Friday, March 22, 2024 – 11am-3pm
Saturday, March 23, 2024 – 10am-4pm
Sunday, March 24, 2024 – 10am-2pm
Registration is open until March 8, 2024 5:00PM EST
This event will be conducted on ZOOM
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2024 PORTFOLIO REVIEWERS
Tessa Bachi Haas
Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Tessa Bachi Haas (she/her) is a curator and art historian. She has previously held curatorial positions at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and Fabric Workshop and Museum, among others. Tessa is a PhD candidate in art history at Bryn Mawr College and Curatorial Assistant at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston.
Focus | digital/time-based media, material culture (particularly sculpture/installation), book arts
photo by Mel Taing
Chenoa Baker
Associate Curator, Show Up
Reviewing: Friday, Saturday + Sunday
About | Chenoa Baker (she/her) is a curator, wordsmith, and descendant of self-emancipators. In addition to leading the exhibition program at ShowUp (previously Beacon Gallery), she worked on: Gio Swaby: Fresh Up at the Peabody Essex Museum; Simone Leigh at ICA/Boston; Simone Leigh; and Touching Roots: Black Ancestral Legacies in the Americas at MFA/Boston. Her autobiographical-style art criticism appears in Hyperallergic, Public Parking, Material Intelligence, Studio Potter, Boston Art Review, and Sixty Inches From Center among others.
Focus | Emerging artists, craft, bios, artist statements, CVs, mentorship and art world navigation support
Luisa Castellanos Buraye
Powell Fine Art Advisory, Associate Art Advisor
Reviewing: Friday + Saturday
About | Luisa Castellanos Buraye (she/her) has committed her career to the commercial art world, with a particular focus on Latin American art. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, where she delved into the relationship between Pre-Columbian history and contemporary Latin American artists. She complemented her undergraduate studies by obtaining a Master’s in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art, further broadening her understanding of the commercial aspects of the art world. Her profound understanding of artistic connections and influences, along with her dedication to introducing and promoting Latin American artists to new collections, defines her unique approach within the art community. She lives in Cambridge, MA.
Focus | Emerging artists; immigrant artists
Haley Clouser
Assistant Curator, Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Haley Clouser (she/they) is the Assistant Curator at the Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art (SCAD MOA), as well as an independent curator and writer. Previously, she was the Curatorial Fellow at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, and has held the positions of Curatorial Research Assistant and Kress Interpretive Fellow at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Haley’s writing has been featured in Burnaway and Number, Inc, and her exhibitions have been awarded Andy Warhol Foundation and NEA grants.
Focus | Contemporary art, sculpture, installation
Lisa Crossman
Director of Curatorial Affairs, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
Reviewing: Friday + Saturday
About | Lisa Crossman (she/her) Lisa’s current projects center collaborations with artists, students, faculty, guest curators, and other regional partners. Prior to her position at the Mead, she was Curator at the Fitchburg Art Museum in Fitchburg, MA where she enjoyed working with many talented artists based in New England. Lisa holds a PhD from Tulane University, specializing in the history of modern and contemporary art of Latin America with a focus on themes relating to ecology. In her curatorial practice, she continues to explore the visual arts as part of interdisciplinary conversations.
Focus | performance, video, sculpture, installation, interdisciplinary practice; I love supporting emerging artists
Sonja Czekalski
Gallery Director, Hera Gallery and Educational Foundation
Reviewing: Friday + Sunday
About | Sonja Czekalski (she/her) is a Rhode Island based interdisciplinary artist and MFA Graduate in Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA. Her current work embeds itself in the fourth wave of American feminism meeting at the intersection of women’s craft, visceral memory, and sustainability.
Czekalski is the Gallery Director of the historic Hera Gallery in Wakefield, RI. She teaches an array of studio art courses at various New England universities and museums. Czekalski exhibits both regionally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include the Newport Art Museum in Newport RI, Laconia Gallery in Boston MA, and at RANT Arts in Burnie, Tasmania. She is an artist member at Hera Gallery, a member of the North American Hand Papermakers, and a contributor to Witches Magazine.
Focus | fiber arts, feminist art, paper making, soft sculpture, drawing, painting, contemporary art
Deborah Davidson
Suffolk University Gallery Director
Reviewing: Friday
About | Deborah Davidson (she/her) is a curator, artist and educator. She received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University and her B.A. from Binghamton University. She has been the director of the Suffolk University Gallery since 2013 where she continues to curate exciting exhibitions and programs, which engage the University community as well as adding to a larger conversation in the Boston cultural arena.
