Plus, SITE Santa Fe artists announced, awards for Lorna Simpson and Wolfgang Tillmans, and Penske Media partners with Amazon … because of course.
Art Movements, published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of must-know news, appointments, awards, and other happenings in today’s chaotic art world.
Yukiko Yamagata to Helm NYC’s Print Center
New York’s Print Center, home to programs and exhibitions celebrating all the art that’s pressed, proofed, and published, announced Yukiko Yamagata as its new executive director this week.
Her professional profile doesn’t immediately scream “print nerd”: Yamagata most recently served as deputy director at Creative Time and previously worked at the Open Society Foundations, where she led a $15.8 million arts and culture fellowship program for socially engaged artists. But one of her earliest roles in the 1990s was as a senior curatorial assistant in the photo department at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and she is a current board member of Women Photograph, an organization focused on equitable practices in photojournalism and visual media.
Yamagata succeeds Judy Hecker, who announced her decision to step down earlier this year after a decade in the role, and is now executive director emerita.
Natalie Renganeschi to Lead Women’s Studio Workshop
The Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York, dedicated to the printing arts as well as papermaking, bookbinding, photography, and more, has named Natalie Renganeschi as its fourth-ever executive director in the organization’s 52-year history.
Renganeschi’s career at WSW began in 2018, when she joined as a part-time employee while working as a high school art teacher. Now, she will oversee the nonprofit’s major campus expansion, including the relaunch of its ceramics center.
“My path to leadership hasn’t been a traditional one, but it’s rooted in the ethos of WSW,” Renganeschi said in a statement. “Just as our mediums are steeped in process and the history of craft, working here is a sustained act of communal learning that allows for growth to come from below and within.”