Dr. Juilee Decker
Fall 2008 Courses:
ART 216 Art History Survey
ART 302 Curatorial Studies
ART 414 Modern Art History
ART 455 Senior Thesis: Capstone Course
Spring 2009 Courses:
ART 217 Survey of World Art II
ART 250 Art History Methods
ART 470 Special Topics in Art History: History of Museums
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 February, Dr. Decker
was named to the Lexington Outdoor Mural Project Advisory Committee. The
goal of this public art project to site three murals in the Lexington area
by summer's end. In March, she offered a response to the presentation by
public art collaborator, Barbara Jo Revelle (University of Florida) who gave
an artist talk at the Lexington Public Library. Dr. Decker's follow-up
discussion and lecture public art and public sculpture was part of the 2008
Lafayette Seminar in Public Issues, sponsored by the Gaines Center for the
Humanities at the University of Kentucky. She served as guest editor to two
volumes on public sculpture which appeared in the award-winning journal, Collections.
In addition to soliciting articles from leading scholars in the field, she
prepared her own contributions for each issue, which include an overview of
public sculpture as a medium (Spring 2008). In June, Juilee travelled to
Belmont University (Nashville) as an invited speaker at a workshop for the
National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. Her presentation introduced
non-specialists to Chinese and Japanese art history.
In August, she 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, she
was appointed Exam Leader for the Advanced Placement (AP) Art History Exam. In
this role, Dr. Decker will be 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.
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
- Second Vice-President, Historians of British Art, elected
term (2007-09)
- Certified Reviewer for Advanced Placement Course Audit in partnership
with the Center for Educational Policy Research at the University of Oregon,
2007-
- Certified Reviewer of Art Studio Syllabi, Center for Educational Policy
Research at the University of Oregon, 2006
- Reader, Table Leader, Question Leader. and Exam Leader in Advanced Placement Art History, ETS, 2005-present
- Faculty Advisor, Kappa Pi Art Fraternity, Georgetown College 2004-2007
Recent Conferences/Presentations/Papers
- February 2008 College Art Association (CAA), Dallas, TX
Session Organizer and Chair with Dr. Craig Hanson, Calvin College
For Love and Delight: Amateurs, Dilettantes, and the Story of British Art
- October 2007 Southeast College Art Conference (SECAC), Charleston, WV
Session Organizer and Chair: Genius/Madness: Creative Achievement in the
Visual Arts
Paper: "Creativity, the Visual Arts, and Eminence"
- January 2007 Literature as Art Historical Sources Conference, Lexington,
KY
Paper: "The Post Creation Life of John Constable's The Hay Wain"
Presented at the Symposium on Artistic and Literary Sources for
Historians and Cultural Analysts at the University of Kentucky
Invited Lectures
- Guest Lecturer, Centre College, Danville, KY, “Recent British Art: A
State of the Field” as a guest lecture for Dr. William Levin’s course on
Nineteenth-Century French Art, January 2007
- 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
- Guest Lecturer, Hanover College, Hanover, IN, “Mass Appeal, Monuments,
or Misery: Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture” as part of the Humanities Lecture
Series, November 11, 2005
Selected Honors and Awards
- 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 September
2008