Faculty

Sandra Lang, Director and Full-time Faculty
sandra.lang@nyu.edu
Extensive experience in both non-profit and for-profit organizations. Formerly Administrative Director, Art Advisory Service, The Museum of Modern Art, and Executive Director, Independent Curators International. Advisor to corporations and not-for-profit organizations on administrative, programmatic and fundraising issues including strategic plans, policy and procedures, exhibition development and tours, acquisitions and commissions of art, feasibility studies, communications programs, budgeting and contracts.

Carlo M. Lamagna Full-Time Faculty
Carlo Lamagna is an art historian of modern and contemporary art and material culture; a former art museum curator (DeCordova Museum), gallerist (Carlo Lamagna Gallery), independent curator, and non-profit management consultant (Landmark West!). He is a current board member of the Committee on Museum Professional Training, a standing committee of the American Association of Museums; Vice President of Trademark West! a historic preservation advocacy organization. Director, Visual Arts Administration M.A. Program 1991-1998. Chair, Department of Art and Art Professions, 1997- 20005. Coordinating Director, Visual Culture and Costume Studies M.A. Programs.

Melissa Rachleff Burtt, Full-Time Faculty
Melissa Rachleff Burtt was formerly a program officer at the New York State Council on the Arts’ Museum Program. She began her career as a curator at Exit Art, and later worked as a manager of adult programs at the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of the City of New York. Rachleff Burt has worked independently as a guest curator, and has published articles/reviews.

Arthur Cohen
Arthur Cohen is Chief Executive Officer and Strategy Director of LaPlaca Cohen, media and marketing strategists for the arts. Prior to co-founding LaPlaca Cohen, Arthur served as a consultant to leading cultural organizations, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the American Museum of Natural History. He was also a public relations consultant to Giorgio Armani USA, and was communications director and later acting deputy director at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Arthur serves on numerous boards including the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art, Americans for the Arts, the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, and the Harvard University Art Museum Contemporary Collections Committee.

Charlotte Cohen
Charlotte Cohen is Fine Arts Officer for the US General Services Administration. She manages both new art commissions at federal buildings as well as the fine arts collection in the New York region. She is the former director of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Program, prior to which she worked at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Charlotte has lectured extensively about public art in the United States and abroad. She curated a group of artists and public art experts who visited Russia to lecture and initiate public art projects, and has developed a collaborative public art and urban design program in Belgrade, Serbia.

Anne Edgar
Anne Edgar founded Anne Edgar Associates in 2000 to help art museums, not-for-profit organizations, and corporations secure media coverage for their most significant cultural projects. Current and recent clients include the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Jewish Museum, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; and the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida. Edgar serves on the boards of trustees of the Sir John Soane Museum Foundation in America and the non-profit artists organization, Art in General.

Alan Fausel
Alan Fausel is Director of the Fine Art Department, Bonhams Auctioneers & Appraisers, New York. Formerly he was Senior Vice President, European and American Paintings at Doyle/New York Auctioneers and Appraisers. He was previously Curator at the The Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh; Assistant Curator, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; and Director of Museum Services and European Paintings at Butterfield & Butterfield. He can frequently be seen as one of the Appraisers on the “Antiques Roadshow”.

Larry Giacoletti
Larry Giacoletti is currently the Registrar and Collections Manager of the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, NY. Prior positions include Assistant Registrar at the Whitney Museum of American Art and The American Craft Museum (now the Museum of Art & Design). He also currently serves on the archive committee at Dieu Donne Paper mill in New York City.

Shelley Sanders Kehl
Shelley Sanders Kehl is a full-time legal practitioner in private practice with a focus on employment and non-profit corporate work. Her prior positions include General Counsel and Secretary at Pratt University and Associate, Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn.

Susana Torruella Leval
Susana Torruella Leval is an art historian and curator of Puerto Rican and Latin American contemporary art working in New York City since 1970. She was Chief Curator (1990-1994) and director (1994-2002) of El Museo del Barrio. In 2001-2002 Ms. Torruella Leval served as Chair of the Cultural Institutions Group, an association of cultural organizations housed in city-owned buildings, and as Vice President and President-Elect of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD).

Laura J, Miller
Laura Miller has over twenty years of non-profit and for-profit marketing and business development experience including more than ten years as Director of Visitor Services and Director of Marketing at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Prior to working in the museum world she founded Marketing Innovation, a consulting firm specializing in direct marketing and revenue enhancement for entertainment, communications and publishing companies. After receiving an MBA from Columbia University she was employed by American Express as Director of Telemarketing and Director of New Industries Marketing. Miller is frequently a guest speaker at Arts & Business Council seminars and international marketing conferences. National Art Marketing Project Steering Committee member. Advisory Board Member of City Arts.

Elizabeth Marcus
Elizabeth Marcus is an art historian and associate Director at Galerie St. Etienne, New York. She is also Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute. Prior positions include research associate at The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and faculty at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York.

Stephen Rosenberg
Stephen Rosenberg founded his contemporary art gallery (Stephen Rosenberg Fine Art, later Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art) in 1983. The gallery focused on American and international painting, works on paper and photofraphy and worked with national and international clients. For several years the gallery had two locations, one in Soho and a photography gallery on 57th Street. The gallery was in continuous operation until 2006. As an educator, he has been in demand as a speaker/lecturer to art school, university, museum and corporate audiences for the past fifteen years on topics such as what contemporary art dealers really do, how to build private and corporate art collections, developing artists' careers, and on a variety of legal, strategic and market issues in the contermporary art world. Stephen Rosenberg is the former Director of the Masters Program in Art Business at Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York and lectures at Pratt institute. He is currently a private dealer in the primary and secondary art markets, an art advisor and an appraiser. Rosenberg is a former litigating attorney and social policy consultant to government bodies, private and corporate foundations and is a Board Member of El Leon Literary Arts.

Sam Morse
Sam Morse is the president and co-founder of South Side Design & Building in Brooklyn, NY. South Side works with museums and the arts community bringing exhibits to life as designers, fabricators, and construction consultants. For over 10 years, Sam has been working with museum and gallery directors, curators, architects and designers to make their ideas take shape in reality.

Vida Schreibman
Director, Cultural Destinations NYC, customized educational art tours and advisory service serving foreign and domestic corporate, philanthropic, academic and alumni organizations. Prior positions include directorships at Germans Van Eck Gallery, NY; Margulies Taplin Gallery, FL; and South Florida Art Center.

Koven J. Smith
Koven J. Smith is currently Associate Manager of Interpretive Technology at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where his primary focus is the presentation and visualization of diverse data sets using Web technologies. He is the project lead on a number of projects at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), including the Greek & Roman Study Gallery interactive kiosks, MetStory, and MetFinder. In addition, he is also a member of the steve.museum steering committee, which is engaged in the first examination of social tagging in art museums. Prior to working at the Met, Smith was a systems architect at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Smith is also a composer and musician; while not writing music in his capacity as musical director for Ellen Cornfield Dance, he can be found leading the 10-piece Monster Zero Orchestra or drumming with NYC's highly suspect ukulele underground.

Alice Zimet
Alice Sachs Zimet is Founder and President of Arts + Business Partnerships LLC, a consulting group with a focus on corporate sponsorship marketing. During nearly 20 years at The Chase Manhattan Bank, Ms Zimet created the first Cultural Affairs Marketing Group in a commercial bank. Recent client assignments include: American Express, Fleet Bank, International Center of Photography, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Sephora USA, U.S. Department of State and the Arts & Business Council, Inc. Zimet is a member of the Collections Committee of the Harvard University Art Museums.