ART HISTORIAN / LECTURER / ARTIST

THE ART INSTITUTE OF ATLANTA/THE ART INSTITUTE ONLINE

 

GENERAL EDUCATION FULL-TIME FACULTY SINCE 2000

 

EDUCATION:

M.F.A. 1998 Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia

Art History/Contemporary Latin American art

B.A.

1991

Mercer University, Macon, Georgia

Art/Communications/Broadcasting with Film Studies concentration

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:

 

1998

Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia

 

Marketing and Special Events Director

 

1996-1997

Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah

 

Teaching Assistant/Intern/Associate Curator/Gallery Designer

 

MEMBERSHIPS:

College Art Association

Southeastern College Art Association

Association for Art History

American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association

 

AWARDS/HONORS/EXHIBITIONS/PRESENTATIONS:

Outstanding Faculty of the Year, The Art Institute of Atlanta (2005-2006)

Guest Lecturer, Contemporary Art History, Clemson University (Fall Semester 2006)

Visiting Artists Lecture Committee, Chair; The Art Institute of Atlanta (2001-2005)

Installation team on “The Gates Project” in New York City, artists Christo and Jeanna-Claude (2005)

“Fading Glimpses: Travel Photographs,” presentation at Popular Culture Association  (2004)

“Abstracting the Landscape: Two Artists, Two Interpretations,” Art Institute of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, Summer 2006.

Author, “I Want My MTV: How MTV Changed the Visual Arts,” presentation at American Popular Culture Association (2003)

Author, “Identity in Crisis or the Crisis of Identity in the Work of Matthew Barney,” presentation at Southeastern College Art Conference (2001)

What is American about American Art? Essays on American Art from the Art/Architecture Session, American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association, Spring 2006, Atlanta, Georgia.  Publication forthcoming, Cambridge Scholars Press.

Group exhibit: Faculty Showcase, The Art Institute of Atlanta (2000-2003, 2005)

Author, “Rediscovering Marsden Hartley’s Arcane Library Series,” M.F.A. thesis, Savannah College of Art and Design (1997).