In 2010 CEC ArtsLink brought two groups of Arts Leadership Fellows to New York City.
March, 2010 Arts Leadership Fellows
The first was a group of eight contemporary arts managers from Russia and Kazakhstan. The rigerous 9-day schedule of meetings, tours and presentations included meetings at MoMA and Creative time, a tour of the Whitney Bienial with Chrissie Iles and much more.
Margarita Amvrosova
Artistic Director, Tengri-Umai Gallery
Kazakhstan Network Coordinator, Open Society Institute, Budapest
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Yulia Avgustinovich
Director
33+1 Art Studio
St. Petersburg, Russia
Anna Basanova
Coordinator
Bactria Cultural Center
Dushanbe, Turkmenistan
Natalia Nikolaeva
Project Manager
Regional Agency for Creative Initiatives
Yaroslavl, Russia
Alexandra Semenova
Curator of International Programs
Krasnoyarsk Museum Center
Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Tatiana Shishova
Coordinator of Visual Arts
Pro Arte Foundation
St. Petersburg, Russia
Mikhail Surkov
Deputy Director
Perm Museum of Contemporary Art
Perm, Russia
Elena Yaichnikova
Independent Curator
Moscow Biennale
Moscow, Russia
The second was a group of 11 emerging cultural journalists from Russia and Central Asia. Their 9-day trip took them to cultural institutions such as the Guggenheim, Brooklyn Rail and WNYC to name a few.
Oksana Alekseeva
News Correspondent
Stan TV
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Bogdan Bogdanov
Correspondent
Afontova TV, program Morning Coffee
Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Oksana Budulak
Editor
Magazine Infornographiya
Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Tahmina Gaibnozarova
Correspondent
Television-Radio Company “Mir”
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Kristina Loseva
Correspondent
TV 2, News Program Chas Pik (Rush hour)
Tomsk, Russia
Alexei Makeev
Literary Commentator, internet paper, Newslab
Theater commentator, journal Premium
Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Artur Matveev
Anchor, morning news
“TV-6” Channel
Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Dmitry Povarov
Correspondent
Internet publications: www.gazeta.uz; www.afisha.uz
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Alexander Tretiakov
Television-Radio Company “NTS”
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Dmitry Zakharov
Columnist, www.ngs.ri
Columnist, Uran-Bator newspaper
Krasnoyarsk, Russia
The 2009 ALF program targeted younger, mid-career arts managers from contemporary art and multi-disciplinary arts organizations from Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. With the support of the Prokhorov Foundation, for the first time four Siberian cultural journalists also participated in the program.
Six arts managers specializing in the field of contemporary art from Russia, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan traveled to New York from March 3 -12, 2009. During their intensive program, they visited a wide variety of contemporary arts organizations, including MOMA, Bard Curatorial Program, Galapagos Art Center, P.S. 1, and Creative Time and had the opportunity to not only become familiar with contemporary art trends in the U.S., but to also engage U.S. curators and managers in a dialogue about U.S. arts practices.
The second group brought six arts managers from Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan and four journalists from Krasnoyarsk and Norilsk to New York from July 14-23 to learn about U.S. arts organizations in a wide range of disciplines as well as cultural journalism practices. The program included meetings with curators and arts managers at the Museum of Moving Image, Symphony Space, MOMA, Anthology Film Archives, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Center. In addition, the group had the opportunity to discuss U.S. journalism practices with Pulitzer Prize winning, New York Times art critic Holland Cotter, New Yorker Magazine Editor David Remnick, and Columbia School of Journalism Professors, Anne Cooper and Alisa Solomon.
Asel Akmatova, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Director
Kurama ART Gallery,
Irina Bharat, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Assistant General Manager
Ilkhom Theatre
Nellya Djamanbaeva, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Manager
Bishkek International Biennale of Contemporary Art
Natalya Dubashinskaya, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Cultural Journalist
Anna Kalashnik, Petrozavodsk, Russia
Arts Manager
Komart Club Media Center “Vykhod,”
Anastasia Karpenko, Kaliningrad, Russia
PR Manager
National Center of Contemporary Art (NCCA)
Marina Korotkova, St. Petersburg, Russia
Art Director
Rodina Film Center
Dastan Kozhkakhmetov, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Deputy Director
Soros Center for Contemporary Art
Farrukh Kuziev, Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Program Assistant
Bactria Cultural Center
Svetlana Litvinenkova, St. Petersburg, Russia
Art Journalism & Contemporary Architecture Program Coordinator
PRO ARTE Foundation
Yekaterina Reznikova, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Curator
Kasteev State Museum of Arts
Maria Sedneva, Norilsk, Russia
Correspondent
State Television and Radio "Norilsk"
Yulia Tsybuzova, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Correspondent
TV "Afontovo"
Irina Ulanova, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Curator
Education Center of Krasnoyarsk State Museum Center
Evgenia Vdovichenko, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Curator
National Center for Contemporary Art
Leonid Zolnikov, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Correspondent
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