FALL 2005
Current Students
Josh Altman is Associate Director of Exhibitions at the well-known Chelsea gallery, Stux. Josh is currently on leave.
Francesca Archilesi is an intern at Jim Kempner Gallery, NYC. This fall she began working as an intern in the Education Department, Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Alyssa Grasso is an intern at the Guggenheim Museum in the Library/Archives department working on a catalogue exchange project. Alyssa additionally serves on the Student Advisory Board (Planning and Development Department) at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, where they analyze museum events throughout the city and plan one event for one of the Museum's Target First Saturday's in conjunction with one of the upcoming exhibitions. She will be an intern at the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum Spring 2006 where she'll assist with the artist's catalogue raisonne.
Geannine Gutierrez is Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings, Museum of Modern Art. Geannine previously had an internship in that department. She has also just completed a year-long internship in the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and will be on leave for the 05-06 academic year as she also begins work on her thesis.
Jason Holton is an intern at the Guggenheim Museum in the Registrar's Department, and will soon be writing his thesis.
Lin Ma (aka Sophia), an undergraduate student, has been an intern at the non-profit gallery Triple Candie in Harlem since 2004. She now serves at the College Advisory Committee at the Metropolitan Museum of Art where she advises the museum on organizing events for college students. The first event attracted 2111 college students, the second more than 3000. Sophia is also the president of The Art History Club and has successfully curated the club's first annual art exhibition currently on display in the art Department building.
Marney Pelletier is an intern in the Curatorial Department assisting with the upcoming David Smith show at the Guggenheim Museum.
Angela Garcia has been working at the Eduardo Leon Jimenes Cultural Center in the Dominican Republic as Manager of Cultural Services, supervising four departments: curatorial, education, library, and collections. This past year she has organized nine exhibitions, structured the education department and managed the permanent collection of the Media Library, and organized traveling exhibitions. She was recently at City College (24 April) awarding the 21st edition of the Eduardo Leon Jimenes Art Contest. Angela has just agreed to stay on at the Center for another year. The Foundation has offered her a grant to complete her MA thesis on contemporary Dominican art.
Carol Smith's thesis exhibition Activism and Repression: The Struggle For Free Speech at CCNY, 1931-42, is now on display at Baruch College Library. This exhibit includes over 100 images- graphics, photographs, and cartoons, documenting the student and faculty activism during the years of the Great Depression and the ensuing repression culminating in the dismissal of over 50 staff and faculty in the early 1940s.
Hiroko Suda is an intern at the Japan Society.