Graduate Assistant, Georgia State University, 2003-2004,Department of Art Education, School of Art and Design, College of Arts and Sciences, Georgia State University; Fall Semester, 2003, Dr. Melody Milbrandt, Supervisor; Spring Semester, 2004, Dr. Paula Eubanks, Supervisor

Assistant to Vice President/Registrar, ACA Galleries, New York, NY, 2001

Managed a wide variety of responsibilities for family-owned gallery established in 1932, including sales (art, monographs and catalogs); work with artists including Faith Ringgold, Benny Andrews, Louis Jiminez, estates of Joseph Cornell, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and others, as well as clients (Sotheby's, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of American Folk Art and others)
Wrote and edited press releases and correspondence; tracked gallery inventory; updated Art systems Galpro database and used Photoshop for online sales and auctions, i.e., Sotheby's
Worked at Art Dealer's Association Fair, National Black Fine Arts Show, National Paper and Drawing Fair, in client development and sales.

Executive Director, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap,
GA, 7/98-7/99

Managed all operations of Artist's Residency Program serving 20+ Artists-in Residence for 2-6 week periods year round (visual artists, musicians, writers)
Oversaw management of physical plant: shop/gallery, library, ceramics studio and anagama kiln, large guest house with kitchen, 8 smaller houses (for residents), a grist mill (all dating back to 1920s) as well as 800+ acres of land
Hired, trained and motivated 8 staff members
Strengthened application process for residency candidates
Worked with the Board on fundraising: grants, endowment solicitations, annual artist's auction and membership drive
Wrote and produced quarterly newsletter; re-created format and chose designer (accomplishments of note: brought the Georgia State University Cello Choir to the Rabun Gap community for a free concert; obtained lithography press donated by the Atlanta College of Art, converted former garage into printmaking studio, successfully developed new resource for water supply which was depleted by drought during my tenure there)

Printmaking Instructor, Chastain Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
5/97 - 5/98 intaglio (including a new water-based photo etching technique), some relief and monoprinting

Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA 9/88 - 8/96
Assistant Dean, 1/89-8/96
Adjunct Faculty, 9/88-8/96

Assistant Dean, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
1989-96
Designed and managed academic advisement program
Worked on curriculum development for fully accredited 4-year college serving 300+ students per year with 100+ tenured or extended contract faculty
Assisted with faculty and staff hiring including Directors of Admission, Directors of Community Education, Registrars, Academic Deans
Designed pre-college program, summer 1995
Developed, designed and administered summer school program from 1990-96
Consulted with faculty and developed new studio courses including interdisciplinary courses in printmaking, sculpture and digital arts.
Taught undergraduate classes in studio and art history
Worked on assessment and reaccreditation process with SACS and NASAD, earning 8-year accreditation for the school

Adjunct faculty, Atlanta College of Art
1988-96
Advanced Painting (team taught), 1993
"Ideas in Art Criticism," fall 1988
"Primitivism in Modern Art," spring 1989
Pre-College Drawing (team taught), summer 1989
course preparation for "Folk Art: A History," (canceled as a result of my promotion to Assistant Dean), fall 1989

Gallery Director, Zinc. Contemporary Art, Bluewater Bay, FL
8/94-9/95
During academic sabbatical year, helped owner develop gallery from inception
Co-curated exhibitions, developed regional exhibition opportunities for represented artists
Sold art, delivered lectures, wrote newsletter and other marketing materials

Program Director, Artist Market, Arts Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
4/92-9/94
Revamped and oversaw this annual juried sales venue for 300+ artists and craftspeople from throughout the US
Created Bazaar Bizzoso as a new branch of the Arts Festival artists' market on behalf of artists doing odd or outrageous work which included their booth/space design
Developed budgets and monitored expenses
Consulted with Festival Management on redesign of program in anticipation of move to new location

Assistant, William Arnett Rare Objects of Art, Inc., Atlanta 8/87-8/88
Organized and helped develop collection and documentation of art by self-taught African-American artists in the Southeastern US
Helped maintain Arnett's Asian, Oceanic, African, Guatemalan, Ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Pre-Columbian collections

