Calcagno Cullen Education Associate, School and Teacher Programs, SFMoMA

Calcagno is currently the Education Associate for School and Teacher Programs at SFMoMA and Gallery Director for Adobe Books Backroom Gallery in San Francisco.  In addition to her work with CSMA, Calcagno freelances for the Santa Clara County Office of Education, offering workshops on integrating art into classrooms to teachers and administrators.  Before relocating to San Francisco, Calcagno managed school outreach programs at the Cincinnati Art Museum and worked as an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati and Chatfield College. Calcagno is also a multimedia artist and has served as an Artist in Residence at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA over the past year.  Her work strives to create and bring attention to relationships and communities.  She has shown her work widely throughout the US, including having work in curated exhibits in New York, Ann Arbor, Cincinnati, Boston, and San Francisco.  Most recently, Calcagno was included in the performance and film festival DISTANCE in London, England.  She is also part of Lo Studio dei Nipoti, an Italian-American artist residency, and is planning on working in Calabria with the program in 2012.