Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative Panel Biographies 1999 Hope Alswang President and Chief Executive Officer of the Shelburne Museum Shelburne, Vermont Timothy Anglin Burgard Curator of American Art and Head of the American Art Department Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Amada Cruz Director of the Center for Curatorial Studies Museum Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Paul Ha Executive Director of White Columns New York City Rick Lowe Founder of Project Row Houses Houston, Texas Jim Melchert Former Director, Visual Art Program National Endowment for the Arts Anne Pasternak Executive Director of Creative Time New York City Jock Reynolds (Panel Chair) Director of Yale University Art Gallery New Haven, CT Elizabeth Smith Chief Curator Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Hope Alswang is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont, the largest museum in northern New England with comprehensive holdings in American furniture, textiles, paintings, folk art and tools, and an outstanding collection of French Impressionist paintings. From 1992-1997, she was Executive Director of the New Jersey Historical Society, and prior to that Director for the Museum Program, New York State Council on the Arts. She has taught for the Graduate Program in the History of Decorative Arts at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum/Parsons School of Design, as well as in the School of Architecture and Planning, Columbia University. She has published articles for the New York State Council on the Arts study, Saving Large Estates, and co-authored (with Donald C. Pierce) American Interiors, New England and the South, published by the Brooklyn Museum. In addition, she has served as a consultant to several organizations including the Smithsonian Institution, the Maryland Historical Society, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Return to Top Timothy Anglin Burgard is The Ednah Root Curator of American Art and Head of the American Art Department at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, California. At the Fine Arts Museum he has been the curator of the award winning "Art of the Americas" exhibition series, and "Bay Area Art from the Morgan Flagg Collection." Formerly, he was The Henry Luce Foundation Associate Curator of American Art for the Harvard University Art Museums, and Harvard's first full-time American art historian. At Harvard, he organized "The Persistence of Memory: Continuity and Change in American Cultures"; "Crosscurrents: Art in America and Europe, 1900-1950," "Edmonia Lewis and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Images and Identities," and several small focus exhibitions for the "First Sight" series. He was also the Assistant Curator of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, at The New York Historical Society, where he developed, researched, curated, and installed permanent collection and loan exhibitions. Burgard has published articles in The American Art Journal, Arts Magazine, and The Art Bulletin, as well as contributed essays to exhibition catalogues. He has lectured extensively, and has been the recipient of several awards and fellowships. Return to Top Amada Cruz has been the Director of the Center for Curatorial Studies Museum at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, since 1998. Prior to working there, she was the Manilow Curator of Exhibitions and the Acting Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She has curated exhibitions and written catalogue or brochure texts for Jim Hodges, Jana Sterbak, the Hirsch Farm Project, and Joe Scanlan. She was co-curator of the exhibition "Cindy Sherman: Retrospective", organized jointly with the Los Angeles Museum of Contemorary Art and the MCA, Chicago. At Chicago she also organized "Performance Anxiety," a group exhibition of interactive works of art that traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and SITE, Santa Fe. Cruz was also a curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., from 1989-1994, where she organized exhibitions for Gary Simmons, Alfredo Jaar, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, among many others. She received a 1994 Curator's Grant from the Norton Foundation and has served as a juror or panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Pace Foundation, Tiffany Foundation, and Lannan Foundation, among others. Return to Top Paul Ha has been Executive Director of White Columns in New York City--one of the foremost alternative spaces in the country--since June, 1996; he served as Associate Director there from 1993-96. At White Columns he is responsible for programming, supervision of operations, curating, and all aspects of management and fundraising. Formerly, he was the Director of the Pamela Auchincloss Gallery from 1991-1993, Gallery Coordinator and then Gallery Associate at Hirschl & Adler Modern from 1987-1991, and Exhibition Coordinator for the Washington Project for the Arts, 1985-1987. He has lectured and served on panels extensively at institutions such as New York University, The Bronx Museum of Art, Parson's School of Design, Henry Street Settlement, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Tyler School of Art, and Yale University, among others. He has also served as a panelist for Christies' East Auction House Young Collector Program, Cooper Union, Amherst Association, and The Drawing Society, and was a juror for the Fifth Annual New York Digital Salon, and 47th Western NY Exhibition at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY. He will be a member of the advisory committee for the Ghent Quadrennial, Museum of Contemporary Art (SMAK) in 2001. Return to Top Rick Lowe is an artist and the founder of Project Row Houses, a neighborhood based public art project in the Third Ward of Houston, Texas. For Project Row Houses, Lowe assembled a group that bought 22 buildings in a depressed area and made them into a site for installations, housing, and after-school programs. Lowe's own work has been shown in a variety solo and group exhibitions. He participated most recently in the Neuberger Biennial at the Neuberger Museum of Art; the Kwangji Bienale in Korea; Uncommon Sense at LA MoCA, and Soft Urbanism at the Kumamoto Museum of Art, Japan. He was also guest curator of Fresh Visions/New Voices: Emerging African American Artists in Texas for the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. In addition, he has had extensive involvement with alternative community art projects including Victims, an installation for Amnesty International at the University of Houston; 