The Art Writing Workshop was a partnership between The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and AICA-USA. This program paired ten emerging art writers with eminent voices in the field, facilitating deep critical engagement with art in regions across the US.
Over the course of a six-month period, from January to June, the workshop participants explored conversations, ideas, thinking, writing, style, and voice that are crucial to the future of criticism. The program assisted participants on improving specific pieces of writing, some of which have been published on AICA-USA's online magazine.
Awarded a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her criticism, Jennifer Kabat’s essays have appeared in Best American Essays, Granta, Harper’s, BOMB, Frieze, McSweeney’s, The New York Review of Books, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer and The White Review. Together with Kate Newby, she collaborated on “The January February March” to explore specific sites and recently worked with the artist Marlene McCarty on a project in Buffalo, NY exploring capitalism and modernism and invasive weeds. Her essay for that project, “The White Deer,” was excerpted by Chris Kraus in a recent issue of An/Other magazine. She has contributed to artists’ monographs and catalogues for the Victoria & Albert Museum, Whitney Museum and others. Her writing has been included in exhibitions at Arnolfini and Index in Stockholm. Jennifer teaches at the New School and in the Art Writing MFA at SVA and is working on a book about grief and modernism. She lives in rural upstate New York and serves as a volunteer firefighter in her town.
-
2009
Mentors: Marek Bartelik, Avis Berman, Michael Duncan, Peter Frank, Janet Koplos, Peter Plagens, Michael Rush, Richard Schiff, & Lilly Wei
Mentees: JD Beltran, Daniel Boehl, Matt Christy, Kurt Eidsvig, Cora Fisher, Christian Frock, Jeanne Gerrity, Susan Kunimatsu, Sophie Landres, Daniel Miller, & Katey Schultz
-
2010
Mentors: Annette Grant, Eleanor Heartney, Hayden Herrera, David Levi Strauss, Suzanne Muchnic, Peter Plagens, Mark Rosenthal, Richard Schiff, Gregory Volk & Lilly Wei
Mentees: Natalie Bell, David Buuk, Colin Edgington, Mark Feldman, Erin Langner, Carol McCusker, Patricia Mora, Christina Schmid, Deanna Sirlin, & Adam Welch
-
2011
Mentors: Stephanie Barron, Eleanor Heartney, Christopher Knight, David Levi Strauss, Kim Levin, Peter Plagens, Nancy Princenthal, Alex Scrimgeour, & Susan Snodgrass
Mentees: Nawal Asfour, Graham Beck, Dawn Chan, Travis Diehl, Joel Kuennen, Annie Larmon, Meg Onli, John Powers, Pamela Renner, & Kate Sutton
-
2012
Mentors: Betsy Baker, Eleanor Heartney, Barbara MacAdam, Peter Plagens, Nancy Princenthal, Raphael Rubinstein, Richard Schiff, Susan Snodgrass, & Lilly Wei
Mentees: Ingrid Chu, Sarah Coleman, Julia Cooke, Daniel Glendening, Rachel Hooper, Gwenael Kerlidou, Andrea Kirsh, Adam Kleinman, Kathleen MacQueen, & Catherine Wagley
-
2013
Mentors: Bill Berkson, Holland Cotter, Barbara MacAdam, Peter Plagens, Raphael Rubinstein, Barry Schwabsky, Susan Snodgrass, Marcia Vetrocq, & Lilly Wei
Mentees: Andrew Alexander, Stephanie Cardon, Corrine Fitzpatrick, Victoria Gannon, Daniel Gerwin, Rebecca Louise Hunter, Elisabeth Jacquette, Sarah Pollman, Genevieve Quick, & Amy White
-
2014
Mentors: Bill Berkson, Robin Cembalest, Holland Cotter, Carol Diehl, Barbara MacAdam, David Pagel, Peter Plagens, Raphael Rubinstein, Marcia Vetrocq, & Lilly Wei
Mentees: Larissa Archer, Ian Epstein, Richard Fletcher, Bean Gilsdorf, Jason Hoelscher, Natasha Kurchanova, Lynn Maliszewski, Kari Rittenbach, & Sarah Bay Williams
-
2015
