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Vivien Knussi
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
B.A., Tufts Univeristy; M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D.,
Columbia University. Upon moving to New York City
from Boston in 1986, Knussi lectured at the Museum of
Modern Art focusing on photography. She also worked
for six years as curator and head of acquisitions for the
Dreyfus Mellon Fund. Since completing her Ph.D. she
has begun writing a textbook on photography.
Gayle Rodda Kurtz
AssistAnt chAir of history/Art And design
B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Hunter College, CUNY;
Ph.D., The Graduate Center—CUNY; Concentration in
European Art of the 18th and 19th Centuries. From 1995
to the present—Contractual Lecturer at The Metro-
politan Museum of Art with a focus on the African Art
Galleries.
Marilyn Kushner
Visiting Professor
B.A.; M.A., University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; Ph.D.,
Northwestern Univ; Marilyn Kushner is Curator and
Head, Department of Prints, Photographs and Archi-
tectural Collections at the New-York Historical Society
(2006-Present). Previously she was Department Chair,
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs and Curator of Prints
and Drawings at the Brooklyn Museum (1994–2006).
She has also served as Curator of Collections at the
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, and Research Asso-
ciate at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Kushner
has published and lectured extensively on works on
paper and has served on juries and guest curated
exhibitions nationwide.Michele LiCalsi
Visiting AssociAte Professor
M.A., New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, Cer-
tificate in Art Conservation; B.A., New York University;
Michele LiCalsi studied art at the New York Academy of
Art, the Art Students’ League, and the National Acad-
emy of Design. She has been teaching drawing, color
and composition at the National Academy of Design
from 1994 to the present. She taught fresco painting at
the Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York
University from 1993 to 2005. She has also worked in art
conservation at the Brooklyn Museum and The Metro-
politan Museum of Art. She has worked as a conservator
on sites in Florence, Rome, Parma, and Sardis.Students at a private showing in the Print Study Room of
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York