The Art Career Emily McElwreath

The Art Career travelled to New Haven, CT, to sit down with Dr. Kymberly Pinder, Dean of The Yale School of Art.

Dr. Kymberly Pinder (she/her) is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean of the Yale School of Art. An alumna of Yale’s History of Art program, Dr. Pinder is an internationally recognized scholar of race, representation, and public art. She is the author of Painting the Gospel: Black Public Art and Religion in Chicago and the editor of Race-ing Art History: Critical Readings in Race and Art History. Dr. Pinder is widely known for her deep commitment to education and its potential to address local and national challenges. In addition to being an eminent scholar and educator, she has extensive experience at institutions of higher education and museums.

Dr. Pinder was appointed Yale’s first black woman dean in 2021. Prior to her appointment at Yale, she served as Provost and Senior Vice President, then later Acting President of Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt). Before her time in Boston, she was the Dean of the University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts for six years, director and curator of the University of New Mexico Art Museum, chair of the Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism, and director of that department’s graduate program at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago (SAIC). Dr. Pinder has also worked in museums and galleries, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago. Dr. Pinder received her M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Yale University.

Dr. Pinder has approached each of her leadership roles with the view that institutions of higher education must work closely with their home cities to advocate for the importance of arts and culture and to create reciprocal avenues of access. She has curated exhibitions on urgent contemporary issues and held forums for thoughtful student and community member dialogue. Working with local artists, schools and governments, she has helped create murals in Chicago and Albuquerque. Dr. Pinder serves on the boards of Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design (AICAD), the photography organization CENTER, the Boston Art Commission, Massachusetts State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Boston Public Art Triennial.

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This week we uncover the dark and twisted tales where art and crime intersect. A favorite from our true crime mini-series, this episode will explore the horrifying use of modern art as an instrument of torture in addition to the disturbing artistic endeavors of a notorious serial killer-clown. Brace yourself for these haunting narratives.-- 

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On Season 5, Episode 3 of The Art Career, Emily sits down with head of curatorial at Artsy, Jordan Huelskamp, at the Artsy headquarters in downtown NYC.



Jordan Huelskamp spearheads curation efforts at Artsy across the organization’s app and marketing channels. As Curatorial Lead, she reaches an audience of 5M+ users and followers, the largest online audience in commercial art. Her work illuminates data to tell compelling stories about the art market, with an aim to foreground overlooked artists. Huelskamp is also the Founder of Salon, a member-managed art fund. Her interests in merging art, human connection and technology draw from her prior experience as a culture writer and on the communications team at Apple. Huelskamp also sits on the board of the nonprofit WORTHLESSSTUDIOS in New York, which provides space, materials, and technical assistance for artists of all backgrounds to realize large-scale public art projects. Huelskamp was educated at Stanford University (B.A. in American Studies) and Columbia University (M.S. in Journalism).



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On Season 5, Episode 2, of The Art Career Podcast, Emily sits down with painter, Robin F. Williams, in their Greenpoint, Brooklyn studio.

Known for her large-scale paintings of stylized, sentient, yet ambiguously generated female figures, Robin F. Williams (b. 1984) employs a variety of techniques, including oil, airbrush, poured paint, marbling, and staining of raw canvas to create deeply textured and complexly constructed paintings. Combining a masterful technical understanding with an innate sense of curiosity, Williams fuses practices from social media channels such as Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube with references to early modernism, pop culture, advertising, and cinema, to challenge the systemic conventions around representations of women. Williams received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and has presented solo exhibitions at P·P·O·W, New York, NY; Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA; Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA; Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY; and Morán Morán, Mexico City, Mexico. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions nationally and internationally including In New York, Thinking of You (Part I), Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY; I’m Not Your Mother, P·P·O·W, New York, NY; Fire Figure Fantasy, ICA Miami, Miami, FL; Present Generations, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Bitter Nest, Galerie Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan; XENIA: Crossroads in Portrait Painting, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY; Nicolas Party: Pastel, Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY; SEED, curated by Yvonne Force, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY; and more. Her work is currently in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Collection Majudia, Montreal, Canada; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; X Museum, Beijing, China; among others. Robin F. Williams: We’ve Been Expecting You, Williams’ first solo institutional exhibition, is on view at the Columbus Museum of Art through August 18, 2024. Her first solo exhibition with Perrotin Tokyo opens in May 2024. 

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Welcome to Season 5 of The Art Career where we sit down with Sienna Fekete at The Lower East Side Girls Club.

Sienna Fekete is a Curator and Educator based in New York City with a background in radio, podcasting, and music. She is currently the Senior Arts Manager at The Lower Eastside Girls Club. Additionally, she is the curator of The Community Cookbook project volumes 1-3, was the 2021–2022 Curatorial Fellow at The Kitchen, was the host of the Points of View podcast via Cultured Magazine, and and was a Co-founder of Chroma, a cultural agency and creative studio centering on the work and perspectives of women of color. She looks forward to creating more women of color-led initiatives, producing audio projects, spearheading public programming and educational opportunities, growing her practice as a curator, and building collectively with her community. She has worked with BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra, On Air Fest, Red Bull Arts, NTS, The Lot Radio, StoryCorps, Top Rank Magazine, Domino Sound, SiriusXM, Adidas, Nike, CultureHub, AnOther Magazine, BOMB Magazine, Dazed Magazine, Awake NY, Knockdown Center, Abrons Art Center, Glossier, The Standard, Calvin, Klein, Silica Magazine, Sky High Farm, Ethel’s Club, Buffalo Zine, 8 Ball Community, Documenting the Nameplate, POWRPLNT, TXTbooks, Park Avenue Armory, The New Museum, The Public Art Fund, The Studio Museum in Harlem, MoMa, MoMA PS1, Printed Matter, The Community Paris, The Guggenheim, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
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On this special episode of The Art Career, Emily sits down with New York Times bestselling author, Bianca Bosker, who discusses her latest book, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See.



Bianca Bosker is the New York Times bestselling author of Cork Dork and, most recently, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See. A contributing writer at The Atlantic, she has also written for publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Her work has been recognized with awards from the New York Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, and more, and has been included in The Best American Travel Writing. She lives in New York City.



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