Andrea Kirsh
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Andrea Kirsh received her B.A. from Harvard University in 1973 “magna cum laude” in fine arts (with a thesis on infrared reflectography studies of paintings at the Fogg Art Museum), an M.B.A. from the University of Miami in 1989 and an M.A. in art history from the University of Chicago in 1994. She has varied experience as a museum curator and arts administrator. From 1984-88 she was curator at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami where she was responsible for exhibitions (eighteen annually) and collections in all areas of European and American art, as well as educational programming. From 1988-90 she was Assistant Director of Miami-Dade Art in Public Places where, among other responsibilities, she developed a collection care and maintenance plan at a time when few percent for art programs considered the question; she presented a paper on the project at the general session of the 1990 AIC meeting. In 1990 she ran a contemporary art center in St. Louis and since then has done independent curatorial and scholarly projects. She is the co-author of “Seeing Through Paintings; physical examination in art historical studies (Yale University Press, 2000), which won the 2001 College Art Association/Heritage Preservation Award for Distinction in Conservation and Scholarship. In 1993 she initiated an annual workshop for AIC at the College Art Association annual meeting; it brings artists, conservators, curators and academic art historians together in front of objects to discuss material questions. She is on the board of the College Art Association and is AIC liaison to CAA. She has been on the faculty at WUDPAC since 2003 and has taught a seminar and advised students on the conservation of contemporary art.
