Education
2000, Ph.D., Art History, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
1994 & 1996, Attended Summer Institute in Western American Studies, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY
1987, M.A., Art History, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
1984-1987, Attended Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
1976, M.S., Zoology, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
1974, B.A., Psychology, Furman University, Greenville, SC


Teaching Experience
2003-Present, Furman University, Greenville, SC
History of Western Art parts I and II (formerly History and Appreciation of Art); Modern Art, 1800-1960 (formerly Arts of the 19th and 20th Centuries); Ideas in the Arts; American Art; First-Year Seminar: American Art – Pushing Boundaries

2003-2004, University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, SC
History of American Art: Colonial Times to 1860; History of American Art: 1860 to Present

2002, Furman University, Greenville, SC
History and Appreciation of Art

2001-2003, Greenville Technical College, Greenville, SC
Art History and Criticism; Art Appreciation

1996, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, NV
Art Appreciation

1995, Florida State University -- London Study Abroad Program
Art; Architecture; and Artistic Vision

1992-1994, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Art History and Criticism

1990-1991, City Colleges of Chicago - Europe (Berlin, Germany)
Art Appreciation; General Biology; Library Skills; Math Refresher; Medical Terminology

1989-1991, University of Maryland - European Division (Berlin, Germany)
History of Art; Early Medieval Art; Concepts of Biology; Human Biology; Introduction to Marine Biology; Introduction to Physical Science; Population Biology and General Ecology; Transitional Mathematics

1982-1984, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Art History and Criticism/Survey


Museum and Exhibition Experience
Forthcoming, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Exhibition of women patrons of Native American art in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

2006, Special Collections, James B. Duke Library, Furman University
Curated the exhibition Cultural Broker in Bonnets: Jane B. Evans, Florence, South Carolina.

1997-1998, Fine Arts Gallery and Museum, Florida State University
Curated section on Joseph Henry Sharp for exhibition Dimensions of Native America.

1996, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY
Researched Joseph Henry Sharp’s monotypes relative to monotypes in the museum’s permanent collection.

1994, Fine Arts Gallery and Museum, Florida State University
Researched western American art to accompany the museum’s education programs in regard to objects in the permanent collection.

1993, Appleton Museum, Ocala, FL
Researched nineteenth-century French bronze statuettes from a private collection to be exhibited at the Appleton Museum.

1992, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Researched Etruscan mirrors for ongoing Etruscan studies at Florida State University.


Archaeological Field Experience
Summer 1993
Unit Supervisor, Archaeological excavation of an Etruscan/Roman site in Cetamura, Italy


Publications
Forthcoming
"Joseph Henry Sharp: Father of the Taos Art Colony," chapter for Gerald Peters Gallery, Inc., publication The Taos Society of Artists.

"Indian Detour at El Tovar: Joseph Henry Sharp's Indian Hunters," Kresge Art Museum Bulletin, 50th Anniversary issue, Vol. IX, Michigan State University: 7-14.

2008
"Frederic Remington as an American Icon," chapter for Icons of the American West: From Cowgirls to Silicon Valley, Gordon Bakken, ed., 2 vols. Greenwood Press, 2008: 231-276.

"It Is What It Is: Aspects of Contemporary Art," essay for Borders exhibition catalogue, SC Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, January 2008.

2005
Book Review of Remington's Schuyler's West: Artistic Vision of Cowboys and Indians, Great Plains Quarterly, Spring 2005, Vol. 25(3): 132 - 133.

"Why Some Things Matter," Photography:Painting::Terri Bright:Michael Brodeur, Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC, 2005.

2001
Book Review of Peter H. Hassrick's The American West: Out of Myth into Reality, North Dakota History, 2001 vol. 68(2): 38-39.

1998
"The Search for the 'Real Indian': Joseph Henry Sharp and the Issue of Authenticity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," in Dimensions of Native America: The Contact Zone Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, 1998: 96-112.

"Addie Sharp: A Forgotten Figure of the Turn of the Century West," Points West, Summer 1998: 18-19.

1996
"Joseph Henry Sharp's Monotypes: On the Cutting Edge," Buffalo Bill Historical Center News, Fall 1996: 6-7.

1995
"Frederic Remington Creator of American Icons," Florida State University Fine Arts Gallery and Museum Collections Handbook, 1995: 3-12.

"I am to Endure in Bronze: Frederic Remington," Florida State University Fine Arts Gallery and Museum Collections Handbook, 1995; 14-18.

"August Macke and Native American Imagery," Athanor, Vol. 13, 1995: 71-77.

