Education:
UCLA Ph.D. Art
History
1995
Academia de
Fresco, Santa Fe, NM
1995
University of
New Mexico M. A. Art History
1984
University of
Heidelberg, Germany
1979-80
University of
Kentucky B.
A. Art History 1980
Murray State
University
1976-78
Teaching
Experience:
1997-Present. Associate Professor of Art History
Morehead State
University
Undergraduate
and Graduate Courses in Western and Non-Western Art History
1997.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History and American Studies
University of
New Mexico
African and
Oceanic Art, Tourism of the American West
1989-1996. Professor (Non-Ranked), Art History
Institute of
American Indian Arts
Native
American, Pre-Columbian and Western Art History
1988-89.
Instructor, Art History
Albuquerque
Technical-Vocational Institute
Undergraduate
Art History Courses, including Art of the American Southwest
1985-86.
Teaching Associate, Art History
UCLA
Undergraduate
courses in Western and Non-Western Art History
1980-81
Graduate Assistant, Art History
University of
New Mexico
Major Areas
of Research:
American Art, Appalachian Art, Native American Art,
Art and the Healing Process, Pedagogy of Participatory Research and
Service Learning
Publications:
"William Morris, Walmart, and Appalachian Arts: a Personal Reflection,"
Journal of Kentucky Studies,
23 (2006), pp. 79-82.
“Made in America with the Exception of Two: Native American
and
Appalachian Arts Come of Age.” In Thirty Years of Native American
Art History: Essays in Native American Art to Honor J. J. Brody,
ed. Joyce Szabo (Albuquerque: University of New
Mexico Press, 2001, pp. 164-186.
The Institute of American
Indian Arts: Modernism and U. S. Indian Policy.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000.
“Tylenol Junky,” Fetishes,
V (1999), p. 15.
“Untitled,” Fetishes,
V (1999), p. 18.
“How Art Heals.” Crosswinds,
9, No. 8 (August 1992), pp. 9-12. Co-authored with Stephen
LaBoueff.
“Cross-Cultural Education vs. Modernist Imperialism: The
Institute of American Indian Arts.” Art Journal, 51, No. 3
(Fall 1992), pp. 28-35.
“The Institute of American Indian Arts: A Convergence of
Ideologies.” In Shared
Visions: Native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth
Century, Eds. Margaret Archuleta and Rennard Strickland,
2nd ed. (New York: The New Press, 1991, originally published by
the Heard Museum), pp. 22-29.
“Labrets and Tattooing in Native Alaska.” In Marks of Civilization:
Artistic Transformations of theHuman Body, Ed. Arnold Rubin (Los
Angeles: Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, 1988).
Conferences, Workshops, Seminars:
2009 Presenter, Southeast Native Education Summit, Western Kentucky University, "Past to Future: Teaching and Learning Strategies for Native Amrican Arts and Cultures in the Appalachiam
Region"
2009 Presenter, Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Portsmouth, Ohio, "Legacy and Liability: Reform Movements and Appalachian Art"
2008 Chair,
Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Huntington, West Virginia,
Session, "Service Learning and Participartory Research: The Road Ahead
2008 Presenter, Appalachian
Studies Association Conference, Huntington, West Virginia, "A Survey of
Arts Resources and Needs in Eastern
Kentucky"
2006 Presenter,
College Art Association
Conference, Boston, “Teaching Art History in Appalachia: Lessons
in Respect, Relevance, and
Resistance”
2006 Presenter, Appalachian
Studies Association Conference, Dayton, Ohio,
“William Morris, Walmart, and Appalachian Arts”
2006 Presenter, Appalachian
Studies Association Conference, Dayton, Ohio, “Mom,
Apple Pie, and Appalachia: The Mountains and War Propaganda in
Film"
2006 Chair, Appalachian Studies Association
Conference, Dayton, Ohio, Session: “Appalachia and War Through
the Arts”
2005 Presenter, Appalachian
Studies Association Conference, Radford, Virginia, "Vital Words, Vital
Actions: The Arts Philosophy of Allen Eaton"
2005 Chair, Appalachian Studies
Association Conference, Radford, Virginia, Session: "Which Side
Art You On: Where is the VISUAL Art of Resistance in
Appalcahia?"
