Melanie Franklin Cohn in New York, NY | 1991 - 1993 - 1985 - 1989

Melanie F. Cohn

Female

Ms. Cohn is the Executive Director of the Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island and serves on the board of the Staten Island Not-for-Profit Association. She spent a total of seven years at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, beginning as a curatorial administrator in 1996. She has edited major publications for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; and Creative Time, New York, among others. She has served on the Advisory Committee for the Urban Art Program for the New York City Department of Transportation and as a juror for the 2012 Land Art Generator Initiative design competition for Freshkills Park. She has led COAHSI in receiving a 2009 Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund Grant and a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Grant. Ms. Cohn has curated many exhibitions including â€œWhat Passes Betweenâ€ at M-Lab at Stephen Stoyanov Gallery, New York (September 2010); â€œNew York, New York, New York.â€ at Flux Factory, Queens (December 2007); "Counter Culture" (2004) at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, featuring site-specific installations on the Bowery; "Club 57: Where Are You?" (2005), a one-person show of Harvey Wang's photographs of the East Village from 1973-1982; and the zine and internet portions of the New Museum exhibition "alt.youth.media" (1996). Her editorial work includes Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century (Phaidon Press/New Museum, 2007), Keith Edmier (Booth-Clibborn Editions/CCS Bard, 2007), Who Cares (Creative Time, 2006), and Witness to Her Art (CCS Bard Hessel Museum, 2006). Melanie Franklin Cohn received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1992 and her BFA from Missouri State University in 1989. Specialties Non-profit arts management; contemporary art; non-profit fundraising and grant writing; art book packaging publishing, and editing. read more ...