August 8, 2024

Dear Alumni,

I hope you’re staying cool and enjoying the final weeks of summer!

In the coming academic year, we’ll have exciting updates and in-person events to share with you via email and mail. Please take the time now to update your contact information here so we can be sure to stay in touch!

As usual, you can report your latest news through our online form.

All best,
Julia Carabatsos (MA ’22)
alumni@bgc.bard.edu

Alumni Spotlight

Jorge Rivas (PhD ’18) will serve as the inaugural Emily Rauh Pulitzer Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM). This newly created position, made possible by the generous commitment of museum trustee and former SLAM curator Emily Rauh Pulitzer, will oversee the museum’s curatorial, collection, and exhibition departments. Rivas comes to SLAM from the Denver Art Museum, where he has served since 2016 as the Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of Latin American Art and Head of the Mayer Center. He will begin his new role in St. Louis in October 2024. Congratulations, Jorge!

Debra Schmidt Bach (PhD ’15) and Mackensie Griffin (MA ’24) curated the Borscht Belt Museum’s new exhibition “And Such Small Portions!”: Food and Comedy in the Catskills Resort Era. Intern and current MA student Janelle Williams (MA ’25) helped install the show. Mackensie also organized a dinner inspired by a 1968 hotel menu to kick off the museum’s annual Borscht Belt Fest. Congratulations, all!

Bob Hewis (MA ’24) recently was appointed visitor experience and house manager of David Parr House in Cambridge. Well done, Bob!

Select Career Opportunities

The AHRC-funded project, Italian Renaissance Objects and Spaces of Encounter (ItalianROSE), seeks to appoint a full-time postdoctoral research associate for a one-year period starting in September 2024. The project is based at the Universities of Cambridge and St Andrews. Applications are due on August 16.

The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum is hiring for two positions: a full-time director of curatorial affairs, and a full-time registrar. Interested applicants can find full details at the links above and contact BGC associate professor of historical archaeology Meredith Linn for more information.

The Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History seeks an executive director. The Center is located in the historic Rondout neighborhood of Kingston, New York, and has become a leader in the historic Hudson Valley in its efforts to broaden the interpretation of New York State immigrant history and in reaching communities that have remained beyond the grasp of the majority of its colleague institutions.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has a curatorial opening in its department of Decorative Arts and Design. Reporting to the curator and department head of decorative arts and design, the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Assistant Curator will focus on European decorative arts before 1850, and will support curatorial work including acquisitions, exhibitions publications, collections management, and donor cultivation. Knowledge of early American decorative arts would also be a great asset. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated interest in expanding narratives around the decorative arts, with a broad intellectual curiosity and a strong interest in connecting time periods and cultures in the context of an encyclopedic museum. The candidate will also be a dynamic professional who has experience in some or all of the following areas: innovative research and interpretation; development of public or private collections; commitment to broad and inclusive audience engagement through exhibitions, installations, scholarly lectures, public presentations, and community partnerships.

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