maria elena buszek : curriculum vitae
Professor of Art History
University of Colorado Denver, Department of Visual Arts
Office: CU Bldg. 800G
Mail: Campus Box 177, P.O. Box 173364, Denver, CO 80217-3364
e-mail: maria.buszek@ucdenver.edu
phone: 303/315.7413
EMPLOYMENT
2010-present University of Colorado, Denver (Denver, CO)
[2022-present] Professor of Art History, College of Arts and Media
[2010-2022] Associate Professor of Art History, College of Arts and Media
[2010-present] Women’s and Gender Studies Faculty and Graduate Faculty in Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
2015 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute (Philadephia, PA)
Summer Programs in the Humanities for College and University Teachers, Drexel University
Faculty for “The Canon and Beyond: Teaching the History of Modern Design”
2002-2010 Kansas City Art Institute (Kansas City, MO)
Assistant Professor of Art History, School of Liberal Arts (2004-2010)
Special Instructor of Art History, School of Liberal Arts (2002-2004)
2000-2002 Santa Monica College (Santa Monica, CA)
Full-time Instructor of Art History, Fine Arts department
2000 Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA)
Curatorial Assistant, Department of American Art
1999 The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY)
Helena Rubenstein Foundation Intern, Department of Painting and Sculpture
1995-1998 The University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS)
Instructor of Art History, Introduction to Art History (1998)
Research Assistant: Special projects (1997-1998)
Graduate Teaching Assistant (1996-1997)
Graduate Research Assistant: Spencer Museum of Art Slide Library (1995-1996)
1994-1995 The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO)
Research Assistant to the Curator of American Art
EDUCATION
2003 Ph.D. with Honors, History of Art
The University of Kansas
1996 M.A., History of Art
The University of Kansas
1993 B.A., Art History and Mass Communication
Creighton University
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS AND CATALOGS
Current book project: Art of Noise: Feminist art and popular music since 1977
Gina Birch: In My Fucking Room. London: Gallery 46, 2022.
Sensitive Content. London: Unit London, 2022.
Karen Reimer: Sea Change. Chicago, IL: Monique Meloche, 2021.
Co-editor (with Hilary Robinson), A Companion to Feminist Art. Oxford and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Art History series, 2019.
“Great Offender and Realist Criminal,” in Caroline Coon: The Great Offender. London and New York: Tramps Gallery, 2019.
“CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES PUNK PUNK PUNK WOMEN WOMEN WOMEN,” in Design History Beyond the Canon, edited by Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, Victoria Pass, and Christopher Wilson. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
“Kate Kretz’s Lie Hole (2017),” in Fahrenheit 213. San Francisco: Arc Gallery and Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art, 2019.
“Women Consumers of Pin-Ups” in The History of Illustration, edited by Susan Doyle, Jaleen Grove, and Whitney Sherman. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.
Problems and Provocations: Grand Arts, 1995-2015. Kansas City, MO: Grand Arts, 2016. Author of entries “Fierce” and “Feminist.”
Danger Came Smiling: Feminist Art and Popular Music. Stamford, CT: Franklin Street Works, 2016.
“Media, Process, History: Craft Beyond Crafting,” in Nation Building: Craft and Contemporary American Culture, edited by Nicholas Bell. Washington, DC and London: The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art/Bloomsbury, 2015.
“Punk-Rock Futurist,” in Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2014.
“The Next Great Moment in History is Hers,” in Dorothy Iannone: Censorship and the Irrepressible Drive Toward Divinity. Zurich: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and JRP-Ringier, 2014.
“Radical Patience: The Work of Andrea Bowers,” in Andrea Bowers. Claremont, CA: Pomona College Museum of Art, 2014.
“Joyce Kozloff: Cradles to Conquest.” Glassboro, NJ: Rowan University Art Gallery, 2014.
“Workt by Hand: Roundtable Discussion,” in Workt by Hand: Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts, edited by Catherine Morris. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 2013.
