Creative Careers Conference 2013 Schedule and Bios
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2
Please Note: All sessions take place in the Pozen Center, unless otherwise noted.
8:00–9:00 am
Registration & Light Breakfast
9:00–9:15 am
Welcome Remarks
9:30–11:00 am
The Profitable Artist (NYFA Presentation)
11:00 am–12:00pm
NYFA Resources (NYFA Presentation)
12:00–1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00-3:00 pm
Marketing Your Artwork (NYFA Presentation)
3:00 -3:15 pm Break
3:15-4:45 pm
Grants and Fundraising (NYFA Presentation)
5:00-6:00 pm Tower Auditorium
Keynote Address
Michael Royce: Interpersonal Networking to Generate Opportunity
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6:15-6:45 pm Godine Gallery
Cocktail Reception
7:00 pm Pozen Center
Alumni Awards Presentation
7:30-9:00 pm Pozen Center
Alumni Awards Dinner Reception
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9:30-10:00 am Tower West Lobby
Light Breakfast
10:00-11:00 am Tower Auditorium
Philip Solomon Film Screening and Talk
11:15 am-1:00 pm Pozen Center
Facilitated Drawing with Aimee Good (Registration limited to 20 participants.)
1:00 pm Conference Ends
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C3 2013: NYFA PRESENTERS
Keynote Speaker: Michael Royce
Michael L. Royce is currently the Executive Director of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). NYFA
provides more financial support and information for artists than any organization in the United States. Prior to
NYFA, Mr. Royce headed up the Moynihan Station Development Corporation, where he took great pride in
marshalling through the initial stages of construction on the James A. Farley Building, bringing life to the vision of
the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
In March 2001, he was invited by the Japanese Consul of Bahrain to participate in a series of talks aimed at
integrating the cultural concerns of the Jewish people living in the Middle East. This invitation was a result of Mr.
Royce’s trip to Japan in 1999, as a guest of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in which he consulted with
leading political figures on fostering heritage and cultural awareness.
His efforts to support cultural exchange started in 1998, when, as the Deputy Director of the New York State
Council on the Arts, he went on a delegation to Israel. His role was to oversee and implement the creation of the
New York–Israel Cultural Cooperation Commission. The Commission was set up to foster cultural exchange
between the States of New York and Israel.
As a creative artist, Mr. Royce has performed in and directed many theatrical productions throughout the United
States. Highlights include performing at Town Hall in New York City, co-creating the Singing Chorus Tree at the
South Street Seaport, now in its 22nd year, and stage managing the Off-Broadway musical hit What’s A Nice
Country Like You Doing In A State Like This?
As an administrator, he has been the Managing Director for the Shadow Box Theatre, the Marketing Director for
the Creative Arts Team, and the Director of Programming for the Theatre Development Fund. He also served as an
on-site evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts from 1993-2008.
In 2002, he received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor for his contributions to the arts.
Peter Cobb
Peter Cobb is an arts administrator and attorney who is also a professional jazz saxophonist. Peter attended
Berklee College of Music in Boston, received his B.A. from Drew University, his J.D. from the University of
Pennsylvania Law School, and his Masters of Music (M.M.) from New York University. Peter serves as the Program
Officer for Special Projects at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), where he works on a number of NYFA’s
institutional and individual education programs, and co-edited “The Profitable Artist.”
A member of the Pennsylvania Bar, Peter has an extensive background in the government and nonprofit worlds.
Peter served as a law clerk in the Pennsylvania judicial system for several years and participated in several pieces
of litigation on behalf of persons with disabilities. He also worked with the Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the
Arts and has assisted a number of low-income clients on legal matters. He frequently draws on his experience as a
performing artist to facilitate connections between the arts and nonprofit communities, helping to create a jazz
education and outreach effort in Paterson, New Jersey through St. Paul’s Community Development Corporation,
and serving on the Board of the Sedgwick Cultural Center in Philadelphia. He has taught saxophone as an adjunct
faculty member at NYU, and has toured nationally and internationally as a jazz performer.
