Discussion with Lydia Goldbeck, artist and warehouse manager at Brooklyn art shipping and storage company, and Audra Lambert of Ninth Street Collective
With an increasing reliance on shipping companies and installers in the “new normal,” we’ll discuss how artists can optimize art handling, packing and shipping. An emphasis will be placed on practical considerations of treatment of different art mediums, developing instructions for installers on-site at exhibitions, considerations for local and long-distance shipping, approaches to shipping via mail services (UPS/FedEx) versus consolidated shuttles, questions around insurance and art shipping and the basics of art handling. Gain insights from an experienced art handler who is also an artist as Lydia Goldbeck shares some of the key tricks of the trade that can benefit any visual artist.
* The workshop will be hosted on Zoom. Attendees will receive a Zoom link via email.
* A portion of all proceeds will be donated to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, America’s premier legal organization fighting for racial justice.
Tickets: $30
Early bird pricing: $20 through October 15 with code NSC20
Purchase ticket: LINK
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About the Facilitators:
Lydia Goldbeck is a Brooklyn-based artist from North Carolina. When not in the studio, she works as the warehouse manager of a local fine art storage facility, and has previous experience as a crating manager for a nationwide company. Lydia has worked alongside with registrars of major collections and museums to workshop packing and shipping everything from Renaissance tapestries at St. John the Divine, to Joan Jonas installations for the MoMA. Her experience as a woman in the field has no doubt fed her artistic practice, and the tools, skills and materiality in both spheres are not just interchangeable, but invaluable.
Audra Lambert is an independent curator and art critic based in New York City and Founder/Editor-in-Chief of ANTE.mag, focused on under-the-radar contemporary art. Audra is Founder/Chief Curator of Antecedent Projects (2014), a New York City-based curatorial consultancy focused on site-specific projects. Her current curatorial project, Hey, Wow: Works by Oded Halahmy, remains on view at the Yeshiva University Museum through March 2020, with recent curatorial projects at La Esquina NYC and Fountain House gallery. She has curated exhibitions with the New York City Parks Department's Arsenal Gallery (2017), FLUX Art Fair (2016), White Roof Project (2015) and more. Audra served as Curatorial Manager for Art in Odd Places 2018: BODY, and contributes to HuffPost Arts & Culture, A/D/O Blog, Americans for the Arts, Artefuse and Quiet Lunch, among others.
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. is America’s premier legal organization fighting for racial justice. Through litigation, advocacy, and public education, LDF seeks structural changes to expand democracy, eliminate disparities, and achieve racial justice in a society that fulfills the promise of equality for all Americans. LDF also defends the gains and protections won over the past 75 years of civil rights struggle and works to improve the quality and diversity of judicial and executive appointments. For more information, please visit www.naacpldf.org.