Past Lectures + Workshops
Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the PMA
Saturday, March 7, 2020 | 10am–2pm
Portland Museum of Art | 7 Congress Circle, Portland ME
free | exhibition entrance with museum admission
This interactive event is a do-it-yourself and do-it-with-others campaign that teaches people of all gender identities and expressions to edit Wikipedia. Everyone is invited to participate in this event: we will provide training, support, ideas, wifi, and community discussions. We encourage attendees who are able to bring their own laptops.
We highly encourage people to join the PMA Wikipedia Edit-a-thon dashboard in advance! Click here to connect to the event (you will need to create a Wikipedia account if you don’t already have one). Joining our common dashboard will ensure that our collective edits are tracked and counted together so we can see our communal progress toward a more equitable Wikipedia.
And take a look at our editing checklist to get excited and prepared for the event!
Art+Feminism Panel Discussion at the PMA
Thursday, March 5, 2020 | 6–7:30pm
Portland Museum of Art | 7 Congress Circle, Portland ME
free with museum admission
This panel discussion will address how Wikipedia intersects with research, representation, and the arts. Hosted by Jenna Crowder (Editor, The Chart), Lareese Hall (Director, Colby College Libraries), Julien Langevin (artist and writer), and Marcia Minter ( Co-Director, Indigo Arts Alliance). This discussion will provide a contextual intro toward Saturday’s Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, with a brief post-session on how to get involved.
The PMA Art + Feminism Panel Discussion and Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon is hosted by The Chart alongside Carrie Moyer & Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times, an exhibition that reimagines a familiar form of religious furniture — the tabernacle — as a symbolic location for cultural values such as justice, equality, and knowledge, and which create spaces for community and dialogue.
Art+Feminism is a non-profit organization that directly addresses the inequality of gender, feminism, and the arts on Wikipedia. Through building a global community and hosting edit-a-thons around the world, we strive to close the gaps in content and with editors.
2019 Anthology Release Party!
Friday, November 22, 2019
6–8pm
Able Baker Contemporary
29 Forest Avenue, Portland
The Chart + Able Baker Contemporary invite you to celebrate the arts and arts writing with an anthology release party and essay tinder in which each guest will be matched with an essay or text suggested by artists, curators, writers, and thinkers of all kinds. Join us on Friday, November 22 for a very special party to cozy up, be with friends, and ease into winter together.
2019 Visiting Critic Lecture Series, June–September 2019
Building on ideas of participatory publishing, The Chart’s 2019 Visiting Critic Lecture Series brings five arts writers and visual arts critics to Maine from June through September for immersive, in-person dialogue and critical engagement with place. Visiting Critics will present public lectures around their research and practice and will also conduct studio and site visits as part of their residency.
The Chart’s Visiting Critic Lecture Series is generously funded in part by a project grant from the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation.
Leah Triplett Harrington: Visiting Critic Lecture
Thursday, September 26, 2019 | 6pm
SPACE | 538 Congress Street, Portland ME
free + open to the public
The Chart and SPACE are pleased to present a free, public lecture by arts writer and curator Leah Triplett Harrington on Thursday, September 26 at 6pm as part of The Chart’s 2019 Visiting Critic Lecture Series. Harrington’s talk, entitled “Consider the potted plant: some thoughts on contemporary art production,” will focus on the art world’s current interest in regionalism within contemporary art production. Examining particular regional publications and biennials, this talk hopes to explore new, non-binary approaches to regionalism and globalism, and in so doing, offer thoughts on critical distance and positionality of art writing and exhibition-making.
Leah Triplett Harrington is a curator, editor, and writer. She is the founding editor of The Rib, a publication dedicated to contemporary art and its communities outside of major urban centers. Her writing has most recently appeared there as well as Flash Art, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail. In 2017, she was a finalist for the Rabkin Prize for Arts Journalism. In 2018 she opened Under a Dismal Boston Skyline at Boston University Art Gallery. In 2019, she became assistant curator for Now + There, a Boston-based public art non-profit. Leah has lectured at Boston University, Montserrat College of Art, Stonehill College, Tufts University Art Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Arts Writing Workshop with The Chart’s 2019 Critic-in-Residence Jacquelyn Gleisner
Monday, August 19, 2019 | 6pm
SPACE | 538 Congress Street, Portland ME
free + open to the public
This two-hour workshop focuses on the craft of writing, particularly the drafting of compelling artist statements and project descriptions. Participants will learn tips for using concise, visual language that will help clarify and communicate their ideas verbally. If possible, participants should bring a sample artist statement to the workshop for review.
Jacquelyn Gleisner: Visiting Critic Lecture
Saturday, August 17, 2019 | 5pm
Able Baker Contemporary | 29 Forest Avenue, Portland ME
free + open to the public
Jacquelyn Gleisner is an artist, writer, and educator. Born outside of Buffalo, New York, Gleisner’s earliest memories of art are inside Lucas Samaras’ experiential installation, Mirrored Room (1966) at the Albright Knox Gallery. She holds degrees from the Cranbrook Academy of Art (MFA, 2010) and Boston University (BFA, summa cum laude, 2006), and her work as a visual artist has been exhibited throughout the United States, especially within New England, and internationally, in Italy, Finland, and Botswana. In 2010, Gleisner was awarded a Fulbright grant to Helsinki where she researched surface design across art, fashion, and architecture. Five years later, she traveled around Botswana through an artist exchange funded by the Art in Embassies Program. As a writer, Gleisner has been published in Hyperallergic, Art New England, Two Coats of Paint, Arteidolia, Black Balloon Publishing, and Glass Quarterly, among others. Additionally, Gleisner was a regular contributor to four columns for the ART21 magazine for over seven years. Last year, she founded Connecticut Art Review, a writing platform for the arts in and around the state with the twin objectives of focusing on underrepresented communities and raising awareness of pressing social, cultural, and/or political issues. Since 2017, Gleisner has worked at the University of New Haven as a Practitioner in Residence in the Art & Design Department. She is currently serving as half of the Creative in Residence team with her husband and collaborator, Ryan Paxton, at Ives Squared, the makerspace at the New Haven Free Public Library.
