2025-2026 in-person Cohort
Fall 2025 | Winter 2026 | Spring 2026
Saturdays at the Canopy Studio in Chelsea
With Canopy Mentor
Jessica Dickinson
Artist
Based in New York
Cohort Artists
The artists featured below were accepted to the 2025-2026 year of The Canopy Program. Together, with the guidance of their Faculty Mentor, Jessica Dickinson, 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 at the Canopy Studio in Chelsea for three consecutive semesters. Their experience will culminate with a pop-up Group Show in Chelsea (NYC).
Cohort Exhibition
Each Canopy Cohort presents a culminating pop-up group exhibition.
This cohort will present their exhibition at The Canopy Studio in Chelsea, July 16 - 18, 2026. Stay tuned for more details! In the meantime, view
past Crit Club and Canopy exhibitions.
Guest Speakers + Visiting Critics
Each semester, Jessica Dickinson's Cohort recieved Artist Talks, Lectures, Workshops
and Visiting Critiques from an esteemed roster of Guest Artists + Speakers.
Caitlin Keogh
Studio Visit Artist
Eric Hibit
Color Theory Lecture
Jennifer Coates
Art History Lecture
Keltie Ferris
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
Tomashi Jackson
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
Adrienne Elise Tarver
Materials Workshop
Andrew Prayzner
Techincal Drawing Workshop
Amanda Nedham
Artist Statement Edits
Emma Karasz
Visiting Critic
Director, Sikkema Malloy Jenkins
Laura Brown
Visiting Critic
James Fuentes Gallery
Will Hutnick
Professional Practices Speaker
Photo Credit: Walker Esner
Amir H. Fallah
Professional Practices Speaker
Canopy Mentor Jessica Dickinson
Jessica Dickinson is a Brooklyn based artist whose work is primarily situated in painting and encompasses drawing, writing, and installations. Exploring durational shifts in light, matter, consciousness, and perception, she works to create space for a slowed down encounter within our world of increasingly accelerated exchanges. Dickinson is represented by James Fuentes in New York/Los Angeles and Altman Siegel Gallery in San Francisco. Solo exhibitions include James Fuentes NY, Altman Siegel, David Petersen Gallery, Minneapolis and Maisterravalbuena, Madrid. Numerous group exhibitions include The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan; Katzen Arts Center at The American University Museum, Washington D.C.; Gladstone Gallery, New York; The Warehouse, Dallas; Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, and The Kitchen, New York. Dickinson’s work has been reviewed and included in Artforum, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, and The New Yorker, among others. Awards include Steep Rock Arts Residency, a Belle Foundation individual grant, Farpath Residency in Dijon, France, Change Inc. Grant, and The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program residency. Public collections include The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas. Dickinson received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has taught extensively, including Cooper Union School of Art, Columbia University School of the Arts, and Yale University School of Art.
