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Tom Finkelpearl received a BA from Princeton University and an MFA from Hunter College. From 1982-1990, he worked as a curator and program manager at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York. For six years (1990-96), he was Director of the Percent for Art Program at the New York City Departments of Cultural Affairs where he worked on over 130 public art projects. Based on his public art experience and further research, he published a book, Dialogues in Public Art (MIT Press, 2000). After three years as Executive Director of Program Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1996-1999), he returned to P.S.1 as Deputy Director in 1999. In March 2002, he was appointed Executive Director of the Queens Museum of Art where he is working to implement an expansion that will double the size of the museum.

Born in Aligarh, India, printmaker/ sculptor Zarina Hashmi graduated from AMU Aligarh in 1958. She studied printmaking at the Atelier-17 in Paris, and in Thailand and Japan. Zarina has lived and worked in South East Asia, Europe and in the United States since 1974. Through her work she confronts location of home, country, borders and geography destruction. Her minimalist work uses Islamic design traditions and patterning. Hashim has been awarded residencies in Art-Omi, in Omi, New York, and at the Women's Studio Workshop, in Rosendale, New York. Zarina received the NYFA Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists Books in 1985 and 1990. She has taught at Bennington College, Cornell University, and University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work is represented in collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria Albert Museum in London and at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.

Julian LaVerdiere earned a BFA from The Cooper Union in New York and a MFA in sculpture from Yale University. He is a founding member of the production-design collective Big Room LLC, which has received international acclaim for its innovative approach to commercial production design. In 1999, LaVerdiere had his first New York solo exhibition at Andrew Kreps Gallery. He has since had solo shows both nationally and internationally, and has participated in numerous group exhibitions in the United States and Europe. In 2000, his work was prominently featured in Greater New York, an exhibition at P.S.1-MoMA, New York. In the same year, while developing Biolumincent Beacon (a public art project with Creative Time), he was granted studio residencies at both the American Museum of Natural History and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Studio Program on the 91st floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. In 2001 and 2002, LaVerdiere worked with fellow-artist Paul Myoda, three architects, Creative Time and the Municipal Arts Society to create "Tribute in Light," the temporary light memorial to the victims of September 11th, 2001. This public artwork has subsequently been selected to become an annual addition to the WTC Memorial. In 2002, he received the first Annual Cooper Union Urban Visionaries Award. In 2003, he and his fellow Tribute in Light collaborators received the Brendan Gill Prize from the Municipal Arts Society. In 2004, he revived a NYC Percent for Art grant to make a piece for FDNY Engine Company #277, which is to be installed in 2006. LaVerdiere lives and works in New York City and is represented by Lehmann Maupin Gallery. 

Vyayanthi Rao is Assistant Professor in the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science and the Graduate Program in International Affairs.  She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago.  Her research interests include globalization and the production of space, memory and subjectivity, and urbanism, infrastructure and technologies of the city.  She is currently working on a book of essays on Bombay tentatively titled Infra-City:  Space, Violence and Speculation in Post Industrial Mumbai which includes an essay of the serial attacks on Bombay (the Bombay blasts) of 1993.

SELECTED UPCOMING NEW SCHOOL EVENTS
PICKLED BOHEMIA: "EAST VILLAGE USA" IN FOCUS, Friday, March 18, 6:30 p.m.
PUBLIC ART FUND: "TUESDAY NIGHT TALKS" WITH OLAFUR ELIASSON, Tues., March 29, 6:30 p.m.
HOMELAND INSECURITY: A PANEL DISCUSSION ON CONTEMPORARY ISRAELI/PALESTINIAN DOCUMENTARY FILM, Thursday, March 31, 4:00 p.m.
LAURIE ANDERSON: 2005 DOROTHY HIRSHON FILM FESTIVAL ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE, Friday, April 12, 7:00 p.m.

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INFORMATION: (212) 229-5353 or email specialprograms@newschool.edu
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