Editor-in-Chief, Atlanta Art Papers, Inc.
7/84-7/87
Organized, planned and produced Art Papers, a bimonthly arts publication. Determined editorial policy, cultivated writers and critics, developed new writers and expanded publication's coverage and audience from local to national
Expanded publication from tabloid to magazine, developed new areas of coverage and improved design
Conducted fundraising with the board of directors and developed new fiscal resources
Managed grant-writing and administration for funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, Georgia Council for the Arts, Fulton County Arts Council, City of Atlanta/Bureau of Cultural Affairs, initiated and received funding for regional editors program from the National Endowment for the Arts, North Carolina Arts Council and other sources Supervised editorial and business staff

Freelance Projects/Consulting, GA, NY, FL, 1996-present
Representative projects:
Consultant, Pedestrian Gallery Projects, Jacksonville, FL, 1999, 2002
IX & X Annual Folk Art Show, Puck building Barbara Archer Gallery, New York, NY, 2000, 2001
FolkFest '96 & '97,Atlanta, GA (staff, Anton Haardt Gallery booth, '96; administrative coordinator for event,'97)
Co-curator and consultant, "Nellie Mae Rowe" exhibition, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA, '96
Publicity assist for exhibition "Souls Grown Deep",'96 Olympics, Atlanta, GA
Designed Art Papers booth/kiosk, Association of American Museums Conference, Atlanta, GA 1997
Public Domain, alternative online nonprofit (consultation) 1997
Album cover design (with Flournoy Holmes), "Webb Wilder: doo dad," Praxis International, 1991

Prior Gallery Management Experience: curating, extensive client contact, sales management, exhibition design and installation in the areas of contemporary art, folk art, photography and antiques, Heath Gallery, Alexander Gallery, Atlanta Gallery of Photography, Image South Gallery, Gillette & Frutchey Antiques, '80s; Marcia Wood, Barbara Archer (occasional assistance as needed) late '90s, Atlanta, GA; Anton Haardt Gallery, New Orleans, LA, '98; Pedestrian Gallery, Jacksonville, FL, '98; ACA Gallery, New York, NY, '01

Education

Master of Fine Arts, with honors, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program, Cortona, Italy
Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking, cum laude, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN

Additional Studies

Georgia State University, Atlanta Georgia, Art Education MAEd program, 2003 - 2004
Postgraduate non credit: New School University, New York, NY Fiction Writing, 2001
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, Printmaking, 1980-82.
Continuing Education: Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA, computer art, desktop publishing computer graphics applications incl. photoshop (PC & Mac); photography, printmaking (intaglio & silkscreen), woodshop, criticism, 1990-1996
Postgraduate credit, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA, Macintosh graphics 1993
Okaloosa-Walton Community College, Niceville, FL, Macintosh graphics (various applications+ photoshop), 1995

Chastain Art Center, Atlanta, GA, ceramics (pottery wheel), Bookmaking, 1997

Additional Professional Experience

President, Board of Directors, Art Papers, 1996-97; board member, fundraiser, 1985-97
Nominee, Board of Directors, College Art Association, 1995
National Endowment for the Arts: Challenge Grant panelist, Visual Arts Organizations, and Visual Artists Forums programs, 1986-90; Consultant, Five-Year Visual Arts Overview, 1988-89; Consultant, Five-year Planning Document, 1990; Site visitor, Visual Arts Organizations, 1987
Co-Chair, Studio Division, Southeastern College Art Conference, Atlanta. Organized seminars, demonstrations, and panel discussions for college-level art educators, 1990
Organizer/presenter, Job Placement Panel, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY, 1990
Visiting Critic, Seattle Arts Commission and Reflex magazine, Seattle, WA, 1989
Selection Committee, Frank Jewett Mather Award in Criticism, College Art Association, 1989
Selection Committee, Southeast Seven Fellowship Program, sponsored by the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC, 1987
Nominator, Awards in the Visual Arts, Southeast Region, sponsored by Equitable Life Insurance Society and The Rockefeller Foundation, 1986
Grants review panelist, City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Atlanta, GA, 1985-86
Co-organizer, Critics Symposium, Gathering of critics and artists from throughout the US, Atlanta, GA, 1984.

