User:Laurenk0105/sandbox
Gonzalo Casals
[edit]Gonzalo Casals is an Argentine-American museum director and professor based in New York City. Since March 2020, he is the Cultural Affairs Commissioner for New York City,[1] and previously held the executive director position of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York for three years.[2] Prior, he was Vice president of programs and community engagement at Friends of the High Line, as well as deputy and interim director of El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem.[3] He is a resident of Jackson Heights, Queens.
Early life and education
[edit]Gonzalo Casals was raised in Bueno Aires, Argentina where he studied design and architecture at the Universidad de Belgrano. In 2002, he immigrated to New York City, where he received a Masters of Art History and Museum Studies from the City College of New York City and a Masters in Urban Affairs and Neighborhood and Community Development from Hunter College.
Career
[edit]Casals has been part of the CreateNYC public engagement team and the New York City Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers.[4] While leading the Leslie-Lohman Museum, Casals focuses on the works of art by LGBTQ artists, including community like people of color, women, trans people, and those with intersecting identities mattered.[1] Among the major exhibitions he has supported, the artist practices of sex workers by filmmaker, Barbara Hammer, and a New York presentation of the traveling exhibition, "Art After Stonewall", well exemplify the foreground of Casal's goal on enriching art and culture for the diverse communities.[1] His dedication to inclusion and access could be seen in the project where he rebranded Leslie-Lohman through dropping its "gay and lesbian" name and launching a capital campaign while broadening its programming by allowing museum to create more spaces for education and open up its archives and libraries for research.[5] He has held teaching positions at the City University of New York, Yale University and New York University.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Durón, Maximilíano; Durón, Maximilíano (2020-03-11). "Gonzalo Casals, Director of Leslie-Lohman Museum, Named Next Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for New York City". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
- ^ "A Veteran Leader in the New York LGBTQ Art Scene Has Been Appointed by the Mayor as the City's New Cultural Affairs Chief". artnet News. 2020-03-11. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
- ^ "Gonzalo Casals". Yale School of Drama.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Postmaster (2020-03-12). "Casals named new Culture CommissionerCasals nombrado nuevo comisionado de Cultura". Manhattan Times News. Retrieved 2020-04-13.
- ^ "Gonzalo Casals of the Leslie-Lohman Museum to Become NYC's New Cultural Affairs Commissioner". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
- ^ Pogrebin, Robin (2020-03-11). "Activist Museum Director Named New York Cultural Affairs Commissioner". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
External links
[edit]
[CATEGORIES]