2004 Presenter, Appalachian
Studies Association
Conference, Cherokee, North Carolina, "Lovingly,
Clem…Affectionately, AE: The Letters of Clementine Douglas and
Allen Eaton"
2004 Co-Facilitator (with Stephen
LaBoueff),
Appalachian Studies Association conference, Cherokee, North
Carolina, Workshop, “Art and the Healing
Process”
2002 Presenter, Appalachian
Studies Association
Conference, Helen, Georgia, “The Southern Highland Handicraft Guild and
the Rockefeller General Education Board’s
Craft Education
Program.”
2002 Faciliator, Kentucky Art
Education Association
conference, Morehead, Kentucky, Workshop, “Multicultural,
Interdisciplinary Learning Through Student Exhibitions.”
2001 Chair, Appalachian
Studies
Association Conference, Snowshoe, West Virginia, Session:
“Dead Baby Dolls, Handicrafts, and Surrealism: Appalachian Arts?”
2001 Presenter,
Appalachian
Studies Association Conference, Snowshoe, West Virginia, “The
Marian Heard Survey.”
2001 Presenter, Appalachian
Studies Association Conference, Snowshoe, West Virginia, “Finding
Face, Finding Heart: You Start With the Student.”
2001 Presenter, Morehead Youth
Development Center,
Morehead, Kentcky, “Art and the Healing Process”
2000 Co-Coordinator, “Art and the
Healing Process
Workshop,” Seven Arrows Healing Practice and Lodge, London,
England.
1999 Presenter, Native American
Art Studies Association Conference, Victoria, British Columbia,
“Lucita Woodis:
Self-Portraiture as a Healing Process.”
1999 Presenter, Appalachian
Studies Association Conference, Abingdon, Virginia, “Hillbilly and
Noble Savage Artists: What Lessons
Might They Share?”
1998 Co-Chair, College Art
Association Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, Joint Studio and Art
History Session: “Art and the Healing Process: A New
Paradigm.”
1998 Panelist, Mid-America College
Art Association Conference, Lexington, KY, “Art History for Artists.”
1998 Presenter, “Art and the
Healing Process,” College of Fine Arts, University of Kentucky,
Lexington, Kentucky
1992-97 Presenter and workshop co-leader, “Art and
the Healing Process” seminars, Ghost Ranch Conference
Center, Abiquiu, New Mexico.
1995
Participant, Indian Voices in the Academy
Program. D’Arcy McNickle Center for the History
of the American Indian, the Newberry Library, Chicago.
Faculty seminar on “Teaching and
Writing Local History,”
Little Big Horn College, Crow
Agency, Montana, June 13-18, 1995.
1995 Co-Instructor, “Spiritual
Traditions for Living Whole: A Comparative Approach Rooted in a
Native American Perspective," January Term Course, Ghost Ranch
Conference Center,
Abiquiu, New Mexico.
1992 Moderator, “The Rockefeller
Foundation and the Institute of American Indian Arts.”
Panel session at the Shared Visions Conference. The Heard
Museum, Phoenix, April 8-10.
1990 Presenter,
“Institution/Revolution: Postmodern Native American Art.”
Joint art
history/studio session, College Art Association annual meeting, New
York.
1987 Presenter, Sixth National
Conference of the Native American Art Studies Association, Denver,
Sept. 23-26. “Painted Images of the Tourist in the
Plains and
Southwest: Mirrors of the
Vacation ‘Reality’.”
