
2025 virtual Cohort
Spring 2025 | Summer 2025 | Fall 2025
Mondays via Zoom
With Canopy Mentor
Adrienne Elise Tarver
Artist
Based in New York
Cohort Artists
The artists featured below were accepted to the 2025 year of The Canopy Program. Together, with the guidance of their Faculty Mentor, Adrienne Elise Tarver, the artists will develop their studio practice through critiques, Artist Talks + Q&As, seminars, and workshops. The Canopy Program is a year-long commitment, this Cohort will meet via Zoom for three consecutive semesters. Their experience will culminate with a pop-up Group Show in Chelsea (NYC).
Cohort Exhibition
Each Canopy Cohort presents a culminating pop-up group exhibition.
This cohort will present their exhibition at The Canopy Studio in Chelsea, January 22-24, 2026. Stay tuned for more details! In the meantime, view
past Crit Club and Canopy exhibitions.
Guest Speakers + Visiting Critics
Each semester, Adrienne Elise Tarver's Cohort recieved Artist Talks, Lectures, Workshops
and Visiting Critiques from an esteemed roster of Guest Artists + Speakers.

Anna Ortiz
Guest Artist

Sagarika Sundaram
Guest Artist

Kris Rac
Art History Speaker

Eric Hibit
Color Theory Lecture

Leeza Meksin
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic

Sangram Majumdar
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic

Amanda Nedham
Guest Writing Editor

Jenny Gerow
Visiting Critic
Cheif Curator at the Akron Art Museum

Cierra Britton
Visiting Critic
Director, Cierra Britton Gallery

Amir H. Fallah
Professional Practices Speaker
Adrienne Elise Tarver
Professional Practices Speaker
Canopy Mentor Adrienne Elise Tarver
Adrienne Elise Tarver is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY with a practice that spans painting, sculpture, installation, photography, textiles, and video. Her work addresses the complexity and invisibility of Black female identity including the history within domestic spaces, the fantasy of the tropical seductress, and the archetype of the all-knowing spiritual matriarch. She has exhibited nationally and abroad, including solo shows at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut; the Academy Art Museum in Maryland; Atlanta Contemporary in Atlanta, Georgia; Dinner Gallery (formerly Victori+Mo) in New York; Ochi Projects in Los Angeles; Wave Hill in the Bronx, NY; BRIC Project Room in Brooklyn; and A-M Gallery in Sydney, Australia and two-person exhibitions at Hollis Taggart in New York; Wedge Curatorial in Toronto, Canada. She recently received the Distinguished Alumni Award from her alma mater, Boston University, and the Nancy Graves Foundation Grant. She has been commissioned for projects through the New York MTA, the Public Art Fund, Google, Art Aspen, and Pulse Art Fair and has been featured in online and print publications including the New York Times, Forbes, Brooklyn Magazine, ArtNews, ArtNet, Blouin ArtInfo, Whitewall Magazine, and Hyperallergic, among others. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BFA from Boston University. Adrienne is represented in Los Angeles, CA and Sun Valley, ID by OCHI
