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Education
Ph.D. in Art History and Humanities – University
of Louisville, KY.
M.A. in Painting – University of Louisville.
Employment
Executive Director and Curator, Wright Museum of World War
II, Wolfeboro, NH
Director and Chief Curator of the Naples Museum of Art,
Naples, Florida.
Executive Director and Curator of the Ogunquit Museum of
American Art, Ogunquit, Maine.
Instructor, University of Louisville (Humanities and American
Studies Department).
Teacher, Jefferson County Public School System (Art and
Humanities), Louisville, KY.
Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions
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2022
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Blue and Yellow, a groupexhibit in support of Ukraine.
Mathias Fine Art, Trevett, Maine
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Landscape and Architecture, 2022, National Juried
Photographic Exhibit at Black BoxGallery in Portland, Oregon.
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New Hampshire Art Association 36thAnnual Lassonde
Juried Exhibition
NH Art AssociationLevey Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
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2021
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Praxis Gallery International Juried Exhibition, "The
Streets”, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
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New Hampshire Art Association 42nd Jack ParfittJuried
Photography Exhibit
NHAA Levy Gallery,Portsmouth, NH
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New Hampshire Society of Photographic Artists Juried
Exhibit
Kimball Jenkins School of Art,Concord, NH
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2019
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Louisville Art Association National Juried Fine Art
& Photograph Exhibition, Louisville, CO
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Group Exhibition "Trees", Mathias Fine Art,
Trevett, ME
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2016
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2nd Annual New Hampshire Aviation Museum Juried Exhibition,
Londonderry, NH
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2015
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21st Annual Texas National Exhibit, Austin University's
Cole Art Center
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2012
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FotoFoto Gallery's 8th National Competition Exhibition,
Huntington, NY
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12th Annual American Landscape National Exhibition,
Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
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27th LaGrange National Invitational Exhibition, LaGrange
Art Museum, GA.
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18th Annual Texas National Exhibit, Austin University's
Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX
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101st Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts National Exhibition,
Mystic, CT.
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Prince Street Gallery's 5th Annual National Juried
Exhibit, NYC
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2011
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Group Exhibit, “Reflections” at Mathias
Fine Art, Trevett, Maine
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2010
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Group Exhibit, Unity College’s Craig Art Gallery,
Unity, Maine.
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2002
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“I of the Eye”, Exhibition at The Center
for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine.
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1998
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Group Exhibit, “Focus on Ogunquit”, The
Blaine House Governor’s Mansion, Augusta, Maine.
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1996
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Three-Person Exhibition, Marjan Frank Gallery, Kittery
Point, Maine
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1995
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Solo Exhibition, Brownsboro Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky.
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1992
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U.S. State Department’s Art in Embassies Program,
exhibited in Santo Domingo and Indonesia Embassies.
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1988
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Invitational Exhibition, University of Louisville
Covi Gallery, Louisville, KY.
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Solo Exhibition, Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro,
Kentucky.
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Juried National Exhibit, Viridian Gallery, New York,
New York.
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1987
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Solo Exhibit, Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington,
Kentucky.
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Invitational Exhibit, “The Kentuckians”,
Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro, Kentucky.
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Invitational Exhibition, National Arts Club Gallery,
New York, New York.
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1986
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Juried Regional Exhibition, Owensboro Museum of Fine
Art, KY.
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1984
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Solo Exhibition, Jasper Civic Auditorium, Jasper,
Indiana.
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1983
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Commissioned by The Louisville Ballet to create a
painting used for the poster for its season premiere, “Gaite
Parisienne”.
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1982
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Solo Exhibition, Floyd County Museum, New Albany,
Indiana.
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Works in Selected Public and Private Collections
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Maine
Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Kentucky
University of Louisville, Kentucky
Kennebunk Savings Bank Corporate Collection, Kennebunk, Maine
Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company, Louisville, Kentucky
Humana Corporation, Louisville
Communication Workers of America, Louisville
Brown, Todd and Heyburn, Attorneys at Law, Louisville
Brown, Waterhouse and Kaiser, Inc., Louisville
Alun Jones, Director of the Louisville Ballet
John Dirks, Director Emeritus, Ogunquit Museum
Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Verachert, Leuven, Belgium
John F.F. Hudson, Boston, Massachusetts
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Bloom, Greer, South Carolina
Mrs. Kathy Sylvester, Hinsdale, Illinois
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Furlong, York, Maine
Mr. and Mrs. William Whalen, Westport, Connecticut
Barbara Dirks, Brattleboro, Vermont
Douglas Williams, Naples, Florida
Mr. and Mrs. Harlow Carpenter, Greenland, New Hampshire
Honors
Fulbright Grant, “The Art of the Low Countries”.
Sponsored by the H.E.W. and the Belgium and Netherlands Commissions for
Educational Exchange
Graduate Dean’s Fellowship, University of Louisville,
KY.
Graduate Project Award, University of Louisville.
Dupont Manual High School Hall of Fame, Louisville, KY.
