Artists Talk on Art has provided a forum for visual artists in New York City for nearly a half-century and is the longest-running panel series in art history.

Our mission as a 501(c)3 is to continue to provide artists a platform to share opinions and thoughts for critical dialogue in the arts on issues relevant to the contemporary context and for historic review.

Critically acclaimed ATOA was conceived and organized in 1974 by Lori Antonacci, Douglas I. Sheer, and Robert Wiegand. It has offered talks by more than 9,000 artists and includes a significant number of art critics, historians, gallery directors, and curators. Serving a large art world constituency, the series has presented to an audience of hundreds of thousands.

Among the many artists and others who have appeared at ATOA have been: Will Barnet, Robert Blackburn, Louise Bourgeois, Herman Cherry, Judy Chicago, A. D. Coleman, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Arthur Danto, Robert DeNiro, Agnes Denes, Leon Golub, The Guerrilla Girls, Grace Hartigan, Wolf Kahn, Hilton Kramer, Ellen Koment, Lucy Lippard, Robert Longo, Alice Neel, Vernita Nemec, Robert Mapplethorpe, Knox Martin, Marisol, Ana Mendieta, Elizabeth Murray, Dennis Oppenheim, Pat Passlof, Judy Pfaff, Larry Poons, Milton Resnick, Larry Rivers, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Jerry Saltz, David Salle, Irving Sandler, Andres Serrano, Peter Schjeldahl, Miriam Shapiro, Nancy Spero, Pat Steir, Carolee Schneemann, Marcia C. Sheer, Kenneth Snelson, Calvin Tomkins, Lilly Wei, Hannah Wilke, Kehinde Wiley and Fred Wilson.

ATOA’s historic archive of papers, photographs has over 1,100 recordings of panels and dialogs that were acquired by the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C.

The ATOA presents speakers and topics from all art disciplines including painting, sculpture, printmaking, performance art, video, and computer art on all issues ranging from aesthetics, cultural politics, and practical survival skills for artists.

Artists and all interested in presenting a panel are welcome to submit proposals for the coming season to: dougsheer@gmail.com

ATOA archives are held at the Smithsonian’s American archives of Art and updated periodically.
https://www.aaa.si.edu/search/collections?edan_q=ATOA