She is also part of the core faculty in the MFA program in Visual Arts at Lesley University College of Art and Design. Deborah was the featured artist in the 2005 issue of Agni, the BU literary magazine, her first published writing appeared there. Her work is in many private and public collections, including Yale University, Wellesley College, Boston Public Library, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Deborah is founder and director of Catalyst Conversations, devoted to the dialogue between art and science. Her previous curatorial projects include The Book As Subject And Object, Northeastern University and Cannot Be Described In Words: Drawing/Daring, The Art Complex Museum. She has had solo exhibitions at the Danforth Museum of Art, Kingston Gallery, Oresman Gallery, Smith College and Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy. Awards include Finalist, Brother Thomas Fellowship, Artist in Residence, Northeastern University, and a Berkshire Taconic A.R.T. grant.
Focus | Greater Boston artists
Kelly Filocco
Boston Art Inc Director of Art Consulting
Reviewing: Friday
About | Kelly Filocco (she/her) As the Director of Art Consulting, Kelly Filocco has been guiding clientele to produce stellar art programs for corporations, healthcare institutions, and multi-family buildings in the Boston area for over twenty years. A graduate of Northeastern University with a degree in business and decades of hands-on experience in the field, Kelly oversees the art consulting practice at Boston Art with a deep appreciation for the benefits that a thoughtful art program can have on the productivity and well-being of any environment. In Kelly’s previous role as Senior Art Consultant, she managed every type of project, from large-scale, highly detailed public installations to collection management advice for clients with extensive existing collections. Kelly has chosen the artwork and managed the collections of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Scientific, MGH, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 345 Harrison, Mintz Levin, and The St. Regis Residences. She lives outside of Boston with her husband and daughter.
Focus | Public , emerging to mid career artists, multimedia
Pilar Forrest
Newport Art Museum, Curatorial Fellow
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Pilar Forrest (she/her) I am the current Curatorial Fellow at the Newport Art Museum and possess an MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art and a BA in History of Art from Yale University. My research interests lie in contemporary art, decorative arts, and design history within frameworks of postcolonial, queer, and Marxist theory. Some institutions I have worked for include the Brooklyn Museum, Frieze Art Fair, Sotheby’s, UCLA Hammer Museum, and the Yale Center for British Art. My background as a working-class first-generation Latinx student informs my passion for developing a curatorial practice centered on antiracism and working class visibility. In addition to my work commitments, I am the founder and president of the emerging nonprofit organization Collections That Care.
Focus | Decorative arts, contemporary design, public art, BIPOC artists, queer artists
Christina Godfrey
Director, Sunne Savage Gallery
Reviewing: Friday
About | Christina Godfrey (she/her) The Sunne Savage Gallery is a multi-generational, woman-owned business that provides private and corporate art services. Mrs. Godfrey assists clients with acquisitions, commissions, appraisals and collection management. Mrs. Godfrey has consistently turned new contacts into repeat clients through her creative and resourceful approach to project management. In the same vein, relationships with artists blossom from chance encounter to lasting representation.
Focus | emerging artists
Max Gruber
ICA/Boston, Curatorial Assistant
Reviewing: Saturday
About | Max Gruber (he/him) is a curatorial assistant at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. His work and criticism have focused on Latin American and global contemporary art, photography, video, and social practice.
Focus | Photography, video, time-based media, archival, social practice, installation
Suzi Hlavacek
Alchemy Station, Co-Founder
Reviewing: Friday
About | Suzi Hlavacek (she/her) aims to ignite passion and connection through art while serving clients, communities, artists, and the greater public. She co-founder Alchemy Station to do just that. As an art consultant, Suzi loves learning about clients’ values and needs, so she can help them surround themselves with inspiration, beauty, and the sublime. She is dually passionate about connecting with artists and supporting their craft.Over the past decade, Suzi has placed thousands of artworks for Fortune 500 companies, Ivy League universities, 5-star hotels, bio-tech innovators, hospitals, and private estates.
Suzi began her career working in business development at Christie’s, followed by the Prints department at MoMA in New York City. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Art History from Colgate University and completed her master’s degree in Art Administration at Columbia University. An avid researcher, reader, and adventurer, Suzi is passionate about travel, food, nature, and all things culture.
