Elizabeth Simon
Professor of Art History and Humanities
ElizabethSimon@dcccd.edu

Master of Arts, 1983, The University of Texas at Austin
Major: Art History. Area of Specialization: 20th Century Art
Honors: Art Department Travel Scholarship, 1981

Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1977, The University of Texas at Austin, with High Honors
Major: Art History, Minor: Studio Art

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Adjunct Instructor, Art Appreciation, Art History, and Humanities, Eastfield College, Mesquite, Texas, January 2003 - present.

Curator/Exhibition Coordinator, Jane Ann Workman: Paintings/Drawings, 5501 Columbia, Dallas, Texas, 1993.

Editor and Consultant, "Art Smart" (manuscript in progress), 1993.

Exhibition Consultant, J.C. Penney Historical Museum, Plano, Texas, 1993.

Curator, J.C. Penney Historical Museum, Plano, Texas, 1992
Research, selection, and installation of archival material for museum exhibition.

Editor, The New British Sculpture: Selected Works from the Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Collection. University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, Texas, 1992.

Curatorial Assistant, Works on Paper, Dallas Museum of Art, 1989-1992
Curator of exhibitions; management of Works on Paper collection and Print and Textile Study Room and Storeroom; oversee all appointments to view works on paper; research, documentation, publications, educational materials, docent training, and correspondence; public presentations, gallery talks. Also general curatorial assistance in Old Master through 20th century works, as below.

Curatorial Assistant, Permanent Collection, Dallas Museum of Art, 1984-1989
Curator of exhibitions and curatorial assistance on exhibitions; general research, documentation, publications, and correspondence; gallery talks: Old Master through 20th century works, with focus on 20th century and contemporary art.

McDermott Research Assistant, Dallas Museum of Art, 1984.

McDermott Curatorial Intern, Dallas Museum of Art, 1983-84.
Social Science Humanities Research Assistant, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin, 1982.

Grading Assistant, Art History Department, The University of Texas at Austin, 1980-1982

Teaching Assistant, Art History Department, The University of Texas at Austin, 1979

Professional Development:
1995 Legal, Organizational, and Professional Issues in Teaching, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.
Elementary Education Curriculum, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.
1994 Introduction to Speech Communication, Richland College, Dallas, Texas.
Introduction to Computers, Richland College, Dallas, Texas.

Gallery Talks:
"Enduring Impressions: Selections from the Bromberg Print Gifts," Dallas Museum of Art, 1991
"Graphic Art of the Russian Avant Garde, 1903-1931," Dallas Museum of Art,

1991
"Rembrandt and Whistler: Master Prints," Dallas Museum of Art, 1990
"Now/Then/Again," Dallas Museum of Art, 1989
"Works on Paper: Recent Acquisitions," Dallas Museum of Art, 1988
"Robert Rauschenberg: Prints from Dallas and Fort Worth Collections," Dallas

Museum of Art, 1987
"Visions: James Surls, 1974-1984," Dallas Museum of Art, 1984
"Frank Stella: The Swan Engravings," Fort Worth Art Museum, 1984
"Picasso the Printmaker: Graphics from the Marina Picasso Collection," Dallas

Museum of Art, 1983
"The William J. Battle Collection of Plaster Casts." Michener Gallery, University of

Texas, 1981
Docent Gallery Talks, University of Texas Art Museum, 1978-1980

Additional Experience and Qualifications:
Senior Designer, Floral Department, Central Market, Dallas, April 2003 - present

Senior Designer, Zen Floral Design Studio, Dallas, Texas, January 2001 - March 2003.

Designer, Zen Floral Design Studio, Dallas, Texas, 1995-2000.

Studio Assistant, Zen Floral Design Studio, Dallas, Texas, 1993-95.

Freelance Assistant, Visual Department, Neiman Marcus, Dallas, Texas, 1993-94.

Selected Floral Highlights:
"Entertaining in Your Home," presentation to the Dallas Garden Club, March 23, 2001

"Flower Power," by Clare Miers Wall, The Dallas Morning News, March 30, 2001, pp. 1,4 (photo).

