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| Skanandoa Arts | |
|---|---|
| Name | Skanandoa Arts |
| Formation | 1990s |
| Type | Arts nonprofit |
| Headquarters | Unspecified |
| Region served | Local, Regional |
| Leader title | Executive Director |
Skanandoa Arts Skanandoa Arts is a community arts organization that provides visual arts, performing arts, and cultural programming. It partners with museums, universities, and civic institutions to present exhibitions, workshops, and residencies. The organization engages with artists, patrons, and educators through collaborative projects and public events.
Skanandoa Arts traces origins to local initiatives influenced by collaborations between institutions such as the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Walker Art Center, while regional ties echo relationships with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the New Museum, the Tate Modern, the British Museum, and the National Gallery of Art. Early programming reflected models used by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Arts Council England, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Kulturbüro, the Ford Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and engaged with community arts movements associated with the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Chicano Movement. Influences included curatorial practices established by figures linked to the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum, the High Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Denver Art Museum. The organization’s development paralleled initiatives by the National Gallery, London, the Centre Pompidou, the Louvre, and contemporary programs from the Frick Collection and the Morgan Library & Museum.
Skanandoa Arts has been governed by boards inspired by models used at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Carnegie Hall board, and leadership structures similar to those at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the Kennedy Center. Directors and curators have professional networks overlapping with staff from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Fondation Cartier, the Fondation Beyeler, the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Hammer Museum, and university galleries at Columbia University, Yale University, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, and New York University. Advisory councils have included artists and scholars associated with the Rijksmuseum, the Prado Museum, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Stedelijk Museum, and independent curators linked to the Documenta and the Venice Biennale.
The organization runs exhibition series influenced by practices at the Venice Biennale, the São Paulo Art Biennial, the Whitney Biennial, the Frieze Art Fair, and the Art Basel fairs, and operates residency programs comparable to those at Yaddo, MacDowell, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Rauschenberg Residency, and Banff Centre. Educational outreach cites partnerships modeled on programs from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Education Department, the Tate Learning, the MET’s education program, the Getty Foundation, and university extension programs from Columbia University School of the Arts and the Royal College of Art. Performance series draw inspiration from festivals such as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, SXSW, Coachella, Governor's Ball Music Festival, and collaborations mirror those of the Sydney Festival, the Montreal Jazz Festival, and the Newport Jazz Festival.
Skanandoa Arts operates exhibition spaces and studios modeled on facilities like the Dia Art Foundation, the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Gropius Bau, the Hayward Gallery, and the ICA Boston. Studio layouts and conservation labs reflect standards used at the Getty Conservation Institute, the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, and university conservation departments at Courtauld Institute of Art and Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library. Public programming spaces recall venues such as the Cooper Hewitt, the Brooklyn Museum’s Grand Lobby, the Cooper Union, and the 800 Westmoreland (as a conceptual model for multiuse arts spaces).
Skanandoa Arts has fostered civic partnerships patterned after collaborations between the Guggenheim Bilbao and city governments, and educational partnerships similar to those between the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and public schools. Cultural exchange programs resemble initiatives established by the Asia Society, the Japan Foundation, the British Council, the Goethe-Institut, and the Institut Français. Public engagement strategies align with community arts work led historically by the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Museum of the African Diaspora, the National Museum of the American Indian, the Annenberg Foundation, and citywide cultural plans like those in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto, and London.
Funding mechanisms reflect grantmaking practices used by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Kresge Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Ford Foundation, with supplementary philanthropy drawn from major donors and corporate partners similar to those supporting the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Lincoln Center. Governance policies are informed by standards from the Council on Foundations, the Charities Aid Foundation, and nonprofit compliance frameworks used by institutions like the Arts Council England and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Exhibitions have featured work by and thematic affinities with artists and curators active at institutions such as Louise Bourgeois, Ai Weiwei, Yayoi Kusama, Marina Abramović, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, Julie Mehretu, Anish Kapoor, Damien Hirst, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer', Sarah Sze, Richard Serra, Olafur Eliasson, Mark Bradford, Shirin Neshat, Maya Lin, Theaster Gates, Tacita Dean, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rashid Johnson, Elmgreen & Dragset, Nan Goldin, Grayson Perry, Tauba Auerbach, Tania Bruguera, William Kentridge, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Zaha Hadid, John Baldessari, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Brice Marden, Sol LeWitt, Helen Frankenthaler, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Garry Winogrand, Andreas Gursky, Catherine Opie, Diane Arbus, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Alighiero Boetti, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Paul Chan, Hito Steyerl, Terry Winters, Kiki Smith, Alice Neel, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold.
Category:Arts organizations