A Look at Art's Potential to Reflect Society and Influence Progress

A Look at Art's Potential to Reflect Society and Influence Progress

This discussion once again includes a variety of perspectives on what art’s potential can be to effect new frameworks in an ever changing society. By expanding the conversation more fully across spheres geographically, guests also define certain frameworks around the practice of making art, exhibiting and collecting, and arguably redefines notions of art’s potential for societal change. Guests: Ebony L. Haynes Bernard I. Lumpkin

Design and Technology for a Sustainable Future

The discussion ranges on a variety of perspectives on what our future impact can be, from a less is more approach both online and in terms of our carbon footprint. Expanding the conversation on design more fully across spheres also helps define certain frameworks around innovation and redefine notions of sustainability. Moderator: Christine Kuan CEO and Director at Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York. Guests: Suzanne Demisch Co-founder of gallery Demisch Danant, New York. Tom Hale, Senior Vice President, General Manager at Crozier Fine Arts. Florian Idenburg, Co-Founder of architectural design firm SO – IL, New York. Timothée Verrecchia, Founder and Managing Director at Verrechia & Partners

Purpose Driven Collecting

This discussion ranges on a variety of perspectives on what thoughtful art collecting can be, from a less is more approach, to ethics on what art is represented in museums to reflecting our society, artistic and social movements. Expanding the conversation on collecting across spheres also helps define certain frameworks around the practice and redefine notions of sustainability. Moderator: Alvin Hall collector, writer and BBC television and radio host. Guests: Glenn Adamson curator and writer who works at the intersection of craft, design history and contemporary art. Estrellita Brodsky curator, collector, advocate for Latin American Art. Founder of ANOTHER SPACE, New York. Wendy Olsoff co-founder of the gallery P·P·O·W, New York.

A Look at Art's Potential to Reflect Society and Influence Progress

This discussion includes a variety of perspectives on what art’s potential can be to effect new frameworks in an ever changing society. By expanding the conversation more fully across spheres geographically, guests also define certain frameworks around the practice of making art, exhibiting and collecting, and arguably redefines notions of art’s potential for societal change. Moderator: Larry Ossei-Mensah: Curator, New York, co-founder ARTNOIR, co-curator of 2021 Athens Biennial. Guests: Pedro Barbosa: Collector, Sao Paulo, Founder of Mores-Barbosa Foundation. LaTiesha Fazakas: Founder, Fazakas Gallery, Vancouver specializing in Indigenous artists. Nate Young: Artist, Chicago, exhibiting at moniquemeloche.