Chelsea Gallery Tour

Though just 12 blocks and two avenues, with over 200 galleries and nearby High Line, West Chelsea is NYC's premiere gallery district. Also growing into a haven for some of the world’s leading architects and firms, this private tour will concentrate in a three-block radius between 24th and 26th Streets. Participants will visit up to 12 galleries. Highlights will include rare talks by Chelsea gallerists, special meetings with artists and detailed knowledge of works available for sale.

Savona Bailey-McClain, Executive Director & Chief Curator of the West Harlem Art Fund (WHAF), will lead this tour. WHAF promotes public art in parks and other open spaces across NYC, as well as galleries. Public art installations she has curated in Times Square, DUMBO, Soho, Williamsburg, NoLita, Governors Island, Queens, Chelsea, Greater Harlem, the Upper East Side and the Bronx, have appeared in the New York Times, Art Daily, Artnet, the Los Angeles Times, DNAinfo, the Huffington Post, and other publications. Some of the most notable works were The H in Harlem, Counting Sheep, Story Piles, East River Flows, Under the Viaduct, Playlabs and Loosely Coupled. Ms. McClain was recently selected to join TINA, a new international network for contemporary art curators based in Italy.