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Curriculum VitaeJeffrey R. HayesDept. of Art History |
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Jeffrey Hayes's research interests are early modernism in the United States, American folk art, and contemporary self-taught artists. His emphasis is upon the social context and theoretical issues pertaining to these subjects. His recent publications include essays on Carl McKenzie, Thomas Every (Dr. Evermor), and Prophet William J. Blackmon, and he is currently organizing an exhibition of 60 works selected from the Marilyn and Orren Bradley Collection of Twentieth Century Self-Taught Artists. EducationPh.D. (Art History) University of Maryland 1982 ScholarshipA. Books and Major Exhibition Catalogues Signs of Inspiration: The Art of Prophet William J. Blackmon (Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, 1999). Curator of exhibition; artist's first museum retrospective. Other venues: Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem State University; City Museum/ENVISION Folk Art, St. Louis; Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University. The Art of Carl McKenzie (Milwaukee, WI: UWM Art Museum, 1994). Essayist, editor of catalogue, curator of exhibition. Other venues: University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington; Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center, Portsmouth; Riffe Gallery of the Ohio Arts Council, Columbus. Common Ground/Uncommon Vision: The Michael and Julie Hall Collection of American Folk Art [Co-authored with Russell Bowman, Lucy Lippard, et al] (Milwaukee Art Museum, 1993), pp. 68-81, 97-125, 128-135, 136-141, 227-234, 264-269, 284-285, 309-330. Co-editor and curator of research for the exhibition. Other venues: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Phoenix Art Museum; Delaware Art Museum; Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center; Queens Museum of Art. Oscar Bluemner (Cambridge University Press, 1991). Oscar Bluemner: Landscapes of Sorrow and Joy (Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1988). Guest Curator of exhibition which was the artist's first museum retrospective. Other venues: Amon Carter Museum and New Jersey State Museum. B. Essays in Books, Catalogues, Periodicals "Imagination," "Black by Gold," Dr. Karen A. and Kevin W. Kennedy Collection Archive (New York, 2005), unpaginated. [Essays on paintings by Oscar Bluemner] "Painting the Unsung: An Interview with David M. Lenz," David M. Lenz: Urban and Rural Paintings of Wisconsin (Milwaukee: Charles Allis Art Museum, 2004), pp. 7-14. "Mona Webb: Behind the Moon Door [Mona Webb: Detras de la puerta de la luna]," Sister Stories (Milwaukee: Walker's Point Center for the Arts, 2004), pp. 4-8, 13-17. "Silver Moon," Dr. Karen A. and Kevin W. Kennedy Collection Archive (New York, 2003), unpaginated. [Essay on a painting by Oscar Bluemner] "From the Home to the Projects: Affirming Community in the Art of Prophet William J. Blackmon," ENVISION (The Missouri Journal for Folk, Visionary and Self-Taught Art), vol. 8, no. 1 (January 2003): 8-15. "Mona Boulware Webb: Queen of Willy Street," Folk Art Messenger (Journal of the Folk Art Society of America), vol. 15, no. 3 (Fall-Winter 2002): 7-9. "From the Heart: A Conversation about Collecting Folk and Self-Taught Artists" [and other short essays and checklist], Folk Art: The Orren and Marilyn Bradley Collection (Fish Creek, WI: Guenzel Gallery, Peninsula Art School, 2001), pp. 4-23. "Dr. Evermor's Machine on the Prairie: Art, History, and the Mirror Eye," The Southern Quarterly (Special Issue: Outsider Architectures), vol. XXXIX, nos. 1-2 (Fall-Winter 2000/2001): 112-135. "(Pre) Serving the Forever (Tron): A Site for History, Art, and Culture," Negotiating Boundaries: Issues in the Study, Preservation, and Exhibition of the