International Sculpture Center

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.


Table of Contents
About the Curriculum | Units of Study | Field Trip Activity | Resources
NJ Resources |
Studying Contemporary Sculpture | Public Relations
Reference Chart for Standards |
Extension Activities | Standards
Forming School Partnerships | Acknowledgements | Meet the Team
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