CURRICULUM VITAE Jan Piribeck Associate Professor of Art/Chair Art Department University of Southern College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences/Art

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION: Years Institutions Field Degree 1983 Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL Art (Painting/Drawing) MFA 1981 Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL Art (Painting/Drawing) MA 1973 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL Art BA

APPOINTMENTS: Years Employers Positions 2007-2011 University of Southern Maine Chair, USM Art Department 2003-Present University of Southern Maine Associate Professor – Art 2000-2003 University of Southern Maine Assistant Professor – Art 1993-2000 University of Maine at Farmington Associate Professor – Art 1989-1993 University of Maine at Farmington Assistant Professor – Art Gallery Director 1988-1989 University of Maine at Farmington Art Instructor/Gallery Director 1986-1988 Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL Curator Education and Exhibitions 1985-1986 Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL Curator of Education 1983-1985 Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL Education Coordinator

RESIDENCIES AND EXCHANGES: Years Location Positions 2007 École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Le Mans, France Exchange Professor – 5 weeks Fachhochschule Schwäbisch Hall, SH, Germany Exchange Professor – semester 2006 Pedvale Open-Air Art Museum, Sabile, Latvia Artist Residency – 2 mos. 1994 Watershed Center for Ceramics, Edgecomb, ME Artist Residency – 3 wks. 1992 Beijing Polytechnic University Exchange Professor – semester

BIOGRAPHY: For the past decade my work as an artist has been based upon establishing new relationships between the Arts, Humanities and the field of Geographic Information Science. My work blends personal expression with objective views of natural and built environments. Often, I work collaboratively in the capacity of directing cultural projects for varied communities. The projects include components such as: exhibitions, displays, interventions, performances and other public presentations. Key words: information design, public art, digital mapping, integrative research, teaching and creative practice.

PROJECTS: 2012 Blue Wrap Wave A chain link fence mural commissioned by the city of Portland’s Art At Work/Meeting Place program, funding provided by the National Endowment for the Arts

Installation: Bayside Trail, Portland Articles: and The Forecaster

2012/ (EN)CODED LANDSCAPES: Walking-in-Timespace 11 A project about psycho-geographic meanderings and the connections between different locations across time and space

Solo-Exhibitions: Talsi Regional Museum, Talsi, Latvia; Mayo Street Arts Center, Portland, Maine Gallery Talks: Talsi Regional Museum; Mayo Street Arts Center Presentation: She Died for Love, Maine Women Writers Collection/Maine Women’s Studies Consortium/NEWSA Conference on Identity-Memory-Testimony at the University of New England, Portland, Maine Weblog: Encoded Landscapes Article: Portland Phoenix

2010 (in)UNDATION A public awareness campaign about climate change, done in collaboration with students and faculty at the University of Southern Maine

Installation: Bayside Trail and Marginal Way, East Bayside Neighborhood, Portland, ME Display: Zero Station Gallery Oral Presentation with Students: Civic Matters Symposium, USM Articles: Tomorrrow, USM Faculty Research and Scholarship Publication, Spring 2011 and College Connections, the CAHS (College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) Newsletter. Weblog: inUNDATION

2010/ SHAPING THE TERRAIN: Digital Mapping of Portland Public Art Sites 09 A project with 8 University of Southern Maine Art students to create an inventory of potential public art sites on the peninsula in Portland, Maine.

Exhibition: Running with Scissors Gallery, Portland, Maine Paper: Virtual Presentation, ICERI 2009, International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Madrid, Spain Presentation of Deliverables: Portland Public Art Committee Article: Portland Press Herald Facebook: Shaping Terrain Weblog: Shaping Terrain

2008/ ENCODING THE LANDSCAPE: The Lost Sites of Le Mans 07 A project with 7 Art students from École Supérieure des Beaux Arts and 2 engineering students from École Supérieure Des Géomètres et Topographes, an engineering and surveying school, Le Mans, France.

