新澳门六合彩开奖结果

Pamela Ambrose was involved with the in New York in its formative years in the 1980s, implementing special events and collector鈥檚 programs. She also served as director of two prominent New York galleries: the Monique Knowlton Gallery and the . Ambrose was the Executive Director of Samuel Cupples House at 新澳门六合彩开奖结果 from 1996 to 2004. She served from 2005 to 2016 as Director of Cultural Affairs at Loyola University in Chicago and the Founding Director of the .

MOCRA Voices, Episode 5 features Ambrose and former Museum of Biblical Art Director Ena Heller, and Episode 20 features a conversation with Ambrose on the occasion of her retirement. A talk by Ambrose is part of the 2009 MOCRA panel discussion, 鈥�Art and the Religious Imagination.鈥�

A native of Chicago, (1950鈥�2020) received his B.A. from the University of Chicago, and earned his master's degree and did doctoral work in art history at New York University, where he specialized in late 17th- and early 18th-century Italian art. In the early 1980s Sokolowski was curator of European painting and sculpture, and later chief curator, at the Chrysler Museum. In 1984 he was named Director of New York University's Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, where he curated a number of important exhibitions.

Sokolowski became Director of in Pittsburgh, PA, in 1996, a post he held for 14 years. During his tenure at the Warhol, Sokolowski established a reputation for inventiveness in exhibitions and programming, as well as for civic activism. Sokolowski left The Warhol at the end of 2010. In 2017 he was named Director of the at Rutgers University. In addition to his work in museums, Sokolowski taught at a number of universities, including New York University, and was a board member of .

Sokolowski is featured in MOCRA Voices, Episode 3, which includes excerpts from Sokolowski鈥檚 1994 talk at MOCRA, 鈥淭he Changing Face of AIDS.鈥�

In 1988 Mary Reid Brunstrom founded Austral Gallery in St. Louis. In doing so, she was among the first to introduce work by living Australian artists, including Aboriginal art, to North American audiences through exhibitions, programs, and publications. She was involved with two exhibitions at MOCRA, 鈥淚an Friend: The Edge of Belief鈥�, and the 鈥淯topia Body Paint Collection鈥�. After closing Austral Gallery in 2000, Brunstrom embarked on studies in art history. She earned a Masters in Liberal Arts (2005) followed by a Masters in Art History (2006) from Washington University in St. Louis and is currently completing doctoral studies in art/architectural history from the same institution. Her dissertation focuses on 1950s Catholic Church architecture in the Midwest and developing new frameworks for evaluation of mid-century modernist architecture.

Brunstrom is featured in MOCRA Voices, Episode 8.

Ted Wood, Professor of Studio Art at 新澳门六合彩开奖结果, is a distinguished representational painter, with a particular interest in the human figure and landscape. He has exhibited widely both in the United States and abroad, and in 1983 he was invited to participate in the International Festival of Contemporary Art at the Grand Palais in Paris.

, Professor of Art at Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey, Illinois, is a painter and photographer who regularly exhibits with the Fischbach Gallery in New York City. Previously he worked at 新澳门六合彩开奖结果 as an adjunct professor of printmaking, and art installer for MOCRA. Vaughn has photographed many of MOCRA鈥檚 exhibitions and events over the years.

Read more about the renovation of Fusz Memorial Chapel into MOCRA in three MOCRA blog posts: 鈥�,鈥� 鈥�,鈥� and 鈥�.鈥� Learn more about the exhibition 鈥淏ody and Soul: The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater鈥�.

Tobi Kahn is a New York-based painter, sculptor, and educator, who for thirty years has been steadfast in his commitment to the redemptive possibilities of art. Kahn鈥檚 art is strongly influenced by his Jewish faith as well as by artists such as Albert Pinkham Ryder, Georgia O鈥橩eefe, Arthur Dove, and Mark Rothko. He was selected as one of nine artists included in the 1985 Guggenheim Museum exhibition, 鈥淣ew Horizons in American Art.鈥� Since then his work has been shown in over forty solo exhibitions and over sixty museum and group shows. His works are found in major museums, corporate, and private collections. He has also been commissioned to create contemplative sacred spaces. Kahn has taught on the faculty of the School of Visuals Arts in New York City since 1985.

MOCRA presented two major traveling exhibitions by Kahn. 鈥淢别迟补尘辞谤辫丑辞蝉别蝉鈥� included paintings evocative of landscapes and seascapes, and scientific imagery. The second exhibition, 鈥淎voda: Objects of the Spirit鈥�, presented Jewish ceremonial objects Kahn has created for family and friends.

Dr. Peter Selz (1919鈥�2019) was a renowned curator of contemporary art as well as a historian of German Expressionism. He arrived in the United States in 1936, and in became the curator of the department of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1958. In 1965 he was called to the University of California, Berkeley to found the university鈥檚 art museum. Peter Selz served as its director from 1965 to 1973. Selz also taught at Berkeley from 1965 to 1988, when he was named Professor Emeritus. He was known more recently for provocative, politically charged exhibitions like 鈥淭he Art of Engagement,鈥� which showed at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in 2006. Selz curated two exhibitions shown at MOCRA, 鈥淭obi Kahn: Metamorphoses鈥� (1998), and 鈥淧atrick Graham: Thirty Years - The Silence Becomes the Painting鈥� (2012). He spoke on 鈥�Degenerate Art鈥� in a talk at MOCRA in 1995, and appeared on a panel discussing the art of Patrick Graham in 2012.

Jane Blaffer Owen (1915鈥�2010) dedicated much of her life to the small town of . Situated on the Wabash River, New Harmony was the site of two 19th-century utopian communities. Under Owen鈥檚 guidance and with her patronage, it also became home to a rich body of contemporary art and architecture by figures such as Richard Meier, Jacques Lipschitz, Philip Johnson, and Stephen DeStaebler鈥攁 collection now known as the . Read a .

Jim Morphesis lives and works in Los Angeles, California. His paintings have been shown in forty-two solo exhibitions and in more that one hundred and thirty invitational group exhibitions in museums and galleries that include: the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Queens Museum of Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessalonika, Greece. Morphesis鈥� paintings can be seen in the permanent collections of more than twenty-five museums including: the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Oakland Museum of California, the Phoenix Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and MOCRA. A forty-year survey exhibition of Morphesis鈥� paintings will open at the Pasadena Museum of California Art in January of 2015.

Morphesis mentions several past MOCRA exhibitions, including 鈥淪anctuaries: Recovering the Holy in Contemporary Art鈥�, 鈥淐onsecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the Time of AIDS鈥�, 鈥淎ndy Warhol: Silver Clouds鈥�, and 鈥淎drian Kellard: The Learned Art of Compassion鈥�.