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Lauren M. Magnifico
Lauren M. Magnifico is a curator, artist and gallery consultant, digital communications specialist, and marketing specialist.

Upon graduating from Saint Mary's College (Indiana) with her Bachelor's degree in Art History and a minor in Dance Lauren Magnifico went on to start her promising career in the arts. She gained extensive experience through two positions at The University of Notre Dame; one as an assistant curator and assistant to the Marketing and PR Specialist at The Snite Museum of Art and one position at The Institute for Latino Studies where she acted as the Project Coordinator for a grant funded by the Office of Minority Health focusing on Latino Obesity and as the Curator of the art collections of both The Institute and of Dr. Gilberto Cardenas. She is currently working in the for-profit gallery world focusing not only on learning the trade of the art market but also acting as digital communications and community specialist.

The Snite Museum of Art
Magnifico spent three years working at the Snite Museum of Art, one as a curatorial intern and two as an assistant curator and assistant to the Marketing and PR specialist. During this time She became the Museum expert concerning the Charles S. Hayes Collection of 20th Century Mexican Graphics, a rare collection of works by the artists associated with the El Taller de Gráfica Popular (TGP). Magnifico held the responsibility of handling these fragile works, constructing the database containing these acquisitions and maintaining the condition reports for this collection. In addition to the collection paper work Magnifico had the opportunity to work along side curator Gina Costa in formulating three Taller de Grafica Popular exhibitions at The Snite Museum. The first exhibition titled Images of Struggle and Oppression: Art of the Taller de Grafica Popular was held in summer 2006, the second in the summer of 2007 was titled The Women of the Taller de Grafica Popular, and the third exhibition will be held during the summer of 2009 and will be the largest of all three. In addition to aiding in curating all three of these exhibitions Magnifico also played a key role in the creation of three exhibition catalogs corresponding to the museum exhibitions.

The Institute for Latino Studies
In addition to Magnifico's position at the Snite Museum of Art she held a multi faceted position at The Institute for Latino Studies. One portion of her job was acting as the Project Coordinator of an Office of Minority Health Grant focusing on Latino Obesity and Overweight issues. This multi-faceted grant had components such as a website, radio series, poster campaign, conferences and workshops. Magnifico planned, facilitated and oversaw all components familiarizing herself with the issue of obesity in the Latino culture as well as the logistics of each component. Magnifico spoke at conferences including a few research conference at The University of Notre Dame and the SIGLO XXI: ECONOMIES OF CLASS, ECONOMIES OF CULTURE in April of 2007. Magnifico had the privelegde to work with El Consejo Grafico, a group of Latino Printmakers located throughout North America. She met with this group on an annual basis to facilitate their contribution to the Latino Obesity Grant and to aid in their progress as a collaborative.

As a curator at the Institute for Latino Studies she was responsible for research, layout and hanging of all exhibitions at Galeria America and The Crossroads Gallery. These two gallery spaces featured exhibitions of Latino artists or works focusing on Latino issues. Magnifico actively worked with other galleries to create and aid with traveling exhibitions including the facilitation of travel for Poetas y Pintores. As curator Magnifico created a partnership with local art galleries in South Bend, Indiana. Through this partnership The Crossroads Gallery was able to participate in local art events. Magnifico also worked with guest artists, by planning travel, acting as hostess for their visit and setting their itinerary including educational talks, demonstrations and more casual learning luncheons.

The Arts Company
As a current member of The Arts Company staff Magnifico not only tends to everyday gallery needs but acts as the digital communication and digital community specialist which consists of; website upkeep, creation of digital newsletters and set-up and continuous maintenance of online community pages. Digital Communities that are utilized are Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Blogger, YouTube, myspace, and wikipedia. Magnifico is constantly keeping abreast of up and coming trends in digital communications in order to better promote and communicate with interested audiences.