2.0 with Matt Phillips, Catherine Haggarty, and Adrienne Elise Tarver

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2.0 with Matt Phillips, Catherine Haggarty, and Adrienne Elise Tarver

$400.00

Program Cost:

  • $400 Deposit is required upon enrollment to secure a seat for Canopy 2.0.

  • Course Tuition (Details about tuition and financial aid below)

Enrollment Instructions:

  • Enrollment is first come, first served - We encourage you to enroll at your earliest convenience!

Cohort Full, Join the Waitlist Below!

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2025-2026 Canopy 2.0 Cohort

Mentors: Matt Phillips, Catherine Haggarty, Adrienne Elise Tarver
Cohort Type: virtual
Meeting Day: Tuesdays
Meeting Time: 6-9pm (EST) / 3-6pm (PST)
Cohort Size: 10 Artists

Fall 2025


Tuesdays, 6-9pm (EST) / 3-6pm (PST)
8 meetings via Zoom
Alternating weeks

September 9, 23
October 7, 21
Nov 4, 18
Dec 2, Dec 16
Matt Phillips
Fall Mentor

Mentorship

Group Critique

Discussion + Seminar

Visiting Critics

  • 1 brief introductory presentation with Mentor and Cohort
  • 1 long critique (35-40 min.) with Mentor and Cohort
  • 1 critique (30 min.) with Mentor, Cohort and an invited Guest Critic
  • Q+A and art conversations with three Guest Critics
  • 1 week of seminar focus with Mentor and Cohort
  • Access to select Salons hosted by esteemed Canopy Faculty

Fall Office Hours


1-on-1 office hours via Zoom

Dates TBD based on availability of Cohort Artists and Panel Mentor
Adrienne Elise Tarver
Panel Mentor

Mentorship

1-on-1

Artists get a one-on-one with Panel Mentor, Adrienne Elise Tarver! Artists can sign up for one slot in the 'off weeks' of our class.

WINTER / SPRING 2026


Tuesdays, 6-9pm (EST) / 3-6pm (PST)
9 meetings via Zoom

February: 2 Seminar Meetings

2 WEEK BREAK

March: 1-on-1 Mentor Critique + 3 Salon Conversations

2 WEEK BREAK

April: 3 Weeks of Panel Reviews
May: Final Cohort Meeting

Catherine Haggarty
Winter/Spring Mentor

Mentorship

1-on-1

Art Conversations

Panel Review

  • Winter seminar sessions based on reading selected with Mentor and Cohort
  • 1-on-1 critique with Spring Mentor (30 min.)
  • Two salon conversations: artists on the 'art world' + gallery-focused
  • Writing workshop + salon
  • This semester culminates in a Panel Review, see below!

Small Group Virtual Salon


Will be available in Fall and Spring, Dates TBC


Catherine Haggarty
Founder, Canopy Program

Mentorship

Small Group

Small group salons with Founder Catherine Haggarty (virtual) will be open to all Canopy 2.0 artists from Fall 2025 through Spring 2026.

PANEL REVIEW


The final semester of Canopy 2.0 will culminate in a Panel Review for each cohort. The panel will be your Panel Mentor, your Spring Mentor, and an invited esteemed Guest Critic! The panel review is an opportunity, like in grad school, to share your development in the program and receive constructive feedback to continue your momentum in the studio. Your cohort is invited to attend + contribute to the discussion.

2.0 KEYNOTE LECTURE


All 2.0 cohorts will be invited to a virtual artist talk by an esteemed guest artist!

TAILORED CONTENT + CRITICS


In Canopy 2.0, visitors will be selected by your mentors and tailored to the needs of your cohort! Each semester, this Cohort will recieve Artist Talks and Visiting Critiques from an esteemed roster of Guest Artists + Speakers. These artists visited our 2024-2025 Canopy 2.0 inaugural cohort.

Canopy 2.0 Tuition

The full tuition total is $3,900, which includes:
Deposit: $400
Semester 1 Tuition: $1750
Semester 2 Tuition: $1750
Please note: Upon enrollment, a $400 deposit is due in order to secure your spot in the cohort. The deposit will be applied toward your tuition.

You may choose to pay the full tuition on September 1, 2025, or enroll in a payment plan of 2-4 equal payments.

Please see Tuition and Financial Aid for more information regarding extended payment plans and Financial Aid.


