I am very happy and very humbled to have been selected as an exhibiting artist in Curate NYC. The selection committee is staffed with a diverse group of industry professionals, nearly 1200 artists submitted entries and 150 artists were selected.

Below find some information about Curate NYC. Check out the project website (http://www.curatenyc.org/)and view the work of all the talented New York based artists who participated. You can view my entry here. Here is the complete list of the selected artists. CurateNYC

New York City is a global arts center, but maintaining that status means cultivating new talent.

To advance the cause, the New York City Economic Development Corporation and Full Spectrum Experience Inc. bring you Curate NYC – a showcase for emerging New York City artistic talent.

Curate NYC is a multi-venue juried exhibition that will display postcard-sized reproductions of images by up to 150 artists selected by the project’s Curatorial Committee.

Each postcard will feature an artist's original image, bio and website address. All entries will remain on the Curate NYC website for ongoing review. Selected entries will be presented at three exhibitions held at venues across New York City.

Images were evaluated along four criteria: originality, technical skill, emergence of a personal vision or voice, and positive subjective impact upon the curators.

Entries were considered across all visual media, including photography, digital images, film/video stills, and photos of drawings, installations, mixed-media, paintings, printmaking and sculpture.

The Exhibitions

From October 21-31, 2010, CURATE NYC will exhibit 5x6" postcard reproductions of images by up to 150 artists at three shows:

Rush Arts Gallery & Resource Center
Exhibition Hours: Thursdays-Saturdays, 12:00-6:00 p.m.
Opening: Thursday, October 21, 5:30-9:00 p.m.

526 West 26th Street
[Between 10th & 11th Avenues, in Chelsea]
New York, NY 10001-5521
C/E train to 23rd Street

A program of Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation.

Essex Street Market
Exhibition Hours: Thursdays-Saturdays, 12:00-6:00 p.m
120 Essex Street
[at Delancey Street, on the Lower East Side]
New York, NY 10002
J & Z trains to Essex Street
F & M trains to Delancey Street
An NYCEDC-managed property.

Curate NYC Pop-Up Wall
Traveling on weekends between two locations:

La Marqueta Open Plaza
Saturdays, October 23 & 30
Exhibition Hours: 12:00-6:00 p.m.*
1607 Park Avenue
[between E. 115th & 116th Streets, in East Harlem]
New York, NY 10029
6 train to 116th Street
5 train to 125th Street
An NYCEDC-managed property.

St. George Yankees Minor League Stadium
Sundays, October 24 & 31
Exhibition Hours: 12:00-6:00 p.m.*
75 Richmond Terrace
Staten Island, NY 10314
Short walk from Staten Island Ferry Terminal.
An NYCEDC-managed property.

* Note: The Curate NYC Pop-Up Wall will be unveiled at the Rush Arts Gallery opening on October 21 as cited above.

The Project Team

Brian Tate & Danny Simmons
Project Development, Strategy & Production

Mega Digital
Website Development & Strategy

LaRonda Davis & Jana Jarosz
Graphic Design & Website Graphics

Paula Thompson
Artists Liaison & Social Media

Judith Sloan
Public Relations

Nina Ziefvert
Gallery Openings & Coordination

Bios

Photo by Kevin Irby
Brian Tate
Project Development, Strategy & Production
www.tatestrategy.com

Musician/marketing strategist Brian Tate is president of The Tate Group, a consulting firm that specializes in strategic planning, strategic marketing, cultural initiatives, and economic development. Clients have included Brooklyn Tourism, the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation, the Guggenheim Museum, WNYC Radio, and others. Tate is former executive director of the DC Committee to Promote Washington, a nonprofit organization that marketed the Nation's Capital around the world and generated $93 million per year in city revenues. He is creator/former producer of the Taste of DC Festival, which attracted 1.2 million people per year. He is also creator of the Brooklyn New Music Festival, the Dark Harvest Film Festival, and other projects.

Danny Simmons
Project Development, Strategy & Production
www.rushphilanthropic.org

Painter/gallery owner/arts philanthropist Danny Simmons is Co-Founder/ Vice Chair of Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, which awards millions of dollars to arts-in-education programs for young people. He is creator of the Peabody- and Tony-award winning Def Poetry; the multi-venue Project Diversity art exhibitions, which showed work by hundreds of NYC artists; and the Brooklyn Alternate Learning Center Poetry Project, which brought arts workshops to underserved high school students. A champion of arts and culture, Simmons is Chairman of the New York State Council on the Arts. He serves on the Boards of Directors of BAM, Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Brooklyn Public Library, and the National Conference of Artists.

Judith Sloan
Public Relations
www.earsay.org

Actress/radio producer/human rights activist/educator Judith Sloan is Co-Founder of EarSay, Inc, an artist-driven non-profit arts organization dedicated to uncovering and portraying stories of the uncelebrated. EarSay projects bridge the divide between documentary and expressive forms in books, exhibitions, on stage, in sound & electronic media. Committed to fostering understanding across cultures, generations, gender and class, through artistic productions and education. EarSay's Crossing the BLVD (co-created with Warren Lehrer) is a multimedia project about new immigrants and refugees won the Brendan Gill Prize among others. Sloan's solo performances have won multiple awards. Her work has been featured on National Public Radio, in the New York Times, Washington Post and has received support from the Ford Foundation, The National Endowment for the Humanities, and arts in-education awards from various foundations and schools.

The Curatorial Committee

Naomi Beckwith
Assistant Curator, Studio Museum In Harlem

Isolde Brielmaier
Curator/Creative Consultant; Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Vassar College;
Guest Professor, Barnard College/Columbia University and New York University

Cecilia Jurado
Curator, Y Gallery New York

Matthew Lyons
Curator, The Kitchen

Meridith McNeal
Artist/Curator; Director of Education, Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation

Lauren Ross
Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Curator and Director of Arts Programs, Friends of the High Line

Amy Sadao
Executive Director, Visual AIDS

Jovana Stokic
Curator, Location One's Abramovic Studio

Meenakshi Thirukode
Curator; Gallery Manager, Guild Art Gallery, NY; Art Critic, Sunday Magazine, The Hindu; Board Member, South Asian Women’s Creative Collective
Hank Willis Thomas
Artist/Independent Curator

(Sample 5x6" postcard reproduction)