Chana Budgazad Sheldon application packageCHANA BUDGAZAD SHELDON
4434 Post Avenue, Miami Beach, FL, 33140 | 516.532.5124 | budgazad@gmail.com
EXPERIENCE
, Miami, FL
Locust Projects
March 2009 Ã Present
Executive Director / Chief Curator,
Ultimate responsibility for not-for-profit organization with $500,000 annual budget
Create all programming, including curating twelve exhibitions each year,
fundraisers, art fairs, receptions, tours and other events
Supervise daily operation including full-time staff of three
Increased membership by 300%; increased revenue by 200%
Develop initiatives including public art project lecture
Out of the Box, Locust Talks
series, and educational program for high-school level
LAB (Locust Arts Builders)
artists
Secured significant financial support from National Endowment for the Arts,
Miami-Dade County, City of Miami, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts,
and John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Selected to participate in John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Devos Institute of Arts ManagementÈs Capacity Building Program
Participate in art fairs including NADA Miami Beach
Elevated organization profile with media including New York Times, Miami Herald,
Art in America, Artforum, local television and radio
, New York, NY
Casey Kaplan
September 2001 Ã October 2008
Director,
Managed all aspects of gallery, including development of exhibitions, and hiring
and supervision of staff
Represented eighteen emerging and established artists
Marketed artwork to an international client base of private collectors and
museums; assisted with auctions and benefits
Coordinated the exhibition of artwork at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;
Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York,
Berlin and Bilbao; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; New Muse
Contemporary Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Phila Tate,
London; Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Participated in art fairs including Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach and Frieze,
London
Liaised with media including New York Times, New Yorker, Parkett, Artforum,
Frieze, museum catalogues
EDUCATION
, Amherst, MA
University of Massachusetts
Bachelor of Fine Arts, January 2001
Major in Computer Design and Photography, Minor in English
Semester at Kent Institute of Art & Design, Maidstone, UK, Spring 2000
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Guest teacher at New World School of the Arts
Panelist at discussions at the Bass Museum of Art and Funding Arts Network,
Miami