Inaugurated in 2003, The Nesnandy + Schwartz Visiting Curator (formerly Critics)
Series connects artists living in Northeast Ohio with nationally-recognized critics
and curators from across the country. The program aims to provide artists in the
region with professional exposure and thoughtful critical feedback from accomplished
art world professionals. It also serves to introduce Visiting Curators/Critics to the
wealth of art in Northeast Ohio. In addition to conducting private studio visits,
Visiting Curators/Critics deliver a public lecture on a current topic of their choice.
Twice a year, MOCA selects a notable contemporary art curator and solicits applications
from artists in the region for this program. These applications are forwarded to the
Visiting Curator, who reviews them and selects four or five artists with whom she/he
would like to have studio visits during a two-day period. Artists are notified of the
curator's decision via email, phone, or mail. Studio visits last approximately one-hour
with no set agenda. To provide further engagement, MOCA has hosts a private reception for
the Visiting Curator and all artists who have applied to that season's program.
Open Submission Process
The Visiting Critic conducts studio visits with artists during two consecutive days.
The Visiting Critic personally selects those artists whose studios he/she would like to
visit. During these critiques, artists can expect to receive professional advice and
critical feedback from Visiting Critics. Applicants must live in the Northeast Ohio
region (Cuyahoga County and its contiguous counties). Enrolled students must have completed
at least one year of MFA study to apply to this program.
Previous Nesnadny + Schwartz Visiting Critics/Curators
Shamim Momin (fall 2003)
Dominic Molon (winter/spring 2003)
James Elaine (fall 2004)
Amada Cruz (winter/spring 2005)
David Pagel (fall 2005)
Valerie Cassel-Oliver (winter/spring 2006)
Katy Siegel (fall 2006)
Eleanor Heartney (winter/spring 2007)
Dan Cameron (fall 2007)
Gregory Volk (winter/spring 2008)
Douglas Dreishpoon (fall 2008)
Raphaela Platow (winter/spring 2009)
Laura Hoptman (fall 2009)
Summer Submission Deadline
June 4, 2010
Interested artists should submit the following:
 No more than 10 slides or digital files
(please organize digital files in a PowerPoint or Adobe slideshow format, if possible)
Artist Bio or Resume with home address, email address, and preferred phone number
Artist Statement of no more than 500 words
Any relevant press regarding the work
Self-addressed, stamped envelope for return of the materials
Regretfully, proposals not fitting the above requirements or those
received after the deadline will not be considered. Electronic submissions will not be accepted.
Submissions
Electronic or late submissions will not be accepted.
MOCA Cleveland
Attn: Nesnadny + Schwartz Visiting Curators Program
8501 Carnegie Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44106
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Summer 2010 Visiting Curator Ian Berry
Application Deadline Friday, June 4, 2010
Studio Visits June 23 and 24, 2010
Public Lecture
MOCA Cleveland Commons Area
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 6:30 pm
About Ian Berry
Ian Berry is Associate Director and The Susan Rabinowitz Malloy '45 Curator of The Frances Young
Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College. A specialist in contemporary art, Berry
has organized interdisciplinary exhibitions for the Tang that combine astronomical atlases, Rube
Goldberg cartoons, and Shaker furniture with new art from around the world. In addition to surveys of
recent drawing, painting, and appropriation art, Berry's curatorial projects have included monographic
exhibitions with artists such as Nayland Blake, Kathy Butterly, Nicole Eisenman, Joseph Grigely, Jim Hodges,
Nina Katchadourian, Martin Kersels, Los Carpinteros, Alyson Shotz, Shahzia Sikander, and Amy Sillman.
Berry received his MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and served as Assistant Curator
at the Williams College Museum of Art before coming to Skidmore. Recent publications include Kara Wallker:
Narratives of A Negress (MIT Press, 2003; Rizzoli, 2007), Richard Pettibone: A Retrospective (Tang and Laguna, 2005),
America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler (MIT Press, 2006), Fred Tomaselli (Prestel, 2009),
and Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: A History (MIT Press, 2009). Berry has chaired the Visual Arts Panel of the
New York State Council on the Arts and serves on the artistic advisory committee for
Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century and the iCI Exhibitions Committee among other advisory groups.
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