Jessica Dandona

 Jessica Dandona

Jessica M. Dandona

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Biography

Lamar University - Art History


Resume

  • 1998

    Architectural History

  • 1994

    Art History

    Art History

    PhD

    History of Art

    University of California

    Berkeley

  • 1992

    BA

    Art History

    French Studies

  • 000

    Director of the Dishman Art Museum

    Responsible for curating exhibitions

    fundraising

    grant writing

    collections development

    community outreach

    educational programming

    and staff management at a university art museum serving a student population of 14

    with 6

    000 square feet of exhibition space and ten annual exhibitions.

    Lamar University

    Minneapolis College of Art and Design

    Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

    Professor of Art History (Liberal Arts)

    Created and taught intensive composition course on Art Nouveau (History of Art R1B) and worked individually with students to improve skills in writing and critical analysis.

    UC Berkeley

    Research Assistant

    Research Assistant to Dr. Loren Partridge. Assisted with preparation of course materials and secured research materials.

    UC Berkeley

    Tour Guide

    Composed and led private group tours for exhibition of portrait miniatures

    \"Micropainting.\"

    Berkeley Art Museum

    Visiting Instructor

    One-year full-time visiting appointment in art history

    with responsibility for teaching five courses and for advising independent study projects.

    Wake Forest University

    Graduate Student Instructor

    Graduate student instructor for HA11

    “Introduction to Western Art.\" Planned and led discussion sections and graded coursework for 60 students.

    UC Berkeley

    Research Assistant

    Research Assistant to Dr. Roger Benjamin

    working at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Selected and secured loan of photographs for exhibition \"Renoir and Algeria\" held at Clark Institute.

    Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

    Graduate Student Instructor

    Graduate Student Instructor for History of Art 11

    “Introduction to Western Art.\" Planned and led discussion sections and graded coursework for 60 students.

    UC Berkeley

    Weekend Supervisor

    Restored and managed collections database of over 5

    000 works and revised outdated docent manual and trained docents at local historical museum.

    Alamance County Historical Museum

    Research Assistant

    Research assistant to Dr. Darcy Grimaldo-Grigsby in Paris

    France. Performed archival research in Paris collections

    focusing on images of Egypt.

    UC Berkeley

    Minneapolis College of Art and Design

    Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

    Full-time permanent position teaching six graduate and undergraduate courses per year and advising art history minors.

    Assistant Professor of Art History

    Tenure-track position teaching four courses per year and advising thesis students in addition to responsibilities as Director of the Dishman Art Museum.

    Lamar University

    Research Assistant

    Research assistant to Dr. Darcy Grimaldo-Grigsby in Paris

    France. Performed archival research in Paris collections

    focusing on images of Egypt.

    UC Berkeley

    Research Assistant

    Assistant to Dr. Darcy Grimaldo-Grigsby. Edit

    proofread

    and correct French translations for manuscript of upcoming book and correspond with museums and private collections to obtain images for publication.

    UC Berkeley

    French

    German

    Italian

  • PastPerfect

    cataloguing

    Public Speaking

    Museums

    Editing

    History

    Art Exhibitions

    Writing

    Proofreading

    Research

    Teaching

    Grant Writing

    Tour Guide

    Curating

    Dandona

    I am currently Professor of Art History in the Liberal Arts Department at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in Minneapolis

    MN. My book

    Nature and the Nation in Fin-de-Siècle France: The Art of Emile Gallé (Routledge) appeared in 2017. My research interests include 19th-century French art and visual culture

    scientific and medical imagery

    gender

    and colonialism. \n\nSpecialties: teaching

    research

    writing

    Jessica M.

    Alamance County Historical Museum

    Minneapolis College of Art and Design

    UC Berkeley

    Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

    UC Berkeley

    UC Berkeley

    Wake Forest University

    UC Berkeley

    Lamar University

    Berkeley Art Museum

    Full-time permanent position teaching six graduate and undergraduate courses per year and advising art history minors.

    Minneapolis College of Art and Design

    Graduate Student Instructor

    Graduate student instructor for History of Art 180C

    “The Spectacle of Modernity.\" Planned and led discussion sections and graded coursework for 60 students.

    UC Berkeley

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