Thursday Nights at the Tang
Museum Careers Panel

Are you curious about what kinds of jobs exist in museums? Or wondered how people make their way into museum careers? You may be surprised to learn the variety of answers to these and other questions.

February 9th is your chance to meet and ask your own questions of Dan Byers, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA and Tang staff members Chris Kobuskie, Head of Installations; Rachel Seligman, Associate Curator; and Bridget Donlon, Gallery Monitor and independent curator.

Panelists:
Dan Byers '03 is Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, and Associate Curator of the 2013 Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA. His recent projects include solo exhibitions of Cathy Wilkes (2011), Ragnar Kjartansson (2011), and James Lee Byars (2010), as well as the group exhibitions Jones, Koester, Nashashibi/Skaer: Reanimation(2009), featuring William E. Jones, Joachim Koester, and Nashashibi/Skaer; Ordinary Madness(2010), a wide-ranging, idiosyncratic exhibition drawn from the museum’s collection of contemporary art; and the 2011 Pittsburgh Biennial, which featured artists such as Zak Prekop, Peggy Ahwesh, Frank Santoro, and Lenka Clayton.

Along with co-curators Daniel Baumann and Tina Kukielski, he is organizing the 56th Carnegie International which is set to open in October 2013. Before joining the staff at the Carnegie, he was Curatorial Fellow at the WalkerArt Center in Minneapolis, and Assistant to the Directors at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. He received an M.A. in curatorial studies from Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies, and a B.S. in studio art from Skidmore College.

Bridget Donlon is an independent curator based in upstate New York. She holds an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths College and a BA from Fordham University, with a double major in Art History and Visual Art (Painting). Bridget has worked for the FabricWorkshop and Museum in Philadelphia; at Galerie Lelong in New York; and held a year-long curatorial internship at Tate Modern in London where she assisted in the production of the exhibition Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World. She has also been affiliated with Champion Fine Art Gallery, Parker¹s Box Gallery, and Guerrilla Girls, Inc,. Independently curated exhibitions include the group shows Blue Smoke and Brittle Leaves and the forthcoming Arbitrary Taxonomies, both at the Center Gallery, Fordham University College at Lincoln Center. She was co-curator for the exhibitions The Dictionary ofReceived Ideas; All that is Solid; Pause + Eject; the 2009 and 2010 editions of Photo50 at the London Art Fair, and her writings have been published in catalogs for international group exhibitions.

Rachel Seligman '91 is the Associate Curator of the Tang Teaching Museum. She has a B.A. in Art History from Skidmore College and an M.A. in Art History from George Washington University. She has worked at the National Museum of American Art, the Courthouse Gallery at the Lake George Arts Project in Lake George, NY, and was the Director and Curator of the Mandeville Gallery and Curator of the Permanent Collection at Union College, in Schenectady, NY from 1997 ¬ 2011. She has taught Art History at Adirondack Community College, Skidmore College, and the College of Saint Rose. She has curated many historical and contemporary art exhibitions, and she has served on numerous gallery committees, exhibition juries, and professional panels. She is a frequent panelist for the regional SOS grants, and was recently chair of the Visual Arts Program panel of the New York State Council for the Arts.Co-sponsored by the Skidmore Arts Administration program and the Tang Museum.