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Meghan Bissonnette Department of Art & Design Colorado Mesa University 1100 North Avenue Grand Junction, CO 81501 EDUCATION 2014 PhD, York University, Toronto, Canada Art History & Visual Culture Dissertation: “The Making of an American Sculptor: David Smith Criticism, 1938-1971” 2008 MA, York University, Toronto, Canada Art History 2005 BA, NSCAD University, Halifax, Canada Art History 2004 BFA, NSCAD University, Halifax, Canada Fine Arts PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 2017-present Assistant Professor of Art History / Art Gallery Director, Department of Art & Design, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, Colorado 2015-2017 Lecturer, Department of Art, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia PUBLICATIONS Refereed Journal Articles “From ‘The New Sculpture’ to Garden Statuary: the suppression of Abstract Expressionist sculpture,” Journal of Art Historiography 13 (2015), 1-19. https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/bissonnette.pdf “Exhibition Review: Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting,” Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Public 47 (2013), 242-244. Articles “Toxic Sublime and the Dilemma of the Documentary,” Seismopolite: Journal of Art and Politics 14 (2016). http://www.seismopolite.com/toxic-sublime-and-the-dilemma-of-the-documentary “Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980,” YU Free Press, Issue 1 (Fall 2010), 23. “Women’s Work: NSCAD Women’s Collective,” Visual Arts News (Winter 2006), 19-20. Exhibition Reviews “Ecology Culture,” Review of Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, FUSE (March 2009), 38-41. “Placing Ourselves,” Review of Consider Here and World Towns, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Visual Arts News (Spring 2007), 24, 26. “Domestic Lives: Susan McEachern,” Review of Structures of Meaning, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Visual Arts News (Winter 2007): 2-4. “Digital Transference,” Review of Back/Flash, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Visual Arts News (Summer 2006), 26, 28. “Personal Intersections: Sarindar Dhaliwal,” Review of Record Keeping, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Visual Arts News (Spring 2006), 6-8. “An Investigation of Space: Ron Shuebrook and Bruce Taylor,” Review of Indefinite Space, Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, Visual Arts News (Summer 2005), 8-9. Exhibition Catalogues and Brochures Co-authored with Anastasia Hare and Colleen O’Reilly, “Memory Through Fibre: The Presence of Absence,” In Heir/Looms (Exhibition Catalogue) (Montréal: Studio Beluga, 2011). “The Dating Portfolio,” In Susan Bozic: The Dating Portfolio (Exhibition Catalogue) (Halifax: Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, 2009). “Chance Encounters: Following the Thread Through Art Green’s Recent Works,” In Art Green (Exhibition Catalogue) (New York: Cue Foundation, 2009). “Men and Boys, and the Uses of Pleasure,” In Daniel Barrow: The Face of Everything and Shary Boyle: Songs of Childhood (Exhibition Catalogue) (Halifax: Khyber Centre for the Arts, 2005). Co-authored with Ingrid Jenkner, Moral Fibre (Exhibition Catalogue) (Halifax: Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, 2005). Other Publications Zemans, J. “Policies and Programs of Support for Senior Artists,” D’Art Topics in Arts Policy No. 28 (Dec. 2007). International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies, Sydney. <http://www.ifacca.org/files/Support_for_older_artists.pdf> (compiled data and wrote program summaries) AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS 2017 Faculty Professional Development Grant, Colorado Mesa University, $2000 2016-2017 IDEA Center Pedagogical Innovation Grant, Valdosta State University, $4000 2011 W. Lawrence Heisey Graduate Award in Fine Arts, York University, $4000 2 2008 – 2011 Joseph-Armand Bombardier, CGS Doctoral Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), $105,000 2007 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, $15,000 2006 York University Graduate Entrance Scholarship, $4000 2006 Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), $17,500 CONFERENCE ACTIVITY/PARTICIPATION Panels Organized “Online Pedagogy in the Visual Arts,” Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Annual Conference, UQÀM, Montréal, Canada, October 2016. “Art/Work: Labour in Modern and Contemporary Art,” Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Annual Conference, NSCAD University, Halifax, Canada, November 2015. Papers Presented (Upcoming) “The Aesthetics of Environmental Ruins,” Panel: “Photographing Disappearance,” CAA Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, February 2018 “Ruin Lust in Post-Apocalyptic Visual Culture,” Panel: “Moving Image Cultures,” CAA Annual Conference, New York, NY, February 2017. “At Work: Labor and the Early Reception of David Smith,” Panel: “Minimalism: Beyond