Creator, Artventures a Party Game on the Adventures of Art and Art History

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WORK EXPERIENCE

Creator, Artventures™--a party game on the adventures of art and art history

Freelance for Museums and Libraries, 2003-present

Project and Event Management

Consultant Team Leader, strategic planning grant to York Theatre Company, New York, 2011

Project Manager, Author Series, Maine Women Writers Collection, University of New England, Portland, 2007-8

Exhibitions Director, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH, 2006; planned and installed exhibits, 6000 sf gallery

Curatorial, Research and Writing

Catalog Copy for 2015 Yale Press Art and Architecture Books, 2015

Catalog Essays for Site Projects Digital Catalogue, 2014

Curatorial, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, 2013, researching collection for reinstallation and Coney

Island exhibition catalog

Curatorial, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, 2013, researching and writing object

labels for the permanent collection

Researcher, Catalogue Raisonné, Ed Ruscha, Drawings Volume, Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2011-12

Researcher, Delaware State Parks, wrote and narrated podcast and cell phone tour of historic site, 2009

Digital Humanities/Collections Management

Museum of the City of New York, inventoried and catalogued works on paper, 2012

Visual Resources Collection, University of Delaware, digitized and prepared metadata for over 500 digital

images of 146 American women artists working before 1945, 2010

Hagley Museum and Library, catalogued metadata of American architecture imprints for digital exhibition, 2009-10

Library of Congress, developed and delivered videoconference training for K-12 teachers on oral history, 2003

Corcoran Museum of Art, Archives, researched and conducted oral histories of faculty, 2003

Education, interactive talks and tours on American art and history

Part-time Faculty, Eastern Connecticut State University, Fall 2015

Part-time Faculty, Southern Connecticut State University, Section Leader, Survey, Fall 2015

Presenter for public groups, Connecticut Public Libraries, Wethersfield Historical Society, 2015

Artspace, City-Wide Open Studios, curator and guided tour leader, October 2014

New Britain Museum of American Art, Talk on Elizabeth Okie Paxton, October 2013

Featured in the “50x50” documentary about the Vogel Collection, released October 2013

Delaware Humanities Forum Speakers Bureau, Wilmington, DE, 2011

Designed and delivered diverse visitor tours for New York Historical Society, Delaware Art Museum, and

Winterthur Museum changing exhibits, 2008-2014

Previous Experience

Training, Coaching, Consulting, and Strategic Planning, private practice, 1991-2003, highlights include:

Custom programs on individual effectiveness for Federal government, non-profits, and professional associations

Served on the board of the American Society of Training and Development, Washington DC

VP Professional Development – designed and implemented multi-day, multi-track conference and 3 workshops, raising the most net profit in chapter history; supervised 25 volunteers

Director of Volunteers, increasing participation by 300%; recruitment, training, matching, and rewarding

Designed and implemented citywide calendar of training, City of Seattle

Needs assessment for national non-profit, professional association learning management system

Adjunct faculty at George Washington University, teaching capstone Practicum in Leadership Coaching

Author of The Integrity Moment: Making Powerful Choices in Life, published in 2001

Master Certified Coach; worked with hundreds of clients one-on-one to build leadership and communications skills

Marketing and Product Management, 1979-1991, highlights include:

Marketing Director, Brown & Haley, Tacoma, WA; staff and department management, policies, new product

development, budgeting, strategic planning, branding

Product Manager, Frito-Lay, Dallas; managed introduction of Cool Ranch Doritos

Account Executive, DBG&H, Dallas, account services and special events management, including Avon Tennis

Championships and Dallas Craft Market

Co-author of The Advertising Handbook, published in 1991; focusing on strategic positioning and branding

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ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

MA, Art History, Hunter College; thesis: Elizabeth Okie Paxton, January 2014

BA, Art History, University of Delaware, 2011

Woman of Promise, 2010, representing the Art History Department, awarded Certificate of Distinction

“Polished versus Coarse: Men’s Fashions in Colonial Portraits, Forging an American Identity” accepted for the 2011 International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Conference Poster Presentation

MS in Library Science, Catholic University of America, 2003; focus area digital humanities

Previous

PhD, Human and Organizational Studies, Union Institute and University, dissertation “The Integrity Moment”

MS, Organizational Behavior, Case Western Reserve University

MBA, Southern Methodist University

BA, English, Washington University in St Louis

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

“Ellis Ruley: Art that Celebrated Life,” ConnecticutHistory.org, January 2016

http://connecticuthistory.org/ellis-ruley-art-that-celebrated-life/

“Florence Griswold’s Home: A Story of Perseverance and Community,” ConnecticutHistory.org, August 2015

http://connecticuthistory.org/florence-griswolds-home-a-story-of-perseverance-and-community/

“Modern Girls by Two Modern Artists: Sophonisba Anguissola and John Singer Sargent,” Paper presentation and publication, National Coalition of Independent Scholars, June 2015

“Finding Her Way” essay series in Art Times Journal print and online editions:

“Isabel Bishop’s New Vision: Social Mobility Beyond the Separate Spheres,” Winter 2015

http://arttimesjournal.com/art/Art_Essays/winter_15_rena_tobey/isabel_bishop.html

“Florine Stettheimer and Picnic at Bedford Hills: Subverting the Public Spheres,” Fall 2015

http://www.arttimesjournal.com/art/Art_Essays/fall_15_rena_toby/florine_stettheimer.html

“Transported to the Public Sphere: Theresa Bernstein and “In the Elevated,” Summer 2015

http://arttimesjournal.com/art/Art_Essays/summer_15_rena_tobey/theresa_bernstein.html

”Marie Danforth Page: Out of the Shadows,” Spring 2015

http://arttimesjournal.com/art/Art_Essays/spring_15_rena_tobey/marie_danford_page.html

“Alice Barber Stephens: Emerging Ways of Living & Working,” Winter 2014

http://arttimesjournal.com/art/Art_Essays/winter_14_rena_robey/alice_barber_stephens.html

“Lilly Martin Spencer and War Spirit at Home,” Fall 2014

http://arttimesjournal.com/art/Art_Essays/fall_14_rena_tobey/lilly_martin_spencer.html

“Elizabeth Okie Paxton and The Breakfast Tray,” Summer 2014

http://arttimesjournal.com/art/Art_Essays/summer-14-rena-tobey/elizabeth-okie-paxton.html

Wikipedia page on Elizabeth Okie Paxton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Okie_Paxton

SPECIALIZED COURSEWORK AND COMPUTER SKILLS

Publications, Museum Studies online MA program, Johns Hopkins University, Fall 2011

Collections Management, Registration, and Exhibition Design courses, NYU, Fall 2011

Experience with FileMakerPro, Argus, Access, ContentDM, TMS, Photoshop, digitizing, and scanning

Developed and maintain www.renatobey.com and blog with WordPress

Daily use of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, on both Mac and PC platforms

RECENT COMMUNITY SERVICE

Grants Reviewer, Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, 2015

Planning Committee Member, New Haven Reads Spelling Bee fundraiser, 2015

Narrator for broadcast, CRIS Radio and Gatewave, serving the visually impaired, 2006-current

Mayors Community Arts Grant Program Panelist, City of New Haven, Arts, Culture & Tourism, Summer 2014

Juror, Delaware Horticultural Center gallery for 2011 exhibits, 2010

Evaluator, Delaware Division of the Arts, events and grant panels, 2009-2011

Curator, Rose Marcus Tobey art estate; solo exhibition Thompson Fine Arts, TVAA benefit auction, 2004-2005