Smack Mellon's Hot Picks program was launched in 2007. The top artists, as selected from the Studio Program applicants by a panel of esteemed curators, arts professionals, and established artists, are featured on the Smack Mellon website for one year. 

The panelists this year were: Janet Biggs, Artist; Heather Darcy Bhandari, Director, Mixed Greens Gallery; and Kathleen Gilrain, Executive Director, Smack Mellon. Preliminary panelists were: Sonya Blesofsky, Michael Paul Britto, Kirsten Hassenfeld, and Karina Skvirsky, artists.

The Artist Studio Program is made possible with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State's 62 counties, the National Endowment for the Arts, and with support from The New York Community Trust, The Concordia Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, The Robert Lehman Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Lambent Foundation Fund of the Tides Foundation, Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation Inc., The Greenwich Collection LTD., and Smack Mellon's Members. 
 
Smack Mellon also receives generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Bloomberg, Helena Rubinstein Foundation, Brooklyn Community Foundation, 2010 JPMorgan Chase Regrant Program administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation and Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
 
Space for Smack Mellon's programs is generously provided by the Walentas family and Two Trees Management.

 

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