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Gustavus Adolphus
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Minnesota Board of Teaching
Program Approval 2006 |
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Dr. Donald Myers |
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Minnesota Board of Teaching 1500 Highway 36 West, Roseville, MN 55113-4266
FACULTY VITA FORM
Name of Faculty Member: Donald Myers
Name of Institution: Gustavus Adolphus College
Title or Rank: Instructor Field: Art History Earned Degrees: List date earned, institution, and major and minor/supporting field for each degree earned.
(Please see attached vita)
Professional Experience: (including preK-12 teaching or administration and college/university experience): List name, location, dates, and field or function for each professional experience.
(Please see attached vita)
Assignment: Fill in percentages for all that apply. 100% Full-Time in Institution _____% Part-Time in Institution _____% Assignment in Education _____% Assignment Outside Education 21% Undergraduate Assignment _____% Graduate Assignment 79% Administration _____% Other (specify)_____________________
Load: (including teaching and administrative assignments): For Academic Year Full List course numbers, titles, and credits for each semester. Specify whether courses are undergraduate or graduate level. Fall Semester:
ART245, Renaissance and Baroque, 1 credit, undergraduate
Spring Semester:
ART102, Art History 2, 1 credit, undergraduate
Interim and/or Summer Sessions:
N/A
DONALD MYERS
Gustavus Adolphus College 800 West College Avenue St. Peter, Minnesota 56082 (507) 933-7071, 7171; email: dmyers @ gustavus.edu
CURRENT
Director, Hillstrom Museum of Art, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, June 2000 to present
Oversee all aspects of Museum function, including instituting policies; overseeing final phases of construction of new facility; planning and executing exhibitions, brochures and catalogues, and museum programming; overseeing museum publicity; supervising assistants and student guards
Instructor, Department of Art and Art History, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, January 2000 to present (also September 1998 to February 1999)
Teach introductory and upper-level art history courses; oversee student workers engaged in research projects or as teaching assistants; develop slides collection; participate in departmental planning; act as departmental representative for summer registration of incoming students; plan professional visits to colleagues in museums and other related institutions for senior seminar in art history; obtain funding for sponsorship of visiting guest lecturers
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Maryland at College Park
Advanced to candidacy June 1999 Dissertation in progress, entitled Realms of Reality in Renaissance Artistic Activity: the Dialogue Between Painting and Sculpture in Italy, 1450‑1550 Enrolled September 1994; completed course work December 1995; passed exams November 1996 Grade‑point average: 4.00 Honors: Graduate School Fellowship
Arts Center of Saint Peter, St. Peter, Minnesota, March 2000 to present
Treasurer of Board of Directors Oversee financial operating decisions; sign outgoing payments Member, Gallery Committee Assist in planning exhibitions and programs; write all press releases; assist with design of exhibitions graphics; assist in installation and desintallation of exhibitions
RECENT EXPERIENCE
University of Maryland Museum Fellowship, at National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., February 1999 to December 1999
Conducted research on specific objects in the Department of Italian Renaissance Paintings and the Department of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, for the pertinent Systematic Catalogue volumes Instructor, Department of Art and Art History, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, September 1998 to February 1999
Taught introductory and upper-level art history courses; conceived, developed and taught January-term course entitled “Images of Culture;” fully participated in departmental planning and discussion; assisted departmental chairperson with hiring and coordinating work done by outside consultants assessing College’s plan for new Art Museum, including naming and hiring of secondary consultant; obtained funding for sponsorship of visiting guest lecturer; coordinated juried exhibition sponsored by Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council at Shaefer Art Gallery (January 1999), and co-supervised installation and deinstallation of exhibition
Lecturer, Art Department, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., September 1996 to May 1997
Taught upper level art history courses; arranged visits to area museums, with tours led by both guest lecturers and myself; assisted in managing and improving departmental slide library
