Courtney Wendroff

Visual Arts Director
Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC)

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Courtney J. Wendroff is the Visual Arts Director for Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). Since joining BAC in 2005 she spearheaded BAC Gallery, an exhibition and public programs series for emerging artists and curators. She has served as a guest juror and curator for several New York exhibitions and manages the Council’s new arts consultancy program. Recent consultancy projects include City Walls, artists’ murals on construction fencing, and Hotel 718, a boutique hotel in downtown Brooklyn that purchased 80 original artworks for the Hotel’s public spaces.  Prior to joining BAC, she was the Assistant Director of Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art Ltd. in Chelsea as well as a consultant to Margaret Thatcher Projects.

Wendroff is also an artist who has exhibited throughout the U.S. and Europe. Prior to running a gallery she spent many years teaching and assisting artists in New York and San Francisco. She devoted her early career to helping start up the successful not-for-profit glass facility, Public Glass in San Francisco, California, where she also taught and had a studio.  She is a member of ELNYA and attended the Arts Leadership Institute, at Columbia University.  In addition to earning her MFA from Parsons School of Design, and BFA from the California College of the Arts, she has studied at Pilchuck Glass School.

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