Curriculum Vitae for Dr. Wahlman



Daughters - Victoria Louise Wahlman, Christina Fay Wahlman



EDUCATION:


B.A. (Art) Colorado College, 1969

M.A. (Anthropology) Northwestern University, 1969

M.Phil (Art History) Yale University, 1979

Ph.D. (Art History) Yale University, 1980


Awards And Fellowships (Most Recent)

2005 (with Dr. Tanya Price) UMKC Center for the City Award to enhance our interdisciplinary course on "African and African American Women and Creativity."

2004 Louis T. Beneset Award, for Career Achievement, Colorado College Alumni Association.

2004 University of Missouri Research Board Award, to rewrite my textbook, Mojo Working.

2003 Folk Art Society of America, Award for Distinguished Research.

2002 UMKC College of Arts & Sciences, $750 for books and videos to support a new cluster course: The African Diaspora in Arts and Cultures.

1997-98 Resident Research Fellow, W. E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University.

1990 Florida Hi-Tech Council Grant for Computer Animation Project, (With Dr. Michael Moshell) - $50,000/

1988 Florida Arts Countil Grant for a Computerized Catalog System for Central Florida Museums, $100,000

1998 Florida Arts Council Grant for a brochure for the exhibition, Tiffany's Choices, on loan from the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, $5000.

1987 Florida Arts Council Grant for an exhibition of Traditional African Arts, in 1988, $2,500.
Utilization of Museum Resources Grant, from the National Endowment for the Arts, for the exhibition, African, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-American Arts, $18,000.

1981-85 Research Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities for research on Southern Folk Arts, $55,000.

1982-83 Exhibition Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, for the traveling exhibition, Ten Afro-American Quilters, $15,840.

1980 Francis Blanchard Prize for Best Dissertation, Department of Art History, Yale University, $100.

1978-80 Fellowships (2), The Yale Center for American Art and Material Culture, $3,300.

1979 Research Grants (2), The Yale Center for American Art and Material Culture, $1,000.



Member (of the following)

Art and Art History Department Advisory Committee

Chancellor's Extended Cabinet

Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Executive Committee



Administrative Experience

1998 - Present Director, Global Arts Initiative, University of Missouri Kansas City.

1985-90 Chairperson, Art Department, University of Central Florida

1984-85 Director, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Mississippi

1981-1985 Project Director, Southern Folk Art Research Project, University of Mississippi




Teaching Experience


1998 - Dorthy and Dale Thompson/Missouri Endowed Professor of Global Arts, The Department of Art & Art History, UMKC


Courses Taught


  • ART 571/497H African American Arts: Fine, Folk & Urban, 1998


  • ART 315/497H Arts of Africa and New World Cultures, 1999-2006


  • ART 497H Special Topics, Arts of Africa and New World Cultures, 1999-2000, 2002-2003


  • ART 330CC The African Diaspora in Arts and Cultures (with Donald Matthews), cluster course, 2002-2003, 2005


  • ART 442 Art of Sub-Saharan Africa, 2004


  • ART 571/565/497H Meso-American Arts, 1999, 2004


  • ART 571/497H African Influences on New World Cultures 2000, 2004


  • ART 571/497H Traditional and Contemporary Native American Arts, 2001, 2004

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    Publications:

    Books:

  • 2001 Signs and Symbols: African Images in African-American Quilts. 2nd Edition, Atlanta, GA: Tinwood Books.


  • 1993 Signs and Symbols: African Images in African-American Quilts. New York: The Museum of Afmerican Folk Art and Penguin USA.


  • 1980 Traditional Art of West Africa (Introduction by Robert Plant Armstrong). Waterville, MN: Colby College Museum of Art, 116 pages.


  • 1979 Ceremonial Art of West Africa (Introduction by Roy Sieber). East Lansing, MI: Kresge Art Center, Michigan State University, 58 pages.


  • 1974 Contemporary African Arts Chicago: The Field Museum of Natural History, 124 pages.

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    Co-Authored Books:

  • 1988 Quilts from Appalacia.(Patricia Macneal, co-author). State College: Pennsylvania State University Art Gallery, 68 pages.


