ANDREA KIRSH

814 S. 48th Street

 Philadelphia, PA 19143

   tel:(2151) 729-2551 / email:akirsh@udel.edu  

 

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Winterthur University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Georgetown University Program in Museum Studies

 

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT

 

Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey  ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR    January - August, 1994                                                 Administrative and financial oversight of operations, personnel, development, collections management and long-range planning.  

 

Forum for Contemporary Art (now Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis), St. Louis, Missouri  EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR  1990-1991

Administration and programming of downtown arts center;  revised and focused mission statement, programmed for two years, marketing, development and public relations.

 

Miami-Dade Art in Public Places, Miami, Florida  ASSISTANT DIRECTOR     1988-1990            


Administration of daily operations of major percent for art program; long-range policy development,  regularized collection of art funds, professionalized conservation program.

 

Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida  CURATOR    1984-1988

Responsible for eighteen exhibitions annually, collections, education and public programs in all areas of European and American Art.

                                                                        Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, New York   ASSISTANT DIRECTOR      1976-1978

Coordinated teachers in art school of 800 students, programmed two galleries, grant writing, fundraising, public relations.

 

CONSULTING WORK AND SHORT-TERM PROJECTS

 

Taller Puertorriqueno, Philadelphia

            CONSULTANT on arts grants   2007

Planned Parenthood Health Services of Southwest Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

GRANTS OFFICER 2000-2003 Researched and wrote program grants

Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Miami, Florida

RESEARCH CONSULTANT on art commissions in federal buildings 2000

BÕnai Brith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, D.C.

ADMINISTRATIVE CONSULTANT worked with director on mission statement and governance   2000

St. Augustine Historical Society, St. Augustine, Florida

ADMINISTRATIVE CONSULTANT long-range planning   1998; CURATORIAL CONSULTANT program assessment  1995; CURATOR,  MARTIN JOHNSON HEADE COLLECTION: raised $68,000 budget and supervised conservation of collection   1991 National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. 

GUEST CURATOR, Carrie Mae Weems        1991-1994

Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida 


ADMINISTRATOR, HURRICANE EMERGENCY CONSERVATION PROJECT coordinated emergency recovery and treatment of art damaged by Hurricane Andrew; secured NEH funding    1992

Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida

SPECIAL PROJECTS COORDINATOR coordinated loans, tour and catalogue for traveling exhibition; staff training    1991

Associated American Artists, New York, New York

RESEARCHER Research and cataloging 15c-20c prints   1979-1980

Chelsea College, London University, London

CURRICULUM CONSULTANT  Created course on application of science to art and archaeology; wrote text    1974

 

EDUCATION

 

M.A. in Art History, University of Chicago  1994

 

M.B.A. University of Miami, School of Business Administration  1989

 

B.A. magna cum laude in Fine Arts, Harvard University   1973

 

 

AWARDS

 

2001 College Art Association/Historic Preservation Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation

Choice list of Outstanding Academic Books 2000 (Seeing Through Paintings)

 

SELECTED SERVICE

 

Board member, College Art Association

            2006-2009

Abstracter, Art and Archaeology Technology Abstracts (Getty Conservation Institute)

            since 1999

Taller Puertorriqueno, Philadelphia, Visual Arts Committee member

            since 2006

American Institute of Conservation liaison to College Art Association  

            since 2005

Prize Committee, Heritage Preservation/College Art Association Award in Conservation and Art History   2003-2006

Confidential reviewer - Princeton University Press

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 

Philadelphia Introductions and various reviews for InLiquid.com, since August,2006 (http://www.inliquid.com/commentary/commentary.php#kirsh)

correspondent for Artblog since September, 2006 

            (www.fallonandrosof.blogspot.com)

Review of From Filippo Lippi to Piero della Francesca: Fra Carnivale and the Making of a Renaissance Master, Keith Christiansen, ed. in Renaissance Quarterly (Winter 2006) :1316-17.

ÒTowards an Archaeology of Modern Painting; Review of Mondrian; the Transatlantic Paintings by Harry Cooper and Ron Spronk,Ò Art History, 25/5 (Nov., 2002)

Seeing Through Paintings; Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies (in collaboration with Rustin S. Levenson), Yale University Press, 2000

"Carrie Mae Weems: Issues in Black, White and Color," in Carrie Mae Weems, National Museum of Women in the Arts (1993); essay reprinted in Photography 1900 to the Present, Prentice Hall (1998), Diana Emery Hulick with Joseph Marshall, eds.

Ned Smyth: Three Installations Lowe Art Museum

            (1987)                                                                                                                                    

Chris Burden: The Artist and His Models Lowe Art Museum

            (1985)