Academic
- 1988-current AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, Washington, DC
- Professor of Art, 1994-current
- Department Chair, 1990-2001
- Associate Professor of Art 1988-1994
- 1996-current AMERICAN UNIVERSITY STUDIO ART PROGRAMS IN ROME,
- FLORENCE AND UMBRIA, Founding Director
- 1986 - current THE CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION, Chautauqua, New York
- Artistic Director, Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution
- 1979 - 1989 THE NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL, New York City
- Program Director 1980 - 1985
- Summer Session Director 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984
- Faculty Chair and Board of Governors Chair 1981 - 1983
- Faculty member 1979 - 1989
- VISITING ARTIST/LECTURER/CRITIC (partial listing)
- Academia di Belle Art Pietro Vannucci (Italy)
- Riga Academy of Art (Latvia)
- America House (Munich, Germany)
- International School of Art in Umbria (Italy)
- Universidad Juarez Autonoma (Mexico)
- Pieve International School (Italy)
- The American University of Rome SACI, Florence
- Dartmouth College
- Cooper Union
- Syracuse University
- Skidmore College
- Boston University
- Harvard University
- Parsons School of Design
- Haverford College
- George Washington University
- Vassar College
- SUNY Stonybrook
- University of California, Davis
- Cleveland Institute of Art
- Tyler School of Art
- Alfred University
- Bard College
- George Mason University
- Wellesley College
- The New York Studio School
- West Virginia University
- Georgetown University
- Pennsylvania State University
- Connecticut State University
- Pennsylvania College of Art & Design
- ...and others
- SYMPOSIA:
- The Visual Arts: Where Are We Now?
- The Chautauqua Institution
- Elaine King, Curator, Professor of Art and Critical Theory, Carnegie Mellon University
- Clayton Merrell, Associate Professor of Art, Carnegie Mellon University
- Saul Ostrow, Dean Cleveland Institute of Art
- Don Kimes, Painter, Professor of Studio Art, American University
- De Kooning: Generational Perspectives
- (in conjunction with National Gallery of Art de Kooning exhibition) –
- Louis Finkelstein, artist/critic
- Irving Sandler, art critic/author
- Barbara Rose, art critic/author
- Mark Stevens, art critic, Newsweek
- Don Kimes
- Architecture and Art – Interface? Competition?
- The Chautauqua Institution
- Gary Hulton, architect
- Barbara Rose, critic/art historian
- Tim Doud, artist
- Don Kimes, artist
- Artistic Expression and Social Responsibility
- Bratton Theater, The Chautauqua Institution
- Carl Kurlander, screenwriter for "St. Elmo's Fire", TV writer/producer
- Jay Lesinger, artistic director Chautauqua Opera has directed operas seen across the country and in Europe
- Mary Whitaker, musician and member of orchestra for Tony Award-winning musical "Thoroughly Modern Millie", Member of The American Composers Orchestra, STX Ensemble, Scott McVay, President, The Chautauqua
Institution, Founder Dodge Foundation, Advisory Board Storm King Art
Center and Don Kimes
- Modernism & Post-Modernism: Russian Art at the End of the Millennium
- Fondo del Sol Museum of Art, Washington, DC
- Marc Zuver, Museum Director
- Vitaly Komar, artist
- Don Kimes
- The Sculpture of Beverly Pepper
- Academy of Fine Arts, Perugia, Italy
- Beverly Pepper, sculptor
- Rossella Vasta, painter
- Don Kimes, painter
- Barbara Rose, art critic/author
- Edgardo Abbozzo, Director, Accademia di Bellas Artes Pietro Vannucci, Italy
- The University and the Arts
- Connecticut State University
- Robert Storr, contributing editor Art in America)
- Evelyn Smith, Member Connecticut commission on the Arts
- Martin Bresnick, composer, Yale University faculty
- Don Kimes
- Painting Outside Painting: Is There a Cutting Edge?
- In conjunction with the Corcoran Biennial.
- Robert Storr, MOMA Curator Contemporary Painting and Drawing
- Terrie Sultan, curator, Corcoran Biennial Exhibtion
- Barbara Rose, author/critic
- John Torreano, artist, painting chair NYU
- Leslie Wayne, artist
- Don Kimes
- The State of Arts Education in the US
- Syracuse University Lubin House, New York, NY
- Brent Assink, Executive Director, San Francisco Symphony
- Eric Gibson, Leisure & Arts Features Editor, The Wall Street Journal, former executive editor of ARTnews
- Brian Kulick, Artistic Director, Classic Stage Company
- Marlena Malas, Soprano, faculty Manhattan School of Music, Julliard, The Curtis Institute, and the Canadian Opera Center, and she joins the Washington Opera with Placido Domingo in the training of young artists
- Ethan McSweeny, awards and nominations include a 2001 Tony nomination, 2001 Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk awards for Best Revival
- Mario Mercado, Arts Editor of Travel + Leisure magazine
- James Oestreich, classical music editor for The New York Times
- Carlin Romano, literary critic
for the Philadelphia Inquirer
- Don Kimes
- What Happened to the Washington School?
- American University, Washington, DC
- Sam Gilliam
- Yuriko Yamaguchi
- Alice Denney, curator, founder Washington Museum of Modern Art
- Willem de Looper, curator, Phillips collection
- Barbara Rose, author/art critic
- Art in the Age of Information
- Dennis Ashbaugh, artist
- Al Held, artist
- Nik Williams, artist
- Barbara Rose, critic/author
- Peter Plagens, critic/author
- A Critical Dialogue: Dance and Painting Liz Lerman Dance Project
- Smith Wilkes Amphitheater, Chautauqua Institution Presentation
- including Kimes’ 96” x 240” mixed media on steel piece “Fragment”,
- in conjunction with Liz Lerman Dance Project of NYC.
- Why Landscape?
- Rackstraw Downes, painter
- Deborah Kahn, painter
- Don Kimes, painter
- Barbara Rose, art critic/author
- INCLUDED IN:
- Who’s Who in America
- Who’s Who in the East
- Who’s Who in American Art
- Who’s Who in Education
- EDUCATION:
- 1980 MFA, City University of New York, Brooklyn College
- 1977-1979 New York Studio School, New York City
- 1975-77 University of Pittsburgh Graduate studies in painting, printmaking, art history, philosophy.
- 1975 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Internship in works on paper division.
- 1971-1975 BA, Westminster College, Pennsylvania
- 1972 Universidad Ibero Americana, Mexico City
© Don Kimes 2009