Don Kimes

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