Category: Student Spotlights
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Microgrant Recipient: Arts Admin Next (AAN) Host Second Annual Roundtable: “Navigating the Visual Arts Industry”
On November 11, 2023, Arts Admin Next (AAN) hosted its second roundtable event, “Navigating the Visual Arts Industry,” at TheBLANC. This event, planned and hosted by co-founders Joey Chen (ARAD ’24), Katerina Wang (ARAD ’24), Demi Zhao (ARAD ’25), and Xiaojing Zhu (ARAD ’25), was supported by a microgrant from the Arts Administration program at…
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Meet Joanna Calhoun, ARAD’s new Social Media Coordinator
ARAD is delighted to welcome Joanna Calhoun (ARAD ’23) as our new Social Media Manager. Learn more about Joanna, her goals for her new role, and what she does outside of TC. Tell us a bit about yourself. Where are you from? What was your undergraduate degree focused on? I am from West Monroe, Louisiana…
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An Interview with ARAD’s new Social Media Coordinator, Isabella Rivera
Isabella Rivera is currently pursuing her Master’s in Arts Administration at Teachers College and is ARAD’s Social Media Coordinator. She recently graduated from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez with a B.B.A. in Marketing and a Minor in Fine Arts. She also studied at UMass Amherst and Cornell University. Her passions lie in contemporary…
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Fall 2019 ARAD Microgrant recipient Ulrike Figueroa-Vilchis shares her experience at the Third Cultural Policies Forum
This Fall I had the honor to be an ARAD microgrant recipient for professional development. The grant helped me travel to Mexico where I presented in the Third Cultural Policies Forum organized by the Arts and Culture Observatory sponsored by my alma mater Universidad Iberoamericana and the Spanish Embassy in Mexico.
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The Audience and A Subtlety, a paper by Sadie Yanckello
We’ve asked ARAD students to share more about their academic work with us. Sadie Yanckello, ARAD ’20 volunteered to discuss a paper she wrote for Arts In Context, taught by Dr. Jennifer Lena in the Fall 2018 semester.
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Student Spotlight: Sunny Leerasanthanah
Sunny Leerasanthanah was born in Bangkok, Thailand, and lives in New York City, where she is completing her MA at Teachers College, Columbia University. In 2016, she received a BFA in Film, Photography, and Visual Arts at Ithaca College, New York. Sunny plans to work with non-profit visual arts organizations and institutions in the future,…
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Student Spotlight: Naomi Litman-Zelle ‘19
Naomi Litman-Zelle is entering her second year in the Arts Administration program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She earned her undergraduate degree in Cultural Anthropology, and spent time after graduating working in the world of fundraising for an educational non-profit organization. Her interests include art museum education and community engagement with a focus on diversity…
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Learn more about our August Student Spotlight, Marina Piedade, ARAD ’18
Marina Piedade, ARAD ’18, was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. She completed her Bachelor in Communications and Advertising from the University of São Paulo, and afterwards went on to live in London to study photography at the University of the Arts London. For the last ten years, she has worked as a full-time…
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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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Student Spotlight: Nadia Kyne
Meet Nadia Kyne, Class of 2018 Prior to joining the ARAD program, Nadia Kyne held the position of Assistant Principal Flute and Piccolo with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for six years. During her tenure with the orchestra, she served on a number of management-musician committees and was elected Chair of the Orchestra Committee, the musicians’…
