EventsThe New Social Environment#1144
ArtYard
Featuring Kathleen Henderson, Jill Kearney, and Andrew Woolbright
Thursday, January 16, 2025 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Artist Kathleen Henderson and curator and ArtYard Founder Jill Kearney join Rail Editor-at-Large Andrew Woolbright for a conversation.
In this Talk
Kathleen Henderson

Kathleen Henderson is a visual artist living and working in the Delaware river valley. She is the founder and Executive Director of Studio Route 29, a progressive art studio in Frenchtown, New Jersey that provides artists with disabilities support to explore an artistic practice. Prior to Studio Route 29, she was the special projects manager and staff artist at Creative Growth in Oakland CA. She was the founding editor of the Creative Growth magazine, which examined and celebrated the unfolding and expanding world of art and disability. Her work has been the subject of numerous solo shows in LA, San Francisco and the Drawing Center in New York. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant and is in the collections of the Hammer Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Jill Kearney

Portrait by Miana Jun
Jill Kearney is the Founder and Executive Director of ArtYard, a contemporary art center based in Frenchtown, NJ that hosts art exhibitions, live performance, festivals and residency programs dedicated to presenting thought-provoking art, fostering transformative collaborations, and developing original new work. Kearney's inspirations for ArtYard were drawn from Robert Putnam’s seminal Bowling Alone, New Orleans parade culture, Studs Terkel, Oakland’s Creative Growth, a brief illuminating stint at Bread and Puppet theater, her parents art center and bronze foundry in Chicago, and childhood years immersed in a lost bohemian Provincetown comprised of artists, writers, and fishermen.
Andrew Woolbright

Artist, curator, and critic Andrew Woolbright is based in Brooklyn, New York, and is an MFA graduate from RISD in painting. Woolbright is the founder and director of the gallery Below Grand located on the Lower East Side in New York. In addition to curating, he is an Editor-at-Large at the Brooklyn Rail. In 2021, Woolbright curated the show Density Betrays Us with Angela Dufresne and Cash Ragona at the Hole; and curated shows at Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and Hesse Flatow in the summer of 2022. He currently teaches at School of Visual Arts and Pratt Institute and is a 2021–2022 resident at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in Dumbo.
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