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Hipólito Rafael Chacón1-406-243-2735 (office)
Place of birth: Havana, CubaCitizenship: United States of America
Education:1995 Ph.D., The University of Chicago
Dissertation: Michelangelism in Spanish Art of the Sixteenth Century.Primary field: Renaissance Art; secondary: Baroque.Dissertation defended with honors.
1987 M.A., The University of ChicagoMaster's Thesis: The Beheaded St. John the Baptist in Spanish Sculpture, 1591-
1779.Major: Art History.
1985 A.B., Wabash CollegeMajor: Art; Minor: Biology.Graduated Summa Cum Laude.
Awards and Honors:2016 Sabbatical Award, The University of Montana.2014 Merit Award, The University of Montana.
Named one of ten “Five-Star Smithsonian Journeys Experts.”2013 Delivered a TEDx lecture, The University of Montana.
Invited to lecture in the Montana State University-Northern’s Chancellor’s Lecture Series.
Opportunity Grant from Humanities Montana and Global LeadershipInitiative Grant to bring Magda Resik-Aguirre, Communications Director, Office of the Historian of the City of Havana to The University of Montana.
2012 Mini-Sabbatical Award, The University of Montana.2011 Presidential Appointee to the Montana Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Council, The University of Montana.Named lecturer for the Smithsonian Journeys Lecture Series in Europe.
2010 Merit Award, The University of Montana.Walked the Via Podiensis in France, the medieval pilgrimage route starting in Le
Puy-en-Velay, France.2009 Research Grant from the Missoula Historic Preservation Office for the expansion
of The University of Montana, Historic District National Register Nomination
Sabbatical Award, The University of Montana.2008 Merit Award, The University of Montana.2007 Dorothy Ogg Award for Individual Contribution to Historic Preservation,
Missoula Historic Preservation Commission.Preserving Missoula County’s History Grant for the publication of The Original
Man: The Life and Work of Montana Architect A.J. Gibson (1862-1927), Missoula, MT: The University of Montana Press.
2006 Selected for inclusion in Bridget Kevane, Latinos in Montana: A State-by-State Encyclopedia, two volumes, edited by Mark Overmeyer-
Velázquez, Westport: CT: Greenwood Publishing Co., publication pending
2005 Research Grant from the National Park Service and the Glacier Fund for researching the paintings in Glacier National Park’s Historic Lodges.
2004 Student Affairs Award, The University of Montana, Missoula, Montana.Merit Award, The University of Montana.Promoted to Full Professor, The University of Montana.
2003 Elected President of the Montana State Historic Preservation Review Board, National Register of Historic Places.
Appointed to the Board of Humanities Montana.Celebrate Missoula Community Foundation Award, for architectural
photography.2002 Walked the Camino de Santiago, the medieval pilgrimage to Santiago de
Compostela from France to Spain.Undergraduate Research Award, Davidson Honors College, The University of
Montana.2001 Sabbatical Award, The University of Montana.
“Best Professor at The University of Montana,” The Missoulian.2000 Appointed to the Montana State Historic Preservation Review Board, National
Register of Historic Places.Merit Award, The University of Montana.
1999 Distinguished Faculty Award, School of Fine Arts, The University of Montana.Merit Award, The University of Montana.Tenure Award, The University of Montana.
1998 Promotion to Associate Professor of Art History and Criticism, The University of Montana.
Nomination to Speaker’s Bureau, Humanities Montana.1997 Research Fellowship for investigation of The Spanish Myth and Montana's Early
Architecture, Humanities Montana,.1995 Award for dissertation photographs, American Society for Hispanic Art
Historical Studies.High honors on dissertation defense.
1994 Appointed reviewer of grant applications in art history, history, and museum studies, Division of Research Programs National Endowment for the Humanities.
1992 Faculty Development Grant for Travel to Cuba, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana.
1990 Government of Spain, Ministry of Foreign Relations Research Fellowship for dissertation research in Spain.
Research Award for dissertation research in Spain, Visiting Committee on the Visual Arts, The University of Chicago.
1985-94 Continuous Full Scholarship, The University of Chicago.1985 Distinctions on Senior Comprehensive Examinations in Art, Wabash College.
Phi Beta Kappa, Wabash College.Paul C. Hustings Award in Art History and Criticism, Wabash College.George Lewes Mackintosh Graduate Fellowship, Wabash College.
Languages: Fluent in English, German, and Spanish.Reading knowledge in French, Italian, Latin, and Portuguese.
Teaching and Museum Related Projects:
2015 Guest Lecturer, Vienna Program, School of Music, The University of Montana, Vienna, Austria.
2014 Co-curator, “America in the Great War” (working title) exh. scheduled for summer 2017, Montana Museum of Art & Culture, The University of Montana.
2012 Guest Lecturer, Vienna Program, School of Music, The University of Montana, Vienna, Austria.
2010 Guest Lecturer, English Faculty, Jan Evangelista Purkyné University, Ustí nad Labem, Czech Republic
Guest Lecturer, Vienna Program, School of Music, The University of Montana, Vienna, Austria.
2008 Interim Director, School of Art, The University of Montana, Missoula, Montana.
2005-present Professor of Art History and Criticism, The University of Montana.1998-2005 Associate Professor of Art History and Criticism, The University of Montana.1994-1998 Assistant Professor of Art History and Criticism, The University of Montana.1992-94 Owen Duston Instructor of Art, Wabash College.
Courses taught: Ancient American Art, Latin American Art: Colonial to Present, Art of the Renaissance and Baroque, Modern Art, The Bauhaus, and Cultures and Traditions.
1990-92 Hispanic Studies Coordinator, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.Lecturer, Office of Continuing Education, The University of Chicago.Taught Survey of the Visual Arts and Introduction to Art.Teaching Assistant, The University of Chicago: Art of the West: Renaissance to
Baroque course.1988-91 Assistant to the Curator, Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, The
Art Institute of Chicago.1986-88 Graduate Intern and Assistant to the Curator, The David and Alfred Smart
Museum, The University of Chicago.1986 Assistant to the Public Relations Director, The David and Alfred Smart Museum,
The University of Chicago.1985 Slide Collection Cataloguer, The University of Chicago, School of Art.1984 Intern, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Publications, Reviews, Citations, and Other Writings:2016 Interviewed by Hawk Hammer, “UM professors react to Obama’s historic Cuba
visit,” NBC Montana, KECI, March 21, 2016, available online at:http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/um-professors-react-to-obamas-historic-cuba-visit/38629858.
Interviewed on the “Greg Neft Program,” Newsradio 95.9 FM/950 AM, March 21, 2016.
Cited in “An Artistic Homecoming,” Wabash Magazine, (winter 2016), 92-95.Cited in David Erickson, “Structural engineer disputes Bozeman developers’
claims about Missoula Mercantile,” Missoulian, March 14, 2016, available online at: http://missoulian.com/news/structural-engineer-disputes-bozeman-developer-s-claims-about-missoula-mercantile/article_e8ec9bff-f54a-5963-8e0c-5474a1be8645.html
Cited in “Mystery of miracle Glacier murals may live on, but so will paintings,” Missoulian, January 23, 2016, available on line at: http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/mystery-of-miracle-
glacier-murals-may-live-on-but-so/article_1e893c45-e8d2-5f94-a7a7-b835cc0eb280.html
2015 "Daphne Bugbee Jones: A Modernist Architect's Legacy," Montana: the Magazine of Western History (Summer 2015) Vol. 65, No. 2, pp. 57-69, 95f.
