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******MAY'S
2008 FEATURED ALUMNI ********
Amy
Monaco
(Class of 2006) is
the executive assistant to the Director of Development and
Alumni Relations at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Amy is
involved in fundraising for scholarships that allow student's
to complete creative projects in film, photography and the
performing arts. She also plays an important role in the planning
of the Tisch School 's annual fundraising Gala. Last
year, the gala raised over 1.5 million dollars for student
scholarships. Follow these links for information and pictures
from the 2007
“Totally Tisch” Gala. http://alumni.tisch.nyu.edu/object/tischgala2007.html;
http://alumni.tisch.nyu.edu/object/2007_gala_album.html
Amy
has been accepted to NYU Steinhardt's MA program in “Visual
Arts Administration”
and will begin classes in Fall 2008. With her art history
background from Bard, and a master's
from NYU, Amy hopes to launch a museum career.
******APRIL'S
2008 FEATURED ALUMNI ********
Peter
Haffner
(Class of 2006) works
at the Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. He is
an Assistant Director and involved in everything from the
day-to-day workings of the gallery, to meeting with clients
and collectors, to going to art fairs representing the gallery.
He plans on attending grad school in Fall 2009.
******DECEMBER'S
2007 FEATURED ALUMNI ********
Elizabeth
Clingerman (Class of 2002) has
been working as Assistant to the Director of the Art Collections
at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
in San Marino , CA. Participating in a small but BUSY
office lets her have her “finger in all pies” of the museum's
operations- she works closely with the registrars, curators,
collectors, donors, et al, besides playing “traffic cop” for
all the director business. Most recently she was involved
in coordinating the opening events and lectures in conjunction
with the Huntington Art Collections' most recent exhibitions;
Constable's Great Landscapes: the Six Foot Paintings and Pressed
in Time: American Prints 1905-1950 as well as planning (and
attending!) the annual Art Collector's Council acquisition
dinner in April. She now looks forward to a VERY eventful
spring when the newly restored Beaux-Art mansion reopens after
four years with the European collections re-hung and beautiful!
Elizabeth with Chimborazo by Frederic Church
Scott Gallery and Office Building
***** NOVEMBER'S 2007 FEATURED ALUMNI *****
Kristen
Keyes (Class of 2006) has been the inhouse graphic
designer at D. Wigmore Fine Art Gallery, an American Art Gallery
in midtown New York since three weeks after graduating from
Bard. She has desinged dwigmore.com as well as websites
on askart.com, artnet.com and artinfo.com. She has advertisements
in American Art Review's Nov./Dec. issue, Artforum's October
issue and Artnews' November issue. Kristen solely planned
and executed the entire 2007 advertising campaign for the
gallery and she is responsible for all catalogues, invitations,
posters, and newspaper ads for the gallery. She loves her
job and gets to use her knowledge of art history as well as
her French every day.
Main Hall of the Gallery (top)
and Kristen in the library at the Gallery.
***** SEPTEMBER'S
2007 FEATURED ALUMNI*****
Martha Hart
(Class of 2005) and KC Serota (class of 2004)
are working together at Masterpiece International, a fine
arts customs brokerage in Manhattan. They are responsible
for coordinating the importation and exportation of major
museum exhibitions. A typical day may find them in the cargo
facilities of JFK or Newark airport overseeing the handling
of crates containing artwork while other days are be spent
meeting with museum registrars or working out of their office
in the financial district. Coordination of an exhibition shipment
involves mediating between the lending and borrowing museums,
handling international customs regulations and documentation,
and enforcing handling standards with airlines, trucking companies,
and fine art handling and packing companies. They've found
this career to be a surprising application of their art background;
incorporating it into business and logistics.
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share your accomplishments with us. The department would like
to feature your latest news on our website for the inspiration
of future students.
Please email your current contact information and success
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Class
of 2007
Lilly
Slezak , Class
of 2007,
is an intern at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
in New York and has recieved a stipend to say on through the
summer. She will be working in the education department with
the Director of Adult Public Programs.
Class
of 2007
Tracy
Pollock, Class
of 2007, is
working as the Student Services Assistant at the Center for
Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
Class
of 2005
Heather
Carroll, Class
of 2005, has
been working since 2006 for the Visual Resources Center at
Williams College in Williamstown, MA. She works within the
art history department assisting faculty and students and
helps manage the college's slide collection and digital image
database. She also works part-time for Hudson River Heritage,
a non-profit historic preservation organization in the Hudson
Valley.
Natalie
Franz, Class of 2005,
is at Cornell University
for a master's degree in Historic Preservation Planning, a
two year M.A. program in Cornell's Department of City and
Regional Planning. She is working on architecture rather than
museum objects. She quotes a favorite author as saying historic
preservation is the "curatorial management of the built
world."
Class
of 2004
Sarah
Mosbacher, Class of 2004,
in her own words: "After I graduated in 2004, I was a
campaign staffer for a State Senate race in Massachusetts
for the summer, and then went on to a more senior position
working for John Kerry's presidential campaign in New Hampshire.
After the election, I took a little down time before moving
to North Carolina where I took a job as the manager of little
radical bookstore and community center named Internationalist
Books. I plan to go back to school next fall in 2007 to study
business (the non-profit, make-a difference kind)."
Class
of 2003
Elley
Strehl, Class of 2003, recently
started working as a Sales Associate at Distributed Art Publishers,
a small artbook publisher and distributer who distribute European
artbooks by publishers such as Steidl and Hatje Cantz, exhibition
catalogues from museums including the MOMA and Boston MFA,
and small press artist's books and literature, even Bard's
own Conjunctions. Her job consists of a lot of coordinating
between bookstores and warehouse, tracking orders for events,
and the thousand assorted duties one finds oneself involved
in in such a small office. Prior to this, she was
the Visitor Services Manager of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
in Queens, where she played a major role in the summer-long
music festival Warm Up and other special events on top of
managing front desk staff and tracking visitor numbers.
Class
of 1997
Peter
Scott Brown, Class of 1997,
has published an article in ART
BULLETIN, December 2005, Vol. LXXXVII, No. 4 entitled "As
Excrement to Sacrament: The Dissimulated Pagan Idol of Ste-Marie
d'Oloron".
Class
of 1975
Jamie
Treanor, Class
of 1975, in his own words: "My education
at Bard led to a now thrity year career in the world of museum
store management where I have managed over a twenty year career
at The Metropolitan Museum of Art virtually every store including
the Cloisters, the Children's Shop, the Print and Poster,
the Bookshop and the original South Shop - the flagship for
jewelry and textiles. I have been with the Museum of Arts
and Design for almost ten years as Store Manager and I look
forward to our move in two years time to our new home at 2
Columbus Circle which will be THE art world destination when
we move in March 2008."
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