Yale Dean to Discuss a Life in the Arts

November 9, 2009

Posted: November 9, 2009

What can a degree in the arts do for you? Students and other members of the Mount Holyoke community can learn what it’s like to have an arts career when Susan Cahan,  associate dean of the arts at Yale University, delivers a talk titled “A Life in the Arts” Thursday, November 12, in  Dwight 101 at 4 pm.

Cahan has had an impressive career as an arts administrator. Before joining Yale this fall, she served as associate dean for academic affairs of the College of Fine Arts and Communication at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where she also taught contemporary art history. She earned her doctorate in art history from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Cahan’s broad range of experience includes teaching at Bard College and UCLA, as well as curatorial work and oversight of education programs at both the New Museum of Contemporary Art (as deputy director) and the Museum of Modern Art in New York (as school programs coordinator). She was also curator for the art collection of Eileen and Peter Norton and director of arts programs at the Peter Norton Family Foundation in Santa Monica, California.

The lecture is sponsored by the First-Year Seminars Program, the MHC Arts Council, and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.

Related Links:

MHC’s Arts Community

Career Development Center
 

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