PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:  I am a figurative painter/printmaker living in Washington, DC. For more than thirty years, I have taught figure drawing and painting courses. I have also lectured on a broad range of art history topics at museums and universities. PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:      National Museum of American Art, The Smithsonian, Washington, D.C. National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C. Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts Dulin Gallery of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee Springfield Ohio Art Association Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio George Washington University, Dimock Gallery, Washington, D.C. Charlotte Printmakers Society, Charlotte, North Carolina Federal Reserve Bank, Richmond, Virginia Southeast Banking Corporation, Miami, Florida Carpenter Corporation, Richmond, Virginia SELECTED GALLERIES:      Marsha Ralls Gallery, Washington, DC 1999 - present Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1976-1995 Comus Gallery, Portland, Oregon Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee Galerie du Bois, Aspen, Colorado Spaightwood Galleries, Madison, Wisconsin Marsha Child Contemporary, Princeton, New Jersey SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS:      National Museum of Women in the Arts - 2002 Corcoran Faculty Biennial - 2000 Washington Print Club Biennale, The National Museum for Women in the     Arts - 1994 Still Life Now, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, Connecticut - 1989 International Print Biennale, Krakow, Poland - 1988 National Academy of Design Biennale, New York, N.Y. - 1984 and 1980 Salmagundi 50th Annual Juried Exhibition, New York, N.Y. - 1982 Boston Printmakers Annual, Purchase Award, Lincoln, Massachusetts - 1981 Charlotte Printmakers Annual, Purchase Award, Charlotte, N.C. - 1981 Dulin Gallery of Art, Purchase Award, Knoxville, Tennessee - 1980 Allentown Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania Society of American Graphic Artists, New York, N.Y. National Society of Painters in Caesin and Acrylic, New York, N.Y. Audubon Artists Annual, New York, N.Y. Hunterdon National, Hunterdon, New Jersey Print Club of Albany, Albany, New York GRANTS and AWARDS: 1982 Salmagundi 50th Annual Juried Exhibition, Cash Award for Printmaking 1981 Charlotte Printmakers Annual, Charlotte, N.C., , Purchase Award, Juror: Janet Flint 1981 Boston Printmakers Annual, Lincoln, Mass., Purchase Award 1980 Dulin Gallery of Art 14th Annual National Print & Drawing Exhibition,, Knoxville, Tennessee, Purchase Award, Juror: Ansei Uchima 1976 G.R.A.C.E. Bicentennial Juried Exhibition, Cash Award, Juror: Jane Livingston 1973-74   Rotary International Fellowship for one year of study in Florence, Italy 1971 Corcoran School of Art, Award for Drawing 1965 James R. Steers Award for General Excellence in Art, City College of New York 1961-65 New York State Regents Scholarship for four years of college TEACHING POSITIONS:      Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C., Faculty, Figure Drawing, 1997 to     present Mt. Vernon College, Washington, D.C., Adjunct Faculty, Painting, 1992 The New York Academy of Art, New York, Drawing and Art History, 1982 -     89 and Director of Continuing Education, 1987 - 88 Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, New York, N.Y., Adjunct     Associate Professor, Drawing, Painting, Basic Design, Art History,     1984 - 90 School of Visual Arts, New York, N.Y., 1988 New York University, New York, N.Y., Figure Drawing Instructor,     1986 - 89 Northern Virginia Community College, Loudoun Campus, Associate     Professor, Drawing, Painting, Basic Design, Art History, 1974 - 80 University of Maryland, School of Education, Supervisor of Student Art     Teachers, 1972 -73 American University, Adjunct Faculty, Figure Drawing Instructor, 1971-73 GUEST LECTURER:      National Gallery of Art, Department of Information, Lecture Series for     Volunteers, 2002 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Department of Museum Education, Lecture Series     1997 to present Art Seminar Group of Baltimore, Lecture Series, 2003 Kreeger Museum of Art, Washington, DC, Lectures, Docent Program, 2000 Created and delivered art history lectures to officers and staff of Quantum     Chemical Corporation Headquarters, New York, NY, 1989 - 1990 ART TOUR LECTURER / STUDY LEADER:      JOAN ROOT ART LECTURES & SEMINARS: Private Lecture Series for     selected groups and in my home Smithsonian Associates Tours & Seminars: have led two-week art tours     throughout Italy; Seminar Leader - French Impressionism and Italian     Renaissance at the National Gallery JOAN ROOT ART TOURS - Private Lecture Series and visits to museums     and galleries in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. EDUCATION: M. A. 1974   Printmaking (Etching and Color Lithography), minor: Renaissance Art, Villa Schifanoia Graduate School of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy (Dominican University) M. F. A. 1973 Painting, The American University, Washington, D.C.; Comprehensive Examinations: (1) History of Painting: 18th century to the present, passed with distinction (2) Materials and Techniques of Painting, and Theories of Art Criticism M. A. 1968 Secondary Fine Arts Education, The City College of New York B. A. 1965 Fine Arts, cum laude, The City College of New York PUBLICATIONS: Selected Articles for the Washington Print Quarterly:      "Drawings of Henry Moore", 2001 "Jacob Kainen Prints at the Portland Oregon Museum", 1994 "Redon and Ernst", 1988 "Creative Copies at the Drawing Center", 1988 "Raphael at the Morgan Library", 1987 "The Arrival", commissioned lithograph edition by Associated American Artists      Gallery, New York, N.Y. Drawings and/or covers for poetry books:      Pablo Neruda, The Stones of Chile, White Pine Press, 1986 Halldis Moren Vasaas, Selected Poems, White Pine Press, 1989 James Wright, Two Citizens, White Pine Press, 1987 James Wright, The Shape of Light, White Pine Press, 1986 James Wright, Moments of the Italian Summer, Dryad Press, 1976 CURATOR:      The Rock Creek Gallery, Washington, D. C., 1992 - 93 GRAPHIC DESIGNER:      Designed logo, signage, etc. for the PESCE Restaurant of Jean-Louis Palladin and Roberto Donna, 1992 - 93

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