“Banjo Cat: Between Two Ranges Episode 10,” Mansfield Library Archives & Special Collections Mascot Banjo Cat interview, available online at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih-q1VR9-Lk&feature=youtu.be&t=1s
“A Profile: Daphne Bugbee Jones, Montana Modernist Architect,” High DessertJournal, available online at:http://www.highdesertjournal.com/#!daphne-jones/c1rrm
2014 Review of Fred S. Kleiner, A History of Roman Art, Enhanced Ed., (Wadsworth-Cengage Learning, 2010), October 2014.
Cited in Cory Walsh, “Admission still free at Carnegie Building,” Missoulian, September 6, 2014.
Interviewed in Kim Briggeman, “Edgar S. Paxson murals romanticize, preserve history,” Missoulian, August 30, 2014, available online at: http://missoulian.com/lifestyles/territory/edgar-s-paxson-s-murals-romanticize-preserve-history/article_9502c08a-2fe4-11e4-ba6d-001a4bcf887a.html
Interviewed in Erika Fredrickson, “Opening the vault,” Missoula Independent, August 28, 2014, available online at: http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/opening-the-vault/Content?oid=2071992
Interviewed in Bess Pallares, “Extended Learning: MOLLI Breathes New Life into Continuing Education,” Montanan, (Spring 2014) Vol. 31, No. 2, p. 14f.
Featured in “Five-star Smithsonian Experts,” April 21, 2014, available online at: http://openinboxexperiment.com/five-star-smithsonian-journeys-experts/185480#listing
Cited in Russ Lawrence, “Art and Emotion…,” Ravalli Republic, February 20,2014, available on line at: http://ravallirepublic.com/entertainment/article_c3eb1a4a-9a9e-11e3-9b44-001a4bcf887a.html
Interviewed in Heidi Meili, “Olympics also celebrated through art,” NBC Montana, KECI TV, February 10, 2014, available online at: http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/olympics-also-celebrated-through-art/24396448
Cited in Bess Pallares, “Talking Points: TEDxUMontana Highlights the personal Side of Academics, Montanan, (Winter 2014) Vol. 31, No. 1, p. 5.
2013 Featured in “UM art history professor to speak in conjunction with modernist exhibitions,” Missoulian, November 2, 2013, available online at: http://missoulian.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/um-art-history-professor-to-speak-in-conjunction-with-modernist/article_00bfea6a-434a-11e3-9635-0019bb2963f4.html
Cited in “Picasso, Chagall among modernist masters going on display at UM,” September 29, 2012, Ravalli Republic, available online at:http://www.ravallirepublic.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/article_ab4be138-bb74-5ea9-b0c8-951c0716d318.html
Cited in Erin Madison and Kristen Inbody, “Wright’s Legacy in Montana,” available online at:http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20130922/LIFESTYLE01/309220009/Frank-Lloyd-Wright-s-legacy-montana.
"Montana Modernism: Contemporary Architecture in the Western State, 1945-1975," Montana: The Magazine of Western History, (Summer 2013) Vol. 63, No. 2, pp. 3-25.
Cited in Heidi Meili, “Medical professionals from Missoula aid Honduras,” April 29-30, broadcast on KECI TV and available online at: http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/medical-professionals-aid-honduras/-/14594602/19946000/-/v84vr7/-/index.html
Cited in Christopher Allen, “Pentecost sets stage on fire,” Montana Kaimin, March 26, 2013, available online at: http://www.montanakaimin.com/arts_and_culture/article_8840734c-96a2-11e2-b1bf-001a4bcf6878.html
2012 “Not so Demure: MMAC’s show isn’t just a walk in the park,” Missoula Independent, November 29, 2012, available online at: http://m.bigskypress.com/missoula/not-so-demure/Content?oid=1694298
“Antonia Contro: Tempus Fugit,” gallery guide to the exhibition, Philadelphia, PA: The American Philosophical Society Museum.
2011 “Van Gogh in the Rice Paddies,” The International Journal of Arts in Society, Volume 6, No. 2, pp. 111-20, available online at:http://ija.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.85/prod.757
Associate Editor, Volume 6, Issue 2, The International Journal of the Arts in Society.
Cited in “Italy and Turkey: Exploring Art History and Contemporary Art,” UMARTS, Vol. 2, No. 1, (Fall 2011), 4.
“Clay and the Classroom: the Ceramics Program at the University of Montana,” essay in Persistence in Clay, exh. cat., Missoula: Missoula Art Museum, 9-11.
“Seventeen Inquiries,” introductory essay in catalogue, Missoula: Students of Photography III, School of Art, The University of Montana, 2011, iv.
Cited in Michael Howell, “Historic Building Comes Down,” Bitterroot Star, January 26, 2011, available online at: http://www.bitterrootstar.com/pageone.html#1
2010 “UM Campus: Dennison’s Legacy,” Missoulian, December 28, 2010, available online at: http://missoulian.com/news/opinion/columnists/article_bcb1dc6e-1293-11e0-b532-001cc4c03286.html
Renoir, Magritte, Gauguin and other European Masterpieces from a Private Collection, exhibition catalogue text editor, Missoula: Montana Museum of Art & Culture, 2010.
Cited in Maxine Ramey, “Adventure of a Lifetime: The Vienna Program 2010,” Expanding Horizons, September 2010, 1-3.
Cited in Gilleran, Emerald, “The man who built Missoula,” Montana Kaimin,September 15, 2010.
Cited in Joe Nickell, “Self-made man: Western Montana’s built landscape shaped by architect A.J. Gibson’s self-taught vision, bravado,” Missoulian, August 20, 2010, available online at:
Cited in Kim Briggeman, “County Courthouse: 100 years of rich Missoula
history,” Missoulian, July 19, 2010, available online at: http://missoulian.com/news/local/article_e27ad9d8-93b2-11df-bbc4-001cc4c03286.html
Cited in Kim Briggeman, “Missoula to celebrate its 100th,” Missoulian, July 17, 2010, available online at:http://missoulian.com/news/local/article_d96b30aa-922b-11df-acce-001cc4c002e0.html
“The Miraculous Survival of the Art of Glacier National Park,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History, Summer 2010, 56-74.
“The University of Montana Historic District Expansion,” Washington DC: National Register of Historic Places.
Featured in Iva Zamazalová, “Návšteva z Univerzity v Montaně,” Zpravodaj, March 2010, No. 3, 26.
2009 Cited in Joe Nickell, “Artists discuss difficulties of creating civically engaged work,” Missoulian, October 27, 2009, available online at:http://missoulian.com/news/local/article_0f494804-c376-11de-be40-001cc4c002e0.html
Cited in “First Presbyterian monument to honor the Rev. Maclean, architect Gibson,” Missoulian, October 11, 2009, available online at:http://www.missoulian.com/news/local/article_9ce5cace-b3be-11de-b972-001cc4c002e0.html
“Additions enhance UM campus,” Missoulian, September 15, 2009.Featured in “Remembering Gibson,” Ravalli Republic, April 30, 2009, available
online at:http://ravallirepublic.com/articles/2009/04/30/news/news18.txt
Cited in Erika Fredrickson, “The Autio Dynasty,” Missoula Independent, July 2-9, 2009, 16 & 17.
“Rethink the Think Tank,” Montana Kaimin, February 18, 2009.2008 The Original Man: The Life and Work of Montana Architect A.J. Gibson
(1862-1927), Missoula, MT: The University of Montana Press and Montana Museum of Art & Culture.
Featured in “A.J. Gibson Exhibition Opens,” The Montana Architect, December 2008, 16-17.
Cited in Seabring Davis, The New Montana Cabin, Bozeman, MT: Big Sky Journal Press, 2008.
Featured in Patia Stephens, “A Monumental Man: Rafael Chacón examines A.J. Gibson’s contributions to Montana Architecture,” The Montanan, Fall 2008, pp. 34-35.
Featured in Erika Fredrickson, “Building beauty: H. Rafael Chacón explains A.J. Gibson’s art of architecture,” Missoula Independent, September 11-18, 2008, p.30.
