Education   Professional Appointments Papers, Panels, Lectures Current Projects   Awards               Papers, Panels & Lectures     2003 MAMA, A Cultural Icon? Paper to be given at the Popular Culture Association American Culture Association, April   Chair, Panel: Art History, Criticism, Theory˜Where Are We Now? Midwestern College Art Association, Art Historian Conference, University of Pittsburgh   "Art History Across Cultures", Academy of Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2002 Panel Chair, Reaching Across International Boundaries, American Association University Women's International Congress, November   The PM Principle: Power, People Politics & Money, CAA Conference, Philadelphia   "Faces In America," School of the Visual Arts, Conference on Remembering, New York, October   "The PM Principle: Power, People Politics & Money," Central European Cultural Institute, Budapest, Hungary, October   "Art Criticism/Theory in a Post, Post Structuralist Era", Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary   Facing America, Changing of Portraits -Social Shifts & Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, President‚s Lecture Series, October 2001 Art Criticism, Its Evolution & Role, Carnegie Museum of Art, November   An Interplay of Idea, Myth and Reality, School of the Visual Arts Conference, October   Passivity & Power-Keys to Change, XXXV Annual AICA Congress in Zagreb, September   Portraits in American Society, University of New York, Prague, May   The Come Back Kid: Portraits in the USA, 1965-2000, Art Academy of Prague, May 2000 National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lack of Public Policy, University of Scranton   Portraiture in America, The Come Back Kid, Smithsonian, American Art Museum   Changing Aesthetics in Art & Culture, Cleveland State University, January   Evolutions in the America Portrait, Society of American Culture, Annual Conference, April   Arts Policy, Museums and Art in the New Millennium, American University, Spring 1999 Transaesthetics within the Postmodern Enlightenment Project, XXXIII Congress   International Art Critics, AICA, Warsaw, Poland, June   Technology and Graphic Arts, Municipal Museum of Art, Hungary, September   Art, Technology Shifts, Changes, Challenges, Arizona State University, November   Painting in a Kaleidoscopic Era, College Art Association, Annual Conference, LA. February   Alternative Careers in the Arts Outside of Teaching, ARTTABLE Panel, at CAA.   The Sky is Falling Chicken Little, Content, Context, ART? Arizona State University, January 1998 Art Criticism/Art Writing: The Audience =? Mid-West College Art Association 60th Conference, Lexington, KY, October   Content / Context in Art??, AICA Art, Criticism Conference, Budapest, Hungary, April   Panel Chair, Art in Central Europe, Sculpture International Conference, Chicago, June 1997 Shifts in Culture & Art In an Age of Information, Northern Illinois University, November,   Farbobjekte, Iso Wagner, Exhibition catalogue, Stuttgart, Germany, June 1997.   NEA & Federal Arts Policy, American Architecture & Art: Art & Theory Since 1945, Panel Chair; San Antonio, TX, American Culture Association, March 1997   "Vandalism, Iconography, & Censorship," College Art Association Panel, NY, Feb.   Technology & Culture, Erie Art Museum Symposium, February 1997 1996 A Shifting Aesthetic Landscape in Past, Postmodern Era, AICA Conference, Zagreb, November   The NEA, Public Policy, and Rise of Figurative Art, Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art, October 1996   The Demise of the NEA & The Return of Political Figuration, Slippery Rock University, October   The Rise of Narrative Figuration and the Political Unrest of the NEA, Ludwig, Museum, Budapest,   "Transformation: Central Europe and the Post-Modern Model": at the AICA Conference, Crossroads in Central Europe Critics & Curators Symposium, Budapest, Hungary, April   The Post-Avantgardist in a Past-Post-Modern Era, College Art Association, Boston, also, Technology in the Painter's Studio, Panel titled, "Painters Who Don't Paint, "College Art Association, Boston, February   The Return of the Figure in 1980s and the Demise of the NEA, Midwestern Art Historians, The National Endowment for the Arts, Politics and Art Policy, Midwestern Art Historians Conference, Cleveland Museum of Art, March 1995 The Excalating War on culture: The NEA, the Artist and the Government, School of the Visual Arts, New York City, panel, September   The Figure in Postmodernism, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, September 1994 The Abby Grunewald Lecture, The Post-Modern Enigma, University of Arizona, Tucson, March   Boundaries, Aesthetics & Multiculturalism, Ideas From A Devil's Advocate, Taft Art Museum, Cincinnati, November   Contemporary Art & Issues in the USA, Museum of Art, Bratislava, Slovakia, November 1993 Who & What is Killing Art in the Post-Modern Era, II Biennial Art Conference, Györ, Hungary, November   Censorship: An Issue Across Disciplines, Leigh University, March 1992 Women in the Arts After Waves I & II, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, November   Contemporary Art From 1985-1992, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita Kansas, April. 1991 The NEA: The Misunderstood Patron, University of Iowa Art Museum, Iowa City, April   What Is Art Criticism and a Critical Dialogue? Delaware Contemporary Arts Center, January   Women Artists: Changes From Wave I to III, Brown University, Providence, November   Feminism, Art & Women, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, April   The NEA: The Medici Beyond the Potomac, College Art Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC., February 1990 The Floundering of the Modernist Movement: 1965-1975, Albright College   Post-Minimalism and the Art of Barry Le Va, Neuberger Art Museum, Purchase, NY