2025-2026 virtual Cohort
Fall 2025 | Winter 2026 | Spring 2026
Mondays via Zoom
With Canopy Mentor
Catherine Haggarty
Artist
Based in Brooklyn, NY
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, Catherine Haggarty, 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).
Michael Agricola
JBH Scholarship Recipient
Lisa Candela
Heidi Daehler
Christa Fowles
Sydney Guzman
Jackie Leishman
KC Miller
Christian Platt
Paula Wachsstock
Lisa Warren
Cohort Exhibition
Each Canopy Cohort presents a culminating pop-up group exhibition.
Beyond Scale
Canopy Studio, 508 W. 26th St. #6E
June 4-6, 2026
Beyond Scale is a group exhibition celebrating the work of 10 artists who worked together for one year with their Canopy Mentor Catherine Haggarty, as part of the 2025-2026 Canopy Program. To stand comfortably on the margins is a difficult task. Standing at the margins of anything means there is an inherent risk and confidence operating all at once. Marsden Hartley was able to paint the sky and the mountains with the same breath & brush; making the viewer feel that no form is more important than the other. To stand comfortably at the margins may mean a poet, like Mary Oliver, can - with words - show us how an owl may sound while also describing how the grass may feel under our feet.
Guest Speakers + Visiting Critics
Each semester, Catherine Haggarty's Cohort received Artist Talks, Lectures, Workshops
and Visiting Critiques from an esteemed roster of Guest Artists + Speakers.
Jessica Cannon
Guest Artist
Sofia Quirno
Guest Artist
Eric Hibit
Color Theory Lecture
Jennifer Coates
Art History Lecture
Eleanor Swordy
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
Avery Z. Nelson
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
Adrienne Elise Tarver
Materials Workshop
Andrew Prayzner
Techincal Drawing Workshop
Amanda Nedham
Artist Statement Edits
Hannah Root
Visiting Critic
Senior Director, Megan Mulrooney Gallery
Scott Ogden
Visiting Critic
Founder and Director, Shrine Gallery
Will Hutnick
Professional Practices Speaker
Photo Credit: Walker Esner
Amir H. Fallah
Professional Practices Speaker
Canopy Mentor Catherine Haggarty
Catherine Haggarty, b. 1984, is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York.
Haggarty earned her M.F.A from Mason Gross, Rutgers University in 2011. Haggarty is the Founder, Owner and Executive Director of The Canopy Program which is a one year mentorship program within the NYC Crit Club which Haggarty co-founded with artist Hilary Doyle in 2017. In addition, Haggarty is a Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt Institute.
Currently, Haggarty is the Spring 2024 Teiger Mentor for the Arts at Cornell AAP MFA and recently was a Visiting Artist at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design (Denver, CO) on the occasion of her Exhibition featuring ten years of work at The Philip J. Steele Gallery.
Haggarty’s paintings and curatorial work have been reviewed by and featured in Bomb Magazine, Artnet, Hyperallergic, Art Forum, Two Coats of Paint, Brooklyn Magazine, The New York Times, Art Maaze Magazine, Art Spiel, Pep Talks for Artists, Sound and Vision Podcast and The Observer.
Catherine has been a visiting artist & critic at Cornell MFA (2024), Rocky Mountain College of Art (2024), Western Connecticut MFA (2023), Contemporary Arts Memphis (2023), Vassar College (2023), Rutgers MFA (2022), U. Albany MFA (2022), MICA (2022), UCONN MFA (2022 + 2023), RISD BFA (2022), Pratt BFA (2022), The University of Oregon (2021), Boston University MFA (2021), SUNY Purchase MFA (2020), Hunter MFA (2020), Denison University (2020), Brooklyn College MFA (2019) and in 2018 Haggarty was the Anderson Endowed Lecturer at Penn State University.
Solo & Two Person exhibitions include: Untitled Miami, Lorin Gallery, LA, Geary Contemporary (NYC), Massey Klein Gallery (NYC), This Friday Next Friday (Brooklyn), Bloomsburg University (PA), and Look and Listen in Marseille France. Select group exhibitions include: The PIT (LA), Badr El Jundi (Madrid, Spain), Mindy Solomon (Miami, FL), Andrew Rafcaz (Chicago, IL), Hesse Flatow (NYC), Mrs (Maspeth, NY) and McBride Contemporary in Montreal, Canada.
Haggarty earned her M.F.A from Mason Gross, Rutgers University in 2011. Haggarty is the Founder, Owner and Executive Director of The Canopy Program which is a one year mentorship program within the NYC Crit Club which Haggarty co-founded with artist Hilary Doyle in 2017. In addition, Haggarty is a Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt Institute.
Currently, Haggarty is the Spring 2024 Teiger Mentor for the Arts at Cornell AAP MFA and recently was a Visiting Artist at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design (Denver, CO) on the occasion of her Exhibition featuring ten years of work at The Philip J. Steele Gallery.
Haggarty’s paintings and curatorial work have been reviewed by and featured in Bomb Magazine, Artnet, Hyperallergic, Art Forum, Two Coats of Paint, Brooklyn Magazine, The New York Times, Art Maaze Magazine, Art Spiel, Pep Talks for Artists, Sound and Vision Podcast and The Observer.
Catherine has been a visiting artist & critic at Cornell MFA (2024), Rocky Mountain College of Art (2024), Western Connecticut MFA (2023), Contemporary Arts Memphis (2023), Vassar College (2023), Rutgers MFA (2022), U. Albany MFA (2022), MICA (2022), UCONN MFA (2022 + 2023), RISD BFA (2022), Pratt BFA (2022), The University of Oregon (2021), Boston University MFA (2021), SUNY Purchase MFA (2020), Hunter MFA (2020), Denison University (2020), Brooklyn College MFA (2019) and in 2018 Haggarty was the Anderson Endowed Lecturer at Penn State University.
Solo & Two Person exhibitions include: Untitled Miami, Lorin Gallery, LA, Geary Contemporary (NYC), Massey Klein Gallery (NYC), This Friday Next Friday (Brooklyn), Bloomsburg University (PA), and Look and Listen in Marseille France. Select group exhibitions include: The PIT (LA), Badr El Jundi (Madrid, Spain), Mindy Solomon (Miami, FL), Andrew Rafcaz (Chicago, IL), Hesse Flatow (NYC), Mrs (Maspeth, NY) and McBride Contemporary in Montreal, Canada.
