Alice Boone
About
Alice Boone is the Manager of Art + Engineering Initiatives in the McCormick School of Engineering, facilitating opportunities for McCormick faculty and students to explore what art and engineering share in their inquiries: interests in making, materiality, iterative processes, and more. She teaches on the Communication side of Design Thinking and Communication in Segal Design Institute.
After teaching college literature and writing courses, Alice moved into the museum field. She was the Woman’s Board Fellow at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she worked with audiences of all ages to activate galleries, studios, and public spaces. She continues to lead occasional public tours at the Art Institute, where you can find her talking about liminal spaces in art, artists’ responses to technological change, and many other subjects. Alice was also the Curator of Education and Public Programs at the University of Vermont, where she built an academic engagement program that brought classes across the discipline to the museum and developed innovative local artist- and student-led performances that responded to key social issues in the museum.
Education
Ph.D, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York, NY
BA, English, Barnard College, New York NY