Featured in Brian D’Ambrosio, “The Original Man: The Life and Work of Montana Architect A.J. Gibson: Rafael Chacón’s definitive biography of an unsung hero,” Clark Fork Journal, September 2008, pp. 1, 4-5.
Featured in “Book and exhibit examine legacy of architect A.J. Gibson,” State of the Arts, September/October 2008.
Featured in “New book celebrates life of architect A.J. Gibson,” Main Hall to Mainstreet, August 2008. vol. 14. no. 8, p. 1.
Featured in Betsy Cohen, “Architect’s quiet story finally told,” Missoulian, August 24, 2008, online at:
http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/08/24/news/local/znews03.txtCited in Betsy Cohen, “Model of a Man: Montana’s most admired architect, A.J.
Gibson, left his legacy across the state,” Missoulian, August 24, 2008, available online at:http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/08/28/territory/ter26.txt
“Preserve modernist buildings at UM,” Missoulian, April 4, 2008.“Miracles and Myths: Mapping the World from 1572-1921,” edited
museum exhibition text, Missoula: Montana Museum of Art & Culture.
Cited in Matthew Frank, “Oh, Give Me a (Itty Bitty) Home: Microhomes Make ‘Small Footprint’ a Literal Proposition,” The New West, spring 2008, 50-51, available online at:http://www.newwest.net/magazine/article/the_big_and_little_of_western_building/C555/L555/Cited in Rob Chaney, “Light from heaven: Stained glass vivid medium for telling Christianity's story,” Missoulian News Online, March 3, 2008, available online at:http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/03/23/news/top/news01.txt
Cited in Pamela J. Podge, “Montana’s Cubans optimistic after Castro stepsdown,” Missoulian News Online, February 20, 2008, available online at:http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/02/20/news/local/news02.txt
Cited in “County Commissioners vote in favor of Highwood plantrezoning,” Missoulian News Online, posted February 1, 2008, available online at: http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/02/01/bnews/br70.txt
Cited in “Cascade County Commission votes for rezoning land for coal fired plant,” Great Falls Tribune online, posted on January 31, available at:
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200880131006Cited in “Proposed Great Falls coal plant gets preliminary rezoning OK,”
Missoulian News Online, posted January 31, 2008, available at:http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/01/31/bnews/br80.txt
Cited in Karl Puckett, “Preservation board seeks protection for L & C landmark,” Great Falls Tribune online, posted on January 31, available at:
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008801310312Cited in Charles Finn, “Perspective: Edgar S. Paxson: Painter, myth
maker aspired to historical accuracy,” Western Art & Architecture, Winter-Spring 2008, 72-77.
2007 “Blending the past, present: building additions walk a fine line between preservation, new ideas,” The Missoulian, November 26, 2007.
“Missoula’s Festival of the Dead,” documentary video narrator, ed. Kelly Black and Russel Daniels, New West Missoula, available at:
http://www.newwest.net/missoula/ andhttp://www.newwest.net/MP3s/fod/
“Palimpsest,” essay in Closed and Open, Chicago: The Dorothy and Gaylord
Donnelley Foundation and the Newberry Library.Cited in Big Sky Journal Home, autumn 2007.Cited in “Remembering Rudy’s Legacy,” The Montanan, Fall 2007, 5.Cited in Betsy Cohen, “Looking to the Past and the Future at the Corner,” The
Missoulian, September 9, 2007.Cited in Joe Nickell, “Remembering Rudy: Near-capacity crowd says goodbye to
Missoula artist, icon,” The Missoulian, July 22, 2007, A1 & 10.Featured in Christine Whitacre, “University of Montana Professor Researches
the Historic Paintings of Glacier National Park Lodges,” Rocky Mountain-CESUNewsletter, June 29, 2007.
Cited in Renée St. Martin Wizeman, “The Spirit & the Brush,” The Montana Catholic, June 15, 2007, 10-11.
“Sculpting a Legend: Remembering the Life and Influence of Rudy Autio,” The Missoula Independent, June 28 - July 5, 2007, 34; posted on-line July 6, 2007.
“Structural Anatomy: An Architectural Look at the UM School of Journalism’s New Don Anderson Hall,” The Missoulian, May 20, 2007.
Cited in “Donor Profile: Gilbert Millikan,” 2006 Annual Report to Donors,Missoula: The University of Montana Foundation, 2007, 12.
Featured in “Good Things Are Happening Too,” by John Robinson, The Ravalli Republic, April 23, 2007, 5.
2006 Inventory and Background Report on the Art in Glacier National Park’s Historic Lodges, Federal report, West Glacier, MT: National Park Service and the Glacier Fund, 2006.
2005 Review of “Spain in the Age of Exploration, 1492-1819,” exhibition, available at:http://www.caareviews.org, fall 2005.
Review of Howard Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, Volume II: May 2005.
2004 “Coming Into Being,” essay in Wes Mills, New York: Printed Matter, Inc., 2004.Cited in Betsy Cohen, “Main Concern,” The Missoulian, December 12, 2004.
2002 St. James Guide to Hispanic Artists: Profiles of Latino and Latin American Artists, Detroit: St. James Press, 2002. Contributor of 12 essays on Cuban modernists.
“Kristi Hager’s Canoe Paintings,” exhibition text, Richmond, Virginia Gallery, August 2002.
2001 “Creating a Mythic Past: Spanish-style Architecture in Montana,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History, Autumn 2001, 46-59.
“Rediscovering Helen McAuslan: Montana Modernist,” catalogue essay for museum exhibition, Missoula: Missoula Art Museum, March 2001.
Carrying On: Constance Howell, Missoula: PROP Foundation, 2001.“First Communion,” Wabash Magazine, Winter/Spring 2001, 22-23.
2000 “Rest in Peace, Vera Dear,” The Missoulian, June 2000.“New Photography in the Collection,” exhibition text, Missoula: Missoula Art
Museum, 2000. .“Let’s Keep the Green We Have,” The Missoulian, November 5, 2000.“Wood Engravings by James Todd,” exhibition text, Missoula: The Broadway
Gallery, December 2000.“The Quest for Identity in Modern Latin American Art,” sound recording,
Missoula: The University of Montana: Alumni Association, 2000.1999 “Buildings Display Disturbing Trends,” The Missoulian, November 22, 1999.
Review of Howard Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, 11th edition, Chapters 14 & 30, summer 1999.
“Harnessing the Divine: Michael DeMeng, Marty Fromm, Darryl Furtkamp,” exhibition catalogue, Missoula, MT: Missoula Art Museum, 1999.
“Refurbished Lodge Finally Presents Attractive Face to Campus, Neighbors,” The Missoulian, September 25, 1998.
1998 “In the Mind’s Eye: Egypt and Self-Mythification in the Art of Mr. Imagination,” Folk Art, Summer, 1998, 38-40.
“A Photoessay on the Works of Mr. Imagination and Derek Webster, Self-Taught Artists,” disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory, 7:100-122.
"Rudy Autio Drawings," American Ceramics, 12 (4):28-31.1997 "Ed Paschke and Antonia Contro," catalogue essay for Nurturing Vision:
Paintings by Ed Paschke, Antonia Contro and Michael Oruch, SaratogaSprings, NY: Skidmore College, 1997.
1996 "A Theory of Vision: Malcolm Morley's Watercolors," translation of essay by Enrique Juncosa in Malcolm Morley, A Selection of Watercolors from1976 to 1995, Chicago: The Arts Club of Chicago, 1996.
"Rudy Autio: Recent Works," essay in Rudy Autio, by Lela and Lar Autio, Bozeman: White Swan Press, 1996.
1995 "A Report on Woodstack '95," NCECA News 19, no. 3, winter 1995."American Landscape Artists and Photographers," curriculum for Arthur Carhart
National Wilderness Training Center, Ninemile Ranger District, Huson, MT, 1995.
