Join HAHS in NYC @ Nurturing The Next Generation

This convening is generously underwritten by the Historic Artist Homes and Studios (HAHS), a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Attendance to this convening is free; attendees are responsible for travel expenses, room and board. Need-based travel stipends are available for HAHS Members and Affiliate Members who plan to attend. This page will continue to be updated as more details and information are finalized.

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Convening Details

Nurturing the Next Generation: Access, Pathways, & Mentorship brings together the Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios (HAHS) a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and artist-endowed foundations (AEFs) for a three-day convening reflecting on various opportunities for expanding and preparing the next generation of arts leaders. Grounded in a shared value of equitable practice, this gathering centers the experiences of young professionals, particularly undergraduate and graduate students with financial need and those from backgrounds underrepresented in the arts and within the HAHS and AEF networks.

Organized as an invitational convening, Nurturing the Next Generation: Access, Pathways, & Mentorship focuses on collective knowledge sharing, community practices, and peer connections within HAHS and AEF networks. This convening will consist of a day of panel sessions bookended by two days of site visits, along with various networking opportunities.

Schedule

DAY 1

Tuesday, April 14

10:00 am – 12:30 pm | Welcome reception and tour at Alice Austen House (Staten Island, NY)
Transportation will be provided

2:00 – 3:30 pm | Ben-Zion Estate, Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation, Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation

4:00 – 5:30 pm | Benny Andrews Estate, Easton Foundation, Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation

Multiple site visits happening concurrently. More information about site visits to be updated on this platform in coming weeks. Registration for site visits will be sent out in advance.

DAY 2

Wednesday, April 15

Hosted at the SVA Theatre

9:30 – 10:30 am | Light Breakfast / Check In

10:30 am – 12:00 pm | Welcoming Remarks & Session 1
Aspen Institute’s Artist-Endowed Foundations Initiative (AEFI): Consortium Advancing Next-Gen Leaders in the Visual Arts
Moderator: Lauraberth Lima (Consulting Learning Leader, AEF Consortium Advancing Next-Gen Leaders in the Visual Arts)
Speakers: Sasha Davis, Consortium Fellow Supervisor (Executive Director, Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation), Julie PhamVu, Consortium Fellow Supervisor (Program Manager, Dedalus Foundation), Infiniti Robinson (Cohort 2023, interned at the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation), Valerie Rodriguez (Cohort 2023, interned at the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation)

12:00 – 1:30 pm | Session 2
Studio Sessions – How Historic Artist Sites Are Training Tomorrow’s Leaders
Moderator: Victoria Munro (Executive Director, Alice Austen House)
Speakers: Carolyn Keough (Director of Education and Public Programs, Olana State Historic Site), Joe Lewis (President, Noah Purifoy Foundation), Michael McFalls (Director Pasaquan/Columbus State University), David Walker (Archivist, Louise Bourgeois Archive/The Easton Foundation)

1:30 – 3:00 pm | Boxed Lunch / Networking

3:00 – 4:30 pm | Session 3
 HAHS Emerging Voices Internship Program
Moderator: Valerie Balint (Director, Historic Artists’ Homes & Studios)
Speakers: Julia Angel (Undergraduate, UC Berkeley), Sydney Barofsky (PhD Candidate, University of Chicago), Sophia Molina (Undergraduate, Wesleyan University), Lluvia Munoz (Undergrad, Oberlin College), Keelin Pogue (Post Graduate, Bard Graduate Center), Blue Tarpalechee, PhD (Director of the Native American Center, Stanford University)

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm | Happy Hour / Networking

DAY 3

Thursday, April 16

10:00 am – 11:30 pm | Dedalus Foundation, Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation, Rosemarie Beck Foundation

12:00 – 1:30 pm |  Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

2:00 – 3:30 pm | Ben-Zion Estate, Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation, Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation

4:00 – 5:30 pm | Noguchi Musem

Multiple site visits happening concurrently. More information about site visits to be updated on this platform in coming weeks. Registration for site visits will be sent out in advance.

About the Program Leaders

Nurturing the Next Generation is organized by Historic Artist Homes & Studios (HAHS)
in collaboration with the Aspen Institute’s Artist-Endowed Foundations Initiative (AEFI).

ABOUT HAHS

Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios (HAHS), a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is a coalition of 80 historic sites across the United States that were the homes and working studios of American artists. As the only national organization dedicated to telling a site-specific story of our nation’s art history, HAHS supports its member sites in stewarding these creative places through shared resources, professional development, and collaborative best practices. HAHS leverages the collective knowledge and experience of its members to strengthen the interpretation of America’s creative legacy for diverse contemporary audiences.

ABOUT THE EMERGING voices program

HAHS is honored to support the next generation of young professionals through undergraduate and graduate level internships and the engagement of post-graduate writers focused on amplifying place-based art history. We are committed to creating diversity in the fields of art and preservation through these opportunities. Our young peers are invited to explore sites and artists of historically underrepresented communities through research projects of their own choosing, and to create digital storytelling for public audiences. Learn more about the projects completed by this inspiring group of future stewards: https://artistshomes.org/emerging-voices/.

ABOUT AEFI

The Aspen Institute Artist-Endowed Foundations Initiative | AEFI is a collegial learning community composed of foundations endowed by visual artists with their creative works and rights whose leaders collaborate to advance the charitable impact of the AEF field’s work in art stewardship and cultural philanthropy. This mission is realized through research, publication, leadership convenings, and professional education programs supporting those who create, manage, and govern Artist-Endowed Foundations. Learn more at: www.aspeninstitute.org/AEFI.

About the AEF consortium

The AEF Consortium Advancing Next-Gen Leaders in the Visual Arts is a three-year demonstration project (2023-2025) spearheaded by AEFI to identify and disseminate effective practice in hosting interns/fellows from backgrounds underrepresented in the visual arts. Operating as a national collaborative of Artist-Endowed Foundations, Consortium members provide paid summer internships and fellowships to college students whose individual project-based learning experiences with their host AEFs are enhanced with collective educational, professional development, and mentoring programming that supports the evolution of their personal life/learning path. Learn more at this link.

Documentation & Social Media Policy

Nurturing the Next Generation is a space for open, honest exchange, and we’re committed to protecting that spirit. This convening will be recorded and live-streamed for our closed, invitation-only audience. Recordings may be used for HAHS communications and campaigns; however, individual quotes will not be attributed to specific speakers without their permission.

If you prefer not to be photographed or included in social media content, red dot stickers will be available for your lanyard at check-in. We ask that attendees refrain from recording video or audio on personal devices, and that no quotes from speakers or participants be shared publicly without explicit consent. Thank you for helping us cultivate a space rooted in care, trust, and respect.

Special thanks to Rachel Reichert, Sasha Davis, and Kat LoPalo for their leadership and organization of this event. Supported in part by a generous anonymous gift in memory of Roger Brown and the former Roger Brown Study Collection (Chicago).