Chelsea Spengemann
executive director.
Chelsea Spengemann is the Executive Director of Soft Network, a New York-based non-profit she co-founded in 2021, which includes the professional resource group AFELL (Artist Foundations and Estate Leaders List). Spengemann has helped to manage the Stan VanDerBeek Archive since 2008 and, in 2019, co-curated “VanDerBeek + VanDerBeek” with Sara VanDerBeek at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in North Carolina. Spengemann curated “Instant as Image” (2016) as well as “Becoming Disfarmer” (2014) for the Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College, New York. She has an MFA in Photography from Bard College, an MA in Art History from Purchase College and, in 2019, completed the Aspen Institute Seminar for Artist Endowed Foundation Leaders.
From The Art of The Future | Stan VanDerBeek, June 2026
