Strategy calls address your questions about how to develop professional connections, expand career opportunities, prioritize steps that move you and your career forward, and more. Mentors review questions on a first come first serve basis and will give as much feedback as time allows in the hour session.

Laura Nova

Laura Nova is the first Public Artist in Residence to be embedded in New York City’s Department for the Aging. Nova brings expertise and empathy to her projects and actions, designing each element to enhance social wellness and decrease social isolation. Working in festivals, public monuments, and the city street, Nova delivers stories to homebound New Yorkers, organizes an older adult cheerleading squad and designs crafting guides and costumes that help nurture emerging activists of all ages. She is a fellow at the Urban Design Forum, advocating for the creation of a Commissioner of Caring.

Members can submit assets such as artist bios, statements, websites or application components. A selection is reviewed live during the call. If not selected, members are invited to submit their materials for feedback through the portal. The focus of headline asset reviews aligns with our monthly programming theme and/or the art world calendar.

Paddy Johnson

Paddy Johnson is the founder and head coach of Netvvrk. She 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.

Mentors review artist statements, bios, Instagram profiles and websites in an office hours style format where members provide their assets and ask questions on the spot.

Holly Wong

Holly Wong creates fiber and drawing-based installations and collaged paintings that explore healing and resilience. She was educated at the San Francisco Art Institute where she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts. Holly has participated in over 100 exhibitions including group shows at the de Young Museum, the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Contemporary Jewish Museum. A Presidential Scholar in the Arts, she has received grants from the California Arts Council (Established Artist category), the Puffin Foundation, the George Sugarman Foundation, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.

Strategy calls address questions about how to develop professional connections, expand your career opportunities, prioritize steps that move you and your career forward, and more. Have a pressing question? Before you submit, please check our videos on the curriculum hub or our community #Asks space to see if your question has already been answered.

Paddy Johnson

Paddy Johnson is the founder and head coach of Netvvrk. She 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.

Our strategy calls address your questions about how to develop professional connections, expand career opportunities, prioritize steps that move you and your career forward, and more. Mentors review questions on a first come first serve basis, and will give as much feedback as time allows in the hour session.

Susan Rowe Harrison

Susan Rowe Harrison (b. 1965) studied painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She earned an MA, Art+Education from New York University and a BA, History of Art from the University of California-Berkeley. Her work as an educator in diverse communities has influenced her interest in communicating complicated ideas simply. The artist has been shown and collected internationally, including PS122 (NYC); YYZ Artist's Outlet (Toronto); LinkedIn NYC (Empire State Building); Pfizer (NYC); Arts Etobicoke/Amnesty International (Toronto); Stantec Window Gallery (Toronto); Wave Hill (NYC); Art Souterrain & Nuit Blanche, Palais Congrés, (Montreal); University of Chicago Committee on Japanese Studies, Kenzaburo Oe (Tokyo); The Newberry Library (Chicago); Fundación Valparaiso (Spain), and FIFA World Cup/Seoul 2002. Rowe Harrison currently lives and works in New York.

Our strategy calls address your questions about how to develop professional connections, expand career opportunities, prioritize steps that move you and your career forward, and more. Mentors review questions on a first come first serve basis, and will give as much feedback as time allows in the hour session.

Angela Freleigh

Angela Fraleigh earned her MFA from Yale University School of Art and her BFA from Boston University. Her solo exhibitions include PPOW and Hirschl & Adler Modern in New York, Inman Gallery in Houston and Peters Projects in Santa Fe. She has exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and has been the recipient of several awards and residencies including the Yale University Alice Kimball English grant, The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Brooklyn, NY, The CORE program in Houston, TX and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE among others.

Members can submit assets such as artist bios, statements, websites or application components. A selection is reviewed live during the call. If not selected, members are invited to submit their materials for feedback through the portal. The focus of headline asset reviews aligns with our monthly programming theme and/or the art world calendar.

Paddy Johnson

Paddy Johnson is the founder and head coach of Netvvrk. She 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.

Mentors review artist statements, bios, Instagram profiles and websites in an office hours style format where members provide their assets and ask questions on the spot.

Holly Wong

Holly Wong creates fiber and drawing-based installations and collaged paintings that explore healing and resilience. She was educated at the San Francisco Art Institute where she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts. Holly has participated in over 100 exhibitions including group shows at the de Young Museum, the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Contemporary Jewish Museum. A Presidential Scholar in the Arts, she has received grants from the California Arts Council (Established Artist category), the Puffin Foundation, the George Sugarman Foundation, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.

Our strategy calls address your questions about how to develop professional connections, expand career opportunities, prioritize steps that move you and your career forward, and more. Mentors review questions on a first come first serve basis, and will give as much feedback as time allows in the hour session.

Laura Nova

Laura Nova is the first Public Artist in Residence to be embedded in New York City’s Department for the Aging. Nova brings expertise and empathy to her projects and actions, designing each element to enhance social wellness and decrease social isolation. Working in festivals, public monuments, and the city street, Nova delivers stories to homebound New Yorkers, organizes an older adult cheerleading squad and designs crafting guides and costumes that help nurture emerging activists of all ages. She is a fellow at the Urban Design Forum, advocating for the creation of a Commissioner of Caring.

