CYNTHIA HAWKINS

  Email: hawkins.cynthia@gmail.com; hawkins@geneseo.edu

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Education

University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, Transnational Cultural Studies, PhD anticipated 2016

University of Leicester, Leicester, UK, Museum Studies, PhD 2010-2011               

Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, Masters of Arts, Museum Professions, Aug. 2008

The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Mt. Royal Graduate School of Painting, Baltimore, MD,

Masters of Fine Art, May 1992, Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowship, United State Department of Education                           

Queens College, CUNY, Flushing, NY, Bachelors of Arts, Studio Arts, 1977

Professional Experience

State University of New York Geneseo, Geneseo, NY

Director of Galleries, August 2007 – Present

•     Administrative responsibilities include maintaining budget, fundraising, annual appeal, press release, exhibit design and installation, press releases and announcements.

•     Curate exhibitions for three venues, approximately12 exhibits annually.

•     Participate in volunteer group Friends of Fine Art, Chair of advisory board to assist in developing gallery policies, liaise with senior management.

•     Create governance documents, including, updating mission statement, collections management policy, exhibition policy and other enabling documentation to lead to accreditation.

•     Registrar for the permanent collection.

       •    Supervise student interns and gallery coordinators working in areas that include marketing projects, exhibit design    

             and installation, and general collection management and research.

·       Community relations: Roz Stein Gallery Advisory Board, Genesee Community College, Batavia, NY; Facilitator of the Regional Gallery Directors Forum, Rochester, NY.

African American Printmakers: The Legacy Continues, Traveling Exhibition, Tannersville, PA

Independent Curator, January 2003 – 2006

• Administrative duties include fundraising for catalog, curating, creating loan agreements, condition book and reports, administrating efforts to travel the exhibition, and proposal writing
• Venues include, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA, Aljira A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ.

National Coalition of 100 Black Women Annual Art Auction, New York, NY

Curatorial Consultant, June 2005 – September 2005

• Administered and organized the art and artist component of auction including venue preparation, art acquisition, loan agreement, shipping oversight, insurance and installation 

Aljira a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ

Exhibition Coordinator, August 2004 – February 2005 

• Oversaw the traveling exhibition Bending the Grid, a series of exhibitions that examines the production of outstanding artists chosen from accomplished, yet under-recognized national & international artists                                                                                                      

Cedar Crest College

Director of Galleries/Curator, July 2000 – June 2003

• Mounted 27 exhibitions for, Cressman Gallery, Tompkins Gallery, and the Gaston Lachaise Gallery.  The Lachaise Gallery housed the collection of bronze works on loan from the Lachaise Foundation 
• Responsible for annual gallery budget of $12,000, over sight for gallery press releases, collaborated with development office targeting funding sources, design of announcements, installation of exhibitions, maintenance of mailing list, research where required
• Documentation of artist talks by video, and catalogs for Tompkins Gallery exhibitions

Internship                                                                                                                                                             

American Association of Museums, Washington, D.C.

Project:  Small Museum Accreditation, June 2006 – August 2006

• Reviewed small museum accreditation files for the AAM Small Museum Accreditation CD.

• Analyzed and created reports on museum profile, visiting committee review, and accreditation committee findings to be included in Small Museum Accreditation CD.

Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ

Project: Re-accreditation Self Study, September 2006 – December 2006

• Researching information required for completion of American Association of Museum’s Self-Study assessment.  Interacted with finance, management, board, development, exhibitions, education and customer service departments.

Professional Affiliations

Apartment One Gallery Panel                                                                                                         2011-           

Regional Gallery Directors Forum, Facilitator                                                                               2011-2012

Genesee Community College Art Gallery Advisory Council and Chair of                                    2009-                                              

Sub-Committee for Gallery Policy       

American Association of Museums

College Art Association

Association of College and University Museums and Galleries

FATE: Foundation Art: Theory and Education; College Art Association                                      2001 - 2003

Art in Public Places: committee member, Rockland County, NY                                                  1999 - 2001

Professional Awards/Honors

AAMG/Kellogg Leadership Seminar, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL                              June 2012

2010 Faculty Travel Grant                                                                                                               March 2010

