Abigail Satinsky

Abigail Bette Satinsky was born in 1981, the daughter of Daniel Satinsky and Dinah Vaprin.{{Cite web|url=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=70441&h=39024314&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=flp7&_phstart=successSource|title=Web: Marion County, Indiana, Marriage Index, 1925-2012|date=1977|website=ancestry.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-06-26}} She earned a Bachelor of Fine Art in 2003 from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master of Arts, dual degree in modern art history and arts administration and policy in 2009 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.{{Cite web|url=http://www.saic.edu/profiles/faculty/abigailsatinsky/index.html|title=SAIC - Abigail Satinsky - School of the Art Institute of Chicago|website=www.saic.edu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102053307/http://www.saic.edu/profiles/faculty/abigailsatinsky/index.html|archive-date=2014-11-02|url-status=dead|access-date=2016-03-05}} Her thesis, submitted to the department of art history, theory and criticism, and the department of art administration and policy, was on the collaborative work of group material (from 1976 to 1996).{{Cite web|url=http://incubate-chicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Satinsky-THESIS_The-Art-of-Policy.pdf|title=The Art of Policy: The Work of Group Material|last=Satinsky|first=Abigail|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926153341/http://incubate-chicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Satinsky-THESIS_The-Art-of-Policy.pdf|archive-date=26 September 2015|url-status=dead|access-date=14 April 2018}} Her partner is Anthony Romero.

As a curator and programmer, her interest has been in championing interdisciplinary, process-based, and under-recognized artists’ work, artist-run and collaboratively organized community projects, and highlighting how artists have worked within and in solidarity with social movements. She is a founding member of Incubate (styled "inCUBATE"), a research collaborative on art economies, and co-initiator of Sunday Soup, an international micro-granting project. Satinsky cofounded and acted as codirector (along with Bryce Dwyer, Matthew Joynt and Roman Petruniak) of Incubate, a research group that curated, initiated and coproduced artist projects out of a Chicago store front from 2007 to 2009.{{Cite web|url=http://incubate-chicago.org/|title="inCUBATE {{!}} About"|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421063313/http://incubate-chicago.org/about/|archive-date=21 April 2015|url-status=dead|access-date=14 April 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://invisiblevenue.typepad.com/project_space_survey/incubate-chicago.html|title=InCUBATE, Chicago|website=Project Space Survival Strategies|access-date=2018-04-13}} Incubate became known for its Sunday Soup series, a micro-granting program which hosted dinner parties and used the proceeds to fund community-based artist projects voted on by the dinner guests. Incubate's work has been shown nationally, including Creative Time, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York, CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, Skydive in Houston, Autzen Gallery at Portland State University, the Devos Museum at Northern Michigan University and the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago.{{Cite web|url=http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2009/11/the-last-sunday-soup-at-incubate/|title=The Last Sunday Soup at InCUBATE : Chicago Art Magazine|website=chicagoartmagazine.com|access-date=2018-04-13}}

From 2010 to 2015, Satinsky worked at Threewalls as associate director, where she edited two editions of Phonebook, in 2011 and 2015 (a national directory of artist-run spaces and projects).{{Cite news|url=https://three-walls.org/program/phonebook/|title=PHONEBOOK - Contemporary Art Chicago {{!}} Threewalls|last=Studio|first=Poly|work=Contemporary Art Chicago {{!}} Threewalls|access-date=2018-04-13|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709010243/https://three-walls.org/program/phonebook/|archive-date=2018-07-09|url-status=dead}} During this time she cofounded the Hand-in-Glove conference with Shannon R. Stratton, Bryce Dwyer and Elizabeth Chodos, and was one of the cofounders of Common Field, national initiatives on advocacy for small to mid-size nonprofits and grassroots artist projects, and Community Supported Art, a program to sell affordable artist editions modeled after community-supported agriculture.{{Cite news|url=https://www.commonfield.org/about/90/people|title=Common Field|access-date=2018-04-14|language=en}}

Satinsky has worked with artists on solo exhibitions and projects while associate director at Threewalls, including Brandon Alvendia, Irina Botea (nominated for best time-based format by the International Association for Art Critics in 2014), Harold Mendez, Seth Kim-Cohen, Jaime Davidovich (with Daniel Quiles), Latham Zearfoss, ACRE TV, Rozalinda Borcila, Brian Holmes, Ashley Hunt, Taisha Paggett, Faith Wilding, and Mary Patten. She organized more than 100 programs over her time there which included artists and scholars Fred Moten, e-flux library, Laurie Palmer, Lane Relyea, Mary Jane Jacob, Daniel Joseph Martinez, and Michael Brenson. She also co-organized MDW Fair, an independent art fair showcasing Midwest artists and space.{{Cite web|url=http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/S/A/au19454658.html|title=Abigail Satinsky|website=press.uchicago.edu|access-date=2018-04-13}}

She has taught on socially engaged art and curatorial practice at University of Illinois at Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Moore College of Art and Design and Tyler School of Art at Temple University. She is curator of exhibitions and programs at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.{{Cite web|url=https://smfa.tufts.edu/offices|title=Offices {{!}} SMFA At Tufts|website=smfa.tufts.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-06-28}}

