David W. Bernstein, professor and head of the music department at Mills College, Oakland, Calif. will be interviewed for the Fine Arts dean position today at UNM. Bernstein is the first of five candidates to be interviewed for the position and each presentation will be in the Rodey Auditorium from 10-10:45 a.m.
The public is invited to attend a reception for each candidate from 5-6 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center lobby the evening prior to their scheduled forum. Each event will include a formal presentation and question and answer session. The other candidates will present on the following dates:
Tuesday, March 19: David J. Magidson, professor and co-director of the Department of Theatre Center for Arts and Public Policy, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich.
Friday, March 22: Gaylyn Studlar, professor and director of the Program in Film and Video Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Tuesday, March 26: James S. Moy, professor and chair of the Theatre and Drama Department, University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Friday, March 29: George Arasimowicz, dean of the Division of Arts, Media and Communications, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill.
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Bernstein has been head of the Mills College Music Department since 2000, a position he also held from 1994 to 1997. He served as the fine arts dean from 1997 to 1999 and acting director of graduate studies 1998 to 1999. He has been an associate professor at the college since 1989 and professor since 2001. He also has been faculty at Columbia University.
Since 1991, Magidson has been professor of theatre and co-director of the Center for Arts and Public Policy at Wayne State University. He is director of the Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival. From 1991 to 1998 he was dean of the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts.
Studlar, named the University of Michigan's Rudolf Arnheim Collegiate Professor of Film Studies in 2000, has been professor and director of the Program in Film and Video Studies since 1995. She was associate professor of film studies in the Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University 1991 to 1995 and assistant professor, 1987 to 1991.
James S. Moy has been a professor in the Theatre and Drama Department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison since 1994. He has been chairman since 1998. He was associate professor, from 1984 to 1994, and assistant professor, from 1981 to 1984. He has also worked at Northwestern University, University of Oregon and University of Texas.
Arasimowicz has been dean of the Division of Arts, Media and Communications at Wheaton College since 1999, and professor since 1997. He was dean of Wheaton's Conservatory of Music, from 1997 to 1999. He was chair of the Department of Music, University of Colorado at Denver, from 1994 to 1997. He has directed programs at the University of Alberta.
More than 100 faculty and staff currently serve about 1,300 students seeking degrees in the arts. Six units comprise the UNM College of Fine Arts, which was founded in 1936: The Bainbridge Bunting Memorial Slide Library, Department of Art and Art History, Department of Music, Department of Theatre and Dance, Department of Media Arts and Tamarind Institute.
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