Chelsea Behle Fralick
[Image description: Chelsea stands in front of lush greenery and looks to her right with a wide smile. She has light skin and short brown hair, and wears a floral blouse.]
Chelsea R. Behle Fralick (she/her/hers) is a writer, magician, sometimes yoga teacher, and always art historian based in San Diego, CA. She is a Lecturer of Art History at the University of San Diego, where she teaches a range of courses on modern and contemporary art and architectural history. Her work focuses on modern and contemporary California art history, especially moving image mediums (film, video) as used by California-based artists, and how these and other artistic practices intersect with Beat, hippie, New Age, alternative religious movements, magick, and mystical cultural currents in California from the early 20th century on. Fralick has been published in such places as the Rutgers Art Journal and in the book The Global Sixties in Sound and Vision: Media, Counterculture, Revolt (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and has presented her work at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MIT, and Ohio State University. Fralick received her Masters of Science in Architectural Studies in the History, Theory and Criticism area of the School of Architecture at MIT.
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