IAC’s forthcoming 28th annual American Art Conference Multiple Modernities will explore manifestations and meanings of the modern in American art from the late 19th through the mid-20th century through talks, panels, conversations, and private events. We are grateful to American Fine Art Magazine for featuring a preview about our upcoming event taking place May 9-11 in New York City at Heritage Auctions. IAC is delighted
Congratulations to IAC president, Lisa Koenigsberg's mother, Nancy Koenigsberg, whose exhibition at the Nancy Hoffman Gallery will open on February 1. Nancy is an accomplished mixed media artist, most known for her tactile woven, knotted, and crocheted wire sculptures. The show will run through March, 16 2024. We hope to see you there! To view more of Nancy’s work, visit https://www.nancykoenigsberg.com/
We congratulate Shiqing Deng, winner of the third Bennett Prize and Ruth Dealy, winner of the inaugural Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt Prize for Achievement in Figurative Realism presented at the Muskegon Museum of Art in Muskegon, Michigan. And we salute Steven Alan Bennett and Elaine Melotti Schmidt for their commitment to promoting women figurative painters and their work. Themselves collectors of figurative paintings of women
Initiatives in Art and Culture’s 28th Annual American Art Conference, Multiple Modernities, will take place at Heritage Auctions at 56th and Park Avenue in New York City, May 9 – 11. Conference participants will be guests of The American Art Fair's invitation-only Gala Preview.
John Neagle. Pat Lyon at the Forge, 1829. Oil on canvas, unframed: 94½ x 68½ in. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of the Lyon Family, 1842.1. Declared by Congress in 1894, the first Monday in September honors the nation’s workers and their contributions to the wellbeing of the country. Its roots are seen to date to the 1886 Haymarket Riot in Chicago.
Grateful to Heritage Auctions for a spectacular kickoff reception which featured welcoming remarks from Roberta Kramer (Vice President - Strategy and Business Development at Heritage Auctions). Key to the evening was lively conversation with friends and colleagues reuniting, and new relationships being formed.
See IAC President and Founder Lisa Koenigsberg’s recent article, "Multiple Modernities," in American Fine Art Magazine. To read the full article, visit: https://www.americanfineartmagazine.com/issues/69
The last Saturday of the month, April 29th, is International Sculpture Day (ISDAY)! In honor of this day, IAC highlights three American women sculptors: Ruth Asawa, Simone Leigh, and Rose B. Simpson.
Supporting Lisa's Koenigsberg's extraordinary mother whose work will be shown along with that of five other artists at a group show at Space Galleries in Denver, CO. Seven pieces of Koenigsberg's work will be on exhibit, March 16 - April 15, 2023. Nancy Koenigsberg is a full time artist and maintains a studio in NYC. Her work uses a variety of textile techniques – weaving,
IAC's founder and president, Lisa Koenigsberg, has published an article in American Fine Arts Magazine derived from the proceedings of the 2022 American Art Conference, Cut, Cast, Carved and Coupled: Perspectives on Women in American Art. To read the full article, visit: https://www.americanfineartmagazine.com/issues To watch individual sessions from our 27th Annual American Art Conference visit: https://artinitiatives.com/cut-cast-carved-and-coupled-iacs-27th-annual-american-art-conference/ Mark your calendars for IAC’s 28th Annual American Art
Florine Stettheimer (1871 – 1944) is an American artist best known for her four monumental and symbolic works featuring what she considered New York City's "Cathedrals": Broadway, Wall Street, Fifth Avenue, and the Metropolitan Museum. An American modernist, Stettheimer was a feminist, theatrical designer, poet, and salonnière. Her fanciful theatrical painting style was characterized by a striking palette and often included depictions of her friends
Portraiture has often been used to visually convey a subject's power using stylistic devices and references to wealth, rank, status, and to the tradition of works that precede them. Portraits have for millennia underscored the rank, privilege, and office of their subjects in political, ecclesiastical, mercantile, and cultural life. Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley have distinct approaches to portraiture while simultaneously addressing core themes of
Save the Date for IAC’s 28th Annual American Art Conference, November 14 – 15, 2023 New York City – The Cosmopolitan Club
Throughout Black History Month, IAC examines the relationship between power, race, and visual representation from various perspectives. IAC celebrates the awarding of Edmonia Lewis' posthumous diploma alongside the Oberlin College community. Thank you to Oberlin College’s President Ambar for conferring on this great artist the degree she rightfully deserved. A sculptor of international renown, Edmonia Lewis was born in 1844 to parents of African–American and
IAC’s 28th Annual American Art Conference November 14 – 15, 2023 New York City – The Cosmopolitan Club
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