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DANIEL NEVERS JOINS ARTISTS’ LEGACY FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS

February 1, 2023

Artists’ Legacy Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Daniel Nevers, a nonprofit arts administrator and former Executive Director of the Berkeley Art Center, to its Board of Directors.

Mr. Nevers joins board president Squeak Carnwath, artist; Gary Knecht, community advocate; Leah Levy, director of The Jay DeFeo Foundation; Sandra Shannonhouse, artist and trustee of The Robert Arneson Trust; and Caroline Black, Executive Director of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

Squeak Carnwath says, “Daniel understands how artists work and how visual thinking can enrich our lives. He is creative, innovative, and a pleasure to work with, and I share the board’s excitement and look forward to working with him.”

“I am honored to join the board of Artists’ Legacy Foundation as it continues to develop systems and structures to preserve artistic legacies,” says Nevers. “Through various roles and projects, I have tried to be an advocate for artists at all stages of their career, and I consider this yet another opportunity to serve artists by thinking about how their work can live far into the future.”

Daniel Nevers

Daniel Nevers (he/him) is an artist and educator with more than 20 years of experience working in the nonprofit sector, primarily in the areas of communications, fundraising, and strategic planning. He has held senior administrative positions at educational institutions, social justice nonprofits, and community-based arts organizations, as well as consulting on independent projects for museums and other visual arts groups. Nevers has taught studio art and professional practices for artists at the University of California, Berkeley; California College of the Arts; and Mills College. His work has been exhibited at Headlands Center for the Arts, Southern Exposure, Root Division, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. Nevers holds an MFA from Mills College and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. He lives in Catskill, NY with his husband Josh.

Artists’ Legacy Foundation

Established in 2000, Artists’ Legacy Foundation stewards the legacies of deceased artists, supports outstanding painters and sculptors through awards and grants, and advances visual arts through education, exhibitions, and community outreach. Co-founders Squeak Carnwath, Gary Knecht, and Viola Frey envisioned a multi-artist endowed foundation that would celebrate and educate living artists, and protect the valuable contributions of artists to American culture. Since Frey’s death in 2004, the Foundation has stewarded her artwork and archives with a special focus on documentation, research, and public exhibitions. Frey’s bequest helped establish the Artist Award, a $25,000 unrestricted prize given annually to a painter or sculptor.

Viola Frey, Untitled (Bricolage Head with Monkey and Figurines on Hat), 2000, whiteware and glazes, 22 1/2 x 21 x 18 1/2 inches, VF-0565CSS. Photo: M. Lee Fatherree.

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Juan Sanchez
Juan Sánchez

NEW VIDEO: JUAN SÁNCHEZ IN CONVERSATION WITH JESSAMINE BATARIO

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Juan Sánchez, recipient of the 2022 Artist Award, spoke with Jessamine Batario about his work earlier this month.

Juan Sanchez, Strange and Bitter American History, 2005
Strange and Bitter American History, 2005, oil, mixed media collage on wood panel, 74 x 72 inches. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

JUAN SÁNCHEZ RECEIVES ARTISTS’ LEGACY FOUNDATION’S 2022 ARTIST AWARD

September 7, 2022

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA – The Artists’ Legacy Foundation today announced that Juan Sánchez (b. 1954)—the influential Nuyorican artist who explores ethnic, racial, and national identity in his multimedia work—is the recipient of its 2022 Artist Award. The $25,000 award is given to a visual artist whose primary medium is painting or sculpture in recognition of their professional achievements. Each year, ten artists are proposed for the Award by five anonymous nominators. Like the nominators, the jury of three comprises art-world peers who make the final decision.

Squeak Carnwath, the Foundation’s board president, said, “We are delighted to recognize the inimitable Juan Sánchez and his dynamic, politically engaged practice. His expansive body of work resonates today just as emphatically and passionately as when he began in the 1980s. His artistic investigations of his Brooklyn and Puerto Rican roots and reflections on the current moment are at once deeply personal and profoundly universal. We are grateful to our esteemed nominators and jurors and appreciate their service, expertise, and generous spirits.”

This year’s jurors were Derek Fordjour, interdisciplinary artist; Miguel Luciano, multimedia artist; and Monica Ramirez-Montagut, Director of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY. Fordjour said, “While this year’s selection pool was highly competitive, Juan Sánchez emerged as the absolute winner. For decades, he continues to produce deeply personal artwork that centers marginalized communities and has bolstered his studio practice with a stellar career as an educator and mentor to countless artists.”

Luciano said, “Juan Sánchez has achieved a legacy that’s inspired generations of artists through the sublime beauty of his paintings and prints, and his unwavering commitment to social justice and political liberation. He is an icon among Puerto Rican artists in the diaspora and one of the most important artists of our time.”

Ramirez-Montagut said, “It is a true privilege to be able to honor the legacy of Juan Sánchez and recognize his commitment and dedication to his practice, the arts, and our communities.  I hope this award conveys our admiration and appreciation for the integrity of his work as well as its excellence.”

The artist’s latest solo exhibition is on view at Hutchinson Modern and Contemporary gallery in New York City through November 4, providing a timely opportunity to experience his work.

Sánchez said, “It is so wonderful to realize that there are individuals out there who recognize, value, and name your work. I am deeply thankful, gratified, and humble to receive the 2022 Artists’ Legacy Foundation Artist Award. This is a critical acknowledgement that is deeply encouraging.”

The Foundation will host a virtual public program via Zoom on Thursday, October 20, 2022, at 4 pm PT / 7 pm ET, featuring a conversation between the artist and Jessamine Batario, art historian and Linde Family Foundation Curator of Academic Engagement at the Colby College Museum of Art.

About the Artist

Nuyorican artist Juan Sánchez’s multimedia practice explores issues of race, class, cultural identity, equality, and self-determination. Maintaining an activist stance for over 45 years, he establishes his art as an arena of creative and political inquiry and reflection that encompasses the individual, family, the communities with which he engages, and the world at large. While Sánchez first gained recognition for his multi-layered mixed media collage paintings addressing issues of Puerto Rican identity and the struggle against colonialism, his recent work embraces photography, printmaking, and video installation.

Sánchez has exhibited and lectured throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America. His art is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and El Museo del Barrio, among many others.

Sánchez is a recipient of the Latinx Artist Fellowship, the CUAA Augustus Saint–Gaudens Achievement in the Visual Art Award, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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