Art Across Time and Culture, featured in video produced by the Art Institute of Chicago, 1995.
1994 Ancient Peru, Ancient and Living Cultures Series, Glenview, IL: Good Year Books, 1994. Research Consultant.
1993 Healing and Transformation in the Art of Africa and African America, exhibit catalog co-authored with Janice Brill, Crawfordsville, IN: Wabash College, 1993.
“An Essay on the Work of Gregory Huebner,” in Abstracting the Spirit: A Twenty Year Retrospective of the Work of Gregory J. Huebner. Wabash College, 1993.
Ancient Mexico, Ancient and Living Cultures Series, Glenview, IL: Good Year Books. Research Consultant.
1992 The Ancient Americas Teaching Manual, Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1992. Author, translator, and illustrator.
The American Heritage Dictionary, editor of Central and South American languages, 3rd ed., Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992.
"Power and Polemics: Political Satire and the French July Monarchy," Bulletin of the David and Alfred Smart Museum, The University of Chicago, 1992.
1990 "Two Bronzes by Alessandro Algardi and Michel Anguier" and "A Fifth-Century Bowl from the Kabiron in Boetia," in Handbook of the Collection, ed. Richard Born and Sue Taylor, Chicago: The David and Alfred Smart Museum, 1990.
1988 Cited in Alan G. Artner, “Power of the Pen,” Chicago Tribune, November 6,1988, Sect. 13, p. 16.
Cited in Andrew Patner, “Wide-Cast Net,” Windy City Times, October 20, 1988,
5.1987 The Chicago Imagist Print: Ten Artists' Works, 1958-1987 (exh. cat. by Dennis
Adrian and Richard Born), Chicago: The David and Alfred SmartMuseum, 1987. Artists' interviews and research.
Public Lectures, Conferences, and Panel Discussions:2016 “The Grande Dame: Montana Modernist Daphne Bugbee Jones” lecture for the
Montana Historical Society, March Lecture Series: Celebrate Womenb’s History, March 2, 2016; available online at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuX3afthuMg&list=PL99klIdTK43n5L76qsRjkSERQZKaAs1qM&index=8
2015 “Chicago Bull: the Last Great Mesopotamian Monument to Come to the West,” Gallery of Visual Arts, Missoula, MT, September 24, 2015.
“The Aesthetic and Artistic Contributions of the Collection,” lecture and panel discussion, UM Ethnographic Collections Summit, The University of Montana, April 15-16, 2015.
“The Art of Glacier National Park,” lecture for Humanities Montana Speakers’ Bureau, Troy, MT, April 10, 2015.
“Predilections and Possibilities: the Virtues of a Teaching Collection,” lecture for the Montana Museum of Art & Culture, Missoula, MT, March 3, 2015.
2014 “The Transformation of Daphne: a Modernist Architect’s Life,” faculty lecture, Gallery of Visual Arts, Missoula, MT, September 16, 2014.
“Helen McCauslen: Montana Modernist,” lecture for the Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT, September 5, 2014.
“Glacier’s Artistic Legacy,” lecture for Humanities Montana Speakers’ Bureau, Ravalli County Museum, Hamilton, MT, May 8, 2014.
“Sacred Spaces around the World" lecture for Holy Spirit EpiscopalParrish, Missoula, MT, March 19, 2014.
2013 “Edward Kienholtz: Big, Bold, and Brash,” lecture for the Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT, December 4, 2013.
“The Centrality of the Figure in Early Modern Art,” lecture for the Montana Museum of Art & Culture, Missoula, MT, November 4, 2013.
“What My Genes Told Me,” TEDx talk, The University of Montana, September 29, 2013, available online at: http://new.livestream.com/tedx/events/2364019
“The Art of Glacier,” lecture for the Montana State University-Northern Chancellor’s Lecture Series, September 10, 2013.
“Pentecost,” talkback panelist and consultant on the UM Theater production, March 19-30, 2013.
“Hands Held High: Soviet Propaganda Art,” lecture for “Russia on the Oval,” the 15th Annual Community Lecture Series, The University of Montana, March 19, 2013.
“Inequality in Artistic Training and Careers,” paper presented at the “3 Million Stories: Understanding the Lives and Careers of America’s Arts Graduates,” SNAAP conference, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, March 8, 2013.
2012 “Tensions between City and Country in Art of the Belle Époque,” lecture for the Montana Museum of Art & Culture, Missoula, MT, September 26, 2012.
“An Artist/Historian Collaboration,” faculty lecture, Gallery of Visual Arts, Missoula, MT, September 13, 2012.
“Paris-Rouen,” four lectures for Smithsonian Journeys, France, August 8-15,
2012.“Interview with Artist James Lavadour,” Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT,
April 7, 2012.“Cabinet of Curiosities,” lecture for the Montana Museum of Art & Culture,
Missoula, MT: March 14, 2012. “Montana Modern,” lecture for the Montana Historical Society, Helena, MT:
January 12, 2012.2011 “Central Europe: Amsterdam to Budapest,” four lectures for Smithsonian
Journeys, Europe, October 30-November 12, 2012.“An A.J. Gibson Walking Tour,” 38th Annual Montana History Conference,
Missoula, MT: September 24, 2011.“Ceramic Collectors Summer Celebration,” panel moderator, in conjunction
with the exhibition 60 artists, 60 Artworks, 60 Years, Montana Museum of Art & Culture, Missoula, MT: June 29, 2011.
“Van Gogh in the Rice Paddies,” paper presented at the Sixth InternationalConference on “The Arts in Society,” Berlin-Brandenberg Academy of Sciences, Berlin, Germany: May 11, 2011.
2010: “Marketing Majesty: The Art of Glacier National Park in its Early Years,” paper presented at the 37th Annual Montana History Conference, Helena, MT , September 30, 2010.
“The Original Man: The Life and Work of Montana Architect A.J. Gibson,”lecture for the Montana Museum of Art & Culture, Missoula, MT: September 16, 2010.
“Modernism and the UM Campus in the Post World War II Period,” faculty lecture Gallery of Visual Arts, Missoula, MT, September 2, 2010.
“Art in Glacier National Park in the Early 20th Century,” lecture for the Western Rendezvous of Art, Helena, MT, August 19, 2010.
“Artists of Glacier Park,” lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Glacier National Park: Centennial Exhibition, Montana Museum of Art & Culture, Missoula, MT, July 21, 2010.
“Gibson’s Masterpiece and Swansong,” lecture in conjunction with the Centennial Celebration of the Missoula County Courthouse, Missoula, MT, July 19, 2010.
“From Washington to Warhol: The Development of American Art,” English Faculty, Jan Evangelista Purkyné University, Ustí nad Labem, Czech Republic, March 24, 2010.
2009 “Arts Forum: Arts and Civic Engagement,” conference panelist, in discussion co-sponsored by Humanities Montana and the Missoula Cultural Council, Missoula, MT, October 27, 2009.
“Art & Ideology in Central Europe: Travels in Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic,” 2nd Annual Millikan Lecture, School of Art, The University of Montana, October 5, 2009.
“The University of Montana Historic District,” lecture, Preserving Our Heritage in a Changing Landscape Conference, Missoula, MT, April 2009.
2008 Montana Festival of the Book, presenter, Missoula, MT, October 25, 2008.Helena Festival of the Book, presenter, Helena, MT, October 10, 2008.“Interview with Author Rafael Chacón,” The Right Question radio program,
KUFM, Missoula, MT, September 21, 2008.“Enduring Presence: the Image of the Virgin Mary in Contemporary Art,” lecture
delivered in conjunction with the exhibition “Highly Favored: Contemporary Images of the Virgin Mary,” Carroll College, September 17, 2008.
“UM Professor’s Publishes on Missoula’s Architecture,” interview on Montana KECI TV evening news program Missoula, MT, September 2008.
