Julia Marsakek Dawson

Curriculum Vita

• Degrees and Education
  
• Awards and Honors
  
• Selected Exhibitions, Works in Public Collections
  
• Teaching and Related Experience
  
• Community Service, Professional Memberships

Degrees and Additional Education

• Master of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin, May 1976.
  Major: Studio Art; Minor: Art History.
  Area of concentration: Photography (with Garry Winogrand).
  Thesis title: Photographs of the Social Landscape.
  
• Bachelor of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin, May 1973.
  Major: Studio Art; Minor: Art History.
  Area of concentration: Photography (with Russell Lee)
  
• Photography workshop with Geoff Winningham, Austin, Texas, 1973.
  
• Photography workshop with Minor White, Austin, Texas, 1971.
  
• Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1966 and 1960-1962. Major: History; Minor: Government.
  
• Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, 1959-1960. Major: History; Minor: Music.

Honors and Awards

• First Place Purchase Award: Positive/Negative VIII Exhibition, East Tennesee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee. February, 1992.
  
• Juror's Award, Illuminance '90, Lubbock, Texas. May, 1990.
  
• Juror's Achievement Award, Common Ground: Beyond Boundaries, Dallas, Texas. November, 1989.
  
• The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, The University of Texas at Austin. May, 1976.
  
• Ford Foundation Grant-in-Aid, The University of Texas at Austin. Spring, 1975.

Selected Exhibitions

2005

Brookhaven College Art Faculty Exhibition

2004

Brookhaven College Art Faculty Exhibition

2003

Brookhaven College Art Faculty Exhibition

2002

Brookhaven College Art Faculty Exhibition

2001

Brookhaven College Art Faculty Exhibition1997

Julia Dawson Photograhs, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana.

1995

Julia Marsalek Dawson: Photographer. Fixing Shadows WWW page, University of Virginia. J. David Sapir, curator. WWW URL: http://fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU80/~js8s/

1993

DARE A - Z. Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas. August.

1992

Conflicts and Solutions, Juried Competition, Dallas Women's Caucus for Art, Trammell Crow Center, Dallas, Texas. November-December. Juror: Marla Price, Director, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas.

48th Annual Competition, Museums of Abeline, Abeline, Texas. March-April. Juror: Kevin Donovan, Curator, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas.

1991

Positive/Negative VIII Exhibition, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennesee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee. February-March. Juror: Gael Stack, painter and Professor of Art, University of Houston, Houston, Texas. First Place Purchase Award.

Expanding Visions: Women of the Metroplex, Juried Competition, Dallas Women's Caucua for Art, Dallas, Texas. November. Juror: Dr. Annegreth Nill, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas.

1990

A Decade of Showing Off, 1980-1989, Allen Street Gallery, Dallas, Texas. September- October. Juror: Murray Smither, art dealer and consultant.

Illuminance '90, Lubbock Fine Arts Center, Lubbock, Texas. April-May; traveling through 1991. Juror: Robert Hirsch, Associate Professor of Photography and Director, Southern Light Gallery at Amarillo College. Juror's Award.

1989

Juried Exhibition, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas. December. Jurors: Julie Bozzi, artist; Hung Liu, artist.

Common Ground: Beyond Boundaries, Fourth Annual Juried Competition, Dallas Women's Caucus for Art, Dallas, Texas. November. Juror: Marilyn Zeitlin, Curator, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas. Juror's Achievement Award.

Julia Marsalek Dawson: Photographs, One Person Exhibition, Kilgore College, Kilgore, Texas. September.

Visions/Discourses: Contemporary Texas Photographers on the 150th Anniversary of Photography, Forum Gallery, Brookhaven College, Farmers Branch, Texas. September. Curator: David Newman, Instructor of Art, Brookhaven College.

Illuminance '89, Lubbock Fine Arts Center, Lubbock, Texas. April. Juror: Peter Brown, Instructor of Photography, Rice University,Houston, Texas.

1988

Common Ground: The Women's Connection, Dallas Women's, Caucus for Art, Dallas, Texas. November. Juror: Lynn Gumpert, New York Curator, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

1987

Art in the Metroplex, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas. Fall. Juror: Donald Kuspit, critic, Professor, State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Sixth Annual Open Exhibition, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas. Spring.

