Karolyn Hatton Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

The Creative Outlet offers art making workshops using a wide variety of materials and techniques to explore creativity through guided projects. Described by one participant as a "creative spa," process is as important as outcome.

Specializing in communications, curating, project management, studio management, exhibition planning, and art tours. Clients include Martha Rosler Studio and Curator Donna Harkavy.

• Served as public face of LICCA, an alliance of 12 major arts and cultural organizations in LIC, including: MoMA PS1, the Noguchi Museum, Socrates Sculpture Park, SculptureCenter, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Fisher Landau Center, Museum of the Moving Image, Flux Factory, Chocolate Factory Theater, Thalia Spanish Theatre, American Museum of Folk Art Annex, Materials for the Arts.• Implemented joint marketing initiatives and community outreach • Collaborated with community groups, public entities, tourism industry, and other partners• Devised and conducted family art activities at community events• Launched Art Strolls, public walking tours visiting Long Island City's cultural treasures• Launched www.licca.org in 2014, a one-stop resource for what’s happening at all 12 members’ institutions and continue to oversee the site• Worked with Board on strategic planning• Responsible for all administration and communications, including liaising with press, elected officials and public; grant writing, press releases, marketing material and social media postings; financial recording, invoicing, and payments.

Launched in 2013, Studio Sessions is a series of curated, one-day salons featuring selected artists, writers, critics, and curators, and invited guests. The Sessions take place several times a year in artists’ studios or donated spaces. These events are videoed and viewable publicly online at www.studiosessions.org.For each Session 3-4 selected artists were invited to present their work and take part in an unmoderated, in-depth conversation with 3-4 selected writers, critics, or curators, and a number of invited guests. While not thematic in its approach, Studio Sessions selected the participants based on their potential to generate a rich dialogue across the works, across mediums, motivations and concerns, and across generations. Part studio visit, part salon, and part panel discussion, the Sessions were a rare opportunity to engage deeply with the individual works presented, hear directly from the artists, and also widen the discussion by considering at the fertile cross currents that form between the different artists’ works. Participants included artists Maia Cruz Palileo, Sheila Pepe, Diana Cooper, Diann Bauer, Ohad Meromi, Roger White, Andrea Belag and others in conversation with writers/critics Regine Basha, Gregory Volk, and Faye Hirsch, Martha Schwendener, Alexi Worth, and others.Studio Sessions was a collaboration with artist and critic Julian Kreimer.

New York, Ny, Us

• Program manager and event producer serving 800 members in the New York area• Cultivated network of connections with leaders in the art world in both for profit and not for profit sectors• Developed, managed, and produced 50+ networking, special access, and fundraising events and programs per year for members, including all aspects of administration, budgeting, publicity, through to implementation and follow-up. • Contributed extensive knowledge of international contemporary art world to implement both short- and long-term strategic planning• Worked closely with the organization's leadership – Board, Director, and volunteer leaders – to cultivate and sustain membership • Designed, wrote, edited, and distributed communications to membership via data base and social media• Collaborated with other organizations for public programming

• Expanded Gallery program to include photography and video • Curated and planned exhibitions• Liaised with artists, clients and press• Gallery sales • Wrote press releases and generated and designed publicity • Invoiced, maintained inventory, general administration, supervision, and book-keeping

• Assisted in curating and researching potential artists for contemporary at gallery • Wrote press releases and generated publicity • Acted as liaison with artists, collectors, other galleries, press and gallery visitors • Art-handling and general administration, including inventory, payments, and invoicing

Master Of Fine Arts (Mfa), Visual Arts

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Photography

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), English Literature