
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.

Aryana Minai
Guest Artist

Catherine Telford Keogh
Guest Artist

Kris Rac
Art History Speaker

Eric Hibit
Color Theory Lecture

Rachel Youn
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
Photo credit: Collin Garrity

Leeza Meksin
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic

Amanda Nedham
Guest Writing Editor

Kendall DeBoer
Visiting Critic
Colby College Museum of Art

Scott Ogden
Visiting Critic
Shrine Gallery

Amir H. Fallah
Professional Practices Speaker
Adrienne Elise Tarver
Professional Practices Speaker
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).