Peter is also a fan of all Boston sports teams and thinks terriers are great dogs…
Felicity Hogan
Born in the United Kingdom, Felicity Hogan, Programs Officer, NYFA Learning/NYFA Consults, was originally trained
as an artist. Since residing in the United States, she has expanded her skills to arts administration and curating with
over 15 years of experience in commercial, alternative, and non-profit spaces. Ms. Hogan is Program Officer at
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), where she works on a number of professional development programs
for artists and arts administrators as well as managing the Immigrant Artist Program, a program that provides
support for artists sharing the immigrant experience.
Ms. Hogan was selected for NAMAC’s Leadership Institute for Visual Arts Organizations in 2011 during her tenure
as Executive Director of Artists Alliance, Inc., a non-profit arts organization based on the Lower East Side whose
programs include a studio residency and gallery space, Cuchifritos. Ms. Hogan is committed to the arts community
through numerous activities at institutions in New York and nationwide, including her presence on advisory
boards, participation in selections panels including New York State Council on the Arts (visual arts), presenting
lectures and workshops, and visiting guest critic.
C3 2013: ALUMNI AWARDS RECIPIENTS
Aimee Good ‘95
Aimee Good ’95 (Sculpture) is an artist, organic farmer, and the Director of Education and Community Programs at
The Drawing Center in New York. For the past eight years, she has directed, curated, and produced The Big Draw
and DrawNow! This series of site specific artist-led public participatory art events is a joint project of The Drawing
Center and various New York cultural institutions. In the past four years, Aimee has transitioned 30 acres of
conventionally-farmed land to organic production in Northern Maine. She currently serves on the StreetFest
taskforce committee for the New Museum’s IDEAS CITY Festival, a biannual initiative exploring the future of cities
since 2011.
Her artwork has been exhibited in Boston, Los Angeles, Ireland, and New York. Artist residencies include the
Rotunda Gallery/BRIC Artist Residency, Ucross Foundation, and the Artist Work Programme at the Irish Museum of
Modern Art. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Art New England, The Boston Phoenix,
ArtsMedia, and Maquette.
Prior to working at The Drawing Center, Aimee taught as a museum educator with MoMA, Cooper-Hewitt,
National Design Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art; served as a web producer at Martha Stewart
Living Omnimedia; managed the Foundation for Partnerships in Boston; ran an art gallery; freelanced as a textbook
art editor; and worked for the family potato business in Maine.
She received a BA from Colby College, a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, and an MFA from the Milton Avery
Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Aimee lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Josh, and marvelous
daughter, Matilda.
Philip Solomon ‘80
Philip Solomon ’80 (MFA MPA) has been making films since 1975, and is currently a Professor of Film Studies at
the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he has been teaching since 1991. He collaborated on three films with
his friend and Boulder colleague, the late Stan Brakhage, who named Solomon's Remains to be Seen on his Top Ten
Films of All Time list for Sight and Sound. He is currently working on A Snailʼs Trail in the Moonlight: Conversations
with Brakhage, a video essay and a book of transcriptions of several years of recordings of Brakhageʼs Sunday film
salons.
Phil Solomon has been awarded with a USA Artists Knight’s Fellowship (2012), the Thatcher Hoffman Smith
Creativity in Motion Prize (2007), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1994), and he has exhibited his films in every major
venue for experimental film throughout the US and Europe, including two Whitney Biennials and three one-person
shows at MoMA. Solomon’s films have won First Prize at numerous international film festivals, including
Oberhausen and Black Maria (6 Juror’s Awards).
His recent Grand Theft Auto digital video series, In Memoriam, has received numerous awards and was named in
the Top Ten avant-garde films of the year by the Village Voice. In a recent poll taken by Film Comment of the top
50 filmmakers of the first decade of the new century, Phil Solomon was placed at number 5 (tied with Stan
Brakhage). (http://www.filmcomment.com/article/best-of-the-decade-avant-garde)
For further information and film clips, see www.philsolomon.com