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halley k harrisburg '90
Director of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. She has worked in the art profession for fourteen years. Beginning her career at Josh Baer Gallery. In 1992 she joined Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, where she has organized significant exhibitions that have explored the depth and breadth of twentieth-century American art. Known for presenting historically significant but under-recognized artists and movements, she has become a leading dealer in the field of historical African-American art. In 1993, they launched the groundbreaking exhibition series, African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks.
Over the last decade, this series has presented the highest quality work by the most important African-American artists, showcasing a full range of aesthetic styles, subjects and media. As a result, this series has elevated the reputations of the artists included and enhanced the awareness of African-American artists' contributions to the history of American art.
She has also organized exhibitions that include Fiber & Form: The Woman's Legacy and its traveling sequel True Grit. To accompany each exhibition, harrisburg has designed and edited over eighty gallery publications and many of her books have been recognized for their excellence; most recently, Martha Madigan: Vernal Equinox won the 2002 Independent Publisher's Award (IPPY) for Outstanding Book of the Year.
Committed to education, she lectures frequently on twentieth-century American art and is an adjunct teacher at PS36/The Margaret Douglas School, a New York City public elementary school located in Harlem. She serves on the Bowdoin College Museum of Art Executive Advisory Council, the Executive Board of the Children's Museum of Manhattan (CMOM), the Advisory Board of the Apollo Theater Foundation and The Archives of American Art 50th Anniversary Committee. She was recently elected to ArtTable, a national non-profit membership organization for professional women in leadership positions in the visual arts.