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Education

Ph.D.  Art History

2006    University of North Carolina   Chapel Hill, NC

·     Major areas of specialization:  Twentieth-century American, African-American art, and art of the Black Diaspora, especially the Caribbean.

·     Additional specializations in museum studies, contemporary art, European modernism, South Asian art, and Haitian art. 

M.A.  Art History 

2001    University of North Carolina   Chapel Hill, NC

B.A.   Studio Art and Music (magna cum laude)

1998    Concordia College    Moorhead, MN

Professional Experience

Augustana University, Sioux Falls, SD

August 2020-present: Chair, Humanities Division

August 2016-2020: Chair, Department of Art and Anthropology

August 2015-February 2016: Interim Chair, Humanities Division

Fall 2013-present:  Associate Professor of Art and Director, Eide/Dalrymple Gallery

2007-2013:  Assistant Professor of Art and Director, Eide/Dalrymple Gallery

2006-2007: Instructor and Director, Eide/Dalrymple Gallery

Studio Art (Solo and Select Group Exhibitions) 

2021.  “A Garden Conversation: Prints and Drawings by Lindsay Twa,” solo exhibition. Washington Pavilion Visual Arts Center, Sioux Falls, January 11-May 9, 2021.

2020.  “19: Women Artists in Honor of the Centennial of the 19th Amendment,” group exhibition, Center for Western Studies, Sioux Falls, SD.  August 18-October 23, 2020.

       “Augustana Faculty Biennial and Class of 2020.” Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Augustana University, Sioux Falls, SD. September 10-October 10, 2020. (5 works exhibited)

2019. “South Dakota Governor’s 8th Biennial Art Exhibition,” juried exhibition, that will travel throughout the state of South Dakota in 2019-20: South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings; Dahl Arts Center, Rapid City; John A. Day Gallery, University of South Dakota, Vermillion; Washington Pavilion Visual Arts Center, Sioux Falls.

2018. “Women’s Work,” Cyrus R. Running Gallery, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN. August 26-September 28, 2018.  Opening reception, September 18, 2018.

       “Augustana Faculty Biennial.” Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Augustana University, Sioux Falls, SD. September 7-October 12, 2018.

       “Augustana Faculty.” EastBank Art Gallery, Sioux Falls, SD. October 2-26, 2018.

2017. “USD Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Conference Art Show,” Washington St. Arts Center, Vermillion, SD. March 23, 2017.

       “Forestate,” Flat Tail Press, 2nd four-state print exchange (Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota). One of seven printmakers selected to represent South Dakota.

2016. “The Matrix: Tri-College Portfolio Print Exchange.”  Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND. October 8, 2016-January 7, 2017.

       “Augustana Faculty Biennial.” Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Augustana University. November 17-December 15, 2016.

2015. “Augustana Faculty Biennial.” Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Augustana College. February 6-March 7, 2015.

       “{hero[(in)e]}: 15th Annual International Postcard Print Exchange.” Iowa State University. On view December, 2015.

2014. “Ink & Coffee: Augustana Printmakers Guild.” Coffea, downtown Sioux Falls, SD.  December 15-February 28, 2015.

2012. “Treasure Box: Celebrating the Collector’s Aesthetic through Acquired Objects.” Ipso Gallery of Fresh Produce Design Firm, Sioux Falls, SD. August-September, 2012.

Publications

Book:

·     Visualizing Haiti in U.S. Culture, 1910-1950 (Farnham: Ashgate Press, Spring 2014). ISBN 13: 978-1-4094-4672-9 (hbk) Re-issued in paperback through Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. ISBN 13: 978-1-138-24813-7 (pbk)
(Reviews:  Wendy Asquith in CAA.Reviews (September 3, 2015): http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/2472; Karen N. Salt in Journal of American Studies 50.1(February 2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021875815002522; José Gutiérrez in Visual Studies (Routledge, published online 22 January 2016): DOI:10.1080/1472586X.2015.1123954; Jerry Philogene in Journal of Haitian Studies 24.1 (Spring 2018): 175-183.)