Focus | Emerging art, Site specific commissions, large scale, varied media
Caitee Hoglund
Gallery Director, 13FOREST Gallery
Reviewing: Sunday
About | Caitee Hoglund (she/her) joined 13FOREST Gallery as the Director in 2017, where she has been curating a dynamic program of exhibitions and events with a wide variety of Boston’s finest artists. Caitee has also served as a juror for several local arts institutions, including the Attleboro Arts Museum, Mosesian Center for the Arts, and the Cambridge Art Association. Before her time at 13FOREST, Caitee earned her Master’s Degree in Art History and Museum Studies from Tufts University.
Focus | painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, emerging artists
LaiSun Keane
Owner + Director, LaiSun Keane Gallery
Reviewing: Sunday
About | LaiSun Keane (she/her) is an art dealer and gallery owner based in Boston. Originally from Malaysia, she immigrated to Australia and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Art Theory from the University of New South Wales. With almost 12 years of experience in the arts, LaiSun has owned and operated two galleries for a combined total of nearly six years.
Focus | Painting, ceramics, textile + fiber, work on paper. Emerging and mid career artists and selected secondary market artworks.
Michelle Loh
The Elizabeth Foundation for the arts
Reviewing: Friday + Saturday + Sunday
About | Michelle Y Loh (she/her) is a New York based art director and curator. Loh has curated exhibitions including at the Bruce Museum and the Museum of Chinese in America in New York. Loh has lectured at Columbia University and others. Loh serves on the Board of Directors of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts.
Focus | All
Audrey Lopez
Director & Curator of Public Art; Rose Kennedy Greenway
Reviewing: Friday, Saturday + Sunday
About | Audrey Lopez (she/her) is a multiracial Filipina American curator, scholar, and educator who works at the intersections of public art + social practice and cultural + spatial justice. She leads the Conservancy’s Public Art Department, whose vision is to bring innovative, contemporary art to Boston through free, temporary exhibitions and programs that engage communities in meaningful dialogue with art, each other, and the most pressing issues of our time.
Audrey brings a strong track record of curating and producing award-winning public art projects by both nationally-recognized and emerging artists in outdoor venues across museums, universities, and public agencies. Prior to the Greenway, she worked as Public Art and Engagement Curator at the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts & Culture and, previously, as the Curator of Community Engagement at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara. In addition to her work at the Greenway, Audrey serves as co-curator for Sangre de Nopal, an upcoming exhibition funded through The Getty Foundation’s 2024 Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles x Art x Science initiative. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she taught classes on decolonizing language and resisting racialization and racism through public art and activism.
Focus | Public art; social practice; emerging artists; BIPOC artists
Barbara O’Brien
Independent contemporary art curator and consultant
Reviewing: Friday + Sunday
About | Barbara O’Brien (she/her) A Milwaukee based independent curator and consultant, O’Brien spent nearly 20 years in Boston (1990-2008) as Gallery Director, Montserrat College of Art; Editor-in-Chief, Art New England Magazine; Asst. Professor, Head of Arts Administration program, and Director of the Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons University. She sees her role as one of advocacy and critical dialogue. Most recently she was Executive Director, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
Focus | Contemporary Art, Emerging and Mid-Career Artists
Jessica Roscio
Director and Curator, Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University
Reviewing: Saturday
About | Jessica Roscio (she/her) joined the Danforth Art Museum in 2011, was appointed Curator in 2015, and became the Director in 2020. She has overseen curatorial and administrative operations since the Museum became part of Framingham State University. Selected exhibitions include The Memory Palace: Domesticity, Objects, and the Interior, Dressed, Family Circle, Visionary Boston: John Brook, Steven Trefonides, and Kahlil Gibran, Barbara Swan: Reflected Self, and Lois Tarlow: Material Vocabulary. Prior to the Danforth, Roscio held positions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She taught courses at Emerson College and Suffolk University, and has been a regular contributor to Aspect Initiative, an online gallery focusing on contemporary photography in New England. Roscio has an MA in Art History from the University at Buffalo and a Ph.D. in American Studies, with a focus on the History of Photography, from Boston University.
Focus | Emerging artists, regional artists, photography, installation
Caitlin Julia Rubin
Independent Curator; Interim Curator of Exhibitions, Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Reviewing: Friday, Saturday + Sunday
About | Caitlin Julia Rubin (she/her) is an independent curator and writer, and currently the Interim Curator of Exhibitions at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Previously, she was the Associate Curator & Director of Programs at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. Within this position and in prior years at the Rose, she organized and co-organized exhibitions and projects by Mark Dion, Rosalyn Drexler, Jennie C. Jones, Tuesday Smillie, and Caroline Woolard, among others; collaborated with visiting artists to foster new, site-responsive initiatives; curated numerous collection-focused presentations; and contributed to and produced both museum and artist publications. With Lauren Haynes (Director of Curatorial Affairs and Programs, Queens Museum), she co-curated the exhibition Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love, and is currently co-editing the show’s accompanying catalog. Our first and last love debuted at the Rose Art Museum in February and opened at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in August 2023; the third and final presentation will be on view in Spring 2024 at the Queens Museum, New York.
