ASMP NY Aqua ‘22 Exhibition; juried by Sherri Littlefield, Vida Sabbaghi and is curated by Pamela Jean Tinnen

Sherri Littlefield is the owner of treat gallery, and a New York City based photographer and curator interested in data, collaborative projects, and using contemporary art toward social good.  

Sherri was the director of Foley Gallery from 2016-2019, and was briefly the Interim Director of ClampArt in 2020. Projects curated by Littlefield have been featured at PULSE Art Fair, AIPAD, the Huffington Post, Affordable Art Fair, artnet, The Center For Book Arts, dnainfo new york and Whitewall Magazine. She has served as a juror and reviewer for many competitions, including Photo Lucida Critical Mass (2020), PDN’S The Curator (2019), Photoville, Palm Springs Photo Festival and PDN’s Photo Plus. She will be a portfolio reviewer for Photolucida in 2022. She is currently on faculty at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Maine Media Workshops and College where she lectures on social media, photography and professional practices. In addition to her many projects, Sherri is a Content Creator and Relations Coordinator for Nordstrom.

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@nienass @treatgallery

Vida Sabbaghi is a cultural producer and the Executive Director of COPE NYC (Creative Opportunities Promoting Equality New York City). COPE NYC promotes social relations through art exhibits, residencies, art and design education, fashion shows, and community art projects. She is also the Art Director of 630 Flushing Avenue, a thriving building situated in Brooklyn with 2000 tenants, including Pratt Institute, Brandon Haw Architecture Firm, and Savaria Music Studios.

In 2021, Vida founded THE IW GALLERY to provide opportunities for artists and designers from around the world, and to inspire and promote cultural exchanges.

Sabbaghi is a consultant for NYC galleries; her curatorial projects include artworks, photography, fashion, and film. She curated several exhibitions at Queens Museum where she also organized a three-day international art education conference. Her expertise extends to curating traveling exhibits, including Overlap: Life Tapestries, and Repsychling. Vida also designs programming, workshops, and discussions to accompany exhibitions. She expanded COPE NYC’s reach with Artists in Residence projects in Brooklyn, Taiwan, and Germany, and will launch another one in Taipei, Taiwan, this December.

Vida, an editor and writer for art publications, coedited Bridging Communities through Socially Engaged Art, with Dr. Alice J. Wexler, published by Routledge. She is a contributing writer of museum-based art therapy: a collaborative effort with access, education, and public programs.

Vida studied Industrial Design; Theory, Criticism, History of Art, Design, and Architecture; and Art & Design Education at Pratt Institute. She graduated with Distinction. She is a part time faculty member of Parsons The New School where she applies her curatorial expertise. In 2023 – Vida Sabbaghi will be partnering with established art fairs to bring one to a venue in Brooklyn.

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@iwgallery @cope_nyc

 

#aninclusiveworld #cope_nyc #theiwgallery 

www.aninclusiveworld.com

Pamela Jean Tinnen

Pamela is a curator and writer based in New York. She has worked for over a decade as a curator specializing in public-art at NYU, as well as for contemporary art galleries. Her artistic, academic and curatorial interests most often engage photography, noir-theory, dark-tourism, aesthetics and visual-culture. She holds an MA in Museum Studies from New York University, and a BA in Literary Criticism from the University of South Florida.

Currently, she is working on her first novel. Following a great literary tradition of writers who got the hell out of New York City, Pamela currently resides on a lake in the Catskills with her husband and their adorable rat-terrier rescue named Enzo, who they really thought would have gotten bigger by now. 

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@pamelatinnen @nyuartinpublicplaces @highpriestessproject