Displays/Interventions: École Supérieure Des Géomètres et Topographes and Rue Nationale, Le Mans Papers: Virtual presentation, International Conference on the Arts in Society, Kassel, Germany; published in The International Journal of the Arts in Society, Common Ground Publishing Lectures: NACIS (North American Cartographic Information Society) Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO; Media Design Department, Fachhoschschule Schwaebisch Hall, Germany; MEGUG (Maine Geographic Information Systems Users Group) meeting, Gorham, ME Weblog: Lost Sites of Le Mans

2007/ ENCODING THE LANDSCAPE: The Pedvale Project 06 In Situ works at the Pedvale Open-Air Art Museum in conjunction with a two-month residency, Sabile, Latvia

Installation: PEDVALE FIELD DRAWING: Walking the Line, an outdoors GPS (Geo- Positioning System) drawing done on the museum grounds Artist Book/Map: A limited edition produced for the Museum Lectures: The Pedvale Project, Latvian Academy of Fine Art Media Department, Riga, Latvia; Cultural Cartography, École Supérieure des Beaux Arts and École Supérieure Des Géomètres et Topographes, Le Mans, France Web doc.: Walking the Line 2006

ENCODING THE LANDSCAPE: The S.U.B.O.N.E. Urban Murals Project A collaborative ART and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) project endorsed by the Portland Public Art Committee and Portland Parks and Recreation, Portland ME

Intervention: SUBONE FIELD DRAWING an outdoors GPS drawing done in East Bayside neighborhood, Portland, ME Lecture: ART AND GISsci: GPS Drawing and Aerial Graffiti, École Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Le Mans, France Panel Discussion: ENCODING THE LANDSCAPE: The SUBONE Urban Murals Project, Twenty-First Annual Conference of Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Portland, ME Weblog: Aerial Graffiti Article: Portland Press Herald

2007/ THE EAST BAYSIDE PROJECT 05 A cultural cartography project about the social and cultural landscape of a semi- industrial, semi-residential neighborhood in Portland, Maine.

Exhibitions: SIGGRAPH ART GALLERY: THREADING TIME, a group-show presented in conjunction with, the 32nd International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Los Angeles, CA; ACM SIGGRAPH TRAVELLING ART SHOW, selections from the 2005 Art Gallery show scheduled to travel for two years at the Hong Kong Cyberport; the City University of Hong Kong; the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education; the Hong Kong Polytechnic University; and the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center; TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER, a group show at Zero Station, Portland, ME; TECHART, a group show presented in conjunction with the Boston Cyberarts Festival, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA Panel Discussion: REMAPPING THE LANDSCAPE, at SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA Lecture: THE EAST BAYSIDE PROJECT: SUSTAINING CREATIVE COMMUNITIES, presented for the Summer Research Seminar Series sponsored by USM Research Initiatives, Portland, ME Slideshow: Presented in poster session environment at the Blaine House Conference on the Creative Economy at Bates Mill, Lewiston, ME Publications: SIGGRAPH Art and Animation Catalogue; Words and Images, published by the USM College of Arts and Sciences Weblog: The East Bayside Project

2001/ THE BACK COVE PROJECT 03 A collaborative project that utilized digital technologies including GIS and GPS to explore the ways in which artists and scientists record and interpret the landscape.

Exhibitions: BACK COVE HEART OF PORTLAND, an interdisciplinary exhibition focusing on the Back Cove, a mile-wide tidal basin on the Portland peninsula, Area Gallery, Univeristy of Southern Maine, Portland, ME; WATERSHED VIEWS, ecological and aesthetic explorations of local waters by teams of artists and scientists, USM Art Gallery, Gorham, ME; DRAWING THE NEW MILLENIUM: THE CHALLENGE OF MEDIA AND IDEAS TO THE NATURE OF DRAWING (Co-curated by Elizabeth Finch of the Drawing Center, New York and John Murchie, Independent Curator within the Maritimes and Canada); Paper: THE BACK COVE PROJECT, presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, University of Hawaii, Hawaii Articles: Reviews of DRAWING THE NEW MILLENIUM in The Portland Phoenix and the Maine Times

2000/ THE NEW PORTLAND PROJECT 98 A series of large-scale digital montages that layer GPS drawings with other data related to a ten-acre parcel of land in New Portland, ME

Exhibition: POLYALTERITY: NEW CYBERWORKS BY RON HUTT, JOSEPH NECHVATAL and JAN PIRIBECK, University of Maine at Farmington Art Gallery, Farmington, ME Lectures: PHOTOGRAPHY, IDENTITY AND WOMEN, a paper presented for the Women’s Interventions in Science, Art and Technology Symposium, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; THE NEW PORTLAND PROJECT: BOUNDARIES, LAYERS AND PROJECTIONS, a paper presented at (En)Gendering Technologies, the Maine Women Studies Conference, University of Maine at Augusta and NESTVAL and ACAG Geographer Conference, University of Maine at Farmington Publications: POLYALTERITY catalogue, University of Maine at Farmington with funds from the Maine Arts Commission

