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International Opportunities in the Arts: Avenues for Daring
March 7-9, 2025
presented by TransCultural Exchange
Conference Primary Venues (Friday – Sunday)
The Foundry, 101 Rogers Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Other Venues
In Boston
The Goethe Institut, 170 Beacon Street
In Cambridge
MIT List Visual Arts Center, 20 Ames Street
MIT’s Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building, Building W18, 201 Amherst Street
(Directions will be provided in the Conference brochure)
Building W20-429, MIT, Stratton Student Center, 84 Massachusetts Ave., 4th floor
Arrow Street Arts, 2 Arrow Street, Harvard Square
Portfolio Reviews take place March 7-9 in the Foundry’s Jewelry Studio.
For more information on these, please see Portfolio Reviews.
Note: Online Registration for items with limited participation ends February 21, 2024. After that, registrations are only available onsite.
FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
March 7: 9:30 am – 4:00 pm
March 8–9: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Registration and Check-in
Location: The Foundry’s Community Hall
DAY 1, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2025
PANEL SESSIONS:
FRIDAY, MORNING SESSION, 10:00 AM – 11: 45 AM
DOING IT FOR YOURSELF, CREATING A BIENNALE, FESTIVAL, RESIDENCY, NEWSPAPER AND MORE. YOU CAN DO IT.
LOCATION: Steam
Moderator: Judith Tolnick Champa Independent Curator, Writer, and founding Director and President, Providence Biennial for Contemporary Art.
I-Chen Kuo, Founder STUPIN Artist Studio Residency Platform
Susanne Mueller-Baji, Artist, Art Critic, Curator, and Creator, FeuerbachGO
Shabani Ramadhani, Musician, Bass Player, Songwriter, Festival Organizer and Founder, Marahaba Music Expo
Malvina Sammarone, Visual Artist, and Independent Researcher
PRESERVING HISTORY, ENSURING THE TRUTH
LOCATION: Red Room
Moderator and Presenter: Rosie Gordon-Wallace, Founder, Senior Curator, Diaspora Vibe Gallery and Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator
Pauline Burmann, Board Member, Thami Mnyele Foundation
Data Chigholashvili, Curator, Anthropologist, Researcher, Curator of Residency Unlimited
Tatiana Kochubinska, Curator, Writer, Researcher, Lecturer
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS | WORKSHOPS
FRIDAY, MORNING SESSION, 10:15 AM – 11: 15 AM
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: DARE TO CARE
LOCATION: The Point
Moderator: Courtney Bethel, Admissions Director, MacDowell
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: BRIDGING REALITIES: UNVEILING CULTURAL MEMORIES
LOCATION: Fiber Arts
Moderator: Farrukh Addnan, Visual Artist
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: APPROACHING CHANGE
LOCATION: Dance Studio
Moderator: Tina Lorenz, Head, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe’s Artistic Research department, the Hertzlab
WORKSHOP: PAPER BOATS PROJECT, A TRAVELING FLOTILLA
LOCATION: Design Lab
Participation Limited to 20. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
Mary Sherwood Brock, Painter and Printmaker
FRIDAY, EARLY AFTERNOON SESSION, 1:15 PM – 3:00 PM
PANEL SESSIONS:
PECHA KUCHA SESSION
LOCATION: Steam
Rapid fire, three-minute pitches by residency programs. See left-hand navigation for more details.
FRIDAY, AFTERNOON SESSION, 1:15 PM – 3:00 PM
ARTISTS REIMAGINING HEALTH AND HEALTH SYSTEMS
LOCATION: Red Room
Moderator: Nisha Sajnani, Co-founder and Co-director, Jameel Arts & Health Lab; Associate Professor New York University (NYU); Founder, Arts & Health @ NYU
Yazmany Arboleda, Artist and Founder, People’s Creative Institute
Dr. Raquel Chapin-Stephenson, Professor, Lesley University
Dr. Melissa Park, Associate Professor in the School of Physical & Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS | WORKSHOPS
FRIDAY, EARLY AFTERNOON SESSION, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
WORKSHOP: TO KNOW, TO WILL, TO DARE: THE SPELL WORK OF CREATING ART
LOCATION: The Point
Moderator: Lux Heljardóttir, Runemaster and Vǫlva (Old Norse term for “seeress”)
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: FRATERNAL VISUALS
LOCATION: Design Lab
Antoine Abi Aad, Associate Professor at Zayed University, Dubai, Educator and Researcher
Please check with the front desk during registration to confirm this roundtable.
WORKSHOP: PUBLIC TOPICS AND LOCALIZED STRATEGIES – FROM ART TO COMMUNITY
LOCATION: Fiber Arts
Cai Liyuan, Director and Curator, A4 Residency Art Center
WORKSHOP: FACING THE GENERATIONAL CLIFF – BECOMING RELEVANT WITH YOUNGER GENERATIONS
LOCATION: Dance
A.J. Steinberg, CFRE of Queen Bee Fundraising
WORKSHOP: CITY DRINK
LOCATION: Food Lab
Participation Limited to 8. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
(Note: this workshop will be repeated on Saturday at 10:00 -11:00.)
Kuei-Pi Li, Multidisciplinary Artist and Researcher
WORKSHOP: WHAT ABOUT EMPATHY?
LOCATION: Yellow Multi Room
Participation limited to 8 people. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be..
Note: this workshop runs 1.5 hours, from 1:00 – 2:30 pm
Moderator: Janeil Engelstad, Founding Director, Make Art with Purpose (MAP) and Mark Randall, Assistant Professor, School of Design Strategies, Parsons School of Design
FRIDAY, MID-AFTERNOON SESSION, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: DISPLACEMENT AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR COLLABORATION
LOCATION: The Point
Moderator: Toña Vegas, Artist and artist-in-residence, Bakehouse Art Complex
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: SOLUTIONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY CULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CUL-DE-SACS FROM THE INDIGENOUS P’URHEPECHA PEOPLE OF WESTERN MEXICO
LOCATION: Fiber Arts
Moderator: José Alberto Velázquez Campoverde, Founder and Director, Grupo Folklórico P’urhépecha, and Dance of the Kúrpites
Facilitator: Juan Aguilar Sandoval, Manager of the Ecotourism Company, Indigenous P’urhépecha Community of Nuevo San Juan Parangaricutiro
This roundtable is generously made possible by Crossing Bridges LLC NY/Puentes y Redes A.C. Mexico.
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: CHALLENGES AND HIGHLIGHTS OF SOCIAL PRACTICE IN INTERDISCIPLINARY ART WITH ECOLOGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
LOCATION: Yellow Multi Room
Moderator: Qinqin Liu, Artist and Scientist
WORKSHOP: WHY IS IT STILL SO DIFFICULT TO PRESENT CERTAIN ISSUES IN THE ART WORLD?