James McAnally: Visiting Critic Lecture
Thursday, August 1, 2019 | 6pm
SPACE | 538 Congress Street, Portland ME
free + open to the public
The Chart and SPACE are pleased to welcome James McAnally to Maine to present a free, public talk on Thursday, August 1st at 6pm at SPACE as part of The Chart’s 2019 Visiting Critic Lecture Series. McAnally’s talk will focus, in part, on the rapid closure of regional and independent publications in the past year or so, what their roles are in a larger ecosystem, and some proposals for how to support a next wave of publishing.
James McAnally is a co-founder and caretaker of The Luminary, an expansive platform for art, thought, and action based in St. Louis, MO. McAnally also serves as the executive editor and co-founder of Temporary Art Review, an international platform for contemporary art criticism that focuses on artist-run and alternative spaces, and is a founding member of Common Field, a national network of independent art spaces and organizers. McAnally has presented exhibitions, talks and lectures at venues such as the Walker Art Center, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation with Ballroom Marfa, Kadist Art Foundation, The Contemporary, Gwangju Biennial, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Kansas City Art Institute, INCA, Transformer, Washington University in St. Louis, and Moore College of Art and Design and has served as a Visual Arts panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts. McAnally’s writing has appeared in publications such as Art Journal, Art in America, Hyperallergic, OEI, Terremoto, Pelican Bomb, and many others, and his publications are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and Brooklyn Museum. McAnally is a recipient of the Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for Short-Form Writing.
Jordan Amirkhani: Visiting Critic Lecture
Saturday, July 6, 2019 | 6pm
John Coleman Studio | 525 Danforth Street, Portland ME
free + open to the public
As part of The Chart’s 2019 Visiting Critic Lecture Series, we are welcoming Dr. Jordan Amirkhani — an arts writer, curator, and professor of art history — who will give a free, public talk on Saturday, July 6th at 6pm at the new studio of John Coleman in Portland, Maine. We’ll have some light snacks and beverages available before and after the lecture.
Dr. Jordan Amirkhani is an art historian, critic, curator, and educator based in Washington, DC, where she serves as a Professorial Lecturer in Global Modern and Contemporary Art History at American University. Jordan received her PhD in the History and Philosophy of Art from the University of Kent in the United Kingdom in 2015 and has held academic posts at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga and Canterbury Christchurch University in the UK as well as curatorial positions at The Royal Academy in London, England and The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. Prior to her engagement as Juror for the CACNO’s 2019 Open Call exhibition, Jordan organized exhibitions for The Moon Gallery at Berry College in Mt. Berry, GA, and The Apothecary Gallery in Chattanooga, TN. Amirkhani has published scholarship on the Franco-Cuban Dada painter Francis Picabia, the British conceptual art collective Art & Language, and the Serbian feminist political action organization Grupa Spomenik, and writes criticism for a number of contemporary art publications including Artforum, Art Practical, Baltimore Arts, and Burnaway. Her work on contemporary art and artists working in the American Southeast garnered her a prestigious Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Short-Form Writing Grant in 2017 and two nominations for the Rabkin Prize in Arts Journalism in 2017 and 2018.
Additional funding and support for Dr. Amirkhani’s lecture has been generously gifted by John Coleman.
Andy Johnson: Visiting Critic Lecture
Saturday, June 15, 2019 | 3pm
New System Exhibitions | 82 Parris Street, Portland ME
free + open to the public
Please join The Chart for our first lecture in our 2019 Visiting Critic Lecture Series. Andy Johnson — an arts writer, curator, and historian — will give a free, public talk on Saturday, June 15 at 3pm at New System Exhibitions in Portland, Maine. Andy’s work confronts white-hetero supremacy and questions its demands of violence and legibility.
Andy Johnson is a DC-based art historian, curator, and arts writer. He is Director of Gallery 102 at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design; contributing editor at DIRT; and serves on the curatorial and sales team for Art on the Vine, hosted by the Agora Culture. His academic and curatorial practice centers on queer/queer of color critique, feminist/black feminist theories, critical race theory, cultural studies, sexuality studies, photography, video, installation, performance art, and visual culture. He has curated exhibitions with Gallery 102, DC Arts Center, and Dupont Underground and was the 2018 DC Arts Center Curatorial Apprentice. He has presented research and spoken on panels at universities, galleries, and museums including Rutgers University, UC Santa Barbara, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, GW Museum, DuPont Underground, and others. He has published articles, exhibition reviews, and catalogue essays with DIRT, The Chart, Common Field’s Field Perspectives, The Rib, Pelican Bomb, and more. He has an upcoming exhibition with the Smithsonian Institution. Andy holds a M.A. in Art History from The George Washington University.