Lauren Graber

415.419.6977 | lauren.graber16@gmail.com

EXPERTISE

Demonstrated experience in administrative support and project management for multiple supervisors, executives, and departments. Acumen in research, writing, and copy-editing correspondence, reports, and publications. Content creation of academic texts and articles as well as spreadsheets, presentations, and reports. Supported the development and implementation of public event programming. Exceptional verbal, written, and interactive communication skills. Excellent ability to manage and complete multiple projects. Sustained interest in art and culture philanthropy, non-profit, and academic communities.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Curatorial Research Assistant
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

  • Curation of Exhibitions: Collaborated with Curators on exhibition concept development, meetings, research, object selection, coordination, registration, design, conservation, digitization, image rights, loan agreements, installation and deinstallation. Collaborated on research, content creation, and copy-editing for all texts, websites, sound installations, videos, audio guides, and promotional materials. Collaborated on public programs and events and lead tours
  • Project Management: Co-managed with the Curators sections of the Käthe Kollwitz Research Project, which comprised acquisition, processing, cataloging, research, conservation, digitization, workshops and events, Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) Technical Study, budget, loans, the book publication, and the exhibition. Co-organized work flows with Curatorial, Conservation, Special Collections, Collections Management, Exhibitions, Design, Events, Publications, and Getty Digital and the GCI
  • Administrative Support and Research: Developed and updated all checklists, spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, logs, documents, correspondence, and collections management databases. Completed academic research, reports, and analysis. Assisted on budget reports.
  • Book Publications: collaborated with the Curator, Designer, and Editor on all aspects of concept development, research, and design; completed translations; wrote image captions; edited manuscripts; assisted on image rights and digitization
  • Acquisitions and Valuation: Collaborated on more than 170 art acquisitions/ Provided research and analysis, and wrote financial reports. Determined art valuations. Assisted in negotiations with dealers and donors. Researched and wrote acquisition forms in FileMaker Pro

2016 - 2021

Writer and Postdoctoral Researcher
DeGruyter

  • Commissioned to research, write, and copy edit academic articles for the Art Market Dictionary

2016 - 2021

Curatorial Research Assistant
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles

  • Cataloged prints and drawings from the 1500s to the present in The Museum System
  • Assisted with the implementation of the Grunwald Collection digital art history database
  • Project management of image rights permissions: conducted research and analysis on rights holders; negotiated fees and payments; developed and maintained spreadsheets and files

2017

Independent Scholar and Postdoctoral Researcher
Los Angeles and Berlin, Germany

  • Extensive research and archival experience with rare documents, artworks, photographs, and ephemera at numerous archives, artists’ studios, private collections, libraries, museums, and galleries in the U.S., Germany, Holland, and Denmark
  • Expertise in German, Danish, and American library and archival systems
  • Publication of high level academic research

2013 - 2021

Committee Member and Teacher
The Public School Los Angeles, part of The Poetic Research Bureau

  • Co-organized and taught lectures, reading groups, film screenings, and other activities
  • Raised funding; media and internet promotion; shared administrative duties

2013 - 2016

Museum Educator
Museum of Tolerance–Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles

  • Specialist Educator on racism, discrimination, and anti-Semitism for school groups and public visitors

2003 - 2004



EDUCATION

Ph.D. History of Art
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  • Ph.D. Dissertation: Gruppe SPUR and Gruppe GEFLECHT: Art and Dissent in West Germany, 1957-1968
  • Specializations and research interests: modern and contemporary art; German studies; Cold War studies; history and theory of Left politics; avant-garde music and sound art

2004 - 2012

M.A. History of Art
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  • Specialization: modern and contemporary art

2004 - 2006

Bachelor of Arts
University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Majors: Art History (Honors), Political Science–International Relations (Honors); Minor: Italian Cultural Studies
  • Honors Thesis: Reconstructing Identity: Historical Memory and the Rebuilding of the Reichstag and Christ the Savior Cathedral

1998 - 2002



TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan, Department of the History of Art, “History of Art 112: History of Photography” (2006)

 

Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan, Department of the History of Art, “History of Art 102: Western Art from the Middle Ages to the Present” (2006)

 

Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan, Department of the History of Art, “History of Art 271: Origins of Modernism: French 19th Century Visual Culture” (2005)

