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Brett Lazer

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Digital Content Manager
New York, United States

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  • Callisto Media
    Manager, Copywriting
    Callisto Media
    May 2022 - Oct 2022 (6 months)
    Managed a team of copywriters and digital marketing designers for a data driven publishing company. Edited marketing copy and graphic design for Amazon product pages, company website, social media, and trade newsletters and ran A/B tests to gather data on product page performance and inform new copy and design strategies.
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    Founder
    Art Off the Wall
    May 2020 - May 2022 (2 years 1 month)
    Created a digital media product that uses pop culture to explore art history https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt7QI3uxFE9QmNQZ8OhKi9g
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    Head Of Content
    FleetWit
    Aug 2017 - May 2020 (2 years 10 months)
    Oversaw the creation of content for a trivia and gaming app. Built a database of over 80,000 high quality multiple choice trivia questions and developed new types of games and puzzles to increase user engagement.
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    Adjunct Professor
    CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND
    Aug 2016 - Dec 2016 (5 months)
    Designed and taught two lecture courses: a survey called Introduction to the Visual Arts and an advanced class called Art and Society in the Americas. The former provided a basic overview of art history, covering topics like formal analysis, the human figure in art, and art and globalization. The latter looked more closely at art in North, Central, and South America from the pre Columbian era to the early twentieth century.
  • Artsy
    Senior Genome Contributor
    Artsy
    Nov 2015 - Aug 2017 (1 year 10 months)
    Researched contemporary and historic works of art to provide accurate commercial and academic classification, while continuously refining the terminology used to categorize art objects.
  • New York University
    Graduate Teaching Assistant, Freshman Presidential Honors Scholars
    New York University
    Sep 2015 - May 2016 (9 months)
    Prepare classroom activities, grade writing assignments, led class tour of the Metropolitan Museum, served as a chaperone and tour guide during the class trip to Florence.
  • New York University
    Adjunct Professor
    New York University
    Jan 2014 - May 2015 (1 year 5 months)
    Taught two undergraduate lecture courses on art in Golden Age Spain, one of which focused on connecting the Spanish Baroque with artistic developments in viceregal Latin America. Major figures covered include El Greco, Baltasar de Echave Orio, Jusepe Ribera, Francisco de Zurbarán, Jose Juárez, Diego Velázquez, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Cristobal de Villalpando, and Goya.
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    Curatorial Intern
    The Frick Collection
    Sep 2013 - Dec 2013 (4 months)
    Used primary and secondary sources in English, Spanish and French to research Goya's portrait of Pedro Alcántara de Téllez-Girón, IX Duke of Osuna, from the late 1790s housed at the Frick.
  • Clark University
    Adjunct Professor
    Clark University
    Jan 2013 - May 2013 (5 months)
    Taught an undergraduate course titled "Tropical Baroque: The Art of Colonial Latin America", covering artistic developments in Latin America from 1500 to 1800. Topics covered include: Art of the Spanish missions, illustrated codices, Mannerist painting in Mexico and Peru, colonial architecture, casta painting, history of collecting.
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  • New York University
    Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Art History, Criticism and Conservation
    New York University
    Jan 2010 - Jan 2016 (6 years 1 month)
  • New York University
    Master of Arts
    New York University
    Jan 2008 - Jan 2010 (2 years 1 month)
  • Yale University
    Bachelor's Degree, Art History, Criticism and Conservation
    Yale University
    Jan 2003 - Jan 2007 (4 years 1 month)