125 Years of the Nation, celebrating the magazine's 125th anniversary, and the Watts House Project in Los Angeles, among others. He has lectured at the Ikon Gallery Conference in Birmingham, England, The Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Chicago Art Institute, Rockefeller Foundation, and the Artpolis Conference in Kumamoto, Japan. He has also been a visiting artist at the Chicago Art Institute; Univ. of CA, Santa Barbara; San Francisco Art Institute, and New York University, among others. Return to Top Jim Melchert has had a long and distinguished career as artist, educator, and arts administrator. From 1961-1965, he taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, and was a professor at the University of California at Berkeley from 1965-1992. He was also the Director of the National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Art Program (1977-1981) and the American Academy of Rome (1984-1988). Melchert has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and fellowships throughout his career including a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship; Louis Comfort Tiffany Fellowship; National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowship, and 1989 Award of Distinction from the National Council of Art Administrators. He is an Honorary Fellow of both the National Conference of Educators and the American Craft Council, as well as holding Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute and the Maryland Institute College of Art. Jim Melchert has had many solo exhibitions of his ceramic art throughout the United States, and has participated in numerous national and international group exhibitions. He has realized several public and private commissions, and his work is in the collection of the American Craft Museum; Yale University; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Addison Gallery of American Art; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. Return to Top Anne Pasternak has been the Executive Director of Creative Time in New York City--an arts organization dedicated to presenting experimental art in the public realm--since 1994. Prior to that, she was the Director of Stux Gallery in both Boston and New York, and Curator of Real Art Ways in Hartford, where she curated public installations and gallery exhibitions of emerging artists. She was also the Director/Co-founder of BRAT, a non-profit arts organization commissioning temporary public works of art in New York City. She has served as a lecturer, panelist, juror, and moderator for a number of institutions including New York University; Cooper Union; SUNY Purchase; National Association of Artists' Organizations; Public Art Seminar (SESC) in Sao Paulo, Brazil; the Artists' Museum in Negev, Israel; Hallwalls; New York Academy of Art, and ICA, Boston. She has published articles in the Columbia Journal of American Studies, The New York Times Magazine, Art New England, and the Journal of Contemporary Art. She has contributed essays to exhibition catalogues for Chrysanne Stathacos and Hunter Reynolds for Thread Waxing Space, an introduction on Mark Dion for Real Art Ways, and was the guest project editor with Tibor Kalman for the Bomb magazine. She is currently a board member for ArtTable, Lusitania Press, and served on the board for White Columns from 1994-1997. Return to Top Jock Reynolds (Panel Chair) has been the Director of Yale University Art Gallery since September 1998. Prior to coming to Yale, he was Director of the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA for nine years, and Director of the Washington Project for the Arts in Washington D.C. from 1983-89. He was also an Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program at the Center for Experimental and Interdisciplinary Art at California State University, San Francisco, and a co-founder of the artists'space 80 Langton Street (now New Langton Arts) in San Francisco. He is also a visual artist who works collaboratively with his partner and wife Suzanne Hellmuth, often on institutional commissions involving extensive historical research. He has been awarded numerous grants including National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and several NEA grants for Art in Public Place projects. He has also participated in numerous international group exhibitions. Reynolds' curatorial projects include "To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities," co-curated with Richard J. Powell. He is responsible for several photography exhibitions: "Motion and Document: Sequence and Time: Edwaeard Muybridge and Contemporary American Photography", Dawoud Bey: Photographic Portraits", " Wendy Ewald: Photographic Projects", and "The Americans". Other exhibitions include "Alison Saar: Sculptural Portraits, Wall Works and Artist Books", "George Tooker: Five Decades of Paintings and Study Drawings," "Joel Shapiro: Sculpture", and "Robert Hudson and Richard Shaw: Porcelain Sculpture." Reynolds has also served on numerous grants, fellowships, and policy panels for the NEA and a wide variety of state arts agencies, archives, and private foundations. Return to Top Elizabeth Smith is the new Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Prior to coming to the MCA, she was a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles from 1990-99. At LAMoCA, she curated several architecture and design exhibitions including "Out of Order: Franklin D. Israel," "Urban Revisions: Current Projects for the Public Realm," "Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture"(organizing team member), and "Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses." She is also the co-curator of the current survey exhibition of twentieth century architecture "At the End of the Century: One Hundred Years of Architecture", now touring internationally. Smith has also organized exhibitions for artists Cindy Sherman, Catherine Opie, Toba Khedoori, and Lee Bontecou, among others, as well as several exhibitions from LAMoCA's permanent collection. She has her MA in Art History from Columbia University, and taught for several years at the University of Southern California, LA. In addition to writing essays for MoCA publications, she has also written for the Dictionary of Women Artists, Art in America, and contributed to other exhibition catalogues. She has lectured extensively and participated in several symposia throughout the United States; most recently she participated in a panel on contemporary architecture in Tokyo. She has also been a grants panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the J.Paul Getty Visual Arts Grants Program, among others. Return to Top