“Eros and Thanatos: Surrealism’s legacy in contemporary feminist art,” In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States. Munich: Prestel, 2012. (See museum websites for the exhibition’s run at LACMA, Musee National des Beaux-Arts, Quebec, and Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City)
“’Her Life Was Saved by Rock and Roll’: Toward a feminist punk ethic/aesthetic,” in Punkademics, edited by Zack Furness. Brooklyn, NY: Minor Compositions/Autonomedia, 2012.
Editor and essayist, Extra/ordinary: Craft and contemporary art. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.
Mark Newport: Self-Made Man. St. Louis, MO: Laumeier Sculpture Park, 2010.
“Mothers and Daughters, Sluts and Goddesses: Mary Beth Edelson and Annie Sprinkle,” in It’s Time For Action (There’s No Option): About Feminism. Zurich: JRP-Ringier, 2007.
“‘Perma-wave:’ Bridging feminism’s generation gap,” in Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women, and Feminism. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholar’s Press, 2007.
Whitney Lee’s Power Craft. Austin, TX: Women and Their Work, 2007.
Charlotte Street Foundation: Ten. Kansas City: Charlotte Street Foundation, 2007. (Author of essays on Michael Converse, Gear, Peregrine Honig, Anne Lindberg, Seth Johnson, and May Tveit: Available online here)
Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2006.
“Pleasure/principle,” in Ghada Amer: Breathe Into Me. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2006.
Aidas Bareikis: The Guard of Sorry Spirit. Kansas City, MO: Grand Arts, 2006. (Available online here)
Charlotte Street Foundation Awards. Kansas City, MO: Charlotte Street Foundation, 2006. (Available online here)
“Allyson Mitchell: Desire and Dissent,” in Allyson Mitchell: Lady Sasquatch. Toronto, ON: Paul Petro Contemporary Art, 2005.
Contemporary Artists. 5 ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 2001. (Author of new entries on Vanessa Beecroft, Sophie Calle, Raymond Pettibon, Pipilotti Rist, and Cindy Sherman; update author for entries on Laurie Anderson, Balthus, Lynda Benglis, Annette Messager, and Mel Ramos.)
Editor (with Stephen Goddard) and essayist, Alberto Vargas: The Esquire Years. Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas (Fall 2001).
Toward an American Identity: Selections from the Wichita Art Museum Collection of American Art, Novelene Ross (ed.), Wichita, KS: Wichita Art Museum, 1997. (Author of essays on William Merritt Chase, Charles Demuth, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, and Carl Wuermer)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
Review of the book Experimental Filmmaking and Punk: Feminist Audio Visual Culture in the 1970s and 1980s, by Rachel Garfield (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2022), in MIRAJ: Moving Image Review and Art Journal 12, #1 (2024): 284-289.
Review of the book Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age, by Peyton Brunet and Blair Davis (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022), The Journal of American History 110, #3 (December 2023): 580.
“Breaking Boundaries: Keith Haring’s Bold Art Transcends Conventions at the Broad.” Santa Cruz Vibes 1, #1 (Summer 2023): 27-31.
Review of the book A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk & US Latinidad, by Richard T. Rodriguez (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2022), Punk & Post-Punk Journal 12, #1 (February 2023): 118 – 120.
Review of the book Pop Art and Beyond: Gender, Race, and Class in the Global Sixties, edited by Mona Hadler and Kalliopi Minioudaki (London: Bloomsbury, 2022), Woman’s Art Journal 43, #2 (Fall/Winter 2022): 54-56.
“‘We were living the video revolution’: An interview with Emily Armstrong and Pat Ivers,”Punk & Post-Punk Journal 10, no. 3 (December 2021): 487-501.
Review of the book Trans-Global Punk Scenes: The Punk Reader Vol. 2, edited by Russ Bestley, Mike Dines, Alastair ‘Gords’ Gordon, and Paula Guerra (Bristol, UK and Chicago, USA: Intellect, 2021), Punk & Post-Punk Journal 10, #2 (2021): 338-340.
“Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Lower East Side: Post-Punk Feminisms in New York City,” Punk & Post-Punk Journal 9, no. 3 (2020): 425-442.