Objecthood,” SECAC Annual Conference, Roanoke, VA, October 2016. “Examining Ruin Lust in the Visual Landscape of Recent Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Films,” Panel: “At the World’s End: Contemporary art, visual culture, and extinction studies,” AAH Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, April 2016. “Using Creative Visual Exercises With Non-Art Majors,” TIES Conference, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA, February 2016. “The Art of Aging in the Photography of John Coplans, Suzy Lake, and Cindy Sherman,” Facing the Challenges of Aging and Dying, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, October 2015. “Considering Terminal Iron Works: Labor and Industry in the Reception of David Smith's Sculpture,” New Directions in US Studies: Reimagining the 1950s and 1960s, York University, Toronto, Canada, October 2013. “Apocalyptic Imagery in Abstract Expressionist Sculpture,” Fallout: Visions of the Apocalypse, Graduate Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada, March 2013. “’The Art of Architecture for Art’: Frederick Kiesler’s Galaxy,” Panel: “Us and It: Sculpture and the Critique of Display Culture,” Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Annual Conference, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada, November 2012. 3 “David Smith in the Context of Abstract Expressionism,” Context and Meaning X. Graduate Conference, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, January 2011. “David Smith and the Erasure of Abstract Expressionist Sculpture,” Panel: “Corrosion, Erosion, Erasure,” Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Annual Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, October 2009. “Expression in Forged Steel: David Smith and His Critics,” Panel: “Modernism in 3D,” Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Annual Conference, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, November 2007. “The Artist as Laborer: Nationalism and American Identity in the Reception of David Smith’s Sculpture,” Panel: “Art and Architecture – Fantasy and Reality,” The Idea of America: Dreams, Desires, Disasters, Graduate Conference, Department of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, September 2007. “Standing Beside Herself: Brechtian Strategies in Feminist Performance Art,” Form Embodied, Graduate Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, April 2007. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2017 Colorado Mesa University History of Art: Renaissance to Present Nineteenth Century Art 2015-2017 Valdosta State University Introduction to the Visual Arts (five semesters, online) Art History Survey II (four semesters) Issues in Art Criticism (two semesters) Women in the Visual Arts (four semesters) Contemporary Art (one semester) Art of the Apocalypse (one semester) 2012 University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada Display: Visual Culture in Western Europe (Sessional Instructor, one semester) 2011-2014 OCAD University, Toronto, Canada Introduction to Visual Studies I and II (Teaching Assistant, eight semesters) 2007-2014 York University, Toronto, Canada Critical Issues in the Studio (Course Director, one semester) Introduction to Art History (Teaching Assistant, two semesters) Introduction to Visual Culture (Teaching Assistant, one semester, online) Medieval Art (Teaching Assistant, one semester) Renaissance Art and Architecture (Teaching Assistant, one semester) Modern Art (Teaching Assistant, four semesters) 4 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2014 – 2015 Researcher/Professional Writer, for Dr. Carla Rice, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada, “Bodies in Translation” 2014 Editor, Faculty & Curriculum Development Centre, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada 2010 Curatorial Assistant, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, “Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada” 2009 – 2010 Curatorial Intern, Contemporary Curatorial Department, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada 2006 – 2007 Research Assistant, for Joyce Zemans, Director, Arts and Media Administration Program, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada 2005 – 2006 Research Assistant, for Dr. Jayne Wark, NSCAD University, Halifax, Canada, “Conceptual Art in Canada” SERVICE TO PROFESSION 2018 – 2021 Student and Emerging Professionals Committee, member, College Art Association 2017 Copyeditor, Art Inquiries, peer-reviewed journal 2016 Manuscript Review, Art History Pedagogy & Practice, peer-review e-journal 2015 Manuscript Review, Art appreciation open access textbook, University of North Georgia Press DEPARTMENT/UNIVERSITY SERVICE 2017 Colorado Mesa University Art Editor, Pinyon (national journal of poetry, prose and art published by the Department of Languages, Literature and Mass Communication) 2015-2017 Valdosta State University Faculty Senate (university) Executive Committee (college) Recruitment Materials Committee