GRANTS: 2012 GOOD IDEA GRANT, Maine Arts Commission award in support of META DIVERS, a multimedia installation (work in progress)

PUBLICATIONS: 2012 COLLABORATION AND CONNECTIVITY In the Education of Artists and Designers, published by Groupwork, an interdisciplinary journal for working with groups (pending)

EXHIBITIONS: 2012 WE … ARE CONNECTED, Group Exhibition, Emery Community Arts Center, University of Maine at Farmington, Farmington, ME Weblog: Code Connect

2012/ USM ART Faculty Exhibitions, USM Art Gallery, Gorham, ME 00

2011 Gallery 37-A GROUP EXHIBITION, Portland, ME

2007 LOST SITES, a group exhibition at Aucosisco Gallery, Portland, ME

2006 MAINE PRINTMAKERS 1980-2005, part of the Maine Print Project, a state-wide celebration of 200 years of printmaking in Maine, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME

SELECTIONS FROM MAINE PRINTMAKERS, shown at the Maine Arts Commission Offices, Augusta, ME

2005 ROBEZA (BORDER), a two-person show, Ivonna Veiherte Gallery, Riga, Latvia

2004 DRAWING AS A WINDOW, a group-show of artists from the New England Region, Chocolate Church Arts Center, Bath, ME

ZEROPORTFOLIO, an ongoing project of original works on paper and on the Internet, Zero Station, Portland, ME

2003 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY, display of prints, Memorial Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2002 PLUGGED IN EXHIBITION, group-show of work derived from digital and electronic technology, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME

2001 THE MAINE NEW MEDIA ARTS PROJECT, an on-line exhibition of digitally mediated works linked to the Boston Cyberarts Festival Website

1999 DIGITAL PRINT INVITATIONAL, a survey organized by the Union of Maine Visual Artists, Ellsworth, ME review Ellsworth American

1998 LAND-ESCAPES: DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY ’98, a group-exhibition of digital photographs, Bradley University, Peoria, IL, Internet version of the exhibition

WHEN PIXELS REPLACE PAINT, a group-show of digital art, Maine Coast Artists Gallery, Rockport, ME

PERSONAL COLSMOLOGY, one-person show, Maine Coast Artists Gallery, Rockport, ME

1996 WATERSHED COLLOQUY, an exhibition of Watershed Center for Ceramics resident artists, Gorham, ME reviews Lewiston Sun Journal, Maine Times, Art New England

1995 EAST WEST: VIEWS OF SELF AND CULTURE, Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME reviews in the Maine Sunday Telegram, Lewiston Sun Journal, Casco Bay Weekly and Art New England

TRACINGS, a one-person show of paintings and drawings, ICON Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME review Maine Times

THE BOOK OF ICONS AND OTHER DIGITAL ADDICTIONS, Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center, Camden, NJ

MAINE COAST ARTISTS JURIED EXHIBITION, Maine Coast Artists Gallery, Rockport, ME and at the Governor’s Estate, Augusta, ME

1994 SCAN COMPUTER ART EXHIBTION, a group-show of computer-generated art, Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1991 BEYOND GEOMETRY, a group-show of paintings and works on paper, Maine Coast Artists Gallery reviews Maine Times and the New Art Examiner

1990 NEW FACES: NEW DECADE, a group-show of paintings and sculpture, Frick Gallery, Belfast, ME

1988 ONE-PERSON SHOW, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL

1985 TWO-PERSON SHOW, University of Maine at Farmington, Farmington, ME

1984 NEW HORIZONS IN ART, The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

1983 ROCKFORD ART, Burpee Art Museum, Rockford, IL

GROUP SHOW, Galerija, Chicago, IL

TWO-PERSON SHOW, Rock Valley College, Rockford, IL

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AGAINST THE ABSENCE OF ART, paintings on glass, downtown mall, Rockford, IL

