CHAUTAUQUA VISUAL ARTS (CVA)
Sharon Louden was the Artistic Director of the Chautauqua Visual Arts in Western New York between August 2018 and the end of 2022.
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Core Faculty & Visiting Artists
Press, Radio & Podcasts
Lecture Series
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Community Dinner 2021: Chautauqua School of Art Residency Program
The School of Art Residency Program was the centerpiece of the Chautauqua Visual Arts. As an incubator of inclusive and expansive programming in the visual arts, the school was composed of group sessions and one-on-one time with lead faculty. The pedagogy intentionally broke apart the traditional methods that silo disciplines from each other. Instead, a full range of studio and pragmatic studies was embraced to include professional development, the art of pedagogy, writing in the 21st century, archiving, and the relevance of art history today.
The Chautauqua School of Art invited artists into the richness of the distinctive visual arts program that offered a range of opportunities called the CVA experience. Participants age 21 and older were welcomed to engage in an intergenerational, inclusive, and open experience that promoted possibilities through experimentation and expansive creativity in a brave space.
Core Faculty and Visiting Artists:
Press:
Skidmore, Emma, “Art history senior interns as gallery assistant at the Chautauqua Institute,” Ohio News, October 26, 2022
Sharp, Daniel, “On why you're more than what you make,” The Creative Independent, August 31, 2022
Philion, Laura, “‘To bring light back into her eyes:’ with new marker dedicated to Cottage bearing Phillis Wheatley’s name, part of Chautauqua’s past ‘no longer lost’,” The Chautauquan Daily, July 23, 2021
Hart, Wes, “Arkansas to New York: A Chautauqua Experience,” University of Central Arkansas Art Department Blog, September 2019
James, Lydia, “Day 49 - Chautauqua,” Personal Blog, August 18, 2019
Trefts, Deborah, “VACI’s Louden to Discuss Sustaining a Creative Life at CWC,” The Chautauqua Daily, August 13, 2019
“Georgia Southern Art Department partners with Chautauqua School of Art in New York,” March 1, 2019
Hess, Erika, I Like Your Work Podcast, February 2, 2019
Russeth, Andrew, "A Critics’s Diary, August: To the Beach, Buffalo Wings, Golden Bullets, Silver Balls, and the End of Summer," ARTnews, September 13, 2018
Greenberger, Alan, "Sharon Louden Appointed Artistic Director of Chautauqua Institution’s Visual Arts Program," ARTnews, July 27, 2018
“Sharon Louden Named Artistic Director of Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution,” Chautauqua Institution News, July 27, 2018
RADIO INTERVIEWS:
Warren, Matt, “Chautauqua Interviews," WJTN, Media One Radio Group, July - August, 2019
PODCAST INTERVIEWS:
Hess, Erika b, “Eps 21: Artist, Writer & Change Maker Sharon Louden,” I Like Your Work, July 9, 2019
collaborations:
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA. Exhibition: “Chautauqua Artists in Residence 2022.”
The exhibition signifies a beginning of an ongoing partnership between neighbors, the Erie Art Museum and Chautauqua Visual Arts. “Our intention is to provide spaces to encourage connections and experiences to enhance the well-being of others,” states Sharon Louden, Artistic Director of the Visual Arts program at The Chautauqua Institution, where the residency program is a centerpiece of the Chautauqua School of Arts. “I see our partnership growing by sharing our resources for collaborative programs, artist visits and tours that connect the citizens of Erie and Chautauquans together.”
Lecture Series:
Every week during the residency, artists and other visual arts professionals were invited to speak to the students. During the offseason, the lectures occurred monthly.
The Leon and Gloria Plevin Family Museum Director Lecture: Valerie Cassel Oliver
Valerie Cassel Oliver is the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
August 10, 2021
Through acts of self exhibition, Quinn Alexandria Hunter is interrupting the view on the body and asking questions about the prescribed performances of femininity to the black body in divulging their limited imposed meanings.
July 13, 2021
A lifelong Alaskan, Asia Freeman paints landscapes inspired by Alaska’s volatile coastal weather. She also co-founded Bunnell Street Arts Center in Homer, Alaska, showing innovative contemporary art of all forms since 1992.
