I embraced a life-long study of art history in college, held short-term teaching assignments at UT-Austin, UT-Dallas and UT-San Antonio late in the period of my graduate work, then developed continuing education and community art history programming for Central Texans through Fine Arts Continuing Education at UT-Austin in the 1980-90s. I joined the Art Department faculty at Baylor in 1998 as a member of the Allbritton Art Institute.

For more about the Allbritton Art Institute, see www.baylor.edu/aai/splash.php

At Baylor, I teach an upper-level course each semester in nineteenth-century art.  Regular courses include European Art, Impressionism & Post-Impressionism, and American Art from Colonial Times to 1900; Special Topics have explored The Print in the 19th Century, The Life & Art of Edouard Manet, The Life & Art of Vincent van Gogh, and Four Great Art Cities in the 18th Century.  Each semester I conduct an Allbritton Field Study for qualifying advanced students to experience in-depth study and pursue individual projects. Recent AAI Field Studies have taken students to Long Island, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Amsterdam, England and Paris for studies focused on aspects of 19th-century art history. It is a pleasure to apply my art history travel experience to the creation of stimulating and fun field studies for art majors.  Each semester I also guide 150 “Intro” students through an art appreciation course, helping them discover ways by which art history will enrich their lives as productive adults and curious travelers.

As Art inSight Inc., www.artinsight.info, I conduct daytrips, lecture series, and study tours around the US and Europe. Although not involving academic credit, these programs include the material of college-level courses for interested, inquisitive adults.

I contribute my expertise in the history of 19th-century art and architecture to preservation and programming at the historic Neill-Cochran House Museum in Austin (Abner Cook, 1855; owned by the National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in The State of Texas), www.nchmuseum.org; and The Historic Waco Foundation, www.historicwaco.org.

PhD University of Texas at Austin
MA Ohio State University
BA The Colorado College