Barbara
Simcoe
Curriculum Vita
bsimcoe@mail.unomaha.edu
1137 S. 31st Street
Omaha, NE 681045
Home: 402-932-5332 • Office: 402-554-2392
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Education |
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University of North
Texas, Denton, TX. 1979 to 1981. MFA Painting and Drawing, Minor Printmaking 1982. |
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University of Illinois,
Urbana, IL. 1972 to 1976. BFA Painting and Drawing, 1976. |
| Teaching Experience |
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University of Nebraska,
Omaha, NE. Assistant Professor of Art, full time appointment. Responsibilities: teaching all levels of painting; independent study students; advanced drawing, foundations. |
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Metropolitan Community College,
Omaha, NE. 1997 University of Nebraska,
Omaha, NE. |
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Brookhaven College Visiting Artist, two semester part time appointment fall and spring. Responsibilities: taught 2-D design. |
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University of Texas
at Dallas Visiting Artist, one semester part time appointment fall. Responsibilities: taught beginning drawing. |
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University of Nebraska,
Omaha, NE. Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, one semester full time appointment fall. Responsibilities: taught all levels of painting; independent study students. |
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University of Texas
at Arlington, Arlington, TX. Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, one semester full time appointment spring. Responsibilities: taught advanced undergraduate painting, advanced drawing and beginning painting courses; independent study students. |
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University of North
Texas, Denton, TX. Full time studio art lecturer, one year appointment fall semester 1991 through spring semester 1992. Responsibilities: taught beginning painting, figure drawing and advanced undergraduate painting and drawing. Other responsibilities included student advising, full participation in undergraduate and graduate reviews and participation in policy setting for the painting and drawing department. Curated student exhibitions. |
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University of North Texas,
Denton, TX. |
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Brookhaven College,
Farmers Branch, TX. Visiting drawing instructor, part time fall and spring semesters. Responsibilities: taught first year drawing. |
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Tarrant County Junior College,
Hurst, TX. |
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University of North
Texas, Denton, TX. Teaching Fellow: drawing instructor of beginning and figure drawing. Responsibilities: instruction of four first year drawing courses and two figure drawing courses. |
| One and Two Person Exhibitions | top |
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Continuation and Promise Jewish Community Center Gallery, Omaha, NE, one person. |
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Barbara Simcoe, Paintings Rosewood Art Gallery, Kettering Art Center, Kettering, OH. One person. |
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Paintings & Drawings Crown Gallery, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, one
person. Barbara Simcoe, Painter Allison Gallery, Tusculum College, Greeneville, NC, one person. |
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Dark Night
Creighton University Art Gallery, Omaha, NE, one person. Mediated Witness Lorimer Gallery, Southwest Missouri Art Center, Cape Giradeau, MO, one person. |
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In Between Time Nordstrand Visual Arts Gallery, Wayne State College, one person. |
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Waiting
Bellevue University Art Gallery, Bellevue, NE, one person. Paintings, Drawings and Digital Images Peru State College, Peru, NE, one person. |
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Recent Paintings and Drawings Arts Iowa City, Iowa City, IA, one person. |
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Drawings & Paintings Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL, one person. Barbara Simcoe & Winston McGee Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, TX, two person. By the Book Brazos Gallery Richland College, Dallas, TX, two person. |
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Paintings University of Omaha Art Gallery, Omaha, NE, one person. |
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New Paintings Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, TX, one person. |
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Paintings & Drawings ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL, one person. |
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Paintings & Drawings on Life Re-Moved CIU Art Gallery, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, one person. |
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Recent Paintings Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, TX, two person. |
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Paintings & Drawings Eastfield College Gallery, Mesquite, TX, one person. |
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Paintings & Drawings Oltimo Salon, Dallas, TX, one person. |
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Barbara Simcoe and David Smith Oak Street Gallery, Denton, TX, two person. |
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Nothing Should Be Painted Which Can Be Kept Bright 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX, two person. |
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MFA Thesis
Exhibition UNT Art Gallery, Denton, TX, two person. Recent Works University of North Texas Union Art Gallery, Denton, TX, two person. |
| Juried Exhibitions |
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Bridging Cultures Through Art: A Fulbright Alumni Art Exhibition |
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Yitzhak International Gathering Akko Israel 2005. |
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Combined Talents: Flordia
International Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee,
FL.
