| Director, 92nd Street Y School of the Arts |
A member of the 92nd Street Y's management team since 1987, Robert Gilson was named director of the 92nd Street Y School of the Arts in 1993. The school, one of the Y's eight programming divisions, comprises the organization's art, music and dance education programs, as well as an active arts outreach program that brings the joy of the arts to 7,000 public elementary school children in East Harlem. Before joining the Y in 1987, Mr. Gilson held several arts management positions including Director for Special Programs in Art at Skidmore College and Director of the School of the Arts at Chautauqua Institution.
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Mr. Gilson is a formally trained photographer who has exhibited and published both photographs and articles in Europe and North America. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Vermont Council on the Arts. He is a member of the Society of Photographic Education, as well as the College Art Association. Robert Gilson has served on advisory panels for the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Mr. Gilson has taught and lectured extensively at Skidmore College, the Rochester Institute of Technology, the State University of New York at Brockport and elsewhere.
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Robert Gilson received a B.S. in English from Castleton State College and an M.A. in photography from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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