LOCATION: Dance Studio
Marie Deparis-Yafil, International Curator and Critic
WORKSHOP: GRANT WRITING BEST PRACTICES
LOCATION: Design Lab
Moderator: Dan Blask, Program Office, Mass Cultural Council; and Summer Confuorto, Program Officer, Traditional Arts, Mass Cultural Council
FRIDAY, LATE AFTERNOON SESSION, 3:15 PM– 5:00 PM
PANEL SESSIONS:
CONFERENCE KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
ART ON THE FRONTLINES: NAVIGATING RISKS AND FOSTERING RESILIENCE
Organized by Artists at Risk Connection (ARC)
LOCATION: Steam
Panel Organizer and Moderator: Julie Trebault, Executive Director of the Artists at Risk Connection (ARC)
Mosab Abu Toha, Palestinian Poet, Short-Story writer, and Essayist
Tania Bruguera, Cuban Artist and Activist
Achiro P. Olwoch, Ugandan Writer, Playwright and Screenwriter
Qudrat Wasefi, Composer and Trumpeter, Founder of Afghanistan Freeharmonic Orchestra
ENTANGLED LIFE: CULTURE TOWARDS CLIMATE SOLUTIONS
LOCATION: Red Room
Moderator: Shana Dumont Garr, Writer, Educator and Curator
Eli Brown, Artist
Grace Grothaus, Computational Media Artist
Yuko Oda, Artist
Alex Soulsby, Artist Residency Thailand
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS | WORKSHOPS
FRIDAY, LATE AFTERNOON SESSION, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: CREATING OPPORTUNITIES ACROSS MEXICAN | US BORDERS
LOCATION: The Point
Moderator: Cristina Vázquez, Founder and Director of Contenidos Artisticos Inc.
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: WHAT ARTISTS ARE DOING IN THE ARCTIC
LOCATION: Fiber Arts
Moderator: Ada Pilar Cruz, Museum Educator at MoMA with MFA in sculpture and printmaking
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: CHANGING PLACES | CREATING EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITIES
LOCATION: Design Lab
Moderator: Meliha Teparic, Artist, Professor and Curator, International University of Sarajevo’s Gallery, Bosnia & Herzegovina
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: THE FULBRIGHT PROGRAM
LOCATION: Yellow Multi Room
Moderator: Kate Copeland, Fulbright Scholar Alumni Ambassador
WORKSHOP: HOW DOES FISCAL SPONSORSHIP WORK AND HOW CAN YOU USE IT TO BUILD OPPORTUNITIES?
LOCATION: Dance Studio
Alicia Ehni, Artist and Program Officer, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
WORKSHOP: TRACING PALETTES ON THE DINING TABLE
LOCATION: Food Lab
Participation Limited to 8. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
(Note: this workshop is repeated on Saturday from 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM.)
Sharo Liang, Artist and Researcher
FRIDAY, OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION 5:30 PM– 7:30 PM
LOCATION: Community Hall
With Welcoming Remarks by
Stephanie Couch, Founder, The Foundry Consortium
Mary Sherman, Executive Director, TransCultural Exchange
DAY 2, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 2025
SATURDAY, EARLY MORNING SESSION 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM
TOUR OF MIT’S ART AND ARCHITECTURE COLLECTION, 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM
Led by Adriana Rivera-Socarrás
MIT’s List Visual Art Center’s atrium lobby (23 Ames Street) starting point. Meet at the Foundry at 10:00 am to walk over. Limited to 20 Participants. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
SATURDAY, MORNING SESSION, 10:00 AM – 11: 45 AM
PANEL SESSIONS:
STRATEGIES FOR GLOBAL EXCHANGE IN TIMES OF POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL STRIFE
LOCATION: Steam
Moderator: Susan Katz, Program Director, Flux Factor
Anna Chistoserdova, Co-founder of Podzemka and Ў gallery of contemporary art (Minsk, Belarus) and Ambasada Kultury (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Kendal Henry, Artist, Curator, Assistant Commissioner of Public Art, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
Eva Khachatryan, Curator and Vice-President of AICA Armenia (International Association of Art Critics, Armenia)
Tatiana Kochubinska, Curator, Writer, Researcher, Lecturer
REGIONAL NETWORKS OF RESIDENCIES
LOCATION: Red Room
Moderator: Pieranna Cavalchini, Curator Contemporary Art, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Pablo Caligaris, Director, La Ira de Dios, Buenos Aires
Evelyn Grzinich, Chairwoman of LOORE, Estonia
Annette Klein, Program Curator, Goethe-Institut Boston
Kaseem Istanbouli, Founder, Istanbouli Theater; Founder, ACAN, Lebanon
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS | WORKSHOPS
SATURDAY, EARLY MORNING SESSION, 10:00 AM – 11: 00 AM
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: SELF-CARE AND AVOIDING BURN-OUT
LOCATION: The Point
Moderator: Bojana Panevska, Senior Advisor, TransArtists, The Netherlands
WORKSHOP: “HI HAIR” TACTILE ART WORKSHOP
LOCATION: Fiber Arts
Leilei Xia, Multimedia Artist
WORKSHOP: DARE TO GET INKY
LOCATION: Design Lab
Participation Limited to 12, 90 minutes, starting at 10 and running until 11:30. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
Amanda Barrow, Visual Artist and Fulbright Specialist
This workshop is, in part, sponsored by Speedball Art Products.
WORKSHOP: ARCHAEOLOGY 101
LOCATION: Dance Studio
Joshua Goode, Artist
WORKSHOP: CITY DRINK
LOCATION: Food Lab
Participation Limited to 8. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
(Note: this workshop is a repeat of the same on Friday.)
Kuei-Pi Li, Multidisciplinary Artist and Researcher
WORKSHOP: BOSTON’S BIRDS: A TRANSNATURAL EXCHANGE SOUNDWALK
Note: This workshop is 1 hour and 45 minutes hours long, running from 10:00 AM to 11:45 AM
LOCATION: Building W20-429, MIT, Stratton Student Center, 84 Massachusetts Ave., 4th floor
Participation Limited to 20. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
Meet at the Foundry at 9:45 am to walk over.
Vytautas Bucionis, Composer and Ornithologist; Florian Grond, Immersive Sound Recordist, Professor and Co-Director Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, Montreal.
SATURDAY, LATE MORNING SESSION 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM
WORKSHOP: BEYOND TRADITIONAL EXPECTATIONS – CRAFTING EVENTS THAT REFLECT OUR SPACES AND MISSIONS
LOCATION: The Point
A.J. Steinberg, CFRE of Queen Bee Fundraising
WORKSHOP: BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CREATIVE SPACES
LOCATION: Dance Studio
Moderators: Diana Navarrete-Rackauckas, Executive Director of the Foundry Consortium; and Nikoi Coley-Ribeiro, Director of The Foundry’s Community Engagement and Strategic Operations
WORKSHOP: ATTENDING A RESIDENCY IN A TIME OF TRANSFORMATION: WE ARE HERE FOR YOU.
LOCATION: Fiber Arts
Elham Khattab, Founder of Out Of The Circle, Egypt
WORKSHOP: SUSTAINABLE TEXTILES WORKSHOP: SAVING OUR ENVIRONMENT
Participation limited to 8 people. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
Location: The Food Lab
Moderator: Suzanne Watzman, Owner, Tamaryn Design
Important to Note: This workshop begins at 11:30 and runs to 1:00 pm. It is also repeated on Sunday from 1:30 – 3:00 pm.