Review of the book Amazons in America: Matriarchs, Utopians, and Wonder Women in U.S. Popular Culture, by Keira V. Williams (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019), Journal of American History 107, no. 1 (June 2020): 162-163.
“’Fantasies and Dissonance’: An Interview with Anne Bean,” Flash Art International #328 (November 2019-January 2020): 88-95.
“’The Great Offender:’ An interview with Caroline Coon,” in Punk & Post-Punk Journal 8, No. 1 (March 2019): 137-149.
“Moyra Davey,” Grove Art Online: Oxford Art Online. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press (2017).
Review of the book This Year’s Model: Fashion, Media, and the Making of Glamour by Elizabeth A. Wissinger (New York: NYU Press, 2015), Journal of American Studies 51, no. 2 (May 2017): 351-353.
“Contemporary Jewelry and Male Eroticism: Blank vs. Anonymous Faun,” “One on Two” series, No. 5, Art Jewelry Forum (17 July 2016).
“Art Critics’ Reading List: Maria Elena Buszek,” Artpulse magazine, no. 24 (Fall 2015).
“Punkademia” (review of the books Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music, edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz; Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, [twentieth-anniversary edition], by Greil Marcus; and Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation, by David A. Ensminger), American Quarterly 65, no. 2 (June 2013): 413-423.
“Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY Art, Craft and Design (book and film review),” The Journal of Modern Craft 5, no. 3 (November 2012): 359-364.
“Once More, With Feeling: Feminist Art and Pop Culture Now,” Artpulse magazine, no. 12 (Summer 2012): 16-19.
“’Necessary Positions’ in Feminist Art: A Conversation (Suzanne Lacy, Andrea Bowers, Maria Elena Buszek)” Art Journal 71, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 138-150.
“Labor is My Medium: Some perspective(s) on contemporary craft,” Archives of American Art Journal 50, no. 3-4 (2012): 66-75.
Guest editor and contributor (with Kirsty Robertson), Craftivism: A special issue of Utopian Studies 22.2 (Fall 2011).
Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (book review)” The Journal of the History of Sexuality 20, no. 3 (September 2011): 619-623.
“Mirror, Mirror: Joanna Frueh as Fairy Stepmother,” TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies 55, no. 2 (T210, Summer 2011): 104-113.
“Thinking through craft: A new wave of craft theory” (review of the books A Theory of Craft: Function and Aesthetic Expression, by Howard Risatti and Thinking Through Craft, by Glenn Adamson), Surface Design Journal (Fall 2009): 66-67.
“Emerging Voices in Context: Surface design and contemporary art criticism,” Surface Design Journal 33, no.1 (Fall 2008): 6-9.
“Women’s Work: WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (exhibition review),” The Journal of Modern Craft 1, no. 2 (July 2008): 293-297.
“Feminist history and ambivalence in the work of Nicole Cawlfield,” Photography Quarterly 94 (Spring 2007):12-17.
“Say Cheese(cake)! How pin-up girls of the day reflect changing ideals of womanhood,” American Sexuality (August 2007).
“Ma Jun’s (Pop) Cultural Revolution” (2007)
“The Revolution of Pink: Joanna Frueh in conversation with Tanya Augsburg, Maria Elena Buszek and Jill O’Bryan,” n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal no. 10 ( Fall 2002): 27-35.
“‘Oh, Dogma! (Up Yours!)’: Surfing the Third Wave,” Thirdspace: A Third Wave Feminist Journal 1, no.1 (July 2001).
“Waving Not Drowning: Thinking About Third Wave Feminism in the U.S.,” Make: The Magazine of Women’s Art, no. 86 (December 1999-February 2000): 39-40 (Click here for a PDF version of the article)
“Representing ‘Awarishness’: Burlesque, Feminist Transgression, and the 19th-Century Pin-up,” TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies 43, no.4 (T164, Winter 1999): 141-162
“War Goddess: The Varga Girls, WWII and Feminism,” n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal 6 (March 1998).