Mentor Bios

Matt Phillips


Matt Phillips is a painter living in Brooklyn, NY. His works often employ fundamental elements of painting: simple shapes, modulated values and color relationships. These rather rudimentary components are combined and remixed to produce unexpected outcomes. Color, shape, mark and form engage one another in both strange and familiar ways, becoming tense, humorous, quirky and ultimately meaningful.

Matt Phillips has had solo exhibitions at Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL; The Landing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Anna Zorina Gallery, NYC,NY; Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy; and Zillman Art Museum, Bangor Maine. He has participated in group exhibitions at The Mass, Tokyo, Japan; The Hole, Los Angeles, CA; The Pit, Los Angeles, CA; Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and Hollis Taggart, NYC, NY. Phillips has been an artist-in-residence at The Fores Project, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony.


Catherine Haggarty


Catherine Haggarty, b. 1984, is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York.

Haggarty earned her M.F.A from Mason Gross, Rutgers University in 2011. Haggarty is the Founder, Owner and Executive Director of The Canopy Program which is a one year mentorship program within the NYC Crit Club which Haggarty co-founded with artist Hilary Doyle in 2017. In addition, Haggarty is a Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt Institute.

Currently, Haggarty is the Spring 2024 Teiger Mentor for the Arts at Cornell AAP MFA and recently was a Visiting Artist at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design (Denver, CO) on the occasion of her Exhibition featuring ten years of work at The Philip J. Steele Gallery.

Haggarty’s paintings and curatorial work have been reviewed by and featured in Bomb Magazine, Artnet, Hyperallergic, Art Forum, Two Coats of Paint, Brooklyn Magazine, The New York Times, Art Maaze Magazine, Art Spiel, Pep Talks for Artists, Sound and Vision Podcast and The Observer.

Catherine has been a visiting artist & critic at Cornell MFA (2024), Rocky Mountain College of Art (2024), Western Connecticut MFA (2023), Contemporary Arts Memphis (2023), Vassar College (2023), Rutgers MFA (2022), U. Albany MFA (2022), MICA (2022), UCONN MFA (2022 + 2023), RISD BFA (2022), Pratt BFA (2022), The University of Oregon (2021), Boston University MFA (2021), SUNY Purchase MFA (2020), Hunter MFA (2020), Denison University (2020), Brooklyn College MFA (2019) and in 2018 Haggarty was the Anderson Endowed Lecturer at Penn State University.

Solo & Two Person exhibitions include: Untitled Miami, Lorin Gallery, LA, Geary Contemporary (NYC), Massey Klein Gallery (NYC), This Friday Next Friday (Brooklyn), Bloomsburg University (PA), and Look and Listen in Marseille France. Select group exhibitions include: The PIT (LA), Badr El Jundi (Madrid, Spain), Mindy Solomon (Miami, FL), Andrew Rafcaz (Chicago, IL), Hesse Flatow (NYC), Mrs (Maspeth, NY) and McBride Contemporary in Montreal, Canada.


Adrienne Elise Tarver


​​Adrienne Elise Tarver is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY with a practice that spans painting, sculpture, installation, photography, textiles, and video. Her work addresses the complexity and invisibility of Black female identity including the history within domestic spaces, the fantasy of the tropical seductress, and the archetype of the all-knowing spiritual matriarch. She has exhibited nationally and abroad, including solo shows at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut; the Academy Art Museum in Maryland; Atlanta Contemporary in Atlanta, Georgia; Dinner Gallery (formerly Victori+Mo) in New York; Ochi Projects in Los Angeles; Wave Hill in the Bronx, NY; BRIC Project Room in Brooklyn; and A-M Gallery in Sydney, Australia and two-person exhibitions at Hollis Taggart in New York; Wedge Curatorial in Toronto, Canada. She recently received the Distinguished Alumni Award from her alma mater, Boston University, and the Nancy Graves Foundation Grant. She has been commissioned for projects through the New York MTA, the Public Art Fund, Google, Art Aspen, and Pulse Art Fair and has been featured in online and print publications including the New York Times, Forbes, Brooklyn Magazine, ArtNews, ArtNet, Blouin ArtInfo, Whitewall Magazine, and Hyperallergic, among others. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BFA from Boston University. Adrienne is represented in Los Angeles, CA and Sun Valley, ID by OCHI