Arts Programme: Industry & Alumni Panel - Postgraduate Students
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
We are delighted to host a panel of alumni and Arts sector professionals to give an insight in to their career journey and how they used their studies, plus a Recruitment Consultant to talk about the recruitment market.
Dr Jolanta Jagiello
Dr Jolanta Jagiello is an art historian completing an MA History of Art from Birkbeck College, who gives short talks on artworks in the Royal Collection. An artist and curator, and previously a lecturer in creative management at Middlesex University, Open University, University of East London, and Westminster University. Jolanta has on-going curatorial practice ArtGoingPlaces which organised a five year programme of public art exhibitions at Nunhead Cemetery for the First World War Centenary Commemorations (2014-2018). Jolanta is welded metal sculptor with an Acme Studio located at the site of Royal Opera House Production and Costume workshops, and a member of Association of Polish Artists in Great Britain (APA) who regularly exhibits at the POSK Gallery.
Elizabeth Fullerton
Elizabeth Fullerton is an an author and art critic, who has written extensively about art and culture for various international publications. She has a particular interest in issues of gender, sex, race and the colonial legacy and contributes regularly to Art in America, The Guardian, Elephant, Sculpture magazine, Art Quarterly and Studio International, among other publications. She wrote the first independent history of the Young British Artists, Artrage! The Story of the BritArt Revolution, which was published by Thames and Hudson in 2016, and has contributed to a range of books on art and architecture, most recently Great Women Artists, published by Phaidon in October. She began her writing career at Reuters news agency, holding a variety of posts including foreign correspondent in Mexico and Central America and Austria.
Stefania Bochicchio
Stefania is the co-director or the UK centre of the International Theatre Institute, part of UNESCO and the largest arts organisation in the world.
She is the current and founding artistic director at Draper Hall, London, where she programs quality theatre and art-related projects embedded in the community and reaching out internationally.
She started and currently runs the Infallible Awards for Theatrical Excellence at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
A music journalist for the first 13 years of her career, she worked as a director/producer in radio, film and television,producing her first national series aged 26 and devising the format for Rock Cafe', which averaged 12 million viewers per episode in her native Italy.
Stefania is a published author and cannot resist the pull of any new, great idea.
Stephanie Sinclair
Stephanie founded Abbesses in 2015, an agency for arts + artists, which currently manages the historical legacy and market advancement of an artist in the UK and collaborates with a gallery specializing in new media and public arts in Italy.
*Please note that this event is focussed on postgraduate students in the Birkbeck School of Arts*
Contact name: Lucy Crittenden
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