Members
Ariel Adkins
Ariel Adkins is the founder of the Art Book Salon, an artful academic reading group and social club. In 2012, wistful for the contact and conversation of graduate school, she coaxed a group of friends together for the first salon, reading and discussing MyWays, a Conceptual art novel by Rita McBride. Since then, the salon has devoured numerous books and participated in a multitude of arts-related adventures, including road trips, a number of film screenings and performances, and many exhibition openings. Ariel is also the creator of Artfully Awear, a collection of wearables that blurs the boundaries between art and clothing, and is the Curator of Art, Culture, & Community at Twitter NYC.
Micah Bozeman
Micah Bozeman is the Director of Visual Arts Programming at The Watermill Center, formerly the Senior Management Specialist at Public Art for Public Schools, and a Project Manager at Public Art Fund. Micah received his BFA in Sculpture, with a Minor in Art History from Pratt Institute. Since joining the book club in 2014, Micah's most memorable salon trip was to the Pollock-Krasner house where he made the group detour to see the infamous Amityville house where he neglected to take a photo.
Andrea Fisher
Andrea Fisher-Scherer is a fine art copyright aficionado with a BA in Art History from Pratt Institute and an MA in Art Market Studies from F.I.T. She has worked at the Artists Rights Society for 5+ years, focusing on managing copyright on behalf of over 60,000 visual artists worldwide, with an emphasis on digital media and commercial products. Her favorite book salon picks include Just Kids by Patti Smith and Bad Boy by Eric Fischl & Michael Stone. As one of the book salon's founding members, Andrea looks forward to every art book salon, especially the Holiday edition when everyone gathers at her apartment in Queens for a festive night of discussion, treats, and gifts!
Ivy FULD
Ivy is a New York based Art Director, designer, blogger, baker, and beauty addict. She and art have been a pair in one way or another since the very beginning. From keeping intense fashion design notebooks all through high school, to majoring in drawing and communication design at Skidmore College, she's made sure that art constantly be at the center of her life. Now, as a senior art director at VaynerMedia NYC, she gets to help shape the visual identities for a myriad of brands and organizations. On the side she chronicles her obsession with all things beauty at the blog, Face Foreword. When not alongside her ABS cohorts, you can find her with her talented better half, Alex, and their dog, Birdie, in Tarrytown, NY.
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Emily Hoerdemann
Originally from the Midwest, Emily Hoerdemann is a Los Angeles-based artist working primarily in painting, photography, and collage. She received her BFA in both Painting and Photography from Bradley University and an MA in Contemporary Art from Sotheby's Institute of Art. Besides being a creative, Emily is also an independent archivist focusing on helping artists get organized. Joining the Art Book Salon in 2013, Emily's favorite picks tend to be more biographical, such as Bad Boy, Off the Wall: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg, and Unstill Life: A Daughter's Memoir of Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction. Since moving to Los Angeles in 2018, Emily remains connected with Art Book Salon by maintaining the website.
EMILY LENZ
Emily Lenz applied to the group after eavesdropping on members discussing Art Book Salon at a Whitney opening. When she is not devouring books on 20th century American art, she is director of D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc. She enjoys research and spends lots of time hanging out at libraries and archives. She loves a good footnote. Emily’s favorite book we have read....A Short Life of Trouble: the Marcia Tucker Biography.
Jennifer Mak
Originally from New York, Jennifer entered the library world at a very tender age and has not been able to get away since. She received her BA in History and Art History at Stony Brook University and an MA in Art Market Studies and the Fashion Institute of Technology. Jennifer is currently a manager at an art and design academic library in Chelsea. When she’s not at the library, she can often be found at museums and galleries, or if she’s lucky in London, her favorite city.
Kara Meyer
Kara leads operations, programming and administration of Friends of + POOL with a focus on fundraising and expanding partnerships for the development of the + POOL, an artist-led project that includes the installation of a water-filtering, floating swimming pool in the NY Harbor. Some fun artists collaborations for + POOL have included Mike Perry, Curtis Kulig, David Shrigley and Cindy Sherman. Prior to + POOL, she led the team representing the U.S. at the 14th International Architecture Biennale in Venice. During her time at Storefront for Art and Architecture and Art in General, she organized funding for artist commissions by Brendan Fernandes, Sebastian Errazuriz, Ohad Meromi and Kambui Olujimi, among others and produced limited editions by Glenn Ligon, Xaviera Simmons & Emily Roysdon.
Olga Novoa-Sullivan
Olga received her MA in Art Market Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology. In addition to visual art, Olga shares a passion for film, and currently oversees film screenings in New York as well as nationally. A founding member of the Art Book Salon, Olga looks forward to the lively discussions and outings!
Jonathan Rider
Jonathan is an artist and curator living and working in New York, NY. Rider received a BA from Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, in 2005, and a MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, in 2011. His work has been shown in recent exhibitions, including Vitel Tonné, The Pool NYC, Venice, Italy (2017); Chaos/Control, MW Project Space, New York, NY (2017); Barely There, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY (2015); 2015:1947, Equity Gallery, New York, NY (2015); among others. Rider is the Associate Director of The FLAG Art Foundation, a nonprofit contemporary art space located in Chelsea.