Professional Experience
Professor, Art Program, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY 1981-present
Fine Arts Division Chair, 2007-11; Drama Program Director, 2009-10
Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts, Louisville, KY 1989-91
Visiting Assistant Professor, Centre College of Kentucky, Danville, KY 1980-81
Instructor, Berea College, Berea, KY 1979-80
Visiting Artist, Carteret Technical College, Morehead City, NC 1978-79
Gallery Director, G. Walker Gallery, Columbia, SC 1976-78
Education
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC M.F.A. 1976 Painting/Drawing
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC B.F.A. 1973 Painting/Ceramics
Allied: University of Kentucky (1982); University of South Carolina (1973)
Grants
Kenan/Jones Grant for Faculty Development 2011, 2009, 2007, 2006, 2004-05, 2003, 1998, 1996, 1994, 1992, 1990, 1987.
Lexington Arts and Cultural Council Community Arts Development Grant 1995, 1990
Gallery Representation
Chapman Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY
Logsdon 1909 Gallery, Chicago, IL
Selected Exhibitions
Solo Joan Derryberry Gallery, Tennessee Technical University, Cookeville, TN 2010
Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY 2009
Mary Rezny Studio Gallery, Lexington, KY 2008
Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC 2007
Illinois Central College, Peoria, IL 2005
Vanderbilt University, Knoxville, KY 2004
Wingspan Gallery, Lexington, KY 2003
The Carnegie, Covington, KY 2003
Central Bank Gallery, Lexington, KY 2001
Morlan Gallery, Lexington, KY 1997
Lexington Public Library, Lexington, KY 1995-96
Berea College, Berea, KY 1995
Morlan Gallery, Lexington, KY 1993
Carnegie Arts Center, Covington, KY 1991
University of Tennessee/Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN 1990
Xavier Galleries, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH 1989
Giles Gallery, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY 1989
Rike Center Gallery, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH 1987
Group Renaissance Center, Dickson, TN 2010
Mary Rezny Studio Gallery, Lexington, KY 2010
Logsdon 1909 Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010, 2009
701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC 2009
AMoA 22nd Competition, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA 2009
Rockport Center for the Arts. Rockport, TX 2009
AMoA 21st Competition, Arlington Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA 2008
Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY 2008, 2006
Gallery 181, Lawrence, MA 2007
Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC 2007
Rocky Mount Cultural Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC 2007
Berea College, Berea, KY 2006
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 2006
AOM, Shelbyville, KY 2006, 2004
T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier, VT 2005
SCAA, Mableton, GA 2005
Wingspan Gallery, Lexington, KY 2004
Two-person, Chapman Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY 2004
Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY 2005, 2004
Northampton Art Center, Northampton, MA 2003
Three-person, Water Tower, LVAA, Louisville, KY 2003
Bradley University, Peoria, IL 2001
Chapman/Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY 2003, 2002, 2001
Morlan Gallery, Lexington, KY 2005, 1999-2002, 1994-96
Images Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996
ArtsPlace, Lexington, KY 2007, 2005, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998
Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston, GA 1999
Murray State University, Murray, KY 1998
Capitol Arts Alliance, Bowling Green, KY 1998
Water Tower/Louisville Visual Arts Association, Louisville, KY 2002, 1997
Giles Gallery, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY 1996
Morehead State University, Morehead, KY 1995
Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY 1995, 1994
Liberty Gallery, Louisville, KY 1995
Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation, Louisville, KY 1993
Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, Evansville, IN 1992
Liberty Gallery, Louisville, KY 1992
Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO 1992
Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH 1992
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR 1992
Lectures/Papers
Tennessee Technical University, Cookeville, TN, 2010; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2004; WUKY University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2003; 1998 MACAA Annual Conference, Lexington, KY; 1997 MACAA/SECAC Conference, Richmond, VA; 1995 SECAC Conference, Georgetown University, Washington, DC; 1992 School of Visual Arts Sixth Annual National Conference, New York, NY; 1986 Mid-American College Art Association Annual Meeting, Memphis State University, Memphis, TN; Transylvania University, 2009, 2006, 2003, 1999, 1993, 1992, 1990, 1987; Murray State University, 1998; University of Kentucky, 1998, 1992; Berea College, 1995, 1988; Eastern Kentucky University, 1993, 1989; Saint Mary’s College, 1992; University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 1990; University of Dayton, 1987; Centre College, 1986; Clarion University, 1984
Corporate/Institutional Collections
Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY; Central Bank and Trust Company, Lexington, KY; Transylvania University, Lexington, KY; Berea College, Berea, KY; Carteret Technical College, Morehead City, NC; Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Atlanta,
GA; Seibels, Bruce and Company, Columbia, SC; East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; South Carolina Museum Commission, Columbia, SC; Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Authored/Co-authored Publications
Horsetails 2010, Lexington Philharmonic Foundations, Welsh Printing, Louisville, KY; Retributions: Elections, Floods, and Wishing Wells,” Martha Gehringer and Jack Girard, Lulu Press, Lexington, KY; “Asensio Saez: A Reflection,” University of Murcia Press, Murcia, Spain, Spring Issue, 2008; cited in Antologia, Asencio Saez. Real Academia Alfonso X el Sabio, Murcia, Spain, 1996 (pages 15-16); “Asencio Saez Garcia: Symbiosis of Word and Image,” Literature, Film and the Other Arts in Modern Spain, Letras Peninsulares (co-authored with Dr. Veronica Dean-Thacker), Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, Spring Issue, 1995; Boda civil y otros cuentos. Asencio Saez Garcia, Real Academia Alfonso X el Sabio, Murcia, Spain (book cover collage), 1994; “Asencio Saez Garcia: la imagen y la palabra,” Literatura De Levante (co-authored with Dr. Veronica Dean-Thacker), edited by Francisco Javier Diez de Revenga and Mariano de Paco, CAM Fundacion Cultural, 1993; “Faculty Censorship in Colleges,” Kentucky English Bulletin, Winter, 1992; “Keeping Tabs on the Masquerade,” by Steve Lyon, Journal SEAMUS (a review of the Girard/Munn/Kilkelly collaboration), October, 1986; “Confinement and Isolation in the Art of Edward Kienholz,” Medical Heritage Journal, (co-authored with Dr. Ann Kilkelly), Jan/Feb, 1986.