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Noted scholars and practitioners in the art world
The New York programmes are led by respected academics and art professionals who are noted leaders in their field.
Additional lecturers include specialists at Sotheby's, whose training and experience in the art marketplace imparts an immediacy to the learning process.
Drawing upon the remarkable New York art scene, the diverse faculty, which comprises an exceptional group of teachers and scholars, offers theoretical insights and experience-based learning opportunities to guide students toward rewarding careers in the international art world.
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CARRIE REBORA BARRATT
PROGRAMME DIRECTOR, AMERICAN FINE AND DECORATIVE ART
PhD, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, and Manager of The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
She has served as a university and college lecturer and visiting associate professor in American Art, in museology and collections management, and in curatorial studies. She has organised exhibitions, and published and lectured widely on a variety of topics in American art.
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KATHY BATTISTA
PROGRAMME DIRECTOR, CONTEMPORARY ART
PhD, London Consortium; MA, Courtauld Institute of Art; BA, Fordham University.
She is a writer, lecturer, and curator. Her research centres on contemporary art and architecture, with a focus on gender issues and alternative sites for art production. She is the New York correspondent for Photoicon and is on the editorial board of Art and Architecture Journal. She is co-author of Art New York (Ellipsis, 1998), and a contributing author to Surface Tension: Problematics of Site (Errant Bodies 2003) and the forthcoming White Cube Blue Sky.
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STEPHEN ROSENBERG
PROGRAMME DIRECTOR, ART BUSINESS
LL.B., LL.M, Georgetown Law Center, Washington, DC. is an art dealer and art adviser in New York City, representing the careers of contemporary American and international artists.
He has managed all aspects of gallery operations including financial and aesthetic strategies and related decision-making, developing, curating and organizing exhibitions in national and international venues.
He has lectured extensively in cultural, corporate, university, and museum settings, covering a wide range of topics ranging from the aesthetic, cultural and business practices of the art world to how to invest in art in today’s market.
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JONATHAN CLANCY
LECTURER, AMERICAN FINE & DECORATIVE ART
PhD, The Graduate Center, City University of New York; BA, Rutgers University.
He has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses at City College, CUNY, Parsons School of Design, and Fashion Institute of Technology. He is author of The Beauty of Common Things: American Art Pottery from the Two Red Roses Foundation (2008) and the forthcoming Warman’s Guide to Rookwood Pottery.
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WENDELL GARRETT
LECTURER, AMERICAN FINE & DECORATIVE ART
MA, University of Delaware Winterthur Program in Early American Culture.
Senior Vice President, Americana, at Sotheby’s and Editor-at-Large, The Magazine Antiques. Garrett discovered and edited for publication by Harvard University Press the earliest diary of John Adams. He is a past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation (Monticello), and has written Monticello and the Legacy of Thomas Jefferson. Garrett is also co-author of The Arts in Early American History, among other
volumes about the history of American art.
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MELANIE MARINO
LECTURER, CONTEMPORARY ART
Melanie Marino received her PhD from Cornell University, an MA from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University and a BA from Columbia University.
Her research focuses on conceptual art and photography and she has written on the work of Rachel Whiteread, Gabriel Orozco, Daniel Buren, and Vito Acconci, among many others. She has extensive teaching experience in the field of contemporary art and has also been a Curatorial Assistant at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Whitney Museum of American art.
Melanie has also received several fellowships including a Lila Acheson Wallace Fellowship at New York University; a Helena Rubenstein Fellowship at the Whitney Museum of American Art; a Sage Fellowship at Cornell University and a Fellowship from the Center for Twenty-First Century Studies at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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TOM McNULTY
CONSULTANT LECTURER, ART BUSINESS, CONTEMPORARY ART, AMERICAN FINE & DECORATIVE ART
MA, New York University, and MLS, City University of New York, is an independent art researcher whose subjects include provenance and valuation of fine and decorative arts and collectible objects. As an appraiser he specialises in nineteenth and twentieth century
paintings, drawings, sculpture and prints for major estates, foundations, insurance companies, and legal firms.
He is the author of Art Market Research: A Guide to Methods and Sources and of articles on research, art documentation, and information access.
