Professional Activities

  • “Never a Day Without A Line: Drawing Foundations and Frontiers”. Panel discussion at the Art Students League of New York, in conjunction with the College Art Association Conference, February 15, 2013
  • Speaker,  “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where are we Going?”, The Art Students League of New York, Lectures & Programs Series, 2005
  • Speaker, “Symposium on the Teaching of Edwin Dickinson”, The Art Students League of New York, 2003. Panelists included Francis Cunningham, George Nick, Susan Smith.
  • Co-organized Tucker-Boatwright Festival of the Arts, “20th Century Reflections of Romanticism in Music, Poetry and the Visual Arts”, University of Richmond, 1994. Guests included composers Richard Danielpour and Nicholas Maw.
  • Co-organized Tucker-Boatwright “Distinguished Lecture Series in Art History”, University of Richmond, 1991. Lectures by art historians, including Norman Bryson, Suzanne P. Blier, Lewis Hyde, Richard Kuhns, Irving Lavin, and Sherman E. Lee.
  • Founder and Artistic Director of the “Realism Today” exhibition series at the Marsh Gallery, University of Richmond, 1989-1991.
  • Keynote address delivered on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition, “George Tooker:  Paintings and Working Drawings, 1947-1988,” Marsh Gallery, University of Richmond, 1989. (Researched and organized over 40 years of Tooker’s working drawings and preliminary studies.)