Select Articles and book chapters:

  • ·     “The Rockefeller Foundation and Haitian Artists: Maurice Borno, Jean Chenet, and Luce Turnier,” Journal of Haitian Studies 26.1 (2020).·    

  • “From FESMAN ‘66 to FESTAC ’77: Competing Curatorial Strategies for African-American Art at Pan-African Festivals,” chapter in Exhibitions and Transnational Exchange: Art and Design, Borders and Boundaries from 1945, eds. Harriet Atkinson, Verity Clarkson, Sarah A. Lichtman (Bloomsbury Academic) (forthcoming 2021).

  • ·     “Revealing the ‘Trends and Confrontations’ of Contemporary African-American Art Through the First World Festival,” special issue, “Pan-African Festivals and Visual Culture: from the Dakar Festival of 1966 to Dak’Art 2016,” World Art (Thames & Hudson) 8.2 (2018). Print and online: https://doi.org/10.1080/21500894.2018.1479297

  • ·     “Thoughts of Haiti, Thoughts of Liberia: The Shifting Titles and Interpretations of Edwin White’s Thoughts of the Future.” American Art (University of Chicago Press in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum) 31.1 (Spring 2017): 72-97.

  • ·     « Développer les dialogues diasporiques : James A. Porter, Loïs Mailou Jones Pierre-Noël et l’écriture de l’histoire de l’art haïtien»  (“Developing Diasporic Dialogues:  James A. Porter, Loïs Mailou Jones Pierre-Noël and the Writing of Haitian Art History”), special issue “Visual Arts of Haiti,” Gradhiva: revue d’anthropologie et d’histoire des arts 21 (Musée du Quai Branly, February 2015).  Corresponding editor Carlo Célius, The National Centre for Scientific Research, France.

  • ·      “The Black Magic Island: The Artistic Journeys of Alexander King and Aaron Douglas from and to Haiti,” chapter in Haiti and the Americas:  Histories, Cultures, Imaginations, ed. Raphael Dalleo (University Press of Mississippi, 2013), 133-160.  (Reviews: Iliana Rosales-Figueroa in Cincinnati Romance Review 36 (Fall 2013):  229-232; Joanna Collins in Wasafiri 30.1 (March 2015): 91-93; Tammie Jenkins for Haiti: Then and Now (February 12, 2016): http://www.haitithenandnowhtn.com/2016/02/haiti-and-americas-reviewed-by-tammie.html; Edgardo Perez Morales in Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 112.4 (Autumn 2014): 659-660; Kate Ramsey in Journal of Haitian Studies 21.1 (Spring 2015): 198-202.)

  • ·      “Artists’ Statements at Work:  Visual Artists and the Julius Rosenwald Fund” (Special Issue, “Artists’ Statements:  Origins, Intentions, Exegesis,” eds. Natalie Adamson and Linda Goddard). Forum for Modern Language Studies 48.4 (September 2012): 421-436.

  • ·     “Jean-Jacques Dessalines:  Demon, Demigod, and Everything in Between,” Romantic Circles Praxis Series, special issue “Circulations:  Romanticism and the Black Atlantic,” editors Paul Youngquist and Fran Botkin (October 2011), published online <http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/circulations/HTML/praxis.2011.twa.html>. 

Exhibition catalogues and entries, reviews:

·     Book review:  Arts and Religions of Haiti: How the Sun Illuminates under Cover of Darkness, by LeGrace Benson in Journal of Haitian Studies 22.2 (Fall 2016): 159-163.

·     Editor, “Xavier Tavera: Stills and Motion,” exhibition catalogue, 48 pp. Sioux Falls, SD: Center for Western Studies, Augustana University, 2017.  ISBN 978-0-931170-69-0.  Catalogue designed by Augustana students Alex Meyer and Evan Richards. Funded in part by a grant from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation and the Augustana Mellon Fund.

·     “Why Are We?’ Carl Grupp:  A Retrospective Exhibition of a Life Half Finished.”  Exhibition catalogue, 120 pp.  Sioux Falls, SD:  Center for Western Studies, Augustana College, 2013.

·     “A South Dakota Original:  Robert Aldern,” exhibition catalogue, published jointly by Visual Arts Center at the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science and Eide/Dalrymple Gallery (spring 2008).  Served as organizing editor and essay contributor.

·     Diane J. Hisvark Eide:  an Appreciation,” in Diane J. Hinsvark Eide:  Visual Artist (Gallery Artezi, 2014): 9-13.  Published in print and online: http://issuu.com/artezi/docs/diane_book#

·      “RaVae Luckhart:  The Primacy of Expression.” Exhibition brochure.  South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, SD, 2013.

