In this Conversation program, the Emmanuel Art Gallery is bringing together a panel of museum and gallery professionals to reflect on their career paths, offer their perspectives on job prospects in the field today, and discuss where arts organizations are headed in the future. Anyone who is interested in pursuing a professional career in the arts is welcome to attend and participate!
Andrew Palamara, the Emmanuel’s Gallery Coordinator, will moderate the discussion with Sarah Kate Baie (MCA Denver), Eric Robert Dallimore (artist/Leon Non-Profit Arts Organization) and Barbara Russell (Clyfford Still Museum).
Eric Robert Dallimore is a contemporary artist who employs a variety of surprising concepts in his driven works of art. His work is often a comment on current political-social narratives, environmentalism, the Anthropocene/Anthropomass, and how we can sustainably move forward as a species. Future opportunities for gallery exhibitions are on the horizon in 2024, as well as an exploration into taking his public artworks to new levels by incorporating them into architectural elements designed to challenge human space and scale through the relationship between traditional and nature-based synergistic building materials.
Eric is also the Founder & Board President of Leon Non-Profit Arts Organization and served as the Curator & Artistic Director until 2021. Leon intentionally challenges artistic limitations and provides an environment for artistic exploration that is free from the market pressure and economic constraints of traditional commercial galleries. In 2022, Eric moved to New York City to work as the Studio Coordinator for Barry X Ball where he worked on exhibition planning, development, and installation with Sotheby's, TEFAF New York, Heydar Aliyev Centre, Center for Italian Modern Art, SITE Santa Fe, Ryan Murphy (private collection), Charlene, Princess of Monaco (private collection), Laura Mattioli (private collection), Fergus McCaffrey, Hong Gyu Shin, McCabe Fine Art, NOMAD St. Moritz Chesa Planta, and an exhibition alongside Cy Twombly's paintings at Mignoni Gallery.
Sarah Kate Baie is a specialist in creating and presenting programming and educational content for museums. Her work includes celebrating and supporting artists and musicians from around the world, and creating programs, performances, and festivals that deliver the art and culture of our time to museum visitors of all backgrounds. These programs include the wildly popular Mixed Taste lecture series, which she produced at the museum for over a decade, and MCA Denver’s teen leadership program Failure Lab, which established teenagers as a primary audience for the arts institution. She holds a M.S. from Bank Street College in New York City and a B.A. from the University of Colorado at Denver.
Barbara Russell joined the Clyfford Still Museum in October 2022 as the Museum’s first full-time development director, moving to Denver from Atlanta, GA. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Art History from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and a master’s degree in Arts Administration from Drexel University. While Barbara started her career in Museums, she has a broad range of experience building robust fundraising programs for a variety of small and mid-sized nonprofit organizations, including museums, united arts funds, a community development financial institution (CDFI), and human service and youth development organizations. She has successfully led the growth and development of revenue programs focused on annual fund and membership programs, major donor giving, foundation relations, corporate sponsorship, program-related investments, and cause-related partnerships. She lives with her partner at the base of Green Mountain and enjoys easy access to adventures in the mountains and shows at Red Rocks.