225264_973598693255_408725_46346289_1662049_n.jpgMeet 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 abouteach other and why we chose this course:
Cheryl Finley I am an Assistant Professor in the History of Art Department at Cornell University as well as an art critic, columnist and curator
specializing in photography, African American art, cultural heritage tourism and the politics of memorialization. Prior to my appointment at Cornell,
I was a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Art at Wellesley College and an adjunct curator at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center.
In spring 2012, I will be teaching the Introduction to Visual Studies as part of my duties as Acting Director of the undergraduate Visual Studies Minor.
Beginning in 2007, several new scholarly texts, films, and indices began to appear with a focus on the Contemporary Art Market. As an art appraiser
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 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. I have been on an extended medical leave of absence from the College of Arts and Sciences 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, home to Northwestern University, Lake Michigan, and beautiful trees, and now live in Upland, California, with my parents and two dogs. I have worked for Ms. Magazine, Move On, 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. 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 fairly competitively. This is the second Art History course I've taken at Cornell. The first was Black Arts Movement, which I took last summer, also online and also with Professor Finley, 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 art is 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!