About

Netvvrk is a supportive community of 900+ artists working to realize their goals and invest in a model outside of the baroque rules of the art world.

We teach artists how to gain exposure, recognition, and payment for the valuable work they do through group coaching, studio critiques, and resource sharing. You can join at any point in your career. We tailor our program to support emerging, mid-career, and established artists alike.

The next Netvvrk cohort is currently open for enrollment.


Who We Are

We are painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers, digital artists, writers, documentarians, activists, teachers, art world workers.

Our staff and guests work at the art world's leading art institutions. We've taught at schools including Yale, Brown, and Cornell University.

Netvvrk operates with the belief that we can model an industry that treats its workers better. Inside and outside the membership, we as the team behind Netvvrk seek to: 

  • Pursue Excellence: Continually exceed artistic standards through exceptional work.

  • Collaborate Generously: Share knowledge freely and collaborate to enrich our collective wisdom.

  • Lead with Empathy: Approach every interaction with kindness and advocate for inclusivity and learning.

Our Team

  • Paddy Johnson

    Founder & Head Coach

    Paddy Johnson (she/her) is the founder of Netvvrk, a membership that helps artists get the shows, grants, and residencies of their dreams by broadening their professional networks. Netvvrk has been featured in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, and Artnet News. Johnson is the founding editor of Art F City (2005-2017) and co-founder of the public art initiative PARADE (2018-2020). She has contributed to CNN, The New York Times, and New York Magazine. Johnson is best known for her ability to help artists produce their best work. She lives in New York.

  • William Powhida

    Programs Coordinator

    William Powhida is both an artist and a fictional persona, POWHIDA, created by the artist to satirize notions of individual genius, privilege, and the art world’s extremely fucked up class relations and dependence on accumulated wealth. Powhida is currently on faculty at the School of Visual Arts in New York, an adjunct professor at Queens College, an Artist Advisor with Netvvrk, and a mentor with the International Lab for Artistic Practice (ILAP). He is also an active organizer with the artsunion.org  Most recently, he has been focusing on the development and production of Zero Art Fairwith co-founder and collaborator Jennifer Dalton.

  • Penny Retica

    Head of Operations

    Penny Retica (she/they) works on systems that empower artistic communities. A photographer, writer, and editor, she aims to capture the daily life of objects on the street. Currently she serves as the Director of Operations at Netvvrk, a community and resource-sharing platform for artists built on values of collaboration and generosity. She lives and works in New York. 


  • Sheri Munian

    Community Manager

    Sheri Munian (she/her) is the Community Manager at Netvvrk and a key point of contact for our members. She supports our community by answering questions, offering resource support and site navigation, helping with form submissions, and administering support through written correspondence and live Zoom sessions. In addition, Sheri assists with event coordination and program planning, ensuring that all of our events run smoothly and align with Netvvrk’s goals and values. Sheri is passionate about helping people get the most out of their Netvvrk membership. Outside of work, Sheri enjoys painting, reading, and advocating for causes related to the environment and animal welfare. She lives in sunny South Africa.

  • Macon Reed

    Artist Advisor

    Macon Reed works in sculpture, installation, video, painting, performance, and participatory projects. Primarily, they create large immersive, handmade installations that host extensive participatory programming through a queer and intersectional feminist lens. A set of central concerns guides each project; consensual power exchange, inquiry towards the collective, and bringing histories or communities together that have been overlooked or structurally disconnected from one another Reed is also known for their painting and video works. Reed completed an MFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago as a University Fellow in 2013 and received a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2007.

  • Arden Bendler Browning

    Artist Advisor

    Through painting, immersive virtual installations, works on paper and public art, Arden Bendler Browning (she/her) investigates the way that color and gesture can encourage a meditative experience of place and time. Her work explores the desire for travel, the impact of overabundant digital imagery on perception and memory of the physical world, and finding wonder, escape and trepidation through immersive spaces. Her work hovers between landscape and abstraction. Based in Philadelphia since 2001, Bendler Browning earned a BFA in Art with honors from Carnegie Mellon University (1997), an MSA in Studio Art with high distinctions from Sydney College of the Arts (2000), and an MFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art (2003) with a University Fellowship.

  • Chris Moss

    Artist Advisor

    Chris Moss (he/him) is a painter who holds a BFA from Marywood University, Scranton, PA (2000) and an MFA from CUNY Brooklyn College (2006). He has worked as an artist assistant, gallery assistant, art handler, freelance graphic designer and publication design consultant. Since 2011 his work has been included in solo and group exhibitions at Theodore (New York, NY). He has also shown at Shaheen Contemporary (Cleveland, OH), Grizzly Grizzly (Philadelphia, PA) Field Projects (New York), LABspace (Hillsdale, NY), SEASON (Seattle, WA), Arts Southeast (Savannah, GA), Lyndon House Art Center, (Athens, GA), and Sechrest Gallery at High Point University (High Point, NC). He lives and works in Savannah, GA.

  • Judi Tavill

    Community Advocate

    Judi Tavill (she/her) is a visual artist based in Rumson, NJ who earned her BFA from Washington University (1990). After careers in fashion design and studio ceramics, she completed a Post Baccalaureate through UMass-Dartmouth (2021). She creates biomorphic sculptures and 2-dimensional work that reveal the continuum of connection defining our world. A 2025 NJ State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Sculpture Fellow,  Judi’s work has been included in exhibitions at major institutions including Morris Museum and New Jersey State Museum, and Hunterdon Art Museum with solo exhibitions at Ivy Brown Gallery (NYC), Adamah Gallery (Columbus, OH), and Center For Contemporary Art (Bedminster, NJ).

  • Kai Sumanga

    Design

    Kai Sumanga (she/her) is an editor and event organizer who enjoys creating meaningful experiences both online and offline. She works on Netvvrk's landing page setup and podcast edits for Art Problems, with a strong focus on video and image editing for Paddy's social media. Versatile and hands-on, she approaches every task with dedication.

  • Netvvrk graphics designed by Sue Kim

Netvvrk Mentors