Service:
2006-2010 Coordinator, Eastern Kentucky Arts
Project (EKAP)
2009-2010 Director, Interdisciplinary Appalachian Studies Program
2008-2010 Board Member, Rowan County Habitat for Humanity
2008-2010 Coordinator, Rowan County Middle School and MSU Drug Awareness Poster Project
1998-2010 Full Member, Graduate Faculty
1997-2010 Supervisor, Department of Art and Design Slide Library/ Digital Media Center
1997-2010 Art Department Library Liaison
2002-2010 Member, Caudill College Appalachian Studies
Advisory Committee
2007-2010 Member, Caudill College International Studies Advisory Committee
2009-2010 Member, Department of Art and Design General Education Committee
2007-2009 Chair, Faculty General Education Adisory Council
2007-2009 Member, General Education Steering Committee
2006-2008 Member, University Undergraduate Committee (curriculum)
2006-2008 Board
Member, Cave Run Arts Association
2006 Member,
Caudill College of Humanities Strategic Planning Task Force,
Interdisciplinary Programs and Diversity Work Group
1998-2006 Chair, Art Department FEP Evaluation Committee
2004-2006 Member, University Graduate Committee
(curriculum)
2004-2005 Member, Caudill College Diversity Content
in the Curriculum Committee
2006 Member,
Art
History Search Committee
2001-2005 Member, Art Department Graduate Program
Assessment/Review Committee
2004-2005 Chair, Art History Search Committee
2003-2004 Member, Art Department Recruitment Committee
2002-2003 Chair, Art Department Art History Search
Committee
1999-2003 Chair, Art Department Program Assessment
Committee
2001-2003 Member, University Academic Programs
Subcommittee (Curriculum Committee)
2002-2003 Member, Caudill College Appalachian Studies
Minor Committee
2002-2004 Member, Caudill College Cultural Studies
Minor Committee
1998-2003 Member, Kentucky Arts Council Diversity
Committee
2000-2001 Chair, Art History Search
Committee
1999-2001 Member, MSU Institute for Regional Analysis
and Public Policy
Faculty Advisory Committee
1999-2001 Member, Secretary, Service Committee
1998-2001 Member, Black Studies Curriculum Committee
1998-2001 Art Department Representative, Faculty
Senate
1997-2000 Member, Art Department Strategic Planning
Committee
1998-2000 Member, Faculty Senate Evaluation
Sub-Committee
1997-1999 Member, Art Department Gallery Committee
1994-1996 Chair, Educational Standards Committee,
Institute of American Indian Arts.
1995-1996 Member, Faculty Council Executive
Committee, Institute of American Indian Arts.
1993-1994 Acting Department Head, Cultural Studies
Department, Institute of American Indian Arts.
Other Experience
2007
Instructor, Kentucky Institute for International Studies Bregenz
Austria Program
2006 Faculty
Adisor for Service Learning Project: Children with Special Health
Care Needs clinic mural
2005-2006 Organized student exhibit, "Roots to
Branches: Catching Up to the Past in conjunction with Arts of the
U. S. Class. This show traveled
to the Appalachian Studies
Conference in
Dayton, Ohio.
2004
Juror, “Lost and Found
Again” Exhibit at the Kentucky Folk Art Center
2004
Organized student exhibit, “Native Mounds Past,
Unique Visions Present” in conjunction with the Native American Class,
Rowan County Middle School, Cave Run Arts
Association,
and the Hopewell
Culture National Historical Park in
Chillecothe, Ohio
2004
Instructor, Kentucky Institute for International
Studies Bregenz, Austria program
2003
Organized student exhibit, “Appalachian
Arts,” for the Appalachian Studies Association conference in Richmond,
Kentucky
2003
Developed new upper division and graduate course
for the art history curriculum, German Art of the 20th Century
2002
Instructor, Kentucky Institute for International
Studies Bregenz, Austria program
2002
Juror, Lexington Art League
exhibit, “The Healing Power of Art”
2000-2002 Founded and coordinated juried MSU student show for the
Montgomery County Council for the Arts Gallery in
Mt. Sterling, Kentucky
2002
Organized student show, “The American Dream” in
conjunction with Arts of the U. S. course
2002
Developed new upper division and graduate
course for the MSU art history curriculum, Contemporary World Art
2001
Designed and painted murals for the new Gateway
Children’s Advocacy Center in Morehead
2001
Juror, Regional Coal Fair, Pikeville, Kentucky,
sponsored by the Coal Education Development and Resource Council
2001
Organized student show, “Circle Winds” in
conjunction with Native American Arts course
2000 Organized
student show,
“Memento Mori: The Dance of Death,” in conjunction with
Renaissance
Art History course
1999 Juror, The
Creative Art
League of Olive Hill, Kentucky Homecoming Art Show
1999 Organized
student show, “The
Great Wall of the MSU Art Department,” in conjunction with
American Art History course.
1999 Served as
mentor to visiting
Chinese scholar, Shen Li, acting as advisor in her research on
Native American clothing as part of cultural exchange program
between Morehead State
University and Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
1997-1999 Developed two new upper division and
graduate courses for the MSU art history curriculum—Native American Art
and Appalachian Arts.
