(June 2017)
David Edward Harmon
davideharmonstudioartist.com/
Cell: 1.254.334.4491
Education:
1982 Master of Fine Arts, Painting, SVA, Penn State University, U. Park, PA.
1977 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, Webster University, St. Louis, MO.
Teaching Experience:
2012- Present Professor of Art, Howard Payne University,
Brownwood, Texas
Adjunct Professor, Central Texas College, Killeen, Texas
2008 – 2012 Associate Professor of Art, Sterling College, Sterling, Kansas
2005 –2008 Professor of Foundations Studies, the Savannah College of
Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
1990 – 2005 Chair/Associate Professor of Art (tenured), Bethel College, Mishawaka, IN.
2003 – 2005 Associate Faculty, Ball State University, Offender Education, Muncie, IN.
1989 – 1990 Visiting Painter, Keystone College, LaPlume, Pennsylvania.
1988 Visiting Lecturer, LIHE, Liverpool, UK
1985 – 1989 Assistant Professor of Art, Painting Area Head, SUNY Potsdam, NY
1984 – 1985 Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
1982 – 1983 Visiting Professor, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Ms.
Professional Experience:
2016 Conference paper given, The Studio Interface,
30th Annual National Conference of Liberal Arts
and the Education of Artists, New York, New York
Juror, student exhibition, University of Mary Hardin Baylor, Belton, Texas
Lecture, Mary Hardin Baylor University, Belton, TX.
2015 Conference paper given, Revealing Aesthetics
29th Annual National Conference of Liberal Arts
and the Education of Artists, New York, New York
Created concept, I-10 National Exhibition, Brownwood, TX.
2014 Conference Paper given, The Art Canon
28th Annual National Conference of Liberal Arts
and the Education of Artists, New York, New York
2013 Stars of Texas 8th Annual Paint-Off Competition Juror, Brownwood, TX.
Conference Paper accepted, 25th Annual National Conference of Art
and the Education of Artists, New York, New York
Panel creator
Paper presented, TASAConference, Houston ,Texas
2012 Conference paper accepted at The 7th Annual International Conference of
Arts and Education, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Juror, Art is Ageless Juried Art Exhibition, March 2012, Sterling, Kansas
2011 Panelist, paper given, Rock Art: No Borders
25th Annual National Conference of Art
and the Education of Artists, New York, New York
Panel creator, FATE-MACAA conference, St. Louis, Missouri, March 2011
Lecture, Permanent Professor Gallery, U.S. Air Force Academy, 2/17/11.
Awarded fellowship, summer 2011, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT.
2010 Public lecture, 11/15/10, On Drawing, at the Stringer Fine Arts center,
Hutchinson Community College, Hutchinson, Kansas
Panelist, paper given Visceral Vistas: Contemporary Landscape Painting
24th Annual National Conference of Art
And the Education of Artists, New York, New York
Juror, Scholastic Art Awards, Lyons, Kansas
2009 Panelist, paper accepted, Aftermath, 23th Annual National Conference of
Art and the Education of Artists, New York, New York
Artist residency Julia and David White Colony, Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica
Juror, scholastic art awards, Canton School District, Canton, Kansas
Panelist, paper accepted, AutomaticDrawing, the 22th Annual National Conference of Art, NewYork, New York
