2024-2025 A.I.R. GALLERY FELLOWS ANNOUNCED
Fellowship | September 2024–June 2025
A.I.R. Gallery is an artist-run organization and exhibition space in Brooklyn, NY. In 1993, A.I.R. Gallery established the Fellowship Program for Emerging and Underrepresented Women and Non-Binary Artists. The gallery now awards six Fellowships annually and has served more than 110 artists to date.
A.I.R. is an intergenerational community. Fellows receive professional development workshops, a solo exhibition, a stipend, and one-on-one mentoring. The A.I.R. Fellowship program remains committed to providing support for women and non-binary artists in New York City and to encouraging the growth of sustainable artistic practices.
2024-2025 A.I.R. Gallery Fellows
María de los Angeles Rodríguez Jiménez
Jurors: Stamatina Gregory, Marcela Guerrero and Sam Vernon
ACE HOTEL NEW YORK ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM / CURATED BY POWERHOUSE ARTS
Residency | November 2024
Ace Hotel’s Artist in Residence program, curated in partnership with collectives and institutions, provides time to think and space to create. Every quarter, Ace Hotel invites artists across the globe to turn one of their hotel rooms into a studio for a month, then showcase the resulting body of work with the Ace community.
Since the inception of the Artist in Residence program in 2014, participants have included Kandis Williams, Minjae Kim, Shauna Davis, Antonia Kuo, Morgan Parker, Jason Polan, Cali Thornhill DeWitt, William Powhida, Christian Joy, Nick Zinner and Jamilla Okubo.
Ace Hotel New York’s 2024-2025 AIR partner, Powerhouse Arts, operates a purpose-built fabrication facility devoted to providing artists the resources, tools, and community needed to bring their art projects to life. Seeking to inspire and empower, not just within, but beyond the confines of their building, the not-for-profit organization has selected four artists whose work centers creative expression through material exploration.
Santana will be in residence during the month of November 2024 and will be showcasing her work at Ace Hotel New York from December 2024 – February 2025.
2025 DIEU DONNÉ WORKSPACE RESIDENCY ARTISTS ANNOUNCED
Residency | 2025
“Since 1990, Dieu Donné's Workspace Residency has provided emerging, New York State-based artists the opportunity to explore paper pulp as an artistic medium. After a competitive selection process by a rotating panel of art professionals, we are proud to introduce the four artists participating in our next residency cycle: Sarah Hakani, Johannah Herr, SaraNoa Mark, Stephanie Santana.
Each Workspace Residency artist will have the opportunity to experiment in Dieu Donné's handmade papermaking studios alongside one of our expert collaborators. We are also pleased to once again offer the Dual Workspace Residency which provides one resident, Johannah Herr, with a studio-based residency at Artists Alliance Inc., parallel to the collaborative papermaking residency at Dieu Donné.”
The 2025 Workspace Residency artists were selected by the following panel:
Hiba Abid, Curator for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York Public Library
Cecile Chong, Dieu Donné Workspace Resident, 2023
Katharine L. DeLamater, Dieu Donné Studio Collaborator
Kara Springer, Artists Alliance Inc. Resident, 2021-2022
Catherine Walworth, the Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr. Curator of Drawings at Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA)
NARRATIVE QUILTING: TEXTILE AS RECORD
Virtual Artist Talk | October 9, 2024 @ 5pm ET
Join textile artist and printmaker Stephanie Santana for a discussion considering the history of quiltmaking as an important means of self-expression and documentation. Santana will discuss her artistic practice and use of archival material through this lens, while highlighting the work of quilting luminaries such as Faith Ringgold, Loretta Pettway Bennett, Rosie Lee Tompkins and Harriet Powers.
