Colleagues & Friends: Solana Chehtman, Daonne Huff, and Hitomi Iwasaki
Wednesday, October 25, 8:30–10AM
Salon 21• 52 Greene St, 3 Fl, New York
Join us on October 25 for Colleagues & Friends with Solana Chehtman, Director of Artist Programs Director of Artist Programs at Joan Mitchell Foundation, Daonne Huff, Artist Engagement Manager at the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and Hitomi Iwasaki, Head of Exhibitions and Curator at the Queens Museum.
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The discussion will take place at Salon 21, a Fine Art and Interior Design Studio focused on supporting emerging talent and reimagining the lost art of conversation.
Members - $10 | Non-members - $20
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Solana Chehtman is a New York-based cultural producer and engagement curator born in Buenos Aires. She is currently the Director of Artist Programs at Joan Mitchell Foundation, where she supports artists with unrestricted funding and professional development through the Joan Mitchell Fellowship, as well as in their long term career stewardship via the Creating a Living Legacy (CALL) program. Since her arrival in New York over a decade ago, Solana has partnered with a wide range of cultural organizations across the performing and visual arts to create new opportunities for artists and avenues for public participation in the arts. Prior to joining the Foundation, she served as inaugural Director of Creative Practice and Social Impact at The Shed, and the Vice President of Public Engagement at Friends of the High Line. Solana has also held curatorial roles, in 2020 she served as Virtual Curator for NYC & Co, and in 2021 she co-curated the exhibition Un Panorama de Este Mundo with Daniel Birnbaum at Acute Art at Fundacion Proa in Buenos Aires. She was an adjunct Professor at the MA in Arts Administration at Baruch College, City University of New York from 2018 to 2021 and has collaborated as a panelist and reviewer with organizations such as The Laundromat Project, Artadia, Socrates Sculpture Park, El Clemente, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Creative Capital, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Daonne Huff is an arts administrator, performance centered artist, curator and poet born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. She recently joined the Joan Mitchell Foundation as Artist Engagement Manager, leaving her role as Director of Public Programs at the Studio Museum in Harlem after four years. She has previously worked with a variety of institutions including Artadia, ArtTable, The Bronx Museum, Museum of Modern Art, NARS Foundation, and The Laundromat Project, among others. In the midst of devoting her adult life to arts administration, Daonne re-committed to her own artistic practice. She has performed and exhibited at venues including BLDG 92, Black Lunch Table, Brooklyn Army Terminal, FiveMyles, JACK, Whitney Museum of American Art, Mason Gross Galleries, Transmitter Gallery, Welancora Gallery, and Zimmerli Museum of Art, among others.
Hitomi Iwasaki is Head of Exhibitions and Curator at the Queens Museum. She has worked on landmark exhibitions including Global Conceptualism: Points of Origins 1950s-1980s (1999–2001), Caribbean: Crossroad of the World (2012), and After Midnight: Indian Moderns and Contemporary Indian Art (2016) as well as numerous group exhibitions of emerging artists, including iterations of Queens International (2002, 2004, 2014 and 2016), and projects with Johanna Unzueta, Daniel Bozhkov, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Sable Elyse Smith, among many others. She organized Bringing the World into the World (2015), a major exhibition that centered around the Museum’s Panorama of the City of New York and its 50th anniversary with fifteen cross-generational international artists, and solo presentation of artists such as Patty Chang (2018), Christine Sun Kim (2022), and Aliza Nizenbaum (2023). Hitomi won the International Association of Art Critic’s (IACA) Curator’s Award Best Project in a Public Space, 2009-2010, for her project with Duke Riley. She is currently working on her next exhibition/performance by Aki Sasamoto. .
Salon 21 is a Fine Art and Interior Design Studio focused on supporting emerging talent and reimagining the lost art of conversation. Salon 21 hosts rotating art and design exhibitions, complemented by an array of captivating programming. These exhibitions serve as the backdrop for a vibrant calendar of events, including dinner and cocktail parties, thought-provoking panels, brand pop-ups, and much more. Taking it’s name from the historic French salons of the 18th century, The Salon is designed to feel like an elevated living space. Salon 21's founder, Alex Bass, infused the area with Art Nouveau and Art Deco themes, merging historical furniture with modern fabrics and contemporary design pieces. Pushing back against a White Cube gallery aesthetic, it’s walls that have been techniqued by a decorative arts painter to evoke a historic, charming aesthetic.
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DISCLAIMER! There will be no elevator at the location due to the building's landmark designation from 1912. Salon 21 located on the third floor, two flights of stairs up.
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