Research

College of Education, Georgia State University, Content Knowledge research, 2003
Lee Kogan, Director, Folk Art Institute, Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY 1997, 98.
Archaeological dig, slave quarters, Hermitage Plantation, Sponsored by Earthwatch, Nashville, TN, 1997
Research and editing consultant, Anton Haardt Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 1996

Exhibitions-Curator or Juror

Caroll Reece Museum of Art Annual Artist Exhibition, Johnson City, TN, Spring 1999
"Toehold Five," Small Works Exhibition, Pedestrian Gallery, Jacksonville, FL, 1998
35th Bay Annual Art Show, Visual Arts Center of Northwest Florida, Panama City, 1996
Slocomb Art Gallery, College of Art, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, 1995
ArtsQuest '95, Grayton Beach Fine Arts Festival, Grayton Beach, FL, 1995
Decatur Arts Festival, Decatur, GA, 1995
Money Changes Everything or Seeking the Souk, Bathhouse exhibition, artists billboards, Art-in-Transit, and Bazaar Bizzoso, co-curated with Lisa Tuttle, Arts Festival of Atlanta, 1994
18th Annual Juried Show, Anderson County Arts Center, Anderson, SC, 1993
Montgomery Art Museum, Montgomery, AL, 1991
Student art exhibition, Georgia State University, Atlanta, 1990
Public Art Works 1990 Project, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA, 1990
Student art show, Western Carolina Art Students League, Cullowhee, NC, 1989
Georgia Art Acquisition Program, 1985
Senior exhibit, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 1985
Artscene 1980, Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN, 1980

Selected Exhibitions-Artist

"When I Was A Child," Youth Art Connection Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 9/4-10/31, 2003
The Fish Show, Northwood Gallery, Midland, Michigan, 7/03-9/03, 2003
"Looks Good On Paper," Spruill Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 6/5-8/30, 2003
"Like Lions Raging: A Commemorative Exhibition," Spruill Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 9/11-11/9, 2002
"John Steele and The Taxpayer's Children," Carroll Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN, 1/17-3/17, 2002; Teterow, Germany, May 20 - June 20, 2004
"Metamorphosis," Spiller Vicenty Gallery, Jacksonville, FL, 8/30-11/30, 2000
"Shrines: The Sacred & Secular in Contemporary Southern Art," ArtWalk, Atlanta, GA, 1997
Women's Path, permanent installation, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, dedicated 1994
Into the Light," Atlanta Biennale, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, 1992
National Black Arts Festival Invitational Exhibition, Atlanta, GA, 1992
"Angry Love," curated by Taboo, Arts Festival of Atlanta, GA, 1992
"Sold Down the River," collaborative installation with Christian Walker, Atlanta Photography Gallery, GA, 1990; recreated 1992.
"The Cross Show," curated by Taboo, Tula Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 1990
"Taken for Granted," New Visions Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 1989
"The Reliable Art Show," artist-organized exhibition, Atlanta, GA, 1988
Works on Paper, auction and exhibit to benefit Nexus Press, Atlanta, GA, 1986
"Write It Down and Get It Out," temporary installation, Healy Building, Atlanta, GA, 1986

