Sophie Davidson (MA 1999) is working with Australian Aboriginal landowners to ensure a secure future for an internationally renowned rock art gallery. Many scholars consider the rock art found in Arnhem Land to be some of the oldest examples of rock painting in the world, dating over 50,000 years ago. At this time researchers have discovered thousands of sites within the five million acre region of this remote area of Australia.
In January Anne Eschapasse (MA 2000) was named the new director of exhibitions and scholarly publications at the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec. As such, she oversees the programming, designing, and touring of exhibitions, along with the production of museum publications. In 2015 the museum will open a new pavilion designed by OMA-Rem Koolhaas which will double the current exhibition and program space.
Katherine Danalakis (MA 2004) continues to work as collections manager at the Jewish Museum. She is now also an adjunct instructor at New York University, teaching museum registration and collections management. On a personal note, Katherine was recently married in New York.
Daniella Ohad Smith (PhD 2006) is directing a new program called: “Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights” at the New York School of Interior Design. This course, sponsored by the magazine Modern and Phillips de Pury & Company, is the first comprehensive educational program devoted to the study of collecting modern and contemporary design. Daniella has also started writing a column titled, “Collector’s Choice” in Modern, in which she engages with collectors of modern and contemporary design.
Amanda Morgan (MA 2007) earned a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Oregon in June 2012. Earlier this year, she was awarded the Betty Peting Traveling Fellowship, which took her to Malmö, Sweden, where she spent three weeks investigating social housing built during the Million Program of the 1960s and 1970s. She is currently living with her partner Karen Munro in Portland, Oregon.
Earlier this month, Amy Sande-Friedman (MA 2006, PhD 2012) became the director of the Von Lintel Gallery in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood.
Einav Zamir (MA 2012) recently became the head manager of the New York branch of ArtWatch International, an organization that serves as an advocate for the conservation and stewardship of historically significant works of art and cultural monuments. ArtWatch International accomplishes their mission through publishing articles on their website and organizing conferences on related topics.
Over the summer, Christian A. Larsen (MA 2011, PhD Candidate), was one of ten fellows awarded a research practicum as part of the Smithsonian Institution’s Latino Museum Studies Program. As part of his research, he surveyed the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s collection of 60,000 objects spread across twenty-seven historic sites for important examples of Latino history and culture. Among his discoveries at the Cooper Molera Adobe in Monterey, California was a forgotten silver-embroidered leather saddle displayed at the Mexican Pavilion at the 1889 Paris Universal Exposition.
Anna Kaplan (MA 2011) is currently teaching design history courses at Daemen College in Amherst, NY and recently celebrated the second anniversary of her vintage clothing business. On a personal note, in May 2012 she married Stephen Malczewski and the couple resides in Buffalo, NY.