June 8, 2021
An activist and environmentalist, John Sabraw’s paintings, drawings and collaborative installations are produced in an eco-conscious manner, and he continually works toward a fully sustainable practice.
May 12, 2021
Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer is the Executive Director of the Queens Council on the Arts.
April 13, 2021
Abby Chen is the Senior Associate Curator and Head of Contemporary Art at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.
March 12, 2021
Dr. Erika Wong is the founder of To Practise_Practice, a digital-discovery platform that gives early-career artists the toolkit they need to survive in the real world of the art industry.
February 9, 2021
Alpesh Kantilal Patel is Alpesh Kantilal Patel is associate professor of contemporary art and visual culture at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, and a lead faculty member of Chautauqua School of Art’s summer residency program in New York.
January 12, 2021
Derek Fordjour is an artist living and working in New York, and is the Alex Katz Chair of Painting at The Cooper Union and serves as a Core Critic at Yale University School of Art.
December 8, 2020
Dr. Joe Stahlman is the Director of Seneca Nation’s Seneca-Iroquois National Museum-Onöhsagwë:de' Culture Center, located in Salamanca, New York.
November 10, 2020
Miguel Luciano is a multimedia artist whose work explores themes of history, popular culture, social justice and migration through sculpture, painting and socially engaged public art projects. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he lives and works in New York, NY.
October 13, 2020
Sheetal Prajapati is an artist, educator, and arts and culture advisor living and working in Brooklyn, NY.
September 8, 2020
Seph Rodney is a writer, editor, and museum scholar who lives and works in Newburgh, NY.
August 25, 2020
Chris Friday is an artist living and working in Miami Florida. As an alum from the 2019 season, she was the inaugural artist to participate in the CVA Alumni Lecture Series.
August 18, 2020
Julia Bottoms is an artist who lives and works in Buffalo, NY.
August 11, 2020
Shervone Neckles is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and community worker who lives and works in New York.
August 4, 2020
The Leon and Gloria Plevin Family Museum Director Lecture with Brooke Davis Anderson, Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Pennsylvania Academy of Art Museum in Philadelphia, PA.
July 28, 2020
Kalup Linzy is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and a CVA Mentor currently based in Tulsa, OK.
July 14, 2020
Salvador Jimenez-Flores is an interdisciplinary artist. Born and raised in Jalisco, México, he is also an Assistant Professor in Ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL.
July 7, 2020
Mitra Khoresheh is a Canadian curator, writer, educator and the owner of Signs and Symbols gallery located in New York, NY.
June 30, 2020
unrecorded lectures:
James Hunter is an Award winning Design Director with the Wiseman Group, a nationally renowned interior design firm based in San Francisco, California
August 14, 2022
Hakim Bishara is an editor and writer for the online art publication Hyperallergic. He is also a co-director at Soloway Gallery, an artist-run space in Brooklyn, and a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).
July 17, 2022
Julie Blackmon is a native of Springfield, MO, and her photographs are inspired by her experience of growing up the oldest of nine children—including five sisters—in what she calls “a generic American town in the middle of the U.S.”
August 8, 2021
Virginia Shearer has devoted her 25 years in museum leadership to catalyzing meaningful connections with art and artists for people of all ages, backgrounds and experience with the arts.
July 31, 2022
Jean Alexander Frater experiments with the materials inherent to painting and then integrates other histories, traditions and language into this form.
July 10, 2022
Beth Lipman is an American artist whose sculptural practice generates from the Still Life genre, symbolically representing the splendor and excess of the Anthropocene and the stratigraphic layer humanity will leave on earth.
July 30, 2021
Shirley Wegner is a multidisciplinary artist focusing on photography. In her work, she explores photography’s dialogue with other disciplines like painting, sculpture, video and installation.
July 24, 2022
Squeak Carnwath draws upon the philosophical and mundane experiences of daily life in her paintings and prints, which can be identified by lush fields of color combined with text, patterns, and identifiable images.
July 3, 2022
Brett Wallace is a New York-based artist and filmmaker exploring work, technology, and the greater economy.
August 18, 2020
Video:
Residencies Panel with Christopher Carroll, Philip Himberg and Sharon Louden, March 16, 2021.