SATURDAY, EARLY AFTERNOON SESSION, 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM
PANEL SESSIONS:
SHAPING DEMOCRACY & PUBLIC ART
LOCATION: Steam
Moderator: Sarah Tanguy, Independent Curator and Arts Writer, former Curator, Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State
Bénédicte Alliot, Director General, Cité internationale des arts
Jon Isherwood, Artist, former professor at Bennington College
Amy Merrill, founding member Her Story Is Collective
Susan Sgorbati, Director, Center for the Advancement of Public Action, Bennington College
PROGRAMS FOR EXPLORING SOUND
LOCATION: Red Room
Moderator: Susanna Bolle, Boston-based Curator and Concert Organizer.
Emiko Kato, Director, KAB Library and Residency
Heather O’Donnell, Founding Director of TGR The Green Room
Shabani Ramadhani, Musician, Bass Player, Songwriter, Festival Organizer and Founder, Marahaba Music Expo
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS | WORKSHOPS
SATURDAY, EARLY AFTERNOON SESSION 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM
WORKSHOP: WEAVING FIBERS AND SOCIAL PROCESSES
LOCATION: Fiber Arts
Nora Dominga Carrasco Apaza, Visual Artist – Sculptor
WORKSHOP: EXPLORING THE NEUROPHYSIOLOGY BEHIND CREATIVITY
LOCATION: Design Lab
Melissa Park, Associate Professor in the School of Physical & Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University
WORKSHOP: LET ARTISTS LEAD, A CONVERSATION OF RADICAL IMAGINATION
LOCATION: Dance Studio
Note: The workshop runs from 1:30 – 3:00 PM.
Amanda Shea, two-time Boston Music Award-winning Spoken Word Artist, Performer, Educator, Artivist, Publicist, Host, and Curator
WORKSHOP: TRACING PALETTES ON THE DINING TABLE
LOCATION: Food Lab
Participation Limited to 8. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
(Note: this workshop is a repeat of Friday workshop’s from 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.)
Sharo Liang, Artist and Researcher
SATURDAY, MID-AFTERNOON SESSION, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: ARTISTS ARE THE NEW INSTITUTIONS
LOCATION: The Point
Moderator: Franklin Einspruch, Multimedia Visual Artist, Dissident Museum
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: EXPLORING GLOBAL ARTISTIC CONNECTIONS
LOCATION: Fiber Arts
Moderator: Janet Goldner, Interdisciplinary Artist
WORKSHOP: 3D PRINTING & CASTING WORKSHOP
LOCATION: Design Lab
Crispin B. Weinberg, President, Biomedical Modeling Inc. (BMI)
SATURDAY, LATE AFTERNOON SESSION, 3:00 PM– 4:45 PM
PANEL SESSIONS:
CRITICAL RESPONSES TO CRITICAL TIMES
LOCATION: Steam
Moderator: Glenn Williams, General Manager, Boston Neighborhood Network Media
Yulia Fisch, interdependent curator, cultural worker and co-founder of the collective “Beyond the post-soviet”
Michael Sheridan, Filmmaker and Educator, Founding Director, Community Supported Film and SheridanWorks
Qudrat Wasefi, Composer and Trumpeter, Founder of Afghanistan Freeharmonic Orchestra
NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR ARTISTS
LOCATION: Red Room
Moderator: Eric Gunther, Artist/Designer; Co-founder and Director, SOSO
Luc Courchesne, Artist; Founding member, Society for Art and Technology (SAT); and Member, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
Jingjing Lin, Multimedia Conceptual Artist
Arthur Makaryan, Artistic Director of Arte Makar Productions; La Sorbonne Panthéon Paris 1 ACTE Institute Affiliate
Nomeda Urbanos, Artist; Co-founder, Urbonas Studio; Researcher, Art, Culture, and Technology (ACT) program, MIT
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS | WORKSHOPS
SATURDAY, LATE AFTERNOON SESSION, 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: THE ROLE OF ART/BODY ORNAMENTATION IN HEALING
LOCATION: The Point
Moderator: Larisa Waya, Artist; Chaplain, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Field Education Supervisor, Harvard Divinity School; Founder, Founder Clergy Couture
WORKSHOP: CATCHING AN EDITOR’S EYE: THE ART OF ATTRACTING WRITTEN COVERAGE OF YOUR WORK AND EXHIBITIONS
LOCATION: Fiber Arts
Moderator: Rita Fucillo, Publisher, Art New England
WORKSHOP: WANT TO GO ON A RESIDENCY? SIGN UP HERE. STUPIN ARTIST STUDIO RESIDENCY PLATFORM
LOCATION: Design Lab
I-Chen Kuo, Artist and Founder, Stupin Residency Platform
WORKSHOP: TRANSARTISTS: HOW TO FIND THE RIGHT RESIDENCY FOR YOU
LOCATION: Dance Studio
Bojana Panevska, Senior Advisor, TransArtists, The Netherlands
SATURDAY EVENING OPTIONAL EVENTS
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
DEDICATION OF MIT’S NEW LINDE MUSIC BUILDING + SANFORD BIGGERS’ NEW PUBLIC ART WORK DEDICATION AND MoonMedicin PERFORMANCE
LOCATION: MIT’s Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building
Volunteers will be available, starting at 4:45 to help take people over to MIT.
NOTE: This event is now sold out. There is a slim chance that more tickets may become available at a later date. You will need to monitor MIT’s site HERE to see if more tickets become available.
8:00 PM
DANCE THEATER PERFORMANCE
LOCATION: Arrow Street Arts (2 Arrow Street) in Harvard Square, Cambridge
Conference workshop presenter Wendy Jehlen’s troupe ANIKAYA Dance Theater will be performing Conference of the Birds, a multimedia movement theater, inspired by the 12th century poem of Farid Ud din Attar, and embodying stories gathered from modern-day refugees and other migrants. The play is directed by choreographer Wendy Jehlen in collaboration with an ensemble of dancer/choreographers from Benin, Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, India/South Africa, Palestine, Taiwan and Turkey, with original music and projections created by an international team from France, Iran and the US.
Discounted tickets are available to Conference goers using the Promo Code “Exchange” on the website’s ticket page.