 


PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)

“Galerie Parnass.” Art Market Dictionary. Ed. Johannes Nathan. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021

 

“Galerie Der Spiegel.” Art Market Dictionary. Ed. Johannes Nathan. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021

 

“Galerie van de Loo.” Art Market Dictionary. Ed. Johannes Nathan. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021

 

“The Red Flag: The Art and Politics of West German Maoism.” Art, Global Maoism, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Co-authored with Daniel Spaulding. Eds. Noemi de Haro García, Jacopo Galimberti, and Victoria H.F. Scott, 109-127. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019

 

“Introduction.” Everything Else is Even More Ridiculous: A Decade of Noise & Politics. Datacide Magazine Issues 1-10. Eds. Christoph Fringeli, Lauren Graber, et al, 11-13. Berlin: Datacide Books, 2015

 

“Creators of New Values: Gruppe SPUR and Drakabygget–The Workshop of Freedom.” Expo Jorn, Art is a Festival. Eds. Karen Friis and Karen Kurczynski, 46-49. Silkeborg: Museum Jorn, 2014

 

In progress The Politics of Cold War Expression: Gruppe SPUR, Gruppe GEFLECHT, and Kollektiv Herzogstrasse, 1957-1982

 


CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES (SELECTED)

“Kollektiv Herzogstrasse at the Drakabygget Commune: International Artistic-Political Collaborations during the 1970s,” German Studies Association 44th Annual Conference, 2020

 

“Collecting the Art of Käthe Kollwitz in the U.S.: Walter Landauer in Dialogue with Emil Richter, Alexander Wagner, Dr. Jur. Portius, Alexander von der Becke, and Hudson Walker,” Getty Research Institute, Käthe Kollwitz Research Project Workshop, 2018

 

“West German Anti-Authoritarian Education and the Children’s Shops Movement in the 1970s,” College Art Association 106th Annual Conference, Los Angeles, February 21, 2018

 

“The Red Flag: Jörg Immendorff’s Maoist Art and the Communist Party of Germany,” College Art Association 105th Annual Conference, New York, 2017

 

“From Kindergarten to the Akademie: Art and Social Change in Munich during and after 1968,” German Socialisms GSA Interdisciplinary Network panel, German Studies Association 39th Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., 2015

 

“Occupy the Art Academy: Gruppe GEFLECHT and the Extra-Parliamentary Opposition in Munich, 1967-1970,” German Studies Association 38th Annual Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, 2014

 

“Networked Counter-Cultural Strategies,” The Public School Los Angeles, 2013

 

“Gruppe SPUR in ‘Exile’: International Collaborations in Scandinavia,” Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies Panel “The Visual Arts in Cold War Germany and Beyond,” German Studies Association 34th Annual Conference, Oakland, California, 2010

 

“Gruppe SPUR: Confronting Repressive Boundaries of Cold War Culture and Politics in Bavaria,” Cold War Cultures: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Conference, University of Texas, Austin, 2010

 


RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS (SELECTED)

Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan, Department of the History of Art, 2011

 

Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School, 2011

 

Rackham Conference Travel Grant, University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School, 2010

 

Berlin Program Fellowship for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, 2009

 

German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, DAAD) Research Grant, 2008

 

Rackham International Research Award, University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School, 2007

 

Research Grant, University of Michigan, Department of the History of Art, 2006

 

Research Grant, University of Michigan, Department of the History of Art, 2005

 

Distinction in the Major and High Honors for Senior Thesis, Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002

 

Chancellor’s Research Award, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002

 


LANGUAGES
  • German (Excellent Knowledge)
  • Italian (Reading Knowledge)
  • Danish (Basic Knowledge)
 


SKILLS
  • Office 365 Suite
  • The Museum System (TMS)
  • FileMaker Pro
  • OpenText Media Management and other digital asset management programs
  • Adobe CS 6
  • Adobe Acrobat
  • WordPress
  • Airtable
  • Google Suite
  • All social media platforms
  • Aound production programs: Ableton Live, Cubase
 


ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS
  • Historians of German, Scandinavian, and Central European Art & Architecture
  • German Studies Association
  • College Art Association
 

CONTACT

Email
lauren.graber16@gmail.com

Phone
415.419.6977

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