“Missoula’s A.J. Gibson,” interview with Monte Turner on Montana Today television program, KECI TV, Missoula, MT, August 2008.
“An Argument for Photography as Fine Art,” lecture for the Rocky Mountain School of Photography, Missoula, MT, April 8, 2009.
“Someone You Should Know,” lecture for Student LeadershipConference, Center for Leadership Development, The University of Montana, March 2008.
2007 “Artini: Re/Member,” lecture on the exhibition Crash.Pause.Rewind, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT, September 2007.
“The Life Works of A.J. Gibson,” address to the American Institute of Architects-Montana Chapter, Fall Conference, Bozeman, MT, September 2007.
“Painting as Propaganda: Art in Glacier in the Early 20th Century,” lecture in conjunction with the School of Art Faculty Exhibition, The University of Montana, September 2007.
“Historic Artwork in Glacier’s Hotels,” lecture for the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park Science & History Day Conference, Glacier National Park, July 2007.
“Bicycle Tour of A.J. Gibson’s Downtown Missoula,” Bike Walk Bus Missoula, April 2007.
“Early History of the University of Montana Campus,” lecture for the American Society of Landscape Architects (Idaho-Montana Chapter), April
2007.“Stay Put! Place and Community in Modern America,” speech for Phi Kappa
Phi, National Honor Society, Annual Banquet and Induction Ceremony, April 2007.
“On Collecting,” panel moderator for forum in conjunction with “The Collector’s Art” and “Forty Years of Campus Art” exhibitions, Montana Museum of Art & Culture, February 2007.
2006 “A Butterfly Life: A.J. Gibson’s Carnegie Library for Missoula,” inaugural lecture for the grand opening of the Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT, September 2006.
“The Walk as Art,” conference panel for Annual Meeting of the Montana Northern Wyoming Conference of the United Church of Christ, June 2006.
“Review of the Show,” gallery talk in conjunction with Annual Benefit Auction, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT, January 2006.
“The Life of A.J. Gibson,” interview on Front Row Center radio program, KUFM, Missoula, MT, January 2006.
2005 “A.J. Gibson’s Legacy,” “A.J. Gibson and The University of Montana Campus,” and “A.J. Gibson in the Bitterroot” inaugural lectures for the Montana Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, The University of Montana, October and November 2005.
“A.J. Gibson and the Daly Mansion,” lecture to the Board of the Daly Mansion Preservation Trust, Inc., Hamilton, MT, October 2005.
“Cracking the Code: Art, Culture, and Symbolic Systems,” M.A.E.A. Keynote Address at the M.E.A.-M.F.T. Educator’s Conference, Missoula, MT, October 2005.
“A.J. Gibson and Regionalism in the American West,” lecture for the O’Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West, May 2005.
“The Bride of Frankenstein” moderated discussion of the film for the Missoula Public Library in conjunction with the traveling exhibition Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature, May 2005.
“Bicycle Tour of A.J. Gibson’s Downtown,” for Missoula’s Bike Walk Bus week, April 2005.
“A.J. Gibson’s Urban Vision for Montana,” for the Bringing the U to YouLecture Series, Great Falls Area Alumni, January 2005.
2004 “Extending the Vision: the Bauhaus Comes West,” lecture for the Museum of Art and Culture, The University of Montana, January 2004.
“Manifest Destiny and the American Landscape,” inaugural lecture for the 25 th Annual Wilderness Issues Lecture Series, The University of Montana, February 2004.
2003 “Diego, Frida, and the Mexican Muralists,” lecture for International Education Week, The University of Montana, November 2003.
“The Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela,” lecture for the Art History Group, October 2003.
“Mexico’s Day of the Dead,” Interview on Colegium Medicum radio program, KUFM, Missoula, MT, October 2003.
“A.J. Gibson’s Women’s Hall at The University of Montana,” lecture for the 100th Anniversary celebrations, October 2003.
“The Original Man: Missoula’s A.J. Gibson,” lecture for the Friends of the Mansfield Library, Fall Lecture Series, October, 2003.
“Ancient Cultures of the Circum-Caribbean,” lecture for University Center Gallery, Missoula, MT, May, 2003.
“The Way of St. James,” lecture for Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc., Missoula, MT, April 2003.
“The Nature and Practice of Pilgrimage,” course for University Congregational Church of Christ, Missoula, MT, February 2003.
“The Evolution of Wilderness in American Art,” lecture for U.S. Forest Service, Northern Region Winter Wilderness Meeting, Missoula, MT, January 2003.
“Recent Trends in European Historic Preservation: from Spain to the Czech Republic,” lecture for Missoula Historic Preservation Commission, January 2003.
2002 “Art and Anatomy: Leonardo da Vinci,” Interview on Colegium Medicum radio program, KUFM, Missoula, MT, November and December, 2002.
“A.J. Gibson: Stones and Stories,” tour for the Missoula City Cemetery, November 2002.
“El Camino de Santiago,” lecture for M.E.A.-M.F.T. Educator’s Conference, Missoula, MT, October 2002.
“Cuban Art Since the Revolution or How Can Such a Small Country Make so Much Trouble?” lecture for The Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT, February 2002.
“Lela Autio: A Discussion with the Artist,” Missoula Art Museum. Discussion moderator, April 2002.
“University Professor Discovers New Homes by A.J. Gibson…” The Valley
Report, interview with Jill Valley, KPAX TV, Channel 8, Missoula, MT.2001 “Myths of the West,” guest appearance on Pat Williams’s Speaking of That radio
program, KUFM, Missoula, MT.“Rome in the Renaissance,” lecture for the Rome Program, Classics Department,
The University of Montana.2000 “Montana’s Architecture: Impressions of Western Character,” lecture for the
Montana Story, 2000 lecture series, The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula.
“Interview with Rafael Chacón on Cuba,” Conversations with Greg Kastl program, Missoula Community Access Telelvision (MCAT).
“A Decision That Will Affect the Rest of Your Life,” lecture for African-American and Hispanic/Latino Alumni Panel, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN.
“The Search for Identity in the Modern Art of Latin America,” two lectures for the Community Lecture Series, Alumni association, The University of Montana.
“The Myth of the Spaniards in Montana and Mission-Style Architecture,” lecture for the National Conference of Teachers of English, Western Regional Conference, Big Sky, MT.
1999 “Telling God’s Story Through the Arts,” Northwest Theological Institute, Seattle.Conference Participant.
“Oro y Plata: The Spanish Legacy and Mission-style Architecture in Montana, lecture for the Montana History Conference, Helena, Mt.
“Object-Based Learning,” Lecture for the MEA/MFT Educator’s Conference, Missoula, MT.
“Thomas Hart Benton and American Regionalism Between the World Wars,” lecture for P.E.A.S. Fall Lecture Series, Philosophy Department, The University of Montana.
“The Ideology of Architecture on the UM Campus,” lecture for the Creative Pulse, School of Fine Arts, The University of Montana.
“African Art and Western Collecting,” lecture for Rethinking Iconography class.“Photographic Depictions of Rural Life in American during the Great
Depression,” lecture for the P.E.A.S. Fall Lecture Series, Philosophy Department.
“Workshop for Potential Fine Arts Administrators,” International Council of Fine Arts Deans Conference (I.C.F.A.D.), St. Louis, MO.
“Caring for Creation” Conference, facilitated discussion group on environmental ethics, spirituality, and the arts, Missoula, MT.
1998 “The Aztecs and their North American Connections,” Montana Association of Language Teachers (M.A.L.T.) Meetings, Montana Education Association/Montana Federation of Teachers (M.E.A./M.F.T.)Educator’s Conference, Great Falls, MT.
“Images of Cancer: The Art of Robert Pope,” Missoula Demonstration Project, panel discussion, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT.