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58th Juried
Exhibition Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA. National Women’s Exhibition Impact Artists’ Gallery, Buffalo, NY. |
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Superstar: Female Gender Outlaw Jaffee Arts Center, Norfolk, VA. |
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Combined Talents
2000: The Tallahassee Florida National Competition Florida State
University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL. 12th Annual National Art Competition, Truman State University Art Gallery, Kirksville, MO, Who’s Afraid of Y2K? Hunger Artist Gallery, Albuquerque, NM. |
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Redefining Feminism Beacon Street Gallery, Truman College, Chicago, IL and DeKalb Women's Art Center, DeKalb, IL. |
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19th Annual
Jurored Art Exhibition Salina Art Center, Salina, KS. Cross Currents The Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs, MS. Myth America Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI. Juried All Media Works Exhibition Eklektikos Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1997 National Works on Paper University Gallery, University of Texas at Tyler, TX. |
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Contemporary American Artists Gaál Imre Gallery, Budapest, Hungary. |
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State of
the Art Institute of Fine Arts, Wharton, MA. Texas Art Celebration ‘93 The Assistance League of Houston, Houston, TX. |
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Cheekwood National Contemporary Painting Competition Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Nashville, TN. |
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New American Talent Honorable Mention, included in slide section of show, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX. |
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Salon de Peinture et d’Estampe de Montréal F.R.R.I.C. International (Fondation pour la Recherche et la Réalization en Industrie Culturelle), Montréal, Québec,Canada. |
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Art in the Metroplex Texas Christian University Gallery, Fort Worth, TX. |
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Art in the Metroplex Texas Christian University Gallery, Fort Worth, TX. |
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Mid-America
Biennial Owensboro Museum of Art, Owensboro, KY. Paper in Particular University of Columbia Art Gallery, Columbia, MO. |
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Voertman Art Exhibition North Texas State University Art Gallery, Denton, TX. |
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Rutgers National
Works on Paper Rutgers University Art Gallery, Camden, NJ. 15th Annual Southwest Area Art Exhibition Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX. 27th Annual Drawing and Small Sculpture Show Ball State University Art Gallery, Muncie, IN. |
| Select Invitational Group Exhibitions | top |
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8th Annual Bemis Center Art Auction , Bemis Art Center, Omaha, NE. |
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Grand Opening Exhibition Corning Center for Fine Arts, Corning, IA. |
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Figuratively Speaking Haydon Art Center, Lincoln, NE. |
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Daughters Woman’s Caucus for Art Travelling Exhibition, Hillmer Art Gallery, College of St. Mary’s, Omaha, NE. |
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20/20 Vision
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE.
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Art Auction2001
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE. Life Cycles NWCA exhibition which took place at the Creighton University Art Gallery in Omaha and the Burkholder Project in Lincoln, fall 2001. Invitational Exhibition Hilmer Gallery, College of St. Mary’s, Omaha, NE. CHAIRity Art Auction Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE. Art Faculty Exhibition UNOmana Art Gallery, Omaha, NE. |
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The Psychological Figure The Center for Spirituality and the Arts, San Antonio, TX. 3 Person. |
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Assistance
League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2000 Barbara Davis Gallery,
Houston, TX. Faculty Exhibition UNO Art Gallery, Omaha, NE. |
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Twenty by 500 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX. (Show will travel to Waco Art Center, Waco, TX.) Gallery Artists Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX. |
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Erotica
Antiquarium Gallery, Omaha, NE. Gallery Artists Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX. |
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Brookhaven Faculty Exhibition Forum Gallery, Dallas, TX. |
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The Nona and Richard Barrett Collection: Texas Collects D-Art Visual Art Center, Dallas, TX. |
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Exquisite Corpse DARE at McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX. |
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34th Annual
Invitational Longview Art Museum, Longview, TX. DARE: A to Z Bathhouse Cultural Center Gallery, Dallas, TX. 500X at 15 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX. Beaux Art Auction Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX. Faculty Exhibition University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX. |
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40th Birthday
Benefit Auction Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX. Art Department Faculty Show University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, TX. |
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Gallery Artists
Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, TX. Painting Invitational Forum Gallery, Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX. Art Department Faculty Show University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, TX. |
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Gallery Artists
Eugene Binder Galerie, Cologne, Germany, 1990. Silent Auction Dallas Museum of Art; Dallas, TX. Real Images Griffin Gallery, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX. |
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The TV Show
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX. Artists Table Auction Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX. Men By Women Sheraton Dallas Hotel Gallery, Dallas, TX. |
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JFK Performance
Benefit Exhibition Texas Theater, Dallas, TX. Memory Center for Research in Contemporary Art Gallery, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX. Gallery Artists Eugene Binder Gallery; Dallas, TX. Zoomorphism: Animals in Art Trammel Crow Center, Dallas, TX. X500X 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX. Between the Cracks Center for Research in Contemporary Art Gallery, University of Texas at Arlington; Arlington, TX. CityLife Texas Commerce Center, Dallas, TX. |
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Ca Performance The Warehouse, Tallahassee, FL. |
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Member Group Show 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX. |
