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Joan Ockman is Distinguished Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design and Visiting Professor at Cooper Union and Cornell University School of Architecture. She taught for over two decades at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she also directed the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture from 1994 to 2008 and was responsible for a multifaceted program of lectures, publications, and exhibitions. Among her numerous publications on the history, theory, and criticism of architecture are Architecture School: Three Centuries of Educating Architects in North America (2012), The Pragmatist Imagination: Thinking about Things in the Making (2000), and the award-winning Architecture Culture 1943–1968: A Documentary Anthology (1993). Educated at Harvard and at Cooper Union School of Architecture, she began her career at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York in the 1970s, where she served as an editor of the journal Oppositions and was responsible for the Oppositions Books series. She is currently completing a collection of essays titled Architecture Among Other Things, for which she received a Graham Foundation grant in 2015, which will appear from Actar next year; and is collaborating on a major new history of modern architecture, to be published by Thames & Hudson in 2020.

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Marina Ancona is an artist and master printer. She founded 10 Grand Press in 1999 in Brooklyn, NY and a satellite workshop in Santa Fe, NM. Ancona’s publishing and projects have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Queens Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Kunsthalle Basel and included in contemporary print collections of MOMA, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Metropolitan Museum, among others. Ancona has collaborated with a range of artists, such as Nicole Eisenman, Carrie Moyer, Jeff Gibson, Leidy Churchman, Nicola Lopez, Harmony Hammond, Patty Chang, Sanya Kantarovsky and Ulrike Muller. She has conducted lectures and workshops at Bard College, Sarah Lawrence College, SUNY Purchase, and Pratt Institute, among other institutions.

Before opening 10 Grand Press, Marina Ancona worked in print shops in Santa Fe, Paris, and New York. She has studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and taken master classes Helen Frankenthaler, Ken Noland, and Susan Rothenberg at the Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts.

Butterflies XIII, 2018, Monotype, Image size: 11.75 x 12 inches, Paper size: 18.5 x 14.875 inches, Series of 20
Butterflies XIII, 2018, Monotype, Image size: 11.75 x 12 inches, Paper size: 18.5 x 14.875 inches, Series of 20

 

Buck Wanner studies Dance History and completed his Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance at Columbia University. He performs, choreographs, and writes about experimental dance. Current scholarship focuses on dance in New York in the 1990s, institutional histories of dance, and data visualization and mapping as tools for dance research. He has previously edited artist-run publications including Movement Research Performance Journal, Culturebot, and the American Realness catalog READING. Buck also holds a B.A. in Dance and M.A. in Theatre and Performance, Columbia University and an M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University.

 

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