2.0 with Catherine Haggarty and Yevgenia Baras

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2.0 with Catherine Haggarty and Yevgenia Baras

$400.00

Program Cost:

  • $400 Deposit is required upon enrollment to secure a seat for Canopy 2.0.

  • Course Tuition
    Details about tuition and financial aid below

Enrollment Instructions:

  • Enrollment is first come, first served - We encourage you to enroll at your earliest convenience!

Cohort full

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2024-2025 Canopy 2.0 Cohort

Mentors: Catherine Haggarty
Yevgeniya Baras
Cohort Type: Virtual Cohort
Meeting Day: Mondays
Meeting Time: 6-9pm (EST) / 3-6pm (PST)
Cohort Size: 10 Artists
2 Semesters: Fall 2024 | 9 Weeks
Spring 2025 | 9 Weeks

Cohort Schedule Overview

Semester 1 | Fall 2024

Mondays, 6-9pm (EST) / 3-6pm (PST)
8 meetings virtually
8 weeks / alternating weeks

Meets alternating weeks
Sept 9 - Dec 16, 2024

Fall 2024 Mentor
Catherine Haggarty

Mentorship

Group Critique

Artist Lectures

Guest Critics

  • 1 long critique (35-40 min.) with Mentor and cohort
  • 1 critique (30 min.) with Mentor, cohort and an invited Visiting Critic
  • Guest Artist Talk - Artist will be selected by Mentor based on interests + needs of the cohort
  • 1-on-1 virtual Office Hours visit (30 min.) with your Mentor
  • Access to virtual + in-person Salons hosted by esteemed Canopy Faculty

Semester 2 | Spring 2025

8 meetings virtually
8 weeks / weekly meetings

Meets each week
March 10 - April 28, 2025

Spring 2025 Mentor
Yevgeniya Baras

Mentorship

1-on-1s

Writing Edits

Panel Review

  • Independent Study (45 min.) for a private 1-on-1 critique with Mentor
  • Office Hours with a Visiting Gallerist - TBA
  • Two opportunities for Office Hours with Guest Artists
  • Round of short statement edits by Guest Writing Editor
  • This semester culminates in a Panel Review, see below!

PANEL REVIEW

The final semester of Canopy 2.0 will culminate in a Panel Review for each cohort. The panel will be your 2nd Semester Mentor, your 1st Semester Mentor or a Canopy Faculty, and an invited esteemed Visiting Critic! The panel review is an opportunity, like in grad school, to share your development in the program and receive constructive feedback to continue your momentum in the studio. Your cohort is invited to attend + contribute to the discussion.

ADDITIONAL CONTENT

Canopy 2.0 Artists will also have numerous opportunities to work with additional Faculty and hear from special Guest Speakers throughout the program year. Artists will be invited to virtual + in-person meet-ups to connect all participating artists.
  • Office Hours with Canopy Mentors
  • Access to Recorded Archives from Lecture Club
  • Studio Visit Pairing with an artist from another cohort
  • Social Meetups

Canopy 2.0 Tuition

The full tuition total is $3,600, which includes:
Deposit: $400
Semester 1 Tuition: $1600
Semester 2 Tuition: $1600
The cost per credit hour is $58-62.

Please note: Upon acceptance, a $400 deposit is due in order to secure your spot in the cohort. The deposit will be applied toward your tuition.

You may choose to pay the full tuition on September 1, 2024, or enroll in a payment plan of 2-4 equal payments.

Please see Tuition and Financial Aid for more information regarding extended payment plans and Financial Aid.

 

Cohort Faculty Bios

Catherine Haggarty is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Haggarty is the Founder, Owner and Executive Director of The Canopy Program which is a one year mentorship program within the NYC Crit Club which Haggarty co-founded with artist Hilary Doyle in 2017. In addition, Haggarty is a Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt Institute.

Haggarty earned her M.F.A from Mason Gross, Rutgers University in 2011. Haggarty’s paintings and curatorial work have been reviewed by and featured in Bomb Magazine, Artnet, Hyperallergic, Art Forum, Two Coats of Paint, Brooklyn Magazine, The New York Times, Art Maaze Magazine, Art Spiel, Pep Talks for Artists, Sound and Vision Podcast and The Observer.

Haggarty was recently the Spring 2024 Teiger Mentor for the Arts at Cornell AAP MFA and a Visiting Artist at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design (Denver, CO) for the occasion of her exhibition featuring ten years of work at The Philip J. Steele Gallery.

Catherine has been a Visiting Artist & Critic at Cornell MFA (2024), Rocky Mountain College of Art (2024), Western Connecticut MFA (2023), Contemporary Arts Memphis (2023), Vassar College (2023), Rutgers MFA (2022), U Albany MFA (2022), MICA (2022), UCONN MFA (2022 + 2023), RISD BFA (2022), Pratt BFA (2022), The University of Oregon (2021), Boston University MFA (2021),  SUNY Purchase MFA (2020), Hunter MFA (2020), Denison University (2020), Brooklyn College MFA (2019) and in 2018 Haggarty was the Anderson Endowed Lecturer at Penn State University. 

Solo & Two Person exhibitions include: Untitled Miami, Lorin Gallery, LA, Geary Contemporary (NYC), Massey Klein Gallery (NYC),  This Friday Next Friday (Brooklyn), Bloomsburg University (PA), and Look and Listen in Marseille France. Select group exhibitions include: The PIT (LA), Badr El Jundi (Madrid, Spain), Mindy Solomon (Miami, FL), Andrew Rafcaz (Chicago, IL), Hesse Flatow (NYC), Mrs (Maspeth, NY) and McBride Contemporary in Montreal, Canada.

 

Yevgeniya Baras is an artist working in New York. She has exhibited her work at galleries including White Columns, NY; The Landing, LA; Reyes Finn Gallery, Detroit; Gavin Brown Enterprise, NY; Nicelle Beauchene, NY; Mother Gallery, NY; Inman Gallery, Houston; Sperone Westwater Gallery, NY; Thomas Erben Gallery, NY; the Pit, LA; Soco, NC as well as internationally including NBB Gallery, Berlin; Julien Cadet Gallery, Paris; Station Gallery, Sydney. 

She is represented by Sargent’s Daughters in NY and LA.

Yevgeniya is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant in 2023 and 2018. Yevgeniya was named Senior Fulbright Scholar for 2022/2023. She was a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in 2021, Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. Yevgeniya was selected for the Chinati Foundation Residency in 2018 and the Yaddo Residency in 2017. She received the Artadia Prize and was selected for the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program and the MacDowell Colony residency in 2015. In 2014 she was named a recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Emerging Artist Prize. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, LA Times, ArtForum, The New York Review of Books, and Art in America. 

Yevgeniya co-founded and co-curated Regina Rex Gallery on the Lower East Side of NY (2010-2018).

Yevgeniya holds a BA in Psychology and Fine Arts and an MS in Education from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.