FALL 2006
Current Students
Leah Abraha is interning at the Museum of Biblical Art, assisting with the planning of public programming and the installation for the upcoming exhibition "Angels of Light: Ethiopian Art from the Walters Art Museum."
Josh Altman is associate director of exhibitions at the Chelsea gallery, Stux. Josh curated "The Inner Workings of Cold Contact" which included the work of Ann Hamilton, Scott Hug, Dennis Oppenheim, Mathilde ter Heijne, Manabu Yamanakas. The show addressed societies' seemingly inherent need to "look back" and replay lost moments. Josh is currently on leave.
Julia Borek, published an essay, "Volterran Presigillata Pottery," in the exhibition catalog Cetamura Antica, Traditions of Chianti edited by Nancy Thomson de Grummond. The exhibition was held at the Gaiole-in-Chianti, Centro di Informazione Turistica, Summer-Fall 2000.
Anna Cannon is currently working part time as a cataloguer at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College. Anna also taught an Art 10000 class this semester.
Gonzalo Casals is currently working as the first public programs coordinator at El Museo del Barrio. He is responsible for developing the museum's adult public programs, including films, lectures and symposia. Gonzalo also serves as member at large for the New York City Museum Educators Roundtable's steering committee (NYCMER) where he started as an intern. He continues to serve as director of Queens Media Arts Development (QMAD), which he co-founded in 2005. He is proud to announce that QMAD will be granted public money for the first time. The Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of New York and The Queens Council of the Arts have decided to support the organization devoted to promote Queens-based artists in the five boroughs and to organizing cultural events. Its flagship program is CINEMAROSA, a queer film series hosted at the Queens Museum of Art. (See www.cinemarosa.org). Gonzalo can be reached via email: gcasals@elmuseo.org.
Rafael Diaz Casas is an intern at the Latin Collector gallery. Last June, he curated "Abstraction: Presence of Cuban Painters in New York (1950s-70s)" at the gallery. This fall Rafael presented a paper titled "Carmen Herrera's Early Years and International Abstraction" at the first annual graduate student symposium, organized by CUNY Latin American, Latino/a Arts & Culture (LALAC) and co-sponsored by The City College and the Graduate Center. In addition, he is collaborating on the editing of a monograph on Hugo Consuegra, an abstract Cuban-American painter who worked in Havana and New York between the 1950s and the 90s. Rafael has also been invited to help organize the estate and join the board of Agustin Fernandez, an important Cuban artist who died last June.
Sherri Coxson recently finished her internship at Godel & Co. Fine Art, an upper east side gallery specializing in 19th and 20th century American art including the Hudson River School. She was primarily responsible for assisting gallery managers research painting/artist backgrounds, filing, updating databases and packing/unpacking artwork.
Angela Garcia curated and wrote the catalog essay for a major retrospective "Yoryi Morel. Autonomia y trascendencia" at the Centro Leon in the Dominican Republic, where she also works as the director of cultural services. The show includes 200 hundred works by the important Dominican modernista painter. Angela is working on organizing the show for traveling, coordinating its presentation at El Museo de Arte Modernoin Santo Domingo (capital of the Dominican Republic). A selection of works from this exhibition will be reproduced and enlarged as part of a public art exhibition which will take place at the Parque Independencia in the center of the city. This is all part of a national celebration in honor of the centennial of the birth of Morel, native to the city Santiago de los Caballeros, the Dominican Republic's second largest city, where the Centro Leon is located. Angela also organized the exhibition "Merengue. Visual Rhythms for Centro Leon," currently on display at El Museo del Barrio and scheduled to travel to the Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C. in February. This exhibition is accompanied by a publication which Angela coordinated. She also supervised and coordinated the XXI edition of the Edurado Leon Jimenes Fine Arts Contest, a biannual and one of the most important art events in the country.
Mary Ann Furman is currently school programs associate at the New York Historical Society.
Brita Helgesen is currently a research assistant at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College.
Victoria Hofmo is working on her thesis, a catalogue of the Norwegian war sailors in Brooklyn and the club they created. Victoria did research in August at the Norwegian collection at the University of Oslo's library, as well as the Maritime Museum where, among other treasures, she found a scrapbook of articles on the "Secret Fund" case, a labor dispute pertaining to the sailors' World War II activities.
Minjung (Minny) Lee finished her internship at the International Center for Photography (ICP) in February 2006 and has since then been working there researching and cataloging the W. Eugene Smith's archive. She is currently also an intern at the Richard Avedon Foundation where she has just completed the required credit hours for her second internship. Minny is also a photographer. She was awarded an honorable mention for her submission to Women In Photography International (WIPI) 25th anniversary. The online exhibition from December 30th can be found at www.womeninphotography.org/wipihome.html. Minny won first place in the Brooklyn Museum student advisory board photo contest. Her entry was used on April 1, 2006 for the Target 1st Saturday art making program in conjunction with the exhibition "William Wegman: Funney/Strange."
Marney Pelletier is the director of membership at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, where she has been working since mid-July 2006.
Felicity Tsikiwa (BA) is representing CCNY students on the advisory college committee at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (See www.metmuseum.org/collegegroup). This group of students from several art history programs in the city are consulted by many of the museum's departments when they want to know what interests young people. Felicity is also vice president of the Art History Club at CCNY. The Art History Club's latest project is an interactive HIV Awareness board on display on the first floor of CG.