1982 THREE-PERSON SHOW, Rockford Center for the Arts and Sciences, Rockford, Il

1981 TWO PERSON SHOW: Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL

THREE PERSON SHOW: Rockford Center for the Arts and Sciences, Rockford, IL

ROCKFORD INTERNATIONAL ’81 PRINT AND DRAWING COMPETITION: Rockford College, Rockford, IL (Juror: Gerald Nordland, Director, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI)

ANNUAL BELOIT AND VICINITY EXHIBITION, Wright Art Center, Beloit, WI (Juror, Thomas H. Garver, Director Madison Art Center, Madison, WI ANNUAL ROCKFORD AND VICINITY SHOW, Burpee Art Museum, Rockford, IL (Juror, Harold Gregor, Professor of Art, Illinois State University)

GALEX XV, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL, Purchase Award, Dick Blick (Juror, Robert Middaugh, Curator, Art Collection, First National Bank of Chicago

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS:

2010 BRINGING A BOOK PROJECT TO THE PRINTER, Panel Discussion, Glickman Family Library, Portland

2005 INTERNATIONALIZING THE ART CURRICULUM, a USM Convocation presentation on the role of international studies in liberal education, Robie Andrews Hall, Gorham

2003 CROSSROADS OF CREATIVITY: ARTISTS, SCIENTISTS IN THE MAINE ENVIRONMENT, lecture at the Wilhelm Reich Museum, Rangeley, ME (sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council)

2000 PLUGGING IN, a roundtable discussion on New Media in the arts, sciences, business and education, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME (invited to participate by the Center)

1998 THE NEW PORTLAND PROJECT: BOUNDARIES, LAYERS AND PROJECTIONS, a paper presented at (En)Gendering Technologies, the Annual Maine Women Studies Conference, University of Maine at Augusta and at the NESTVAL and ACAG Geographer Conference, University of Maine at Farmington (refereed)

PHOTOGRAPHY, IDENTITY AND WOMEN, a paper presented fro Women’s Interventions in Science, Art and Technology Symposium, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (refereed)

THE PRESENT STATE OF DIGITAL ARTS, panel discussion participant, Maine Coast Artists Gallery, Rockport, ME (invited to participate by the Center)

1995 PANEL DISCUSSION ORGANIZER AND PARTICIPANT: EAST/WEST: Views of Self and Culture, Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME

1994 EAST/WEST: VIEWS OF SELF AND CULTURE, a paper presented at the School of Visual Arts Conference on Art at the Millennium, New York, NY (refereed)

1993 TRADITIONS IN TRANSITION: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA, a lecture presented for the UMF Faculty Forum Series

AMERICAN EDUCATION AND CULTURAL SYSTEMS, a lecture comparing Chinese and American education and cultural systems for the Social Work Section of the Student’s Union of Beijing Polytechnic University

STATUS OF CREATIVE AND SCHOLARLY WORK:

The International Journal of the Arts in Society is a peer-reviewed journal with an editorial and advisory board comprising leading scholars in the arts and education. The journal aims to create a space for open dialogue and exchange in all aspects of the arts, and in conjunction with international arts conferences and festivals.

Common Ground Publishing was founded in 1984 as an educational and academic publisher; it is a producer and manger of content for print and the Internet committed to the maintenance of the values and culture of print through mixed-media publishing.

Gallery 37-A is an art project space on Wharf Street, in Portland, ME

Emery Community Arts Center located on the campus of the University of Maine at Farmington is a key venue for creative expression in Western Maine.

Running with Scissors Art Studios and Gallery is an open concept community of artists providing an exhibition venue for showing a diverse range of media and styles.

ICERI (International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation) is a Technology, Education and Development Conference; the aim of the conference is to promote international collaboration in Education and Technology in all educational fields and disciplines.

Zero Station is a socially conscious and well-respected gallery and citizen’s salon located in Portland.

Maine Women Writers Collection/Maine Women’s Studies Consortium/New England Women’s Studies Association Spring Academic Conference offered presentations, discussions and performances centered about the theme “Identity/Memory/Testimony”, co- sponsored by the University of New England’s Women’s and Gender Studies program; departments of English and Language Studies, History, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology; Center for Global Humanities; Office of Multicultural Affairs and Diversity; Add Verb Productions.

