Chad Laird
Business and Liberal Arts Center, Room B634
Education
AA, Pensacola Junior College
BA, Florida State University
MA, Stony Brook, State University of New York
2014-2015 State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching
Biography
Chad Laird is an adjunct assistant professor in the History of Art department, where he specializes in modern and contemporary art, film, and museum studies. Laird also teaches art history, aesthetics, and design theory at the New York School of Interior Design. He is a co-founder of the Sunview Luncheonette, a community art space in Brooklyn where he is involved in programming.
Laird's own artistic practice involves sound and music, including sound design for experimental films and musical work with the group Jantar, most recently in projects at Roulette Intermedium and the Museum Without Building project at Les Petit Versailles.
Laird holds an MA from Stony Brook University.
Courses
- HA 112 History of Western Art and Civilization: Renaissance to the Modern Era
- HA 213 Rome: A Cultural History in Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture
- HA 231 Modern Art
- HA 251 Film Genres: Horror
- HA 361 History and Meaning of the Museum
- HA 411 Western Theories of Art