1980
William J. Tiffany III, William H. Luer, and Marie A. Watkins, "Intracellular and Intraluminal Aspects of Renal Calculosis in the Marine Mollusk Macrocalista nimbosa," Investigative Urology, Vol. 18(2), Sept. 1980: 139-143.

1979
Averett S. Tombes and Marie W. Foster, "Growth and Development of the Appendix Masculina in Macrobrachium rosenbergii," Crustaceana, Suppl. 5, 1979: 179-184.


Papers and Panels
2009
"What Happens in Paris, Doesn't Stay in Paris: Beaux Arts Aesthetics in the Work of Eanger Couse, Bert Phillips, and Joseph Henry Sharp," Symposium "Taos Traditions: Artists in an Enchanted Land," Denver Art Museum, January 2009, Denver, CO

2008
"Phoebe Apperson Hearst's Matronage of Joseph Henry Sharp: A Network of Art, Feminism, Philanthropy and Anthropology," Southwest Art History Conference, October 2008, Taos, NM

"Joseph Henry Sharp and his Early Patrons," The Taos Gallery, co-sponsored by The Couse Foundation and Jan Mellor of The Taos Gallery, July 2008, Taos, NM

"Cultural Broker in Bonnets: Jane B. Evans and the Founding of the Florence, South Carolina Museum," Southeast Women's Studies Association, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, April 2008, Charlotte, NC

Panel Chair, "Southern Women and Their Activism," Southeast Women Studies Association, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, April 2008, Charlotte, NC

"The Three Patrons of Serendip: Joseph Butler, Jr., William Holmes and Phoebe Hearst, and the Early Career of Joseph Henry Sharp," Fifth Biennial Symposium (Window to the Southwest: The Eugene B. Adkins Collection), Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West, The University of Oklahoma School of Art and Art History, March 2008, Norman, OK

"Following a Southwestern Trail: Jane B. Evans and the Founding of the Florence, South Carolina Museum," Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, February 2008, Albuquerque, NM

2006
"South by Southwest: Jane B. Evans and the Founding of the Florence, South Carolina Museum," Southwestern Art History Conference, October 2006, Taos, NM

"The Life and Art of Joseph Henry Sharp," CIWAS Presentation Series, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, August 2006, Cody, WY

"Joseph Henry Sharp's Glimpses of Transformation in Native America," Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association, February 2006, Albuquerque, NM

2005
"Joseph Henry Sharp's Recognition of the 'Indian Problem': Imagery of Assimilation," Southwest Art History Conference, October 2005, Taos, NM

"Joseph Henry Sharp: Acknowledging and Denying the Moral Dilemma of the American Indian," Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association, February 2005, Albuquerque, NM

2004
Panelist, "The Da Vinci Code Uncovered," Greenville County Museum of Art,
October 2004, Greenville, SC

"Joseph G. Butler, Jr.'s Indian Gallery" Creating Culture and Constructing History," Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association, April 2004, San Antonio, TX

Panel Chair, ACS/Women's Gender Studies Conference, "Against Representation: Preforming Gender in the Visual Arts," March 2004, Furman University, Greenville, SC

2000
"Joseph Henry Sharp: Images of the American West," Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, November 2000, Wilmington, NC

1995
"Frederic Remington: Creator of American Icons," Appleton Symposium, April 1995, Tallahassee, FL

1994
"August Macke and Native American Imagery," Art History Graduate Student Symposium, Flordia State University, Spring 1994, Tallahassee, FL

1976
"Growth and Development of the Crustacean Macrobrachium rosenbergii," Southern Zoological Conference, Spring 1976, New Orleans, LA


Service
2007-Present
Board of the Southwest Art History Council, elected October 2007.


Awards, Grants, and Funding
2008, Research and Professional Growth Grant, Furman University

2007, Research and Professional Growth Grant, Furman University

2006
Research and Professional Growth Grant, Furman University

Cody Institute of Western American Studies, Resident Fellowship, Cody, WY

The Year of the Humanities Fund, The Humanities Development Fund, the James B. Duke Library and the Furman University Art Department for the Exhibition Cultural Broker in Bonnets: Jane B. Evans, Florence, South Carolina, Furman University

2005
Scholar in Residence, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Research and Professional Growth Grant, Furman University

2004, Research and Professional Growth Grant, Furman University

1998, Short-Term Research Grant, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

1997, Dissertation Research Grant, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

1996, Scholarship, Summer Institue in Western American Studies, Buffalo Bill Historial Center, Cody, WY

1994, Scholarship, Summer Institue in Western American Studies, Buffalo Bill Historial Center, Cody, WY

1992-1994, Appleton Fellowship, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

1984-1987, Exchange Fellowship, Tulane University and Freie Universität/ Berlin, Germany

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