Works of Self-Taught Artists (Sheboygan, WI: John Michael Kohler Arts Center and Kohler Foundation, Inc., 2000), pp. 46-52. "Gods Mountain of Peace" and "Prophet Blackmon and Wright Street Gallery: An Interview with Dean Olson," The Bottlecap, vol. 2, no. 1 (Summer 1999): 13, 24-26. "Oscar Julius Bluemner," American National Biography, vol. 3 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 66-67. "Charles Henry Caffin," American National Biography, vol. 4 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 175-176. "Power On! A Conversation with Dr. Evermor," The Bottlecap, vol. 1, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 8-9 and 12-13. "Carl McKenzie 1905-1998," Folk Art Messenger (Journal of the Folk Art Society of America), vol. 11, no. 3 (Summer 1998): 22. "City/Country: The Art Worlds of Prophet William Blackmon and Charles Kinney," The Bottlecap, vol. 1, no. 1 (Winter 1998): 8-11. "Dr. Evermor's Forevertron," Folk Art Messenger (Journal of the Folk Art Society of America), vol. 11, no. 1 (Winter 1998): 8-11. "Blanche and Henry Rosenberg: An Acknowledgement", in Folly, Hope, Redemption: Selections from the Blanche and Henry Rosenberg Colleciton of Modern Art (UWM Art Museum, 1997) Co-Curator of Exhibition. "FLORIANUS: The Artist Formerly Known As Oscar Bluemner," in Oscar Bluemner, American Modernist (New York: Barbara Mathes Gallery, 1997), pp. 1-4. "The Art Worlds of Prophet William J. Blackmon and Charles Kinney," in City/Country (Art History Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Art Museum, 1997), unpaginated. Curator of exhibition. "Oscar Bluemner," The Dictionary of Art, vol. 4 (London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1996), 177-178. "Lyonel Feininger," The Dictionary of Art, vol. 10 (London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1996), 861-863. "Maurice Sterne," The Dictionary of Art, vol. 29 (London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1996), 643-644. "Oscar Bluemner: Fall River and Radiant Night," in Addison Gallery of American Art, 65 Years: A Selective Catalogue (Andover, MA: Phillips Academy, 1996), 332-335. "Foreword," Modern Bias/Contemporary Viewpoints, The Maher Collection: A Portrait of Our Times (UWM Art Museum, 1996), 5. "Use to Beauty: The Artful Decoy," in Whistling Wings, Whittled Ducks, and Wetlands (Milwaukee Public Museum, l996), 1-7. "Oscar Julius (FLORIANUS) Bluemner," in Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon (Leipzig: K.G. Saur Verlag, 1995). "Carl Mckenzie: Life and Art of a Southern Highlander," and "Artworks by Carl McKenzie in the Exhibition," in The Art of Carl McKenzie (UWM Art Museum, 1994), 2-12, 32-37. Catalogue Editor and Curator of Exhibition. Other venues: University of Kentucky Art Museum, Southern Ohio Museum & Cultural Center, and Ohio Arts Council/Riffe Gallery. "Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938), Providence, Rhode Island, 1923," in Life Lines: American Master Drawings, 1788-1962 (Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1994), 100-101. "De-Fining Art History: The Hall Collection of American Folk Art," "Paintings," "Trade Figures," "Weathervanes," "Whirligigs," "Religion and History," in Common Ground/Uncommon Vision: The Michael and Julie Hall Collection of American Folk Art (Milwaukee Art Museum, 1993), 68-81, 97-125, 128-135, 136-141, 227-234, 264-269, 284-285. Contributor to "Artists' Biographies" and "Selected Bibliography," 309-330. Catalogue Co- Editor and Consulting Curator for exhibition. Other venues: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Phoenix Art Museum, Delaware Art Museum, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Queens Museum of Art. "Spirit From The Vessel," in Contemporary Studio Glass from the Collection of Janet and Marvin Fishman (UWM Art History Gallery, 1990), 2-8. Curator of