Black Metropolis Research Consortium Fellowship, Chicago, IL                                                 Summer 2009

Artist in Residence- Experimental Printmaking Institute, Lafayette College, PA                           2005 - 2006

Artist in Residence- The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Brair, VA                          March 1997

Award for Artistic Excellence – Rockland Community College, SUNY                                        1994 - 1996

The Herbert and Irene Wheeler Foundation Grant                                                                           1995

Artist in Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY                                           1987 - 1988

Atlanta Life Insurance Company, Exhibition and Competition, Atlanta, GA                                  1984

Presentations

Creative Catalyst: Robert Blackburn, Master Printer                                                                      February 2011

College Art Association Annual Conference 2011, New York, NY      

A Short History of African American Art, Univerisdad de las Americas, Puebla, MX                     March 2010

Curating in the University Museum/Gallery: Three Mandates, Univerisdad de las

Americas, Puebla, MX                                                                                                                      March 2010

Transitioning From Academia to the Museum: Experiences of Recent Graduates,

American Association of Museums Annual Meeting and Museums Expo 2009,

Philadelphia, PA,                                                                                                                               May 2009

Genre Scenes in the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection, Lore Degenstein Gallery,

Susquehanna University, PA,                                                                                                            January 2008

The Legacy Continues:  African American Printmaking, Aljira A Center for

Contemporary Art, NY,                                                                                                                    March 2005

Teaching Experience

State University of New York, Geneseo, Geneseo, NY

Museum History and Theory I, online, summer 2010, 2011

A Survey of African American Art History, online, summer 2010

Survey of African American Art History, 8/08

Rockland Community College, SUNY, Rockland County, NY

Adjunct Professor, African American Art History-online, 1/07 – 5/07

Adjunct Professor, Art Appreciation, 9/05 – 12/05

Adjunct Instructor, Watercolor, summer 1999

Adjunct Instructor, Painting I, summer 1998

Adjunct Instructor, Painting I – IV, 1/93 - 5/96          

Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, PA

Adjunct Professor, Art Appreciation, 9/203 – 5/2004

Ramapo College of New Jersey, School of Contemporary Art

Adjunct Instructor, Drawing, Introduction to Art, 9/98 - 5/99    

Adjunct Instructor, Drawing, summer 1999

The College at New Paltz, SUNY 

Adjunct Instructor, Freshman Drawing, Intermediate Painting,

Graduate Drawing, Introduction to Drawing and Design, 8/96 - 5/98                       

The Parsons School of Design

Instructor, Introduction to Painting, spring 1996, 1997

Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Teaching Assistant, Painting I, Drawing I, Color (Two Dimensional Design), 9/90 - 5/92

Publications

Photography as Witness, the charged landscape in the 21t cehtury, essay, Lockhart Gallery, SUNY Genese, January 2013

Honorè Daumier 1808 - 2008: Caricature as Social Commentary, catalog editor, Lockhart Gallery, SUNY Geneseo, October 2008

African American National Biography, Harvard University and Oxford 

University Press, five biographical entries: including Camille Billops, Allan Rohan Crite, Joe Overstreet, Norma Morgan, 2008

Artist as Immigrant, catalog essay for exhibition, Artist as Immigrant, MaryAnn Miller, 2007

Encyclopedia of African American Art and Architecture, published by Oxford University Press. Two entries, Wilmer Jennings and Dox Thrash, 2005

Convergence, essay for exhibition, Blind Spots by Curlee Raven Holton, Merrimack College, MA, 2005         

Bad Cow Comin’, essay for exhibition Bad Cow Comin’ by Victor Davson, Tompkins Gallery, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA, 2003

FATE, book review, Drawing as Expression: Techniques and Concepts by Sandy Brooke, 2003

Modern Painters, Letter to the Editor, 2001

Act of Drawing, Medium/Meaning/Method, essay, curated by Cynthia Hawkins, 2001

Art Journal, CAA, Letter to the Editor, 1991

Technology Skills                                                                                        

Adobe/Photoshop, Digital Camera, , Publisher, Excel

Curatorial CV Available Upon Request                                                 Updated July 2011