DAY 3, SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2025
SUNDAY, MORNING SESSION, 10:00 AM – 11: 45 AM
PANEL SESSIONS:
CLIMATE CHANGE | CLIMATE ACTION
LOCATION: The Steam
Moderator: Gediminas Urbonas, Artist; Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) Program; Co-founder, Urbonas Studio
Dan Ewert, Managing Director for Program Development for Cultural Vistas
Laura Garbštienė, Founder of Verpėjos
Yipei Lee, Independent Researcher, Founder, and Curator, SUAVEART
Liudmyla Nychai, Artist, Curator, and Project Coordinator, NGO Congress of Cultural Activists
Helmi Vent, Director of the Lab Inter Arts and Professor, Mozarteum University Salzburg
LGBTQ+, BIPOC & FEMINIST INTERVENTIONS INSIDE/OUTSIDE OF INSTITUTIONS
LOCATION: Red Room
Moderator: Dr. Jocelyn E. Marshall, Curator; Faculty, Dept. of Visual & Media Arts and Writing, Literature & Publishing, Emerson College
Erin Genia, Member, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, Multidisciplinary Artist, Educator and Community Organizer
Kathrine Guinness, Lecturer, University of Queensland; Theorist, Historian and Author
Conor Moynihan, Acting Department Head and Associate Curator, Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, RISD Museum
Homa Sarabi, Artist, Educator, Programmer
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS | WORKSHOPS
SUNDAY, EARLY MORNING SESSION, 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM
ROUNDTABLE: HONOR TAX: BEYOND LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
LOCATION: Design Lab
Jay Critchley, Founder and Director, The Provincetown Community Compact
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: EXTENDING EXCHANGE
LOCATION: The Point
Moderator: Farrah Karapetian, Artist and Public Thinker
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: EMPOWERING HUMANS WITH SENSORY CHALLENGES
LOCATION: Fiber Arts
Moderator: Andrée-Anne Blacutt, Artist and Researcher (processes of sensory perception), Laval University
WORKSHOP: FORECAST CONDENSED: THE WORLD AND THE WALNUT
NOTE: This workshop runs from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
LOCATION: Dance Studio
Participation is Limited to SIX participants. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
Freo Majer, Artistic Director of Forecast
SUNDAY, LATE MORNING SESSION, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
WORKSHOP: MIGRATIONS, PERFORMANCE/THEATER WORKSHOP
Note: This workshop is two hours long, running from 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: 2 Arrow Street in Harvard Square
Participation Limited to 30. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
Wendy Jehlen, Artistic Director of ANIKAYA
Meet at the Foundry at 9:45 am to walk over.
ROUNDTABLE: CREATING ART ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF CONSUMERISM FROM A CUBAN PERSPECTIVE
Location: The Point
Moderator: Janette Brossard Duharte, Cuban Artist and President of UNEAC
Please check with the front desk during registration to confirm this roundtable.
WORKSHOP: BREAKING DOWN DIGITAL FABRICATION’S PROCESSES
LOCATION: Fiber Arts
Purnima Mitra, Technical Art Director in Techvity Lab
WORKSHOP: TIPS FOR SUCCESSFUL RESIDENCY APPLICATIONS
LOCATION: Design Lab
Lori-Ann Touchette, Co-founder of C.R.E.T.A. Rome, Italy
ROUNDTABLE: FOOD, ART, SCIENCE: INTERSECTIONS
LOCATION: Food Lab
Moderator: Braden Kuo, Director for the Center for Neurointestinal Health at the GI Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Limited to 10 people. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
SUNDAY, AFTERNOON SESSION, 1:15 PM – 3:00 PM
PANEL SESSIONS:
SOLIDARITY AND RESISTANCE IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD
LOCATION: Steam
Moderator: Bojana Panevska, Program Manager, TransArtists
Bénédicte Alliot, Director General, Cité internationale des arts
Liudmyla Nychai, Artist, Curator, and Project Coordinator, NGO Congress of Cultural Activists
Heather O’Donnell, Founding Director of TGR The Green Room
Johan Pousette, Independent Curator and Writer
Mary Sherman, Director, TransCultural Exchange
Bojana Panevska’s organization of this panel is supported by DutchCulture, and the ‘ASK’ capsule (Advocacy, Support, Knowledge), co-organised with On the Move, with the support of the European Union.
CASES FOR CULTURE
LOCATION: The Dance Studio
Moderator: Ian Koebner, Strategic Advisor, Health and Wellness at Carnegie Hall
Ismail Assafi, coordinator, Pre-Texts, Harvard University
Chiara Caiazzo, PhD candidate, Contemporary Philosophy, Pompeu Fabra University; Fellow, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Ian Koebner, Strategic Advisor, Health and Wellness at Carnegie Hall
Giuliano Picchi, Cultural Entrepreneur in Residence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Founder, UNITA – United Talents for the Future
Nisha Sajnani, Co-founder and Co-director, Jameel Arts & Health Lab; Associate Professor
AI IN ART: NEW POSSIBILITIES FOR WORK & PROCESS
Moderator: Eric Gunther, artist/designer; Co-founder and Creative Director of SOSO
LOCATION: Red Room
Zachary Lieberman, Artist, Researcher and Educator
cari ann shim sham, Artist, AI Creater and Professor, NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Daniel S. DeLuca, Artist, Designer, and AI Researcher
SUNDAY, AFTERNOON SESSION 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: ART AND HEALING, VISIBLE MENDING
LOCATION: The Point
Moderator: Faustin Adeniran, Artist and Participant, Visible Mending Exhibition
ROUNDTABLE: BANANA BREAD DIPLOMACY
LOCATION: Fiber Arts
Moderator: Kathleen Bitetti, Artist, Curator/Arts Administrator, Public Policy /Advocacy Expert
ROUNDTABLE: THE ARTIST AS CITIZEN
LOCATION: Design Lab
Moderator: Amy Merrill, founding member Her Story Is Collective
WORKSHOP: SUSTAINABLE TEXTILES WORKSHOP: SAVING OUR ENVIRONMENT
Participation limited to 8 people. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
Location: The Food Lab
Moderator: Suzanne Watzman, Owner, Tamaryn Design
Important to Note: This workshop begins at 1:30 – 3:00 pm. It is a repeat of the Saturday 11:30 am – 1:00 pm workshop.
SUNDAY, LATE AFTERNOON, CLOSING SESSION, 3:15 – 4:00 PM
LONG TABLE | REFLECTIONS
Location: The Community Hall
Host: Jay Critchley, Founder and Director, The Provincetown Community Compact
SUNDAY EVENING, OPTIONAL CLOSING EVENT
DISCOUNTED TICKETS AVAILABLE TO CONFERENCE GOERS
6:00 PM
DANCE THEATER PERFORMANCE
LOCATION: Arrow Street Arts (2 Arrow Street) in Harvard Square, Cambridge
Conference workshop presenter Wendy Jehlen’s troupe ANIKAYA Dance Theater will be performing Conference of the Birds, a multimedia movement theater, inspired by the 12th century poem of Farid Ud din Attar, and embodying stories gathered from modern-day refugees and other migrants. The play is directed by choreographer Wendy Jehlen in collaboration with an ensemble of dancer/choreographers from Benin, Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, India/South Africa, Palestine, Taiwan and Turkey, with original music and projections created by an international team from France, Iran and the US.
Discounted tickets are available to Conference goers using the Promo Code “Exchange” on the website’s ticket page.
SUNDAY, NIGHT CONCERT 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
LOCATION: The Goethe Institut, Boston
As part of the Goethe Institut’s New Music Festival, percussionist Reed Puleo presents the US premiere of Strange Symmetry, a work by Isaac Blumfield for percussion and electronics, alongside the East Coast premiere of dust by Rebecca Saunders. This concert showcases Puleo’s dedication to contemporary music, featuring groundbreaking compositions that explore unique sonic textures and the innovative use of percussion and electronics. More information available here. Advance tickets ($10) required.