1998
Organized student show, “The Spirit of the
Earth,” in conjunction with Native American art History course.
1997
Juror, Inscape visual art entries.
1993
Developed and expanded art
history curriculum at the Institute of American Indian Arts to
include
Native American Art History I and II
(formerly one course),
Pre-Columbian Art,
and Contemporary Issues in Indian
Arts (an interdisciplinary course).
1988-1989 Consultant, Albuquerque
Technical-Vocational Institute. Developed core art history
courses for newly established
liberal arts degree
program, including
Art of the American
Southwest, the History of Architecture, Western
Art History I and II, and Modern Art. Advised
Arts and Sciences Dean on the acquisition and maintenance of slide
collection.
1985-1988 Assistant to Anthropologist Alfonso
Ortiz. Conducted varied research within the field of
American Indian studies. Assisted with activities related to
the
Association on American
Indian Affairs. Aided in the preparation of two
books on the Pueblos.
1987
Student of the Tewa language,
Oke Oweenge Crafts Cooperative, San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico.
1982
Masters Thesis Research,
National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, and Museum fur
Volkerkunde, Vienna, Austria.
Studied the Angmagssalik
collections of each museum extensively.
1981
Translator, University of New
Mexico. Selected by Art Department Chair Garo Antreasian to
translate two printmaking texts from the original German
for a
grant-funded project.
1979-1980 Guest scholarship student, University of
Heidelberg, Germany. Attended art history lectures and
intensive courses in the German
language. Completed
independent study of Swiss
painter Bartholomaus Lämmler.
1979
Assistant to the Curator,
University of Kentucky Anthropology Museum. Conducted research
for exhibits.
1979 Assistant
to the
Curator, University of Kentucky Art Museum. Assisted Curator in
preparation
of catalog for opening of new museum facilities.
Responsible for all research of Native
American, Pre-Columbian, and
African collections.
1978-1979 Research Assistant, University of Kentucky
Art Museum. Responsible for research of
collections prior to the hiring of curator. Assisted in minor
restorations
and
cleaning. Involved in the implementation of improved
cataloging system.
Awards and Grants:
2007 Research
propsal entitled, "The Life and Work of Allen Eaton in Historical
Context," awarded $3600 by the Institute for Regional Engagement for travel to archives in New
York,
Washington, D. C., and Asheville, NC
2006
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grant awarded in the amount of
$1,000 to attend the Summer Educational Institute sponsored by the Visual Resources Assocation to
train those
responsible for visual resource management in academic
settings for the demands of the new digital
age.
2004 Research
proposal entitled, “Allen Eaton and the
Crafts Revival” awarded $1,405 by the Institute for Regional
Analysis and Public
Policy (IRAPP) for travel to Oregon to work in
archival collections.
2003 Undergraduate
International Studies and Foreign
Language Program Curriculum Development Grant for the development
of
Art 481, "German Art of the
20th Century."
2002 Nominated,
Morehead State University 2002/2003
Distinguished Teacher Award
2002
Undergraduate International
Studies and Foreign Language Program Curriculum Development Grant
for the development of
Art
482, “ContemporaryWorld Art.”
2001 Morehead
State University PT3
Summer Grant to integrate technology into Native American Art course.
2000 Research
proposal entitled “Appalachian Art and
the Rockefeller Foundation” awarded $1,563 by the Institute for
Regional Analysis and Public Policy (IRAPP) for travel to the
Rockefeller Foundation Archives and the Southern Highland Handicraft
Guild archives.
1999
Co-authored with David Bartlett proposal
entitled “Art Department Corporate Sponsorship Initiative” which was
awarded $3000 from Campus Partnership Fund
1994-1996 Chosen as a participant in the Indian
Voices in the Academy program, D’Arcy McNickle
Center for the History of the American Indian, the Newberry
Library, Chicago.
1986-1987 Dickson Fellowship UCLA
1984-1985 Dickson Fellowship UCLA
1980 University of
New
Mexico Office of Graduate Studies and Graduate Students Association
Travel Award
1980
Outstanding Art
History
Senior, University of Kentucky
1979-1980 Heidelberg Scholar, sponsored by the
West German government
1976-1977 Murray State University Alumni Award
References: References
provided upon request