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Curriculum Vitae

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Selected Work
Experience

2023 - present

Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan |
Adjunct Professor of Art History

Courses taught: 

  • Western Art History II: Renaissance through Modern

  • History of Architecture & Interior Design II                              

1997 - 2022

Siena Heights University, Adrian, Michigan |

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  • Professor of Art History, Emeritus, present
  • Professor of Art History, to 2022
  • Professor of Art History and Chair of the Art Department, 2009 to 2014
  • Associate Professor of Art History and Director of Klemm Gallery, 2002 to 2006
  • Assistant Professor of Art History and Director of Klemm Gallery, 1997 to 2002

Courses include: Contemplation & Action; Art Foundations; History of Graphic Design; History of Architecture; Introduction to Visual Culture; History of Photography 1839-1939; Late 20th-Century Art; Early 20th-Century Art; Nineteenth-Century Art; American Art; Art of Italy; Renaissance to Modern Art; Ancient to Medieval Art; Portfolio; Senior Exhibition.

Education

1987 - 1997

Boston University |
MA and PhD in Art History

PhD Dissertation: "Becoming Documentary: Berenice Abbott's Photographs 1925 - 1939" (UMI 9709780). Advisors Kim D. Sichel, Patricia Hills, and Elizabeth Anne McCauley.

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MA Thesis: "Pat Steir's The Brueghel Series: The Appropriation of Power," Advisor Patricia Hills.

1978 - 1983

Pennsylvania State University | Bachelor of Philosophy in Arts Administration

Thesis: "Evaluating the Evaluators Measuring Museum Effectiveness," Advisor William Crocken

Skills
& Expertise

  • University teaching.

  • Curriculum development and assessment.

  • Academic advising.

  • Exhibition planning.

  • Creating, organizing, and producing art exhibitions.

  • Handling, and installing art objects.

  • Managing and overseeing budgets.

  • Managing exhibition logistics and arranging transit for artworks.

  • Managing the loan process for arriving and departing art objects.

  • Corresponding, collaborating, and negotiating with colleagues, collectors, curators, dealers, artists, art handlers, and exhibition touring companies.

  • Recruiting, training, and supervising work-study students and other employees.

  • Community outreach.

  • Copyright infringement.

  • Creative and critical thinking.

  • Website building.

  • Career planning.

  • Meditation practices.

  • Reading knowledge of Italian, French, and Spanish.

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