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Industrial Action
500X Gallery, Dallas, TX. Left-Right 500X Gallery (Non-member curated show that took place in conjunction with the Republican National Convention), Dallas, TX. 5th Annual Invitational Dinnerware Gallery, Tucson, AZ. Citizenship Credits 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX. |
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Member Group Show 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX. |
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3rd Annual Invitational Mountainview College, Dallas, TX. |
| Honors & Awards | top |
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Artistic Achievement 3rd Place, National Small Oil Painting Exhibition. |
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UCR Mini Grant. |
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Fulbright Scholar Award, Lithuania, Lecture/Reseach for spring semester 2004. |
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University Research Summer Grant |
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Texas Art Celebration 3rd place. |
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The Helen Lakin Trueheart Award, a visual arts grant from the National League of American PEN Women. |
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Recipient of Gift of Art Billboard Competition sponsored by Patrick Media of Arlington, TX. Billboard rotated with 3 others at various locations in the Dallas area for one year. |
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Claude M. Vance Memorial Award, Texas Christian University. |
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Purchase award, Mountainview College. |
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Teaching Fellowship, North Texas State University. |
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Voertman Purchase Award, University of North Texas. |
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Dean’s List, University of Illinois. |
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James Scholar, University of Illinois. |
| Select Publications/Media/Catalogs |
Nebraska Artist-Barbara Simcoe KYNE-TV, December 2006. |
| Select Professional Activities | top |
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Juror for Plein Air Painting Competition at the Corning Center for the Arts, Corning, IA. |
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One of 5 jurors for the "Get to It!" Public Art Project in Omaha. |
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Delivered a paper "Contemporary Art at the Time of Joining the European Union" at the 2004 European Studies Conference, Omaha, NE. |
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One of 3 Jurors of Nebraska Scholastic Art Awards. |
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• Juror of
UNL Art League Exhibition, Lincoln, NE. • Panel member, The Figure Revisited at 2002 MACAA biannual conference. • Juror of Drawing III International for Period Gallery, Omaha, NE. • Juried the 2002 Joslyn Art Museum Association Student Art Exhibition. |
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• Presented
2 slide lectures at Wayne State College. One featured my working methods
that utilize Photoshop as a tool to design pictorial imagery. The second
was a slide lecture about the development of my work. • Participated in 2 artists auctions at the Bemis Center for Contemporary art, CHARity and Art Auction 2001. • Was one of three jurors for the first annual student art exhibition at Metro CommunityCollege. Exhibition took place at 13th Street Gallery, Omaha. NE. |
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Nebraska Women’s Caucus for Art, Board Member: Newsletter Committee. |
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• Presented
a Photoshop workshop for annual NATA (Nebraska Art Teachers Association)
conference. • Juried Drawing 2000, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE. • Donated two digital prints for an auction for the Children’s House at Riverdell School in Brooklyn, NY. |
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Guest speaker for Fall meeting of the Nebraska Women’s Caucus for Art. |
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Slide lecture at University of Nebraska at Omaha. |
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• Presented
Innovation Process, for an ATT regional managers’ conference, Dallas
TX. The seminar involved presenting art history as a history of innovation
and the practice of drawing as a means to learning how to alter perception
and thinking. • Slide lecture at University of Nebraska at Omaha. • Slide lecture at MAC, McKinney Avenue Contemporary. Dallas, TX. |
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• Guest lecturer
at the Dallas Museum of Art An Artist Speaks summer series. • Juror for the Fort Worth Chapter of Composers, Authors and Artists of America Annual Art Competition. |
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The Texas Biennial
Executive Committee, Dallas, TX. Responsibilities: was one of three member committee which originated, designed and executed the first Texas Biennial Exhibition which took place in Dallas, Texas, November 1993, co-sponsored by DARE, Dallas Artists’ Research and Exhibition. The exhibition was a statewide juried show with four curators from around the state who selected 80 artists from a pool of 365 artists who entered. Individual artists were selected rather than specific works and were invited to create new work and/or site specific work to be displayed in the 25,000 square foot Food and Fiber Pavilion on the Texas State Fair Grounds. Co-chaired installation design committee which involved working with an architect to design walls and enclosures for the space and curatorial placement of artists. |
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Member of DARE artists’ advisory committee to the director of the Dallas Museum of Art. |
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• Panel member
at symposium on No Laughing Matter, a traveling exhibition curated by Nina
Felshin for Independent Curators, Inc. NY, at the University of North Texas,
Denton, TX. • Participant in silent auction for the Dallas Museum of Art. |
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Appointed to 7 member artists’ advisory committee to the director of the Dallas Museum of Art. |
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“Stealing Their Souls” published in Dallas Arts Review No. 30 [pp.6-9] 1990. |
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• Gallery lecturer
at Eastfield College in Mesquite, TX. • Guest speaker at Richland College in Richardson, TX for the Women in the Arts course, fall semester. • Participant in the silent auction for the Dallas Museum of Art. |
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Juror for the Annual Student Art Exhibition at Richland College in Richardson, TX. |
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Guest speaker for graduate seminar, University of Texas at Dallas. |
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Member of 500X Gallery in Dallas,
TX. |
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Co-produced “State
of the Arts” weekly arts radio program on KNON-FM, Dallas. Responsibilities: • writing reviews • interviewing guests • broadcasting. |
| Professional Memberships | top |
| CAA (College Art Association) Fulbright Association AAUP (American Association of University Professors) |