Tuesday, May 21
12:00-2:00 PM
583 Park Avenue, NYC
The American Federation of Arts is pleased to invite you to the 2024 Spring Luncheon featuring contemporary artist and painter Tschabalala Self as guest speaker in conversation with Kimberli Gant, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum.
The Spring Luncheon brings together a passionate community of artists, scholars, collectors, museum directors, and distinguished professionals to support the AFA’s important work. Past speakers include Sanford Biggers, Marilyn Minter, Jeff Koons, Anne Pasternak and Will Cotton, among others.
With several exhibition openings under way, and a variety of new projects on the horizon, the AFA remains committed to its mission of expanding arts access through touring exhibitions and a robust offering of public programs. Your support ensures that audiences of all backgrounds can experience the transformative power of art. Thank you!
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Dress code for this event is business attire.
Florals provided by Élan Flowers.
Spring Luncheon Leadership
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Chairs Elizabeth Belfer Komal Shah |
Co-Chairs Lorre Erlick Christian Levett Clare E. McKeon Stephen Reily Kimerly Rorschach
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Host Committee
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Betsy Shack Barbanell Tsipi Ben-Haim Jonathan P. Binstock, PhD Annette Blaugrund, PhD Janis Gardner Cecil Christie’s Diller Scofidio + Renfro Mark Dion Brian J. Ferriso Leslie & Tom L. Freudenheim Gagosian Lee White Galvis & Sergio Galvis Judith A. Garson Elaine Goldman Alva G. Greenberg Maren Hassinger Lauren Haynes Anthony Hirschel Elizabeth Madigan Jost Kaye Spiegler PLLC Roya Khadjavi Ligel Lambert Barbara & Richard S. Lane Mary Lapides Arnold L. Lehman |
NancyJane & Jeffrey M. Loewy Claire Marmion PURE Insurance Gabrielle Richter Alexis Rockman Patricia Ruiz-Healy Legacy Russell Capera Ryan Betsy Pinover Schiff & Edward Schiff Angelica Semmelbauer Cindy Sherman James S. Snyder & Tina D. Snyder Belinda Tate Ellen & Bill Taubman Ian Taylor Susan Taylor Two Palms, NY Kay WalkingStick Monique Schoen Warshaw Sandra Warshawsky Daniel Weiss Yaél M. Weitz Julián Zugazagoitia
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Tschabalala Self (b. 1990, Harlem, NY) lives and works in upstate New York. Self graduated with a BA from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, in 2012 and an MFA from the Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, in 2015. Solo exhibitions include Around the Way, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland (2024); Feed Me, Kiss Me, Need Me, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek Grimbergen, Grimbergen, Belgium (2023); Spaces and Places, Eva Presenhuber Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland (2023); Seated, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, United Kingdom (2023); Inside Out, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland (2023); and Home Body, Pilar Corrias, London, United Kingdom (2022), among others. Recent group exhibitions include Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, The Barbican, London, United Kingdom (2024); Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, Brooklyn Museum, NY (2024); Making Their Mark, Shah Garg Foundation, New York, NY (2023); It doesn’t go away even if you stop believing in it, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France (2023); and The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (2023); among others.
Kimberli Gant is the Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She was previously the McKinnon Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, VA, and has also worked as the Mellon Doctoral Fellow at the Newark Museum, and Director of Exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (MoCADA).
She has curated numerous exhibitions and gallery reinstallations including Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz & Alicia Keys (2024), Spike Lee: Creative Sources (2023), Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence & the Mbari Club(2022), Journey’s Across the Border: U.S. & Mexico (2021-22), Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Boat People (2021), Brendan Fernandes: Bodily Forms (2020), and John Akomfrah: Tropikos (2019). Gant received her PhD in Art History from the University of Texas Austin (2017), and holds both a MA and BA in Art History from Columbia University (2009) and Pitzer College (2002).
Gant has published scholarly work in academic books, such as Anywhere But Here: Black Intellectuals in the Atlantic World and Beyond (2015), art publications such as NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Art Lies and African Arts, and exhibition catalogues for The Chrysler Museum, The Newark Museum, The Contemporary Austin, the Studio Museum of Harlem, MoCADA, Paris Photo, and the Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos.
