Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D., director
Beth S. Gersh-Nesic is an art historian who specializes in modern art. She teaches undergraduate art history courses at Purchase College and contributes to About.com Art History http://arthistory.about.com./. Information about her work on Andre Salmon (French poet, critic and member of Picasso's Gang) can be found on the official Andre Salmon website: www.andresalmon.org
Books: The Early Criticism of Andre Salmon: A Study of his Thoughts on Cubism (Garland Publishing, 1991); Andre Salmon on French Modern Art (Cambridge University Press, 2005); The Demoiselles Revisited (Francis Naumann Fine Art, 2007).
Books: The Early Criticism of Andre Salmon: A Study of his Thoughts on Cubism (Garland Publishing, 1991); Andre Salmon on French Modern Art (Cambridge University Press, 2005); The Demoiselles Revisited (Francis Naumann Fine Art, 2007).
Paul T. Werner, Ph.D., art historian
Paul Werner holds a PhD in Art History, an MA in Art Criticism and a DSFS (Danger to the Security of the French State) in Troublemaking. Educated at the prestigious Lycée Henri IV in Paris, he lectured nine years at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. His memoir of that time, Museum, Inc: Inside the Global Art World, has also been translated in French and in Italian. He is the editor of WOID: a journal of visual language and publisher of the Orange Press.
Habiba Boumlik, Ph.D., Anthropologist and Professor of French and Arabic
Habiba Boumlik holds a B.A., in French as a Foreign Language from the University of Besançon, France., an M.A. in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Strasbourg, France, and a Ph.D., in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Univesity of Strasbourg, France. Her dissertation examines the way in which the Moroccan Berber religious institution known as Igurramn uses the concept of a holy lineage to establish and legitimize itself. It gives a detailed description of the community emphasizing the transmission of religious and therapeutic knowledge among its member. It also focuses on the role of women involved as therapist although secluded.
Dr. Boumlik's teaches Cultural Anthropology, Women Cross-Culturally, Culture and Society in the West, French language and francophone cultures, Middle Eastern History and Arabic. She is currently associated with Purchase College and Mercy College.
She has taught French at Sarah Lawrence College. She also taught French in Hungary, Egypt and has traveled extensively in Europe, Central America and Asia
"My research interests encompass francophone literatures, North African immigration to France, Moroccan Judaism, and Berber identity. My current research examines the role of secular and religious Muslim women within the development of global Islamic fundamentalism."
Publications include “The Igurramn, a Berber Religious Lineage in Morocco. A Minority within a Minority”, in North African Mosaic, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007; “Rahma and Sou’dia. Fragments of Life.” Mediterraneans, Winter 1999-2000, Paris; “Diverse Manifestations of Individuality. Discourse and Practices.”, Paris, 1998; “Religious and Therapeutic Knowledge of Tigurramin Women.” Lettre d’information de l’Afemam # 10, Paris, 1995.
Dr. Boumlik's teaches Cultural Anthropology, Women Cross-Culturally, Culture and Society in the West, French language and francophone cultures, Middle Eastern History and Arabic. She is currently associated with Purchase College and Mercy College.
She has taught French at Sarah Lawrence College. She also taught French in Hungary, Egypt and has traveled extensively in Europe, Central America and Asia
"My research interests encompass francophone literatures, North African immigration to France, Moroccan Judaism, and Berber identity. My current research examines the role of secular and religious Muslim women within the development of global Islamic fundamentalism."
Publications include “The Igurramn, a Berber Religious Lineage in Morocco. A Minority within a Minority”, in North African Mosaic, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007; “Rahma and Sou’dia. Fragments of Life.” Mediterraneans, Winter 1999-2000, Paris; “Diverse Manifestations of Individuality. Discourse and Practices.”, Paris, 1998; “Religious and Therapeutic Knowledge of Tigurramin Women.” Lettre d’information de l’Afemam # 10, Paris, 1995.
Masako Inkyo, Master Calligrapher and Instructor
Masako Inkyo is a master of Shodo (Japanese calligraphy). She studied with Kojo Uemura at the Wakaba Shodo School and won several golden awards in numerous competitions. She also studied under Master Masao Inoue, Chairman of the Shodo Education Association, at the Yasude Women's College, which offers an exclusive Shodo program. Ms. Inkyo has exhibited with Onishi Gallery in Chelsea, Sumi NY Gallery in Soho, and, most recently at the Korean Culture Services, where we see her here standing next to Purple Cloud. Ms Inkyo teaches Shodo at Japan Society and offers private workshops through the New York Arts Exchange: nyarts.exchange@verizon.net. Please visit her website at: www.masako-inkyo.com.
Susan Courtney, Actress and Playwright
Susan Courtney is an Equity actress, director, and playwright. Her full-length play, "Girl In Blue Armchair," about the American impressionist Mary Cassatt, was developed at the Actors' Studio Playwright/Directors Workshop. She holds an MA in Theater from NYU and is a Theater Professor at Westchester Community College. She has lectured and read from her play through the New York Arts Exchange, and she has recounted her adventures in "Looking for Mary," Fine Art Connoisseur, May/June 2007.
Public Readings: February 2008 - Tubac Arts Center, Tubac, Arizona-Organized by Pam Parkinson October 2007-Medicine Show Theatre, Manhattan – Directed by Robert Haufrecht June 2007- Opera House, Stonington, Maine- Directed by Judith Jerome. April 2006 - Larchmont Library. October 2004 - Chappaqua Library.
Public Readings: February 2008 - Tubac Arts Center, Tubac, Arizona-Organized by Pam Parkinson October 2007-Medicine Show Theatre, Manhattan – Directed by Robert Haufrecht June 2007- Opera House, Stonington, Maine- Directed by Judith Jerome. April 2006 - Larchmont Library. October 2004 - Chappaqua Library.