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  • Student Spotlight: Sarah Zegree

    Sarah Zegree graduated with honors from Western Michigan University in 2013, where she majored in Music Education. She has held several positions as an accompanist, music educator, piano teacher, arranger, audio engineer, and music director for schools, and will have two choral arrangements published this year. Sarah is a pianist and singer, and continues to…

  • Student Spotlight: Jessie Cappello

    Jessie is a 2014 graduate of the University of Virginia where she majored in Art History and Economics. Last year she had the opportunity to intern at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C where she was a part of both the Education Department and the Special Events Department. While at the Corcoran Gallery…

  • Student Spotlight: Christina Daniels

    Christina graduated from of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with a Bachelor’s of Arts in Communications and History of Art. Before Columbia, she worked in fashion PR at several elite firms on brands like Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, and J. Crew. Most recently, Christina managed PR for The Standard Hotels in New York, Los…

  • Student Spotlight: Michele Baer

    Michele is a multicultural dancer-choreographer, cultural advocate, researcher, and strategist. Her dance studies and performances have comprised of hiphop, house, West African (Guinea and Mali), Haitian, Afro-Brazilian and Afro-fusion dance traditions. Michele obtained her BA in Development Studies from Brown University, where she was a Teaching Assistant in the Mande/West African Dance Program and wrote…

  • Student Spotlight: Meghana Karnik

    Meghana is a visual artist and arts administrator from Cleveland, Ohio. She has experience in non-profit and start-up visual arts organizations, with a special focus on their curatorial, development, and audience engagement capacities. Meghana received her BA in 2011 from Case Western Reserve University in Art History and Political Science. She also completed a non-degree…

  • Faculty News: Prof. Jennifer Lena on US Cultural Engagement with Global Muslim Communities

    ARAD’s own Dr. Jennifer Lena recently published an article titled “US Cultural Engagement with Global Muslim Communities: Contours and Connections in an Emerging Field” with co-author Erin Johnston. The article, released in the Winter 2015 edition of GIA Reader, looks at the challenges Muslim artists experience when producing art to engage US audiences. In addition to surveying the difficulties the field faces,…

  • Student Spotlight: Lawrence Haynes

    Lawrence is a 2013 graduate of The University of Nottingham, majoring in Law. His primary focus is theatre, with an emphasis in producing musical theatre. Lawrence was recently engaged as producer and musical director of a very successful city-wide theatrical production that had never been done before in the UK, paving the way for other performing…

  • Student Spotlight: Tatiana Stola

    Tatiana graduated with Pi Kappa Lambda honors from Boston University in 2014, where she studied French Horn Performance and Arts Leadership. Additionally, she spent one semester abroad at the Royal College of Music in London, UK. Tatiana worked in the business office of BU’s College of Fine Arts, developing an interest in strategic planning in…

  • Student Spotlight: Erica Bibby

    Erica Bibby is a 2011 graduate of The George Washington University in Psychology and  Communication Studies. Her interest in the arts and cultural sectors stemmed from a semester spent abroad in Berlin, Germany, where she focused on metropolitan studies. Erica considers herself well traveled with an interest in arts and world cultures. Her breadth of experience…

  • Faculty News: Prof. Steven Dubin talks “Global Contamination” at TEDxCaserta

    “By dredging toxins up to the surface, artists playing in the dirt may cleanse the body politic and allow us to view the world afresh.” -Dr. Steven Dubin In early February, ARAD program coordinator and professor Dr. Steven Dubin was able to take a break from the cold and dreary New York weather to take part in…