 Becker will be moving on to head the Columbia University's School of the Arts in New York City in the fall. She corresponded with F News via email from Rome about her new position, what she'll miss about SAIC, and what Chicago needs to do to become a great art city.
interview by Natalie Edwards |
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How will you tackle your new job at Columbia? What will you take from
your experience at SAIC to Columbia? |
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Columbia University is a very different situation. The School of the
Arts is surrounded by one of the most esteemed intellectual faculty
in the country. So,it probably needs to broaden its scope to include
the conversations happening on the campus in other disciplines and it
probably needs to take leadership in initiating some of these
conversations across disciplines. Universities because of their scale
and the traditions of each discipline tend to remain much more
isolate and disciplines do not cross over as easily. The
interdisciplinary nature of SAIC, which i love, will be something I
will take with me because it is how I also think, and have come to
think from all my years here. |
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