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Ty Cooperman ’20 on his work in the Violators
Ty Cooperman is a first year Arts Administration graduate student from New York. He co-founded and manages Anti-Renaissance, a queer art collective. Ty earned his BA in Art History with high honors from NYU. Ty’s scholarship generally focuses on queer art and artists as well as the complexities of exhibiting controversial and/or previously censored works of…
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Arts Administration Announces its Fall 2018 Microgrant Recipients
The Arts Administration Program (ARAD) at Teachers College, Columbia University is pleased to announce recipients of the Fall 2018 Microgrants for Student Professionalization. Through the Microgrant Program and with generous support from the Arts and Humanities Department at Teachers College, ARAD proudly supports student professionalization activities on campus and beyond. This award champions special projects…
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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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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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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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Podcasts on Arts
Keeping up with news from the art world is important for art administrators, so we constantly look for ways to get information. We seek out the latest news and most intriguing stories from a variety of sources, including art-focused news sources, arts/culture sections of major newspapers and magazines, and social media. Podcasts are another way…
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Reflections on the Culture Business Conference in NYC
A post crafted by Caitlin Green, ARAD ’19 Agenda, a consulting agency based in Paris, hosts conferences around the world to connect leaders in the arts and culture with each other to share the best ideas. They launched their Culture Business conference in after the 2008 financial crisis to reenergize fundraising professionals and find ways…
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Staff Spotlight: Erika Dickerson, Professional Development Coordinator
Learn more about Erika Dickerson, ARAD’s Professional Development Coordinator. Share with us who you are, your professional experiences thus far, and what led you to this position. I am a Black feminist Pushcart Prize nominated poet-turned-playwright, educator and grassroots organizer from Chicago, Illinois. Prior to joining the ARAD team, I served as the Assistant Executive Director of Black Women’s…
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Faculty Spotlight: Prof. Sophie Landres
Meet Professor Sophie Landres who is teaching ARAD’s Principles & Practices of Visual Arts this Spring semester. Professor Landres comes to ARAD with a ton of curatorial experience and a passion for art! Please introduce yourself! Could you describe the Principles & Practices course you’re teaching? What can students expect to learn in your course? Share…
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Faculty Spotlight: Prof. Brent Reidy
We sat down with Professor Brent Reidy to get to know more about the course he’s teaching at ARAD, his professional experiences thus far, and who he is outside of work! Introduce yourself! Brent Reidy – Intro from ARAD Assistant on Vimeo. What are some of your “favorites”? Brent Reidy – Favorites from…
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