn september 29, 2016, 7pmvoca talk: blane de st. Croix location: cabinet magazine (in gowanus, brooklyn)on thursday, september 29, artist blane de st. Croix sat down with voca board member robin clark to discuss how his work engages topics including the geopolitical landscape, border issues, climate change, pollution, land erosion, and preservation. This event was the first in the second year of our on-going call/voca talks series, hosted in partnership with the joan mitchell foundation's creating a living legacy (call) program. These programs aim to highlight the innovative call initiative while also underscoring the crucial need for dialogue with artists around the production, presentation, and preservation of their work. October 24, 2016, 6:30pm voca talk: henrietta mantooth location: museum of the city of new york on monday, october 24, call artist henrietta mantooth sat down with voca program committee member jennifer hickey to discuss her life, legacy, and recent installations around the themes racial inequity and mass incarceration. This event was the second in the second season of our on-going call/voca talks series, hosted in partnership with the joan mitchell foundation's creating a living legacy (call) program. These programs aim to highlight the innovative call initiative while also underscoring the crucial need for dialogue with artists around the production, presentation, and preservation of their work. November 14, 2016voca salon: frankenthaler foundation on monday, november 14, 2016, voca launched the fall 2016 issue of voca journal, a digital forum for our colleagues to share progressive artist-centered projects and interviews. To celebrate, a number of friends and colleagues gathered at the helen frankenthaler foundation to celebrate. November 15, 2016voca journal - fall issue, artist-endowed foundation themethe fall issue of voca journal is dedicated to the work of progressive artist-endowed foundations. Contributors to this issue include leaders from the jay defeo, helen frankenthaler, joan mitchell, noah purifoy and dedalus foundations. These organizations are predicated on the belief that preserving the legacy of their founding artists is not limited to the care and promotion of individual bodies of work, but also involves supporting future generations of artists and the communities in which they live. November 20, 2016 voca talk: emmett wigglesworth location: jamaica center for arts and learning (jcal)on sunday, november 20, call artist emmett wigglesworth sat down with voca program committee member christie mitchell to discuss his life, legacy, and prolific career as a muralist, painter, sculptor, fabric designer, and poet in new york city. This event was the third in the second season of our on-going call/voca talks series, hosted in partnership with the joan mitchell foundation's creating a living legacy (call) program. These programs aim to highlight the innovative call initiative while also underscoring the crucial need for dialogue with artists around the production, presentation, and preservation of their work. December 15, 2016voca talk: otto neals location: renee & chaim gross foundation on october 15, 2016, call artist otto neals sat down at his home in crown heights, brooklyn, with voca program committee member jonathan allen to discuss his life and prolific career as a painter, sculptor, and printmaker in new york city. This discussion was part of the second season of our on-going call/voca talks series, hosted in partnership with the joan mitchell foundation's creating a living legacy (call) program. These programs aim to highlight the innovative call initiative while also underscoring the crucial need for dialogue with artists around the production, presentation, and preservation of their work. April 4, 2017 voca journal - spring issuelaunch event hosted by judd foundationin this issue, contributors discuss the potential of archives as both repositories and raw material for artists. David senior (senior bibliographer at the museum of modern art library) chronicles the early days of franklin furnace. The recent publication of donald judd writings is the subject of an interview with flavin judd (co-director and curator of judd foundation) and caitlin murray (director of marfa programs at judd foundation. Members of a cross-departmental team at new york university, glenn wharton (associate professor of museum studies), deena engel (professor in the department of computer science and director of the program in digital humanities and social science) and marvin taylor (director of fales library and special collections, discuss their david wojnarowicz knowledge base project. An essay by tanya zimbardo (assistant curator of media arts at san francisco museum of modern art) explores how runa islam's work continually engages with the histories of cinema. April 4, 2017voca salon: judd foundation on tuesday, april 4, 2017, voca launched the spring 2017 issue of voca journal, a digital forum for our colleagues to share progressive artist-centered projects and interviews. To celebrate, a number of friends and colleagues gathered at the judd foundation to celebrate. April 23, 2017anagpic artist interview workshop location: institute of fine arts, new york universitythe workshop was led by gwynne ryan, chief conservator at the hirshhorn museum and sculpture garden, and oral historian sam redman. Over the course of the day, the presenters conducted a series of lectures and case studies which were then analyzed via roundtable discussion and tested in small group exercises. June 7, 2017voca talk: derrick adamslocation: chicago, rebuild foundation on the occasion of his new multimedia exhibition, "future people," at the rebuild foundation, derrick adams sat down with voca board member and virginia steele scott chief curator of american art at the huntington, chad alligood, to discuss his arts practice and the experience of incorporating elements from the stony island arts bank archive into his work. June 8 & 9, 2017voca artist interview workshoplocation: chicago, rebuild foundation the workshop was led by jill sterrett, director of collections and conservation at sfmoma, and oral historian richard c ndida smith. Key speakers included marie watt, artist; janet dees, curator, mary & leigh block museum of art; deena chalabi, barbara and stephan vermut associate curator of public dialogue at sfmoma.