Dr. Richard J. Bay- Chair Department of Art Radford University

Professor ofArt,RU ART Museum Education & Community Outreach Director

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“RichardJ.Bay has inspired and encouraged teachers and students to explore their artistic talents and to pursue their interests in the arts. He has used the classroom and studio as a place to build self-esteem of students and a place to pass on his enthusiasm of the visual arts...The winner of a number of awards in his field, he has shared his motivational skills with fellow educators through the Nelson-Atkins’ Museum teacher education programs as well as seminars and workshops throughout the country...

” Excerpt from the: Missouri Arts Awards Announcement

Education:

OKLAHOMASTATEUNIVERSITY, Stillwater, OK

Ed.D Curriculum & Instruction & Arts Education

Domains: Curriculum, Aesthetics, and Philosophy May 2002

PITTSBURGSTATEUNIVERSITY, Pittsburg, KS

MA Studio Arts

Concentrations: Printmaking and Drawing

KANSASSTATEUNIVERSITY, Manhattan, KS

B. S. Art Education

(K-12 Art Certification Missouri-Lifetime)

  • Additional college course work done:

Multicultural Studies, Curriculum Design & Development/Integration (Reading, Math, Science, etc.) , Performance Based Assessment, Cognitive Staff/Student Development (Lion’s Quest training), Studio Art Activities (Glassblowing, Mural Painting, Lithography, and Painting) and Covey Principle Centered Leadership Training.

Professional Experience:

RADFORDUNIVERSITY, Radford Virginia

Professor of Art/Art Education 2002-PresentDepartment Chair(Tenured)

Coordinator of the University’s Art Education Program, Student Teaching & Blocking experiences, Area Teacher In-Service, Community Outreach & Public Programs,and Visual Arts Instructor (Design, Drawing and Painting).

OKLAHOMASTATEUNIVERSITY, Stillwater, OK

Graduate Teaching Associate, Introduction to Visual Arts Curriculum & Studio1999 - 2002

Facilitated course for Education Majors covering art education methods/ philosophy, lesson planning, student teacher observations, and studio processes.

ART & ART EDUCATION CONSULTANT, Tulsa, OK

Offering training, workshops, and programming in, Curriculum, Motivation, Visual Arts Studio Experiences & Teacher Training 1986-2002

  • Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, OK: Master Artist, Painting and Drawing Studios for High School Students and Adults. Fall 1999-Summer 2002
  • RockwellMuseum, Corning, NY: Drafted Education Program and Educational Facility design as part of the museums 5 million-dollar renovation plan.

Implementation date May 2001. Fall 1999-2001

  • NelsonAtkinsMuseum of Art, Kansas City, MO: Developed Family Day Programs for Oldenburg Shuttlecock unveiling, Intelligence of Form, African Art Exhibition, Shapiro Sculptural installation and other Multicultural Celebrations (e.g. Day of the Dead) and holiday events (e.g. heARTy pARTy). Fall 1989-1997
  • KemperMuseum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO;

Designed and Implemented teacher in-service training sessions for over 250 educators in conjunction with the Frank Stella, and Dale Chihuly exhibitions.

Fall 1996-1998

  • Other clients include: Artists-in-Schools, Tulsa, OK; The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK; Tulsa Public Schools, Tulsa, OK; Stillwater Public Schools, Stillwater, OK; Kansas City Public Schools, Kansas City, MO; Saint Louis Public Schools, Saint Louis, MO; New City School, St. Louis, MO.
  • Example of Program Designed for clients: UFO (Urban Fine Arts Outreach for grades 3-5 offering over 200 students a first time museum experience), Gallery Voyage (Full day hands-on elementary school programs tied to existing gallery themes or special exhibitions), Family Programs (i.e. Very Scary Thursday for Fun, You Gotta have heART! EGGstravaganza, and Hat’s Off to Mom’s and Dad’s) many were especially designed for pre-K - 1st Grade children to encourage museum exploration and family viewership. These programs served over 1500 families in the metropolitan Tulsa area over a 2-year period and are still the museums programming orientation.

