Berry leads Tang
Ian Berry, associate director and Malloy Curator at Skidmore’s Tang Museum, has been named to its Dayton Directorship. He succeeds John Weber, the Tang’s di- rector for eight years, who left to help found the Institute of the Arts and Sci- ences at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Beau Breslin, dean of the faculty, calls
Berry “a brilliant artistic visionary, one who not only understands the current wave of contemporary art, but in every way helps to shape that wave.” He says Berry “acutely understands the impor- tance of the Tang’s central mission as a teaching museum.” Berry was the Tang’s founding curator in 2000, after serving as assistant curator at the Williams College Museum of Art. A SUNY-Albany graduate, he earned an MA in curatorial studies at Bard College in 1998. He has served and led a range of arts councils and associations, and in
2009–10 he held the Roy Acuff Chair of Excellence in the Creative Arts at Austin Peay Univer- sity in Tennessee. Over the years
Berry has organ- ized, and authored catalogs for, many of the Tang’s most memorable shows. He worked closely with artists such as Nayland Blake, Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, Nina Katchadourian, Los Carpinteros, Shahzia Sikander, Fred Tomaselli, and Kara Walker. And his ap- proach to collaborating with faculty on large interdisciplinary shows—from Mapping Art and Science to Lives of the Hudson to We the People—has become a
Meyers and Simon retire ROY MEYERS LINDA SIMON
The Skidmore faculty bade farewell this term to retiring professors Roy Mey- ers and Linda Simon.
Meyers joined the biology faculty in 1971, finishing his PhD at SUNY’s Downstate Medical Center the next year. He helped shape Skidmore’s University Without Walls and taught early and often in its program for prison inmates. Over the years Meyers taught a wide range of physiology courses and intro- duced computer modeling of physiologi-
cal functions and interven- tions. Meyers published in major journals on both phys- iology and computers in pedagogy, and he served on Skidmore’s pre-med ad- vising com- mittee.
His Web-Human physiology simula- tor (co-authored in the late 1990s and frequently updated ever since) allows students to conduct finely tuned, com- plex experiments testing combinations of physiological functions, treatments, and reactions—from symptoms to lab analyses to diagnoses—through com - puter modeling, without risking the health of a live subject. The tool has been adopted by thousands of professors and researchers around the world, who
run some 100,000 experiments each year. Simon came to Skidmore in 1997, with a Brandeis PhD in English and American literature and 14 years on Har- vard’s English faculty. She taught fiction and nonfiction writing, 19th- and early 20th-century American lit, and courses on the memoir, contemporary imagina- tion, and other topics.
A prolific scholar and writer, Simon published articles on Upton Sinclair, John Cheever, women’s biographies, Jane Austen, Charles Reznikoff, writing across the curriculum, and more. Her books include The Biography of Alice B. Toklas (1977), Thornton Wilder: His World (1979), Of Virtue Rare: Margaret Beaufort, Matriarch of the House of Tudor (1982), Genuine Reality: A Life of William James (1998), Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray (2004), and Coco Chanel (2011), as well as several textbooks on writing. She is the general editor for the journal William James Stud- ies and for the Camden House series Mind and American Literature. —SR
CURATOR IAN BERRY IS THE NEW DAYTON DIRECTOR OF THE TANG MUSEUM.
national model for best practices in col- lege museums. Berry says he’s honored to serve as di-
rector, adding, “It is a pleasure to be part of a great team that lives the museum’s mission in every part of our daily work.” —BK, SR
6 SCOPE SPRING 2013
GLENN DAVENPORT
SAM BROOK ’12
RUSTY RUSSELL
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