Regular contributor (1999-present), BUST Magazine: The Voice of the New Girl Order
INDEPENDENT CURATORIAL ACTIVITIES
2022 Unit London (London, England)
Co-curator (with Helen Beard and Alayo Akinkugbe), Sensitive Content
2019 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha, NE)
Co-curator (with Raven Chacon and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe), Inner Ear Vision: Sound as Medium
2016 Franklin Street Works (Stamford, CT)
Curator, Danger Came Smiling: Feminist Artists and Popular Music
2014 Simon Gallery (Omaha, NE)
Curator, Wanda D. Ewing: Self-Identity-History, A Retrospective
2014 National Women’s Caucus for Art/Gallery Nine5 (New York City)
Co-juror (with Anne Swartz), Identity
2010 Charlotte Street Foundation/La Esquina Gallery (Kansas City, MO)
Co-curator (with Jonah Criswell), Arrival/Departure
2009 Wignall Museum at Chaffey College (Rancho Cucamonga, CA)
Curator, Raised in Craftivity
2007 Greenlease Gallery at Rockhurst University (Kansas City, MO)
Curator, Raised in Craftivity
2007 Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art (Kansas City, MO)
Curator, Handymen and Girly Boys: Masculinity, Craft, and Culture
2006 Charlotte Street Foundation / Artspace (Kansas City, MO)
Curator, Charlotte Street Foundation Exhibition: 2006
2005 The Cube at Beco (Kansas City, MO)
Curator, Extra/ordinary: Fiber Artists Rethinking Art and Everyday Life
2001 The Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS)
Co-curator (with Steven Goddard), Alberto Vargas: The Esquire Years
SELECTED PANELS, PRESENTATIONS, AND VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS
March 2024 Presenter, “The ‘Transatlantic Intimacies’ of Post-Punk Feminism,” Women in Revolt: radical acts, contemporary resonances conference, Tate Britain and the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media, University of Westminster (London, England)
March 2024 Visiting Scholar, Torn Edges: Punk, Art, and Design Symposium, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (London, England)
December 2023 Keynote speaker, Writing Never Written: 2023 Art Writing Symposium, University of Nevada Reno, Nevada Museum of Art, and the Ozmen Institute for Global Studies (Reno, NV)
April 2023 Coordinator and Moderator, “Punk Feminisms and Film: Vivienne Dick and Rachel Garfield,” University of Colorado Denver/CU President’s Fund for the Humanities (Denver, CO)
February 2023 Presenter, “’Identity is the Crisis’: Punk feminisms,” College Art Association annual conference (New York, NY)
July 2022 Session chair/moderator, “Guérillères Talk: A conversation with Vivienne Dick and Claire Pajaczkowska,” Approaching Downtown: Avant-Garde Cultural Production in New York City, 1970s-1990s – An Interdisciplinary Workshop, The Centre for American Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art (London, England)
February 2022 Session co-chair (with Dr. Johanna Gosse), “”Signs o’ the Times”: Music and Politics in Contemporary Art, Parts I & II” College Art Association annual conference (Chicago, IL)
December 2021 Moderator, “Go Nighclubbing! Emily Armstrong and Pat Ivins,” University of Colorado Denver/Emmanuel Gallery (Denver, CO)
October 2020 Panelist, “David Bowie’s Blackstar,” Record to Record: A Monthly Book Club for Music, ArtHyve (Denver, CO)
October 2020 Visiting Scholar, School of Fiber Arts, Kansas City Art Institute (Kansas City, MO)
September 2020 Visiting scholar, Virtual Visiting Speakers series, Kent State University School of Art (Akron, OH)
March 2020 Presenter, “Danger Came Smiling: Linder Sterling and Punk Feminism,”Radical Materialities: Linder and Companion Histories conference, University of Cambridge and Kettle’s Yard (Cambridge, England)
February 2020 Discussant, “Amplifying Inclusion: Intersectional Feminism in Contemporary Curatorial Practice,” College Art Association annual conference (Chicago, IL)
October 2019 Gallery talk, “Caroline Coon in conversation with Maria Elena Buszek,” TRAMPS Gallery (London, England)
October 2019 Visiting speaker, Genders and Identities Research Group, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University (Loughborough, England)
October 2019 Panelist, “100% Women Initiative: A Companion to Feminist Art” (with Hilary Robinson, Felicity Allen, Alexandra Kokoli, and Amy Tobin), Richard Saltoun Gallery (London, England)