·      “Brahmani,” “Buddhist Worshippers Adoring the Wheel of Law,” “Garland Bearer in a Medallion,” and “Monkey on a Rooftop,” catalogue entries for Fashioning the Divine: South Asian Sculpture at Ackland Art Museum, Pika Ghosh et al. (Chapel Hill, NC:  Ackland Art Museum, 2006). Also published as online learning supplement::  http://www.ackland.org/art/exhibitions/fashioning_the_divine/supplement/

Select Conference & Research Presentations:

Haitian Studies Association, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. November 8-10, 2019. Paper: “Rasanblaj in the Archives: Haitian Artists and the Rockefeller Foundation.”

“From the First World Festival to the Second…and Beyond: African-American Art Exhibitions on a Pan-African Stage.” Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. January 25, 2018.

College Art Association, New York City, February 15-18, 2017. Paper: “From FESMAN ’66 to FESTAC ’77: African-American Exhibitions on a Pan-African Stage.” (Panel: Beyond Boundaries: Art and Design Exhibitions as Transnational Exchange from 1945. Chairs: Harriet Atkinson & Verity Clarkson, University of Brighton; Sarah Lichtman, Parsons School of Design.)

“The Performance of Pan-Africanism: from Colonial Exhibitions to Black and African Cultural Festivals,” International conference hosted by the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University. October 20-22, 2016. Paper: “Visualizing Pan-Africanism: Presenting African-American Visual Art at International Pan-Africanist Festivals.”

Invited speaker for the international symposium The Crossing/La traversée: Art in Haiti and the U.S., Pomona College Museum of Art and Claremont Graduate University. March 3-5, 2016.

Haitian Studies Association, Montreal, Québec, Canada. October 22-24, 2015. Paper: Loïs Mailou Jones Pierre-Noël and the Counter-Narratives of Early Haitian Art History.” (Panel: Demystifying Haitian Art on the Global Stage; chair, LeGrace Benson, Arts of Haiti Research Project.)

Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference, Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN. March 26-28, 2015. Paper: “The Ford Foundation, 1957-1974: A National Venture Capitalist in the Visual Arts.” (Panel: American Art; chair, Dr. Christina Chang, Minnesota Museum of American Art).

Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis. April 3-5, 2014. Paper: “Developing Diasporic Dialogues: James A. Porter, Loïs Mailou Jones Pierre-Noël and the Writing of Haitian Art History” (Panel: Art in the African Diaspora; chair, Dr. Olubukola Gbadegesin, St. Louis University).

American Studies Association Annual Conference, “Dimensions of Empire and Resistance: Past, Present, and Future.” San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 2012. Paper: “Thoughts of Haiti, Thoughts of Liberia” (Panel: “Violence, Politics and Cultural Expression: The Legacy of Haiti in the Nineteenth-Century U.S.; chair, Dr. Sarah Roth, Widener University).

“Haiti and the Americas: Histories, Cultures, Imaginations” Conference, Florida Atlantic University. October 21-23, 2010. Paper: “Alexander King’s Magic Island: an Artist’s Journey to and from Haiti.” (Panel: The Circulation of Vodou; chair, Dr. Sika Dagbovie, Florida Atlantic University.)

Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference, Joselyn Art Museum and Kaneko Center, Omaha, NE. April 8-10, 2010. Paper: “For the Well-being of Mankind”: The Julius Rosenwald Fund and African-American Artists” (Panel: African-American Artists in the Midwest; chair, Dr. Julia Myers, Eastern Michigan University.)

College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago. February 2010. Paper: “Lyle Ashton Harris’s Toussaint L’Ouverture: Haiti as Masquerade” (Panel: African American Art; chair, Dr. Kymberly Pinder, School of the Art Institute of Chicago).

Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO. April 2-4, 2009. Paper: “Loïs Mailou Jones and the Market Women of Haiti” (Panel: Twentieth-Century Art, Dr. David Cateforis, University of Kansas, chair).

Intersections: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Gender and Sexuality. University of Sioux Falls, SD. April, 2008. Paper: “Lyle Ashton Harris’s The Good Life: Performing Race, Performing Gender, Performing History” (Panel: “Constructions of Gender in Art and History”)

College Art Association Annual Conference, Dallas, Texas. February 2008. Paper: “Marketing Haiti: Imperialism, Primitivism, and the Golden Age of Tourism” (Panel: African American Art and Globalization: Critical Perspectives,” Dr. John Bowles, chair).