IN DIALOGUE: DINDGA MCCANNON + STEPHANIE SANTANA
September 7, 2024 @ 4pm ET | In-Person
Blackburn Study Center | 323 W 39th St | New York, NY
In conjunction with 2024 Armory Show, join Dindga McCannon and Stephanie Santana, both founding members of Black women art collectives, in dialogue with current exhibition Where We At Now! Paper Works at the Blackburn Study Center. Reception to follow.
COMMON THREAD
Group Exhibition | September 6–October 23, 2024
Blue Spiral 1 | 38 Biltmore Ave | Asheville, NC
Common Thread celebrates a selection of twenty artists whose practices are united by a singular material: fiber. While many of the artists employ traditional textile techniques such as weaving, quilting, and embroidery, others explore the potential of fiber through basketry and sculpture. The show aims to highlight how textiles can be reimagined to address both personal and cultural narrative; underscoring the material's role as a common thread that links craft and fine art.
Artists: Eleanor Anderson, Natalie Baxter, Anna Buckner, Kate Burke, Clay Burnette, Claire Drennan, Casey Engel, Kimberly English, Helen Geglio, Kay Healy, Bryant Holsenbeck, Asa Jackson, Julian Jamaal Jones, Paula Kovarik, Connie Lippert, Stephanie Santana, Lars Shimabukuro, Britny Wainwright, Lowell Zelenka
THE ARMORY SHOW
September 5-8, 2024
Javits Center | 429 11th Avenue | New York, NY | Booth N8
Presenting a new lithograph, As Above / So Below, and recent textile works by Stephanie Santana, along with prints from Robert Blackburn Printmaking WorkshopArchives by Emma Amos, Dindga McCannon, Mavis Pusey and Betye Saar. The edition will be printed by Master Printer Jazmine Catasús and published by EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop.
VIP Preview: Thursday, September 5
Public Dates (Ticketed Entry)
Friday, September 6 | 11am–7pm
Saturday, September 7 | 11am–7pm
Sunday, September 8 | 11am–6pm
BEYOND THE SURFACE: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS AND PRINTED TEXTILES
Group Exhibition | August 31-October 20, 2024
Schweinfurth Art Center | 205 Genesee St | Auburn, NY
Beyond the Surface: Contemporary Artists and Printed Textiles features more than 75 works by a diverse group of eight American artists who challenge conventional expectations of printed textiles within contemporary art. Using various techniques and materials, these artists transform fabric-based prints into meditations on personal, political, and social conditions. Their work expands notions of what a printed textile is and can be within a fine art context, revealing the possibilities for conceptual expression and meaning that uniquely exist in the overlap between media.
Artists: Danielle Andress, Nancy Crow, Emily Dormier, Sarah Fairchild, Letitia Huckaby, Krystle Lemonias, Stephanie Santana, Gerri Spilka
The exhibition is curated by Caroline Kipp and sponsored by the Coby Foundation, Furthermore Foundation – a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, Nelson B. Delevan Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
LORE
Group Exhibition | August 30-October 17, 2024
UT Downtown Gallery at University of Tennessee, Knoxville | 106 S Gay St | Knoxville, TN
Lore: What We Were Told | What We Saw | What We Tell Ourselves is the sophomore portfolio from Black Women of Print. With Lore, contributing artists continue to expand on personal, familial, spiritual, and creative legacies. The prints are a collection of emic narratives created by active founding members and Cohort II members.
Artists: Dr. Deborah Grayson, LaToya Hobbs, Althea Murphy-Price, Karen Revis, Stephanie Santana, Tanekeya Word
Lore is curated by Tanekeya Word, Founder of Black Women of Print.
