Academics in Bed: Tom Healy & Seth Cameron
Nina Johnson hosted a discussion between Seth Cameron and Tom Healy. Their talk centered around Cameron’s current exhibition Measure for Measure.
Born in 1982 in South Carolina, Cameron studied at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art where he now leads The Intradisciplinary Seminar.
He lives and works in Brooklyn as a founding member of The Bruce High Quality Foundation and president of the collective’s free art school, BHQFU. He is a frequent lecturer on the international alternative arts education circuit, a sometimes professor of creative writing and experimental art history, and a contributor to The Brooklyn Rail.
Healy is a writer and teacher who has been active in the arts for more than 25 years. He chaired the board of the public arts organization Creative Time for over a decade. He served on the White House Council on HIV/AIDS under President Bill Clinton and was chairman of the Fulbright Scholarship board under President Barak Obama.
As an art dealer in the 1990’s, Healy pioneered a new gallery district in Chelsea, Manhattan. In 2005, Healy was awarded the New York City Arts Award by Mayor Michael Bloomberg for his leadership in rebuilding New York’s downtown arts community after 9/11.
Healy has also been a Harriet Monroe Fellow of the Poetry Foundation and a visiting curator of the Miami Book Fair. He serves as a board member of the Bruce High Quality Foundation University and O, Miami Poetry Festival. As a professor he has taught at NYU, Pratt, and the New School. He is the author of three books of poetry and a forthcoming collection of essays, The Rest of the World.
Healy is currently the director of The Word from Brooklyn, a new public conversation series at the Brooklyn Museum. He lives primarily in Miami and New York.
