Speakers

Vanessa Arnold is a feminist artist and educator, born in Ottawa, ON, currently living and working in New York City, and attending Teachers College, Columbia University. Her art practice is based in mixed media, spanning from miniature to gargantuan, and engaging with shop technologies, the arcane, the everyday, sculpture, drawing, photography, public art, and social media. Her research interests include: feminism, language, failure, analytic philosophy, pop culture and dark humour.‌‌

Stephanie Buhmann was born in Hamburg, Germany. She received a B.F.A. and Master in the History of Art, Architecture and Design from Pratt Institute, NY, with Honors (2002). She is a member of the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art and the Deutscher Fachjournalisten-Verband. She is a contributing editor at Artcritical. Her essays and art reviews have been published by a variety of international galleries, newspapers, and art magazines, including a regular art column in Chelsea Now. She has curated numerous solo and group exhibitions in New York and Germany, independently and on behalf of Jason McCoy Gallery, where she has been on staff for the past decade and was made director in 2010. Her latest endeavor, “In Conversation” is a compilation of studio interviews with artists based in New York, inspiring two related group shows at BMCC’s Shirley Fiterman Art Center (2015) and the Macy Art Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University (2016), as well as the book "New York Studio Conversation; 17 Women Talk About Art", published by The Green Box / Berlin (2016).

Since 1994 Ingrid Butterer has been an K - 12 New York City public school art teacher. Her experience also includes teaching abroad and in the private sector. From 2000 to 2011 Ingrid taught a variety courses, such as the Artistic Development of Children and Lesson Planning in the Art and Art education department at Teachers College, Columbia University and Brooklyn College, The City University of New York. She has presented at the New York City Art Teachers Association (UFT) and the National Art Education Association annual conferences speaking on topics such as effective dialogue, the benefits of materials exploration, approaches to student self-assessment and curriculum development. Ingrid is a continuing student at Teachers College, working on her doctorate in Art and Art Education. Her research is focused on the nature of material exploration activity as it relates to adolescent artistic growth. Presently, she teaches at Fiorello H. Laguardia High School for Music, Art and the Performing Arts in New York City.

Siân Evans is an art librarian and the co-founder of Art+Feminism, a campaign to improve coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia. As Senior Implementation Manager for Shared Shelf at Artstor, she has extensive experience in outreach, training and advocacy of library-related software. She is also actively involved in the library community, publishing on issues around open access, collaborative cataloging, and alternative access to special collections. Her writing can be found in peer reviewed journals such as Art Documentation and The Serials Librarian, and her work with Art+Feminism has been covered by The New York Times, The Wallstreet Journal, ARTnews, and more.

Elizabeth Garber researches ceramics and craft in relationship to material culture and education, the role of gender in visual culture as it affects women’s and girls’ lives, and diversity and social justice in art and visual culture education. She is published widely in journals and anthologies and has been a featured speaker at many universities and conferences. She was Fulbright Professor to the University of Art and Design, Helsinki (now Aalto University) and has held numerous editorial and review posts. She is currently a professor at the University of Arizona.

Karen Keifer-Boyd, Ph.D., Professor of Art Education and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, is past president of the National Art Education Association (NAEA) Women’s Caucus, past coordinator of the Caucus on Social Theory, NAEA Distinguished Fellow Class of 2013, and the 2013 Edwin Ziegfeld Awardee. She was the 2012 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Gender Studies at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria, and a 2006 Fulbright Scholar in Finland. She is a member of the Council for Policy Studies. She co-founded the Visual Culture & Gender journal and co-authored Including Difference (NAEA, 2013); InCITE, InSIGHT, InSITE(NAEA, 2008); Engaging Visual Culture (Davis, 2007); co-edited Real-World Readings in Art Education: Things Your Professors Never Told You (Falmer, 2000); and served as editor of the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, and guest editor forVisual Arts Research.

Jacqueline Mabey’s work is shaped both by ten years of post-secondary education in art history and cultural studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, McGill University, and The University of British Columbia, and her multifarious professional experience in commercial galleries and curatorial, public programs, archives, and editorial departments. Her practice is rooted in praxis: she endeavors to create exhibitions, situations, and words that draw out the complexities and complicities of digital materiality. Mabey works independently under the honorific, failed projects.

Michael Mandiberg is an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and educator. His work traces the lines of political and symbolic power online, working on the Internet in order to comment on and or intercede in the real and poetic flows of information. He sold all of his possessions online on Shop Mandiberg,made perfect copies of copies onAfterSherrieLevine.com, created Firefox plugins that highlight the real environmental costs of a global economy onTheRealCosts.com, and transformed all of Wikipedia into books for Print Wikipedia. He is co-author of Digital Foundations and Collaborative Futures, as well as the editor of The Social Media Reader. He founded the New York Arts Practicum, and co-founded the Art+Feminism Wikipedia Editathon. His work has been exhibited at the New Museum, Ars Electronica, ZKM, and Transmediale. A formerSenior Fellow at Eyebeam, he is currently Associate Professor at the College of Staten Island/CUNY and a member of the Doctoral Faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center. ‌‌

Mike Rugnetta is a Brooklyn based composer, programmer and performer. He is the writer and host of the award winning YouTube series Idea Channel, which applies critical and philosophical concepts to popular culture. Idea Channel is produced by PBS Digital Studios. He is also the creator of the podcast Reasonably Sound, which is about the science, culture, and theory of all things audio. He sits on the board of the Brooklyn based arts organization Avant Media and is a graduate of Bennington College.

Anne Swartz is a Professor of Art History at the Savannah College of Art and Design.  She specializes in contemporary art, especially feminist art and new media.  She holds degrees in art history from the University of the South (BA), Vanderbilt University (MA), and Case Western Reserve University (PhD).  She was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2011-12.  Her awards and fellowships include a Fulbright Fellowship to Tokyo, Japan, 2002-03, and Presidential Fellowships for Faculty Development from the Savannah College of Art and Design, 2002 and 2013.

Connie Tell is the Director of the Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She received her BFA from the University of Massachusetts and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is a working artist in addition to being an accomplished arts administrator who has worked with numerous non-profit arts organizations and institutions. She began her tenure at Rutgers University in 2007 as the Project Manager for The Feminist Art Project. She became the Director of the Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities in 2012.

Stephanie Weissberg is the Curatorial Assistant for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center of Feminist Art. She has assisted with planning, research, and logistics for numerous Sackler Center exhibitions including Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey; Suzanne Lacy- Between the Door and the Street; Chicago in L.A:. Judy Chicago’s Early Work, 1963–74; Judith Scott- Bound andUnbound; and Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence. She co-organized Women of York: “Shared Dining” with Catherine Morris in 2015 and served as co-curator on the Sackler Center’s current exhibition Agitprop!. Her research interests include queer and gender theory, contemporary performance, and labor and activism in visual culture. She holds an MA in Museum Studies from New York University and a BA from University of California, Berkeley.

Eleanor Whitney is a Brooklyn-based community manager, writer, educator and entrepreneur. She is currently the Community Marketing Manager at Dev Bootcamp and has also worked at Shapeways, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Rubin and the Brooklyn Museum, where she planned public programs for the Sackler Center for Feminist Art. She is the author of Grow, a practical field guide for starting a creative business. She has also published the feminist, personal zine Indulgence for over 15 years. She holds Bachelors Degree in Cultural Studies and a Masters in Public Administration.