RESONANCES: HISTORIES + COMMUNITY IN PRINT
Artist Talk with Dindga McCannon, Juan Sánchez and Stephanie Santana
Print Center New York | 535 W 24th St | New York, NY
May 4, 2024 | 3:30pm
In their interdisciplinary practices, artists Dindga McCannon, Juan Sánchez, and Stephanie Santana use printmaking to explore themes related to family and ancestral relationships, storytelling, and the personal photo archive. In this conversation, they discuss how they approach these ideas and how they engage methods of sharing knowledge, such as teaching, collaboration, and mentorship. Organized and moderated by Scout Hutchinson, Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
STEPHANIE SANTANA: WAYS OF KNOWING
Solo Exhibition | April 19-July 20, 2024
The Print Center | 1614 Latimer St | Philadelphia, PA
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Opening on April 19 will be three new solo exhibitions, Nancy Hellebrand: EVERYBODYBEAUTIFUL, Stephanie Santana: Ways of Knowing and Martie Zelt: Land Strider. A gallery talk and opening reception will take place on Thursday, April 18, from 5:30–7:30pm.
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The exhibitions, organized by Lauren Rosenblum (Jensen Bryan Curator, The Print Center), are presented in conjunction with (re)FOCUS 2024, a Philadelphia citywide festival marking the 50th anniversary of Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts (FOCUS).
As one of the first national exhibitions created exclusively for women, FOCUS opened in 1974 and featured more than 150 exhibitions, panels, lectures, films, workshops and demonstrations devoted to women's art in and around Philadelphia. The central exhibition featured 81 artists from all over the nation including Miriam Schapiro, Joyce Kozloff, Faith Ringgold, Howardena Pindell, Louise Bourgeois, Mary Beth Edelson, Lee Krasner, Nancy Grossman, Yayoi Kusama, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Adrian Piper, and Alma Thomas, among others.
2024 VISITING ARTIST / The bell hooks center
February 19-23, 2024
Berea College | 101 Chestnut St | Berea, KY
“The bell hooks center is an inclusive space where historically underrepresented students can come to be as they are, outside of the social scripts that circumscribe their living. We curate programs, collaborations and events that affirm these students’ sense of self and belonging—on campus and in the world. Our work is motivated by bell hooks’ famous insights that ‘patriarchy has no gender’ and that, therefore, ‘feminism is for everybody.’”
Textile artist and printmaker Stephanie Santana will discuss her artistic praxis, drawing connections to bell hooks’ assertions of photography and quiltmaking as resistance strategies that enable us to shape collective memory and construct transcendent radical identities.
Santana will also host a workshop inspired by bell hooks’ essay “Piecing It All Together,” in which bell speaks of the spirit of self-determination inherent in quiltmaking. Participants will develop quilt-inspired mixed media collages rooted in memory and personal narrative.
Funding for the visiting artist program generously provided by Art Bridges Foundation.
ANCESTORS IN PROGRESS
Group Exhibition | February 9-24, 2024
Textile Arts Center | 505 Caroll St | Brooklyn, NY
Ancestors in Progress will exhibit the work of ten Black women artists who move with the understanding that they will one day become an ancestor. Collectively, the artists shed light on values and teachings that ensure their people's traditions live on. They create work that dances effortlessly through time as they knot fiber, upcycle denim, and embellish cotton cloth. Embedded in their materials and respective practices lie ideas related to water, healing, spiritually, freedom, memory, and loss.
This show, in honor of Black History Month, is a manifestation of their commitment to sharing their knowledge with generations to come.
Artists: Cristina Wright, Elvira Clayton, Hekima Hapa, Hera Ford, Isamar, Michelle Fleet Thomas, Nana YaaSerwaah Akuoku, Narkita, Nelise Charles, Stephanie Santana
THE MEETING POINT
Group Exhibition | February 3-March 30, 2024
Blackburn 2020 | 323 W 39th St, 5th Fl | New York, NY
EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop is pleased to present The Meeting Point, featuring work by 2023 Kahn Mason Studio Immersion Project Fellows at Blackburn 20|20 gallery.
Artists: Sade Boyewa El, Krystal DiFronzo, Bryan Fernandez, Fay Ku, Yelaine Rodriguez, Stephanie Santana, Gabrielle Vazquez, Chang Yuchen