Prior to our Network Program, which begun in 2021, we had a long-running Art & Dialogue series (2015-2020) and Houston Fellowship program (2019-2020), which extended the benefits of the Awards by fostering discourse between artists and arts professionals. Learn about these past programs below.
Artadia’s Art & Dialogue program forged connections between Artadia Awardees, curators, and diverse publics in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco through a series of studio visits, public programs, and online engagement. Concluded in 2020, our Art & Dialogue program has evolved to become a new program, the Artadia Network, by restructuring how we facilitate connections and providing resource support to Awardees.
Art & Dialogue Visiting Curators and Cultural Partners
Daniel Palmer
Curator, Public Art Fund
Andrea Andersson
Independent Curator, Founding Director & Chief Curator, Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought, public program with Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta
Adrienne Edwards
Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at The Whitney Museum, public program with The School of the Art Institute Chicago, Chicago
Michelle White
Senior Curator, The Menil Collection, public program with California College of the Arts (CCA) Wattis Institute, San Francisco
Pilar Tompkins Rivas
Chief Curator and Deputy Director, Curatorial and Collections at The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, public program with The Brooklyn Museum, New York
Courtney J. Martin
Director, Yale Center for British Art, public program with LAXART, Los Angeles
Kimberli Gant
McKinnon Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Chrysler Museum of Art, public program at The Bronx Museum’s The Block Gallery, New York
Jessica Bell Brown
Independent Curator, public program at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Heather Pesanti
Curator, Austin Contemporary, public program at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Cecilia Fajardo-Hill
Independent Curator, public program at Lawndale, Houston
Miranda Lash
Curator of Contemporary Art, The Speed Museum, public program at The Lab, San Francisco
Charlotte Cotton
Independent Curator, public program at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Valerie Cassel Oliver
Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, at the Brooklyn Museum, New York
Lauren Haynes
Curator of Contemporary Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Antwaun Sargent
Writer & Critic, at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
Artist and co-founder of Beta-Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico, at Lawndale Art Center, Houston
Chrissie Iles
Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, at The Lab, San Francisco
Alex Klein
Dorothy and Stephen R. Weber (CHE’60) Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, at Carpenter Center at Harvard University, Boston
Miguel Lopez
Chief Curator of TEOR/éTica, San Jose, Costa Rica, at the Brooklyn Museum, New York
Naima Keith
Deputy Director, Exhibitions and Programs, California African American Museum, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Meg Onli
Assistant Curator, ICA Philadelphia, at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta
Anne Ellegood
Senior Curator, Hammer Museum, at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston
Helen Molesworth
Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, at The Lab, San Francisco
Magali Arriola
Independent Writer and Curator, at The Mistake Room, Los Angeles
Kristan Kennedy
Visual Art Curator, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, at Skowhegan, New York
Elysia Borowy-Reeder
Executive Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), at Threewalls, Chicago
Cesar Garcia
Founder, Director, Chief Curator, The Mistake Room, at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta
Catherine Morris
Sackler Center Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, at MFAH, Houston
Peter Eleey
Associate Director of Exhibitions and Programs, MoMA PS1, at The Lab, San Francisco
Diana Nawi
Associate Curator, Perez Art Museum Miami, at 356 Mission, Los Angeles
Elizabeth Sherman
Assistant Curator, Perez Art Museum Miami, at MassArt, Boston
Press Partners
Bad at Sports, Chicago; Burnaway, Atlanta
Aram Moshayedi
Curator, The Hammer Museum, at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and Burnaway, Atlanta
Hazma Walker
Associate Curator, Renaissance Society, Co-curator, Made in LA 2016, at The Lab, San Francisco
Tina Kukielski
Curator, Carnegie Museum of Art, at Threewalls, Chicago
Miki Garcia
Executive Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, at MFAH, Houston
Rachel Adams
Associate Curator, UB Art Galleries, at the Rose Art Museum, Boston
Katherine Brinson
Associate Curator, Guggenheim, at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Art & Dialogue was made possible thanks to the generosity of The Paul & Edith Babson Foundation, The Brown Foundation, the California Community Foundation, Chubb,The Fleishhacker Foundation, The Houston Endowment, The Joyce Foundation, MailChimp, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, as well as Artadia’s Board of Directors, members, and individual donors throughout the country.
Concluded in 2020, the Houston Artadia Fellowship program launched in 2018 and was designed to connect Houston’s diverse immigrant and refugee artists with local and national arts communities. Artadia fostered these connections through close collaborations with local partners, critical discourse, exhibition opportunities, and studio visits with renowned curators and artists to support and cultivate artistic excellence. Individual artists who identified as immigrants or refugees, working in any visual medium, at any stage in their career, living in Houston and its Contiguous Counties were encouraged to apply. Fellows each received a $2,500 honorarium, an introduction to an artist advisor chosen by Artadia from its pool of Houston-based Artadia Awardees, and the facilitation of a series of meetings catered to the specific needs of each fellow. In addition, the program offered the opportunity to present their work publicly to the Houston art community, including artists, collectors, dealers, critics, curators, and other arts professionals.
During the pilot application process in 2018, every artist who applied was from a different country, representing nearly every region in the world. Over 50% of the applicants were female and the same number of applicants identified as painters. Geographically, 66% of the applicants reside in different zipcodes, spanning as far as Sugar Land, TX, and Katy, TX, right into Gulfton and Third Ward neighborhoods.
Houston Fellow Advisors
Francis Almendárez, 2018 Houston Artadia Awardee
Jillian Conrad, 2012 Houston Artadia Awardee
El Franco Lee II, 2005 and 2015 Houston Artadia Awardee
Delilah Montoya, 2008 Houston Artadia Awardee
Karen Navarro, 2019 Houston Fellow
Regina Agu, 2017 Houston Artadia Awardee
Bill Davenport, 2010 Houston Artadia Awardee
Laura Lark, 2004 Houston Artadia Awardee
Delilah Montoya, 2008 Houston Artadia Awardee
Kaneem Smith, 2017 Houston Artadia Awardee