Spatial Ecologies students from the New College of Florida and Ringling College of Art and Design create ecological exhibition at Sarasota Art Museum’s The Works.
EcoArt in Florida
RSVP to our next Coffee Gathering: Differentiating Visual Arts Administration and Museum Studies Programs
On Thursday, February 6 at 2pm (EST) we will be online with Bruce J. Altshuler, Director and Professor of Museum Studies at New York University and Sandra Lang, Director and Professor of Visual Arts Administration at New York University to discuss their respective programs. Joining them will be Visual Arts Administration student Laura Busby and Museum Studies student Olivia Knauss.
Bruce Altshuler is Director of the Program in Museum Studies in the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University. He has held positions at the New-York Historical Society, Zabriskie Gallery, Christie’s Education, and as Director of the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum. He is the author of The Avant-Garde in Exhibition: New Art in the 20th Century, Isamu Noguchi, Salon to Biennial: Exhibitions that Made Art History, 1863-1959, Biennials and Beyond: Exhibitions that Made Art History, 1962-2002, editor of Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art and co-editor of Isamu Noguchi: Essays and Conversations. Altshuler has published extensively and lectured internationally about exhibition and curatorial history, the history of museums, and modern and contemporary art. He has been a member of the graduate faculty of the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, and the Board of Directors of the International Association of Art Critics/United States Section (AICA/USA).
Sandra (Sandy) Lang is the Program Director of the M.A. in Visual Arts Administration and Clinical Associate Professor. A leading expert in the history of corporate collecting in the United States, Sandy was the longtime Director of The Museum of Modern Art’s Art Advisory Service, advising corporations on acquisitions and maintaining an extensive network of CEOs, senior officials, and art curators from many institutions. Sandy is also a past Executive Director of Independent Curators International (ICI) and of the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA). A tireless teacher and mentor to NYU’s vibrant student and alumni bodies, Sandy speaks widely on curatorial practice, creative placemaking, and pedagogy in arts administration. She has also served previously as board member of the Association of Arts Administration Educators (AAAE) and as past president of both ArtTable and the Association of Professional Art Advisors (APAA).
Laura Busby (b. Winnipeg, Canada) currently resides in Brooklyn, New York where she is pursuing her master’s degree in Visual Arts Administration at New York University Steinhardt. She has diverse experience interning with art non-profits, including the College Art Association, the Whitney Museum of American Art in the chief curator’s office and will be joining Creative Time in the spring. During her studies, and following her graduation in 2012 from the University of British Columbia in Canada with a Bachelor of Arts in Art History, Visual Art & Theory, she worked as an educator and arts administrator at the Vanco uver Art Gallery for nearly seven years.
Olivia Knauss is a second-year master’s student in NYU’s Museum Studies Program with an interest in development and fundraising. Since starting her program in 2018, Knauss has interned in various development departments including the Tenement Museum, the Met, and, in the spring of 2020, the External Affairs Department at the MoMA. In addition to her museum work, she has also worked as CAA’s RAAMP Program Assistant. Before moving to New York City, Olivia worked at the Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology as a grant writer and Phillips Exeter Academy’s Lamont Gallery as a Collections Assistant & Archives Coordinator. She received her B.A. in Art & Art History from Rhodes College in Memphis, TN and is originally from Buffalo, NY.
To RSVP to this Coffee Gathering, please email Cali Buckley at cbuckley@collegeart.org.
Our Coffee Gatherings are hosted on Skype for Business. All participants who have RSVP’d will receive via email a link in advance to attend the session. Once you receive the link, you may join the conversation to test the Skype for Business application. Please use this same link when you are ready to join the scheduled date and time for the Coffee Gathering.
Please note the Coffee Gatherings are recorded and uploaded for future viewing.
We kindly request that you turn off your microphone during the conversation; however, you may keep your camera on if you wish.
European Museums Explore New Programs for Visitors with Disabilities
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RAAMP Video Practicum: Integrating Curricula and Exhibitions
Open Forum on Lead Pollution and the Community in New Orleans
A public forum will be held at the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University on the exploring the impact of lead pollution. The discussion will happen alongside the current exhibition “Flint is Family: LaToya Ruby Frazier and the student-organized The American Dream Denied: The New Orlean Residents of Gordon Plaza Seek Relocation,” which also explores pollution and community. [Tulane University News]
50 Museums Coordinate to Exhibit Female Artists Alongside US Presidential Elections
The Feminist Art Coalition includes many museums and non-profits presenting events in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election. [The Art Newspaper]
Meadows Museum, Dallas, to Combine Visual Art and Opera
The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University is teaming up with an American opera company and an opera house in Europe to allow their collections to be used as a part of opera performances [The Art Newspaper]
Art Has Benefits for Dementia Patients
A new program in Australia follows similar programs at the Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem in using the visual arts to ease dementia symptoms [Hyperallergic]
WHO Reports Art Improves Well-Being and Health
The World Health Organization released a report that provides that evidence that art improves general health and well-being. The document brings together findings from 900 publications over 19 years. [Hyperallergic]
My Gallery is Bigger Than Your Gallery | Recording and Resources
On Thursday, November 21 at 2 pm (EST), Michael Dickins presented on the campus plan he has devised for the New Gallery at Austin Peay University.
Faced with limited storage space on campus, Dickins started a program (with strict parameters) to share the permanent collection with the campus community, while also creating an educational opportunity for Austin Peay students. With the permanent collection at their disposal, Dickin’s undergraduate student workers curate exhibitions to hang in department spaces.
For each exhibition, students write a curatorial statement, labels, and record an audio guide segment for each work that visitors can access through the app, Guide-by-Cell.
In his presentation, Dickins shares images of the finished exhibitions, and, as an open book, shares his trials, tribulations, and successes he encountered while running this campus plan program.
Benefits of this program, according to Michael Dickins:
- Gets artwork into public sphere instead of hidden in storage (which ours is not large enough to house our collection)
- Allows for academic buildings to look less ‘institutional’
- Artwork only goes in spaces accessible to the public (NOT offices) – as it is a collection at a public university and needs to be accessible to the public.
- Artwork gets installed on OUR schedule as myself and assistants have other duties.
- Gives students experience in curating, installing, labeling, cataloguing in database, art handling, etc. – plus writing a curatorial statement.
- This informs the occupants of said space that this is a teaching/education opportunity and not just decorating.
Future Events
Michael Dickins will be presenting at CAA’s Annual Conference on Wednesday, February 12: Is that Unprofessional? When Artists Curate, alongside our September Coffee Gathering host, Meredith Lynn.
Articles and Documents
Austin Peay Students Discover Work from Two Major Artists in University’s Collection