**** June's 2009 FEATURED ALUMNI ****

Ashley Kamen

(Class of 2001)

Archeo Gallery 1208 Duval St. Key West, Fl 33040 archeogallery.com

I am living in Key West, FL with Arlo Haskell ('00) in an adorable house next to the library at the end of Love Lane. We just celebrated our ten year anniversary with a trip to Nicaragua. I bicycle on an old cruiser to work every day, where I am a partner in a gallery called Archeo.

At Archeo, we specialize in hand-knotted tribal Persian rugs called gabbehs and old African masks and ssculpture. My two partners and I travel to Iran and west Africa on buying trips - definitely the best part of the job! Attached is a photo of me in front of the great mosque of Djenne in Mali this past winter.

**** May's 2009 FEATURED ALUMNI ****

Lilly Slezak

(Class of 2007)

After graduating in 2007, I moved to New York and worked as an intern at the Guggenheim Museum for eight months.The highlight was working in adult public programs, in which I helped coordinate lectures, panel discussions, and screenings in conjunction with the Louise Bourgeois exhibition. I am continuing to explore my passion for art and education at my current job: program coordinator for an arts education non-profit called Studio in a School. We work with professional artists to bring high-quality visual art education to New York City public schools throughout the five boroughs. I will soon be applying to art history graduate programs for entry fall 2010.

Update: I have recently taken the position of editorial assistant at Art in America magazine. In my new role, I assist the Editor and perform a variety of other functions such as proofreading, transcribing interviews, and communicating with writers. I am thrilled to constantly employ my writing skills and my enthusiasm for contemporary art, both of which I developed at Bard.

**** April's 2009 FEATURED ALUMNI ****

Shlomit Dror

(Class of 2006)

After graduating from Bard I lived in Boston for a year, where I interned both at MIT's List Visual Arts Center and Harvard University 's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. For the past two years I have been living in Los Angeles, working as a gallery manager at Couturier Gallery, which deals mainly in Latin American Contemporary art. This job exposed me to many aspects of the art scene and market and I participated in various art fairs. I have also met with many  important art collectors and museum personelle in the Los Angeles area, in addition to writers. I have been accepted the Museum Studies Program at NYU, and I will begin my school year there in Fall 2009.!!!

**** March's 2009 FEATURED ALUMNI ****

Aurora Halal

(class of 2007)

Since the fall I've worked as the office/production assistant for a filmmaker Jim Venturi doing a documentary about his parents, the architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. These are the architects who made the colorful facade/ latest addition to the Stevenson library at Bard. I work in Union Square, where we have our editing studios and plan the shoots, do fundraising, create websites for the foundation he's started, etc.

One exciting thing I've participated in is rescuing an iconic (1967) building by Venturi and Scott Brown that was planned to be demolished. Its called the Lieb House, and we've actually arranged to have it physically moved from Barnegat Light NJ to Glenn Cove, Long island.

This involved hiring a house moving company and convincing Verizon to cut or lift up the electric wires on each block as the house passed through the small NJ beach town as it left its original location. Last friday it went up the Hudson river on a barge! We filmed the move from 6 different locations, including remote control helicopter. There was tons of press attention, including most major news channels and newspapers.

Most notably, the New York Times wrote a feature! Check out the photo gallery, it was quite a spectacle. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/nyregion/14lieb.html?ref=garden

**** February's 2009 FEATURED ALUMNI ****

Eiren Shea

(class of 2006)

Eiren is currently working on an MA in East Asian art at the Sotheby's Institute in London. She decided to study East Asian (specifically Chinese) art after she graduated, she had studied European art at Bard. The year after she graduated, 2006-2007 she was in Taipei, Taiwan (where she had gone to high school), working on her Mandarin at Taiwan National Normal University as well as interning as a docent at the National Palace Museum.

**** October's 2008 FEATURED ALUMNI ****

Nicholas Himmel

(class of 2005)

Nicholas Himmel is currently the photo archivist at Jazz at Lincoln Center (www.jalc.org). He assists with the organization and archiving of the digital image collection while helping to create long-term solutions for photographic needs. He also handles image requests while assisting the creative department when needed. He has photographed some events and performances.

Nick just finished a Masters in Professional Studies in Digital Photography at the School of Visual Arts. It is a brand new program focusing on the technical and creative aspects of Digital Photography. His thesis is on his website (nickhimmel.com) and the opening of the group show is on October 28th at SVA's Visual Arts Gallery at 601 West 26th Street, New York.

