Monica Jovanovich-Kelley has been the Managing Director of the haudenschildGarage since 2006 and is a PhD candidate in Art History, Theory and Criticism at the University of California, San Diego. Her research in early 20th century art and architecture focuses on urbanism, gender, and the corporate sponsorship of public space in the Americas. Monica teaches modern art, contemporary art and American art at San Diego State University, Point Loma Nazarene University and UCLA Extension. She has worked with the San Diego Museum of Art lecturing on American landscape painter, Asher B. Durand (2008). She was involved with the San Diego Museum of Art exhibition Paper Traces: Latin American Prints and Drawings from the SDMA Collection (2006) and has lectured for the Latin American Arts Committee of San Diego, California (2006). Monica has presented at the California American Studies Association (2011), Association of Historians of American Art (2010) and the annual Art Deco Conference in Los Angeles (2007). She has also been a guest lecturer at the Timken Museum in San Diego presenting on George Inness (2011) and 19th century American genre paintings (2009). In November 2011 she will co-chair a panel on corporate commissions in the Untied States at the SECAC conference.