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Meet the Team
Carol
Sterling is the Director of Education for the International Sculpture Center.
She has served in leadership positions for the advancement of art and arts education
on local, county, state, national, and international levels. Her career includes:
Director of Arts Education for the American Council for the Arts, Director of
Arts Partners for the New York City Board of Education, Arts Education Consultant
for the New Jersey State Department of Education, Director of the Summer Arts
Institute based at Rutgers University, twenty years of teaching art in New Jersey
and New York classrooms as well as in higher education. She has served as the
National Art Education Association (NAEA) Eastern Regional Director for Supervision
and Administration as well as an advisor to art education organizations, including
the committee to develop the National Teacher Examination in Art Education for
the Educational Testing Service and the National Art Content Standards and the
National Assessment for Educational Progress in Arts Education.
Christine
Finkelstein is the Curator of Education at Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton,
New Jersey, an outstanding twenty-two acre sculpture park showcasing contemporary
works by American and international artists. She was responsible for establishing
the organization's education department, including the docent program, and has
written many of the promotional materials for the seasonally changing exhibitions.
Ms. Finkelstein is also serving a term as a board member for the New Jersey
Association of Museums and on the program committee for the Mid-Atlantic Association
of Museums Annual Meeting 2001. With an undergraduate degree in art history
and criticism, and a master's degree in museum studies, Ms. Finkelstein has
over ten years of professional experience acquired at various fine art museums.
Jan
Wilson is the Art Department Chairperson at Nottingham High School in Hamilton,
New Jersey and has a Masters Degree in Curriculum Development. She was invited
to serve on the New Jersey State Department of Education's Visual Arts Standards
Committee to write the visual arts section for the High School Proficiency Assessment
(HSPA). Ms. Wilson was a member of the Executive Steering Committee of the Art
Educators of New Jersey as well as a member of the National Art Education Association.
She is a frequent presenter at local, state, and regional staff development
programs. She was commissioned by the New Jersey State Department of Environmental
Protection to write a curriculum that is being used nationally and internationally,
and she also served as a White House curriculum consultant. Additionally, her
work in! Curriculum Development has been recognized by the New Jersey Association
of Supervision and Curriculum. She is the 2001 Mercer County Teacher of the
Year and the 2001 - 2002 New Jersey Teacher of the Year.
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