Tim Rietenbach
Faculty Director of Galleries
Tim Rietenbach, Beeler’s first Faculty Director of Galleries, is no stranger to Beeler and CCAD. The longtime faculty member has an ambitious goal to create true connections between CCAD students and Beeler. More than just a place for them to visit and to show work, Rietenbach envisions a gallery space where students feel a sense of integration and ownership.
No matter what their major, every art student has a natural engagement with a gallery through CCAD’s curriculum. Rietenbach works to identify those natural engagements, inviting Advertising & Graphic Design students to brand shows and to rework the website, and asking Interior Design students how they might redesign the entrance to the gallery.
For this latest iteration of the Beeler Gallery, the goal is to honor the history of the space, which has long been run by directors who are curators with a voice that is independent from that of the faculty. As the first Faculty Director of Exhibitions, Rietenbach will work with a progressive collection of independent curators, allowing emerging curators an opportunity to put shows together. Rietenbach imagines a Beeler flexible enough to change with every curatorial practice, with every exhibition having a different tone.
