FALL 2005
Alumni News
Lourenco Egreja (2002) is in Portugal organizing exhibitions for young artists, and on the advising board for a new cultural center for music, theatre, and cinema. The new building's facade will include a public art piece, which will also be implemented into the center's education program. Lourenco's thesis was on Naum Gabo's Public Art commissions in the U.S. and Lourenco will soon additionally be involved with a national program for urban rehabilitation, which include experts from many different areas in the arts, including the public art sector. He has also recently juried an exhibition of 11 young emerging artists.
Bettina Riccio Henry (1994) is completing her dissertation "Lights, Camera, Art: John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha and Hollywood Film" at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Iro Katsaridou (2003) is Ph.D. candidate in Art History. Her dissertation is entitled "Contemporary art and photography in Greece, 1970-2000." Iro also works at the Teloglion Foundation of Art in Greece ("www.auth.gr/teloglion"), which is the museum of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Cher Krause Knight (1992) is currently Assistant Professor, Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College in Boston. She just published: Louis Bosa: A Keen Eye and a Kind Heart , Michener Museum of Art, 1995, a book that was the result of a research fellowship and accompanied an exhibit for which she served as guest curator. She has also just signed a contract with Blackwell for a book about contemporary public art. Next February she will be chairing a panel at the 2006 annual meeting of the College Art Association (CAA) entitled "A Novel Approach: The Fusion of Art History and Historical Fiction."
Maria Gadegaard Nielsen (2001) is a Curator at Kunstmuseet Koge Skitsesamling (Koge Art Museum of Sketches) in Denmark.
Ellen Rauch (1999) has set out for Arizona in search of work and a new life.
Rebekka Rudin (2004) is Manager of Visitor Services at the Neue Galerie, New York.
Susan (Suzy) Goldstein Snyder (1991) is associate curator at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C.
Hiroko Sumi (2003) works at the Tama City Cultural Foundation in Tokyo. ("www.parthenon.or.jp/"). The foundation administers music halls, a theater, cinema, and a small art and history museum. Hiroko is in charge of the art section and takes care of just about everything from contacting the artists, curating, developing catalogues, press-releases, advertisements, education programs and workshops.