Skidmore Scope Magazine Annual Edition for 2017

SKIDMORE COLLEGE A P P O I N T M E N T S & A N N I V E R S A R Y 7 Brielmaier: Mangue Banzina; Aure and ensemble: Erin Covey Tony Webster ART AND EQUALITY APPOINTMENTS A scholar and innovative curator, Isolde Brielmaier was named curator-at-large for Skidmore’s Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery. A professor of critical studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Brielmaier has developed programming for the Bronx Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, and others. Working with Skidmore’s $1.2 million Mellon Foundation initiative to strengthen the way the Tang uses its collection to engage with issues of identity and race, she moderated a spring panel discussion, “Whiteness and ‘Default Culture,’” with guest speakers from race-and-gender studies, documentary film, and advocacy. Skidmore’s first full-time Title IX coordinator is Joel Aure . For more than 10 years he was the chief diversity and affirmative action officer and Title IX coordinator at SUNY-Purchase. Aure’s expertise in interpersonal violence prevention and response includes Title IX investigations, compliance, bystander intervention, and more. He chairs Skidmore’s Advisory Council on Sexual and Gender-Based Misconduct; guides the deputy Title IX coordinators in student affairs, academic affairs, and human resources; and works with cam- pus safety, wellness, and counseling staff as well as off-campus legal and counseling resources. ensemble’s 10th year A high point of Skidmore’s music calendar each year, Ensemble Connect celebrated its 10th an- niversary of partnership with the college. The February residency featured an elementary-school workshop, participation in an experimental text-and-music event at the Tang Museum, and a performance of classical and new works in the Zankel Cen- ter’s Ladd Concert Hall. A program of Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute, the ensemble of up-and-coming music greats has now worked with more than 3,000 Skidmore students, performed for some 800 clients at area nursing homes and community-service agencies, given concerts large and small for more than 12,000 Skidmor- ites, and engaged with nearly 3,000 local schoolchildren. Joel Aure Isolde Brielmaier