MA 2012
Alyssa Greenberg and Rebecca Mir are participating in the 2013-2014 cycle of Art21 Educators, a yearlong professional development initiative and learning community in which six pairs of educators support each other in the exploration, creation, and implementation of new teaching strategies and curricula inspired by contemporary art, artists, and ideas. The crux of Art21 Educators was the Summer Institute (July 10-17, 2013), during which they participated in workshops, working sessions, guest artist and educator presentations, and studio and museum visits. Educators will continue to support each other throughout the school year, sharing documentation (in writing, photos, and videos), providing feedback, and continuing conversations about contemporary art, artists, and films.At the BGC, Alyssa (MA 2011) and Rebecca (class of MA 2012) were drawn to one another through shared interests in collaborative, object-based learning and in museum education for social justice. Today, they are both museum educators in historic house-museums that are initiating innovative contemporary art interventions. Alyssa is an education assistant at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and a doctoral student in the Department of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Rebecca is an educator and floor manager at the New-York Historical Society’s DiMenna Children’s History Museum in New York City and the School and Community Programs Developer at the Voelker Orth Museum, Bird Sanctuary and Victorian Garden in Flushing, Queens.
MA 2010
In January 2013 Alexis Romano was appointed membership secretary of the Association of Dress Historians and co-founded the Fashion Research Network with colleagues from the Courtauld Institute of Art and Royal College of Art.PhD 2006
Daniella Ohad currently hosts a program at the New York School of Interior Design called “Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights,” which explores the territory of collecting modern and contemporary design. Her upcoming publication, “The ‘Designed’ Israeli Interior, 1960-1977: Shaping Identity,” will be featured in a special issue on Design History in the Journal of Interior Design. She also co-curated and hosted architect and designer Gaetano Pesce for a conversation in the design fair Collective.1.MA 2004
Leigh Wishner has been a curatorial assistant in the Costume & Textiles department at Los Angeles County Museum of Art for over a year now. In early June, she gave a presentation in Las Vegas called “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Platforms, Sandals, Stilettos and Historicized Feminine Footwear Through the Twenty-First Century” at the Costume Society of America’s National Symposium.MA 2003
Melissa Cohn Lindbeck and her husband have taken up a new and unusual hobby… swordfighting! Her husband wears full Medieval-style armour, while Melissa prefers to channel her inner swashbuckler in Renaissance rapier style. They have also begun using lightsabers in their practice. You can check them out at EMAAKnights.com.Scott W. Perkins was recently appointed director of Preservation at Fallingwater, where he oversees the preservation of the historic landscape and house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1936. In early 2013, Scott presented three papers on Wright’s work, and this fall he will present a paper at the conference of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy in Grand Rapids, MI, on the murals and screens designed by Wright’s secretary, Eugene Beyer Masselink, the subject of his dissertation.