SCHOOL DISTRICT OF KANSAS CITY,Kansas City, MO

Visual Arts CoordinatorFall 1993-Spring 1997/Educator K-5 & 6-8 Fall1986-1993

Duties included but not limited too: supervising 98 Visual Art Instructors in 102 Schools K - 12. Direct district wide in-service activities, observation and evaluation of programs and staff and review text and resources used.

Development of Visual Arts Curriculum & Assessment (Published Spring 1997).

Coordinated and installed Citywide Visual Art Exhibitions of Student Artworks.

  • Implemented broad-based multi-cultural education & teacher hands-on workshops with artists such as poet, Quincy Troupe, painter, Fritz Scholder, and photographer Bill Gaston.
  • Encouraged partnerships between local museums, and colleges to offer faculty extended educational and resource opportunities.
  • Created visual resource units and distribute to district faculty and school libraries.

NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART, Kansas City, MO

Arts Instructor & Special Programs Coordinator 1986 - 1997

(See information listed under Art & Art Education Consultant)

  • Instructed Gallery and Studio classes ranging from, Ceramics, Painting, Collage, Sculpture, and Start in ART, etc. for ages Pre-K - Adult.
  • Organized the first Juvenile Offender Program for teen offenders to study within the museum.

Selected Residencies, Lectures, & Exhibitions Curated

  • Warhol, Goya, Dali: Masterpieces of World Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Art”, Radford University Museum 2012
  • “Van Gogh, Lichtenstein, Whistler: Masterpieces of World Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Art”, Radford University Museum 2011
  • “Fiber Transformed, Wish You Were Here!” Radford University Museum 2010
  • Art Education in American Schools, Shanghai University, Shanghai & Pudong Campus’s, Shanghai China 2009
  • Art Education and the Museum Experience, Shanghai National Art Museum, Shanghai, China 2009
  • Sacred/Sublime, Huichol Yarn Paintings, Flossie Martin Gallery, Radford, VA, 2008
  • The Arts and Cognition, Learning and the Brain, San Francisco, CA Presentations and panel with James S. Catterall Ph.D., Frances H. Rauscher Ph.D., Richard J. Bay, Preside, 2007
  • Benny Carter – Visionary Artist, Gallery 205Radford University,Radford, VA, 2007
  • ‘A Different Culture – The Popular Arts of Mexico’, New River Valley Arts Center, Pulaski, VA , 2006
  • ART from the OTHERSIDE II, Philbrook Art Education Center, Tulsa, 2006
  • ART from the OTHERSIDE, Bondurant Art Center, Radford, VA Interactive Exhibition of Harry Teague & Harper Hair: 2006
  • Los Manos Magicas, Gallery 205, Radford, VA Mexican Mask exhibit, 2005
  • ART IN HEALING, Hillcrest Hospital, Tulsa, OK Workshop, April 2005
  • Interplay: MACAA Conference, Minneapolis, MN, Panel: The Misspelled Word, 2004
  • Eccentric Kansans: 30 Years of Vision Conference, Lucas, KS, Keynote: James Perucca-Urban Visionary, 2004
  • Hillcrest Medical Center, Tulsa, OK,The ARTS and Healing, 2004
  • National Art Education Association 2004 Convention, Denver, CO ARTCLUB,2004
  • National Art Education Association 2003 Convention, Minneapolis, MN Children’s Beliefs About Art, 2003
  • International Society for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity 18th Annual Conference, University of Durham, United Kingdom Children and their Parents’ Beliefs About Art, 2002
  • 23rd Annual Southwest Popular Culture Conference, Albuquerque, NM