Lectures and Gallery Talks

High Museum of Art, "Superfly, Corn Flakes & Vanilla Ice Cream: L'ecriture de Nellie Mae Rowe," in conjunction with the Museum of American Folk Art Exhibition: "991/2 Won't Do, The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe," Atlanta, GA 2/2000
Morris Museum of Art, gallery talk, Nellie Mae Rowe, Augusta, GA 1996
Slocomb Gallery, College of Art, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, 1995
"Ramifications of Being an Artist and Art Making in the Late Twentieth Century," at "Reflections: Women looking at Women," sponsored by the Emrys Foundation, Furman University, Roe Art Gallery, Greenville, SC, 1993
"Montgomery Art Museum Exhibition," Montgomery, AL, 1991
Folk Art slide show and lecture, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA, 1990
"Artists of the Afro-Atlantic Tradition," College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 1989
"Is Mainstream Art a Self-Limiting Paradigm?" 911 Contemporary Arts Center, Seattle, WA, 1989.
"Atlanta: A Cultural Duality," Seattle Museum of Fine Art, 1989

Panels

Moderator, "Commercial Art Opportunities," The National Museum of Women in the Arts and The Birmingham Museum of Art, with panelists Donna Leatherman, Sue Wiggins, Jerry Cullum, Birmingham, AL, 1/2001
"Folk Artist Nellie Mae Rowe and the Southern Imagination," High Museum of Art, lecture/panel discussion with panelists J. Richard Gruber, Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Atlanta, GA, 2000
Moderator, "Conversations in the Post-Olympia," with panelists Mary Jane Jacobs and others "Conversations at the Castle," (Cultural Olympiad project) Arts Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, 1996
"Building Bridges," Panel with Michael Brenson, Maureen Sherlock, Glenn Harper and others. "Conversations at the Castle," Atlanta, GA, 1996
"Documentary Photography: Two Points of View," Hammonds House Galleries, Co-organizer and panelist, Atlanta, GA, 1990
"Is Art in Your Future? Different Directions and Potentials," Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA, 1990
Alabama Art Education Association Fall Conference, Montgomery, 1990
Organizer/moderator, "The Out of Towners: Art Criticism Elsewhere." With panelists Maureen Sherlock, John Perrault, Patrice Koelsch, Glenn Harper, Charles Miller and others. College Art Association, New York, NY, 1990
"Criticism: Who Needs It?" National Association of Artists Organization conference, Minneapolis, MN, 1990
"Matters of Conscience: Issues in Contemporary Art," At "Looking South: A Different Dixie," Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, 1988
Discussion of the Atlanta art scene, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, 1987
"Artists as Critics/Writers," Southeastern College Art Conference, Knoxville, TN, 1987
"Visual Arts and the Media," Atlanta-Fulton Ad Hoc Committee on the Arts, Atlanta, GA, 1986
"What is Drawing?" Southeastern Graphics Invitational Exhibition, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, 1980

Published Articles

"Makin A Way Outta of No Way: Cultural Profundities in the Art of Nellie Mae Rowe," Raw Vision Magazine, London, p. 24-31, September, 2000
"Georgia Speller," Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South, Tinwood Books in association with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The NY Public library, 2000
"Interview: Ida Applebroog," (reprint) Interventions and Provocations: Conversations on Art, Culture, and Resistance, ed., State University New York Press, 1998
"Anton Haardt: Raquachismo," http://www.antonart.com/index_frames.htm, 1998
"Xen[i]amania," Art Papers, November-December, p. 40-41, 1996,
"Nellie's Hagiography," Nellie Mae Rowe catalog, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA, p.15-25, 1996
"Group Show: Rolling Stone Press," exhibition review, Art Papers, September-October 1994
"Benjamin Jones" Benjamin Jones Works on Paper," catalog, National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Regional Fellowships, 1994
"Don Cooper: New Works," catalog, Raleigh, NC: City Gallery of Contemporary Art, 1993
"Money Changes Everything," Arts Festival of Atlanta Visual Arts catalog, p. 27-28, 1994,
"Bazaar Bizzoso," Arts Festival of Atlanta Official Program, p. 28, 1994,
"Liquid Inc.: Amy Landesberg and Lisa Quatrale, " exhibition review, Art Papers, January-February, 1993
"Not a Juror's Statement," ArtVu Magazine/Contemporary Southeastern Visual Arts, Vol. 6, No. 1, Summer, 1992
"I Love Woolworth's," Art Papers 15th Anniversary Issue, November December, p.8-12, 1991
"Interview: Ida Applebroog," Art Papers, September-October, p.30 33, 1990
"Seattle: Fact or Fiction," Reflex, vol. 3, no. 2, March-April 1989
"Jim Berry," Art Papers, March-April, 1989
DooDaa Florida, Vol. 1, No. 3, October, 1984
"Kiss it Goodbye," Art Papers, March-April, 1988
Nellie Mae Rowe eulogy, Art Papers, September-October, 1982

