Smack Mellon Hot Picks is a new project 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. Only the top 19 artists have been selected to be a part of Smack Mellon Hot Picks.

The panelists this year were: Lowery Sims, Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design; Eugenie Tsai, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum; and Frederieke Taylor, owner and director of the Frederieke Taylor Gallery.

Smack Mellon's Artist Studio Program receives public support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, City Council Member David Yassky and the New York City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts and with generous support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Greenwall Foundation, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Inc., and Robert Lehman Foundation.

 

Smack Mellon’s programs are also made possible with generous support from Bloomberg, Brooklyn Arts Council JPMorgan Chase Regrant Program, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Google, The Greenwich Collection Ltd., Jerome Foundation, Tides Foundation, advised by Lambent Foundation, Eve Sussman and all of Smack Mellon’s Members.

 

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