Exhibition. "Theory & Practice: Hartley, Bluemner and the Expressionist Landscape," in The Expressionist Landscape, North American Modernist Painting, 1920-1947 (Birmingham Museum of Art/University of Washington Press, 1988), 88-96. "Jacqueline Richards," Art Muscle 1, no. 4 (March/May 1987), 22-23. "Oscar Bluemner," "Maurice Sterne," in The Advent of Modernism: Post-Impressionism and North American Art, 1900-1918 (High Museum of Art, 1986), 64-65, 164-165, 192. "Vincent Canade: `One Paints For Oneself', "in Vincent Canade: Pastel Still Lifes (UWM Art Museum, 1986), 2-5. Curator of Exhibition. "Oscar Bluemner: Romantic Modern," in Oscar Bluemner, A Retrospective (Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, 1985), 3-16. Curator of Exhibition. "Oscar Bluemner's Late Landscapes: 'The Musical Color Of Fateful Experience'," Art Journal 44, no. 4 (Winter 1984), 352-360. "Jennings Tofel: The Human Form," in Jennings Tofel (Ramapo College Art Gallery, 1983), 8-27. Curator of Exhibition. Other venues: UWM Art Museum and Hiram College (OH) Frohring Art Center. "Introduction," in Oscar Bluemner, The New Jersey Years: Drawings and Watercolors, 1916-1926 (Ramapo College Art Gallery, 1982), 5-9. Co-Curator of Exhibition. "Fashionable Paris," "Dieppe," "Panel Paintings from the Nineties," "The Canals of Venice," "Ideas From Giotto," "Cove and Vortical Motifs," "Good Figures," "Fragments and Extractions," "Large Figures," in Maurice Prendergast: Art of Impulse and Color (University of Maryland Art Gallery, 1976), 83-86, 99-100, 132-136, 150-158, 163-166, 173. C. Forthcoming Publications/Research In-Progress: "Black, Calvin and Ruby" [for Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, in-progress] Oscar Bluemner: Paintings & Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonne [in-progress] Georgia O'Keeffe, Paintings & Drawings: A Collection Guide [for Milwaukee Art Museum, proposal] D. Invited Lectures/Papers "God's Spaceship: A Film Screening and Conversation with Prophet William Blackmon," Discussant, Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, February 2007. "New Visions: MCFI Artists and Art History," Milwaukee Center for Independence, October 2007. "Tradition and Transformation: A Course Model for Diversity in the Arts," Annual Conference, Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs, Santa Fe, NM, October 2006. "Independent Artists" (videotaped interview), Milwaukee Center for Independence, August 2005. "Outsider Art? Bogardy and Blackmon," Supreme Scarifices: Outsider Art at a Crossroads (Symposium), North Carolina State University, Raleigh, November 2005. "Oscar Bluemner: Canonical/Outsider," The Canon? Celebrating American Art (Conference), New York University, May 2004. "Identifying Oscar Bluemner," Stetson University, Deland, FL, March 2004. "Mona Webb: Sister Stories," Panelist, Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI, March 2004. "Oscar Bluemner at the Whitney," Whitney American Fellows Workshop, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, March 2004. "Magical Flight in the Art of Tom Every/Dr. Evermor," Annual Conference, American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, GA, November 2003. "Elie Nadelman: Between History and Identity," Panelist, Whitney Musuem of American Art, New York, NY, May 2003. "Prophet, Queen, Doctor: Names without Margins," Annual Conference, College Art Association, New York, NY, February 2003. "Prophet and Queen: Spiritual Domain in Two Midwestern Self-Taught Artists," Symposium, 14th Annual Conference, Folk Art Society of America, Richmond, VA, October 2001. "3 x 3: Wisconsin and Kentucky Artists in the Orren and Marilyn Bradley Collection," Opening Lecture, Guenzel Gallery, Peninsula Art School, Fish Creek, WI, June 2001. "3 Dimensions: The Art of Prophet William J. Blackmon," Opening Lecture, City