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• Cameron Cartiere is currently the MA course director and a lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London. She teaches in the department of Arts Policy and Management and specializes in curatorial practice, public art development and critical th...More

  Cameron Cartiere is currently the MA course director and a lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London. She teaches in the department of Arts Policy and Management and specializes in curatorial practice, public art development and critical theory. Dr. Cartiere has managed exhibitions and public programs and advised on exhibition strategy on behalf of such institutions as Chelsea College of Art & Design, Association of Art Historians, Richmond Art Center, Hearst Museum of Anthropology (UC Berkeley), Falkirk Cultural Center, Mills College Art Gallery, Sonoma State Art Gallery, Women's Caucus for the Arts, Nonprofit Gallery Association, California Academy of Sciences, and Berkeley Ecology Center. She has been a curator for Falkirk Cultural Center in San Rafael CA, California College of Arts & Crafts in Oakland and a gallery director at Academy of Art College, San Francisco. Dr. Cartiere has lectured on public art issues and contemporary art practice at institutions such as the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, Chelsea College of Art & Design, San Francisco Art Institute, Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley California, California College of Arts & Crafts, and Academy of Art College, San Francisco. She has led panels and made public presentations at such forums as the College Art Association Annual Conference, Headlands Center for the Arts, the Association of Art Historians’ Annual Conference, the Djerassi Foundation and the Women's Caucus for the Arts. Her main research interest areas are curatorial practices, public art, museum studies, contemporary art history and environmental site based art. Current research projects include: the development of alternative exhibition models for interventions, a study on the effectiveness of public art in developing sustainable communities, an examination of the role of sculpture parks in museum education, and an interdisciplinary study (in conjunction with an anthropologist at University of Sussex) on the relationships between public art, cultural memory and government policy. Less

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