Shana Nys Dambrot in Conversation with Sharon Barnes & Demetri Broxton

We’ve invited Shana Nys Dambrot, who recently received the 2024 Los Angeles Press Club Award for Art Critic of the Year, to lead the artists in what will undeniably be a riveting conversation!! Dambrot is an art critic, curator, and author based in Downtown Los Angeles. A contributor to the Village Voice, Flaunt, Artillery, and other culture publications, she was the Arts Editor at LA Weekly until 2024. Recently Dambrot co-founded 13 Things LA on Substack, a weekly Art Calendar featuring curated reviews & recommendations in Los Angeles.

Shana Nys studied Art History at Vassar College, writes book and catalog essays, curates and juries exhibitions, is a dedicated Instagram photographer, and is the author of the experimental novella Zen Psychosis (2020, Griffith Moon). She speaks at galleries, schools, and cultural institutions nationally, and is a recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Art Writing Prize (2022), the MOZAIK Future Art Writers Grant (2024 & 2022), and the last, but not least, the LA Press Club National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Critic of the Year Award (2024 & 2022).