Heather Darcy Bhandari is the Director of Exhibitions at Smack
Mellon, a nonprofit exhibition and studio space program in
Brooklyn, New York. Its mission is to nurture and support emerging,
under-recognized mid-career, and women artists in the creation and
exhibition of new work. She is also an independent curator, adjunct
lecturer at Brown University, and a consultant to several
for-profit and nonprofit arts institutions. Heather lectures and
participates in portfolio reviews and panel discussions across the
country. She is on the board of directors of visual arts at Art Omi
(an artist residency in Ghent, New York) and the advisory boards of
artfcity (an online, art-related publishing platform) and Trestle
Gallery in Brooklyn. She was on the board of NURTUREart for nearly
a decade. For the last fifteen years, she was a director of Mixed
Greens gallery where she curated over one hundred exhibitions while
managing a roster of nearly two-dozen emerging to mid-career
artists. Heather received a BA from Brown University and an MFA
from Pennsylvania State University. Her career began at
contemporary galleries Sonnabend and Lehmann Maupin, both in New
York City.
Jonathan Melber began his career as an arts-and-entertainment
lawyer in New York, representing artists, galleries, collectors and
a host of creative individuals and companies. He eventually left
his legal practice to join the art e-commerce startup 20x200 as
head of business development, later moving to LA to run content
acquisition business affairs at Hulu. Today, Jonathan handles
monetization strategy and digital licensing for Turner's
entertainment networks. Jonathan graduated from Brown University
with a degree in philosophy and received his JD from New York
University School of Law, where he was an editor of the Law Review.
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