Recent Projects
 

2014, “New Albany’s “Museum”: Forging Place-Based Authenticity through Public Art,” a commissioned essay for the New Albany Public Art Project, published in print and e-format by the Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, IN; http://www.napublicart.org

 

2012, “A History of the Milward Collection” an essay in conjunction with A Passionate Pursuit: The Milward Collection publication and exhibition at the Anne Wright Wilson Fine Arts Gallery, Georgetown, KY, March 2 - April 20, 2012. Co-curator, exhibition catalogue author, and editor. ISBN: 978-0-615-59393-7

 

2009-2014, Creator, “Viral Voices: An Oral History Site” —a site dedicated to oral histories prepared by college students and/or histories from the past, but relevant to the college's history. See http://viralvoices.blogspot.com/

2012, Contributor, “Pass the Word: A Project of the Kentucky Oral History Commission, “ part of the “History of Georgetown College Collection.” See http://passtheword.ky.gov/person/dr-juilee-decker

 

2011, Bibliographic Essay, “The Making and Meaning of Public Art” commissioned by the American Library Association/CHOICE, CHOICE June 2011 vol. 48 no. 10 http://www.cro3.org/content/48/10/1827

 

2010, curator & essayist, Palimpsest: Georgetown College Faculty Art Exhibition at the Morrison Gallery at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College, Elizabethtown, KY. On view February 24-March 31, 2010. Offered opening remarks and published essay about the exhibition. See here.

Recent Funding

Select External Funding and Fellowships Awarded for Research
2012, Ballard Breaux Visiting Fellowship, The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, KY

 

External Funding and Fellowships Awarded for Projects, including Collections Stewardship

2013, Institute of Museum and Library Services and the American Alliance of Museums, MAP (Museum Assessment Program) Grant awarded to Georgetown College Art Galleries, approximate amount: $4,000.

 

2012, Heritage Preservation and the Smithsonian Institution, CAP (Conservation Assessment Program) Grant awarded to Georgetown College Art Galleries, approximate amount: $4,000.

 

2011-12, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) “Picturing America: Faces, Spaces and Places” Co-Author and Co-Director, with Mike Deetsch, of grant awarded to the Kentucky Historical Society, $73, 272.
 

 2011, Kentucky Arts Council, $5,000 toward planning of 2012 Public Art Symposium

 

1998-2002, author of more than $250,000 in grants from local, regional, and national agencies for the Outdoor Sculpture Conservation and Education Program at The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH, a 501[c]3 arts organization. Award amounts ranged from $500 to $50,000. Funders included: The Cleveland Foundation; The Ingalls Foundation; Holden Parks Trust; John P. Murphy Foundation; Early Settlers Association of the Western Reserve; First Energy; The S. Livingston Mather Charitable Trust; The Abington Foundation; Ohio Arts Council; Target Stores and the National Endowment for the Arts as part of SOS! Save Outdoor Sculpture!, a joint project of Heritage Preservation and the National Museum of American Art; Heritage Preservation, the Smithsonian Institution; Bernice & David E. Davis, Agnes Gund & Daniel Shapiro; and Peter B. Lewis.