Spring 2012 Courses

ART 217 Survey of Art History II
ART 250 Methods
ART 470 Special Topics in Art History: The Art of Collecting
ART 470 Special Topics in Art History: New Museum Theory

Dr. Juilee Decker is Associate Professor of Art History and Affiliate Faculty in Women’s Studies and Chair of the Art Department. She joined the faculty of Georgetown College in the Fall 2004. Recent professional work includes public art, museums, and archives. In August 2008, Dr Decker was named Editor of the award winning journal, Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals published by AltaMira Press. Prior to being tapped as Editor, Dr. Decker guest-edited two issues (Spring and Summer 2008) which focused on public art. In June 2008, she was appointed Exam Leader for the Advanced Placement (AP) Art History Exam. In this role, Dr. Decker is responsible for the intellectual content of rubrics that are prepared for the reading of each year’s art history exam which is administered internationally to more than 20,000 students. Dr. Decker taught a study abroad course in London and Dublin in 2007-08 which focused on portraiture and biography and a two-week course in London dedicated to the history of the museum in December 2009-January 2010.

As part of a collaboration with her department colleagues, Dr. Decker authored an essay on the faculty exhibition at Elizabethtown Community & Technical College in February-March 2010. Decker gave the exhibition its title and wrote an essay on the works and the space where they are on view. The exhibition showcased new work by art faculty Daniel Graham, Darrell Kincer, and Boris Zakic. A copy of Dr. Decker’s essay is available here.

Education

• Ph. D. Case Western Reserve University, Art History, 2003   Dissertation: “The Possibilities of Print: John Constable, English Landscape, and the Chiaroscuro of Nature”
• M.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Master of Arts in Art History and Certification in Museum Studies, 1998
• B.S. Wittenberg University, Bachelor of Science, Double Major in Art History and Russian Studies 1990

Service

• Membership Coordinator, Public Art Dialogue
• Board Member, Historians of British Art
• Faculty Advisor, Kappa Pi Art Fraternity, Georgetown College 2004-2007

Curatorial Projects

• Co-Curator, “A Passionate Pursuit: The Milward Collection”, Anne Wright Wilson Fine Arts Gallery, Georgetown College, March 2-April 20, 2012
• Guest Curator, “Reflections on a Louisville Landmark: Celebrating 150 Years of Louisville Water Company”at the  Louisville Visual Art Association, September 3-October 22, 2010
• Curator, “Virginia Woolf and the Natural World” An Exhibition of art and rare books held in conjunction with the 20th International Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf at the Wilson Gallery at Georgetown College, May-June 2010

Invited Lectures

• “Sculpting a Post-War Identity: Enid Yandell and Louisville’s Confederate Monument”, Civil War Conference, University of Louisville, March 8-9, 2012
• Invited Speaker, University of Oxford, Oxford, England “The Making and Meaning of Public Sculpture”, June 4, 2009
• Invited Speaker, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, “The Object Speaks: Japanese and Chinese Cultural Studies”, June 17, 2008
• Invited Speaker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. “Constable: The Great Landscapes” Paper: “Translations: The Artistic and Cultural Legacies of Constable’s Six-Footers” as part of the An Expanding Vision: Constable and the Transformation of Landscape Art lecture program presented October 22, 2006

Selected Honors and Awards

• Recipient, John Walker Manning Distinguished Mentor and Teacher Award, September 2008 conferred at Opening Convocation
• Fellow, Henlein Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, Awarded by the Provost/Dean of Georgetown College, Fall 2007
• Fellow, Interdisciplinary Japan Studies Seminar at Tokai University, Honolulu, HI — Sponsored by the Freeman Institute, May-June 2007

last updated February 2012

2011/12 Teaching Schedule

Fall 2011: ART115 Drawing, ART117 2D-Design Basics and Color, ART232/ART332/ART432 Painting

Spring 2012: ART115 Drawing, ART232/ART332/ART432 Painting, FDN112/ART170 The Grand Tour: Ancient Greece, ART370 The Art of Portrait (one hour, limited enrollment)

For Summer Abroad: Greece 2012 for requirements, dates and other information see KIIS website.

