CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

1998 - Present
President, Cusick Consulting, Los Angeles

1994 - 1998
Director, Civic Art & Design, The Cultural Arts Council, Houston

1989 - 1994
Director, MTA, Art for Rail Transit Program, Los Angeles

1988 - 1989
Curator/Registrar, Macklowe Collection of Contemporary Art, New York City

1985 - 1988
Project Director, Hammarskjold Plaza Sculpture Garden, New York City

1979 - 1984
Project Director, The Public Art Fund, Inc., New York City

1976 - 1979
Manager, Zabriskie Gallery, Paris, France

EDUCATION
Department of French Literature, New York University, M.A., 1979
Sorbonne, Paris, France, Degree in Art History (License), 1976
Universite Paul Valery, Montpellier, France, D.U.E.L. in Art History, 1974
French Baccalaureate, Lycee Francais, Rabat, Morocco, 1972

LANGUAGES
French, Italian and Spanish

MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS
Chair, National Advisory Council, Public Art Network, 2000 - 2002

Chair, Public Art Network steering committee, 1998 - 2000

Adjunct Professor, Public Art Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1992-

Member, National Advisory Board, Public Art Review, 1996 -

Member, Board of Directors, The Center for Aids, Houston, Texas, 1995 - 1998

Chair, Planning Committee, Public Art: Realities, Theories and Issues, International conference on public art, Los Angeles, October, 1993-94

Public Arts Advisory Committee, Cultural Affairs Commission, Los Angeles, 1991-1994

Public Art and Design Policy Panel, California Council on the Arts, 1991-1994

SELECTED PANELS, SEMINARS AND LECTURES

"Light Rail and Public Transportation Systems: a public art workshop", Phoenix Arts Commission and Valley Metro, Phoenix, Arizona, 2001

"Urban Parks, Open Space and City Livability," ULI Mayors Forum, Seattle, Washington, 1999

"Designing a Public Art Plan: a National Overview," Public Art 101 Conference, Seattle, Washington, 1999

"The Houston Model: new funding solutions for public art," College Art Association annual conference, Los Angles, California, 1999

"Directing Change," Americans for the Arts annual conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1997

"Approaches to Public Art: the Architect"s Perspective," Degrees of Collaboration Conference, Toronto, Canada, 1996

"The Artist as Master Planner," International Sculpture Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, 1996

"The Planning Perspective: Can Spontaneous Development Work?" NALAA annual convention, St. Louis, Missouri, 1996

"In the Public Realm: Planning without Zoning, " Rice Design Alliance, Houston, Texas, 1995

"The artist in the public realm," American Society of Landscape Architects, Texas Chapter Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, 1995

"Copyright Hell and other burning legal questions," Public Art: Realities, Theories and Issues conference, Los Angeles, California, 1994

"Public Art--Examples, Issues and Priorities," WTS 1994 National Conference, Los Angeles, California, 1994

"Art for Rail Transit," American Public Transit Association National Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1993

"Developing a Sense of Place: Creating Identity," Governor"s Conference on the Arts III, Los Angeles, California, 1993

"Designing Joint Development Opportunities," American Public Transit Association Conference, Los Angeles, California, 1992

"Design Matters," WTS 1992 National Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, 1992

"Station to Station," Art in Public Places Symposium, Miami, Florida, 1992

"Public Art: Life in the City," The Contemporary Art Fair, Los Angeles, California, 1991

"Art in Public Places," Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, 1991

"Coalition Building: Case Studies in Public Art," National Assembly of Local Arts Agencies, Annual Convention, San Diego, California, 1990

"The Role of Public Art," National Conference of the Society of Environmental Designers, Cranbrook, Michigan, 1990

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

"Public Art: A Civic Building Block," University Art Museum, Arlington, Texas, 2000.  Exhibition catalogue

"Hands On -- A Public Role in Transit Art," Places, Summer, 1994

"The State of the Arts: L. A. County Transportation Commission," L.A. Architect, June, 1990

"In the Making: Drawings by Sculptors," Sculpture Center, New York City, 1988. 

"Mythical Menage: Chiseled and Sawn," June Kelly Gallery, New York City, 1988. 

"Sculpture/Aspen," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, 1986.  Exhibition catalogue.

"In Three Dimensions: Recent Sculpture by Women," Pratt Manhattan Center, New York City, 1985.  Exhibition catalogue.

"Ten Years of Public Art," The Urban Center, New York City, 1982.  Exhibition catalogue.

Arthur Gibbons, Freidus Gallery, New York City, 1978.  Exhibition catalogue.