Gallatin Arts Festival 2011

April 4-10, 2011

Download the 2011 Gallatin Arts Festival catalog here.

Curators’ Statement

The Gallatin Arts Festival focuses on acknowledging and encouraging artistic practice as an integral path of intellectual growth. This year’s show attempts to not only emphasize the creative rigor of its participants but also express the heterogeneity of ideas and processes embraced by students at the school. It is not a singular idea that binds these works together. Instead, their relations to each other in a shared space make this exhibition stimulating and uniquely reflective of the Gallatin experience. We invite the viewer to create his or her own approach to the works on display, finding the common themes that run between these pieces and engaging in the interdisciplinary dialogue that these works have already started.

-Nina Culotta (’11) and Arianna Plevisani (’12), Curators

ARTISTS:

Seila Bandyopadhyay ’11 (M.A), Jackson Bishop ’13, Winston Chmielinksi ’11, Sima Cunningham ’12, Hannah Daly ’11, Hayden Dunham ’11, Dorit Finkel ’11, Jacob Goldman ’13, Tina Gong ’11, Sarah Hingley ’12, Elise Largesse ’10, Jessica Lewis ’12, Matthew Morrocco, Amalyah Oren ’12, Zooey Purdy ’11, Natalia Razak ’11, Sheiva Rezvani ’13 (M.A), Jordan Lee Schnee, Rachael K. Sharp (M.A.), Libby Sills, Matt So ’11, Soren Stockman ’11, Sarah Urbaez ’12, Zoe Young

GALLATIN CHAMBER PLAYERS: 

Lesley Hennen ’14 (violin), Zachary Vary (violin), Jacob Marks (Clarinet), Stephanie Dana ’14 (piano), Christina Liang ’10 (cello), Alexander Denker (clarinet), Myles Jackson (cello), and Gregory Erickson (trombone)

STUDENT LEADERSHIP TEAM:

Nina Culotta ’11 (Visual Arts Curator), Courtney Hopkins ’11 (Graphic Designer), Jessica Lewis ’12 (Performing Arts Curator), Arianna Plevisani ’12 (Visual Arts Curator), Amy Tischler ’11 (Marketing & Volunteer Director), Jake Weinstein ’13 (Performing Arts Curator), Ryan Weldon ’13 (Performing Arts Curator)

PROFESSIONAL STAFF:

Kristin Horton (Artistic Director), Keith Miller (Visual Arts Advisor), Sheiva Rezvani (Arts Faculty Graduate Assistant)

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About the Gallatin Arts Festival:

MISSION

The Gallatin Arts Festival is a week-long, community-wide celebration of the unique artistry and interdisciplinary scholarship of students at NYU’s Gallatin School. The festival features student work in the visual and performing arts and serves as a galvanizing force and springboard for action and discussion through the creation and presentation of artistic work.

HISTORY

The Gallatin Arts Festival originated in 1992 as a collaborative effort between Professor Laurin Raiken and graduate student Barry Spanier. Under Professor Raiken’s guidance, Spanier developed the festival as part of his master’s thesis. Since then GAF has expanded into the largest public event sponsored by the Gallatin School. GAF provides hands-on opportunities for students to gain knowledge of the process required to produce a multidisciplinary arts festival. Under guidance from members of the arts faculty and student affairs, the Student Leadership Team serves as the primary support for the festival. GAF is a learning experience emphasizing the development of ideas and collaborative innovation.