The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School
Alvin Johnson-J.M. Kaplan Hall
66 West 12th Street, Room 918
New York, New York 10011

Phone: 212.229.2436
Email: vlc@newschool.edu

Carin Kuoni, Director
The Vera List Center is directed by Carin Kuoni (M.A. University of Zurich; B.A. Sorbonne). An art historian by education, and a curator and critic by practice, Kuoni was previously director of exhibitions at Independent Curators International (ICI) and director of the Swiss Institute New York. She has curated and co-curated over twenty international exhibitions, and has written for a number of international publications. A founding member of the artists' collective REPOhistory, she is the editor of Energy Plan for the Western Man: Joseph Beuys in America (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1990 [paperback 1993]), and Words of Wisdom: A Curator's Vade Mecum on Contemporary Art (New York: ICI, 2001). Her exhibition, The Puppet Show (co-curated with Ingrid Schaffner) toured nationally from 2008-2009; in 2008, she curated OURS: Democracy in the Age of Branding for Parsons The New School for Design.

Alyssa Pheobus, Senior Office Assistant
Administrative support for the Vera List Center is provided by Alyssa Pheobus (M.F.A. Columbia; B.A. Yale). Before joining the VLC in 2008, she worked for organizations such as the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University, the Colby College Museum of Art, The Jewish Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery. She is also an artist and teacher. Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions at Bellwether, Dieu Donné, Exit Art, and most recently, Tracy Williams, Ltd. in New York.

Student Employees 2009–10
Tess Drahman, NSGS, Graduate Program in Media Studies
Alyssa Herman, NSGS, Graduate Program in International Affairs
 
Intern
Julie Snavely