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Biography
Since 2000, Camilla Cook has been committed to supporting the arts in Connecticut and New York. As an Artist Consultant, Camilla Cook has drawn on her arts administration experience to provide strategies that empower artists to advance their careers.
As Guild/Exhibitions Administrator at Silvermine Guild Arts Center in New Canaan, CT, Camilla was responsible for processing over 8,000 artist applications and exhibition proposals. Assisting in the production of over 100 exhibitions, Camilla coordinated advertising and marketing campaigns, designed and produced printed materials, guided artists through application procedures, liaised with jurors and arts professionals, oversaw delivery and installation of artwork, arranged receptions, lectures, symposia, critiques and enrichment programs. In May 2007, Camilla oversaw the launching of Silvermine’s updated website (www.silvermineart.org), and exclusively crafted the Online Gallery and Guild pages which are excellent resources for collectors, curators, educators and the greater community.
In addition to her work at Silvermine, Camilla has contributed to other regional arts organizations. She curated the exhibition "Fresh Pics: Contemporary Art in Connecticut" featuring over 50 artists at the Ridgefield Guild of Artists (January 23 - February 20, 2010). She has served on the invitational Aldrich Contemporaries committee at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT since 2006. She has assisted Purchase College art history professor Elizabeth Guffey with research for the book Retro: The Culture of Revival, and has worked on behalf of The Neuberger Museum of Art, NY to catalog the artwork of celebrated printmaker Antonio Frasconi. She volunteered at the Westport Arts Center to help develop their Online Gallery.
Camilla was a recipient of the Dr. Noel S. and Richard B. Frackman Scholarship and received a Masters in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Theory and Criticism at Purchase College, NY in January 2009. She was awarded a Neuberger Curatorial Fellowship and curated the well-received exhibition Focus On: Calder's Circus, The Lithographs (October 19, 2008 - February 15, 2009) at The Neuberger Museum of Art. She has also curated the exhibitions Michael Manning: Everyday Hero, at The UCONN Stamford Art Gallery in 2009 and Fresh Pics: Contemporary Art in Connecticut at The Ridgefield Guild of Artists in 2010.
Camilla received a B.A. in Art History from Boston University and has studied fine art and art history abroad at Rygaards Skole in Hellerup, Denmark (1995), Studio Arts Centers International (SACI) in Florence, Italy (2001) and Kunsthøjskolen Thorstedlund in Frederikssund, Denmark (2002). As a result of her travels and studies, Camilla is conversant in Danish, Italian and Spanish.
Whether applying to exhibitions, crafting press releases, managing mailing lists or cataloging artwork, Camilla brings an insider’s view to help artists achieve their professional goals. |
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