Bibliography

Art Papers, "Like Lions Raging: A Commemorative Exhibition, Philip Auslander," p.35, January-February, 2003
John Steele and the Taxpayers' Children, John Steele & Blair H. White, p.52, 2002
The New York Times, "Nellie Mae Rowe: An Artist Who Didn't Know She Was One," Tessa De Carlo, AR 35, January 3, 1999
Graphic Idea Resource: Creativity, Innovative Ways to Build Great Design, Lesa Sawahata, "Art Papers Display Booth," p. 71, 1999
Festival Graphics, Gail Deibler Finke, "Bazaar Bizzoso," p. 57-62, 1999
Design Sense: Graphic Design on a Limited Budget, Anistatia R. Miller, Jared M. Brown, "Art Papers Display Booth," p.122, 1998
Urban Entertainment Graphics, Events, Wayne Hunt, "Bizarre graphics define alternative arts festival," p.60-63, 1997
Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Paula Crouch Thrasher, "Creative Women," March 4, 1997
Poets, Artists and Madmen, Alicia Griswold, "Smart Art" February, 1997
"It's Atlanta!" Clement O. McIntosh, II, Georgia Public Television, 1996
Graphic Design (On a Limited Budget). Rockport, MA: Rockport Publishers, p. 125, 127, 1995
How Magazine annual digital design issue, Gail Diebler Finke, "Bargin-Basement Environmental Graphic Design," p. 100-105, 1995
Print Casebooks 10/The Best in Exhibition Design, NY edition, p.44-47, 1994-95
Show South 1995: The Awards Annual, Atlanta, Creative Club of Atlanta, p. 80, 1995,
City Signs: Innovative Urban Graphics, Gail Deibler Finke, New York: Madison Square Press, p. 145, 1994,
Identity International Magazine of Signs and Corporate Graphics, "The Last Detail," p.96, January-February, 1994
Twin Cities Consumer, "Zinc. Contemporary Art Gallery, the leader for original artworks," December 1994
Articles, Atlanta College of Art, 1990, 1991
Atlanta Journal and Constitution, "Mature Racial Themes Flow in Powerful 'River' Exhibit," June 19, 1990
Atlanta Journal and Constitution, "New Visions Show of 25 Artists Offers Diversity of Good Works," October 8, 1989
New Art Examiner, Allison Gamble, "Art Press Review," November 1988
Atlanta Magazine, "The Heart of the City: 50 People Who Make Atlanta Special," October 1985
"Art Papers: A Forum for the Arts," Peachtree Papers, March 1985

Awards

Georgia Women in the Visual Arts, Georgia Commission on Women, Honoree, 1997
I. D. Magazine, Environmental Graphics, Honorable Mention (Bazaar Bizzoso), 1994
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, Purchase award, 1977
Ford Foundation Study Abroad Fellowship, 1977; Mary Rosenblatt Fellowship, 1977
Scottish Rite Fellowship, 1973
Jean Brightly Scholarship, 1975

Community Projects

Cumberland Island Wildlife Management Committee Member, 1997
Arts Festival of Atlanta, Consultant, Planning Committee, 1997
Indiana University College of Philanthropy "Fundraising 101," workshop participant, sponsored by the Metropolitan Community Foundation and AT&T, 1997
Hammonds House Galleries, fundraiser, 1996-97
Little Five Points Community Center, Member, Board of Directors, 1996

Collections

Jill Spencer, Federal Home Loan Bank, Atlanta, GA