2008 Panelist, paper given Modernism and the Machine, 6th Annual Hawaii
International, Conference on Arts and Education, Honolulu, Hawaii
2007 Awarded Artist-in Residence Fellowship, Julia and David White Colony,
Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica, June 2009
Panelist, paper given, Seeing the Unseen, 21st Annual National Conference
of Art and the Education of Artists, New York, New York
Summer Swarm Drawing Workshops, Red Gallery, Savannah, Georgia
SCAD Pastel Workshops, Gould Academy, Bethel, Maine
AP Reader, Studio Art, College Board Advanced Placement Program and
Educational Testing Service, Kentucky International Convention Center,
Louisville, Kentucky
Fresno Pacific University, Fresno, California
2006 Lecture and painting workshop, Matanzas School, Palm Coast, Florida
Radio interview, 12.7.06, Savannah State University, Savannah, Georgia
Panelist and moderator, School of Visual Arts, New York, New York
Public Lecture, CMC, Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
Attended the C.A.A. conference, Boston, Massachusetts
2005 Juror, NIIA Exhibition, South Bend Museum of Art,South Bend, Indiana.
2004 Artist-in-Residence, Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Woodstock,New York
2003Visiting Artist, Jentel Artist Residency (summer session), Banner, WY.
17th Annual Conference on Art and the Education of Artists, New York,NY
Lecture and workshop, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana.
2002 Panel moderator and discussant, Drawing Power: Contemporary Drawing, MACAA Conference, and Lincoln, Nebraska.
2001 Paper accepted: Spiritual Sojourners in Twentieth Century Art, 15thannual, National Conference of Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, School of Visual Arts, New York, New York.
Panelist, paper given: Comparanda, Southeastern Art Conference, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, October, 2001.
Juror,Watercolor Competition, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN.
2000Panel Chair, MACAA Conference, Louisville, Kentucky.
Lecture,Department of Art and Design, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
1999Pastel Workshop, John Young School, Mishawaka, Indiana.
Panel member, presider, National Conference on Liberal Studies and the Education of Artists, School of Visual Arts, New York, New York.
Visiting Artists Montana Artists Refuge, Basin, Montana.
Public Lecture, University of Great Falls, Great Falls, Montana.
Lecture and Workshop, Kishwaukee College, Malta, Illinois.
1998Panel moderator, Mid-America College Art Association Conference, Lexington, Kentucky.
Lecture and Workshop, Spring Arbor College, Spring Arbor, Michigan.
Juror, Art Festival, Plymouth, Indiana.
Attended College Art Association conference, Toronto, Canada, February, 1998.
1997Co-moderator, Alternatives to Modernism in Painting panel, M.A.C.A.A. Conference, Richmond, Virginia, October, 1997.
Studio workshop and lecture, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, October, 1997.
Juror, Northern Indiana Artists Association, Annual Exhibition, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana, September, 1997.
1996 Panel Moderator/Discussant, the New Crossroads of Continents: Distance
Delivery via the Information Superhighway, National Council of Art
Administrators, Anchorage, Alaska, October, 1996.
Painting Commission, River Park U.M. Church, Bend, Indiana.
Juror, Other Side of the Lake Competitive, Gallery1, New Buffalo, MI.
Coordinator and group counselor, Bethel College Study Trip, Italy, March, 1996.
1995 Coordinator, Group Leader, Bethel College Study Trip, France and Spain
Chair, Mid-America College Art Association Panel, Small Art Department Concerns and Panel Member, Art Department Self-evaluation, Indianapolis, Indiana, October, 1995.
Attended International Conference on Visual Arts and Religious Communities, July 31-August 4, 1995, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California.
Co-juror, Main Street Showcase of Art, Elkhart, Indiana.
1994Coordinator and group counselor, Bethel College Study Trip, Italy and Greece, March, 1994.
Co-juror, Elkhart Summer Art Festival, Elkhart, Indiana.
Attended National Council of Arts Administrators Conference, November, 1994.
1993Arranged painting workshop/exhibition, Tim Lowly, November, 1993.
Juror, Elkhart Art League Annual Show, November, 1993.
Arranged discussion between artist Frank Schaeffer and Bethel College art students, Bethel College, Mishawaka, Indiana, and March, 1993.
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Collegiate Press, Alta Loma, California, to evaluate current drawing texts.
1992Panel Member, paper given: Studio Art Curriculum in the University: the Right Fit in a Panoply of Disciplines, Schools of Visual Arts' Sixth Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and The Education of Artists, NYC, October, 1992.