FULL SCHEDULE
Sessions: Schedule/Presenters
International Opportunities in the Arts: Avenues for Daring
March 7-9, 2025
presented by TransCultural Exchange
Conference Primary Venues (Friday – Sunday)
The Foundry, 101 Rogers Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Other Venues
In Boston
The Goethe Institut, 170 Beacon Street
In Cambridge
MIT List Visual Arts Center, 20 Ames Street
MIT’s Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building, Building W18, 201 Amherst Street
(Directions will be provided in the Conference brochure)
Building W20-429, MIT, Stratton Student Center, 84 Massachusetts Ave., 4th floor
Arrow Street Arts, 2 Arrow Street, Harvard Square
Portfolio Reviews take place March 7-9 in the Foundry’s Jewelry Studio.
For more information on these, please see Portfolio Reviews.
Note: Online Registration for items with limited participation ends February 21, 2024. After that, registrations are only available onsite.
FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
March 7: 9:30 am – 4:00 pm
March 8–9: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Registration and Check-in
Location: The Foundry’s Community Hall
DAY 1, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2025
PANEL SESSIONS:
FRIDAY, MORNING SESSION, 10:00 AM – 11: 45 AM
DOING IT FOR YOURSELF, CREATING A BIENNALE, FESTIVAL, RESIDENCY, NEWSPAPER AND MORE. YOU CAN DO IT.
LOCATION: Steam
Moderator: Judith Tolnick Champa Independent Curator, Writer, and founding Director and President, Providence Biennial for Contemporary Art.
I-Chen Kuo, Founder STUPIN Artist Studio Residency Platform
Susanne Mueller-Baji, Artist, Art Critic, Curator, and Creator, FeuerbachGO
Shabani Ramadhani, Musician, Bass Player, Songwriter, Festival Organizer and Founder, Marahaba Music Expo
Malvina Sammarone, Visual Artist, and Independent Researcher
PRESERVING HISTORY, ENSURING THE TRUTH
LOCATION: Red Room
Moderator and Presenter: Rosie Gordon-Wallace, Founder, Senior Curator, Diaspora Vibe Gallery and Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator
Pauline Burmann, Board Member, Thami Mnyele Foundation
Tatiana Kochubinska, Curator, Writer, Researcher, Lecturer
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS | WORKSHOPS
FRIDAY, MORNING SESSION, 10:15 AM – 11: 15 AM
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: DARE TO CARE
LOCATION: The Point
Moderator: Courtney Bethel, Admissions Director, MacDowell
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: BRIDGING REALITIES: UNVEILING CULTURAL MEMORIES
LOCATION: Fiber Arts
Moderator: Farrukh Addnan, Visual Artist
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: APPROACHING CHANGE
LOCATION: Dance Studio
Moderator: Tina Lorenz, Head, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe’s Artistic Research department, the Hertzlab
WORKSHOP: PAPER BOATS PROJECT, A TRAVELING FLOTILLA
LOCATION: Design Lab
Participation Limited to 20. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
Mary Sherwood Brock, Painter and Printmaker
FRIDAY, EARLY AFTERNOON SESSION, 1:15 PM – 3:00 PM
PANEL SESSIONS:
PECHA KUCHA SESSION
LOCATION: Steam
Rapid fire, three-minute pitches by residency programs. See left-hand navigation for more details.
FRIDAY, AFTERNOON SESSION, 1:15 PM – 3:00 PM
ARTISTS REIMAGINING HEALTH AND HEALTH SYSTEMS
LOCATION: Red Room
Moderator: Nisha Sajnani, Co-founder and Co-director, Jameel Arts & Health Lab; Associate Professor New York University (NYU); Founder, Arts & Health @ NYU
Yazmany Arboleda, Artist and Founder, People’s Creative Institute
Dr. Raquel Chapin-Stephenson, Professor, Lesley University
Dr. Melissa Park, Associate Professor in the School of Physical & Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS | WORKSHOPS
FRIDAY, EARLY AFTERNOON SESSION, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
WORKSHOP: TO KNOW, TO WILL, TO DARE: THE SPELL WORK OF CREATING ART
LOCATION: The Point
Moderator: Lux Heljardóttir, Runemaster and Vǫlva (Old Norse term for “seeress”)
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: FRATERNAL VISUALS
LOCATION: Design Lab
Antoine Abi Aad, Associate Professor at Zayed University, Dubai, Educator and Researcher
Please check with the front desk during registration to confirm this roundtable.
WORKSHOP: PUBLIC TOPICS AND LOCALIZED STRATEGIES – FROM ART TO COMMUNITY
LOCATION: Fiber Arts
Cai Liyuan, Director and Curator, A4 Residency Art Center
WORKSHOP: FACING THE GENERATIONAL CLIFF – BECOMING RELEVANT WITH YOUNGER GENERATIONS
LOCATION: Dance
A.J. Steinberg, CFRE of Queen Bee Fundraising
WORKSHOP: CITY DRINK
LOCATION: Food Lab
Participation Limited to 8. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
(Note: this workshop will be repeated on Saturday at 10:00 -11:00.)
Kuei-Pi Li, Multidisciplinary Artist and Researcher
WORKSHOP: WHAT ABOUT EMPATHY?
LOCATION: Yellow Multi Room
Participation limited to 8 people. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
Note: this workshop runs 1.5 hours, from 1:00 – 2:30 pm
Moderator: Janeil Engelstad, Founding Director, Make Art with Purpose (MAP) and Mark Randall, Assistant Professor, School of Design Strategies, Parsons School of Design
FRIDAY, MID-AFTERNOON SESSION, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: DISPLACEMENT AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR COLLABORATION
LOCATION: The Point
Moderator: Toña Vegas, Artist and artist-in-residence, Bakehouse Art Complex
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: SOLUTIONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY CULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CUL-DE-SACS FROM THE INDIGENOUS P’URHEPECHA PEOPLE OF WESTERN MEXICO
LOCATION: Fiber Arts
Moderator: José Alberto Velázquez Campoverde, Founder and Director, Grupo Folklórico P’urhépecha, and Dance of the Kúrpites
Facilitator: Juan Aguilar Sandoval, Manager of the Ecotourism Company, Indigenous P’urhépecha Community of Nuevo San Juan Parangaricutiro
This roundtable is generously made possible by Crossing Bridges LLC NY/Puentes y Redes A.C. Mexico.
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: CHALLENGES AND HIGHLIGHTS OF SOCIAL PRACTICE IN INTERDISCIPLINARY ART WITH ECOLOGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
LOCATION: Yellow Multi Room
Moderator: Qinqin Liu, Artist and Scientist
WORKSHOP: WHY IS IT STILL SO DIFFICULT TO PRESENT CERTAIN ISSUES IN THE ART WORLD?
