Speaker, "Interpreting Dance,"
graduate summer program, Department of Dance,
Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas, June 16, 2010.
Keynote Speaker, "A Master Class," Kunst Werkt Symposium,
Academie voor Beeldende
Vorming, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 4, 2010.
Public Interviewee, "An Interview with Terry Barrett" by Hans de Hartog Jager,
Kunst Werkt
Symposium, Academie voor Beeldende Vorming, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 4, 2010.
Planning committee, "Critical Santa Fe," a national ceramics criticism conference, Santa Fe,
New Mexico, 2010.
Speaker, "Interpreting Art with Children,"
Visual Art Studies and Art Education, Spring
Lecture, University of Texas at Austin, February 4, 2010.
Juror of the Student Art Criticism and Writing Entries for the Ohio Governor's Youth Art
Exhibition,
Ohio Department of Education, Columbus, Ohio, November 2009.
Speaker, "Narratives and Art Interpretation,"
Department of Dance, Texas Women's University,
October 18, 2009.
Visiting Scholar, "Design Criticism,"
Cranbrook School of Art, Michigan, October 1, 2, & 3,
2009.
Speaker, "Art and Meanings,"
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, February 11, 2009.
Speaker, "Appreciating Life Through Art,"
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan,
January 26, 2009.
Presenter, "Interpreting Art,"
Netherlands Academy of Film and Television, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, January 13, 2009.
Juror, National Photography & Digital Imagery Competition 2008,
Palm Beach Community
College, The Gallery at Eissey Campus, Palm Beach, Florida, June 2008.
Keynote speaker, "Criteria for Judging Art,"
The Art of Collecting Art, Abu Dhabi, United Arab
Emirates, March 10, 2008.
Speaker, "Categories of Photographs,"
Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture & Heritage, Cultural
Foundation, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, March 10, 2008.
Inaugural “William Hollis Visiting Artist,”
Washington & Lee University, Fairfax, VA, February 4-8 2008
Painting critique
Washington & Lee University, Fairfax, VA, 2008
Art Critic-in-Education serving schools and communities throughout Ohio,
The Ohio Arts
Council, 1986-present.
Guest Critic, studio visits,
HISK, Antwerp, Belgium, November 17 & 18, 2007.
Inaugural Speaker for Visual Voices Professional Lecture Series, "Art Criticism,"
George Mason
University, Fairfax, Virginia, September 7, 2006.
Visiting Scholar, School of Interdisciplinary Studies,
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, March 6-
9, 2006.
Workshop Leader for In-service Teachers, "Art and Writing,"
Hope Arts High School and Rhode
Island School of Art and Design (RISD), Providence, Rhode Island, August 22, 2006.
Workshops on Criticism, Art Department,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan,
September 25 & 26, 2006.
Guest Lecturer, "Categories of Photographs, Personal Meanings," "Personal
Interpretation and Art Education,"
Free University of Brussels, Belgium, November
15 & 16, 2006.
Guest Speaker, "Making Informed Judgments,"
Culinary Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois,
May 27, 2005.
2005 Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist,
Goshen University, Goshen, Indiana, October 20
& 21, 2005.
Honorary Lecture, Arthur Brandon Humanities Lecture Series,
Alderson Broaddus College,
Philippi, West Virginia, September 26, 2005.
Visiting Scholar and Dorothy Liskey Wampler Eminent Professor recipient, Lecture "Art,
Interpretation, and Life,"
James Madison University, Harrisburg, Virginia, February 21,
2005.
Workshop Leader for In-service Teachers, "Responding to Art,"
ICARE Best Practices, Young
Audiences and Cleveland Public Schools, Cleveland, Ohio, October 26, 2005.
Honorary Lecture, "Art and Meaning,"
Arthur Brandon Humanities Lecture Series,Alderson
Broaddus College, Philippi, West Virginia, September 26, 2005.
Guest Lecturer, West Virginia University, Summer Institute of Teacher Education in the Arts
(SITE),
Morgantown, West Virginia, June 19-24, 2005.
Visiting Scholar,
Art Department, Western Michigan University, January 25-30, 2004.
Public Lecture, "Interpreting Photographs,"
The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran,
July 31, 2004.
Workshop Leader: three workshops "Photography Criticism," in conjunction with the "9th
Annual Iranian Photography Biennial,"
Tehran, Iran, July 28-29, 2004.
Annual Anderson Lecture, "Interpreting Art,"
Penn State University, September 28, 2004.
Keynote Address, "Principles for Interpreting Photographs," European Society for the
History of Photography,
Maastricht, The Netherlands, November 12, 2002.
Guest Professor, Invited Studio Critiques for Individual Artists, The Higher Institute for Fine
Arts (HISK),
Antwerp, Belgium, November 14-16, 2002.
Public Lecture, "Investigating Studio Critiques,"
University of Northern Illinois, DeKalb,
Illinois, September 25, 2001.
Guest lecture, "Reading Images in Visual Culture: Denotations and Connotations,"
National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan, December
12, 2000.
Visiting Critic,
Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, April 8-9, 1999.
Visiting Artist/Scholar,
the Lamar Dodd School of Art Visiting Artist/Scholar Program,
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, February 14-18, 1999.
Art Critic, Critic and Artist Residence Series,
Colorado State University, Fort Collins,
Colorado, September 14-18, 1998.
Department of Art Education,
University of Arizona, Tucson, Fall 1997.
The Center for Creative Photography,
Tucson, Arizona, Fall 1997.
Consultant to the Los Angeles Educational Partnership (LAEP),
1996-2000. (PDF)
Resource Faculty to the Getty/College Board project, The Role of the Arts in Unifying the High
School Curriculum,
Vancouver School of Arts and Academics, Lopez High School, 1996-
1999. (PDF)
The Getty Education Institute for the Arts,
Los Angeles, California, 1995-96.
The Academy for Art Education,
Tilburg, the Netherlands, Spring 1992.
Consultant to the Lincoln Center
Institute, New York City, 1992-1996.
Philosopher-in-Residence, Arts Unlimited,
Bowling Green State University, 1991.
"Ohio Art Criticism Open,"
Ohio Department of Education, Columbus, 2005, 2004, 2003.
"Pink Onions: Reflections on the Nostalgic Tenderness and Raw Pungency of Youth," national
art exhibition,
Bowling Green State University, January 16-February 8, 2002.
"Border to Border--In Color," national drawing competition-exhibition,
Austin Peay State
University, Clarksville, Tennessee, 2001.
Space Coast Art Festival,
Cocoa Beach, Florida, November 26-27, 1994.
"Artists Who Teach,"
University of Dayton, September 24-October 1, 1994.
"Cream of the Crop" art exhibition,
Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center, Portsmouth,
Ohio, June 1994.
Curator and catalogue author of an "American Pluralism: Artists from The Ohio State
University"
an art exhibition traveling to London, Antwerp, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Oslo,
Budapest, and Dresden, 1992-94.
7th Annual LCAG Photographic Exhibition,
Licking County Art Gallery, Newark, Ohio,
October 7 - 31, 1991.
"Art for Life 1991,"
Columbus AIDS Task Force, June 10-14, 1991.
"Coshocton Dogwood Festival: An Exhibition of Ohio Artists,"
Coshocton, Ohio, May 5- 27,
1990.
Arts in Education Advisory Panel,
Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio, April 9-10, 1990.
The Winter Park Arts Festival,
Winter Park, Florida, 1990.