MARY L. NOHL FELLOWSHIP PANELISTS SELECTED
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Panelists to Give Public Talk at Inova October 28
The eighth cycle of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists program continues with the appointment of a panel of recognized visual arts professionals to select seven Fellows from among 136 applicants. Sheryl Conkelton, an art historian, curator and writer based in Philadelphia; Nathan Lee, a critic and curator based in New York; and Lucía Sanromán, associate curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, will arrive in Milwaukee on Thursday, October 28, 2010 and will be welcomed at a reception at UWM’s Inova/Kenilworth gallery, 2155 North Prospect Avenue. The panelists will offer brief overviews of their home institutions and curatorial interests beginning at 6 pm; their talks will be followed by a reception. The event is free and open to the public.
Funded by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund and administered by the Bradley Family Foundation, the Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists provide unrestricted funds for artists to create new work or complete work in progress. In addition to receiving an award, the Nohl Fellows will participate in an exhibition in the autumn of 2011. An exhibition catalogue will be published and disseminated nationally. The program is open to practicing artists residing in the four-county area (Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington counties). The program also includes a Suitcase Fund for exporting work by local artists beyond the four-county area.
The panelists will spend two days reviewing work samples and artists’ statements and visiting the studios of up to seven finalists in the Established Artist category. The three Established Artist awards, worth $15,000 each, and the four $5,000 Emerging Artist awards will be announced on Monday, November 8, 2010.
About the Jurors
Sheryl Conkelton is an art historian, curator and writer based in Philadelphia, where her most recent curatorial project, the world in my street, a web-based exhibition, is currently viewable at www.newurbanimaginaries.org. She was director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at Tyler School of Art, Temple University (2004-09), and has held senior curatorial positions at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Conkelton has organized numerous exhibitions, among them the inaugural five-site international biennial The Graphic Unconscious (co-curator, 2010), Phil Collins: assume freedom (2005), An International Legacy: Selections from the Collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art (2003), Uta Barth, In Between Places (2000), Coming to Life, the Figure in American Art 1955-1965 (1998), and Annette Messager (1995). She has published widely, authoring a number of books including Lewis Baltz: Prototypes, Tract Houses and New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California (RAM/Steidl/Whitney Museum of American Art, 2005); Northwest Mythologies, The Interactions of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan and Guy Anderson (with Laura Landau, University of Washington, 2003); and Frederick Sommer, (Clio Press, 1995). She has contributed to journals, exhibition catalogues and other publications, among them Collapse (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2002), Deep Storage: An Arsenal of Memory (P.S. 1, New York/ Prestel, Munich, 1998), Fotografia del Siglo XX (Fundacio Caixa, Barcelona, 1992), and the forthcoming Grove Encyclopedia of American Art. Conkelton has lectured extensively at museums, universities and cultural institutions in North America, Europe and Japan, and has taught at Moore College of Art and Design, the University of Washington, UCLA, and California State University, Los Angeles. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including grants from Pew Charitable Trust, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Peter Norton Family Foundation, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France.
Nathan Lee is a critic and curator focused on the moving image. A contributing editor of Film Comment, he is a former film critic for the New York Times, Village Voice, and NPR, and a member of the National Society of Film Critics (Chairman, Experimental Film Committee, 2007). His recent curatorial projects include Buddy List (Space 414, Brooklyn), Picturing the Shoah (Yivo Center For Jewish Research, New York), A/B Machines: A Cautionary Tale (Black Door, Istanbul), and the online platform www.projectlamar.com. He is a program associate at Platform Garanti (Istanbul) and a master’s candidate at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
Lucía Sanromán is associate curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Since joining the MCASD staff in 2006, she has curated over 20 exhibitions, including Material Actions, Memory Is Your Image of Perfection, and Drawing the Line, critically celebrated group shows that combine collection artworks with new work by invited artists. Solo exhibitions include projects with James Drake, Brian Ulrich, Hector Zamora, Peter Simensky, Joshua Mosley and Nina Katchadourian, among others. Sanromán’s recent research projects include the exhibitions Here Not There: San Diego Art Now (June 2010), and MIX: Nine San Diego Architects and Designers (2009). In addition, Sanromán is responsible for managing, curating, and organizing MCASD’s downtown San Diego venue—the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Building—for which she curated a major sculptural installation by Los Angeles-based artist Ruben Ochoa (March 2010), and co-curated with Pedro Alonzo Viva La Revolución: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape (July 2010). In 2008 Sanromán also co-curated, with Ruth Estevez, the group exhibition Proyecto Cívico/Civic Project the inaugural exhibition for El Cubo, the Centro Cultural Tijuana’s new art museum expansion. She lives in Tijuana, Mexico, and has published extensively about that city’s contemporary art scene. www.mcasandiego.org.
The Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s mission is to strengthen communities through effective partnerships. It is made up of over 1,000 charitable funds, each created by individual donors or families to serve the charitable causes of their choice. Grants from these funds serve people throughout Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee and Washington counties and beyond. Started in 1915, the Foundation is one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the U.S. and abroad.
For further information about the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists program, please visit http://lyndensculpturegarden.org/nohl.
