- Richard Meier
Richard Meier (born October 12 1934 in Newark, New Jersey) is an influential, contemporary American architect known for his rationalist designs and the use of the colour white. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University in 1957, worked for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill briefly in 1959, and then for Marcel Breuer for three years, prior to starting his own practice in New York in 1963. Identified as one of The New York Five in 1972, … - Robert Irwin
Robert Irwin (born Sep 12, 1928) is an American Installation artist. - Julius Shulman
Julius Shulman, born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 10, 1910, is an American architectural photographer best known for his photograph "Case Study House #22, Los Angeles, 1960. Pierre Koenig, Architect." The house is also known as The Stahl House. Shulman's photography spread California modernism around the world. Through his many books, exhibits and personal appearances his work ushered in a new appreciation for the movement beginning in the 1990s. - Marion True
Marion True (b. 1948) is the former curator of antiquities of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California. Born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, she studied at New York University and has a PhD from Harvard.. True was trained by Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III, contemporary scholar of ancient art and curator of classical art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1957 to 1996. In 2005 True was indicted by the Italian government, … - Michael Brand
Dr Michael Brand (born 1958) is an art scholar from Australia and director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Throughout his career, Brand has specialised in the art of Asia, in particular Indian art. Dr Brand was born in Canberra, but spent several years in the United States of America while his father was a representative at the International Monetary Fund. He lived in McLean, Virginia in 1971 and 1972, and spent four years studying in Washington, D.C. to complete High School. - Mike Davis
Mike Davis (born 1946) is an American social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California. Born in Fontana, California and raised in El Cajon, California, Davis' education was punctuated by stints as a meat cutter, truck driver, and a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) activist. - Sandow Birk
Sandow Birk is a graduate of Otis/Parson's Art Institute in Los Angeles and an artist from Southern California with an extensive history of exhibitions both national and international, as well as the recipient of many prestigeous grants and awards. Five books have been published on his works and he has made two films. Fans appreciate his talent for surfing, see him as an artist, or appreciate both of these facets. - Lewis Hyde
Lewis Hyde , a MacArthur fellow, is a writer, editor, translator, and poet. His numerous books include "The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, "an investigation into art and the economies of gift exchange, and "Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art," which explores the "trickster" character who appears in the traditions and myths of many cultures. Recently, he edited "The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau ," and is currently researching "the cultural commons." - Ryan Trecartin
Ryan Trecartin (b.1981, Webster, Texas) is a filmmaker and artist based in Los Angeles, California. Trecartin studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with a BFA in 2004. Trecartin’s work has been exhibited at The Moore Space in Miami and The Getty Center in Los Angeles. He participated in the Whitney Biennale at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the “USA Today”exhibition at The Royal Academy in London. His work is featured in the Saatchi Gallery collection. - Robin Symes
Robin Symes is a former antiquities dealer who was sent to prison for two years on 21 January 2005 but released after only serving seven months of his prison time. Called "London’s best-known and most successful dealer in antiquities", Simes is also accused of playing a pivotal role in the illegal trade of looted antiquities, … - Mary Heebner
Mary Heebner is an artist known for paintings — especially abstract landscape paintings — as well as artist books and paper making. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the University of Chicago and the J. Paul Getty Collection. Her books are published under her imprint, simplemente maria Press. - Nicholas Penny
Nicholas Penny (born 1949) is a British art historian. Penny studied at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, from which he graduated in 1975. He taught art history from 1975 to 1982 at Manchester University, then at King's College, Cambridge. From 1980 to 1981 he served as Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University. He was the co-author, with Francis Haskell, of "Taste and the Antique", … - Joseph Ducreux
