Meet the Team
Natasha Schlesinger
Founder & Chief Curator, Artmuse
Natasha Schlesinger is an award-winning art historian, art advisor and curator who has worked in the art field for over 25 years. Schlesinger began her career working at art galleries in New York and London. She continued as a specialist in European Furniture and Decorative arts at Christie’s auction house in New York. She has lectured both at Christie’s and Sotheby’s and taught at the graduate program for the Study of Decorative Arts, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and New School.
In 2003 Schlesinger founded Artmuse to provide art guidance, curation and advisory services to private and corporate clients as well as collaborations with brands. She has served as the Art Curator of The Surrey Hotel where she conceived and curated successful exhibitions connecting The Surrey’s own permanent art collection to the most relevant themes in contemporary art today. Since 2018 Schlesinger has curated numerous group exhibitions and charity auctions at various galleries, the Baryshnikov Arts Center and Core Club. In 2020 she co-founded a curatorial platform Space2Curate and in 2021 she has launched a new digital art marketplace called Artmuse Collector that bridges the gap between traditional artists and collectors and the digital art world. Schlesinger is currently on the advisory board for the Mack Art Foundation, a residency program geared towards emerging artist who get the opportunity to spend time and create art in New York City.
Schlesinger holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Art History from Barnard College, Columbia University and a Master’s degree in Decorative Arts and Design from the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Culture and Design. In 2005, Schlesinger received the Future Leaders of the Art World award from ArtTable, a national nonprofit membership organization for professional women in leadership positions in the visual arts.
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INSTRUCTORS
Nadja Hansen
Nadja Hansen has an M.A. in Museum and Gallery Education from the University of London and an M.A. in Art History from the University of Chicago. She has led school programs and adult gallery talks in London and New York, including at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, the Wallace Collection and the Courtauld Gallery, and for the New York Historical Society. She currently lectures at The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Cloisters.
Hansen has published articles on travel and art. Her great passion is inspiring people, young and old, to look at art in new ways and through renewed prisms and sharing her joy of it with those she teaches. She has a highly dynamic and energetic teaching style and makes interaction a focus of her work.
Heather COtter
Heather Cotter is a professional art educator with an M.A. in Art History from Boston University and an M.Ed. in Art Education from Harvard University. She has worked in numerous prestigious art museums including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), The Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), The National Gallery (Washington, D.C.) and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Her multi-layered teaching approach encourages students to consider art as a visual representation, an emotional expression and an intellectual investigation.