Faculty Fellow
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art Professions, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Melissa Rachleff Burtt joined the Visual Art Administration Program in Steinhardt’s Department of Art and Art Professions as a clinical associate professor in 2008. Previously, Rachleff Burtt spent 8 years as a program officer at the New York State Council on the Arts. Rachleff Burtt held a variety of arts-related positions, including associate curator at Exit Art (1989-1995); head of adult and community programs at the Brooklyn Museum (1995-1997). She has written on the subject of photography, art, and art management for a variety of publications. Rachleff Burtt received her B.S. degree in Art and Design from Drexel University, and is an alumna of the NYU/ICP MA Program at Art and Art Professions program. Rachleff Burtt is currently working on an exhibition and book project titled Inventing Downtown: Artist Run Galleries in New York City, 1950-1965. The exhibition will open at the Grey Art Gallery (NYU) during the 2015/2016 academic year. Her essay, “Do It Yourself:A History of Alternatives” was published in Alternative Histories: New York Art Spaces, 1960-2010, by MIT Press in 2012.