Mayo Street Arts Center is a nonprofit center for art, music, and creative collaboration housed in an historic wooden church in Portland, Maine. MSA supports artists, arts goers and works to build community through the arts.

The Talsi Regional Museum, established in 1923, was founded as a cultural history museum and is now an important center for art, culture and education offering a variety exhibitions and public programs for the Talsi Region, Latvia.

The Portland Phoenix is an award winning alternative newspaper providing comprehensive coverage of the arts and entertainment in New England, published by Phoenix Media/Communications Group of Boston

The HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES is part of a series of conferences sponsored each year by the University of Hawaii, West Oahu. The series addresses a number of needs that cannot be met at some of the more traditional conferences hosted by scholarly societies. It provides a venue for scholars who engage in interdisciplinary work and attracts a wide audience of international scholars and practitioner, particularly from the Pacific Rim nations.

The INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY is a biennial event bringing together a wide array of scholars who are interested in all aspects of the production and consumption of maps. The 2003 conference was co-hosted by the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine and the Harvard Map Collection at Harvard University.

SELECTED CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE:

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT FARMINGTON ART GALLERY:

1992 Facilitated the presentation of a One-Person show of Paintings and Drawings by Fred Lynch, a well established painter from Portland, Maine who is known for his geometric abstractions

Facilitated the presentation of “Ritual and Community: the Maine Grange”. This exhibition of contemporary photographs by Rose Marasco, Professor of Art at the University of Southern Maine, documented Maine Grange buildings and examined the impact of the Grange on Maine communities. The show, which originated at the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, was funded by a major Maine Humanities Council grant

1990 THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHANSONNETTA STANLEY EMMONS, 1858-1937: ENLARGING THE PERSPECTIVE, The University of Maine at Farmington Art Galley, Farmington, ME; The University of Machias Gallery, Machias, ME and the Danforth Museum of At, Framingham, MA review Boston Globe

Public programs offered in conjunction with the exhibition included a panel discussion and lectures by project scholars in the areas of Maine History, the History of Photography, Women’s Studies and Communications Theory

ITALO SCANGA/RICHARD WILSON: PAINTINGS AND PRINTS, an exhibition of work by internationally known artist, Italo Scanga and master printmaker, Richard Wilson

1989 WILHELM REICH, an exhibition of paintings by the Austrian psychologist who was a student of Freud. Reich, who established a home and laboratory in Maine, was persecuted by the Food and Drug Administration in the 1950’s and was sent to prison on charges of misleading the public about his theories and inventions. Presented in cooperation with the Reich Museum in Rangeley, Maine

A panel discussion on censorship issues was presented in conjunction with the exhibition. Panel members included experts on Reich’s theories, a professor of law, and social historian whose expertise was in the area of human rights. Information about censorship in the arts was also presented.

ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM, ROCKFORD ILLINOIS:

1988 DISCREET POWER: REDUCTIVE ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY PAINTING, an examination of post-minimalist painting, Artists included: Carl Affarian, Jim Chlopecki, Brian Fee, Julia Fish, Scott Gordon, Rick Grafton, Jon Groom, Sherrie Levine, Gregory Mahoney, Allan McCollum, Daniel Simas, Jerry Zeniuk catalogue

LOOKING OUT: ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM REGIONAL, a focused look at 22 artists from the Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin region. Co-curated with Donald Bartlett Doe and John Nagus

NINA BELL: ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE, an exhibition of recent landscape paintings combining realism with fancy catalogue

1987 GORDON DORN: SOLO SERIES, a six-year review of paintings and drawings examining the artist’s use of the grid catalogue

DAVID KOTKER: ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE, an exhibition of sculpture and drawings documenting the emerging years of this prominent Chicago sculptor. Catalogue (guest essay by Dennis Adrian)

MICHIKO ITATANI: SOLO SERIES, an exhibition of the large-scale, expressionistic paintings of Chicago-based artist catalogue

1986 HMONG TEXTILES, an exhibition focusing upon the transitions in the lives of the Hmong Diaspora living in the Northern Illinois region as reflected in their textile art. Funded by a Chairman’s Grant from the Illinois Arts Council

THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY, a selection of photographs and photographic equipment from the private collection of Charles Swedlund, tracing the history of photographic processes

EXTERIOR/INTERIOR: Large-Scale Sculpture, a look at artists living in the Northern Illinois region who produce large-scale, public works of art catalogue