Joseph Ducreux (June 26, 1735-July 24, 1802) was a French portrait painter, pastelist, miniaturist, and engraver. Born in Nancy, Ducreux may have trained with his father, who was also a painter. Ducreux went to Paris in 1760, and trained as the only student of pastelist Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, who specialized in portraiture. In terms of Ducreux's oil technique, Jean-Baptiste Greuze also served as an important influence as his instructor. - Sandip Burman
Sandip Burman is a tabla player from Durgapur, West Bengal, India. At the age of six, he was accepted as disciple by Pandit Shyamal Bose of Calcutta, one of India's distinguished tabla maestros. Sandip's performances are marked with spontaneous innovation and tonal purity even when he is delivering complex rhythmic patterns at high speed. His initial trip to the United States was sponsored by the founder of Transcendental Meditation and Beatles guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. - Edward Decelle
Edward Brooks DeCelle, is an American museum curator. "Gallery Owner, Curator, and Fine Art Collector". Perhaps best known for his curation of the 1979 exhibit at 80 Langston Street in San Francisco entitled "Censored" showcasing the works of Robert Mapplethorpe, DeCelle is regarded as heavily influential in the gay rennaisance of the 1970s and 1980s in San Francisco. From 1972-1983, DeCelle ran the Lawson DeCelle Gallery in San Francisco, … - Eugène Lami
Eugène Louis Lami was a French painter and lithographer. He worked at the studio of Horace Vernet then studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris with Camille Roqueplan and Paul Delaroche under Antoine-Jean Gros. While there, he learned watercolor technique from Richard Parkes Bonington and would later become a founding member of the Society of French Watercolorists. Lami's 1881 watercolor titled "A Couple Embracing" is at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, … - Tim Hawkinson
Tim Hawkinson was born in San Francisco, California in 1960. A graduate of San Jose State University, he later earned his MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989. Hawkinson is renowned for creating complex sculptural systems through surprisingly simple means. His installation "berorgan" a stadium-size, fully automated bagpipe, was pieced together from bits of electrical hardware and several miles of inflated plastic sheeting. - Xan Parker
Xan Parker (executive producer) In 2003, Xan Parker completed her first documentary feature, Risk/Reward , a documentary film about four women with the tenacity to pursue high-powered careers in the working woman's final frontier -- Wall Street. Produced and directed with Elizabeth Holder , Risk/Reward screened at film festivals across North America, including Tribeca, Full Frame and Hot Docs and will air on the Oxygen cable network. - Jason Stabile
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My name is Gaby, im 24 i have 2 kids. i like to talk and spend time with my friends. I am married and i consider my self lucky because i married a wonderful man and i have these 2 wonderful kids thank you god for letting me be a mother i know i had to go trought a lot to have this babies but everything was worth.I just started to work after almost 2 years of vacation but it was time to go back it's fun the only bad thing is that i have less time to spend with my kids. - Pam B.
I love to make art. Creativity and spontaneity is a must in my life. I love to laugh and smile and cry and everything else in between, love my family, and love it when my life is not predictable... though I'm determined, devoted and accomplished doesn't mean I plan everything... I love to travel- going to Ghana was one of the best experiences ever, but I will not stop there. - Bernard Cooper
Bernard Cooper has published two collections of memoirs, Maps to Anywhere and Truth Serum , as well as a novel, A Year of Rhymes . His work has appeared in Story , Ploughshares , Harper’s, The Paris Review , The New York Times Magazine , and in anthologies such as Best American Essays and The Oxford Book of Literature on Aging . - Jeannie Novak
Jeannie Novak , founder, Indiespace: JEANNIE NOVAK is the founder of Indiespace (www.indiespace.com), one of the first companies to promote and distribute interactive entertainment online. Jeannie is also a subject matter expert and instructor for the Game Art & Design program at the Art Institute Online and she teaches at UCLA Extension, Art Center College of Design, and the Academy of Entertainment and Technology at Santa Monica College. - Erika Cabral
- Dennis Dewey
Dennis Dewey , Chief Operating Officer/Chief Financial Officer A graduate of James Madison University, Dennis Dewey has spent more than 30 years working in the arts, or arts-related fields as an educator, performer, producer and administrator. At NASAA, he is responsible for operations, financial management and special project oversight, with particular emphasis on building partnerships that promote the public benefit of the arts. - Jen Ott
- Jorge Rivas