Coordinator and group leader, area study trip, Bethel College, London, England, March, 1992.
1991Panel Member, two panels: What Really Counts: Issues in Tenure and Promotion and Open studio issues, S.E.C.A.C. Conference, Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee, and November, 1991.
Panel Moderator, Small Art Department Concerns Panel, C.I.V.A. Conference, Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Arranged lecture of writer Gene Edward Veith, Bethel College, Mishawaka, Indiana.
Attended College Art Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
Juror, Ninth Congressional District Art Committee, New Albany, Indiana.
Lecture and Workshop, University of Scranton, Art Department, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Lecture and Workshop, Art Department, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois.
1990Attended College Art Association Annual Meeting, New York, New York.
Juror, Scholastic Art Awards, the Times Newspaper Building, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Public Lecture, Passaic College, Patterson, New Jersey.
Arranged lecture of painter Joel Sheesley, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois at Bethel College, Mishawaka, Indiana.
Public Lecture, Bethel College, Mishawaka, Indiana.
Arranged Artist-in-Residence for Chen Ning Er, Painter from Hangzhou, China and Director of Zhejiang Oil Painting Research Society, spring semester, 1990, Keystone Junior College, LaPlume, Pennsylvania.
1988 Lecture and Workshop, North Stratfordshire Polytechnic at Stoke-on-Trent, UK.
Public Lecture, North Cheshire College, Warrington, UK.
Public Lecture, the Bluecoat Secondary School, Liverpool, UK.
Public Lecture and Workshop, Liverpool Institute of Higher Education, Liverpool, UK.
1987Art Teachers Conference, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
Attended Art in New York, SUNY visual art program as Potsdam College, faculty representative, New York City.
Co-curator, "Art of the Southwest," Gibson Art Gallery, Potsdam, N.Y
1986Public Lecture, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, New York.
Public Lecture, Potsdam College, Potsdam, New York.
Attended College Art Association Conference, New York, New York.
Arranged the lecture and workshop of Joe Stefanelli, New York Painter, at the Potsdam College Art Department.
Juror, New York State High School Art Exhibition, Watertown, New York.
1985Public Lecture, Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma.
Attended the College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, California.
Moderator, Figurative Art: Variations on a Basic Theme, discussants: Joan Semmel, Jerome Witkin, Gary Trento and Joy Adams, Brainerd Gallery, Potsdam, New York.
Attended New York, New York City as faculty representative of Potsdam College.
1984Public Lecture, How to Prepare a Professional Portfolio, Phoenix Institute of Technology, Phoenix, Arizona and the 830 Gallery, Tucson, Arizona.
Attended Art Conference of Higher Education in Art, Phoenix, Arizona.
Public Lecture, Grand Canyon College, Phoenix, Arizona.
1983Juror, Lincoln Art 1983, Brookhaven, Mississippi.
Discussant, Painting Panel of the Mid-America CAA, discussing contemporary expressionism 47th Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri.
1982Curator, Hicks Etch print National Drawing and Printmaking Competition, Moreau Gallery, St. Mary's College, South Bend, Indiana.
1981Interviewed several New York City artists including Willem DeKooning, Elaine DeKooning, Philip Pearlstein and Alice Neel.
1980Public Lecture, Public Art Center, Norristown, Pennsylvania.
Professional Recognition:
2013Who’s Who in American Art 2013, 33rd edition, R. R. Bowker, NY,NY
Global Who’s Who, New York, New York
2011 Fellowship award, International Artist Residency, Budapest, Hungary,
2010 Who’s Who in American Art 2011, 36nd edition, R. R. Bowker, NY,NY
2009 3rd Place painting Award, 9th Annual American Landscape National,
Annapolis, Maryland
2008 Who's Who in American Education, Providence, New Jersey
2007 Who’s Who in the World, 24th edition, R.R. Bowker, New York, New York.
2006Who's Who in American Art, 32nd edition, R. R. Bowker, New York, New York.
