ABOUT

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Our name is a wink to the “what exit?” joke about New Jersey, and though our scope is global, we take a Jersey-centric approach.  We work to strengthen and support artists and arts organizations, as well as engage audiences, particularly in our home state.

Although the annual art fair in Jersey City was 14C’s first program and remains a core part of our identity, our mission to support the arts and artists continues year round and takes many forms.

MISSION:

– Increase opportunities for artists
– Expand public access to art
– Strengthen careers in the arts
– Activate under-recognized art regions

mission driven

The art world can be inaccessible, abstruse and elitist, filled with language, codes and rules. It might be the consequence of a focus on excellence, but it doesn’t have to be exclusionary.

14C is headquartered in Jersey City, one of America’s most diverse municipalities—accessible, open and egalitarian – and the arts is the most diverse sector of our community.

14C began in 2019 with a mission-driven art fair, and we are now on our sixth edition of Art Fair 14C, in five different neighborhoods in Jersey City – the next fair will be held in the Powerhouse Arts District March 20-23, 2025. 

Driven by our mission, we have expanded our programming well beyond the fair. Art Fair 14C created a series of neighborhood Art Crawls in 2022, while taking over operations of the Jersey City Art & Studio Tour in 2023 and maintaining a regular exhibition series at Gallery 14C. We’ve also partnered with other organizations and helped facilitate their programming.

Our most ambitious program to date is Project 14C, which launches January 2025 in partnership with GFP Real Estate.

PROGRAMS

Art Fair 14C pursues its mission to support the arts community and expand access to the arts to the general community through our annual art fair (6th Edition March 20-23, 2025) and a wide variety of programming.

STAFF

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Robinson Holloway

CEO ARTS 14C

Robinson Holloway is the Founder and CEO of ARTS 14C.

She created Art Fair 14C as an initiative of the Jersey City Arts Council in 2018 while serving as founding Chair of the Jersey City Arts Council Board of Directors.

Holloway serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the London-based global organization Association of Women Art Dealers.

She is also involved in her community, serving on the Board of Directors of the Hudson County Chamber of Commerce as well as co-chair of the HudsonGives Steering Committee.  She is also the Vice President for Communications for the Village Neighborhood Association.

Her focus on the arts came after a long career in sports journalism, focusing on PGA Tour coverage for Sports Illustrated, ABC Sports, ESPN and Golf Channel. She continues to work in television one day a year, writing the script for ABC’s coverage of the Rose Parade.

You can contact her at [email protected] or (1) 917-859-4947

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Gretchen Von Koenig

Deputy Director ARTS 14C

Von Koenig is a Ph.D. Student in Design History. She holds her MA in History of Design and Curatorial Studies from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and is an adjunct professor of design history at Parsons School of Design, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Kean University.

She was a curator and grant writer for the Apple Tree House in the Office of Cultural Affairs, City of Jersey City and has worked as a design writer and editor for Metropolis Magazine, Cooper Hewitt, and Plot(s) Journal of Design Studies. She has presented original scholarship and chaired sessions at the annual conferences of Design History Society, College Arts Association, and The National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, and been featured in the NYTimes.

Von Koenig is on a leave of absence in 2024

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Diana Burroughs

Executive Director Project 14C

Born and raised in Boston, Diana graduated with a degree in history from the University of Wisconsin. After spending two years in Egypt, where she taught in a private elementary school and successfully competed in the equestrian world (she won best dressage rider in Egypt), she returned to New York. There she worked at the American- Arab Association for Commerce and Industry. Diana returned to school and got her MA and PhD in Near Eastern Studies (China’s relations with the Arab world) at Princeton.

She was the receipient of a Domestic Fullbright for four years while at Princeton. She worked for a number of years in the art world, where she was president of Jason McCoy Inc., a contemporary art gallery. In the mid-90s she left the art world and became involved in education, first as co-founder and executive director of PENCIL, then as Manhattan Deputy to the Chancellor of the Board of Education, and finally as the co- founder and executive director of TeachersCount. She returned to the art world to work with the Robert Miller Gallery (two years), and Marlborough Gallery (eight years) before returning to the Jason McCoy Gallery. Diana is the mother of three children.

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Sophie Couche

Artist Relations & GALLERY 14C Director

Couche is a program and artist manager with 10+ years of experience in the global arts and culture space. From international art shows in Paris and Sydney to cult-classic food institutions in New York, she has helped produce a variety of events by working with a diverse group of artists and patrons throughout her career.

Couche holds a BA in Middle Eastern Arts and French from Monash University, Australia.

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Kristine Go

Director of Exhibitions

Go is a curator, designer, artist and co-founder of MK Apothecary Gallery. Kristine has worked as a design director for retailers in the apparel, home and social experience industries. She runs and owns the design studio, Pattern Curator. Passionate about cultivating creative communities, Kristine is a member and involved in various art and design related groups including the Association of Women Art Dealers.

global ambition . New Jersey attitude .

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Charles Aubin | Centre Pompidou x Jersey City
Melissa Cuccinello | Jersey City Public Schools
Michael DeMarco | Exchange Place Alliance
Emory Edwards | Hudson County Chamber of Commerce
Christine Goodman | Jersey City Office of Cultural Affairs
Gina Hulings | Hudson County Cultural & Heritage Affairs
Johannah Hutchison | International Sculpture Center
Michelle Vitale | Hudson County Community College

board of directors

Chair Alysis Vasquez
Secretary Kristin DeAngelis
Treasurer Gordon Murray

Directors
Robinson Holloway
John Ryan
SiAe Sung