Jorge Rivas , a Research Associate at the Applied Research Center, is a multimedia designer with extensive experience working with new media in the non-profit sector, Dreamworks SKG, and the CBS Television Network. His first short film, “Just My Luck” was financed by Dreamworks at the age of 15. His work has also been exhibited at the Getty Center, Los Angeles. - Stephen Shipps
Dr. Shipps is an arts educator primarily concerned with the nature and history of "art" as a Western cultural institution, and how best to teach about that. He has written and spoken widely about those concerns in both national and international forums. An award-winning teacher, he has been a Fellow of the National Endowment of the Humanities and of the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, and has served as Chair of the Education Committee of the College Art Association. - Fran Inman
Fran Inman President Majestic Realty Foundation - Robert Donmoyer
Robert Donmoyer , Ph.D. [Leadership & Ethics] has served as a consultant and evaluator for a number of foundations including the Rockefeller Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Getty Center for Arts and Education, the Ball Foundation, and KnowledgeWorks Foundation. For the latter organization, he recently completed a multi-year study of a foundation-supported community engagement initiative in Cincinnati schools led by the Children’s Defense Fund of Cincinnati. - Caren Heft
Caren Heft is the Director of the Edna Carlsten Gallery at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Prior to that, she was the Associate Curator of the Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts in Racine, Wisconsin. - Wilbur C. Faulk
Wilbur C. Faulk , CPP, Executive Vice President Wilbur C. Faulk , CPP is a leading authority on security, fire and disaster planning. Wilbur spent nearly twenty years in executive positions at the Getty where he was the director of security for the J. Paul Getty Museum and later the entire Getty Trust. He served 15 years as director of security through the challenging period that culminated in the opening of the world renowned Getty Center in Los Angeles. - Patrick Doran-Sheeran
Patrick Doran-Sheeran (Musical Director) has served as musical director for numerous productions including The Good Person of Setzuan, The Grapes of Wrath, Hair and The Rocky Horror Show, Into the Woods and Cabaret at UCR; and for Pump Boys and Dinettes in the Off Broadway Series at Riverside Community College. He holdsmaster�s degree in Music Composition from UCR and composes in a wide variety of styles for choreographers, rock bands and chamber ensembles. - Weston Naef
Weston Naef, General Editor; introduction by Anne M. Lyden. Published by The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. ISBN-13: 978-0-89256-808-2. 144 pages; 47 plates; paperback. Getty Publications, 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 500, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1682. http://www.getty.edu . - Matthew J. W. Drutt
Matthew J. W. Drutt , former Chief Curator at The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas has been appointed executive director of Artpace San Antonio. A search committee headed by board chairperson Jeanne Klein and Artpace founder and trustee Linda Pace announced that Drutt will assume his post September 25, 2006. Matthew J. W. Drutt , former Chief Curator at The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas has been appointed executive director of Artpace San Antonio. - Todd Merriman
Todd Merriman Todd brings years of experience architecting the brands of a diverse set of companies. Some of his past clients include Dow Chemical, Boise Cascade, Unisys, GMAC Commercial Mortgage, and Norwegian conglomerate Norsk Hydro. Prior to joining Group 1066, Todd worked as a consultant with the strategic branding firm Siegel & Gale, helping many premier Global 500 companies develop and implement comprehensive branding programs. - Said Osio
Said Osio Managing Director Said Osio has held several significant positions as a strategic Business Development Executive. His in-depth experience is broad based in branding and communications initiatives. Mr. Osio has lead account development and management repositioning firms to dramatically increase revenue and grow. Mr. Osio was Managing Director in NY Chiat Days Brand Design Group, Bright and Associates as well as a Partner in Mercer Consulting - Indra Kagis McEwen
Indra Kagis McEwen Indra Kagis McEwen holds an Honours B.A. in English and Philosophy from Queen's University, a Professional Degree in Architecture from McGill University, a Master's degree in Architectural History and Theory, and a Ph.D. in Art History, also from McGill. - Barbara Weinstein
Barbara Weinstein, Visual Arts, Art Department Chair Barbara heads the fine & performing arts department at Country Day and serves as a member of the leadership team. She also teaches art to Grade 1 - 4 students. Barbara's administrative background includes working as arts supervisor for one of Pennsylvania's larger urban school districts and serving on the city's arts council.
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