About the Course: 

This course explores how to appreciate art in galleries and art fairs. People often had difficulty understanding artists in galleries and art fairs because of the lack of contextual knowledge and socio-cultural background. The presence of arts and culture overwhelmingly affects respondents’ sense of well-being and satisfaction, their attachment to a place, and their sense of community. Galleries have multiple roles, both visible and invisible: to incubate and support their artists, often by going above and beyond the normal work of putting on shows, promoting their artists, and selling the works; and to providing services such as financial management or book publishing, in order to support artists to focus more on their work.

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Instructor: Dr. Jinyoung

Jinyoung Koh is a graduate program director and an assistant professor in Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education at Towson University in Maryland. Dr. Koh completed a Doctor of Education in Art & Art Education from Columbia University in New York. He earned a Master of Fine Arts in Photo & Media from the California Institute of the Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His art has received numerous awards and is included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

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