Contractual Author, Department of Sculpture/Department of Exhibitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., May 1996 to July 1996
Prepared scholarly justifications for loan requests for proposed exhibition of the sculpture and drawings of Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Contractual Lecturer, Department of Education, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 1996 to July 1996
Prepared and delivered gallery lecture on the relationship of the sculpture of Edgar Degas and Auguste Rodin to Impressionism, for members of the three sections of the National Gallery of Art's 1996 Summer Teacher Institute
Assistant Curator, Department of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., January 1990 to April 1996
Collaborated with department head in all curatorial matters, and served in her absence (including serving as acting head of the department, October 1993 to February 1994); collaborated in maintenance and presentation of collection; collaborated in locating, researching and presenting potential acquisitions to the Board of Trustees; collaborated in museum publications, including Systematic Catalogue volumes, sculpture summary catalogue, and gallery wall texts (see also publications list below); served on deputy director's focus exhibition committee, consisting of five curators who made preliminary consideration of focus exhibition proposals; served as official museum courier, overseeing safe shipment of works of art to and from other institutions; served as curatorial coordinator for exhibition The Currency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, January to March 1994; honors: awarded Robert H. Smith Fellowship and travel grant, to conduct research on Franciscan iconography in Italian Renaissance Art, October 1991; awarded Employee Incentive Award on three different occasions, including October 1992 for special donor development project beyond normal scope of duties
PUBLICATIONS AND LECTURES
Publications:
"The Hillstrom Collection: An Exhibition of Early 20th-Century American Art," exhibition brochure, Hillstrom Museum of Art, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, 2000 "Renaissance Sculpture Portraits Small and Large," The Medal, Number 34, Spring 1999, pp. 3-10 Entries for Encyclopedia of Italian Renaissance and Mannerist Art, Jane Turner, ed., London, 2000, vol. 1, pp. 155-156, 601 and vol. 2, pp. 1265-1266 "'Couleur' and Colour in the New Sculpture," Apollo, June 1996, pp. 23‑31 Entries for The Colour of Sculpture, 1810‑1940, exhibition catalogue, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 1996, pp. 140, 156-161, 166-167, 198-199, 230-231 Entry for Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art, exhibition catalogue, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Córdoba, Mexico, 1996, pp. 190-191 Entries for The Dictionary of Art, Jane Turner, ed., London, 1996, vol. 3, pp. 643-644, vol. 12, pp. 3-4, vol. 25, pp. 75-76 Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1994 Entries and biographies for The Currency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1994, pp. 157-158, 164-165, 182-185 Systematic Catalogue of the collection of medals, National Gallery of Art (in progress; in collaboration with J. Graham Pollard) Entries for National Gallery of Art, Washington (an illustrated handbook), Washington, D.C., 1992, pp. 284, 295 Entries for Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, exhibition catalogue, 1991, pp. 322-323, 438-443, plus supplement pp. 13-14 "Research on the Collection: Giovanni Beltrami, Scene in a Boudoir," Circle Bulletin (The Circle of the National Gallery of Art, Washington), Number Six, Spring 1990, pp. 16‑18 Entry and group essay in The Column Show: Metaphor and Motif, exhibition catalogue, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 1986 (unpaginated)
Lectures, Interviews and Introductions:
"The Sculpture of the Florentine Renaissance," lecture for Smithsonian Institution's Associate Program’s five‑part series on Florentine Renaissance art, Smithsonian Institution, July 1997 General gallery tour, National Gallery of Art, for members of Honors Program at University of Maryland at College Park "The Sculpture of Degas and Rodin as Related to Impressionism," gallery lecture given to participants of the National Gallery of Art's 1996 Summer Teacher Institute entitled "The Painting of Modern Life: French Impressionism and Post Impressionism," July 1996 Lecture and discussion on museum careers and graduate school, to art history majors, Gustavus Adolphus College, May 1996 "Masterpieces of Sculpture in the National Gallery of Art," guest lecture, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida, October 1995 [Introduction of Sunday guest lecturer Anthony Radcliffe], National Gallery of Art, December 1994 Curatorial speaker, press conference for exhibition The Currency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, January 1994 [Interviewed regarding Currency of Fame exhibition] cable television Channel 