National Council President’s Day Event

4-4:30 PM | Welcome Reception

• Drinks, appetizers, and mingling

4:30 PM | Program Begins

• Conversation with Tomashi Jackson and Miranda Lash
• Meet the Winter 2026 Artists-in-Residence in the studios
• Tour the gallery exhibition Use My Imagination in the Patton-Malott Gallery

Tomashi Jackson

Tomashi Jackson was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, was a Resident Artist at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, and received the Rappaport Prize, the Roy R. Neuberger Prize, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. She has taught at RISD, Massachusetts College of Art, and Cooper Union. Tomashi lives and works between Cambridge, MA, and New York City.

Miranda Lash

Miranda Lash is the Ellen Bruss Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Her recent accomplishments include acting as the Susan Brennan co-Artistic Director (alongside Ebony G. Patterson) of the 2024–2025 international art triennial Prospect.6 in New Orleans titled The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home. At MCA Denver she has organized the exhibitions Deborah Jack: The Haunting of Estuaries (opening in September 2025); Suki Seokyeong Kang: Mountain—Hour—Face (2025, co-organized with Leilani Lynch); Cowboy (2023, co-organized with Nora Burnett Abrams); Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe (2023); Clarissa Tossin: Falling from Earth (2022); Eamon Ore-Giron: Competing with Lighting / Rivalizando con el relampágo (2022); and Jason Moran: Bathing the Room with Blues (2021). Lash currently serves on the board of the Joan Mitchell Foundation and was a 2022 Fellow with the Center for Curatorial Leadership.