Mentors: Betsy Baker, Bill Berkson, Robin Cembalast, Holland Cotter, Eleanor Heartney, David Pagel, Peter Plagens, Nancy Princenthal, Barry Schwabsky, & Susan Snodgrass
Mentee: Ellen Mara De Wachter, Ian DeLen, Sheila Dickinson, Elissa Favero, Nicholas Frank, Sarah Griesbach, Emily Holmes, Christina Catherine Martinez, Danica Sachs, Sarah Sharp, & Stephen Squibb
-
2016
Mentors: Stephanie Barron, Robin Cembalast, Rachel Corbett, Carol Diehl, Peter Plagens, Nancy Princenthal, Judith Stein, Edward Sullivan, & Lilly Wei
Mentees: Margot Bouman, Claire Breukel, Sarah Hamill, Colony Little, Melissa Mednicov, Zlatan Pobric, Sheila Regan, Seph Rodney, Kristine Ronan, & Iona Whittaker
-
2017
Mentors: Negar Azimi, Robin Cembalast, Holland Cotter, Charles Desmarais, Constance Lewallen, Carolina A. Miranda, Peter Plagens, Barry Schwabsky, Judith Stein, & Lilly Wei
Mentees: John Anderson, Robyn Day, Lara M. Evans, Robert Goyanes, Lauren Mackler, Nicole Miller, Maia Nichols, Laurie Rojas, Meredith Sellers, & Mimi Wong
-
2018
Mentors: Negar Azimi, Holland Cotter, Charles Desmarais, Eleanor Heartney, Carolina A. Miranda, Peter Plagens, Barry Schwabsky, Judith Stein, & Lilly Wei
Mentees: Sasha Archibald, Leora Fridman, Jillian McManemin, Jennifer Peterson, Anthony Petro, Ethan Philbrick, Marina Reyes Franco, Karen Schiff, Megan Voeller, & Jody Zellen
-
2019
Mentors: Andrew Berardini, Maurice Berger, Holland Cotter, Charles Desmarais, Claudia La Rocco, Siddhartha Mitter, Sharon Mizota, Peter Plagens, Judith Stein, & Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Mentees: Dominique Clayton, Patrick Jaojoco, Megan N. Liberty, Joshua Lubin-Levy, Amanda Maddox, Whitney Mallett, Julie Potter, Danni Shen, Mebrak Tareke, & Drew Zeiba
-
2020
Mentors: Hannah Black, Paul Chaat Smith, Jace Clayton, Holland Cotter, Emmanuel Iduma, Chris Kraus, Claudia LaRocco, Sharon Mizota, JD Pluecker, & Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Mentees: Kayla Anderson, Rehema Barber, Kimberlee Córdova, Leah Gallant, Elizabeth Hamilton, Charlene Lau, Minh Nguyen, Eva Recinos, Ana Tuazon, & Simon Wu
AICA supports art writers around the world through public programs and membership that includes free access to museums across the globe. Since its formation in 1950, AICA has been committed to elevating the values of art criticism as a discipline, and acting on behalf of the physical and moral defense of works of art.
Join now
AICA supports arts writers around the world through public programs and membership that offers free access to museums across the globe. AICA-USA represents the largest national section of AICA International with over 450 distinguished critics, curators, scholars, and art historians working throughout the United States. As part of the international organization, we benefit from a global reach in presence. AICA-USA is intent on international communication, elevating the values of art criticism as a discipline, and acting on behalf of the physical and moral defense of works of art.
AICA's membership card is recognized for entrance to museums around the world. Members are invited to attend the annual AICA International Congress, hosted each year by a different member nation, and the AICA-USA annual meeting.
Every fall, in cooperation with the New School's Vera List Center for Art and Politics, AICA-USA presents a Distinguished Critic Lecture.
Organized in collaboration with CUE Art Foundation, this program matches emerging critics with experienced AICA-USA members who guide them through the process of writing a catalogue essay.
A partnership between The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and AICA-USA that gives art writers the opportunity to strengthen their work through one-on-one consultations with leading art critics.