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Austen

Age:

Gender:

Female

If you must know:

I'm happily married

Travel status:

Putting down roots

Hometown:

New Orleans

Currently in:

Los Angeles

Favorite places I've been:

Spain (Pyrenees, Picos de Europa, San Sebastian, Asturias, Barcelona, Madrid, Seville); Argentina (Patagonia; Buenos Aires); France (Paris, Gascogne; Provence); England (London, Lake District); Mexico (D.F.; Yucatan); Vermont's Green Mountains; New York City

Places I want to go to:

India; Sweden

About me:

Left New York in 2001 and love L.A. Am completing my Ph.D. in art history and writing my dissertation on American artist Thomas Hart Benton while working as a curator at LACMA. Have put down roots all over: born in New York; raised in New Orleans; high school in Boston; college in New York and Paris; grad school in the Berkshires and Santa Barbara.

Profile URL:

http://matadortravel.com/travel-community/austen

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I'm fired up on:

New Orleans; art museums; dinner parties at home; literature; hiking around L.A.

Tunes I rock out to:

hot 8 brass band; les negresses vertes; mozart operas; cafe tacuba

Travel style:

get away from it all in the mountains; or blend in with locals (speaking the language whenever possible); urban sophisticate in the big city!

Quote:

"Be a New Orleanian. Wherever you are." -www.dirtycoast.com
"You make your own luck" - David Schumacher

Sports I do:

tennis, running, hiking

Favorite artist(s):

Thomas Hart Benton, Walker Evans, Errol Barron, John Singer Sargent; Edgar Degas; kara walker

Favorite books:

novels by A.S. Byatt, Isabel Allende; Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man; The Peabody Sisters by Megan Marshall

I want to make a difference by:

supporting New Orleans and promoting New Orleans history and culture; supporting the New Orleans-based peace movement Silence is Violence (www.silenceisviolence.org); getting art into people's lives and educations

Languages spoken, other than English:

French, Spanish

I felt the most immersed in a foreign culture when:

when I can communicate with the locals

Why I travel:

to see the world beyond my world

Ideal place to watch the sunrise:

top of Kenter Canyon, Brentwood, Los Angeles on my hike/runs before work

Ideal place to watch the sunset:

Venice Beach

My links:

www.silenceisviolence.org
www.dirtycoast.com
www.lacma.org
www.ogdenmuseum.org