Politics andtheArts in OK: Modern Obstructions to Postmodern Work2002

  • Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK ‘Roar Vision’ of J. O Parker,2002
  • Oklahoma State University Department of Education Forum, Stillwater, OK
  • Oklahoma State Art EducationForum, OK City, OK Authentic Assessment 1998
  • “Art at the Core” Oklahoma State Art Education Forum, Tulsa, OK1998
  • National Public Radio, Univ. of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK “An Integrated Approach to Learning”
  • Kansas City Missouri Public Schools, KC, MO Keynote address: “ART at theCore”
  • Albrecht-KemperMuseum, St. Joseph, MO, “Deborah Butterfield, No Horsing Around”
  • The Saint LouisArt Museum, St. Louis, MissouriTeacher residency: “Africa Explores”
  • International Network for the Visual & Performing Arts, Chicago, IL
  • Exhibition Chairperson; The KC Artists Coalition, KC, MO
  • Curated & Installed shows with/for:

Dr. Jack Cowart, Director of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,

Lynn Warren, Curator of Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, Mitchell Kahen, Curator 20th Cent. Art North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

  • Historic Artist in Residence: WatkinsMillState Historic Site, Lawson, MO
  • Lectures presented for/at: Missouri Art Education Association, National Art Education Association, KansasStateUniversity, Manhattan, KS, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, Avila College, Kansas City, MO, Rockhurst College, Kansas City, MO, University of Connecticut, Hartford, CN,RadfordUniversity, Radford, VA, OklahomaStateUniversity, Stillwater, OK, and PittsburgStateUniversity, Pittsburg, KS.
  • Artistic assistant to: Robert Irwin, The Midwest Project, “Defining the Land’, Lynda Bengalis, Installations at the Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, Fritz Scholder, Kansas City Workshop, Kansas City, MO, and Dale Chihuly, “Workshop for Special Need’s Students”, Kansas City Art Institute, MO.

PUBLICATIONS:

  • In Celebration of Teaching – Faculty Perspectives, Linus Publications, NY, Chapter 5, “Working Without a NET…There are Rewards” Author: Richard J. Bay
  • What is Art? From a Child’s Viewpoint Author: Dr. Richard J. Bay, Blurb Press, November 2009
  • Harper Hair, Hair Nor There! ISBN: 0-9776609-0-7 Author: Dr. Richard J. Bay, RadfordUniversity Press, March 2006
  • What Do we Do When the Outsider Comes Inside, GrassrootsMuseum, Lucas, KS October, 2004
  • Art Education a Critical Responsibility, VAEA, Fall 2002, p. 4.
  • James Perucca Environment:Raw Vision, #36. R. Bay, Fall 2001, p. 20.
  • J.O Parker’s Dinosaurs: Raw Vision, #32. R. Bay & P. Hodges, Fall 2000, p. 32.
  • Core Curriculum, School District of Kansas City, Missouri: Visual Arts K-121997.
  • Comparing: Four Figures Art Education, 49,4. A. Brubaker, C. Downing, D. Swezy, R. Bay, July 1996, pg. 25-34.

HONORS & AWARDS:

  • Nominee for the University Service Award, Radford, VA 2012
  • Nominee for the State of Virginia Distinguished Professor Award, SCHEV, 2011
  • Guest Lecturer and Visiting Educator Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China, November 2009
  • Nominee for the Virginia Distinguished Professor Award, SCHEV, 2009
  • Recipient of the Donald Dedmon Creative Teaching Award, Radford University, Radford, VA, 2008-2009
  • Candidate for the Creative Scholarship Award, Radford University, Radford, VA 2007, 2009, 2011
  • Candidate for the Donald Dedmon Creative Teaching Award, Radford University, Radford, VA 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, & 2007
  • King Foundation Grant for Innovative Health Care Initiatives, Radford, VA2006 – 2008 (Creative Initiatives with SW VA Brain Injury Survivors)
  • Elementary Educators of Tomorrow, Certificate of Appreciation, Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK
  • Percy W. Sr. Oaks Scholarship Recipient, Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK
  • Presidential Commendation for Teaching, Oklahoma State University
  • Presidential Scholarship, Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK,1999-2001
  • Fulbright Scholarship: Accra, Ghana, West Africa, 1997
  • Missouri Arts Award - Missouri State Arts Council 1994
  • Presidential Citation, Excellence in Education, U. S. Dept. of Ed., Washington, D. C.
  • Excellence in Teaching in Greater Kansas City, MO.1988
  • American Art Awards Regional Nominee, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
  • Fulbright Scholarship: Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1985

