Kes Woodward
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Author Vita
Education
1977 M.F.A., Painting and Printmaking - Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho
1973 B.A., Art - Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina
Teaching Experience
2000 - present Professor of Art, Emeritus - University of Alaska Fairbanks
1996 - 2000 Professor, painting - University of Alaska Fairbanks
1988 - 1995 Associate Professor, painting - University of Alaska Fairbanks
1982 - 1988 Assistant Professor, painting, design - University of Alaska Fairbanks
Curatorial Experience
2002- present Guest Curator - Fred Machetanz Retrospective Exhibition - Anchorage Museum of History and Art
1991- present Academic Curatorial Affiliate - Fine Arts Collection, University of Alaska Museum
1996- 1998 Guest Curator - Eustace Ziegler Retrospective Exhibition - Anchorage Museum of History and Art
1988 - 1990 Guest Curator - Sydney Laurence Retrospective Exhibition - Anchorage Museum of History and Art
1979 - 1981 Curator of Visual Arts - Alaska State Museum, Juneau, Alaska
1977 - 1978 Curator of Temporary Exhibits - Alaska State Museum, Juneau, Alaska
Administrative Experience
1996- 1998 Head - Division of Arts and Communications - University of Alaska Fairbanks
1995- 1998 Department Chair - Art Department, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
1988 - 1991 Director of Fine Arts and Humanities Projects - Institute on Canada and the United States, Dartmouth College
1982 - 1988 Director - University of Alaska Fine Arts Gallery, Fairbanks
1978 - 1979 Artistic Director - Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska

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PUBLICATIONS
Selected Recent Books and Exhibition Catalogs
A Northern Adventure: The Art of Fred Machetanz. Augusta, Georgia:
Morris Communications. June, 2004..
Painting Alaska. Anchorage: Alaska Geographic Society.
Alaska Geographic. Vol. 27. No. 3. 2000.
Under Northern Lights: Artists and Writers in the Alaska Landscape.
Kesler Woodward and Frank Soos, eds. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 2000.
Spirit of the North: The Art of Eustace Paul Ziegler.
Morris Museum of Art. Augusta, Georgia. 1998.
A Sense of Wonder. Exhibition catalog. University of Alaska Museum. Fairbanks, Alaska. 1995
Painting in the North: Alaskan Art in the Anchorage Museum of History and Art. Seattle: University of Washington Press and Anchorage: Anchorage Museum of History and Art. 1993
Sydney Laurence, Painter of the North. Seattle: University of Washington Press and Anchorage: Anchorage Museum of History and Art.

Selected Recent Journal Articles, Published Papers, and Catalog Essays
"Oscar Bluemner: Modernist Mind and Mystical Spirit"
In: Oscar Bluemner: Modernist Mind and Mystical Spirit. Forum Gallery, New York, NY, and Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC. 2002.
"Contemporary Cree Art in Northern Quebec"
In: Social and Environmental Impacts of the James Bay Hydroelectric Project. James F. Hornig, ed. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 1999.
"Persuasive Images: The Arctic Photographs of Vilhjalmur Stefansson"
In: Imaging the Arctic. London: The British Museum Press. 1998.
"The Changing Image of the Native Alaskan in the Work of Explorer Artists"
In: Enlightenment and Exploration in the North Pacific, 1741-1805. Stephen Haycox, James Barnett, and Caedmon Liburd, eds. Seattle: University of Washington Press and Anchorage: Cook Inlet Historical Society. 1997.
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