Focus | artwork in all media; socially-engaged practices
Rachel Seligman
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Rachel Seligman (she/her) is the Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs and Malloy Curator at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College. She has a BA from Skidmore College and an MA in Art History from George Washington University. She has taught Art History at SUNY Adirondack in Glens Falls, NY, Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY, and the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY, and currently teaches a class called “Math in the Museum” at Skidmore College. Her curatorial practice includes many interdisciplinary collaborative projects with faculty colleagues, on subjects including social class; activism, civil rights, and social justice; pattern in art and science; democracy and citizenship; and Solomon Northup, among others; as well as curating solo exhibitions of artists including Tim Davis, Lauren Kelley, Yvette Janine Jackson, and Christine Sun Kim, among others. Seligman is the co-author of Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave (Praeger, 2013), as well as author of numerous exhibition catalogues including Classless Society (Tang, 2014), Machine Project (DelMonico-Prestel, 2016), Sixfold Symmetry (Tang, 2018), Tim Davis – When We Are Dancing (I Get Ideas) (Tang, 2020), Like Sugar (Tang, 2020), FLEX (Tang, 2023), and the forthcoming Christine Sun Kim: Oh Me Oh My (Delmonico-D.A.P., 2024). She has served on many gallery committees, exhibition juries, and professional panels, including serving as a chair of the Visual Arts Program panel of the New York State Council for the Arts.
Focus | emerging and mid career artists
Lauren Szumita
Cantor Art Gallery at Holy Cross, Director + Curator
Reviewing: Friday
About | Lauren Szumita (she/her) Lauren Szumita is the newly-appointed Director and Curator at the Cantor Art Gallery at Holy Cross. Most recently, she was Curator at the Fitchburg Art Museum, where she organized group and solo exhibitions of contemporary New England artists. Prior to that, she was the Curatorial Assistant of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Worcester Art Museum where she oversaw the Central Massachusetts Artists Initiative (CMAI) rotation for contemporary, regional artists. She received her MA in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of Oregon and BA in Art History from Boston College.
Focus | social justice, interdisciplinary
Sam Toabe
UMass Boston, Gallery Director
Reviewing: Saturday
About | Sam Toabe (they/them) (b. 1988, US) is a curator and art historian based in Boston, Massachusetts. They are the Gallery Director at the University Hall Gallery for the Art Department, as well as the Director of Arts on the Point, at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Toabe received their M.A. in the History of Art and Architecture and Museum Studies from Boston University in 2015 and a B.F.A. from the Studio for Interrelated Media at The Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2011. Their research and writing focus on alternative curatorial practices across a variety of periods and geographies (looking specifically at artist curated exhibitions and events), non-canonical art histories, and the advancement of cultural plurality in our global, visual lexicons.
Focus | installation, sculpture, interdisciplinary, extended media, social practice, emerging artists
Leah Triplett Harrington
Director of Exhibitions & Contemporary Curatorial Initiatives, PAFA
Reviewing: Saturday + Sunday
About | Leah Triplett Harrington (she/her) is Director of Exhibitions and Contemporary Curatorial Initiatives at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). Previously she was a curator at Now + There, where she facilitated the Public Art Accelerator and organized large-scale public art commissions in Boston. Her writing has appeared in ArtAsiaPacific, ArtNet News, Sculpture, Public Art Dialogue, Flash Art, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, and others. She taught MFA painting and sculpture students at Boston University from 2021 to 2023.
Focus | Craft, painting, sculpture, emerging artists
Manuela Uribe
Powell Fine Art Advisory, Registrar
Reviewing: Saturday
About | Manuela Uribe (she/her) joined the Powell Fine Art team in 2022. She considers herself a multi-disciplinarian at heart, committed to a career in the commercial art world while dabbling in her own art-making practice in her spare time. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), where she also briefly pursued a painting practice. She specialized in Postmodern and Contemporary Latin American art, and enriched those studies through internships at Bogotá-based art consulting firm Paralelo 10 and editorial projects in collaboration with major Colombian gallery La Cometa.
Focus | emerging artists, painting
Image in header courtesy of Bekka Teerlink from CAA’s Pulse of the Making Exhibit