College Art Association Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts. February 2006. Paper: “Jean-Jacques Dessalines: Demon, Demigod and Everything in Between” (Panel: “Embodying Ideas: The Person as Political Instrument,” Drs. Laura Coyle and Nora M. Heimann, chairs).

Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Conference: “The Niagara Movement: Black Protest Reborn, 1905-2005.” The State University of New York at Buffalo. October 2005. (Panel: “Black Diaspora Expressions,” Professor Lori Johnson, chair).

Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art, National Gallery of Art and Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington D.C. April 2005. Paper: “Aaron Douglas’s Haiti: an Artistic Transition from Primitivism to Ethnography.”

College Art Association Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington. February 2004. Paper: “When Haiti was in Vogue” (Panel: “Rewriting Jacob Lawrence: A Proposition,” Dr. Richard J. Powell, chair).

Exhibitions Curated (104 to date):

Curator:  “Summer Sketchbook Challenge,” “Augustana Faculty Biennial with Class of 2020,” “Land Images: Sculptures and Drawings by Brian Leo,” “High School Invitational,” “Return to the Floating World: Printmaking and Mixed Media Art by Johanna Mueller,” “Augustana Senior Show,” “Augustana Student Invitational.” Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Augustana University, September 2020-August 2021. [7]

Curator: “Jenny Bye: An Encaustic Connection,” “Life with the Arts: The Joel and Diane Eide Ceramics Collection & Paintings and Drawings by Diane Eide” (Sedona, AZ), “Rick Johns: Materials,” “High School Invitational,” “Selections from the Carl Grupp Permanent Art Collection,” “Melissa Borman,” “Augustana Senior Show” [became virtual exhibition with Zoom gallery reception]. Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Augustana University, September 2019-May 2020. [7]

Curator: “Augustana Faculty Biennial,” “Ever I Know: Anh Ta,” “Seeing Dakota: Collisions and Confluences (Sheila Agee and Ann Pederson) (grant South Dakota Arts Council Project Grant), “High School Invitational,” “Old Souls: Drawings by Jessica Boehman,” “Augustana Senior Show,” and “Augustana Student Invitational.” Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Augustana University, September 2018-August 2019. [7]

Curator: “A Viking Inside: The Art of David Wolter,” “To Reform: Artists Respond to the Reformation” (national call-for-art for 500th anniversary; grant: Lutherans in the Arts); “Richard Krueger,” “High School Invitational,” “Erica Merchant: Fossilized Reflections” (grant: South Dakota Arts Council Project Grant); “Ceramics by Carol Ceynowa and Travis Hinton,” “Augustana Senior Show,” and “Augustana Student Invitational.” Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Augustana University, September 2017-August 2018. [8]

Curator: “Len Davis: LifeLine: Artwork from three series that explores the balancing act of Life on the Line,” “School Yard Bets: Kat Burdine,” “Augustana University Faculty Biennial,” “High School Invitational,” “Xavier Tavera: Stills and Motion” (published catalogue pp.48, grants: Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation; Augustana University Mellon Fund), “Augustana Senior Show,” and “Augustana University Student Invitational.” Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Augustana University, September 2016-August 2017. [7]

Curator: “Ceramics by Jeffrey Oestreich,” “de la Mancha: Laster Out First: Sculptures and Community Collaborations by Bridget Beck” (grants: South Dakota Arts Council Project Grant, Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Spot Grant, and Augustana University Mellon Fund. Press coverage: Jill Callison, “Students Explore Who They are with Artist’s Assistance,” Argus Leader (October 16, 2015)), “The Rythms of Life: Paintings by Bruce Preheim,” “High School Invitational,” “Highlights from the Permanent Collection,” “Reciprocity: Handmade Cameras and Photographs by Cedric Chatterley,” “Art Chose Us: Augustana Senior Show,” “Augustana University Student Invitational.” Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Augustana University, June 2015-August 2016. [8]

Curator: “Why Are We?: Carl Grupp, A Retrospective of a Life Half Finished” (catalogue), “Wrapped Up: Paintings and Drawings by Audrey Stommes (’10),” “Creative Types: Graphic Design Invitational,” “Augustana High School Invitational,” “The Beginning Naturalist: Photography & Artist Books by Paula McCartney,” “Augustana College Senior Art Show,” “Augustana College Student Invitational Show.” Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Augustana College, September 2013-August 2014. [7]