LOCATION: Dance Studio
Marie Deparis-Yafil, International Curator and Critic
WORKSHOP: GRANT WRITING BEST PRACTICES
LOCATION: Design Lab
Moderator: Dan Blask, Program Office, Mass Cultural Council; and Summer Confuorto, Program Officer, Traditional Arts, Mass Cultural Council
FRIDAY, LATE AFTERNOON SESSION, 3:15 PM– 5:00 PM
PANEL SESSIONS:
CONFERENCE KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
ART ON THE FRONTLINES: NAVIGATING RISKS AND FOSTERING RESILIENCE
Organized by Artists at Risk Connection (ARC)
LOCATION: Steam
Panel Organizer and Moderator: Julie Trebault, Executive Director of the Artists at Risk Connection (ARC)
Mosab Abu Toha, Palestinian Poet, Short-Story writer, and Essayist
Tania Bruguera, Cuban Artist and Activist
Achiro P. Olwoch, Ugandan Writer, Playwright and Screenwriter
Qudrat Wasefi, Composer and Trumpeter, Founder of Afghanistan Freeharmonic Orchestra
ENTANGLED LIFE: CULTURE TOWARDS CLIMATE SOLUTIONS
LOCATION: Red Room
Moderator: Shana Dumont Garr, Writer, Educator and Curator
Eli Brown, Artist
Grace Grothaus, Computational Media Artist
Yuko Oda, Artist
Alex Soulsby, Artist Residency Thailand
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS | WORKSHOPS
FRIDAY, LATE AFTERNOON SESSION, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: CREATING OPPORTUNITIES ACROSS MEXICAN | US BORDERS
LOCATION: The Point
Moderator: Cristina Vázquez, Founder and Director of Contenidos Artisticos Inc.
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: WHAT ARTISTS ARE DOING IN THE ARCTIC
LOCATION: Fiber Arts
Moderator: Ada Pilar Cruz, Museum Educator at MoMA with MFA in sculpture and printmaking
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: CHANGING PLACES | CREATING EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITIES
LOCATION: Design Lab
Moderator: Meliha Teparic, Artist, Professor and Curator, International University of Sarajevo’s Gallery, Bosnia & Herzegovina
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: THE FULBRIGHT PROGRAM
LOCATION: Yellow Multi Room
Moderator: Kate Copeland, Fulbright Scholar Alumni Ambassador
WORKSHOP: HOW DOES FISCAL SPONSORSHIP WORK AND HOW CAN YOU USE IT TO BUILD OPPORTUNITIES?
LOCATION: Dance Studio
Alicia Ehni, Artist and Program Officer, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
WORKSHOP: TRACING PALETTES ON THE DINING TABLE
LOCATION: Food Lab
Participation Limited to 8. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
(Note: this workshop is repeated on Saturday from 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM.)
Sharo Liang, Artist and Researcher
FRIDAY, OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION 5:30 PM– 7:30 PM
LOCATION: Community Hall
With Welcoming Remarks by
Stephanie Couch, Founder, The Foundry Consortium
Mary Sherman, Executive Director, TransCultural Exchange
DAY 2, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 2025
SATURDAY, EARLY MORNING SESSION 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM
TOUR OF MIT’S ART AND ARCHITECTURE COLLECTION, 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM
Led by Adriana Rivera-Socarrás
MIT’s List Visual Art Center’s atrium lobby (23 Ames Street) starting point. Meet at the Foundry at 10:00 am to walk over. Limited to 20 Participants. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
SATURDAY, MORNING SESSION, 10:00 AM – 11: 45 AM
PANEL SESSIONS:
STRATEGIES FOR GLOBAL EXCHANGE IN TIMES OF POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL STRIFE
LOCATION: Steam
Moderator: Susan Katz, Program Director, Flux Factor
Anna Chistoserdova, Co-founder of Podzemka and Ў gallery of contemporary art (Minsk, Belarus) and Ambasada Kultury (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Kendal Henry, Artist, Curator, Assistant Commissioner of Public Art, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
Eva Khachatryan, Curator and Vice-President of AICA Armenia (International Association of Art Critics, Armenia)
Tatiana Kochubinska, Curator, Writer, Researcher, Lecturer
REGIONAL NETWORKS OF RESIDENCIES
LOCATION: Red Room
Moderator: Pieranna Cavalchini, Curator Contemporary Art, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Pablo Caligaris, Director, La Ira de Dios, Buenos Aires
Evelyn Grzinich, Chairwoman of LOORE, Estonia
Annette Klein, Program Curator, Goethe-Institut Boston
Kaseem Istanbouli, Founder, Istanbouli Theater; Founder, ACAN, Lebanon
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS | WORKSHOPS
SATURDAY, EARLY MORNING SESSION, 10:00 AM – 11: 00 AM
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: SELF-CARE AND AVOIDING BURN-OUT
LOCATION: The Point
Moderator: Bojana Panevska, Senior Advisor, TransArtists, The Netherlands
WORKSHOP: “HI HAIR” TACTILE ART WORKSHOP
LOCATION: Fiber Arts
Leilei Xia, Multimedia Artist
WORKSHOP: DARE TO GET INKY
LOCATION: Design Lab
Participation Limited to 12, 90 minutes, starting at 10 and running until 11:30. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
Amanda Barrow, Visual Artist and Fulbright Specialist
This workshop is, in part, sponsored by Speedball Art Products.
WORKSHOP: ARCHAEOLOGY 101
LOCATION: Dance Studio
Joshua Goode, Artist
WORKSHOP: CITY DRINK
LOCATION: Food Lab
Participation Limited to 8. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
(Note: this workshop is a repeat of the same on Friday.)
Kuei-Pi Li, Multidisciplinary Artist and Researcher
WORKSHOP: BOSTON’S BIRDS: A TRANSNATURAL EXCHANGE SOUNDWALK
Note: This workshop is 1 hour and 45 minutes hours long, running from 10:00 AM to 11:45 AM
LOCATION: Building W20-429, MIT, Stratton Student Center, 84 Massachusetts Ave., 4th floor
Participation Limited to 20. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
Meet at the Foundry at 9:45 am to walk over.
Vytautas Bucionis, Composer and Ornithologist; Florian Grond, Immersive Sound Recordist, Professor and Co-Director Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, Montreal.
SATURDAY, LATE MORNING SESSION 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM
WORKSHOP: BEYOND TRADITIONAL EXPECTATIONS – CRAFTING EVENTS THAT REFLECT OUR SPACES AND MISSIONS
LOCATION: The Point
A.J. Steinberg, CFRE of Queen Bee Fundraising
WORKSHOP: BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CREATIVE SPACES
LOCATION: Dance Studio
Moderators: Diana Navarrete-Rackauckas, Executive Director of the Foundry Consortium; and Nikoi Coley-Ribeiro, Director of The Foundry’s Community Engagement and Strategic Operations
WORKSHOP: ATTENDING A RESIDENCY IN A TIME OF TRANSFORMATION: WE ARE HERE FOR YOU.
LOCATION: Fiber Arts
Elham Khattab, Founder of Out Of The Circle, Egypt
WORKSHOP: SUSTAINABLE TEXTILES WORKSHOP: SAVING OUR ENVIRONMENT
Participation limited to 8 people. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
Location: The Food Lab
Moderator: Suzanne Watzman, Owner, Tamaryn Design
Important to Note: This workshop begins at 11:30 and runs to 1:00 pm. It is also repeated on Sunday from 1:30 – 3:00 pm.
