Sidra Stich is an American art historian, museum curator, and travel writer based in San Francisco.
Education and career edit
She completed her undergraduate degree and earned a Masters in Visual Arts Education from Harvard University and a Ph.D in Art History from UC Berkeley where she wrote her dissertation on Surrealism and Picasso.[1]
After finishing graduate school, she taught at Washington University in St. Louis.[1] She then became chief curator of the Berkeley Art Museum.[1][2] She has also held teaching positions at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Washington University in St. Louis, University of San Francisco, and Mills College.[citation needed]
She was awarded research fellowships at the National Gallery, Washington, DC, Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, and The Berlin Academy. She made a career decision to travel and write about modern art rather than return to teaching or as a curating.[1]
Writing edit
Stich has produced a series of informational guides to art and architecture. She has made guides to France (1999); Britain and Ireland (2000); Spain (2003); San Francisco (2003); Paris (2003); Northern Italy (2005); and London (2005).[1][3]
Books edit
- Made in U.S.A. An Americanization in Modern Art, the '50s and '60s[4]
- Yves Klein (Distributed Art publishers, 1994)
- Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art
- Art Sites London: The Indispensable Guide To Contemporary Art Architecture Design
- Art Sites Paris
- Art Sites San Francisco: The Indispensable Guide To Contemporary Art Architecture Design
- Spain: Contemporary Art + Architecture Handbook
- Britain & Ireland: Contemporary Art + Architecture Handbook
- France: Contemporary Art + Architecture Handbook [5]
- Art-Sites San Francisco: The Indispensable Guide to Contemporary Art-Architecture-Design
Fellowships edit
She received fellowships at The American Academy in Berlin,[6] at Stanford Institute on Women and Gender, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, at the Getty Museum Leadership Institute, and at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art.
References edit
- ^ a b c d e Hennig, Wanda (12 October 2007). "Tours of the city - how one woman's global quest for fine art gave birth to guidebooks". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
- ^ Brenson, Michael (24 November 1990). "Surrealism's Roots in Its Time". New York Times. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
- ^ Woodward, Richard B. (11 December 2005). "'Art-Sites Guides to Contemporary Art and Architecture' by Sidra Stich". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
- ^ "Made in USA". University of California Press. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
- ^ Preece, RJ. "Art-Sites France: Contemporary Art and Architecture Handbook (1999) (book review)". Art Design Cafe. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
- ^ Sidra Stich, COCA-COLA FELLOW - CLASS OF FALL 2007 at the American Academy, Berlin