Strategy calls address questions about how to develop professional connections, expand your career opportunities, prioritize steps that move you and your career forward, and more. Have a pressing question? Before you submit, please check our videos on the curriculum hub or our community #Asks space to see if your question has already been answered.

Paddy Johnson

Paddy Johnson is the founder and head coach of Netvvrk. She 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.

Our strategy calls address your questions about how to develop professional connections, expand career opportunities, prioritize steps that move you and your career forward, and more. Mentors review questions on a first come first serve basis, and will give as much feedback as time allows in the hour session.

Angela Freleigh

Angela Fraleigh earned her MFA from Yale University School of Art and her BFA from Boston University. Her solo exhibitions include PPOW and Hirschl & Adler Modern in New York, Inman Gallery in Houston and Peters Projects in Santa Fe. She has exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and has been the recipient of several awards and residencies including the Yale University Alice Kimball English grant, The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Brooklyn, NY, The CORE program in Houston, TX and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE among others.

Mentors review artist statements, bios, Instagram profiles and websites in an office hours style format where members provide their assets and ask questions on the spot.

Susan Rowe Harrison

Susan Rowe Harrison (b. 1965) studied painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She earned an MA, Art+Education from New York University and a BA, History of Art from the University of California-Berkeley. Her work as an educator in diverse communities has influenced her interest in communicating complicated ideas simply. The artist has been shown and collected internationally, including PS122 (NYC); YYZ Artist's Outlet (Toronto); LinkedIn NYC (Empire State Building); Pfizer (NYC); Arts Etobicoke/Amnesty International (Toronto); Stantec Window Gallery (Toronto); Wave Hill (NYC); Art Souterrain & Nuit Blanche, Palais Congrés, (Montreal); University of Chicago Committee on Japanese Studies, Kenzaburo Oe (Tokyo); The Newberry Library (Chicago); Fundación Valparaiso (Spain), and FIFA World Cup/Seoul 2002. Rowe Harrison currently lives and works in New York.

Strategy calls address questions about how to develop professional connections, expand your career opportunities, prioritize steps that move you and your career forward, and more. Have a pressing question? Before you submit, please check our videos on the curriculum hub or our community #Asks space to see if your question has already been answered.

Paddy Johnson

Paddy Johnson is the founder and head coach of Netvvrk. She 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.

Our strategy calls address your questions about how to develop professional connections, expand career opportunities, prioritize steps that move you and your career forward, and more. Mentors review questions on a first come first serve basis, and will give as much feedback as time allows in the hour session.

Stacy Mehrfar

Working with photography, photobooks, and video, Stacy Arezou Mehrfar explores the emotional and social facets of community. Her works look closely at the tension between belonging and alienation, and how individuals form meaning through their embodied presence in place. 

Mehrfar has exhibited her works at TEDxSydney, Australia; KMAC Contemporary Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; and the International Center of Photography, New York. A 2022 Silver List nominee, Mehrfar has received the Joseph Robert Foundation Grant, a Puffin Foundation Artist Grant, and the Australian Postgraduate Award. Her residencies include Interlude, I-Park Foundation, and the Wassaic Project. She is a 2025 LABA Lab fellow and Studio Arts resident at the Clemente Center. 

Her work has received positive coverage in New Art City, Collector Daily, Ruckus Journal, L’œil de la Photographie, British Journal of Photography, and The New Yorker. Portfolios of her work have appeared in Der Greif, Artist Profile, and Fraction magazines.

Her most recent monograph, The Moon Belongs to Everyone, was published by GOST Books in 2021. Mehrfar holds an MFA in Photomedia from the University of NSW School of Art and Design, Sydney, a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Certificate in Creative Practices from ICP, New York. She teaches at the School of Visual Arts and ICP. Stacy is a first-generation Iranian-American artist. 

Arezou, her middle name, means "wish" in Farsi.

Our strategy calls address your questions about how to develop professional connections, expand career opportunities, prioritize steps that move you and your career forward, and more. Mentors review questions on a first come first serve basis, and will give as much feedback as time allows in the hour session.

Angela Freleigh

Angela Fraleigh earned her MFA from Yale University School of Art and her BFA from Boston University. Her solo exhibitions include PPOW and Hirschl & Adler Modern in New York, Inman Gallery in Houston and Peters Projects in Santa Fe. She has exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and has been the recipient of several awards and residencies including the Yale University Alice Kimball English grant, The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Brooklyn, NY, The CORE program in Houston, TX and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE among others.

Members can submit assets such as artist bios, statements, websites or application components. A selection is reviewed live during the call. If not selected, members are invited to submit their materials for feedback through the portal. The focus of headline asset reviews aligns with our monthly programming theme and/or the art world calendar.

Paddy Johnson

Paddy Johnson is the founder and head coach of Netvvrk. She 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.

Mentors review artist statements, bios, Instagram profiles and websites in an office hours style format where members provide their assets and ask questions on the spot.

Katie Hargrave

Katie Hargrave is an associate professor at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. Recent exhibitions include The New Gallery, The Front, Atlanta Contemporary, the Wiregrass Museum of Art, and Granary Arts. She has been an artist in residence at Epicenter, Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center, among others. She collaborates frequently with Meredith Laura Lynn, and she is a member of the collaborative groups “The Think Tank that has yet to be named” and " Like Riding a Bicycle.”