RESEARCH/TRAINING GRANTS/APPOINTMENTS/OTHER SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY:

2100 Faculty Professional Development Grant (department funds): for travel to Latvia for presentation of creative work.

2009 Faculty Professional Development Grant: for presenting at ICERI (International Conference of Education Research and Innovation), Madrid, Spain, 2009

2005 FACULTY SENATE RESEARCH GRANT: for sabbatical project in France and Germany

PMFQ (Partnership Maine France Quebec) grant: for travel to partner schools in Angers and Brest

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ANIMATION, EFFECTS, GAMES AND DIGITAL MEDIA, attended per invitation of conference organizer full day session on FLASH animation, Stuttgart, Germany

REVIEWED TWO PAPERS FOR PUBLISHING, International Journal of The Arts in Society, Common Ground Publishing

2006 FACULTY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANT for lecture in the Media Arts Department of the Latvian Academy of Art

FACULTY TRAVEL GRANT for sabbatical project in Latvia

MAINE ARTS COMMISSION ARTISTS IN MAINE COMMUNITIES GRANT, served as collaborator for Seeds of Peace: SUBONE Urban Murals Project grant. Grant award $7,500

JUROR PLUGGED IN FESTIVAL, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME and Space Gallery, Portland, ME

ARTIST/TEACHER, Vermont College MFA program, Union Institute and University, Montpelier, VT

2005 USM FACULTY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANT awarded for attending the 2005 SIGGRAPH conference

USM COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GRANT awarded to produce prints for the SIGGRAPH exhibition

ATTENDED ANNUAL MEETING OF NASAD (NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS OF ART AND DESIGN) attended session for new and aspiring art and design administrators, Philadelphia, PA

2003 JUROR PLUGGED IN FESTIVAL, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT STIPEND received from the Provost’s office to attend the Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities

2002 USM FACULTY TRAVEL STIPEND awarded for travel to Germany and Latvia to further develop international studies opportunities in the arts

2000 USM CENTER FOR TEACHING DISCUSION GRANT awarded to sponsor discussions about the mission and goals of the Art Department’s Foundations Program

1999 UMF FACULTY DEVELOPMENT STIPEND awarded to participate in a weeklong diversity workshop, a curriculum revision initiative sponsored by the UMF Diversity Committee

1998 UMF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANT awarded to attend SIGGRAPH, the International Conference on Computer Graphics, Orlando, Florida

1997 UMF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANT awarded to attend ISEA, the 8th International Symposium on Electronic Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1996 UMF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANT awarded to attend a digital imaging workshop at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada

1995 SABBATICAL PROJECT, completed an advanced course in computer imaging and produced a series of computer-aided prints

1992 UMF FACULTY DEVELOPMENT STIPEND awarded to attend a conference for International Education for the 21rst Century sponsored by the University of Maine system

1990 UMF TRAVEL STIPEND received from the President’s office to visit two model public art collections at the University of Southern California in San Diego and the University of Washington in Bellingham

MAINE HUMANITIES COUNCIL GRANT awarded to support the Chansonnetta Stanley Emmons exhibition and public programming at the University of Maine at Farmington Art Gallery, Farmington, ME

1988 MEMBER REVIEW PANEL, Illinois Arts Council Artist-In-Education grants

1987 RECIPIENT OF KELLOG FELLOWSHIP for Colloquia: Museums-Agents for Public Education, Field Museum, Chicago, IL

PANEL MODERATOR: The Unique Role of the Artist in the Classroom, Artist-in- Education Conference, Rockford, IL

PANEL MEMBER: Artists as Teachers, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1986 ILLINOIS ARTS COUCIL GRANT awarded to support the HMONG TEXTILES exhibition at the Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL

PANEL MEMBER: Art Museum/Education Conference, Northern Illinois University Gallery, Chicago, IL

1985 RECIPIENT OF KELLOG FELLOWSHIP for Workshop: Museum Education/Strategies for Effective Programming, Field Museum, Chicago, IL

1984 LECTURE: THE IMPLICATIONS OF COMPUTER GRAPHICS FOR ART EDUCATION, Illinois State University, Bloomington Normal, IL

1981 RESIDENT ARTIST, Rockford Center for the Arts and Sciences, Rockford, IL

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