The Canopy Program - NYC Crit Club

🚨 RSVP for an upcoming Canopy Program Info Session hosted by artist and founder @catherine_haggarty with select guest faculty and artists 🧃😻🪜💥 ➡️ tap the link 🔗 in our bio to RSVP ⬆️

🎥 Hear from the Founder! Catherine Haggarty (@catherine_haggarty ), Founder of @the_canopy_program_ , shares what makes The Canopy Program truly unique and transformative for artists. 🗓️ Applications are open for the 2025–2026 cycle - Deadline: July 27th! 🖊️ Want to learn more? Join one of our upcoming Info Sessions led by Catherine! We’ll cover FAQs, program structure, mentor bios, ideal candidates, and more. PLUS hear directly from our 2025–2026 mentors, current Canopy artists, and alumni! 💥 📅 Info Session Schedule: Monday, June 23 @ 8pm EST / 5pm PST
Guest Faculty: Clare Grill (@claregrill )
Alumni Artist: John Taylor Wagner (@johntaylorwagner ) Monday, June 30 @ 8pm EST / 5pm PST
Guest Faculty: Amir H. Fallah (@amirhfallah )
Current Artist: Jorge Rios (@jsense.non.no ) Monday, July 7 @ 10am EST / 7am PST
Guest Faculty: Amir H. Fallah (@amirhfallah )
Current Artist: Anh Ly (@lyandlines ) Tuesday, July 8 @ 8pm EST / 5pm PST
Guest Faculty: Jessica Dickinson (@onwardsteadfast ) & Clare Grill (@claregrill )
Current Artist: Varsha Suresh (@pencilroots ) 🔗 RSVP via the link in our bio! 🎯 Attendees will be invited to small group meetings to ask more personalized questions about their practice, goals, and mentor fit. 🌟 Meet our 2025–2026 Mentors: 💻 Virtual Cohorts
Sharon Butler (@sharon_butler )
Amir H. Fallah (@amirhfallah )
Catherine Haggarty (@catherine_haggarty )
Meg Lipke (@meglipke ) 🏙️ In-Person Cohorts
Jessica Dickinson (@onwardsteadfast )
Clare Grill (@claregrill ) 🚀🚀🚀

💡 we love what we do // @the_canopy_program_ applications for 2026 close January 14th! 🌏 So proud to work with these incredible artists from all around the world and the best of the best faculty mentors: @amirhfallah @adrienne__elise @meglipke @sharon_butler @claire.g.sherman @onwardsteadfast @sara.jimenez.art @themattphillips @rose.nestler @erikaranee @ej_hauser @vikroth @tamaragonzales @amyplincoln @okloren // team: @sammytthebrave & @rckbb thank you 🪜🌙🔑💡

✅ Join us for an upcoming info session hosted by artist and Canopy Founder @catherine_haggarty 🪜 artists who attend info sessions have the opportunity to meet with Haggarty in a 1 on 1 meeting to answer more questions and explore mentor selections 💥 🔗 tap the link in our bio above to RSVP Info Session #1 via Zoom Monday, June 1st 8 pm EST/ 5 pm PST Faculty Mentor: Rose Nestler Info Session #2 via Zoom Wednesday, June 3rd 10 am EST/ 7 am PST Faculty Mentor: Sarah Peters Info Session #3 via Zoom Tuesday, June 16th 8 pm EST/ 5 pm PST Faculty Mentor: George Boorujy Info Session #4 via Zoom Friday, June 19th 10 am EST/ 7 am PST Faculty Mentor: Yevgeniya Baras

🌳We are thrilled to announce the esteemed roster of Cohort Mentors for the 2026-2027 The Canopy Program! 🌳 @the_canopy_program_ ⚡️Applications will open on Wednesday, May 20th!⚡️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ✨ If you are interested in learning more, join our newsletter for updates and announcements— link in bio! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🔹2026-2027 Mentors🔹 Virtual Yevgeniya Baras ( @yevgeniya.baras ) Rose Nestler ( @rose.nestler ) Bridget Mullen ( @bridgemullen ) George Boorujy ( @georgeboorujy ) In-Person Suzanne Joelson ( @szjoel ) Sarah Peters ( @sarah.peters.sculpture ) 📝 The Canopy Program is a year-long intimate mentorship program, providing artists access to work exclusively with a Faculty Mentor and a cohort of 10 artists for 3-consecutive semesters. Cohorts are available virtually via Zoom for artists based across the world, and in-person Cohorts are available for artists living in the New York City area. Image credits: Suzanne Joelson was photographed by Grace Roselli, Pandoras Box Project Bridget Mullen was photographed by Mary Kang

💥Friday Feature💥 👀 Check out this ✨incredible✨ work by KC Miller ( @kcmiller.art )!! KC is in Catherine Haggarty’s ( @catherine_haggarty ) 2025-2026 Cohort in @the_canopy_program_ . Be sure to check out KC’s Instagram and website for closer looks at all the facets of her practice! KC utilizes a variety of materials such as oils, acrylics, pigments, waxes, inks, pastels, and found or repurposed objects in her practice. KC draws from a diverse array of artistic methods which can include painting, encaustic, printmaking, collage, and mixed media on surfaces such as canvas, wood panel, paper, and fabric.