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STEPHAN PASCHER
LECTURER, CONTEMPORARY ART
Stephan Pascher is an artist, writer, and educator. He received a BA from Oberlin College, a BFA from Cooper Union, and a MFA from Cal Arts in Art and Critical Studies.
He has exhibited extensively in both the US and Europe, most recently at Orchard (NY), CIFO (Miami), Steven Wolf Gallery (San Francisco), and Passagen Konsthall (Linköping, Sweden).
His writings have appeared in Afterall, Merge Magazine, Springerin, Metropolis, a collection entitled “The Museum as Arena” (Walther König), and others.
He’s lectured and appeared on panels including those at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, ARCO (Madrid), CAA, the Drawing Center, and Bard College, and has taught at The School of Visual Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, Columbia University, Malmö Art Academy, Rutgers University, Cooper Union.
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AMELIA PECK
CONSULTANT LECTURER, AMERICAN FINE & DECORATIVE ART
MS in historic preservation, Graduate School of Architecture
and Planning, Columbia University, she is Curator, Department of American Decorative Arts, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where she specialises in textiles and historic interiors.
Ms Peck has curated exhibitions and published on many topics, including American Quilts, Alexander Jackson Davis, Candace Wheeler, American Period Rooms, American Design, architectural elements.
She has taught for the Parsons/Cooper Hewitt Program in the Decorative Arts, the Bard Program, the Historic Preservation Program, and the University of Pennsylvania. A project consultant for the NEH and a number of historic houses, Ms Peck has also published on textiles,
interiors, and landscape in a variety of publications.
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JUDITH B. PROWDA
LECTURER, ART BUSINESS
J.D., Fordham University School of Law and LL.M., New York University School of Law; is an attorney, mediator, and arbitrator in New York. She specialises in copyright, art, and entertainment law.
As a recognised leader in the intellectual property field, she has consulted at a law firm in Paris and at the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva. Professor Prowda chairs the New York State Bar Association Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Section’s Committee on
Fine Arts and is a Member of the Art Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association.
Her law articles have appeared in numerous law reviews and journals and have garnered prestigious awards.
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BARBARA STRONGIN
DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION AND LECTURER, ART BUSINESS
BA, Business Administration, Rutgers University, she served as Senior Vice President/Director of Operations for Christie’s Auction House over the course of twenty-six years.
She is a senior executive with expertise in strategic planning; project management; logistics; cost
containment; training and development; negotiations; marketing; and security. She also created and taught numerous classes regarding the auction process and rules and regulations related thereto for both new and seasoned staff.
She is a Licensed Auctioneer in New York, and assisted New York City Consumer Affairs
Department to rewrite regulations governing auctions. As Director of Operations at Christie’s, she managed a $35 million annual operating budget and eight major departments, and participated in the redevelopment of Christie’s 310,000 sq. ft. landmark facility in Rockefeller Center.
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ANDRÁS SZÁNTÓ
LECTURER, ART BUSINESS
PhD, Columbia University, is a writer, researcher, and consultant whose work spans the worlds of art, media, policy, and cultural affairs.
He has been senior advisor to the Wealth & Giving Forum; the Marian and Andrew
Heiskell Visiting Critic at the American Academy in Rome and a visiting senior fellow at the Center for Arts and Culture, an arts policy think tank in Washington, D.C. At Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism Programme, the premier academic fellowship
programme and research centre devoted to the advancement of cultural journalism. In 2001, he
helped establish the Transatlantic Forum for Cultural Research at UNESCO in Paris.
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AUDREY WALEN
LECTURER, CONTEMPORARY ART
Audrey Walen completed her BFA at Cooper Union and her MA in Visual Culture Studies at Middlesex University.
She is an independent visual art writer, researcher, and museum publishing professional. She specializes in all aspects of museum publishing, with particular expertise in modern and contemporary art. Previously she has served as the Publications Manager for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and Project Editor with Phaidon Press London, among others.
Her writing has appeared in numerous art journals, and she recently contributed to Urban Vinyl (Goliga Books, Tokyo). Current clients include the Neue Galerie New York, The Museum of Modern Art, the Jewish Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
All New York coursework is offered on a non-credit basis.
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