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Kathy Goncharov was the director of the New School Art collection for about twelve years. You can read about her here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Kathy Goncharov, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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" In our work of Sensory Awareness, we experiment with all the simple activities of daily life, all the things which we have been doing since we were born, or which we have learned in our earliest infancy, such as walking, standing, sitting, lying, moving, resting, seeing, speaking, listening, etc. As Elsa Gindler said, “Life is the Playground for our work.” "
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" Cipe Pineles, the woman who broke the sex barrier at the Art Directors Club of New York by becoming a member, has also turned out to be the first woman to be inducted into its Hall of Fame. "
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Charlotte Selver (1901-2003) was a music educator and body awareness instructor born in Germany. In the 1920s, Selver studied piano and was also enrolled in the Dr. Rudolph Bode School for Expressive Movement, but later stopped her musical studies as a pianist after graduating due to her increasing hearing loss. Although this shift in her […]
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Cipe Pineles ( 1908-91) was an Austrian graphic designer who became one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century. In 1926, Cipe enrolled in the Pratt Institute where she studied fine art. She began her first teaching position as an instructor in watercolor painting at the Newark Public School of Fine and Industrial […]
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" Even before it began publishing in 1914, the New Republic had become the focus of Progressive attention. The infant journal out of New York City seemed to speak for a generation of reformers ambitious to transform American society. Whatever its intellectual merits, it owed its prominence to the joint intentions and extensive connections of its married publishers, Dorothy Whitney and Willard Straight, who created it to fulfill the shared elements of their reform agendas and thus to give their marriage a public presence. "
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" Francesca Cernia Slovin was born on March 14, 1952 in Terni, Italy, to the late Elena and Enrico Cernia. She was an older sister to the late Paola and Michele, whose memories she carried tightly. Francesca earned a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Rome and explored a wide range of subjects through her passionate writing and teaching, most notably on the lives of Aby Warburg and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Israeli history, and radical politics. "
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" Several months ago it was necessary for me to import a large table into my English classroom. After the original use for the table had passed, I searched for the janitor to ask him to remove it. Suddenly some eighth sense whispered, "Why not keep it for exhibition purposes?" That night after school I arranged an exhibit of the booklets distributed by the World's Work dealing with the lives and books of many famous modern authors. "
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" The Bureau for Intercultural Education was the brainchild of a young school teacher, Rachel Davis DuBois. Over its twenty-year history from 1934-1954, the Bureau attempted to understand the "problem of the second generation"- i.e., children of immigrants-and offered a vision of an intercultural nation tolerant of diverse peoples. "
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" Since its creation, the Center has changed its character dramatically from a leisure- and volunteer-activity orientation to a no-nonsense commitment to devising ways for women to get back into the mainstream. Ruth Van Doren, the director of the Center, has a clear sense of the need it fills. "The middle-class woman is suffering, just as the poverty woman, for lack of productive work," she says. "