Cassandra Sciortino Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Teaching art history course--contemporary art; nineteenth-century art

Adjunct faculty teaching on contract basis Humanities 105: Arts & Ideas, Humanities 116: Arts & Culture of Asia; Humanities 115: The Multicultural American Experience; Humanities: Medieval & RenaissanceStudents analyze, interpret, and relate masterworks selected from literature, music, drama, painting,sculpture, photography, architecture, dance, and film, to trends in philosophy, religion and scientific thought. Emphasis is placed on the student’s personal interaction with human creative expression.

Berkeley

Innsbruck, Austria

This was an introductory course that explored how art can serve as an instrument of cultural diplomacy. Using historical and contemporary case studies, students learned to identify how art can be implemented to establish, develop, and sustain positive relations between national governments and other stakeholders in international relations. The following topics were covered : How art can be implemented to raise awareness and appreciation of cultural differences. How art can be implemented to serve as a neutral platform for exchange, transforming differences, and uniting people through emotions and sense experience. The difference between cultural diplomacy and propaganda. Agents of cultural diplomacy: governmental, intergovernmental, and non-governmental (non-state). E-Diplomacy: the digital revolution and the emergence of social media as platforms for art to communicate across social, cultural, and national boundaries. Art as diplomacy in international spaces: embassies, exhibitions, and educational centers. How growing international perspectives of artistic development in the field of art history can be mobilized for cultural diplomacy**Please note dates reflect time preparing course, as well as actual lecturing

Berkeley

Junior Fellow supporting activities of the Berkeley Institute, including teaching art history worships on devotion ethics and aesthetics. See website: www.binst.org

Innsbruck, Austria

This course was an introductory survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Europe from the 4th to the early 20th century. Attention was paid to developing students‘ understanding of the historical place of the objects studied, and how they relate to one another and to the culture in which they were created. Students were also be taught the language of art, that is, how to analyze and discuss works of art in terms of their formal values (i.e. use of light, line, color, etc.). Major periods and styles covered: Early Christian; Romanesque and Gothic painting, sculpture, and architecture; Renaissance Art in Italy; Renaissance Art in Northern Europe and Spain; Baroque Art in Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands; the Rococo in France, Germany, and Austria; Neoclassicism in France and Britain; Romanticism; Academicism; Realism; Impressionism; Post-Impressionism; Symbolism; Viennese Secession; Fauvism; Cubism; Expressionism.Please note time listed reflect course prep and actual lecture timeSee: http://www.mci4me.at/mci4me/app/main?DOCID=100114983

Two-year fellowship for dissertation study hosted by the Kunsthistorisches Institut-Max Planck-Institut in Florence.

This course introduced students to the art history and cultural life of the cities and towns of Tuscany, drawing on the art and architecture of Lucca, Florence, Pisa, and Siena. Classes were taught in situ, drawing on the rich art in these cities. Students were required to write a research paper, give an oral presentation, and document their studies in a weekly journal filled with written observations, drawing assignments designed to deepen students comprehension of themes pursued in the course.In addition to creating the course, I was responsible for coordinating other art- related functions for Pratt’s Summer in Tuscany Program. Along with making travel arrangements for various excursions, including communicating with various museums, churches, and travel providers, I also researched and found members of the Tuscan art and art-historical community to enrich the program. I also acted as an advisor and guide for faculty and students in relation to living in Tuscany.

This course studied sixteenth-century Italian painting and sculpture, and architecture, focusing on Florence, Rome, and Venice and to a lesser degree Ferrara and Parma. Special attention was paid to issues of technique, iconography, patronage, workshop culture and theory, and the role of representative artists of the period. In addition to a reader composed of primary and secondary sources, students were assigned to read the text by John T. Paoletti and Gary M. Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy. With the assistance of a web designer, I created an extensive website including all images discussed in lecture and supplementary material to deepen students understanding of material, and to function as resources for the required term paper. Students were also required to take a midterm and a final exam, consisting of slide identifications and essays with question prompts relating to slides.

Ma, Art History Nineteenth Century European

Activities and Societies: PhD Candidate. Research interests: 19th Century European Art: especially British, French, and German artists.

Ba, Art History

Phd Candidate Abd, History Of Art

Advanced to PhD Candidacy but dissertation unfinished