2003

 

 

Stephanie Snyder ’91 named director of Cooley Gallery

Stephanie Snyder ’91 has joined the Reed staff as director and curator of the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery. Snyder, in close collaboration with the art and art history faculty, will be working to research, design, and organize exhibitions for the gallery. A central focus will be the integration of the exhibitions with the broader educational mission of the college.

She replaces Susan Fillin-Yeh, who was director and curator of the Cooley Gallery for 10 years. Silas Cook, acting director since Fillin-Yeh’s retirement in October 2001, will continue to play a crucial role in the gallery.

Snyder has been working for several years as an independent curator; recent exhibitions include Being and Belonging: Reflections on Jewish Space at the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, Performing Judaism at Reed’s Cooley Gallery, and Film Show at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and Reed’s Cooley Gallery.

She has served in other leadership positions such as membership on the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery Advisory Board; she served as a coordinator and founding member of the Heritage School, the first arts-based public high school developed as a collaboration between the New York City Board of Education and Columbia University.

Snyder is an accomplished visual artist in her own right. Her work was shown in the Film Show and Performing Judaism exhibitions. Her numerous individual exhibitions include Hamakom (The Place) at the Jewish Museum of San Francisco/Magnes Museum in Berkeley, Anne at the Vortex Gallery in San Francisco, and Antediluvian Repercussions at the Brecht Forum in New York City. She also worked for two years as a producer and digital artist in the department of art history and archaeology at Columbia University.

Snyder holds a B.A. from Reed College and an Ed.M. from Columbia University Teachers College. She has worked as an archeological illustrator and research assistant for the American School of Classical Studies in Athens as a Watson Fellow, and has studied ancient Greek language and literature at the University of California– Berkeley. Snyder said, “For me, Reed is the most challenging place that I have studied, and I’m sure that it will continue to be so. Curating exhibitions and developing programs involves constant learning. How lucky can a person be?” End of Article

 

 

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