8, Fairfax, Virginia, January 1994 [Interviewed regarding Currency of Fame exhibition] Department of Education, National Gallery of Art, for broadcast on WGMS radio station, January 1994 Introducer, moderator and section leader for "pro seminar" on Currency of Fame exhibition, a scholarly colloquium in the exhibition space, January 1994 "Renaissance Bronzes in the National Gallery of Art," public gallery lecture, National Gallery of Art, November 1992 "Aspects of Renaissance Medals, Plaquettes and Small Bronzes ln the National Gallery of Art," gallery lecture to participants of the conference Art Museums and Educators: Partners in Excellence, National Gallery of Art, October 1992 Lecture on museum careers, to art history majors, Gustavus Adolphus College, May 1992 "Giovanni Cavino," conference on Renaissance sculpture, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, April 1992 "The Franciscans and the Inclusion of the Good Thief, St. Dismas in Depictions of Christ's Descent into Limbo," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1990
OTHER EDUCATION
Master of Arts in Art History and Museum Studies, May 1988, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Grade‑point average: 4.00 Languages: German, French, and Italian Comprehensive examination: high pass Thesis: Giovanni Bellini's "Christ in Limbo": Some Aspects Considered Honors: U.S.C. School of Fine Arts Fellowship; Dean's Merit Award; J. Paul Getty Memorial Scholarship
Bachelor of Arts, May 1983, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota
Majors in art history and accounting; minor in studio art Grade‑point average: 3.778 Honors: graduated Magna Cum Laude; Iota Delta Gamma Honor Fraternity
OTHER EXPERIENCE
Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland at College Park, September 1995 to May 1997
Assisted in teaching art history survey courses; conducted weekly presentations/discussion sections; assigned papers; graded papers and exams; prepared and delivered occasional lectures on behalf of Professors
Curatorial Assistant/Research Assistant, Department of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., September 1986 to January 1990
Conducted and coordinated technical analyses of Renaissance medals, and presented findings in form to be published in the Systematic Catalogue of medals; conducted art historical, biographical, and bibliographical research for various volumes of the National Gallery of Art's Systematic Catalogue, including those on maiolica, decorative arts, small bronzes, plaquettes, monumental Renaissance and Baroque sculpture, and French 19th-century sculpture; conducted research on prospective acquisitions; assisted in developing prospective exhibitions; conducted research for and made answers to public inquiries; assisted curators in all aspects of the curatorial function as required; served as curatorial coordinator for Donatello at Close Range (focus exhibition of full-sized transparencies depicting restoration of old sacristy of San Lorenzo, Florence, spring 1987)
Guest Curator, exhibition of Renaissance bronzes by Antico, organized by Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia, February 1990 to June 1992
Served as guest curator for unrealized exhibition of bronzes, including securing promises of important and difficult loans from owner institutions; planning and hiring additional catalogue authors; and approaching prospective exhibition venues and funding institutions
Preparator, The Seasoned Eye, exhibition sponsored by Modern Maturity Magazine, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Washington, D.C., September 1986
Served as preparator for deinstallation of exhibition and shipment of art works and exhibition materials to subsequent venue in Atlanta, Georgia
Gallery Assistant, Vincent Price Gallery, East Los Angeles Community College, Monterey Park, California, May to July 1986
Collaborated in design and execution of exhibition of permanent collection; devised inventory numbering system for permanent collection; conducted inventory, assigning acquisition number to each object; conducted research on collection in preparation for catalogue
The Column Show: Metaphor and Motif, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, June to July 1986
With group of eight colleagues, planned and executed all aspects of exhibition; maintained budget for exhibition, controlling all financial details of enterprise; produced individual essay for catalogue and contributed to group essay
Research Assistant for Dr. Carolyn Malone, School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, May to June 1986
Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, September 1985 to April 1986
Technical Coordinator, 1985 College Art Association Annual Convention, Los Angeles, California, February 1985
Auditor, Adrian Helgeson and Company, Certified Public Accountants, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 1983 to July 1984
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