June 2019 Presenter, “Moderns Before Midcentury,” Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America, Denver Art Museum (Denver, CO)
March 2019 Bensussen Distinguished Lecture in the Arts, Chapman University Department of Art and Art History (Orange, CA)
March 2019 Guest Lecturer, Visiting Artists Program, University of Nevada-Reno Department of Art and Art History and Gender, Race, and Identity Program (Reno, NV)
February 2019 Presenter, “Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Lower East Side: Post-Punk Feminisms,” College Art Association annual conference (New York, NY)
January 2019 Panelist, Tara Donovan: FIELDWORK Panel Discussion, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver and University of Colorado Denver College of Arts and Media (Denver, CO)
July 2018 Presenter and moderator, “Dismantling the Gaze: A Visual Primer,” Inaugural event for the Dismantling the Gaze series, International Center of Photography (New York, NY) Click here for video of this presentation/panel
April 2018 Presenter, “Joe Strummer’s Silk-Stocking Sleeves: Feminism and Fashion in London Punk,” Museum of Popular Culture (formerly Experience Music Project) Pop Conference (Seattle, WA)
March 2018 Kendall College of Art and Design Annual Masters of Art in Visual and Cultural Studies Lecturer and visiting professor, Ferris State University (Grand Rapids, MI)
February 2018 Session co-chair/presenter (with Dr. Hilary Robinson), “The Collaborative Art of Publishing” College Art Association annual conference (Los Angeles, CA)
November 2017 Presenter, “Situationist fashion,” 3 Things: Any 3 Things series, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (Denver, CO)
November 2017 Faculty keynote, Inaugural CU-Denver Live! Art Showcase series, Auraria Library, University of Colorado Denver (Denver, CO)
September 2017 Presenter accompanying screening of Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, Breckenridge Film Festival (Breckenridge, CO)
September 2017 Moderator, “Art and Activism: A Tilt/West Roundtable,” 2017 Biennial of the Americas (Denver, CO)
April 2017 Panelist/presenter, “What is Politics? A Roundtable,” Museum of Popular Culture (formerly Experience Music Project) Pop Conference (Seattle, WA)
April 2017 Moderator, “The Politics of Sex and Consent,” Museum of Popular Culture Pop Conference (Seattle, WA)
March 2017 Guest lecturer/critic, University of Illinois Department of Art + Design (Champaign, IL)
March 2017 Visiting Professor, Visual Culture Studies Forum, California College of the Arts (San Francisco, CA)
February 2017 Session chair/moderator, “Marilyn Stokstad (1929-2016): A Memorial Roundtable,” College Art Association annual conference (New York, NY)
November 2016 Presenter, “Home is Un-dead: Sights and Sounds in Feminist Art, Music, Comix, and Film,” American Studies Association Annual Conference (Denver, CO)
November 2016 Moderator, “Artist Residencies at Research Institutions,” a2ru: Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities Annual Conference (Denver, CO)
June 2016 Guest lecturer, Spencer Museum of Art and KU Alumni Association, “Art on the Rocks,” University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS)
April 2016 Session Chair, “Wynne Greenwood/Tracy + The Plastics,” Experience Music Project Pop Conference (Seattle, WA)
August 2015 Presenter and panelist, “Beyond the Flower(s): Georgia O’Keeffe and feminist art history,” Georgia O’Keeffe in her Own Time and Place symposium, Colorado Springs Fine Art Center (Colorado Springs, CO)
April 2015 Visiting lecturer, Critical Studies Series, Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI)
March 2015 Presenter and panelist, “Critical Pleasures, Critical Risks: A Conversation about Art Criticism Today with Maria Elena Buszek, Patrick Greaney M.S. Dansey, and Guido Ignatti,” University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, CO)
October 2014 Guest lecturer, Virtual Visiting Artist Program, The University of Mississippi (Oxford, MS)
June 2014 Art Lecture Series, Workt By Hand: Women Weigh In, Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, CA)
June 2014 Visiting Scholar, Iaspis/Swedish Arts Grants Committee (Stockholm, Sweden)
March 2014 The Murray Pepper and Vicki Reynolds Pepper Visiting Artists and Scholars Endowed Lecture Series, Pitzer College (Claremont, CA)
