Webinar: Visual Arts Round Table, with Regine Basha & Matthew Deleget

Feb 18 - Feb 18 2013

Online Workshop

The Visual Arts Round Table: Curators will consist of a live 90-minute conversation about curatorial practice between independent curator Regine Basha and visual artist Matthew Deleget.  The interview will cover all aspects of the relationship between visual artists and curators, including indentifying new artists, web sites and online portfolios, conducting studio visits, the process of curating an exhibition, current trends in the art market, and more.  Participating artists will have the opportunity to ask questions at the end of the webinar.


To attend this webinar, you will need access to a computer with speakers and an Internet connection (hard-wired is preferred over wireless). There is no special software needed.


DATE
Monday, February 18, 7:00-8:30pm (EST) 


PRICE 
$25.00


REGISTRATION
Click here to register. 


ABOUT REGINE BASHA
Regine Basha is a curator and writer currently based in Brooklyn who has worked nationally and internationally for the past 17 years, beginning in Montreal as the Director of the Saidye Bronfman Centre Gallery then continuing in New York independently since 1997. She is a graduate from the inaugural class of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and has since curated independent projects internationally showcasing some of the most engaging emerging artists working in New York such as Daniel Bozhkov, Dario Robleto, Beth Campell, Neurotransmitter (Valerie Tevere + Angel Nevarez), Harrell Fletcher, Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello. From 2002 to 2007 she was based in Austin, Texas as Adjunct Curator of Arthouse, at the Jones Center and co-founder of the contemporary art initiative, Fluent~Collaborative where she curated numerous shows and produced special commissions in a variety of formats- including exhibition, radio, live presentation, temporal interventions, virtual and print media. Basha has presented projects in Istanbul, Cairo, Berlin, Marfa, Santiago, Mexico City and cities across the US.


Her exhibitions have received grant awards from The Andy Warhol Foundation, The Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation and The National Endownment for the Arts as well as critical press in The New York Times, Artforum, Modern Painters, Art Papers, Wire, Bidoun and Art Lies. She currently sits on the board of Art Matters (New York), Aurora Picture Show (Houston) and is a Curatorial Host to Cabinet Magazine’s new event space.


Basha has also developed other projects for the industry, such as Grackleworld.com (with Christopher Ho), which enables an independent space for information sharing about contemporary exhibitions available for tour. Her most recent project for the web is the audio/visual archive Tuningbaghdad.net.


ABOUT MATTHEW DELEGET
Matthew Deleget is an abstract painter, curator, and arts worker. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, including solo and group exhibitions in the US, Europe, and Australasia. Matthew has received awards from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, Brooklyn Arts Council, and The Golden Rule Foundation, and his work has been reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times, Flash Art, Artnet Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Basler Zeitung, among others. He is a member of American Abstract Artists, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation’s Artist Advisory Committee, and the board of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts.


In 2003, Matthew founded MINUS SPACE, a platform for reductive art on the international level based in Brooklyn, NY. Since 2006, Matthew has organized more than 40 solo and group exhibitions at both MINUS SPACE’s gallery in Dumbo, Brooklyn, as well as other collaborating venues on the national and international levels. MINUS SPACE exhibitions have been reviewed in Art in America, Artcritical, Artnet Magazine, ArtNews, The Brooklyn Rail, Houston Public Radio, Huffington Post, The New Criterion, New York Magazine, NYFA Current, New York Sun, Time Out New York, Village Voice, and The Wall Street Journal, among others.


Matthew holds an MFA in Painting and an MS in Theory, Criticism and History of Art, Design and Architecture from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. He holds a BA in Art and German from Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN. He lives with his wife, artist Rossana Martinez, and son in Brooklyn, NY.


ABOUT THE ONLINE LEARNING PROGRAM
We are proud to offer selected topics from PDP workshops to the general public through the  Online Learning Program. We are dedicated to extending our reach to artists who are new to Creative Capital’s professional development offerings, as well as those PDP alumni who are interested in a refresher course. Many of these courses are designed for individual artists of all disciplines, while others will be discipline-specific.


Most Online Learning sessions will be approximately 90 minutes in duration, including lecture and Q&A sessions. Webinars are taught and moderated live by talented workshop leaders, so the information is always up-to-date and engaging. Q&A sessions are included to be sure that all our participants have the chance to follow up on specific concerns.
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