Portfolio Review: Paddy Johnson

Sunday, June 3
3pm / 3:15pm / 3:30pm / 3:45pm  

One-on one portfolio review with Paddy Johnson, founding editor of Art Fag City, 
as part of Artist Opportunity Workshop, presented by Brooklyn Arts Council and D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center 

This two-day professional development event features workshops by Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, multi-disciplinary artist Man Bartlett, and a live barter event facilitated by Our Goods. The event concludes with a unique opportunity for one-on-one portfolio reviews by established curators, artists and gallery owners. 

Paddy Johnson is the founding editor of Art Fag City. In addition to her work on the blog, she has been published in New York Magazine, artreview.com, Art in America, The Daily, Print Magazine,Time Out NY, The Reeler, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, and New York Press, and linked to by publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Boing-Boing, The New York Observer, Gawker, Design Observer, Make Magazine, The Awl, Artinfo, and we-make-money-not-art. Paddy lectures widely about art and the Internet at venues including Yale University, Parsons, Rutgers, South by Southwest, and the Whitney Independent Study Program. In 2007 she received a scholarship to attend iCommons conference in Croatia as the art critic. In 2008, she served on the board of the Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowships and became the first blogger to earn a Creative Capital Arts Writers grant from the Creative Capital Foundation. Two years later, Paddy was nominated for best art critic at The Rob Pruitt Art Awards and won The 2010 Village Voice award for Best Art Blog. Paddy also writes a regular column on art for The L Magazine.

Full program information and to buy tickets: brooklynartscouncil.org.