Category: featured
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INTERNSHIP SPOTLIGHT: Audrey Ling Yik Pun (ARAD ’25) ON HER SUMMER INTERNSHIP AT Eli Klein Gallery
This summer, we’re thrilled to spotlight Audrey Pun (ARAD ’25) and celebrate her recent internship at Eli Klein Gallery, a contemporary Asian art gallery in New York City. During her time at the gallery, Audrey gained invaluable experience in the secondary art market, contributing to the promotion of contemporary art and supporting emerging artists through…
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Alumni Spotlight: Daniel Gallant (ARAD ‘04) On His New Career Milestone As Executive Director at House of SpeakEasy
Daniel Gallant (ARAD ’04) has reached an exciting new career milestone as the Executive Director at House of SpeakEasy. We are incredibly proud of his accomplishments and thrilled to reconnect with him to learn more about his journey. Read the full interview below! Background and Influences: Could you share what background and experiences have shaped…
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Alumni Spotlight: Alexandra Tweedley (ARAD ’17) on Her Leadership Journey and Innovations as Administrative Director of Dance at The Juilliard School
We are thrilled to share the spotlight on Alexandra Tweedley ( ARAD ’17) and celebrate her recent promotion to Administrative Director of the Dance Division at The Juilliard School. In our latest interview, Alexandra shares insights into her visionary leadership and the exciting new projects on the horizon for Juilliard’s Dance Division. Let’s check out how…
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Alumni Spotlight: Alexis Yuen, Uprise Art
For this chapter of our alumni spotlight series, we had the opportunity to speak with Alexis Yuen (ARAD’16), who is currently an Art Advisor and the Manager for Trade Programs at Uprise Art. Could you share a bit about your background and what led you to join ARAD? I grew up in Hong Kong and…
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CULTURE AT THE SERVICE OF THE LIVING, Distinguished Speaker Series with Michael Mason, Director of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
By Liliana Guerrero (ARAD ’21) Dr. Michael Mason, Director of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, presented “Cultural Sustainability at the Smithsonian: How a Framework for Relationships, Understanding, and Action Transformed a Fifty-Year-Old Institution” on the center’s work on cultural sustainability. His talk was part of the Arts Administration program’s Distinguished Speaker Series,…
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Second Year Allason Leitz Returns to Congo International Film Festival
Allason Leitz is in her second year of her masters in Arts Administration at Columbia University. She has worked for the last seven years with the Congo International Film Festival (CIFF) most recently as the assistant to the Artistic Director where she primarily gathered (and occasionally curated) films. Since beginning at CIFF, she has worked…
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Interview with visiting scholar Léonie Hénaut
Over the past few months, ARAD has enjoyed the company of visiting scholar Léonie Hénaut. Hénaut is an Associate Professor at the National Center for Scientific Research, and a member of the Center for the Sociology of Organizations at Sciences Po in Paris. She is also a permanent faculty member of Science Po’s Department of Sociology.…
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Following up with our Spring 2018 Microgrant Recipient, Beryl Ford.
Our Spring 2018 Microgrant Recipient, Beryl Ford shared her reflections on Black Portraitures– BP IV: The Color of Silence, a conference she attended in Cambridge, Massachusetts with help from funding by the ARAD Microgrant. It was such a rewarding experience to be able to use my ARAD micro-grant to attend the fourth iteration of Black Portraitures–…
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Dr. Mangione explores ‘The Senses: Design Beyond Vision’, on view at the Cooper Hewitt
We had been in the exhibition a while before I thought to double back to the entrance and inspect what I’d missed: the caramel-colored hand pump bottle, sitting proudly on a tall white sculpture pedestal. What was this? Pushing myself to interact with the bottle rather than first read its label, I squirted some cool,…
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Internship Spotlight: Unleashing 2018
Art is a near constant presence in the halls of Teachers College, but this month a special exhibition, Unleashing, will bring the work of 27 international artists to 21 sites across the campus. To make this possible, ARAD students Emily Pengyuan Lin and JuanCarlos Santos-Andrade have provided extensive support to the exhibition team as interns.…
