Lindsey Westbrook ‘97
Lindsey is in her fourth year of full-time freelance work as an editor and occasional writer in art, architecture, and design. She writes that “after four years in publications at the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and seven years as managing editor at
California College of the Arts, it was time to muster my courage and take the plunge into working for myself! I'm very happy to say I'm busy all the time, and that the work is different every day and always interesting.”
Lindsey works for a range of museums, art galleries, individual curators and art historians, not by design, but simply because of how her client list “organically evolved”. Lindsey works on texts that have been translated into English, or that will be translated out of English and assists non-native English writers improve their writing.
Lindsey’s career doesn’t include travel but she regularly communicates with clients in Milan, Sao Paulo, Brussels, and Basel, as well as San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York. Lindsey’s Southern California clients include the Getty, the Hammer, and the Broad.
Read her recent "behind the scenes at SFMOMA" stories at:
https://www.sfmoma.org/author/lindsey-westbrook/.
and travelogue-type entries from the last couple of years:
http://www.rustymufflers.com/Budapest-Zagrebhttp://www.rustymufflers.com/Bangkok-CambodiaConnect with Lindsey on LinkedIn if you'd like to get in touch:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsey-westbrook-510b0072Mary Urban ‘07
Mary returned to OC this fall, where she is looking for work after a stint as art and home valuation manager at The Real Real in LA. She has been volunteering at the Stanford White-designed historic house in Modjeska Canyon,
the Modjeska House, after returning from a summer visit to Vienna- her “absolute favorite city for art history”.
Mary’s favorite UCI memory will always be her first American art history class with Cecile Whiting, which led her to earn her masters in American fine and decorative arts. Mary ‘absolutely adored her class and will never forget how much Cecile’s class meant to her.’
Rombod Rahimian ‘11
Rombodis in medical school at the
University of Arizona, where he ran a free clinic providing free immunizations and outpatient pediatric and adolescent health services. He additionally spent time working with the Cook Islands Ministry of Health, where he helped conduct annual school health physicals and screenings. Rom is still conducting non-profit public health work through the
Red Hibiscus Foundation currently raising funds to provide hospital beds, all terrain wheelchairs, and medical care to patients rural and isolated Pacific Islands in Micronesia and the South Pacific.
Rom writes “ I loved my time as an Art History student at UCI and wish that the new
4+1 program was available when I was a student! Dr. Anna Gonosová really changed the course of my undergraduate career, I never thought I would be an art history major until I took her Gothic Art class, which was absolutely fantastic.”
Claudia Bosch ‘13
Claudia graduated from UCI in 2012 with a BA in Global Cultures and received a Certificate in Ethnomusicology and a BA in Art History in 2013. She earned a Master of Arts in Arts Administration from the
School of Public and Environmental Affairs (“SPEA”) at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she gained valuable experience working with IU Campus Art, completing an inventory and data management project. She also volunteered for special events and worked on strengthening the European and American art curatorial files at the
Indiana University Art Museum (now the Eskenazi Museum of Art).
Claudia incorporated music performance in her graduate studies, taking vibraphone lessons and playing a lead tenor steel drum in the
IU Steel Pan Ensemble. She handled logistics planning and was liaison for performers and table hosts for the annual
SPEA Global Fest spring 2016 and performed with the IU Steel Pan Ensemble at this event. Upon her return to Southern California, she interned at
Koniakowsky Ocean Art Gallery in Solana Beach and currently volunteers at the
Oceanside Museum of Art, working in the museum store, front desk and special events.
She recently received a
Certificate in Microsoft Certified Applications Specialist for Business and will graduate with an AA in Accounting spring 2019. Claudia has worked diligently to acquire skills valuable in the arts administration field and looks forward to working in a museum in the near future, in particular the UCI Institute and Museum for California Art!
Ashley Chen ‘13
Ashley is Marketing Art Manager in the Marketing Department at
MobilityWare, a mobile gaming company and the original creators of the Solitaire app. She continues to be a working artist and photographer and run
her own design business that serves clients across all industries in her free time.
Ashley’s fondest memories at UCI were being a part of AHUA and putting together the first AHUA Art Show.
Emilie Martin Awerkamp ‘13
Emilie has enjoyed working at
CDC Designs, a model home interior design firm in Costa Mesa, for past year. Emilie found the things she learned about mid-century modern design in Professor Whiting's Pacific Standard Time class (LA Modernism), have been “really useful now that that style is a major trend!” She spent the previous three years as librarian at
Sonora Elementary School in Costa Mesa.
Some of Emilie’s favorite UCI memories were going to class. She ‘really loved everything she was learning and had such interesting and engaging professors.’ She always looked forward to AHUA meetings and ‘enjoyed the support and creative freedom provided by AHUA’s staff and faculty advisers.’ Emilie interned at
Archivio di Stato di Firenze while abroad in Florence her junior year; she notes “studying abroad was one of the best decisions I ever made. I studied art history in one of the most influential cities in our field, ate gelato everyday, and met my husband, Jake” who was studying architecture in Cal Poly Pomona’s Study Abroad Program. Jake and Emilie married last summer 2017 in a beautiful ceremony at
the Heritage Museum in Santa Ana.