2005Who's Who in America, 59th edition, Marquis, New Providence, New Jersey.
2004Who's Who in the World, 22nd edition, New Providence, New Jersey.
2003Who's Who in American Art 2004, 29th edition, R. R. Bowker, New York, New York.
Dictionary of International Biography, Cambridge, England.
Fellowship Award, Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, Wyoming.
20022000 Outstanding Artists and Designers of the 20th Century, Cambridge, England.
2001Second Place Award, 8th Biennial Juried Fine Arts Competition, LaPorte, Indiana.
2000Who's Who in American Art 2001, 26th Edition, R.R. Bowker, NY, NY
1999Who's Who in American Art 2000, 25th Edition, R. R. Bowker, NY
1998Who's Who in American Art 1999, 24th Edition, R. R. Bowker,NY, NY
1994Art Dealers Association, biographic listing, New York, New York.
1992Honorable Mention, Sacred Arts Exhibition, Wheaton, Illinois.
1991Best of Show Award, Third Biennial Exhibition, LaPorte, Indiana.
1990Merit Award, Heartland Artist's Regional Exhibition, Plymouth, Indiana.
Faculty Summer Stipend Award, Faculty Development Committee, to study computer programs for integration in color fundamentals 103, Keystone Junior College, LaPlume, Pennsylvania.
The New York Art Review, 8th Edition, American References, Chicago, Illinois, 1990.
First Place Painting, Sacred Arts Exhibition, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois.
1989Who's Who in American Art, 18th Edition, R. R. Bowker, New York, New York,
Krantz, Les. American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporaries, 2nd Edition, Chicago, Illinois, 1989.
Cover Illustration, the Insanity of Samuel Beckett's Art by Richard Stephenson, Paintbrush Press, Parker, Colorado.
1987Painting Commission, Crane School of Music, State University of New York, Potsdam, New York.
New Faculty Development Award, State University of New York, Albany, New York.
Best Landscape Award, North Country Regional Show, Gibson Gallery, Potsdam, New York.
1984Mississippi Arts Commission Grant to fund lecture and workshop of painter James McGarrell at the University of Southern Mississippi.
1983Purchase Award, 5th Annual Mississippi Artists' Juried Competition, Woods gallery, Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
1981Ford Foundation Grant to interview several New York City artists, including Willem DeKooning, Alice Neel, Philip Pearlstein and Ibram Lassow.
1976Purchase Award, University of Missouri at St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
Solo Exhibitions:
2012 -2013 Retrospective, Dorothy and WendellMayes art gallery, Howard Payne University,Brownwood,Texas
2011 United States Air force Academy, Permanent Professor’s Art Gallery, Colorado Springs, Colorado
2010 Stringer Fine Arts Center Gallery, Hutchinson Community College, Hutchinson, Kansas
- Landscape/Seascape, Lafayette Mill Gallery, North Kingston, R. Island
Carrolton Arts Center, Carrolton, Georgia
Primus, Dimensions Gallery, Savannah, Georgia
2007 OHC Heritage Center, Waycross, Georgia
Adams Hall Gallery, Savannah State University,
Savannah, Georgia
Landscape on Location, JEA, Gallery, Savannah, Georgia
2006Love Gallery, Pooler, Georgia
2005 River Gallery, Niles, Michigan.
Land forms, Weaver Gallery, Mishawaka, Indiana.
2004 Campus Art Gallery, Huntington College, Huntington, Indiana.
Bachman Gallery, Center for Visual Arts, Munster, Indiana.
2003Colfax Cultural Center, South Bend, Indiana.
Harbor Inn Gallery, New Buffalo, Michigan.
South Suburban College, Chicago, Illinois.
2002Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan.
Fernwood Gallery, Niles, Michigan.
2001The Atrium Gallery, South Bend, Indiana.
