Meet the Art Market wiki team, and complete your first assignment by creating your Art Market Identity under your name below. Add
a picture or a video, and a handful of links, so that we can learn more aboutabout each other and why we chose this course:
Cheryl Finley I am an Assistant Associate Professor in the History of Art Department at Cornell University as well as an art critic, columnist and curator
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and art consultant, I utilized my expertise to design the Art Market as an upper-level, undergraduate/graduate art history seminar in Fall 2009. This
is the first second time the course is being offered as a distance learning, on-line course.
Erica Gilbert-Levin I am a fourth-year student with a major in [Government|http://government.arts.cornell.edu/]. I have been on an extended [medical leave of absence|http://www.gannett.cornell.edu/services/leaveofabsence.cfm] from the [College of Arts and Sciences|http://as.cornell.edu/index.cfm]
for several years, recovering from an illness, and now I am in the (very slow!) process of completing my remaining credits on a long-distance basis.
I was born in [Evanston, Illinois|http://www.cityofevanston.org/], home to [Northwestern University|http://www.northwestern.edu/], Lake Michigan, and beautiful trees, and now live in [Upland, California|http://www.uplandpl.lib.ca.us/], with my
parents and two dogs. I have worked for [Ms. Magazine|http://www.msmagazine.com/], [Move On|http://front.moveon.org/], a political organization, and several local newspapers in Chicago. I spend a lot
of time reading and writing, hanging out with my friends, and doing [yoga|http://www.yogajournal.com/]. I am one of those people who is a fixture at independent coffee shops and
bookstore. I like to talk (usually not to myself) politics, philosophy, and theory, and I used to play [soccer|http://soccernet.espn.go.com/?cc=5901] fairly competitively. This is the second
[Art History|http://www.arts.cornell.edu/histart/] course I've taken at Cornell. The first was Black Arts Movement, which I took last summer, also online and also with [Professor Finley|http://www.arts.cornell.edu/histart/finley.html],
and after that I began some independent research on race and art. I have always been into politics and culture (and the politics of culture, and the
culture of politics), but I tend to be timid about art since I know very little about art in a purely aesthetic sense. But since Black Arts Movement,
I've come to understand more concretely how relevant artis to the development and maintenance of political and social realities as well as to
political and social change. My world has been opened up, and I am excited about another class! Nice to "meet" you all!