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2025 virtual Cohort

Spring 2025 | Summer 2025 | Fall 2025

Mondays via Zoom

With Canopy Mentor

Rose Nestler

Artist

Based in Brooklyn, NY


Cohort Artists

The artists featured below were accepted to the 2025 year of The Canopy Program. Together, with the guidance of their Faculty Mentor, Rose Nestler, 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, December 11-13, 2025. Stay tuned for more details! In the meantime, view past Crit Club and Canopy exhibitions.

Guest Speakers + Visiting Critics

Each semester, Rose Nestler's Cohort recieved Artist Talks, Lectures, Workshops and Visiting Critiques from an esteemed roster of Guest Artists + Speakers.

Canopy Mentor Rose Nestler

Rose Nestler (b. 1983, Spokane, WA) is a mixed media sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA from Brooklyn College and BA in Art History from Mount Holyoke College. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Public, London, UK (2024), Pangée, Montreal, QC (2023); Mrs., New York, NY (2022); and Carvalho Park, New York, NY (2022) Selected group exhibitions include Plains Art Museum, Fargo ND (2024); Chart, New York, NY (2024), (The University of Leeds’ Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds, UK (2023); Boston University, Boston, MA (2023); Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Rugby, UK (2022); Perrotin, New York, NY (2022); Hesse Flatow, New York, NY (2021), and Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA (2021); She was an artist in residence at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans in 2022. Nestler has also conducted residencies at The Fores Project, London, UK, and The Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY, among others. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA and has been featured and reviewed on Art21, in The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, Hyperallergic and New York Magazine. She is part time faculty at Parsons School of Design and College of Staten Island (CUNY).