Museum, St. Louis, MO, May 2000. "(pre) Serving the Forever (tron): A Site for History, Art, and Culture," Negotiating Boundaries [Conference on Issues in the Study, Preservation, and Exhibition of the Works of Self-Taught Artists], John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI, March 2000. "Milwaukee's Prophet: Perspectives on the Art of William J. Blackmon," Opening Panelist and Moderator, Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, September 1999. "American Art in the Industrial Age, 1876-1917," Docent Lecture Series, Department of Education, Milwaukee Art Museum, April 1998. "Of Salvage and Sculpture, Dr. Evermor's Forevertron," Folk Art Society of America, 10th National Conference, October 1997. "The Pragmatic Paradigm: Copley, Eakins, and American Portraiture," Keynote Lecture, American Heritage Society Annual Dinner, Milwaukee Art Museum, February 1997. "Pictures, Patrons, and Politics: The Colonial World of John Singleton Copley, "Symposiummoderator and panelist, Milwaukee Art Museum, June 1996. "Oscar Bluemner: Day and Night," Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, April 1996. "1968: Vietnam, Minimalism, and the Grass-Roots Artist," Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin, April 1996. "Kentucky Walking Sticks: Plain and Fancy," Gallery Night Lecture, Instinct, Milwaukee, WI, January 1996. "Folk and Popular Culture in the Art of Carl McKenzie," Opening Lecture, Museum of Southern Ohio, Portsmouth, December 1995. "The Art of Carl McKenzie," Presenter/Panelist, University of Kentucky Art Museum, August 1995. "Whittles, Figures, Tableaux: The Carvings Of Carl McKenzie," Opening Lecture, UWM Art Museum, November 1994. "Mid-Twentieth Century American Modernist Painting," Valparaiso University Museum of Art, National Advisory Council Meeting, June 1994. "Folk Art and the Art Canon," Milwaukee Art Museum, Symposium: Common Ground/Uncommon Controversy, Perspectives on American Folk Art, April 1993. "American Paintings in the Layton Collection," Keynote Lecture, Milwaukee Art Museum Council Annual Meeting, November 1992. "Painters of the New Century--The Eight," Department of Education, Milwaukee Art Museum, September 1991. "Unpopular Pop," Opening Lecture, West Bend Gallery of Fine Arts, November 1990. "Art/Vietnam: Did `A Different War' Make Any Difference?," Exhibition Lecture Series, Block Gallery, Northwestern University, May 1990. "John Sloan Prints from the Stryker Bequest," Milwaukee Art Museum Print Forum, February 1990. "Landscape Without Words: Bluemner Paintings In Texas Collections," Opening Lecture, Amon Carter Museum, March 1989. "Regionalist Painting: Beyond 'Amiable Self-Satisfaction'," Symposium: Visions of the Midwest in the 1930s, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, February 1987. "Vincent Canade Rediscovered," Opening Lecture, UWM Art Museum, April 1986. "Rewriting Modernism In America: The Stephan Bourgeois Circle," Colloquium: UWM Center For Twentieth Century Studies, February 1986. "Matisse's Early Genius: Bonheur de vivre and Modernism," Lecture Series: Enigma of Genius, UWM/Philosophy Department, September 1985. "Western Sculpture and World War II," Department of Education, Milwaukee Art Museum, May 1985. "Jennings Tofel: The Late Work," Symposium: Passion and Prophecy, The Art of Jennings Tofel, UWM Art Museum, January 1984. "Jennings Tofel and Mystical Figuration," Mid-America College Art Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, October 1983. "Oscar Bluemner: Painting & Theory, " Fellows Lecture Series, National Museum of American Art, April 1981. TeachingDirector, Master's in Liberal Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2000- A. Specialties B. Courses C. Freshman Seminars D. Art History Seminars/Colloquia E. Liberal Studies Seminars F. 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