04/25/2026
Join us for our final microcourse for the academic year, Creating a Living Legacy with Solana Chehtman, Director of Artist Programs at the Joan Mitchell Foundation. This microcourse will take place on Friday, May 1st, at 1:00pm in GDH 361!
✨Solana Chehtman is a cultural producer based in New York, originally from Argentina. Her work expands across performing and visual arts, and is driven by values of cultural self-determination, civic agency, and intersectional justice. As the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Director of Artist Programs, Chehtman spearheads a programmatic vision centering artists as creative leaders focusing on supporting their career sustainability and long-term legacies, through unrestricted funding, capacity building and the development of a community of practice. Before joining the Foundation, Solana was the inaugural Director of Creative Practice and Social Impact at The Shed (2019 - 2022) and Vice President of Public Engagement at Friends of the High Line, where she held multiple roles (2014 - 2019). She received a BA in international studies at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires, Argentina), and holds an EdM in education policy from Teachers College, Columbia University (2014).