March 2014 Gallery talk, Saints, Stars, and Selfies exhibition, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute (Kansas City, MO)
February 2014 Panelist, “Balancing Act: Art, Family, and Other Distractions” (Services to Artists Committee Session) College Art Association annual conference (Chicago, IL)
November 2013 Nora! and Friends Talk Contemporary Art [and Other Things], Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (Denver, CO)
November 2013 Guest lecturer/critic, Visiting-Artist Lecture Series, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (Minneapolis, MN)
September 2013 Guest lecturer, Graduate Lecture Series, San Francisco Art Institute (San Francisco, CA)
February 2013 Keynote speaker, Cluttered: A Symposium, University of Western Ontario (London, ON, Canada)
November 2012 Interviewer and moderator, “Media, Process, History: Craft Beyond Crafting (a conversation with Sonya Clark, Elaine Reichek, and Michael Strand),” Nation Building: Craft and Contemporary American Culture Symposium, Smithsonian American Art Museum and The Renwick Gallery (Washington, DC) (Click here for video of this session from the Nation Building symposium)
September 2012 Guest lecturer, Design and Craft Lecture Series, California College of the Arts (San Francisco, CA)
May 2012 Guest lecturer, Santa Monica College Department of Art (Santa Monica, CA)
April 2012 Guest lecturer/critic, CraftPerspectives Lecture Series and 2011-2012 Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Pacific Northwest College of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Craft (Portland, OR) (Click here for mp3 or streaming audio of this lecture)
March 2012 Presenter and panelist, “DIY and Craftivism,” Craft and the New Economy Symposium, Ontario Crafts Council and the Ontario College of Art and Design (Toronto, ON, Canada)
February 2012 Session Chair, “Necessary Positions: Intergenerational Collaboration in Feminist Art,” (Committee on Women in the Arts Session) College Art Association annual conference (Los Angeles, CA)
February 2012 Presenter and panelist, Inaugural RAW: Recognition of Women in the Arts Symposium, Norton Museum of Art (Palm Beach, FL)
November 2011 Interviewer, “Conversations with the artist series: Naomi Fisher’s Jungle Sweat, Roseate,” Vizcaya Museum (Miami, FL)
April 2011 Presenter and moderator, “Play List,” Feminism & Co.: Art + Sex + Politics, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (Denver, CO) (Click here to watch the MCA’s video highlights of the “Play List” speakers and performances)
April 2011 Guest lecturer and critic, University of Nevada, Reno Gender, Race, and Identity Program and Department of Art (Reno, NV)
March 2011 Guest lecturer, Women’s History Month: Our History is Our Strength, The Institute for Women’s Studies and Services, Metropolitan State College of Denver (Denver, CO)
March 2011 Guest lecturer, Colorado State University Department of Art and Art History (Fort Collins, CO)
February 2011 Coordinator/moderator (with Kat Griefen), “Sonic Art and Activism: Exploring the ties between feminist art and popular music,” with Damali Abrams, Kathleen Hanna,Lorraine O’Grady, and Shizu Saldamando, SoHo20 Gallery (New York, NY)
October 2010 Moderator (with Elissa Auther), “A Conversation with Joan Braderman, Lucy Lippard, and May Stevens” at Crossing Boundaries: A Symposium on Feminism and the Arts,Colorado College InterDisciplinary Experimental Arts (Colorado Springs, CO)
October 2010 Guest lecturer/critic, Department of Art and Art History, University of Nebraska (Lincoln, NE)
July 2010 Guest lecturer, “Women with Cameras,” PHOTOGRAPHIC: Anne Collier and Melanie Schiff, Salina Art Center (Salina, KS)
May 2010 Visiting professor, Cultural Studies Colloquium Series, Department of Cultural Studies, Columbia College (Chicago, IL)
March 2010 Keynote speaker, Women’s History Month Celebration, Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Duquense University (Pittsburgh, PA)
February 2010 Event chair/coordinator, The Feminist Art Project Special Sessions, College Art Association annual conference (Chicago, IL) (Digital video of sessions available here through TFAP)
February 2010 Presenter, “Extra/ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art”, College Art Association annual conference (Chicago, IL)
