Melanie Kress is a curator and writer based in New York. She is the Senior Curator Public Art Fund. She was the previous Assistant Curator for High Line Art, where since 2014 she commissioned and produced projects with artists including Maria Thereza Alves, Lubaina Himid, Zoe Leonard, Ligia Lewis, Sable Elyse Smith, and Will Rawls, among others. In 2010 she co-founded the Brooklyn-based project space Concrete Utopia, of which she was Director and Chief Curator until its closing in 2012. She holds a BA in Art History and Visual Arts from Barnard College and an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Parsons Fine Arts offer an exciting immersion in the world of contemporary art. Our goal is to familiarize students with the means, the context and the interpretation of art through intensive instruction in the manifold techniques that contemporary creators have at their disposal.
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HELLO WORLD
Below is a link to Hello World, an international project where artists throughout the world have submitted art works to share with all of us.
We hope you enjoy this gesture of goodwill and solidarity from our colleagues around the globe.
transculturalexchange.org/activities/hw/overview