• Radio Silence (2017-2018) (producer) with artist Michael Rakowitz and curator Liz Thomas with Mural Arts Philadelphia, a seven-episode radio broadcast and large-scale performance on Independence Mall in Philadelphia.{{Cite web|url=http://www.radiosilence.site/|title=Radio Silence: A podcast and radio series conceived by Michael Rakowitz|website=www.radiosilence.site|language=en|access-date=2018-07-08}}
• Meadow Mansions (2016), an exhibit featuring the 18th century Mount Pleasant mansion in Fairmount Park. The group exhibition was commissioned by Fairmount Park Conservancy, Philadelphia Parks and Recreation, Audubon Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and funded by ArtPlace with Design.{{Cite news|url=https://myphillypark.org/arts-and-culture-fpc/projects/meadow-mansions/|title=Meadow Mansions – Fairmount Park Conservancy|work=Fairmount Park Conservancy|access-date=2018-07-08|language=en-US}}
• A Modest Occupation{{Cite web|url=https://three-walls.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/A-modest-occupation-publication.pdf|title=A Modest Occupation|date=March 15, 2013|access-date=July 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624102931/http://three-walls.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/A-modest-occupation-publication.pdf|archive-date=June 24, 2016|url-status=dead}} (2013), The Luminary in St. Louis, MO, Transformer Gallery in Washington DC and Threewalls in Chicago.

In 2014 Satinsky edited the book, Support Networks, part of the Chicago Social Practice History series (edited by Mary Jane Jacob and Kate Zeller in the Department of Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago).{{Cite book|url=http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo19454453.html|title=Support Networks|series=Chicago Social Practice History Series |publisher=School of the Art Institute of Chicago }} She has published essays and articles on online platforms such as Art Practical and Temporary Art Review, and for organizations such as Open Engagement.{{Cite web|url=http://openengagement.info/77-abigail-satinsky/|title=77: Abigail Satinsky {{!}} Open Engagement|website=openengagement.info|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-14}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.artpractical.com/feature/appropriate-technologies/|title=Appropriate Technologies {{!}} Art Practical|last=Satinsky|first=Abigail|work=Art Practical|access-date=2018-04-14|language=en}} She is a regular contributor to the Bad at Sports podcast and her writing has appeared in the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, AREA Chicago, and Proximity Magazine. She contributed to podcast conversations with Bad at Sports which were collected in two edited volumes, Say It While You Still Mean It: Conversations on Art and Practice, Volumes 1 and 2, published by Open Engagement in Print.{{Cite web|url=http://temporaryartreview.com/making-art-politically-a-reflection-on-open-engagement-2016/|title=Making art politically: a reflection on Open Engagement 2016 {{!}} Temporary Art Review|website=temporaryartreview.com|date=May 12, 2016 |language=en-US|access-date=2018-07-08}} She was editor of the book Support Networks, published by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and University of Chicago Press, which chronicles socially engaged art in Chicago over the last one hundred years.

Satinsky has also co-authored essays and blog posts on the subject of socially-engaged art with partner Anthony Romero.{{Cite news|url=https://www.muralarts.org/blog/alternative-history-thought-anthony-romero-inout/|title=An Alternative History of Thought: Anthony Romero on In/Out - Mural Arts Philadelphia|work=Mural Arts Philadelphia|access-date=2018-04-14|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.joaap.org/diablog/abigail-satinsky-anthony-romero-chicago-social-practice-lab-saic-diabloglical/|title=Abigail Satinsky & Anthony Romero – Chicago Social Practice Lab (SAIC) DIABLOGLICAL {{!}} Together, what can we do?|website=www.joaap.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-14}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-me-my-shelf-and-i-anthony-romero-abigail-satinsky-20150319-story.html|title=Me, My Shelf and I: Anthony Romero and Abigail Satinsky|last=Pearson|first=Laura|work=chicagotribune.com|access-date=2018-04-14|language=en-US}}

She was a fellow, John Nicholas Brown Center, Brown University, Providence, RI.

In 2016, she received the Art Journal Award for distinguished writing from College Art Association for her essay "Movement Building for Beginners".{{Cite news|url=http://www.collegeart.org/news/2016/01/04/recipients-of-the-2016-awards-for-distinction/|title=Recipients of the 2016 Awards for Distinction|last=Association|first=College Art|date=2016-01-04|work=CAA News {{!}} College Art Association|access-date=2018-07-08|language=en-US}}

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• [https://www.coursera.org/lecture/activism-social-movements/abigail-satinsky-eOQMu ART of the MOOC: Activism and Social Movements] (video, 7:27)
• [https://vimeo.com/130904158 Should You Care About the Art World? ~ Visiting Artist Presentation at ACRE] (video, 1:13:09)
• [https://www.artpractical.com/feature/appropriate-technologies/ Valuing Labor in the Arts, Appropriate Technologies] (essay)
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLptWqeYnfE Strategies of Sustainability Panel Discussion], Hand in Glove Conference, New Orleans, October 18, 2013. (video, 11:53)
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=ETz5TwVVwJw Creative Time Summit] (video, 8:08)
• [http://rhizome.org/editorial/2009/apr/24/interview-with-incubate/ Rhizome Interview with InCUBATE] (transcript)
• [http://magazine.art21.org/2009/04/22/experimental-economies-talking-with-chicagos-incubate/#.WzuPdi-ZOBs Art21 Interview] (transcript)

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