November 2009 Guest lecturer/critic, Department of Art + Design, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, IL)
November 2009 Guest lecturer/critic, Department of Art, Georgia College and State University (Milledgeville, GA)
May 2009 Featured lecturer, “Minding the Margins: Craft, criticism, and contemporary art,” International Surface Design Association conference, Off the Grid (Kansas City, MO)
April 2009 Keynote address, Rutgers University Women’s and Gender Studies Association conference, Whores and Halos: Female Sexuality and Popular Culture, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)
April 2009 Session chair/moderator, “The Handmade Effect/Affect: A roundtable on craft and contemporary art,” Midwest Art History Society annual conference (Kansas City, MO)
February 2009 Session chair/moderator, “Artists Converse on Feminism: Andrea Bowers, Cheri Gaulke, Catherine Opie” (The Feminist Art Project Special Session), College Art Association annual conference (Los Angeles, CA) (MP3 recording available through CAA)
February 2009 Allen R. Hite Art History Lecture, Keynote address for the 2nd Biennial Aegis Symposium: Imaging Desire, Speed Museum of Art and the Department of Fine Arts and Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville (Louisville, KY)
February 2008 Panelist, “Feminism and Popular Culture” (Women’s Caucus for Art Session), College Art Association annual conference (Dallas, TX)
December 2007 Visiting professor, Critical Studies Series, Producing Culture: Creators and Creativity in the Contemporary World, Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI)
November 2007 Panelist/guest lecturer, Beauty and the Blonde: An Exploration of American Art and Popular Culture, Mildred Lane Kemper Museum of Art, Washington University(St.Louis, MO) (Click here for a Kemper Museum video of the panel)
November 2007 Panelist/guest lecturer, Let Me Show You the World: The Sewn Drawings of China Marks, Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS)
July 2007 Presenter, “’Perma-wave’: Contributing third-wave scholarship to the feminist discourse,” National Women’s Studies Association annual conference (St. Charles, IL)
April 2007 Guest lecturer, Department of Craft and Material Studies colloquium, Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA)
March 2007 Visiting professor, Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas Gender Seminar (Lawrence, KS)
February 2006 Session chair, “The Impact of New Feminisms” (Women’s Caucus for Art Session), College Art Association annual conference (Boston, MA)
February 2006 Panelist, “Third Wave Feminists in Conversation,” Women’s Caucus for Art national conference (Boston, MA)
April 2005 Lecturer, “We Won’t Play Nature to Your Culture–The Photography of Naomi Fisher,” Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, MO)
September 2004 Performer/presenter, “Duets: Can you feel the love?” New, Two: Kansas City Art Institute Faculty Exhibition (Kansas City, MO) (Click here for artist’s statement and documentation)
February 2004 Presenter, “From Womyn to Grrrls: Fostering understanding between feminist generations,” College Art Association annual conference (Seattle, WA)
November 2001 Panelist/presenter, “Doing Feminist Art/Feminist Art Matters: Engaging Multiple Publics in Visual Cultures,” American Studies Association Annual Conference (Washington, DC)
October 2001 Guest lecturer, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, “War Goddesses: Women, World War II, and the Varga Girl” (Lawrence, KS)
February 2000 Session co-chair, “Learning in Mind and Body: Influential Teacher-Student Relationships” (CAA Committee on Women in the Arts Session), College Art Association Annual Conference (New York, NY)
August 1999 Lecturer, “Fame after Feminism: Feminist interpretations of the sexualized woman in popular culture,” The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY)
November 1998 Session co-chair/presenter, “Looking for Trouble: Reconsidering the Dangerous Woman in Art,” ArtsNow Conference, Subject to Desire: Refiguring the Body (SUNY-New Paltz, NY)
COURSES TAUGHT
Introduction to Art History: Prehistoric art to the present
Introduction to Art History: Prehistoric to Medieval Art
Introduction to Art History: Renaissance to contemporary art
Issues in Modern Art (Baroque to Postmodernism)
Baroque to Impressionist Art: Europe and the U.S.
