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CURRICULUM VITAE

PAUL HICKMAN
1306 Warner Avenue
Jonesboro, AR 72401
(870) 931-0234

JOB OBJECTIVE

College-level visual resource curator position

EDUCATION

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
Ph.D. Art History, 1987.
Emphasis: American art and culture; history of printmaking and photography.

Arizona State University, Tempe.
M. A. Art History, 1979.
Emphasis: modern European art and literature; photographic history.

Columbia College, Chicago.
Second B.A. Studio Photography, Minor History of Photography and Cinema, and Practices Practices, 1975.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
B.A. Architectural History, Minor History and Studio Art, 1973

VISUAL RESOURCES CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

Arkansas State University, Jonesboro

    Responsible for circa 86,000 slides and circa
    9,000 digital images covering [most to least]
    paintings, sculpture, architecture, photography,
    prints, graphic design, ceramics, drawings,
    watercolors, jewelry and minor arts.
    Responsible for 213 videotapes in art and art
    history. Revised Slide Numbering System and
    completed cataloging of the slide collection.
    Supervise one to four graduate and
    undergraduate student assistants per
    semester in copy work, input on computer,
    mounting, masking and filing; duties also
    include reproducing images in digital format,
    identifying by medium, artist with birth
    and death dates, date (s) of work, dimensions
    and collection. Manage and implement budget
    for supplies, materials equipment and
    acquisitions. Utilize File Maker Pro, Image
    AXS and Adobe Photoshop databases;
   Microsoft Word and Final  Draft , MS-DOS
    word-processing programs. Involved with web
    development. Our collection is multimedia.
    French and German: basic reading knowledge.

    Committee assignment for 1992-2008: Budget,
    Library, Gallery and Visiting Artist. Have
    arranged for the traveling show "Disfarmer" from
    Arkansas Art Center for the Gallery, and public
    lectures, "What Do Photographs Mean, if
   Anything?" and "Photographs Photographed," by
   visiting artist Bill Jay.

Staff (half-time, non-tenure track), thirty-four
semesters, 1992-present.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Arkansas State University, Jonesboro.

   Have taught--in a classroom and on-line--graduate
   and upper division courses in Renaissance art,
   modern art and history of photography, and
   undergraduate courses in survey of Renaissance
   to modern art and sections of fine arts visual.

   Committee assignments for 1989-91:
   International Film (Chair), Faculty Association
   Handbook, Fine Art Wing (Co-Chair), Publicity,
   Gallery and Visiting Artist. Have arranged for
   public talk by visiting artists Thomas F. Barrow
   and Gary Monroe.

   Assistant Professor (full-time, tenure track), five
   semesters or terms, 1989-91; Assistant Professor
   (half-time, non-tenure track), eight semesters, 2003
   -present.

College of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

   Taught survey of photographic history with
   personal slide collection. Instructor, one quarter,
   1988

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

   Prepared and taught survey course in history of
   photography. Arranged for one guest lecture
   each lecture by Beaumont Newhall. Teaching
Association, two semesters, 1978. 1981.

Arizona State University, Tempe.

Led discussion of art history survey. Teaching
Assistant, three semesters, 1975-76.

AWARDS AND HONORS

Listing in Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998. 22nd Edition. New Providence, New Jersey: Marquis Who's Who, 1997, p. 535; Who's Who in American Art, 1999-2000. 23rd Edition. New Providence, New Jersey: Marquis Who's Who, 1999, p. 546; Who's Who in American Art, 2001-2002. 24th Edition. New Providence, New Jersey: Marquis Who's Who, 2001, p. 532.

Princeton University Ph.D. program in art history, admitted 1977.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Graduated with high honors in liberal arts and with high distinction in art history, 1973. First student in College of Liberal Arts ever admitted to Department of Architecture's year abroad program in Versailles, France. Awarded competitive Illinois State Scholarship, 1968, renewed 1969-1972.

Two Governor's Awards, presented for article published in Illinois History, 1963-1964.

STUDY AND TRAVEL ABROAD

France, England, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Canada, Mexico and Jamaica.

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

Arkansas State University Photography Gallery, Jonesboro.

   Solicited, selected, installed and publicized seven
   exhibitions per year in university research library.
   Have enlarged score of gallery from regional to
   national. Conceived, organized and prepared
   "West of Eden" (1992), an exhibition of
   twenty-four prints and photographs of Yosemite
   National Park. Associate Director, 1989-90;
   Director, 1990-91.

Ruth Ramberg Gallery, Albuquerque.

   Conceived, organized, prepared and installed
   "West of Eden (1989), an exhibition of forty
   prints and photographs of Yosemite National
   Park. Borrowed historical and contemporary
   photographs from University of New Mexico
   Fine Arts Library and William J. Lucas. Wrote
   statement and compiled check list.

University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque.

Scheduled and organized exhibition of
photographs from permanent collection, 1981.

Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe.

   "Early Photographs of the Southwest," 1977.
   Borrowed prints by C. E. Watkins, T. H.
   O'Sullivan and William Bell from Center for
   Creative Photography, Tucson. Supervised
   matting and hanging.

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago.

   Chicago-area faculty show, 1975. Active role in
   preparation, made photograph for announcement
   and documented installation.

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITIONS

Books & Books, Coral Gables, Florida. One man show of architectural photographs, "A Walk through the Brown Decades," 1991.

Arkansas State University, Jonesboro. One man show of architectural photographs, "Town Houses of the Chicago Gold Coast," 1990.

Phoenix Art Museum. Group show from four-state area juried by Robert Heinecken, 1976.

Northlight Gallery, Tempe. One man show (edited photographic sequences, directed installation, wrote introductory statement and designed announcement) and state-wide group show juried by Betty Hahn, Harold Jones and Allen Dutton, 1976.

PERMANENT COLLECTION

Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks Commission.

Columbia College, Chicago.

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