  • 1987 Baking in The Sun: Visionary Images from the South. (Andy Nasisse, co-author). Lafayette, LA: University of Southeastern Louisiana Art Museum, 68 pages. (Won the 1988 Mary Ellen LoPresti Award for Excellence in Art Publishing).

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    Co-Edited Books:

  • 2002 Contributing Editor and Consultant. Arnett, Paul and Bill. Gee's Bend; the Women and their Quilts. Atlanta: Tinwood Books.


  • 2002 Contributing Editor and Consultant. Arnett, Paul and Bill. The Quilts of Gee's Bend. Atlanta: Tinwood Books.


  • 2001 (With William and Paul Arnett, Theopus Smith). Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South. Atlanta, GA: Tinwood Books, Vol. 2.


  • 2000 (With William and Paul Arnett, Theopus Smith). Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South. NY: The Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture, a Branch of the New York Public Library, Vol. 1

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    Exhibit Brochures and Catalogs

  • 2004 The African Art Experience. UMKC and the Belger Art Center for Creativity, Kansas City, MO.

  • 1994 African American Quilters. Orlando: Orlando City Hall, 16 pages.

  • 1990 (Introduction) Williams Sterling Jenkins: Selected Art Works, 1931-1941. Orlando, FL.: University of Central Florida Art Department, 50 pages.



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    Works in Progress

  • Books and Articles in Preparation

  • "Mojo Working: African Religious Charms in African Diasporan Folk Arts," for the University Press of Florida. (Book Manuscript)
  • "Mozell Benson: African American Quilter." (Book Manuscript)
  • "Pecolia Warner: Contemporary Afro-American Quilter." (Book Manuscript)
  • "The Nine Night Lords in Meso-American Arts," essay being revised for publication.

    • Fieldwork

  • 2002-5 Kansas City, Arrow Rock, MO - Art History

  • 2001 Ontario, Canada - Art History

  • 2000 New York - Art History

  • 1999 AL, GA, MO - Art History

  • 1998 AL - Art History

  • 1996 Georgia, N. Carolina - Art History

  • 1995 AL, GA, MS, TN - Art History

  • 1993 New York, Seattle, Washington - Art History

  • 1992 Florida - Art History

  • 1991 AL, GA, MI, MS, NYC, Washington - Art History

  • 1990 DC, NYC - Art History


    • Professional Affiliations


  • African Studies Association

  • Arts Council of the African Studies Association

  • American Museum of Natural History

  • Caribbean Cultural Center, NYC

  • Folk Art Society of America

  • International Quilt Study Center (Board Member)

  • Mennello Museum of American Folk Art

  • Museum for African Arts, NYC

  • Museum of American Folk Art

  • Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

  • Smithsonian Institution

  • Who's Who in American Art

  • Women's Caucus for Art (Board Member)


    • Invited Papers

  • 2005 "African American Graveyard Arts," Arrow Rock, MO. NEH Summer Teacher's Workshop.

  • 2003 "African American Textile Traditions," Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS March 13, 2003.

  • 2003 "Protective Charm Traditions," Black Studies Conference, UMKC, April.

  • 2003 "Charlie Logan and African American Textiles," Folk Art Society of America, Annual Meeting, Symposium, Oct. 10, 2003.

  • [I could not actaully give this paper, as three of my family members were hospitalized at the time, so I sent this paper, and two carousels of slides, to Ken Anderson, who incorporated parts of it in his extended presentation. That paper was later published in Intuit, in 2004.]

  • 2003 "Secret Symbols in African American Quilts," University of Missouri Saint-Louis, Department of Art and Art History, October.

  • 2003 "Molas," University of Saint-Louis, Department of Art and Art History, October.

  • 1999 "African American Graveyard Symbolism," for the symposium, Death and Dying in America (Gary Ebersole, organizer). Kansas City: Center for Interdiscplinary Studies, UMKC.

  • 1999 "African Symbols in the Art of Nellie Mae Rowe," for the Symposium on the Art of Nellie Mae Rowe, Museum of American Folk Art, NY.

  • 1998 "African Influences on African American Vernacular Art", Wesleyan College Symposium and Exhibit, Womenfolk. Macon, GA. March 26.

  • 1998 "The Herskovits Collection of African and African American Arts," Keynote speech at the opening of the exhibit of the Melville and Frances Herskovits Collection, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.



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