Colleagues & Friends: Zoé Fortin, Nora Gomez-Strauss, and Katerina Stathopoulou
Wednesday, June 21, 8:30–10 AM EST
Citizen’s of Soho • 201 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012
Join us in-person for our upcoming Colleagues & Friends at Citizen's of Soho! Nora Gomez-Strauss, Assistant Director of Digital Content at the Whitney Museum, Katerina Stathopoulou, Adjunct Curator at Public Art Fund, and Zoé Fortin, Executive Director of play:groundNYC, will discuss their career paths, collaborations, and confronting the ever-evolving challenges of working motherhood in the arts.
Members - $10 | Non-members - $20
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Nora Gomez-Strauss is a Queen-based arts administrator and freelance writer. She is currently the Assistant Director of Digital Content at the Whitney Museum, where she works with the team to oversee digital content strategy and production, website content, exhibition videos, digital programs, social media, and digital imaging rights. Nora previously worked as the Director of Digital Strategies at the Public Art Fund for eleven years and is a recipient of the New York City Council's Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Award.
Katerina Stathopoulou is a curator and writer focusing on photography and public art. She has held curatorial positions at Public Art Fund, the Museum of Modern Art, and the International Center of Photography in New York. Recent curatorial projects include solo exhibitions with Aida Muluneh, Wendy Red Star, Martine Gutierrez, Farah Al Qasimi, Elle Perez, and Claudia Wieser. In 2021, Stathopoulou co-curated the Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale in Greece, presenting the work of thirty-four international artists across two museum venues. Stathopoulou is a regular contributor to scholarly volumes and exhibition catalogues, including The Real and the Record (2021), Ai Weiwei: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors (2019) Among Others: Blackness at MoMA (2019), and MoMA Highlights: 375 Works from The Museum of Modern Art (2019).
Zoé Fortin is the Executive Director of play:groundNYC, a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming the city through play and serving thousands of children every year. Zoé teaches the Arts Management class in the Department of Urban Policy & Planning at Hunter College. Zoé previously held positions at Sutton, where she designed and executed growth strategies for clients such as the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, Jenny Holzer's YOUVOTE campaign and El Museo del Barrio, and at The Hole, Gagosian Gallery and the Guggenheim Museum. She grew up in Paris and Athens, studied at La Sorbonne and New York University, and lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, with her husband Steve and their two children, Nawa and Solal.