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CHAN CHAO Photographer http://www.chanchao.net 202.3023319
Chan Chao was born in Kalemyo, Burma in 1966. He and his family left Burma for the United States in 1978. Nazraeli Press has published three books by Chao: Burma: Something Went Wrong, Letter from PLF and Echo. His Burma portraits were included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. Chao is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, G Fine Art in Washington, DC, and Paul Kopeiken Gallery in Los Angeles.
Chao’s photographs are in the permanent collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the L.A. County Museum of Art and the LaSalle Bank Photography Collection. His work has been published in Colors Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, GEO Magazine, Culture & Travel Magazine and The Walrus. See the website for a full list of exhibitions, collections, and lectures.
English Literature Lillian Bisson, Ph.D. lillian.bisson@marymount.edu
For 30 years, Dr. Bisson has been teaching Medieval Literature, the classics of the Western Civilization, and seminars on Dante, Chaucer, and Shakespeare. She has published numerous articles on medieval poetry and prose and a book on Chaucer. Dr. Bisson has taught the lessons of Jane Austen’s novels to generations. She has also influenced many young scholars as they wrote their theses. Lillian is a globtrotter and adventurer.
ART HISTORY Beth S. Gersh-Nešić, Ph.D.
Dr. Gersh-Nešić specializes in Twentieth-Century Painting however, her research has deciphered the genius of Picasso, 14th -Century Italian Paintings, Seventeenth Century Portraiture, and the cubism of André Salmon. She is Director of the widely-read websites: New York Arts Art Critic and About.com: Art History. Beth has worked on many museum exhibits including The Bannister Gallery, New York University’s Grey Gallery, The Cloisters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum. As an Art Consultant she also provides expertise to art galleries and museums. Beth has written numerous articles and books, curated shows and led museum tours. Beth is known to a large group of New York museum afficionados because she generously introduces art lovers to the full personal and professional history of artists. To visit the Louvre, the MET, or any smaller museum with Beth is to enter another world, the world beyond the canvas, into the heart and mind of the painter.
European History and Literature Angela Iovino, Ph.D. info@culturalstudyabroad.com 202 669 1562
Founder of CSA, college professor, and world-traveler, received her Ph.D. in Medieval Italian Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington and teaches Medieval and Modern European history and literaure at Georgetown University and George Washington University in Washington DC, China, and Europe. Angela is also an artist and is represented by the Parish Gallery in Washington DC.
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