Melanie Franklin Cohn
Executive Director
Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island
1000 Richmond Terrace
Staten Island, NY 10301

Melanie Franklin Cohn is an arts administrator, curator, and editor. She is the Executive Director of the Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island and serves on the Advisory Committee for the Urban Art Program for the New York City Department of Transportation. She spent a total of seven years at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, beginning as a curatorial administrator in 1996 and working up to the position of head of the museum's publication program. She has edited major publications for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; and Creative Time, New York, among others.

Melanie has curated many exhibitions including "NY NY NY" (2007) at the Flux Factory, Long Island City, New York, a group exhibition that collectively re-imagined the five boroughs of New York City; "Counter Culture" (2004) at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, featuring site-specific installations on the Bowery; "Club 57: Where Are You?" (2005), a one-person show of Harvey Wang's photographs of the East Village from 1973-1982; and the zine and internet portions of the New Museum exhibition "alt.youth.media" (1996).  Her recent editorial work includes Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century (Phaidon Press/New Museum, 2007), Keith Edmier (Booth-Clibborn Editions/CCS Bard, 2007),  Who Cares (Creative Time, 2006), and Witness to Her Art
(CCS Bard Hessel Museum, 2006). Melanie Franklin Cohn received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1992 and her BFA from Missouri State University
in 1989.

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