**** September's 2008 FEATURED ALUMNI ****

Georgia Mastroieni

(class of 2002)

Georgia Mastroieni is the Museum Education Coordinator at the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, North Carolina. Since she began there in 2005, she has developed and executed their children's programs, which includes "Kids @ CAM", a monthly hands-on family day that teaches children about the work on display through a variety of exhibition inspired-art activities, "Kid~Cademy", an afterschool art class for older elementary students, a child docent program in which 10 to 12 year olds learn about the exhibits and how to give tours to their peers,and "Kids @ Museum Camp", summer art camps with a wide variety of multi-media themes and guest artists. She has also assisted with developing the "Connections" program, special tours in which patients with Alzheimers view works and discuss the memories evoked by art, an annual Educator's night for area teachers and a weekly Adult Figure Drawing group. She coordinates all the education programs and tours that take place in the museum and regularly gives tours to the younger visitors. Georgia also teaches part time at 'Dreams of Wilmington', a non-profit art school that offers free art classes for under privileged children in the area. She incorporates her art history background in her lesson plans by teaching her students about various artists by having them execute an artwork in that artists style.

**** May's 2008 FEATURED ALUMNI ****

Amy Monaco

(Class of 2006)

Amy Monaco is the executive assistant to the Director of Development and Alumni Relations at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Amy is involved in fundraising for scholarships that allow student's to complete creative projects in film, photography and the performing arts. She also plays an important role in the planning of the Tisch School 's annual fundraising Gala. Last year, the gala raised over 1.5 million dollars for student scholarships. Follow these links for information and pictures from the 2007 “Totally Tisch” Gala. http://alumni.tisch.nyu.edu/object/tischgala2007.html; http://alumni.tisch.nyu.edu/object/2007_gala_album.html

Amy has been accepted to NYU Steinhardt's MA program in “Visual Arts Administration” and will begin classes in Fall 2008. With her art history background from Bard, and a master's from NYU, Amy hopes to launch a.

**** April's 2008 FEATURED ALUMNI ****

Peter Haffner

(Class of 2006)

Peter Haffner works at the Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. He is an Assistant Director and involved in everything from the day-to-day workings of the gallery, to meeting with clients and collectors, to going to art fairs representing the gallery. He plans on attending grad school in Fall 2009.

**** December's 2007 FEATURED ALUMNI ****

Elizabeth Clingerman

(Class of 2002)

Elizabeth with Chimborazo by Frederic Church

Elizabeth has been working as Assistant to the Director of the Art Collections at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino , CA. Participating in a small but BUSY office lets her have her “finger in all pies” of the museum's operations- she works closely with the registrars, curators, collectors, donors, et al, besides playing “traffic cop” for all the director business. Most recently she was involved in coordinating the opening events and lectures in conjunction with the Huntington Art Collections' most recent exhibitions; Constable's Great Landscapes: the Six Foot Paintings and Pressed in Time: American Prints 1905-1950 as well as planning (and attending!) the annual Art Collector's Council acquisition dinner in April. She now looks forward to a VERY eventful spring when the newly restored Beaux-Art mansion reopens after four years with the European collections re-hung and beautiful!

**** November's 2007 FEATURED ALUMNI ****

Kristen Keyes

(Class of 2006)

Main Hall of the Gallery (top) and Kristen in the library at the Gallery

Kristen has been the inhouse graphic designer at D. Wigmore Fine Art Gallery, an American Art Gallery in midtown New York since three weeks after graduating from Bard. She has desinged dwigmore.com as well as websites on askart.com, artnet.com and artinfo.com. She has advertisements in American Art Review's Nov./Dec. issue, Artforum's October issue and Artnews' November issue. Kristen solely planned and executed the entire 2007 advertising campaign for the gallery and she is responsible for all catalogues, invitations, posters, and newspaper ads for the gallery. She loves her job and gets to use her knowledge of art history as well as her French every day.

**** September's 2007 FEATURED ALUMNI ****

Martha Hart and KC Serota

(Class of 2005) and (class of 2004)

Martha and KC are working together at Masterpiece International, a fine arts customs brokerage in Manhattan. They are responsible for coordinating the importation and exportation of major museum exhibitions. A typical day may find them in the cargo facilities of JFK or Newark airport overseeing the handling of crates containing artwork while other days are be spent meeting with museum registrars or working out of their office in the financial district. Coordination of an exhibition shipment involves mediating between the lending and borrowing museums, handling international customs regulations and documentation, and enforcing handling standards with airlines, trucking companies, and fine art handling and packing companies. They've found this career to be a surprising application of their art background; incorporating it into business and logistics.

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