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Kevin Brainard
Principal, Pleasure; senior design director, COLLINS:
educAtion: BFA, School of Visual Arts
professionAl experience includes: Deputy design director,
Martha Stewart Living; art director, HarperCollins Publishers; senior
designer, Spotco
clients include: Arnold Worldwide; Vintage Books; Farrar, Straus
and Giroux; The New York Times; Scribner; Simon & Schuster;
MTV Networks; Vintage Books; New York Press; AIGA; Alfred A.
Knopf; Arnell Group; W.W. Norton & Company; Faber & Faber;
Pantheon; Picador; Westport Country Playhouse
puBlicAtions include: American Center for Design: 100 Show;
AIGA Communication Graphics; Art Directors Club Annual; HOW;
50 Books/50 Covers; American Illustration; Communication Arts;
Graphics Today; Print; Entertainment Weekly; Sight for Sound; Type
Directors Club Annual; The New York Times; Letterforms: Bawdy,
Bad, and Beautiful; Handwritten: Expressive Lettering in the
Digital Age
AwArds include: Telly, Art Directors Club Young Guns
weBsite: www.kevinbrainard.com
elaine Breiger
Printmaker
educAtion: BFA, The Cooper Union
one-person exhiBitions include: Westchester Gallery; Martha
Jackson Gallery; Contemporary Gallery, Dallas; Source Gallery, San
Francisco; The Pace Gallery; Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia; Glaser
Gallery; Washington Square Windows
group exhiBitions include: Boston Printmakers; Francesca
Anderson Fine Art, MA; Library of Congress, Washington, DC;
Susan Teller Gallery; Luise Ross Gallery; Premio Internazionale
Biella per L’Incisione, Italy; SAGA; Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Las
Cruces Museum of Fine Art, NM; Danforth Museum of Art,
Framingham, MA; Pera Museum, Istanbul
AwArds include: National Endowment for the Arts, CAPS
Michael Brenson
Critic, scholar
educAtion: BA, Rutgers University; MA, PhD, Johns Hopkins
University
professionAl experience includes: Art reporter, art critic,
The New York Times; art critic, New York magazine
Books include: Acts of Engagement: Writings on Art, Criticism,
and Institutions, 1993-2002; Visionaries and Outcasts: The NEA,
Congress, and the Place of the Visual Artist in America. Co-author,
co-editor, Culture in Action: A Public Art Program of Sculpture
Chicago. Co-editor, Conversations at the Castle: Changing
Audiences and Contemporary Art; Witness to Her Art: Art and
Writings by Adrian Piper, Mona Hatoum, Cady Noland, Jenny
Holzer, Kara Walker, Daniela Rossell and Eau de Cologne
puBlicAtions include: Art & Auction; Art Journal; Art in
America; Sculpture; Connaissance des Arts; Journal of the Clark
Art Institute; Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art;
Washington Post; The New York Times Magazine; Joel Shapiro:
Sculpture and Drawings
presentAtions include: Distinguished Critic’s Lecture,
International Association of Art Critics, New School University;
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida; Denver Art
Museum; Princeton University; Yale University Art Gallery;
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Museum of Modern Art;
Storm King Art Center; Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Weatherspoon
Art Museum
AwArds And honors include: Visiting scholar, Getty Research
Institute; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellowship; Bogliasco Fellowship; Board of Trustees, Fondation
Alberto et Annette Giacometti. Commencement speaker: School of
the Art Institute of Chicago; New York Studio School
Gary Breslin
Creative director, owner, Panoptic Inc.
educAtion: BFA, Carnegie Mellon University
clients include: Coca-Cola, Motorola, Sprite, ESPN, Pepsi,
Reebok, Nike, Ikea, MTV, Ford, Xbox
film festivAls include: Los Angeles; Nueva, Tokyo; Downtown
Arts Festival; International Sort Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany;
Impakt Film Festival, Utrecht, the Netherlands
exhiBitions include: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles;
Rocket Projects Gallery, Miami; Liverpool Biennial; New Museum
of Contemporary Art
AwArds include: Space Shower Music Video Awards; Victory
Media Arts
weBsite: www.panoptic.org
Kathy Brew
Producer, video maker, media arts curator
educAtion: BA, cum laude, Middlebury College
professionAl experience includes: Co-director, Margaret
Mead Film & Video Festival, American Museum of Natural History;
director, Thundergulch/Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; senior
associate producer, City Arts, WNET
video projects include: ID/entity: Portraits in the 21st Century;
Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution; Penetration and
Transparency: Morphed; Mixed Messages; Regret to Inform
curAtoriAl consultAnt: “Engaging Characters,” Art Interactive,
Cambridge, MA; Reel New York, WNET; Reframe, Tribeca Film
Institute; Scanners: The New York Video Festival
puBlicAtions include: Women, Art, and Technology; Shift;
Documentary; Civilization; High Performance; San Francisco Bay
Guardian; San Francisco Focus; Artcoast
AwArds And honors include: Emmy Award, CEC ArtsLink
art Brewer
Photographer
clients include: Roxy, Quicksilver, Billabong, O’Neill, Tracy
Locke, Gatorade, Pepsi, Red Bull, Dasani, Xterra, Canon,
Kodak, Toyota
puBlicAtions include: Surfer, Surfing Life, The New York Times,
Men’s Health, Maxim, Popular Photography, Rolling Stone, Sports
Illustrated, Islands, Men’s Journal
Books include: Masters of Surf Photography: Art Brewer;
co-author, Bunker Spreckels: Surfing’s Divine Prince of Decadence
AwArds include: Photo District News, American Photography,
Print, Communication Arts, Graphis
weBsite: www.artbrewerphoto.com
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