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14.06.2010
JOHANNA BURTON NAMED DIRECTOR OF THE GRADUATE PROGRAM AT BARD COLLEGE’S CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) has named art historian and writer Johanna Burton as director of the graduate program for its two-year Master of Arts program in Curatorial Studies. Currently Associate Director and Senior Faculty Member at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program, Burton has been involved with the CCS in various capacities since 2005. She will take her new position at Bard on July 1, 2010.
As director of the graduate program, Burton will be responsible for all aspects of the Center’s academic program, including curriculum and faculty development, supervising student-curated projects, directing research initiatives for the CCS, and organizing the Center’s artist- and curator-in-residence program. Burton will work closely with CCS executive director Tom Eccles to further enhance the Center’s pedagogical mission to be an innovative center for the study of curatorial practice and the history of contemporary art. Burton takes the position formerly held by curator Maria Lind, who has served as director of the CCS graduate program since January 2008.
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