Listed in
Who’s Who in American Art, 2005-11
American Artists, An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporaries
Who’s Who in the East
Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders in America
The Encyclopedia of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers: Colonial
to 2002
Selected Lectures and Workshops
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2008
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Yankee Modernism in Maine Symposium, sponsored by the Portsmouth,
NH Athenaeum, the Portsmouth Historical Society and the Maine Humanities
Council.
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2007
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The Governor’s Mansion, Augusta, Maine. “History of the
Ogunquit
Museum of American Art.”
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2003
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The Boston Public Library’s Lowell Lecture Series (Boston,
Massachusetts), “The Art and Life of Charles H. Woodbury”.
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1999
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Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, Lecture on “Charles Woodbury
and His Students”.
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1994
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University of Louisville, KY., Lecture, and Day-Long Studio Critique
of Painting Students
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University of Kentucky, Lecture on “Maine Modernism and the
Ogunquit Art Colony”.
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1995
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The Brickstore Museum, Kennebunkport, ME., “Artists of the
Ogunquit Art Colony”.
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1988
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The Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, KY, Two-Day Painting Seminar,
“Artist in Residence Program”
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1986
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Washington & Lee University Art Gallery, Lexington, VA. Lecture:
“The Realistic Art of Henry Strater”.
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Selected Writings by Culver
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2010
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The View Project by Joyce Tenneson; published
to accompany The View Project exhibition comprised of 70 international
photographers. Introduction to book.
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2009
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Images of Hope, Immokalee, Looking Forward, Looking
Back, Photographs by Brynn Bruijn; published by Community Foundation
of Collier County, FL., 2009. Forward to book.
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The Dark-Bright Art of Scott Waddell, essay
for Scott Waddell exhibit at Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, CT.
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2008
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Wolf Kahn: The Discovered Landscape, essay
for a Kahn exhibition at Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, CT.
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2007
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American Art Review Magazine, “Watercolors
from the Ogunquit Museum of American Art Permanent Collection. “
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The Eclectic Vision of Steve Hawley, essay
for Hawley exhibition at Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, CT.
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2006
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Eliot O’Hara, Ring of Fire in Watercolor,
essay for exhibition catalog of same title, Harmon-Meek Gallery,
Naples, FL.
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2001
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American Art Review Magazine, “The Paintings
of John J. Enneking”.
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Neil Welliver, Paintings 1983-2001, Alexandre
Gallery, NYC. (co-published with the Ogunquit Museum of American
Art).
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American Art Review Magazine, “The Art
of John Folinsbee”.
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2000
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American Art Review Magazine, “A History
of the Ogunquit Museum of American Art and Its Permanent Collection”.
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1998
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American Art Review Magazine, “Charles
H. Woodbury and His Students”.
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1995
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American Art Review Magazine, “Isabel
Bishop and Bernard Karfiol: The Realist and the Romantic”.
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Selected Exhibitions Curated
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2010
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“People, Places & Things: The Art of Ben Aronson, Joel
Babb and Alec Soth”, Naples Museum of Art, Florida
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2009
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“Latin American Painting Now”, Naples Museum of Art,
Florida.
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“Florida Contemporary: Paintings and Photography”, Naples
Museum of Art, Florida.
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2007
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“The Paintings of Jamie Wyeth”, Ogunquit Museum of American
Art.
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2006
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“The Figure in American Painting and Drawing, 1985-2005”,
Ogunquit Museum of American Art.
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2005
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“Edward Hopper: The Ogunquit Paintings”, Ogunquit Museum
of American Art.
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2000
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“Painted Air: American Impressionism”, Ogunquit Museum.
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1998
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“Charles H. Woodbury and His Students”, Ogunquit Museum
and traveled to the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, MA.
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1997
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“Hughie Lee-Smith: A Retrospective”, Ogunquit Museum
and traveled to The Appleton Museum in Ocala, FL., and to the Pensacola
Museum of Art, FL.
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“Realism in 20th Century American Painting”, Ogunquit
Museum.
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1995
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“Mainescapes: Women Artists 1900-1995”, Ogunquit Museum.
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1994
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“Will Barnet: Works of Six Decades”, Ogunquit Museum
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MISCELLANEOUS
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2014
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Juror, Ogunquit Art Association Regional Juried Exhibit, Ogunquit,
ME
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2010
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Trustee, Rudolph and John Dirks Fund
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Juror for Blossom II, a national traveling
exhibition of flower paintings, sponsored by the Susan K. Black
Foundation, Colorado.
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2004
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Juror for Splendid Splashes V, Abstract Art,
the River Tree Center for the Arts, Kennebunk, Maine.
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Juror for Pastel Painters of Maine’s Fifth
Annual National Juried Show.
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Juror for Images of Susquehanna County Regional
Exhibition, Brackney, PA.
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2003
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Juror, Newburyport Art Association Regional Juried
Exhibition, MA.
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2002-2008
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Chair of The Maine Art Museum Trail organization.
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2001
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Juror for Endless Mountains Council of the Arts, 5th
Annual Regional Art Exhibition, Tunkhannock, PA.
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1995-2001
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Trustee of The Ogunquit Museum of American Art.
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1994
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Maine Arts Commission Advisory Panel (Maine Community
Cultural Alliance Board Member).
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1989, 1990
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Consultant to The Maine Humanities Council.
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