Art Work in the collections of:

  • University of California, Berkeley, CA, Fritz Scholder, Scottsdale, AZ,

The Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO, Theresa Schwartz, New York, NY, United Missouri Bank, Kansas City, MO, Payne Webber Inc., Kansas City, MO, The Barstow School, Kansas City, MO, Quincy Troupe, La Jolla, CA, New City School, St. Louis, MO, Hartford Middle School, Hartford, CN, The Estate of Alan Ginsburg, New York, NY, R. Crosby Kemper, Kansas City, MO, Radford University, Radford, VA and The University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.

One Man & Group Exhibitions (Listed by: Show Title and Site) (Selected listing):

  • Current Gallery Representation: Jeffery Hartz Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri.
  • “STUFF – Life’s Mysteries” Virginia Western C.C. Humanities Gallery, Roanoke, VA 2011
  • “It’s My Stuff!” Waddell Art Gallery, Northern Virginia Community College – Loudon Campus, Sterling, VA 2011
  • “Life Assemblages” Poetry & Pro’s Gallery, Charlottesville, VA 2009
  • “Mom said, “HAVE Faith!” Living ART’s Meyers Gallery, Tulsa, OK 2008
  • “Mom said, “HAVE Faith!” Perspective Gallery, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA 2008
  • “Faith, Hope & Reality” Mish-Mish Gallery, Blacksburg, VA 2007
  • “INSIDE the OUTSIDER” William King Regional Arts Center, Abingdon, VA 2007

”Race, Class, Gender = Character” The Revolving Museum, Lowell, MA 2007

“ART IN THE COMMONS III” Univ. of CA, LosAngeles, LA, CA 2006

  • “From the Junkyard to the Frontyard” Ellipse Gallery, Arlington, VA 2006
  • “Divine Visions of Outsider Artists” Guilford College Gallery Greensboro, NC 2006
  • “Race, Class, Gender = Character” American Visionary Museum of Art Baltimore, MD 2006
  • “I was a KID too!” Miller-Off Main Gallery, Blacksburg, VA 2005
  • Windermere Foundation Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Inaugural exhibition 2005
  • ‘Ties That Bind’ Gallery 106 Sandsprings, OK 2004, Curator and Participant
  • ‘GO TO HELL!’ April-fool! Radford, VA April, 2004
  • New River Regional , Radford, VA Fall, 2003 (Juror’s Honorable Mention)
  • Summer Show: ART CUBIC, Barcelona, Spain, 2003
  • ‘Reflections on the River’ Radford University, Radford, VA2002
  • ‘Richard LIII’ SOBO 2 Gallery, Tulsa, OK2002
  • ‘Racism is Obscene’ Living Arts Gallery, Tulsa, OK 1999
  • ‘Metaphors of Being’ Kaw Valley Arts Center, Kansas City, KS1997
  • ‘New Paintings’ Darbeth Gallery, Southwestern College, Winfield, KS 1997
  • ‘Kansas City’s Arts’ Avila College Gallery, Kansas City, MO1992
  • ‘The Magic Theater, for MADMEN Only’ Gallery 72, Omaha, NB1992
  • ‘The Magic Theater, #1’ Leedy/Volkous Gallery, Kansas City, MO1991
  • ‘CONNECTIONS’ Federal Reserve Gallery, Federal Reserve Bank1990
  • ‘North & South Juried Exhibition’ Missouri Southern State Univ., Joplin, MO1988
‘Mid-Four Annual Juried Exhibition’ Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO 1987
  • ‘I’m Dreaming of a Dog X-Mas’, Kansas State University Manhattan, KS, 1986
  • ‘Home for X-Mas’, Gallery Karl Oskar, Leawood, KS1985

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