SATURDAY, EARLY AFTERNOON SESSION, 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM
PANEL SESSIONS:
SHAPING DEMOCRACY & PUBLIC ART
LOCATION: Steam
Moderator: Sarah Tanguy, Independent Curator and Arts Writer, former Curator, Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State
Bénédicte Alliot, Director General, Cité internationale des arts
Jon Isherwood, Artist, former professor at Bennington College
Amy Merrill, founding member Her Story Is Collective
Susan Sgorbati, Director, Center for the Advancement of Public Action, Bennington College
PROGRAMS FOR EXPLORING SOUND
LOCATION: Red Room
Moderator: Susanna Bolle, Boston-based Curator and Concert Organizer.
Emiko Kato, Director, KAB Library and Residency
Heather O’Donnell, Founding Director of TGR The Green Room
Shabani Ramadhani, Musician, Bass Player, Songwriter, Festival Organizer and Founder, Marahaba Music Expo
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS | WORKSHOPS
SATURDAY, EARLY AFTERNOON SESSION 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM
WORKSHOP: WEAVING FIBERS AND SOCIAL PROCESSES
LOCATION: Fiber Arts
Nora Dominga Carrasco Apaza, Visual Artist – Sculptor
WORKSHOP: EXPLORING THE NEUROPHYSIOLOGY BEHIND CREATIVITY
LOCATION: Design Lab
Melissa Park, Associate Professor in the School of Physical & Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University
WORKSHOP: LET ARTISTS LEAD, A CONVERSATION OF RADICAL IMAGINATION
LOCATION: Dance Studio
Note: The workshop runs from 1:30 – 3:00 PM.
Amanda Shea, two-time Boston Music Award-winning Spoken Word Artist, Performer, Educator, Artivist, Publicist, Host, and Curator
WORKSHOP: TRACING PALETTES ON THE DINING TABLE
LOCATION: Food Lab
Participation Limited to 8. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
(Note: this workshop is a repeat of Friday workshop’s from 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.)
Sharo Liang, Artist and Researcher
SATURDAY, MID-AFTERNOON SESSION, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: ARTISTS ARE THE NEW INSTITUTIONS
LOCATION: The Point
Moderator: Franklin Einspruch, Multimedia Visual Artist, Dissident Museum
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: EXPLORING GLOBAL ARTISTIC CONNECTIONS
LOCATION: Fiber Arts
Moderator: Janet Goldner, Interdisciplinary Artist
WORKSHOP: 3D PRINTING & CASTING WORKSHOP
LOCATION: Design Lab
Crispin B. Weinberg, President, Biomedical Modeling Inc. (BMI)
SATURDAY, LATE AFTERNOON SESSION, 3:00 PM– 4:45 PM
PANEL SESSIONS:
CRITICAL RESPONSES TO CRITICAL TIMES
LOCATION: Steam
Moderator: Glenn Williams, General Manager, Boston Neighborhood Network Media
Yulia Fisch, interdependent curator, cultural worker and co-founder of the collective “Beyond the post-soviet”
Michael Sheridan, Filmmaker and Educator, Founding Director, Community Supported Film and SheridanWorks
Qudrat Wasefi, Composer and Trumpeter, Founder of Afghanistan Freeharmonic Orchestra
NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR ARTISTS
LOCATION: Red Room
Moderator: Eric Gunther, Artist/Designer; Co-founder and Director, SOSO
Luc Courchesne, Artist; Founding member, Society for Art and Technology (SAT); and Member, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
Jingjing Lin, Multimedia Conceptual Artist
Arthur Makaryan, Artistic Director of Arte Makar Productions; La Sorbonne Panthéon Paris 1 ACTE Institute Affiliate
Nomeda Urbanos, Artist; Co-founder, Urbonas Studio; Researcher, Art, Culture, and Technology (ACT) program, MIT
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS | WORKSHOPS
SATURDAY, LATE AFTERNOON SESSION, 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: THE ROLE OF ART/BODY ORNAMENTATION IN HEALING
LOCATION: The Point
Moderator: Larisa Waya, Artist; Chaplain, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Field Education Supervisor, Harvard Divinity School; Founder, Founder Clergy Couture
WORKSHOP: CATCHING AN EDITOR’S EYE: THE ART OF ATTRACTING WRITTEN COVERAGE OF YOUR WORK AND EXHIBITIONS
LOCATION: Fiber Arts
Moderator: Rita Fucillo, Publisher, Art New England
WORKSHOP: WANT TO GO ON A RESIDENCY? SIGN UP HERE. STUPIN ARTIST STUDIO RESIDENCY PLATFORM
LOCATION: Design Lab
I-Chen Kuo, Artist and Founder, Stupin Residency Platform
WORKSHOP: TRANSARTISTS: HOW TO FIND THE RIGHT RESIDENCY FOR YOU
LOCATION: Dance Studio
Bojana Panevska, Senior Advisor, TransArtists, The Netherlands
SATURDAY EVENING OPTIONAL EVENTS
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
DEDICATION OF MIT’S NEW LINDE MUSIC BUILDING + SANFORD BIGGERS’ NEW PUBLIC ART WORK DEDICATION AND MoonMedicin PERFORMANCE
LOCATION: MIT’s Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building
Volunteers will be available, starting at 4:45 to help take people over to MIT.
NOTE: This event is now sold out. There is a slim chance that more tickets may become available at a later date. You will need to monitor MIT’s site HERE to see if more tickets become available.
8:00 PM
DANCE THEATER PERFORMANCE
LOCATION: Arrow Street Arts (2 Arrow Street) in Harvard Square, Cambridge
Conference workshop presenter Wendy Jehlen’s troupe ANIKAYA Dance Theater will be performing Conference of the Birds, a multimedia movement theater, inspired by the 12th century poem of Farid Ud din Attar, and embodying stories gathered from modern-day refugees and other migrants. The play is directed by choreographer Wendy Jehlen in collaboration with an ensemble of dancer/choreographers from Benin, Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, India/South Africa, Palestine, Taiwan and Turkey, with original music and projections created by an international team from France, Iran and the US.
Discounted tickets are available to Conference goers using the Promo Code “Exchange” on the website’s ticket page.