The Pennsylvania State University at Altoona, Pennsylvania.
West Valley Art Museum, Surprise, Arizona.
2000Elgin Community College, Elgin, Illinois.
1999UP Gallery, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming.
University of Great Falls, Great Falls, Montana.
Kishwaukee College, Malta, Illinois.
1998Spring Arbor College, Spring Arbor, Michigan.
1997United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1992 – 1993South Bend Art Center, South Bend, Indiana.
Contemporary Artlink Artspace, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1991Gravity, Adams Hall Gallery, Art Department, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois.
Apocalypses, Asbury College Gallery, Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky.
Art Gallery, University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
1990Napa Valley College, Napa, California.
1989Reed Cultural Center, City of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Wilson Art Gallery, LeMoyne College, Syracuse, New York.
Rockwell Kent Gallery, State University of New York at Plattsburg,NY.
1988 One-one Eight Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1987Armstrong Gallery of Armstrong-Atlantic College, Savannah, Georgia.
1986Brainerd Hall Gallery, Potsdam College of the State University of New York, Potsdam, New York.
Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, New York.
1985Union Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
1981Gallery One, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
Jackson Hall Gallery, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, Kentucky.
1980Pennsylvania State University,Ogontz Campus,Philadelphia,Pennsylvania.
Group Exhibitions:
2017 Two-person exhibition, Saulsbury Gallery, Temple, Texas
Contemporary Art Online, Group Landscape exhibition
2016 Two-person exhibition, Sul Ross University,Alpine,Texas
Blended Expressions, Angelo State University San Angelo, Texas
Permanent Gallery, USAF Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Baugh Center Gallery, Mary Hardin Baylor University, Temple, Texas
Two person painting show, Temple College, Visual Arts Gallery, Temple,TX
White on White, Louise Hopkins Underwood Art Center, Lubbock, Texas
2015 40@100:An Alumni exhibition, Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri
Going Home, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, Missouri
Project Postcard, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Painting:Above the Surface, Center for Contemporary Art,Abilene,Texas
2014 4th International Small Works Show, Lessedra Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Ira M. Taylor Gallery, Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, Texas
Second Annual Plein AirExhibition, SanDiego Museum of Art,
San Diego, California
Pastel National 2014, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas
Abreaction, two person exhibition, Upstairs Gallery, Killeen, Texas
201315th Annual Postcards from the Edge Exhibition, New York, New York
Fall Exhibition, Art Alliance Gallery, Austin, Texas
Two-Person Exhibition,Central Texas College (Texas A&M), Killeen, Texas
2012 Fall Exhibition, Art Alliance Gallery, Austin, Texas
Visual Aids: A Group Exhibition, New York, New York
Group Mixed Media Exhibition, Gallery 96, Sterling, Kansas
Drawing Connections, an International Exhibition, The Sienna Art Institute, Sienna, Italy
Two Person Exhibition, Stekline Gallery, Newman University, Wichita, Kansas
2011 6x6x2011 Global, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
2010 A Sense of Place2010, National Exhibition, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art,Augusta, Georgia
Two Person Exhibition, City Arts Gallery, Wichita, Kansas
Two Person Exhibition, Hays Art Center, Hays, Kansas
36th Annual Prairie Art Exhibition, Sterling, Kansas
2009 9th Annual American Landscape National Exhibition, Annapolis, Maryland
Award: Third place
30th Annual Paper in Particular National Drawing Competition, Columbia College, Columbia, Missouri
35th Annual Prairie Art Exhibition, Sterling, Kansas
Two person exhibition, Lincoln Art Center, Lincoln, Kansas
2008 Two person exhibition, Augusta State University, Augusta, Georgia
2007 Divine Inspirations National Exhibition,RFD Gallery,Swainsboro,GA
2006 30th Annual OHC Juried Competition, Waycross, Georgia
Ft. Worth Community Arts Center, Ft. Worth, Texas