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Back to Class News August 19, 2006 Phoebe Bradley AIS class of 1974 phoebebrad@gmail.com
After graduation in Delhi in 1974, I attended art schools in London, Minneapolis and the San Francisco Bay Area. I received my BFA in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute, where I met my husband Sheldon Brown. I returned to India only once for 6 months in 1976 to study sitar and weaving in West Bengal. Later that year I settled in the Berkeley/Oakland area, where I lived for 17 years. In addition to exhibiting my art in Berkeley, I wrote art reviews for the Berkeley Monthly Magazine and worked as a freelance media production coordinator for museums and many Bay Area companies for more than 10 years. In 1990, we moved to Kansas City where I was hired by the University of Kansas at Lawrence to coordinate a documentary film series. In 1991 we moved to Chicago when my husband got a teaching position at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While in Chicago, I worked as a juror for Chicago International Film Festival. In 1992, we moved to San Diego when Sheldon was hired by the University of California at San Diego. Our first daughter, Thea, was born in 1993 and our second daughter, Chloe, was born in 2001. Since my daughters were born, I have continued to make art; however until recently, only sporadically. In the early '90s I wrote a science fiction novel {still unpublished!}. For the past 4 years I have volunteered to teach art in my daughter's elementary school {as the state of California no longer funds art programs at the elementary level}. I have also worked as a private ESL {English as a Second Language} teacher for the past 8 years.
Luckily, as a family, we have had the opportunity to travel abroad quite a bit lately {because of my husband's teaching and art careers}. This past spring we were in London for 10 days as Sheldon lectured at both London University and at Cambridge. Over the past several years we were in Italy, when Sheldon had an exhibition in Florence, in Barcelona Spain and we even got to live in Tokyo for two months. In the near future we are looking at the possibility of a teaching sabbatical in India {either in Hyderabad or Delhi}, as Sheldon is part of a new U.S./India academic collaboration in development through the University of California. Currently, we live in a small coastal town, Encinitas, just north of San Diego. If anyone is interested, I have recently updated my personal website: and I am hoping to update my AIS/AES virtual yearbook site soon as well: http://www.geocities.com/paglibaba/AIS/aes.html Shanti to all~ Phoebe See also Phoebe's trip to India. |
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