“La visita bilingüe al museo,” The Marwen Foundation, Chicago, IL.“The Bauhaus,” The Creative Pulse, School of Fine Arts, The University of
Montana.“The Virago in Renaissance Spain: The Adoption of New Sculptural Paradigm
and the Education of Aristocratic Women,” Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference, Big Sky, MT.
“El día de los muertos,” Plenary Session discussant, Rocky Mountain Conference
for Latin American Studies, Missoula, MT.“At the Crossroads of Colonial Mexico: Renaissance and Indigenous Motifs at
the Monastery of San Agustín Acolman,” The Art Institute of Chicago.“Looking at Ancient American Art,” lecture in program titled Mexicandad: A
Celebration of Ancient and Modern Mexico, The Art Institute of Chicago.
“Representation of Wilderness in Contemporary American Art,” lecture for 19th Annual Wilderness Issues Lecture Series, Wilderness Institute,
School of Forestry, The University of Montana.
“Reservation Site/Sight I and Reservation Site/Sight II.” Panel discussion moderator at the Museum of Fine Arts, The University of Montana and Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, MT.
“¡Güantanamera!” Panel moderator, The New Crystal Theater, Missoula.1997 “La integración de estudios del arte de las Américas antigüas y el arte
latinoamericano en el currículo.” Montana Education Association/Montana Federation of Teachers Educators’ Conference, Billings, MT.
“Fire and Natural Disaster in American Art.” The Arnold Bolle Center for People and Forests, The University of Montana.
“Celebrating People in Times of Change.” Conference panelist, United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Missoula, MT.
“Diego de Siloé’s Viragos for the Tomb of Bishop Don Luís Osorio y Acuña in Burgos.” Loyola University, Chicago, IL.
“In the Mind's Eye: Egypt and Self Mythification in the Art of Mr. Imagination.” College Art Association meeting, New York, NY.
“Egypt, the African American Tradition, and the Art of Mr. Imagination.” Missoula Art Museum.
“Issues in the Fine Arts in an Ever-Changing World.” Fine Arts Conference Panelist, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN.
1996 “The Day of the Dead Celebrations in Latin America.” College Beat program, T.V. Channel 13, Missoula.
“The Gods of the Caribbean,” Nuestro Tiempo. Public interest radio program on WMBI 1110 AM, Chicago.
“Pursuing the Master in Art History” WMBI AM, Chicago.“Contemporary Latin American Art in the Wake of the Columbus
Quincentenary”. Missoula Art Museum.“The Spiritual Journey.” Panel moderator in conference held in conjunction with
the inaugural exhibition, “Negotiating Rapture.” The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
“Andrea Palladio and Palace Architecture in the Renaissance.” WMBI AM, Chicago.
“The Cleaning of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling and the Last Judgement Fresco.” WMBI AM, Chicago.
1995 “Latin American Artists in the United States.” WMBI AM, Chicago.“The Spanish Renaissance. WMBI AM, Chicago.“Woodstack '95”. Panel moderator for symposium on wood-fired ceramics. The
University of Montana, Missoula.“The Latin American Presence in the United States.” The Arts Club of Chicago.“The Other Within: Latin American Art in the United States.” The Art Institute
of Chicago.
“The Encounter of Europe and America.” Wabash College.1994 “Primitivism at the End of the Nineteenth Century and at the End of Ours.” St.
Michael's College, Burlington, VT.1993 “The Centrality of Art in the Multicultural Curriculum.” A State of the Art
Education Conference panel, Wabash College.“The Anatomical Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci.” The Art Institute of Chicago.“The Garden of God: Art of Islamic Spain.” The Art Institute of Chicago.“Individual Liberty in the Visual Arts.” Chicago Arts Collaborative for Teachers
course, The Art Institute of Chicago,“The Female Presence in the Art of Renaissance and Baroque Spain.” The Art
Institute of Chicago.“The Seduction of Nazi Art.” Humanities Colloquium, Wabash College.“Nature, Society, and Spirit: Art across Time and Culture. Evenings for
Educators course, The Art Institute of Chicago.“Artists of the Nation: Art with a Social Eye, 1912-1993.” Conference panel, The
Peace Museum, Chicago.1992 “In Search of an Ancient American Cosmology.” DePauw University,
Greencastle, IN.“Cuban Art in Context.” Minneapolis Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN.“Cuban American Art in the United States.” National Public Radio interview, St.
Paul, MN.“Dos alas de un pájaro: Painting in Cuba and Puerto Rico.” The Art Institute of
Chicago.1991 “Mujer: Images of Female Sanctity in 16th-Century Spain.” Joint lecture with
Gillian Ahlgren, Professor of Religion, Xavier College, Cincinnati, OH, The Art Institute of Chicago.
“Nereyda García Ferráz.” Wabash College.“Diego Rivera and the Mexican Muralist Movement.” The Art Institute of
Chicago.“Cuban Painting.” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
1990 “Cosmology of Ancient Tenochtitlán.” Wabash College.“Zurbarán y los santos.” The Art Institute of Chicago.“La corte de Felipe II en los tiempos de Velázquez.” The Art Institute of Chicago.
1989 “Michelangelo's Drawings: The Apogee of Disegno.” The Art Institute of Chicago.
“La pintura española desde el manierismo hasta El Greco.” The Art Institute of Chicago.
1988 “The First Amendment and Freedom of Artistic Expression.” Colloquium. David and Alfred Smart Museum, Chicago, IL.
“A Reassessment of Louis Philippe d’Orleans, the Citizen King.” David and Alfred Smart Museum, Chicago, IL.
Exhibitions:Ongoing America in the Great War, curator, Montana Museum of Art & Culture,
scheduled for 2017.2012 Antonia Contro: Tempus Fugit, exhibition consultant, The American
Philosophical Society Museum, Philadelphia, PA, April 13 - December 30, 2012.
2011 Alumni Invitational Exhibition, Wabash College, January-February, 2011.2010 The Original Man: The Life and Work of Montana Architect A.J. Gibson
(1862-1927), Co-curated, Montana Museum of Art & Culture, Missoula,
MT, August-October, 2010. 2009 The Original Man: The Life and Work of Montana Architect A.J. Gibson
(1862-1927), Co-curated Daly Mansion, Hamilton, MT, May-October, 2009.
2008 The Original Man: The Life and Work of Montana Architect A.J. Gibson (1862-1927), Holter Museum of Art, Helena, September-October, 2008. Co-curated with the Montana Museum of Art & Culture.
2006 “Made Manifest: Spiritual Paintings by Linda McCray,” University Congregational Church of Christ, Missoula, MT. Curated.
2003 “The Russell Scoop Collection of Ancient American Art from the Caribbean and Colombia,” University Center Gallery, Missoula, MT. Curated.
2001 “Roger Wing Sculptures,” University Congregational Church of Christ, Missoula, MT. Curated.
“Rediscovering Helen McCauslen, Montana Modernist,” The Art Museum of Missoula, Missoula, MT. Curated and wrote exhibition text.
2000 “All for the Poverello,” University Congregational Church of Christ, Missoula. Co-curated.
“An Argument for Drawing,” Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT. Co-curated.
“Sharing Visions – A photographic Exhibition and Benefit Sale,” University Congregational Church of Christ, Missoula, Mt. Co-curated.
1999 “Harnessing the Divine: Michael DeMeng, Marty Fromm, Darryl Furtkamp,”The Art Museum of Missoula, Missoula, MT, wrote exhibition catalogue.
1997 “Nurturing Vision: Paintings by Ed Paschke, Antonia Contro and Michael Oruch,” Skidmore College, The University of Montana, and the State of Illinois Gallery, Chicago and Springfield. Conducted artists' interviews and wrote catalogue essay.
1994 “Healing and Transformation in the Art of Africa and African America,” Wabash College, Eric Dean Gallery. Co-curated: selection, research,organization, and installation.