DAY 3, SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2025
SUNDAY, MORNING SESSION, 10:00 AM – 11: 45 AM
PANEL SESSIONS:
CLIMATE CHANGE | CLIMATE ACTION
LOCATION: The Steam
Moderator: Gediminas Urbonas, Artist; Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) Program; Co-founder, Urbonas Studio
Dan Ewert, Managing Director for Program Development for Cultural Vistas
Laura Garbštienė, Founder of Verpėjos
Yipei Lee, Independent Researcher, Founder, and Curator, SUAVEART
Liudmyla Nychai, Artist, Curator, and Project Coordinator, NGO Congress of Cultural Activists
Helmi Vent, Director of the Lab Inter Arts and Professor, Mozarteum University Salzburg
LGBTQ+, BIPOC & FEMINIST INTERVENTIONS INSIDE/OUTSIDE OF INSTITUTIONS
LOCATION: Red Room
Moderator: Dr. Jocelyn E. Marshall, Curator; Faculty, Dept. of Visual & Media Arts and Writing, Literature & Publishing, Emerson College
Erin Genia, Member, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, Multidisciplinary Artist, Educator and Community Organizer
Kathrine Guinness, Lecturer, University of Queensland; Theorist, Historian and Author
Conor Moynihan, Acting Department Head and Associate Curator, Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, RISD Museum
Homa Sarabi, Artist, Educator, Programmer
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS | WORKSHOPS
SUNDAY, EARLY MORNING SESSION, 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM
ROUNDTABLE: HONOR TAX: BEYOND LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
LOCATION: Design Lab
Jay Critchley, Founder and Director, The Provincetown Community Compact
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: EXTENDING EXCHANGE
LOCATION: The Point
Moderator: Farrah Karapetian, Artist and Public Thinker
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: EMPOWERING HUMANS WITH SENSORY CHALLENGES
LOCATION: Fiber Arts
Moderator: Andrée-Anne Blacutt, Artist and Researcher (processes of sensory perception), Laval University
WORKSHOP: FORECAST CONDENSED: THE WORLD AND THE WALNUT
NOTE: This workshop runs from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
LOCATION: Dance Studio
Participation is Limited to SIX participants. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
Freo Majer, Artistic Director of Forecast
SUNDAY, LATE MORNING SESSION, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
WORKSHOP: MIGRATIONS, PERFORMANCE/THEATER WORKSHOP
Note: This workshop is two hours long, running from 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: 2 Arrow Street in Harvard Square
Participation Limited to 30. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
Wendy Jehlen, Artistic Director of ANIKAYA
Meet at the Foundry at 9:45 am to walk over.
ROUNDTABLE: CREATING ART ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF CONSUMERISM FROM A CUBAN PERSPECTIVE
Location: The Point
Moderator: Janette Brossard Duharte, Cuban Artist and President of UNEAC
Please check with the front desk during registration to confirm this roundtable.
WORKSHOP: BREAKING DOWN DIGITAL FABRICATION’S PROCESSES
LOCATION: Fiber Arts
Purnima Mitra, Technical Art Director in Techvity Lab
WORKSHOP: TIPS FOR SUCCESSFUL RESIDENCY APPLICATIONS
LOCATION: Design Lab
Lori-Ann Touchette, Co-founder of C.R.E.T.A. Rome, Italy
ROUNDTABLE: FOOD, ART, SCIENCE: INTERSECTIONS
LOCATION: Food Lab
Moderator: Braden Kuo, Director for the Center for Neurointestinal Health at the GI Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Limited to 10 people. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
SUNDAY, AFTERNOON SESSION, 1:15 PM – 3:00 PM
PANEL SESSIONS:
SOLIDARITY AND RESISTANCE IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD
LOCATION: Steam
Moderator: Bojana Panevska, Program Manager, TransArtists
Bénédicte Alliot, Director General, Cité internationale des arts
Liudmyla Nychai, Artist, Curator, and Project Coordinator, NGO Congress of Cultural Activists
Heather O’Donnell, Founding Director of TGR The Green Room
Johan Pousette, Independent Curator and Writer
Mary Sherman, Director, TransCultural Exchange
Bojana Panevska’s organization of this panel is supported by DutchCulture, and the ‘ASK’ capsule (Advocacy, Support, Knowledge), co-organised with On the Move, with the support of the European Union.
CASES FOR CULTURE
LOCATION: The Dance Studio
Moderator: Ian Koebner, Strategic Advisor, Health and Wellness at Carnegie Hall
Ismail Assafi, coordinator, Pre-Texts, Harvard University
Chiara Caiazzo, PhD candidate, Contemporary Philosophy, Pompeu Fabra University; Fellow, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Ian Koebner, Strategic Advisor, Health and Wellness at Carnegie Hall
Giuliano Picchi, Cultural Entrepreneur in Residence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Founder, UNITA – United Talents for the Future
Nisha Sajnani, Co-founder and Co-director, Jameel Arts & Health Lab; Associate Professor
AI IN ART: NEW POSSIBILITIES FOR WORK & PROCESS
Moderator: Eric Gunther, artist/designer; Co-founder and Creative Director of SOSO
LOCATION: Red Room
Zachary Lieberman, Artist, Researcher and Educator
cari ann shim sham, Artist, AI Creater and Professor, NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Daniel S. DeLuca, Artist, Designer, and AI Researcher
SUNDAY, AFTERNOON SESSION 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: ART AND HEALING, VISIBLE MENDING
LOCATION: The Point
Moderator: Faustin Adeniran, Artist and Participant, Visible Mending Exhibition
ROUNDTABLE: BANANA BREAD DIPLOMACY
LOCATION: Fiber Arts
Moderator: Kathleen Bitetti, Artist, Curator/Arts Administrator, Public Policy /Advocacy Expert
ROUNDTABLE: THE ARTIST AS CITIZEN
LOCATION: Design Lab
Moderator: Amy Merrill, founding member Her Story Is Collective
WORKSHOP: SUSTAINABLE TEXTILES WORKSHOP: SAVING OUR ENVIRONMENT
Participation limited to 8 people. Available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Registration for this activity has ended. The day of the event, you can go to the event check to see if there are any free spots. Note: we cannot guarantee there will be.
Location: The Food Lab
Moderator: Suzanne Watzman, Owner, Tamaryn Design
Important to Note: This workshop begins at 1:30 – 3:00 pm. It is a repeat of the Saturday 11:30 am – 1:00 pm workshop.
SUNDAY, LATE AFTERNOON, CLOSING SESSION, 3:15 – 4:00 PM
LONG TABLE | REFLECTIONS
Location: The Community Hall
Host: Jay Critchley, Founder and Director, The Provincetown Community Compact
SUNDAY EVENING, OPTIONAL CLOSING EVENT
DISCOUNTED TICKETS AVAILABLE TO CONFERENCE GOERS
6:00 PM
DANCE THEATER PERFORMANCE
LOCATION: Arrow Street Arts (2 Arrow Street) in Harvard Square, Cambridge
Conference workshop presenter Wendy Jehlen’s troupe ANIKAYA Dance Theater will be performing Conference of the Birds, a multimedia movement theater, inspired by the 12th century poem of Farid Ud din Attar, and embodying stories gathered from modern-day refugees and other migrants. The play is directed by choreographer Wendy Jehlen in collaboration with an ensemble of dancer/choreographers from Benin, Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, India/South Africa, Palestine, Taiwan and Turkey, with original music and projections created by an international team from France, Iran and the US.
Discounted tickets are available to Conference goers using the Promo Code “Exchange” on the website’s ticket page.
SUNDAY, NIGHT CONCERT 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
LOCATION: The Goethe Institut, Boston
As part of the Goethe Institut’s New Music Festival, percussionist Reed Puleo presents the US premiere of Strange Symmetry, a work by Isaac Blumfield for percussion and electronics, alongside the East Coast premiere of dust by Rebecca Saunders. This concert showcases Puleo’s dedication to contemporary music, featuring groundbreaking compositions that explore unique sonic textures and the innovative use of percussion and electronics. More information available here. Advance tickets ($10) required.