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 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!
Hi everyone, I am Kim Phoenix. This is the first Art history class that I have taken; it will be my last as an underclassman. I will enter my
senior year in the fall and will be taking very packed semesters as I try to complete my degree by May. I have worked for the past 15 years
in the costume shop of the Theatre here at Cornell, sewing costume for the productions. As of May 2011 my position was eliminated soooo
I am finishing my degree through the Employee Degree program. I am enrolled in the Apparel Design Management program, which has lead
to my living in New York City for the summer doing an internship with the designer Natori. I am doing what is called technical design which
involves fitting the designs, also working with the manufacturing houses to make sure the clothing fits and looks like the designer envisioned.
I have always enjoyed the creative process of art and am looking forward to learning about the market. As a side note I have a cousin who
works for Christie's here in New York in their rare books collection so I am hoping to maybe get to see something there, I will keep you
posted. The picture is of me last summer fulfilling a life long dream going to Yellowstone National park and seeing Old Faithful. I did this
while visiting my son who lives just up the road in Big Sky, Montana.
Vin Falkiewicz
Well, I guess to start I am currently an (almost) graduated Cornellian, finishing up my degree in economics this summer. I am originally from Brick, New Jersey, but will be moving to California in the middle of July (which I am really looking forward to). I am interested in just about everything and anything, but if I had to choose a few I guess I'd choose my guitar, sports (specifically football), following the stock market, and I should probably throw video games in there too. I love doing, experiencing, and learning new things; hence, a major reason why I took this course. I do not know much about art, but have travelled to numerous interested art museums and shows, including the Metropoloitan in New York City and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Even though these were great experiences, and I loved seeing all these things, I feel as though I could not fully appreciate the art without proper knowledge. In addition, knowledge of art and the art market could prove to be very useful in many situations in life (and could even impress a woman or two!).
So, from this class I expect to become more adept in the ways of recognizing and appreciating good art. Additionally, I am interested in the workings of the art market, as I am an economics major and the art market seems very different than the typical goods and service market. It will be interested to see just how supply and demand come together in this market, considering the high bargaining power of both the consumer and producer. I look forward to answering these questions and more throughout the three weeks of this course.
The picture posted is of me and my sister during senior week at Cornell! 