1993 “Abstracting the Spirit: A Twenty-Year Retrospective of the Work of Gregory J. Huebner,” Wabash College, Eric Dean Gallery, Fine Arts Center. Wrote catalogue essay.
“A Personal Renaissance: Recent Paintings by Antonia Contro,” Williams Gallery, Wabash College. Curated: selection, research, organization, and installation.
1992 “The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes,” The Art Institute of Chicago, Administrative assistance, research, and translations for catalogue.
1991 “Nereyda García Ferráz: Recent Paintings and Drawings,” Humanities Center Gallery, Wabash College. Curated: Selection, research, organization, and installation.
1988 “The Charged Image: Political Satire in the Age of Daumier,” The David and Alfred Smart Museum. Curated: selection, research, organization, and installation.
“M.F.A. 1988,” The David and Alfred Smart Museum. Curated: selection, organization, and installation.
“John Graham: Artist and Avatar,” The David and Alfred Smart Museum. Installation and public lectures.
“Art of the Madonna,” Old St. Patrick's Church, Chicago, IL, Consultant.“The Aura of Neo-Impressionism,” The David and Alfred Smart Museum.
Installation and public lectures.“Post-Impressionism and Printmaking,” The David and Alfred Smart Museum.
Curated: selection, research, organization, and installation.1987 “Survey of Master Prints from the Permanent Collection,” The David and Alfred
Smart Museum. Curated: Selection, organization, and installation.“The Chicago Imagist Print: Ten Artists' Works, 1958-1987,” The David and
Alfred Smart Museum. Research, artists' interviews, installation, and assistance on catalogue.
“Illinois Prints, 1958-1967,” The David and Alfred Smart Museum. Curated: selection, research, organization, and installation.
“Blossoms from the Desert: Three Centuries of Rajput Painting, 1450-1750,” The David and Alfred Smart Museum. Organization and installation.
“Post-War Czechoslovakian Printmakers in the Permanent Collection,” The David and Alfred Smart Museum. Curated: selection, research, organization, installation, and public lectures.
“Tradition and Conflict: Images of a Turbulent Decade, 1969-73,” The David and Alfred Smart Museum. Installation and public lectures.
“La Caricature and the French July Monarchy,” The David and Alfred Smart Museum. Curated: selection, research, organization, and installation.
“Japanese Quest for a New Vision: The Impact of Visiting Chinese Painters, 1600-1900,” The David and Alfred Smart Museum. Installation and public lectures.
“Russia: The Land, the People, Russian Painting, 1840-1910,” The David and Alfred Smart Museum. Installation, coordination of tour programs and public lectures.
“The Self-Portraits of Käthe Kollwitz,” The David and Alfred Smart Museum. Curated: selection, research, organization, and installation.
Thesis and Professional Papers Overseen:Ongoing Ceilon Aspensen, Ph.D., History, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT.
Andrea Fagerstrom, M.A., Fine Arts, Integrated Arts and Education, The University of Montana.
Stacey Freier, M.A., Fine Arts, Integrated Arts and Education, The University of Montana (chair).
Devon Honzel-O’Neill, M.A., Fine Arts, Integrated Arts and Education, The University of Montana (chair).
Mary Beth Jourdonnais, M.A., Fine Arts, Integrated Arts and Education, The University of Montana (chair).
Molly Kast, M.A., Fine Arts, Integrated Arts and Education, The University of Montana.
Steve Knox, Ph.D., Philosophy, The University of Montana.Brittney Levang, M.A., Fine Arts, Integrated Arts and Education, The University
of Montana (chair).David Lewellen, M.A., Fine Arts, Integrated Arts and Education, The University
of Montana.Thomas Livotti, Ph.D., Anthropology, The University of Montana.Casey Schaeffer, M.A., Fine Arts, Integrated Arts and Education, The University
of Montana.Karl Schwiesow, M.A., Art, The University of Montana.Aja Mujinga Sherrard, M.F.A. and M.A., Art, The University of Montana (chair).Kevin Silkwood, M.A., Fine Arts, Integrated Arts and Education, The University
of Montana (chair).Sal Steuer, M.A., Fine Arts, Integrated Arts and Education, The University of
Montana.2015 “Artistic Place Books,” Nadine Lloyd, M.A., Fine Arts, Integrated Arts and
Education, The University of Montana.“Design with Spice,” Sherry Thompson, M.A., Fine Arts, Integrated Arts and
Education, The University of Montana. “Art Should Comfort the Disturbed and Disturb the Comfortable: Examining
Twenty-First Century Aesthetics via Banksy’s Socially Engaged Art,” Margaret Louise Henry, M.A. in English Literature, The University of Montana.
2014 “Healing at the Confluence,” Erin Elizabeth Roberts, M.A., Fine Arts,Integrated Arts and Education, The University of Montana.
“Stepping Outside: The Shifting Subjectivities of Post-Romantic Poetry,” William John Soloy, M.A., English Literature, The University of Montana.
“Historic Inscriptions on the Northern Plains: Examining the Residual Communication Record,” Timothy Urbaniak, Ph.D., Anthropology, The University of Montana.
“Currents of Time and Universe,” Carmen Malsch, M.F.A., Printmaking, School of Art, The University of Montana.
“Ties that Bind on the Northwestern Plains: Contexts for Prehistoric Trade and Travel,” Sarah Scott, Ph.D., Anthropology, The University of Montana.
“Naturalism and Supernaturalism in the Art of Ancient Mesoamerica,” Sarah Melville, M.A., Art History, School of Art, The University of Montana.
2013 “Where I come from: Where I am,” Dean Foster, M.F.A., Ceramics, School of Art, The University of Montana.
“Unapologetic,” Ron Geibel, M.F.A., Ceramics, School of Art, The University of Montana.
“The Shadow of Polaris,” Burke Jam, M.F.A., Sound/Sculpture, School of Art, The University of Montana.
2012 “60 Artists, 60 Artworks, 60 Years: Celebrating the Archie Bray Foundation, A Curatorial Experience,” Randi O’Brien, M.A., Art History, School of Art, The University of Montana.
“Natural Disasters,” Brittany Beth Barr, M.F.A., Creative Writing, English Department, The University of Montana.
“Fragments of Fiction,” Sarajess Hurt, M.F.A., Ceramics, School of Art,The University of Montana.
“Mike Flynn 2012,” Mike Flynn, M.F.A., Sculpture, School of Art, The University of Montana.
“Giving the Ghost,” Frontier Space/Nathan Tonning and William Hutchinson, M.F.A., Ceramics/Sculpture, School of Art, The University of Montana.
2011 “Painting for the Eye: Carle Vanloo’s Drunken Silenus and the Mid-18th Century French Academy,” Anna Buxton, M.A. Art History, School of Art, The University of Montana.
2010 “Analysis of West Mexican and Moche Funerary Figurines,” Lee R. Tallier, Jr., Ph.D. Anthropology Department, The University of Montana.
“Teaching from a Position of Not Knowing,” Tara Lynn Sullivan, M.A., Fine Arts, Integrated Arts and Education, The University of Montana.
“The Discipline of Happiness,” Courtney Leigh Christopher, M.A., Fine Arts,
Integrated Arts and Education, The University of Montana.“Sudden Fortune,” Lehua M. Taitano, M.F.A., Creative Writing, English
Department, The University of Montana.2009 “Badluck Way,” Bryce Andrews, M.A., Department of Environmental Studies,
The University of Montana. “animal, vegetable, mineral,” Eva Champagne, M.F.A., Ceramics, Department
of Art, The University of Montana.“Materiality as the Basis for the Aesthetic Experience in Contemporary Art,”
Christina Mills, M.A., Art History and Criticism, School of Art, The University of Montana.
“American Indian Artist Angel DeCora: Landscape, Power, and Pedagogy in the Progressive Era,” Suzanne Alene Shope, Doctor of Education, Arts Education, School of Education, The University of Montana.
