ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

1988 - Current
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, Washington, D.C. & Italy

Professor of Art. Head MFA, post baccalaureate and undergraduate studio art programs in Italy and Washington, D.C.  Founder Art in Italy undergraduate, post-bac., MFA programs in Umbria and Rome. Department Chair, 1990-2001.  Developed nationally recognized artist in residence program - brought the following to the university to teach 2 days/month: 

Gregory Amenoff, Joan Snyder, Robert Storr, Vija Celmins,
Raoul Middleman, Graham Nickson, Gary Stephan, Katherine Porter, George McNeil, Rackstraw Downes, Bill Jensen, Judy Pfaff, Frances Barth, Pat Steir, Nathan Oliveira, Sam Gilliam, Jake Berthot, Stuart Diamond, Wayne Thiebaud Catherine Murphy, Susanna Coffey, Barbara Rose, Andrew Forge, Ron Gorchov, John Walker, Jane Wilson, Tom Nozkowski, George McNeil, Pat Steir,
Gabriel Laderman   

And short term guest speakers/critics:
Al Held, Michael Brenson, Alice Denney, Leslie Wayne, Terrie Sultan, Mark Stevens, Glenn Ligon, Natalie Charkow, Irving Sandler, Graham Nickson, William Dunlap, Peter Plagens  and others

1986 - Current
THE CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION, Chautauqua, NY
Artistic Director, Visual Arts.  Developed national reputation for program for undergraduate through graduate level students.  Brought the following artists to teach at the institution (partial listing): 
 
Katherine Porter, Jake Berthot, Judy Pfaff, Wayne Higby, Mia Westerlund-Roosen, Gary Stephan, William Tucker, Phoebe Helman, John Walker, Howard Buchwald, Barbara Rose, Judy Glantzman, Peter Agostini, William Daley, Sidney Simon, Louis Finkelstein, Stanley Lewis,  Glenn Goldberg, Robert Storr, Gabriel Laderman, Carole Robb, Tom Butter, Andrea Gill, Sidney Geist, and many others
     
1999 - Current 
THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN ROME, Rome, Italy
 
Professor of Studio Art.  Founded 2 year MFA program in Umbria and Rome in association with American University in Washington, D.C., Commune di Corciano, Italy, and The American University in Rome.  Oversee and teach in Fall semester in Corciano.  Oversee and critique in MFA semester in Rome.
   
Beverly Pepper, John Walker, Don Kimes, Barbara Rose, Gregory Amenoff, Martha Boyden, Nicholas Carone, Edgardo Abbozzo, Alan Feltus, Margaret Grimes, Robert Vaughn, Lisa Wade, Albert Weaver, Pamela Lawton, Rossella Vasta, Nicholas Carone, Charles Hewitt, Carol Goldberg, Dan Gustin, Mark Kantor, Heather Hutchison, Don Perlis, Luis Silva, Jim Monson, Kim Fink, Carole Robb, Jauneth Skinner, Gary Orlinsky, Lorna Ritz , Lori Nozick
   
1979 - 1989
THE NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL, New York City.
 
Painting/Drawing Faculty Member (1979 - 1989) 
Program Director (1980-1985).  Taught painting and drawing to beginning through advanced levels.  A partial listing of the
visiting I brought to the school during  my tenure as Program Director includes: 

John Ashbery, Lee Krasner, Vito Acconci Christo, Louise Bourgeois, Mary Frank, Mel Bochner, Grace Hartigan, Leon Golub, Dore Ashton, Brice Marden, Elizabeth Murray, Alice Neel, Larry Poons, Clement Greenberg, Joan Mitchell, Sandro Chia, Larry Rivers, John Cage, Francesco Clemente, Isamu Noguchi, Pat Passloff, Yvonne Jacquette, Janet Fish, Elaine de Kooning, Stanley Kunitz, Mark di Suvero, Lois Dodd, Philip Pearlstein, Harold Rosenberg, Red Grooms, Nam Jun Paik, Jack Flam, Leo Steinberg, Susan Rothenberg,Joyce Kozloff, William Bailey, Milton Resnick, Arthur Danto, and many others

SELECTED VISITING ARTIST POSITIONS, 1980 - 2002:
Riga Academy of Art (Latvia), Boston University, America House (Munich), Harvard University, International School of Art (Italy), Georgetown University, Univ. Juarez Autonoma (Mexico), Wellesley College, Academy of Fine Art (Perugia, Italy), Dartmouth College, The American University in Rome, Parsons School of Design, New York Studio School , Art Institute of Chicago,  Maryland College of Art, Kreeger Museum, George Mason University, Pennsylvania State University , Skidmore College, Washington Studio School,
SUNY at Stonybrook, George Washington University,
SUNY at Fredonia, and others


SELECTED SYMPOSIA:

De Kooning: Generational Perspectives in conjunction with National Gallery of Art de Kooning exhibition.
Louis Finkelstein, Irving Sandler, Barbara Rose, Don Kimes, Mark Stevens

Modernism & Post-Modernism:
Russian Art at the End of the Millennium

Fondo del Sol Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.
Marc Zuver, Vitaly Komar, Don Kimes and others

The Sculpture of Beverly Pepper
Academy of Fine Arts, Perugia, Italy
Beverly Pepper, Rossella Vasta, Barbara Rose, Edgardo Abbozzo, Don Kimes

The University and the Arts
Connecticut State University
Robert Storr, Evelyn Smith, Don Kimes

Painting Outside Painting 
in conjunction with Corcoran Biennial, Washington, D.C.
Robert Storr (MOMA), Terrie Sultan (Corcoran), artists John Torreano, Leslie Wayne, Don Kimes

Mattisse
Organized symposium in conjunction with Museum of Modern Art, NYC Matisse retrospective
William Tucker, Dore Ashton, John Elderfield, Mercedes Matter

What Happened to the Washington School? 
Alice Denney, Sam Gilliam, Willem de Looper, Barbara Rose, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Don Kimes
 
Pluralism - Who Gets Seen?  What Gets Said?  What Gets Heard?
In conjunction with the College Art Association Annual Meeting. 
Michael Brenson (
NY Times), Kinshasha Conwill (Studio Mus. of Harlem), Robert Storr (MOMA), Glenn Ligon, Inverna  Lockpez (Intar Museum)

EDUCATION:

1972 
Universidad Ibero Americana, Mexico City, Art & Art History.
1971-1975
Westminster College, Pennsylvania, BA, Art major.
1975   
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1975.  Internship.
1975-77   
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1975-77.  Graduate Studies in Painting, Printmaking, Art History, Philosophy, Art  Education.
1977-1979 
New York Studio School, New York City, Painting, Drawing, Sculpture.
1978-1980
City University of New York, Brooklyn College,
M.F.A., Painting.

Studied with:
Mercedes Matter, Nicholas Carone, George McNeil,
Gretna Campbell, Peter Agostini, Wayne Thiebaud,
Philip Pearlstein, Lennart Anderson, Sidney Geist,
Leland Bell, Esteban Vicente, Dore Ashton, William Tucker,
Alice Neel, Lois Dodd, Jake Berthot, Elaine de Kooning,
Robert Henry, Robert Godfrey  & others

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