American Art History: European colonies to WWII
Modern/Contemporary Art: Post-Impressionism to the present
Modernist Art
Contemporary Art: 1945 to the Present
Contemporary Art: 1960 to the Present
Expressionism: France, Germany, and Austria
Constructivism and The Bauhaus
Dada and Surrealism
High Art and Popular Culture
History of Modern Design
History of Book Arts: Gutenberg to the present
New Genres/New Media
Bernini to Fellini: The History and Visual Culture of Italy (study-abroad course)
Feminist Art and Theory
Gender in Contemporary Art
Gender, Art, and Popular Music since the 1960s
Postmodernism: Art and Theory
Methods in Art History
Art History Thesis
Arts Mentorship: Undergraduate Seminar in Contemporary Art and Professional Practices
SELECTED AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2022 University of Colorado President’s Teaching Scholar
Established in 1989 as a presidential initiative, the President’s Teaching Scholars Program endorses excellence in teaching by honoring faculty throughout the University of Colorado system’s four campuses whose work reflects excellence in both teaching and research. The awardee is granted lifetime PTSP membership in an active society of faculty across CU.
2019/2020 Distinguished Faculty Lectureship Nominee and Finalist
College of Arts and Media, University of Colorado Denver
2018/2019 Excellence in Teaching Award
College of Arts and Media, University of Colorado Denver
2019 Bensussen Distinguished Arts Scholar
Chapman University Department of Art and Art History (Orange, CA)
2018 Elizabeth D. Gee Memorial Lectureship Nominee
The Elizabeth D. Gee Memorial Lectureship Award recognizes and honors an outstanding faculty member of the University of Colorado for efforts to advance women in academia, interdisciplinary scholarly contributions and distinguished teaching
2015/2016 Faculty Research and Creative Work Award
For research and creative work, College of Arts and Media, University of Colorado Denver
2014/2015 Faculty Service Award
For academic and professional service, College of Arts and Media, University of Colorado Denver
2014 Elizabeth D. Gee Memorial Lectureship Nominee
2014 Faculty Recognition Award
For service to the University of Colorado Denver Academic Prioritization Committee, University of Colorado Denver Faculty Assembly and the Office of the Provost
2011-12 Lo Presti Prize: Best Essay Collection
Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art, Art Libraries Society of North America
2008 Craft Research Fund Project Grant
For Extra/ordinary: Craft culture and contemporary art, Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design
2007 Emily Toth Book Award
Honorable Mention, Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
2006 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award Nominee
Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture, College Art Association
2000 Gerald Kahan Scholar’s Prize Nominee
“Representing ‘Awarishness,'” American Society for Theatre Research
1999 CAA Professional Development Award
Honorable Mention, College Art Association
1999 Murphy Dissertation Travel Grant
Kress Foundation Department of Art History, The University of Kansas
1994-1999 All-University Fellow, Graduate Minority Opportunity Fellowship
University of Kansas Graduate School
1998 TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies: Student Writing Award
For “Representing ‘Awarishness’,” NYU Department of Performance Studies and The MIT Press
1996/97 Stokstad Teaching Award
Kress Foundation Department of Art History, The University of Kansas