Curator: “The Art of Editorial Cartoons” (sponsored by the North Central Chapter of the National Cartoonists Association and featuring the animations of the Washington Post’s Pulitzer prize-winner Ann Telnaes, who gave keynote presentation at closing gallery reception), “Sine Qua Non: The Ceramics of Domonique Venzant,” “Nordic Requiem and Other Dreams: Printmaking of Chad Nelson,” “Exploring Abstraction: Featuring Art from the Carl Grupp Permanent Art Collection of Augustana College,” “Fruit, Figures and Flora: Paintings and Pastels by Diane Hinsvark Eide,” “Augustana College Senior Art Show,” “Augustana Student Invitational Show.” Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Augustana College, September 2012-August 2013. [7]

Curator: “Augustana Faculty Biennial Exhibition,” “Talking to the Masses: Graphic Design and Advertising by Carrie Ammermann,” “Jay Duffin Olson: A Retrospective Celebrating the Life of a Sioux Falls Artists and Professor,” “Highlights from the Carl Grupp Permanent Art Collection of Augustana College,” “Earth’s Forces on Wax and Other Images: The Artwork of Linda Ackland-Kolb,” “Near Impunity: Drawings by Alice Leora Briggs,” “Augustana College Senior Art Show,” “Augustana Student Invitational Show.” Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Augustana College, September 2011-August 2012. [8]

Curator: “Ceramics from the Collection of Todd Thelen and Eric Dean,” “Augustana Art: Then and Now” (Gala 150th anniversary exhibition of 100 alumni artists, 220 artworks on display at Eide/Dalrymple Gallery and the Galleries of the Center for Western Studies), “A Kiel Mutschelknaus Retrospective: The Early Years,” “Michael Goro: Juxtapositions,” “Shallow Waters: The Art of Eleanor Spiess-Ferris,” “Augustana College Senior Art Show,” “Augustana Student Invitational Show.” Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Augustana College, September 2010-August 2011. [7]

Curator: “Augustana Faculty Exhibition,” “South Dakota College Art Association Faculty Exhibition,” “A Love for Three Oranges and Other Things: the Works of Mary Selvig and Martin Wanserski,” “On Bunny Hill: The Art of Chris Browne: Cartoons, Paintings, Drawings,” “Axum: The Art of Eyob Mergia,” “Termespheres: The Art of Dick Termes,” “Augustana College Senior Art Show,” “Augustana Student Invitational Show.” Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Augustana College, September 2009-August 2010. [8]

Curator: “Bridget Beck: Ships,” “Profiles, Passages and Other Abstracts: Recent Prints by Mark Lunning,” “The Tom and Gerry Show,” “Fritz Hirschberger: The Fifth Horseman Holocaust Paintings,” “Highlights from the Carl Grupp Permanent Art Collection including the photographs of Andy Warhol,” “Augustana College Senior Art Show,” “Augustana Student Invitational Show.” Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Augustana College, September 2008-August 2009. [7]

Curator: “Yang Yang—Recent Works,” “Metamorphosis: The Ceramics and Paintings of Carol Ceynowa,” “Be Visible: Graphic Design Exhibition,” “Augustana College High School Invitational,” “A South Dakota Original: Robert J. Aldern” (catalogue), “Dum Spiro Spero: Augustana College Senior Art Show,” “Augustana Student Invitational Show.” Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Augustana College, September 2007-August 2008. [7]

Curator: “Circle of Women: Paintings by Lorraine Sack,” “Ra Vae Luckhart—Recent Works,” “Leah Bestmann—Retreat,” “Grete Bodogaard—Weavings,” “Augustana College High School Invitational,” “George Prisbe and Dick Edie—Recent Works,” “Augustana College Senior Art Show,” “Augustana Student Invitational.” Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Augustana College, September 2006-August 2007. [8]

Co-Curator: “Reason & Fantasy in an Age of Enlightenment.” Exhibition of eighteenth-century artwork. Ackland Art Museum, January 20-April 21, 2002.

Curator: “Compositions: Images of Music and Dance from the Ackland.” Ackland Art Museum, June 3-July 29, 2001.