Our Advisory Board
Il Nostro Comitato Consultivo
The Support behind Our Organization
Il Supporto dietro la nostra Società senza scopo di lucro.
ADVISORY BOARD
Art Critic, Curator & Author Shana Nys Dambrot | Arts Editor for the L.A. Weekly
Contributor to Flaunt, Art & Cake, and Artillery
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Art Historian Liana De Girolami Cheney, PhD | Professor of Art History (emerita) UMASS Lowell
Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award
President of ATSAH www.atsah.org
Chief Editor, Paragone Past and Present Journal
Visiting Scholar in Art History SIEALE, University of Coruna, Spain
and University of Bari, Italy
Art Historian Marjorie Och, PhD | Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Art History
at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA
Artist Ruth Weisberg | Professor of Fine Arts and former Dean at the USC Roski School of Art and Design
Currently the Director of the USC Initiative for Israeli Arts and Humanities
Founder and President of the Jewish Artists Initiative of Southern California
Recipient of:
The Printmaker Emeritus Award from the Southern Graphic Council International in 2015
The Foundation for Jewish Culture’s 50th Anniversary Cultural Achievement Award in 2011
The Art Leadership Award, National Council of Art Administrators and the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, 2009
Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, Hebrew Union College, 2001
College Art Association Distinguished Teaching of Art Award 1999
Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome 2011, 1995, 1994, and 1992
www.roski.usc.edu/community/faculty/ruth-weisberg
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“In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them as a model and whose finest and most beautiful aspects they are always striving to imitate and reproduce."