Education

MFA, University of New Orleans 2000
Language Arts and Culture Studies, Gimnazija Zrenjanin, SERBIA 1988/1991

Biography

Boris Zakic received an MFA at University of New Orleans in 2000 and the “Neue Dimensionen der Wissenschaft” Award by Göethe Intitut, Belgrade for the Translation Paintings in 2004. He has since been involved with The Oval Portrait, Cincy Fringe Fest, The Independents at Liverpool Biennial and a number of other art projects. He has held teaching appointments at Georgetown College, University of New Orleans and KIIS programs in Athens and Rome. He has been on faculty at Georgetown College since 2000.

profile: artnews.org/boris+zakic

Artist Talks or Receptions

upcoming: a panel session on State of Drawing, moderated by Boris Zakic. Tues. Nov 22. at 5:30pm at Georgetown College.

Grey McGear Gallery: What Dreams May Come, Los Angeles: Nov-Feb (I’ll be in LA, Feb. 22-25 coinciding with CAA)

Saturday, Oct. 22nd, 1-5 pm, How Artist Work, a panel session at .NO, NYC, New York. A discussion on timely issues of mobility and practice in current trans-cultural environment.

Sept. 30th, 6-9 pm, ABSTRKT, a season launch at Manifest, Cincinnati, OH. dates: 30th September – 28th October 2011.

Sept. 11th, 11 am, at Chaosmos20TEN, View Two Gallery, 23 Mathew Street, Liverpool, UK. Oct. 26th, 5pm, University Gallery, Texas A&M, Commerce, TX

updated fall/2011

Spring 2010 Courses

ART 118 3D Design and Ceramics
ART 300 Printmaking
ART 455 Senior Thesis

ART 440 Independent Study in Traditional Puppetry and Wheel Thrown Ceramics

Fall 2010 Courses

ART 230/330/430  Sculpture

ART 315 Advanced Drawing
ART 338 Intermediate Digital Imaging: Product and Package Design

GSC 101 Freshman Seminar

Professor Daniel Graham is an Assistant Professor of Art teaching in the areas of Sculpture and Printmaking.  Professor Graham came to Georgetown College in the Fall of 2006, after leaving the University of Georgia in Athens where he received his MFA in Printmaking. Before attending the University of Georgia Professor Graham Managed a wood shop in downtown Washington DC where he taught classes in traditional and non traditional woodworking as well as producing custom furnishings.  Most recently Professor Graham has had numerous exhibitions of varied scales including a solo exhibition at The 930 in Louisville, KY. Professor Graham was selected to be a participating artist in the New Albany Bicentennial Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition in New Albany Indiana. In 2007 Professor Graham was granted a Goode Faculty Development Award providing funding for his participation in an International Karakuri Workshop in Nagoya Japan. Since his time at Georgetown College Professor Graham has been apart of more than 28 exhibitions at more than 46 venues including 5 solo exhibitions, 4 international exhibitions, 3 traveling exhibitions, as well as multiple visiting artists appointments including Purdue University, The University of Kentucky, and Murray State University.

Education

2006 – Masters of Fine Arts Printmaking, Lamar Dodd School of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

last updated July 2010

Spring 2012 Courses

ART 120 Photography
ART 234 Survey of Computer Art Applications
ART 455 Senior Thesis

Education

2002 – MFA in Photography, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
1999 – BA in Art, Asbury University, Wilmore, KY

Biography

Professor Darrell Kincer is an Assistant Professor of Art teaching in the areas of Digital Media and Photography. He joined the faculty of Georgetown College in the Fall of 2007.

updated October  2011

Georgetown College’s Director of Art Galleries/Curator of Collections Laura Stewart returns to central Kentucky from Cincinnati, Ohio, where she taught art history and museum studies courses at regional colleges and universities and served as assistant and education director for nonprofit arts organizations. Stewart’s experience also includes assisting at the Weston Art Gallery and studying art history (B.A., University of Kentucky; M.A., University of Cincinnati) as a doctoral student at Arizona State University, where she was curator of education at the ASU Art Museum.  An avid gardener and fitness dancer, Stewart looks forward to sharing her art enthusiasm with the Georgetown community.

last updated July 2010