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Barbara Fontana Yontz, professor visual art 

St. Thomas Aquinas College, 25 Route 340, Sparkill, New York 10976
byontz@stac.edu       
  web sites:  www.barbarayontz.net                www.starwomb.com



PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, NY, 1/2006 --12/2017
  Associate Professor Fine Art                                                                          

Watkins College of Art & Design, Nashville, TN, 8/2001 - 12/2005
  Associate Professor Fine Art                                                              

Watkins College of Art & Design, Nashville, TN, 7/1997 -- 8/2001
  Instructor                                                        

In-Review, Nashville, TN, 4/00 -- 12/00
  Arts writer for weekly paper                                                                
  Wrote over 25 articles on art on various topics and artists including Sally Mann, Art of the American Depression, and Contemporary Video of Bill Viola, Zhang Huan, and Berry Flannigan, among others.                                                                                                        

EDUCATION

Vermont College, MFA in Visual Arts, 2004, Montpelier, Vermont
  Worked directly with artists Steve Kurtz, Lynda Benglis, Mel Chin, Laurie Palmer, Faith
  Wielding and arts writer Miwon Kwon.

Vanderbilt University, MA in Art History, 1999, Nashville, TN
  Full-tuition scholarship and stipend awarded.

University of South Florida, MA in Art Education, 1980, Tampa, Florida
  Graduate teaching assistantship awarded.

University of South Florida, BA in Painting, 1976, Tampa Florida

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, INSTALLATIONS AND PERFORMANCES

2012    Nashville, TN, No Going Back, Gallery 204, Vanderbilt University (solo show)

2011    Louis, MO, FATE Members Show, Mad Gallery, juried, March

2009    New York, NY, The Star Womb Project, Phase I: Monad to Nomad, Phoenix Gallery
               (solo show)  in collaboration with Daniel  W. Savin, astrophysicist.

               Mobile,  Alabama, Art in Academia, Space 301, Juried by Jason Clark

2008   Chicago, IL, Objects of Desire, Women Made Gallery, juried Claire Wolf Krantz,
               art critic Art in America, Sculpture Magazine and others.

               Hanover, ID, converging conversations, 3-person show juried, Hanover College 
               Gallery

2007    New York, NY, modernature, Lotus Space, curated by JerryDale McFadden

               Hamden, CT, Images of Peace, The Albert Schweitzer Institute at Quinnipiac
                University, Juried

                 Miami, FL, Deviant Behavior, Artforms Gallery, Juried

                 Toronto, Canada, Spring Salon, Lenox Contemporary Gallery

2006    Garnerville, NY, Beauty Mystery Magic, Garnerville Arts Project Gallery, juror, Tjok
               Gde Arsa Arths, October, performance

               New York, NY, Small Works, Organization of Independent Artists, September

2005    Huntsville, AL, Huntsville Museum of Art Triennial, Red Clay Survey, Juried, Elaine
               Spatz-Rabinowitz, June, catalogue

               Nashville, TN, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Fragile Species, curator, Mark Scala,
               June, catalogue. Signature work for the show.

2004    Nashville, TN, Tennessee Art Commission Gallery, Beyond Boundaries, juried two-
               person exhibition, November

               Louisville, KY, Louisville Museum of Art, Water Tower Annual, Juried by Matt Distel,
               Curator for the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, October

               Long Beach Island, NJ, "Toxic Landscapes", Long Beach Island Foundation of the
               Arts and Sciences, part invitational, part juried, July   

2002    Brunswick, Maine, "Cuba Revisited", Bowdin College, three-person exhibition

               Havana, Cuba, Biblioteca Nacional Jose Marti, "Toxic Landscapes", juror, Tim Blunk,
                Puffin Foundation  (This was the first ‘official’ exhibition of American artists in
                Cuba since the revolution), catalogue

                Teaneck, N J, Puffin Foundation Cultural Forum, juried exhibition

2001    Pittsburgh, PA, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Gallery, "Toxic Landscapes", juried
               exhibition

               Boston, MS, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, "Recuerdos de Cuba",   
              invitational

CONFERENCE PAPERS PRESENTED

Southeastern College Art Association Conference, Raliegh, NC, paper entitled, Making Art Work: In Defense of Lost Causes, panel on ‘The Art of Activism: How Artists Ignite Social Change’ October 2012.

Southeastern College Art Association Conference, Savannah, GA., presented a paper  entitled, Art at the End of Times: Capitalism, Marxism and Contemporary Art panel on Contemporary Art, 2011.

FATE (Foundations in Art and Theory Education) Conference, St. Louis, MO, host a panel entitled: Solid Ground or Shifting Sand, Foundations in Art and Technology, March, 2011

Southeastern College Art Association Conference, Mobile, Alabama, hosted a panel entitled: Matter. Memory. Media. Motion. October, 2009

Peace and Justice Education Conference, Columbia University, April 2009, presented a paper entitled, Solidly Social: Art as Integration, Participation, Disruption, in session Art and Social Change.

Southeastern College Art Association Conference, New Orleans, session on Sharing Experience: the Role of Memory in Art, paper entitled, “I’ve got you under my 
skin: Experience, Embodiment, Empathy”. September, 2008

College Art Association, session “Double Headed Creatures”, My paper is entitled Softening Boundaries Between Art Studios, History and Theory: A Fluid Approach, New York, 2007

Southeast College Art Association, session on Public Art, "Artists and Action in the
Community: A Collaboration Between Watkins College of Art and The Red Cross," Jacksonville, Fl. 2004

Popular Culture Conference, session on Unorthodox Teaching Methods in the Arts.
Paper entitled, "Art Practice, It's a Hell-Of-A-Lot-More Than Making  Something." Pedagogy for Fine Arts education, an integrative approach...history, theory and practice. New Orleans, LA  2003

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