💥Friday Feature💥 👀 Check out this incredible work by Samantha Eckert ( @eckertsamantha )!! Samantha is in Sharon Butler’s ( @sharon_butler ) 2025-2026 Cohort in @the_canopy_program_ . Be sure to check out Samantha’s Instagram and website for closer looks at all the facets of her practice! Samantha Eckert’s work lives in a suspended place, a threshold where something is becoming. The work feels akin to hovering. For Samantha they are portals, an escape from the scroll and feed and the feeling of being small inside something vast and indifferent. Making them is physical, a balance between energy and slowness, reconsidering and staying with a surface long past the point of comfort. The process is a collaboration with materials. The fluidity of poured paint and water calls for dynamic response and attention to color vibration and interaction— melting and merging, and surface texture.

🚀Enrollment for Canopy 2.0 2026-2027 is now LIVE!🚀 💥Canopy 2.0 is only open to those who have completed one year of The Canopy Program💥 ➡️Canopy 2.0 is a three-semester program [Fall 2026, Mini-Winter 2027, Spring 2027] designed for artists who have completed year one of The Canopy Program. Each cohort of ten artists will be led by two esteemed mentors. The emphasis on curated high level guest critics, engaged speakers and timely workshops remains a focus of the program. 🎨Artists receive more individual attention from mentors who select guests in real time based on the artist’s needs. Additionally, it is important for 2.0 to strengthen the seminar aspects we believe are the foundation for a larger understanding of art history and the contemporary art world. 🖼️We are proud to be collaborating with High Noon Gallery in Tribeca, NY for a group show to culminate the Canopy 2.0 2026-2027 year. ( @highnoongallery ) 👀Our 2026-2027 Mentor pairings are: Virtual: - Catherine Haggarty ( @catherine_haggarty ) + Michael Berryhill ( @berryhillmichael ), Office Hours with Amy Lincoln ( @amyplincoln ) - Jared Linge ( @jaredlinge ) + Matt Phillips ( @themattphillips ) , Office Hours with Catherine Haggarty - Sharon Butler ( @sharon_butler ) + Erika Ranee ( @erikaranee ), Office Hours with Amir H Fallah ( @amirhfallah ) - EJ Hauser ( @ej_hauser ) + Yevgeniya Baras ( @yevgeniya.baras ), Office Hours with Kimia Kline ( @alkeemi ) In-Person at our Chelsea studio: -Jessica Dickinson ( @onwardsteadfast ) + Victoria Roth ( @vikroth ), Studio Visit Artist TBA 🔗Head to the link in our bio to get all the details!

💥Friday Feature💥 👀 Check out this ✴️ incredible ✴️ work by Jordan Grace Owens ( @jordangraceowens )!! Jordan is in Meg Lipke’s ( @meglipke ) 2025-2026 Cohort in @the_canopy_program_ . Be sure to check out Jordan’s Instagram and website for closer looks at all the facets of her practice! Jordan Grace Owens is a multidisciplinary artist who creates colorful compositions of expressive abstract shapes. Educated in both fine arts and graphic design with a decade long career in figure illustration, Owens has over the last few years shifted focus to her studio practice. Her studio work — acrylic paintings, wooden constructions, and sewn canvases — explores a fluidity of boundary and form with shapes that are shifting and relational. Influenced by a surreally upended concept of physical individuality in motherhood, she is fascinated by the edges between body and object, self and other, surface and paint.

💫 Canopy Insider 💫 🚶🏻‍♀️Follow along as we prepare the Welcome Packages for our new Canopy Artists @the_canopy_program_ ! 🫶🏼Every aspect of this program is made with love and we like to share that with our new incoming cohorts! Each artist will receive a Canopy tote bag filled with books and materials to help support them on their Canopy journey and beyond! 🌟Shout out to our awesome interns for helping to make this happen! 🗓️ We open Canopy Applications twice a year and the next application period will open in the spring/summer for 2026-2027 Cohorts. 🌎 Fun Fact: With the welcoming of these 6 New Canopy Cohorts, we currently have 12 Canopy Cohorts running as well as four Canopy 2.0 Cohorts, totaling 152 artists enrolled in our program from all around the world! 💫Esteemed Faculty Mentors include: @themattphillips / @amirhfallah / @erikaranee / @avery_z_nelson / @fauxsarah / @tomburckhardt @catherine_haggarty / @sara.jimenez.art / @sharon_butler / @meglipke / @onwardsteadfast / @claregrill 🔗 Hit the link in the bio if you would like to join our mailing list and be the first to know when we announce the next Canopy cycle!

So pleased I made the leap and applied to The Canopy Program @nyccritclub @the_canopy_program_ The Mentor Teacher @tomburckhardt is astoundingly insightful

🌟Congratulations to the three artists awarded the Lumin Wakoa Scholarship for Artist Parents for the 2026 year of The Canopy Program! @the_canopy_program_ 🌳⚡️🎨 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 💛⭐️It is with deep respect for Lumin Wakoa’s ( @luminw ) artistic legacy and her experience as both a dedicated painter and parent that we offer The Lumin Wakoa Scholarship for Artist Parents. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ✨2026 Lumin Wakoa Scholarship Recipients✨ Amanda Morley Boyd Yin @aboydyinstudio Molmol Kuo @molmolkuo Molly McIntyre @brooklyn_rabbit ❇️ The Lumin Wakoa Scholarship recipients were juried by Amy Lincoln ( @amyplincoln ) and provides encouragement and support to artist parents, recognizing the unique challenges they face in balancing their creative practice with the profound calling of raising children. 🙏🏼 Thank you to Lumin’s family to help make this scholarship possible for our community. 💛