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