Name Sidra Stich | Role Writer | |
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Education University of California, Berkeley Books Art‑SITES San Francisco, Art‑Sites Paris: Art - Architectu, Art‑SITES London: The Indis, France: Contemporary Art + Arch, Britain & Ireland: Contemp | ||
Sidra Stich is an American art historian, museum curator, and travel writer based in San Francisco.
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Education and career
She did her undergraduate degree and took a Masters in Visual Arts Education from Harvard University and a Ph.D in Art History from UC Berkeley where she wrote her dissertation was on Spanish Surrealist Joan Miró.
After finishing graduate school, she taught at Washington University in St. Louis. She then became chief curator of the Berkeley Art Museum. She has also held teaching positions at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Washington University (St. Louis), University of San Francisco, and Mills College.
She was awarded research fellowships at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, and made a career decision to travel and write about modern art rather than return to a regular job teaching or as a curator.
Writing
Stich has produced a series of highly informed guides to the latest 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).
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Fellowships
She received fellowships at The American Academy in Berlin, at Standford 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.