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Home > Faculty > Full-time Faculty > Joan Marter Professor II Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Ph.D., University of Delaware Biographical Information: Joan Marter was named the Joseph G. Astman Distinguished Symposium Scholar at Hofstra University in April, 2009. She gave the keynote address: "Critics Respond to Abstract Expressionist Women," at a symposium on Abstract Expressionism on April 24, 2009. Also in April, Professor Marter organized the "Feminist Art Conference to Celebrate 30 Years of the Woman's Art Journal." Noted contributors to the journal, including Robert Hobbs,Midori Yoshimoto, and Tatiana Flores, spoke in this symposium on April 3, 2009. In March, 2009 Marter was invited to present a Distinguished Faculty Lecture at Rutgers. Her topic: "The Perils of Progress: Artists Respond to Advances in Science and Technology, 1935-1950." In February 2009, Professor Marter co-chaired a session at the College Art Association meeting in Los Angeles, "Kitsch in the 1960s, Modernism's Subversive Other." In the fall semester, 2008 Marter presented lectures at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, NM and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Professor Marter is Editor-in-Chief of The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art. This five-volume reference will be published by Oxford University Press in 2010. The publication will be a comprehensive study of the art of the Americas, reconceptualized with new methodology and topics significant to American art today. The Henry Luce Foundation awarded a $150,000 grant for this project Dr. Marter also continues as Editor of Woman's Art Journal, which has been published continuously for 31 years. Dr. Marter brought the journal to Rutgers, and it is now co-sponsored by Rutgers Department of Art History and Old City Publishing. In September 2008, Pop Art and After, Prints and Popular Culture opened at the Zimmerli Art Museum. This exhibition was the result of a collaboration between Marter's curatorial studies students and Marilyn Symmes, curator of the Morse Center at the Zimmerli. Recent Publications: Recent publications by Professor Marter include: Abstract Expressionism, The International Context (Rutgers, 2007) an edited volume with 15 original essays by leading scholars. Marter wrote "Critical Writings on Feminist Topics" for Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women, and Feminism (Cambridge, 2008) and contributed "Ethical Issues and Curatorial Practics," to Ethics and the Visual Arts, edited by Elaine King and Gail Levin (Allworth, 2008). As President of the Dorothy Dehner Foundation for the Visual Arts, Marter will speak at "Taking Charge of Your Legacy: Estate Planning for Visual Artists," in October, 2009 at the Hebrew Union College in New York City. Special Award: Professor Joan Marter was one of four individuals inducted into ALUMNI WALL OF FAME at the University of Delaware in a ceremony on May 7, 2004. More---> Longer list of publications

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    Phone: 732-932-7041 Ext.20
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Office Hours:

Mondays 1-4 pm Thursdays 10-11 am; 1-3 pm

Current Interests & Research:

·	Twentieth-century painting and sculpture in Europe and America
·	American sculpture from 1930 to the present; gender studies
·	Contemporary art
·	Current projects include a book on constructivist sculpture between the two World Wars.

Undergraduate Classes Taught:

·	Twentieth Century: Inventions and Events
·	Women & Art

Graduate Classes Taught:

·	Exhibition Seminar

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