department at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
’11 Adrienne Bateson is assistant registrar at the Jewish Museum in New York City.
’10 Grace Chuang has been named the Samuel H. Kress Institutional Fellow at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris. | Genny Cortinovis is a researcher in the Department of Decorative Arts and Design at the St. Louis Art Museum. She is currently cocurating an exhibition on modern design in St. Louis between 1935 and 1965. She gave birth to a daughter, Dorothea Rose, last year.
“Challenging Convention: The Kimono of Itchiku Kubota” at Siebold Huis, Leiden, the Netherlands. On May 21, at the Guimet Museum in Paris, she and Dale Carolyn Gluckman lectured on “Performance and Presentation in the Life and Work of Itchiku Kubota.” | Jackie Killian is major gifts officer, foundation relations and planned giving, at Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library in Delaware. | Daniella Ohad moderated “Eileen Gray: Why Now?” at the New York School of Interior Design on April 13.
’01 Cynthia Coleman Sparke is the consulting Russian specialist at Bonhams, London. Her book, Russian Decorative Arts, was published in 2014 by the Antique Collector’s Club.
’09 Kristina Preussner Gropper is the research manager for institutional advancement at Pratt Institute in New York City. | Stephanie Lake is publishing a monograph on the fashion designer Bonnie Cashin with Rizzoli (spring 2016). Cashin was the subject of her doctoral dissertation, and Stephanie owns her personal archive, including her clothing collection. Stephanie also designed a capsule collection of one-of-a-kind jewelry commissioned by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts to complement its exhibition Habsburg Splendor: Masterpieces from Vienna’s Imperial Collections.
Center for Curatorial Studies ’15 Kathleen Ditzig was recently appointed as manager at the Culture Academy, NHB Singapore.
’13 Annie Godfrey Larmon is an assistant editor at Artforum (international reviews), and author, with Ken Okiishi and Alise Upitis, of The Very Quick of the Word, which was published by Sternberg Press in 2014.
’08 Nancy Seaton and Marie Warsh ’07 are the coeditors and publishers of the journal Prospect, which features art and writing on various landscape topics. The third issue, published in summer 2015, is about cemeteries. Nancy is senior staff designer and horticulturalist at Future Green Studio and Marie is director of preservation planning at the Central Park Conservancy.
’07 Emily Zilber, Ronald L. and Anita C. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, curated Nature, Sculpture, Abstraction, and Clay: 100 Years of American Ceramics, on view through January 3, 2016. A review appeared in the January 24, 2015, issue of the Economist.
’06 Jacqueline M. Atkins gave talks in London on May 14 and 15, organized by the Japan Foundation, London, titled “Worn with Pride: Textiles, Kimono, and Propaganda in Japan 1925–1945” and “A Lost Art Revived: Tsujigahana, Itchiku Tsujigahana, and Itchiku Kubota.” On May 17, she spoke on
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’12 In June, Rachel Cook was awarded a Warhol Curatorial Fellowship to research the history and shifting narratives of Walker Evans’s photographs over time. She is currently an associate curator at DiverseWorks in Houston.
University of Peru. Max was recently appointed curator of the Peruvian Pavilion, which launched this year at the 56th Venice Biennale. | Amy Owen joined the team at di Rosa as curator in 2013. Located on a nature preserve in the Napa Valley, di Rosa is a contemporary art museum devoted to the art of Northern California.
’06 Zeljka Himbele and William Heath cocurated the video exhibition Mercury Retrograde: Animated Realities in 2010 that continues to travel internationally. In its sixth exhibition stop, the show was on view at Graffit Gallery in Varna, Bulgaria, through the end of August.
’04 After working as a curator at Dia Art Foundation since 2009, Yasmil Raymond is now an associate curator in the department of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art. | Last summer, Ryan Rice was named Delaney Chair of Indigenous Visual Culture at the Ontario College of Art and Design University (Toronto). | Elizabeth Zechella became managing editor at the Guggenheim Museum as of May 1, 2015.
’03 Candice Hopkins has recently joined the team of documenta 14 as curatorial advisor. | Bree Edwards is now director of the Northeastern Center for the Arts, located in the College of Arts, Media, and Design at Northeastern University, in Boston. This fall, she will present the symposium “After Black Mountain College: Community & Collaboration” organized with the exhibition Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957 curated by Helen Molesworth for the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston.
’11 As of July 1, Kelly Kivland is an associate curator at Dia Art Foundation, where she has been working since 2011.
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Katerina Llanes is happy to announce that she is the new manager of public programs at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.
In June 2015, Xandra Eden left Weatherspoon Art Museum to become executive director and chief curator for DiverseWorks in Houston. | Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher was recently promoted to Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design, and head of department, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Dan Byers moved to Boston in February 2015, where he is now senior curator at ICA/Boston.
Rachel Gugelberger became the associate curator at No Longer Empty in February 2015. She recently juried/curated About a Rock at Parse, an art space and curatorial residency in New Orleans, codirected by CCS alum Amy Mackie ’06. Rachel will facilitate NLE Curatorial Lab in the fall.
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’07 Max Hernández-Calvo is on the full-time faculty at the Arts Department and the Master in Art History and Curating Program at the Pontifical Catholic