Office: ARTS 113, 973/ 408-3331, shenry@drew.edu
Sara Henry-Corrington is Professor of Art History and recent N.E.H.
Distinguished Teaching Professor of Humanities. She has taught
the Drew New York Semester on Contemporary Art since coming to
Drew in l976-77 and curates and writes about contemporary art and
current cultural issues. Her other major research interest is the
20 th century artist Paul Klee.
At Drew she has taught 19 th and 20 th century art history courses
and curatorial studies—not to mention Classical, Medieval,
and Renaissance/Baroque as part of humanities. She has carried
out her interest in psychology and religion East and West through
a First-Year Seminar that explores Freud, Jung, and Tibetan Buddhism.
Her B.A. is from Denison University in art history and studio art,
her M.A. is from New York University in art history, and her Ph.D.
is from University of California Berkeley.
Selected curated exhibitions and publications:
“Hsu Dan, Chinese Ink & Watercolors,” Korn Gallery,
Drew University, Madison, N.J., April 2005.
“From Natural to Techno Universes: Our Brave New Worlds,” curator
and catalogue essay for exhibition (artists Amy Cheng, David Collings,
Torben Giehler, Jung Hyang Kim, Yayoi Kusama, Ellen Levy, BarbaraTakenaga,
and Mark Tobey). Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Projects, New York City,
February 5-April 18, 2005.
“As if Alive: Animate Sculpture,” Curator and catalogue
essay (artists Deborah Aschheim, Elissa D’Arrigo, John Duff,
Sandra Hirshkowitz, Bryan Hunt, Tamiko Kawaa, David Nash, Jack
Pospisil, Phyllis Rosser, Ilene Sunshine, James Surls, Grace Wapner).
New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, September 10-October
29, 2000. .
“Robert Kushner: The Asian Connection,” catalogue
essay for the exhibition Robert Kushner: 25 Years of Making
Art, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, Spring
1998.
“Asian American Women in the New World: Nature and Abstraction,” essay
for exhibition of the Asian American Women’s Alliance, New
World Art Center, NY, Fall 1998. |
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