Title: Professor of Art, Emeritus

Company: Vanderbilt University

Location: Overland Park, KS United States

Achievements:

• Inductee, Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement (2018)
• Recipient, Professional Development Grant, Tennessee Arts Commission (2014-2015)
• Recipient, President’s Award for Exemplary Achievement, Southeastern College Art Conference (2015)
• Recipient, Barbara Ritzman Devereux Artist Grant, University of North Florida (2013)
• Recipient, Faculty Development Grant / Research Scholar Grant, Vanderbilt University (2012)
• Recipient, Award for Outstanding Exhibition and Catalogue of Contemporary Materials, SECAC (2011)
• Recipient, Joan S. Beren Foundation Grant, Wichita Art Museum Exhibition, Wichita, KS (2010)
• Recipient, Central Research Scholar Grant and Fellowship, Vanderbilt University (2001-2002, 2008)
• Recipient, Central Research Scholar Summer Grant, Vanderbilt University (2007)
• Recipient, Exhibition Grant, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA (2005)
• Recipient, Arts in Education Grant, Tennessee Arts Commission (2003)
• Recipient, Puffin Foundation Grant (2002)
• Recipient, Professional Development Grant, Vanderbilt University (2002)
• Recipient, Exhibition Award, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2001)
• Recipient, Small Grant Awards, Vanderbilt University (1988-1989, 1991-1992, 1994, 1996-1997, 1999)
• Recipient, Alumni Outstanding Freshman Adviser Award, Vanderbilt University (1997)
• Recipient, Research Council Grants, Vanderbilt University (1988-1990, 1997)
• Recipient, National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship Archive, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution (1996)
• Recipient, Art Conference Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement, SECAC (1995)
• Recipient, Visual Arts Public Projects Grant, National Endowment for the Arts (1993)
• Recipient, Art Matters Inc. Fellowships (1989, 1992)
• Recipient, Tennessee Arts Commission / Knestrick Visual Arts Fellowship (1990)
• Nominee, AVA Award, SECAC (1989)
• Recipient, National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Fellowship (1987)
• Recipient, Faculty Excellence Award for Research and Creativity, Eastern Illinois University (1986)
• Recipient, Faculty Research Grant, Eastern Illinois University (1985)
• Recipient, Faculty Development Grant, Eastern Illinois University (1985)
• Recipient, Algur H. Meadows Fellowship for Artistic Achievement, Southern Methodist University (1981-1983)
• Recipient, Scholarship for the Creative and Performing Arts, The University of Kansas (1980)
• Recipient, Luella F. Stewart Scholarship, The University of Kansas (1980)
• Featured Listee, Who’s Who in America (2010)
• Featured Listee, Who’s Who in American Education (1993, 2005)
• Featured Listee, Who’s Who in the South and Southwest (1997)

Designations:

• Master of Fine Arts, Southern Methodist University
• Bachelor of Fine Arts, The University of Kansas
• Master of Arts, The University of Kansas
• Bachelor of Science in Journalism, The University of Kansas
• Bachelor of Arts, The University of Kansas

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