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: Elizabeth Ferrer, Director of Contemporary Art, BRIC Arts Media; Janice Guy, Director, Murray Guy Gallery; and Daniel Kunitz, Executive Editor, Modern Painters magazine. Preliminary panelists were: George Boorujy, Tali Hinkis, Esperanza Mayobre, and Jeanine Oleson, artists.

The Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, the National Endowment for the Arts, and with generous support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, 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 programs are also made possible with public support from New York City Council Member Stephen Levin, and generous support from Bloomberg, Brooklyn Community Foundation, the Helena Rubinstein Foundation, The Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation, 2012 JPMorgan Chase Regrant Program administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC), 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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