expectations...

I am a second-year student in the M.A. Program in Arts Administration Program at Teachers College.  My academic and professional background is in the visual arts - I received a B.A. in Art History from Dartmouth and an M.A. in Modern Art from Christie's Education in New York, then worked for three and a half years in the Impressionist and Modern Department at Christie's prior to entering TC.  Over the past year, I have interned in the Marketing Department at MoMA and am currently interning in Development at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  I just completed my thesis, entitled "Creative Collaboration or Corporate Conquest?: A Study of the Art Exhibition Programs of JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America," and look forward to graduating in May.

My interest in this course stems from my desire to reconnect with the art historical theories I enjoyed studying during college and my previous M.A. program.  While working at Christie's, I interacted with works of art every day, and while learning the more practical skills of the arts manager over the past two years I have felt rather distanced from the art itself.  Ultimately, I hope to work in a museum, where I will be surrounded by images every day.  I have never taken a course devoted specifically to visual culture studies, and I look forward to learning about the ever-changing role of images in society.  I am particularly interested in the role of images in new media and popular culture.

While it would be impossible to provide a comprehensive list of my favorite artists, I am fascinated by the work of James Casebere, Richard Diebenkorn, Henri Matisse, Thomas Struth, Pablo Picasso, Gerhard Richter, Joan Miro, Jean Dubuffet, Damien Hirst (in spite of myself!), Liza Lou, Yves Tanguy, Wayne Thiebaud, Henry Moore, and Robert Gober.