2025 virtual Cohort
Spring 2025 | Summer 2025 | Fall 2025
Mondays via Zoom
With Canopy Mentor
Adrienne Elise Tarver
Artist
Based in New York
Cohort Artists
The artists featured below were accepted to the 2025 year of The Canopy Program. Together, with the guidance of their Faculty Mentor, Adrienne Elise Tarver, the artists will develop their studio practice through critiques, Artist Talks + Q&As, seminars, and workshops. The Canopy Program is a year-long commitment, this Cohort will meet via Zoom for three consecutive semesters. Their experience will culminate with a pop-up Group Show in Chelsea (NYC).
Heidi Grace Acuña
Brandon Brown
Vanezza Cruz
JBH Scholarship Recipient
Ash Fritzsche
Julia Gould
Renee Greenlee
Brittany Horrigan
Jay Lee
Amanda Millis
Jennifer Agricola Mojica
Cohort Exhibition
Each Canopy Cohort presents a culminating pop-up group exhibition.
held / hidden
Canopy Studio, 508 W. 26th St. #6E
January 22-24, 2026
OpeningThursday, January 22, 6-8 pm
held / hidden celebrates the breadth of interiority. Under the mentorship of Adrienne Elise Tarver, ten artists immerse themselves in their respective disciplines as they explore questions of identity, ancestry and belonging. The result is this group show, where the resounding echoes of the individual works fall into unison and a singular, timeless hum emerges, offering the viewer the chance to pursue its reverberations within.
Exhibiting Artists: Heidi Grace Acuña, Brandon Brown, Vanezza Cruz, Ash Fritzsche, Julia Gould, Renèe Greenlee, Brittany Horrigan, Jay Lee, Amanda Case Millis, Jennifer Agricola Mojica.
Exhibiting Artists: Heidi Grace Acuña, Brandon Brown, Vanezza Cruz, Ash Fritzsche, Julia Gould, Renèe Greenlee, Brittany Horrigan, Jay Lee, Amanda Case Millis, Jennifer Agricola Mojica.
Guest Speakers + Visiting Critics
Each semester, Adrienne Elise Tarver's Cohort received Artist Talks, Lectures, Workshops
and Visiting Critiques from an esteemed roster of Guest Artists + Speakers.
Anna Ortiz
Guest Artist
Sagarika Sundaram
Guest Artist
Kris Rac
Art History Speaker
Eric Hibit
Color Theory Lecture
Leeza Meksin
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
Sangram Majumdar
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
Amanda Nedham
Guest Writing Editor
Jenny Gerow
Visiting Critic
Cheif Curator at the Akron Art Museum
Cierra Britton
Visiting Critic
Director, Cierra Britton Gallery
Amir H. Fallah
Professional Practices Speaker
Adrienne Elise Tarver
Professional Practices Speaker
Canopy Mentor 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
