Discipline: Literature

Andrew Weinstein

Discipline: Literature
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1997
Andrew Weinstein is a writer and scholar who earned his B.A. from Brown University, two M.A.s from the University of Pennsylvania and NYU, and a Ph.D. from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. He is an associate professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology – SUNY with a specialty is in modern and contemporary art with a focus on art theory and on Holocaust representation. He has presented papers at FIT through the Liberal Arts Roundtable program and Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations. Outside of FIT, he has spoken at the Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, the Association for Jewish Studies, the College Art Association, the International Congress of the Society for the Philosophical Study of Genocide and the Holocaust, and the Modern Language Association, and has lectured for the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford University, and Elderhostel. His criticism, essays, and fiction have appeared in American Book Review, Bloomsbury Review, Boulevard, High Plains Literary Review, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Philadelphia Inquirer, Studies in Short Fiction, zingmagazine, and other publications.

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Star

Andrew Weinstein worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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