Join The Yellow Chair Salon for Professional and Playful Practices led by painter and curator Michael David and curator, gallerist, and painter Ali Rossi.
This course offers a critical yet dynamic approach to building a sustainable professional life as an artist. Topics include preparing for studio visits with art world professionals, promoting work through social media and websites, and the idiosyncrasies of exhibition preparation. The workshop will also explore strategies for building an artistic community and navigating relationships with galleries.

Michael David — Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, as well as Yaddo and Edward Albee Fellow — has been exhibiting internationally since 1981. Over his four-decade career, he has been the subject of significant historical and curatorial acclaim. His work is represented in numerous major private and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Houston Museum of Contemporary Art, the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Margulies Collection in Miami, and the Edward Albee Foundation in Montauk. He was also the subject of a solo exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum.

Ali Rossi, a painter and the founder of Olympia, brings a multidisciplinary, nontraditional curatorial perspective rooted in play, experimentation, and challenging commercial art norms. Born and raised in New York City, Rossi studied Art History and Painting at Mount Holyoke College before earning an MA in Arts Administration from CUNY Baruch in 2023. Since establishing Olympia as a nomadic curatorial initiative, Rossi has cultivated a vibrant community of artists, curators, and writers.

In 2020, Olympia opened a permanent gallery on New York’s Lower East Side, continuing its mission to disrupt traditional gallery systems and champion underrecognized voices. A member of the New Art Dealers Alliance since 2021, Olympia remains a hub for experimentation, collaboration, and community. Rossi has also lectured at institutions including the Fashion Institute of Technology, Mount Holyoke College, Georgia State University, and the NARS Foundation.

Course Details:

• Dates: Bi-weekly meetings on Saturdays at 1pm, beginning November 8th

• Format: Online, bi-weekly sessions (90 minutes each)

• Open to all artists, with a focus on painting as a foundational practice

Don’t miss this extraordinary opportunity for dialogue, insight, and creative growth.