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Akiko Busch Akiko Busch is the author of Geography of Home: Writings on Where We Live; The Uncommon Life of Common Objects: Essays on Design and the Everyday; Nine Ways to Cross a River; and Patience: Taking Time in an Age of Acceleration. She was a contributing editor at Metropolis magazine for 20 years. She held the Richard Koopman Distinguished Chair for the Visual Arts at the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford and has also taught at Bennington College and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. Currently she is on the faculty of the Design Criticism program at the School of Visual Arts. She was recently appointed as the first-ever writer-in-residence at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York. The Incidental Steward, her essays about land use and stewardship, will be published by Yale University Press in 2013. |
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Janet Carty An artist and writer, Janet Carty has over twenty years experience in the gallery/museum field. Gallery Coordinator of the Hollins art department gallery from 2000-2004, she has been with the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University since its inception in 2004, holding a variety of positions, including Exhibition and Programs Coordinator, Assistant Director, and Interim Director. Her current title is Preparator and Collections Coordinator. In this role, Carty leads the museum’s installation team in realizing 10 to 14 exhibitions annually in a variety of media as well as serving as curator of past exhibitions of three-dimensional media. Janet Carty received her B.A. from Hollins in 1987 with a double major in English and studio art; in 1999, she received her M.A.L.S. degree. |
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Alice Hohenberg Federico Born in 1945, Alice Federico has been making pots for over 40 years. She graduated from Hollins College in 1967 with a major in American History. In 1969 she moved to Norfolk, Va. to study clay at the Chrysler Museum School. She received her M.F.A. from East Carolina University in 1975. During the 1970’s she worked as a studio potter. In 1981 she went back to school to study with Ken Ferguson at the Kansas City Art Institute. In 1984, she moved to NYC. In the late 1980’s her work was shown in the Vallauris Biennial, the 1st Mino International, and the 28th Ceramic National at the Everson Museum. In 2003 she spent six weeks working at the Archie Bray Foundation. Since 2004 she has been represented by the George Billis Gallery in New York City and Los Angeles. She is married to Salvatore Federico, a geometric abstract painter. They live and work in NYC and Sullivan County, NY. |
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Amy Moorefield Amy Moorefield is the Director and Chief Curator of the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University. Since her arrival in the fall of 2008, Moorefield has initiated a significant marketing campaign, museum partnerships, and a vibrant traveling exhibitions program. Additionally she co-teaches courses with the Art History department focusing on museum management and exhibition curation utilizing the Wilson Museum’s collection as source material. She comes to the Wilson Museum from Virginia Commonwealth University’s museum called Anderson Gallery in Richmond, Virginia where she played a critical part in its revitalization and held the rank of assistant professor. During her 17 years as a museum professional, she had directed and curated several internationally recognized exhibitions and publication projects, many of which have receive award recognition as well as organized an array of special programs, lectures and panels. Additionally she has served as a juror, lecturer, and independent curator for several exhibitions, conferences and arts festivals in the United States and abroad. Moorefield is a Commissioner for the City of Roanoke Arts Commission and chairs the City’s artwork collection committee, is a board member of the Arts Council of the Blue Ridge as well as serving as a board member for Virginians for the Arts. |
