Meet the Futures Fund 2023 Jurors

Meet the Futures Fund 2023 Jurors

4.01.2023

Meet the 2023 Futures Fund Jurors: Misa Jeffereis, Brian Lathan, and John Riepenhoff.

Misa Jeffereis is Associate Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, where she is organizing a forthcoming exhibition by Justin Favela in fall 2023, and is the coordinating curator for Paul Chan: Breathers in spring 2024. At CAM she curated Mona Chalabi: Squeeze (2022), Alia Farid: At the Time of the Ebb (2022), and the Great Rivers Biennial (2020), featuring Kahlil Robert Irving, Tim Portlock, and Rachel Youn; co-curated Shara Hughes: On Edge (2021); and has programmed CAM’s Street Views series with exhibitions by Jonathas de Andrade, Oliver Laric, Jennifer West, and Marina Zurkow. Prior to CAM, Jeffereis was Curatorial Associate at the Walker Art Center. In 2021-22 she participated in the Association of Art Museum Curators Mentorship Program. She is on the board of Gallery 210 at University of Missouri at St. Louis, and the board of Midwest Artist Project Services, an organization that serves and empowers artists, collectives, and arts organizations in the Midwest. Jeffereis holds a Masters in Art History from Hunter College in New York.

Born in St. Louis, Mo., Brian Lathan is a St. Louis based artist and educator who explores printmaking and sculpture as my primary form of art creation. Though his specialization is printmaking, he examines the dynamics of print and sculpture, persistently exploring both mediums as means to express personal and subjective commentary and narration. His overall body of work connects through the feeling of personal narrative, folklore, and ethos. Currently, he’s an instructor of Printmaking at St. Louis University, Fontbonne University, Washington University, STLCC – Meramec and Craft-Alliance. He simultaneously works on a Collaborative Printmaking practice where he works with other St. Louis artist to create prints and print ephemera.

John Riepenhoff (b. 1982, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, lives and works in Milwaukee) received a BFA from the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Riepenhoff is co-owner of The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, runs The Open Fund and the Beer Endowment, co-organized Milwaukee International and Dark Fairs, is an inventor of artistic platforms for the expression of others and regular food ideator. His exhibitions and curatorial projects have been presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art New York; Marlborough, New York; Swiss Institute, New York; Nathalie Karg, New York; Broadway Gallery, New York; Tate Modern, London; Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, Arkansas; 356 Mission Rd, Los Angeles; Poor Farm, Wisconsin; Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee; Inova, Milwaukee; The Suburban, Milwaukee; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta; John Michael Kohler Art Preserve, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. He also continues a program of the John Riepenhoff Experience at various locations around the world, including at Misako and Rosen, Tokyo, Night Gallery, Los Angeles; and Good Weather, Arkansas.

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