"Living Proof," by Tim O'Reilly, The Dallas Morning News, February 9, 1996, p 6G (photo).

Zen: A Floral Design Studio brochure, 1996, p. 3 (photo).
"Good Morning Texas," WFAA-TV, weekly table centerpieces, special occasion segments, 1996-97.

American Institute of Floral Designers National Symposium, Dallas, Texas, 1997
Problems and Practices in the Floral Industry, Richland College, Dallas, Texas, 1997

Advanced Floral Design, Richland College, Dallas, Texas, with High Honors, 1997

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Curator of Exhibitions:
1992 Documenting New York: Photographs by Berenice Abbott

1991
Impressions of Nature: Landscape Photography by Heidi Sherman (co-curated with Curator of Contemporary Art)
Cubism & La Section d'Or: Works on Paper 1907-1922 (coordinating curator)
New Photography from Mexico City (coordinating curator)
Enduring Impressions: Selections from the Bromberg Print Gifts

1990
Graphic Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1903-1931
Rembrandt and Whistler: Master Prints

1987 Works on Paper: Recent Acquisitions

1986 Robert Rauschenberg: Prints from Dallas and Fort Worth Collections

1979 Chromolithography in Britain, 1830-1900: Prints of the Arundel Society, Leeds Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin

Assistant to the Curator for the following exhibitions:
1989 Black Art Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African American Art (tour) (catalogue published)

1984-1989
Concentrations: one-person exhibition series of emerging artists including: Jenny Holzer, Luis Jimenez, Joe Guy, Nic Nicosia, Pat Steir, Matt Mullican, Mary Lucier, Vernon Fisher, Bert Long, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Kiki Smith, Gael Stack (brochures published)

1988 Now/Then/Again: Contemporary Art in Dallas, 1949-1988 (catalogue published)
From the Permanent Collection: Old Master Prints
Contemporary Printmaking: Hamon Fund Purchases, 1974-1988
Cindy Sherman (organized by the Akron Art Museum with additional loans)

1987
A Century of Modern Sculpture: The Patsy and Raymond Nasher Collection (tour) (catalogue published)
Elizabeth Murray: Paintings and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art and MIT Committee on the Visual Arts (tour) (catalogue published)

1985
Naum Gabo: Sixty Years of Constructivism (tour) (catalogue published)
Kazimir Malevich: Prints from the Permanent Collection
Recent Acqiusitions: Photography
Drawing Near: Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection (organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

1984
Visions: James Surls, 1974-1984 (tour) (catalogue published)
Pierre Bonnard: The Late Paintings (co-organized by the Dallas Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., and the Centre George Pompidou, Paris) (tour) (catalogue published)

1983
Picasso the Printmaker: Graphics from the Marina Picasso Collection (tour) (catalogue published)
Contemporary Printmaking: Hamon Fund Purchases,1974-1983 (brochure published)
(Unless otherwise noted, all exhibitions presented at the Dallas Museum of Art.)

Juror of Exhibitions:
"1993 Paris Art Fair," Paris, Texas, 1993

"33rd Annual Longview Invitational: Works on Paper," Longview Art Museum, Texas, 1992

Other

Publications:
Juror's Statement, Mike Kennedy, Longview Art Museum, Texas, 1993 (exhibition brochure).

Biography, exhibition history, bibliography, and checklist for 12 Concentration brochures cited above, 1984-1989.

Biographies of 14 artists, Black Art-Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African-American-Art, Dallas Museum of Art, 1989.

"Works on Paper: Recent Acquisitions,"Dallas Museum of Art Bulletin, Fall 1987-88, p.30.

"Rauschenberg Prints from Dallas/Fort Worth Collections," Dallas Museum of Art Bulletin, Winter 1986-87, p. 7.

Exhibition history and bibliography, Elizabeth Murray: Paintings and Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art and MIT Committee on the Visual Arts. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987, pp. 132-36.

"Morris Louis' Delta Kappa," Dallas Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin, Summer 1984, p. 17.

"James Rosenquist's Marilyn, " Dallas Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin, Summer 1983, pp. 12.

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