George Ciscle

George Ciscle is Curator-in-Residence at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). He was also the founding director of The Contemporary Museum, which focuses its exhibitions, educational programming, and community outreach on connecting the artist’s work with people’s everyday lives. At MICA he developed the Exhibition Development Seminar, a course that provides artists with the opportunity to learn all aspects of producing an exhibition. In 2008 he introduced a Curatorial Studies Concentration at MICA that provides additional professional learning opportunities for students at the college. He will direct the new MFA in Curatorial Practice beginning in Fall 2011.

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Claire D’Alba

Claire D’Alba is an Assistant Curator with Art in Embassies at the United States Department of State.  She has worked both on temporary and on permanent exhibitions, including recent projects in Morocco, Gaborone, Tallinn, Beijing, Kigali, Panama, and Nicaragua.  Before joining the State Department, Claire completed her Master of Arts Degree at the University of Virginia, where she was the Assistant Director of the University’s Fayerweather Gallery.  She received her Bachelor of Arts from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Prior to her current position, she worked in philanthropic consulting at Campbell & Company and at the National Gallery of Art.

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Helen Frederick

Helen Frederick, Professor in the School of Art, George Mason University, has regularly maintained an emphasis on collaboration with artists across disciplines. With her own work in painting, prints, mixed media, and book arts, and in the creation of the internationally recognized nonprofit organization Pyramid Atlantic in 1980, as well as in her seven years prior to that in New York, and earlier at the Rhode Island School of Design where she met Dieter Roth and experienced experimental approaches to printed media, Frederick has been interested in the process of group activity leading to new critical awareness, expanded visual concepts and innovation for the creation of works of art. As an advocate for and an active participant in the Washington, DC metropolitan area arts scene for the last 25 years, she has played a role in the revitalization of the Silver Spring, MD arts corridor, served on the directorial boards of alternative art spaces in .C and on various local and national boards and national peer-review panels. She has exhibited and curated exhibitions and spoken around the world.

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Frank H. Goodyear, III

Frank H. Goodyear, III is the associate curator of photographs at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of American Studies at The George Washington University. He is the author of Red Cloud: Photographs of a Lakota Chief (University of Nebraska Press, 2003); Zaida Ben-Yusuf: New York Portrait Photographer (Merrell, 2008); and Faces of the Frontier: Photographic Portraits from the American West, 1845-1924 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009).

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Milena Kalinovska

Milena Kalinovska is Director of Public Programs at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. She was previously Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Adjunct Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, and Director of Exhibitions at Riverside Studios in London, England. Kalinovska has curated over thirty exhibitions internationally including Beyond Preconceptions: The Sixties Experiment, which toured major museums in Europe, South America, and the USA, and Art into Life: Russian Constructivism 1914 to 1935, held at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis and Henry Art Gallery in Seattle. She has worked with artists such as Richard Deacon, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Nan Goldin, Antony Gormley, Isaac Julien, Cildo Meirles, Annette Messager, Mariko Mori, Richard Prince, Nancy Spero, Bill Viola, and Kara Walker. Kalinovska worked on the Gwangju Biennale 2004 in South Korea, has served on the national advisory committee of Art21 PBS programs, and has received a number of awards including a nomination for the Turner Prize.

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Judy J. Sherman

Judy J. Sherman is an independent curator and owner of J Fine Art, a corporate art consultancy. She is a board member of Washington Project for the Arts and has served on the WPA Art Auction Gala committee for the last two years. Her love of art began while at the University of Virginia, where a simple survey course in art history opened up her soul and spirit and started her journey toward a lifelong passion and appreciation for art and artists.

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Vesela Sretenovic

Vesela Sretenovic is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Phillips Collection, a newly created position that she has held since January 2009. Prior to coming to The Phillips, Vesela was at the David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University for ten years, during which time she organized numerous exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, including monographic exhibitions of Joseph Beuys, Ilya Kabakov, Charles Long, and Walid Raad, as well as thematic exhibitions such as Toward Uncertainty, InVisible Silence, inTransit: from object to site, and Labyrinths. Before moving to Providence, Vesela worked at the University of Buffalo Art Gallery (SUNY), the Brooklyn Museum, and several galleries in New York. In addition, she has taught art history and art theory at the Rhode Island School of Design and lectured extensively on contemporary art. She received her PhD in Humanities from Syracuse University, an MA in Modern Art History, Theory, and Criticism from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA in the History of Art from the University of Belgrade, former Yugoslavia.

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