2008 “A Clean Slate:The Archeology of the Donner Party’s Writing Slate Fragments,” Molly Swords, M.A., Forensic Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, The University of Montana.
“Art and Place within the Salish Tribal Culture of Northwestern Montana,” Nathan Davis, M.A., Geography, Department of Geography, The University of Montana.
“Gifford Pinchot’s Photographic Aesthetic,” Carlie Magill, M.A., Art History, School of Art, The University of Montana.
“Henry Meloy: The Portraits: A Narrative of the Exhibition,” Kathryn Rodriguez, M.A., Art History, School of Art, The University of
Montana. “Kings and Courtesans: A Study of the Pictorial Representation of French Royal
Mistresses,” Shandy Lamperlé, M.A., Art History, School of Art, The University of Montana.
2007 “An Analysis of Wars of the Romano, a Flemish Tapestry From Circa 1575,” Theodore Hughes, M.A., Art History, School of Art, The University of Montana.
2005 “Textiles of the Chimú and Chancay Cultures of Coastal Peru: A Comparison of Processes and Techniques,” Hattie Jo Lehman, M.A., Art History, Art Department, The University of Montana.
“What is now is no longer, everything has been preserved,” Ryan Mitchell, M.F.A., School of Art, The University of Montana.
Sara Nelson, Professional Paper, M.F.A., Drama/Dance Department, The University of Montana.
2004 “Syncretic Iconography in Art by Native Americans of Montana and Early Catholic Missionaries,” Michael McGuinley, M.S. Anthropology Department, The University of Montana.
“Pieter Bruegel’s The Beekeeper’s, Protestants, Catholics, Birds, and Bees:Beehive Rustling on the Low Plains of Flanders,” Edgar Smith, M.A. in Art History, School of Art, The University of Montana.
“Michelangelo and Leonardo: The Frescoes for the Palazzo Vecchio,” Paula Duncan, M.A. in Art History, School of Art, The University of Montana.
“Pretty Pink, Baby Blue,” Paul. J. Northway, M.F.A. School of Art, The University of Montana.
“Myths and Legends,” Jason E. Clark, M.F.A., School of Art, The University of Montana.
2003 “Strength in Understanding,” Neely Vacura, M.A., School of Art, The
University of Montana.“relation,” Christopher Meyer, M.F.A., School of Art, The University of
Montana.“Alone with Everybody: A Critical Evaluation of the Pioneer American
Romantic painter Albert Pinkham Ryder,” William Bliss, M.A. in Art History, School of Art, The University of Montana.
“Piano Recital,” Mika Inouye, M.F.A, School of Music, The University of Montana.
“Universal Aesthetic Structures,” Kristine L. Backman, M.A., School of Art, The University of Montana.
2002 “An Examination of the Iconography of the Minoan Goddess as a Nature Goddess,” Gaelen Curtis, M.A. in Art History, School of Art, The University of Montana.
“On the Need for a Subsumptive Evaluative Approach: Societal Evaluation and Devaluation of Art Works and Artistic Practice, Julie Wills Sleightholm, M.A. in Art Criticism, School of Art, The University of Montana.
2001 “Conquest of the Irrational: Assimilated Surrealism in Latter 20th Century American Music and Poetry,” Ryan Turner, M.A., English Department, The University of Montana.
“Blackfeet Cultural Continuity and the Biographic Parts Tradition: The Deadmon Bison Robe,” Janis Thompson-Bouma, M.A., Anthropology Department, The University of Montana.
“Parabola and Parable in the Zone of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity Rainbow,” Brian D. Zindell, M.A., English Department, The University of Montana.
2000 “Seventh Generation,” Joy Falls, M.F.A., School of Art, The University of Montana.
“Piano and Harpsichord,’ Tia-Wordell Monson, M.A., School of Music, TheUniversity of Montana.
“Toward Craftsmanship,” David Pledge, MFA, School of Art, The University of Montana.
1999 “First Encounters,” Terrel Jones, M.A., School of Art, The University of Montana.
1998 “A Cleft of Light: The Divided Female Subject in Adrienne Rich’s Twenty-One Love Poems,” Sheila Fiona Black, M.A., English Department, The University of Montana.
“Watch,” Martha Sutro, M.F.A., English Department, The University of Montana.
"Petroglyphs of Hells Canyon: An Investigation of Stylistic Boundaries," Robin L. Johnson, M.A., Anthropology Department, The University of Montana.
1997 “Trailer Trash and Oysters While They Last...,” Dyna Kuehnle, M.F.A., Art Department, The University of Montana.
“Metaphorical Landscapes: New Works in Clay,” Mike Kurz, M.F.A., School of Art, The University of Montana.
“Hybrids and Amalgamations,” Trisha Kyner, M.F.A., School of Art, The University of Montana.
“Reciprocity,” Deb Peabody, M.F.A., School of Art, The University of Montana.
“A Sense of Place,” Heather L. Henkes, M.F.A., School of Art, The University of Montana.
“Night Flying Babies,” Suzy Kitman, M.F.A., School of Art, The University
of Montana.1996 "Stories from the Hanford Reach," Karen Rice, M.F.A., School of Art, The
University of Montana.1995 "Reinhabiting the Land: A Postmodern Gardener's Perspective on Ecosystem
Management," Ashley L. Preston, M.A., Forestry Department, The University of Montana.
Committees:Recently active university-wide and community-based committees (excluding School of Artcommittees):
Arboretum CommitteeCreative Pulse Core FacultyCVPA Education for the Global Century CommitteeCVPA Travel Abroad CommitteeDavidson Honors College Presidential Leadership Scholarship
CommitteeEuropean Studies Minor Exploratory CommitteeFaculty Development Office Steering CommitteeGilkey Center for Executive Education Building CommitteeGlobal Leadership Initiative Task ForceHumanities Montana Speaker’s BureauLatin American Studies Minor CommitteeLiberal Arts Building Planning CommitteeMaster of Interdisciplinary Studies CommitteeMissoula Art Museum Art, Park Design Team.MOLLI CouncilMontana Museum of Art & Culture Collections CommitteeMontana Preservation Alliance Board of Directors.Music Building Planning CommitteePhyllis Washington Education Center Addition Committee
2005-2012 Art Siting Committee, School of Journalism, The University of Montana. Dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts Search Committee,
The University of Montana.General Education Literary and Artistic Expression Subcommittee, The
University of Montana.Master of Interdisciplinary Studies Committee, The University of
Montana.2003 Speaker’s Bureau, Humanities Montana.2000 Montana State Historic Preservation, Review Board, National Register of
Historic Places.Outfield Alliance, The University of Montana.
1999 Rhodes Scholarship Advisory Committee, The University of Montana.1998 to 2003 Speaker’s Bureau, Humanities Montana.1997 to 2004 Board Member, Missoula Historic Preservation Commission.1997-1998 Board of Directors, Montana-Northern Wyoming Conference, United
Church of Christ.1997-1999 Program Committee, The Bolle Center for People and Forests, The
University of Montana.1996 to present Member, Aesthetics Committee and Arts Task Force, University
Congregational Church.Art History MA Committee, School of Art, The University of Montana.
1996 to 2004 Acquisitions Committee, Missoula Art Museum.1995 to 1997 Arts in Culture Course Committee, School of Fine Arts, The University
of Montana.Brown-bag Meetings on Teaching, School of Art, The University of
Montana.1995 to present Curriculum Committee, School of Art, The University of Montana.
The Latin American Group, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Montana.
1994 to 2003 Mansfield Library and Archives Committee, The University of Montana.
Affiliations:1992 to present Society of Architectural Historians.1990 to present Renaissance Society of America.1990 to 2000 Association for Latin American Art.1986 to 2000 American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies.1986 to present College Art Association.
