2025-2026 in-person Cohort
Fall 2025 | Winter 2026 | Spring 2026
Tuesdays at the Canopy Studio in Chelsea
With Canopy Mentor
Clare Grill
Artist
Based in Queens, 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, Clare Grill, 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).
Ruby Beenhouwer
Beth Brenzel
Zhaojun Guo
Madalyn May
Deirdre McConnell
Mikaela Perry
Misha Poklad
JBH Scholarship Recipient
Jordan Segal
Cohort Exhibition
Each Canopy Cohort presents a culminating pop-up group exhibition.
FRAY
Canopy Studio, 508 W. 26th St. #6E
May 28-30, 2026
FRAY is a pop-up Group Exhibition celebrating the work of nine artists who worked together for one year with their Canopy Mentor, Clare Grill, as part of the 2025/26 Canopy Program. The artists in FRAY are based in New York City, where the hemlines of their jeans kiss the street, again and again, long before they become tattered. Their elbows rub against other elbows in subway cars and on street corners long before the sleeves of their shirts wear thin. More than just friction, it takes a commitment of time to form a fray.
Guest Speakers + Visiting Critics
Each semester, Clare Grill's Cohort received Artist Talks, Lectures, Workshops
and Visiting Critiques from an esteemed roster of Guest Artists + Speakers.
Ernesto Burgos
Studio Visit Artist
Eric Hibit
Color Theory Lecture
Jennifer Coates
Art History Lecture
Cameron Martin
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
SAIC - Dept Head/Faculty MFA
Heidi Hahn
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
Adrienne Elise Tarver
Materials Workshop
Andrew Prayzner
Techincal Drawing Workshop
Amanda Nedham
Artist Statement Edits
Annette Wehrhahn
Visiting Critic
Director of CANADA Gallery
Sam Marion Wilken
Visiting Critic
Co-founder of Francis Irv Galllery
Will Hutnick
Professional Practices Speaker
Photo Credit: Walker Esner
Amir H. Fallah
Professional Practices Speaker
Canopy Mentor Clare Grill
Originally from Chicago, Clare Grill lives and works in Queens, NY. Since receiving her MFA from Pratt in 2005, Grill has exhibited widely in the US and Europe. In 2011 she attended Skowhegan and taught graduate painting at UT Knoxville and Tyler. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, Hyperallergic, the Brooklyn Rail, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. She is represented by Derek Eller Gallery in New York and M+B Gallery in Los Angeles.
