Meet The Team

Joshua Knoblick

​​​ Executive Director of Gardenship. Josh is a sculptor, entrepreneur, and big thinker and the founder and architect of Gardenship. He has built numerous installations, sculptures and spaces around the world, including the Harriett Tubbman monument in Newark NJ, the Newark Museum Modern Wing, the Jerry Gant Collection and Solos Project House. His love of all things creative and community drive him to build ecosystems for artists, artisans and makers to grow, thrive, share and prosper. He helped form the Manhattan Iron Project, a performance-casting group who has performed in and around Brooklyn and Manhattan, casting metal in unassuming locations including the Coney Island Mermaid Parade. Josh has been involved in opening the SHED art center, installing the first two vis art shows with trisha donnaly, and Rich, Richter, Paart ; fabricated and installed the LNY mural at Term A EWR, has worked with Peter Marino on the LVMH Louis Vuitton flagship in Shanghai has been featured in arch digest Conceived, designed and built Gardenship @ Kearny Point. Knoblick has worked as a special projects consultant for Robert Miller Gallery working on the family collection, posthumously accessioning Robert's personal studio and overseeing the design and construction of their private art storage facility.



Donna Kessinger

Creative Director of Gardenship Art, D. Kessinger is a contemporary feminist artist, curator, and highly experienced arts manager working with emerging and mid-career artists based in the New York metropolitan area. She is also an accomplished grant writer, crisis manager with a keen focus on DEIA and ADA compliance, conduit for community-based outreach, and manager of artist residencies,studio spaces, museum level galleries and international art exhibitions. Kessinger’s innovative curatorial practice is driven by collaboration and partnership with artists, institutions, and art-industry leaders, all through the lens of inclusion. She has been responsible for entire life cycles of exhibitions, from initial concept to installation at international art spaces including MoMA PS1, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the International Center for Photography, the Monmouth Museum, Art Fair 14C, the Jersey City Art Studio Tour, JCAST, Aljira, Gardenship Arts, Gallery Aferro and ChaShaMa.

Gavin Kenyon

Foundry Director of Gardenship Art