Julia Marsalek Dawson: Photographs, Forum Gallery, Brookhaven College, Farmers Branch, Texas. January-February.

1986

Fifth Annual Open Exhibition, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas. Spring.

1985

National Juried Exhibition of Women Fine Arts Photographers, Women Photographers in America, Los Angeles, California. April-May. Jurors: Josine Ianco Starrels, Director, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, and Irene Borger, critic.

Fourth Annual Open Exhibition, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas. Spring.

1984

International Photography Exhibition, Crane's Creek Center for Creative Studies, Cameron, North Carolina. Summer. Juror: Beth Schneider, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Juried Exhibition, DW Gallery, Dallas, Texas. Spring. Juror: Jill Kornblee, Kornblee Gallery, New York.

Sixth Annual Exhibition, Austin Contemporary Visual Arts Association, Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, Texas. Spring. Jurors: Roy Flukinger, Director, Photography Collections, Harry Ransom Humanities Resource Center, The University of Texas at Austin, and Warren Hadler, Hadler-Rodriguez Gallery, Houston, Texas.

1977

1977 Artists' Biennial Exhibition, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana. May-June. Juror: Jack Boulton, Associate Director, International Exhibitions Committee, American Federation of the Arts, Washington, D. C.

1976

M. F. A. Thesis Exhibition, Archer M. Huntington Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. Summer.

Faculty Exhibition, Archer M. Huntington Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.

1975

Four Austin Photographers, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. August-September. Guest Curator: Garry Winogrand.

Faculty Exhibition, Archer M. Huntington Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.

1973

University of Texas at Austin Student Photography and Drawing Exhibition, Slippery Rock College, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania. Curator: Russell Lee.

1971

Group Exhibition, Camden House Gallery, San Antonio, Texas. Spring.

Group Exhibition, Elizabet Ney Museum, Austin, Texas.

Works In Public Collections

• East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee.
  
• Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania.

Teaching Experience

• Adjunct Professor, Department of Art, Brookhaven College, 2001 - present.
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Freshman Design, Department of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, September, 1975 - May, 1976. Completely responsible for developing and teaching freshman two-dimensional design course.
  
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Photography, Department of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, July, 1974 - August, 1975. Responsible for instruction of beginning photography students in black and white film processing and printing; managed lab facilities for 150 students per semester; responsible for equipment and supply inventory control and for mixing chemicals.

Related Work Experience

• Origami Instructor, Education Department, Dallas Museum of Natural History, Dallas, Texas. Fall, 1992.
  
• Interviewer, Department of Gerontology and Geriatric Services, School of Allied Health Sciences, The University of Texas Heath Science Center at Dallas. September, 1986 - September, 1987.
  
• Custom Color Printer, The Color Lab, Incorporated, Dallas, Texas. October, 1984 - July, 1985.
  
• Custom Color Printer, The Color Place, Incorporated, Dallas, Texas. July, 1979 - August, 1984.
  
• Custom Color Printer, Meisel Photochrome Corporation, Dallas, Texas. October, 1978 - June, 1979.
  
• Night Supervisor, Women's Residence Halls, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. September, 1976 - September, 1978.
  
• Research Assistant, Photography, The Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. March, 1973 - July, 1974.

Community Service

• Education, Exhibition Design, Paleontology Research Volunteer, Dallas Museum of Natural History, Dallas, Texas. September, 1989 - 2001
  
• Artist Contributor; EASL (Emergency Artists Survival League) Auction Hat's Off, August 1994.
  
• Artist Contributor, Fine Arts Auction, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas. 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990.
  
• Arts Advocate Volunteer Art Teacher, First and Second Grades, Nathan Adams Elementary School, Dallas, Texas. October, 1992 - May, 1993.
  
• Origami Classes, 4th, 5th, 6th grades, Nathan Adams Elementary School, Dallas, Texas. Special Outreach Project, Dallas Museum of Natural History. Spring, 1992.
  
• Education Specialist, Ramses the Great Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Natural History, Dallas, Texas. February, 1989 - August, 1989.
• Friends of Photography at The Dallas Museum of Art. Program Committee: responsible for all arrangements for the Andrea Inselmann lecture, May 5, 1994.
  
• DARE: Dallas Artists Research and Exhibition. Advocacy Committee.

Professional Memberships

• ARCE: American Research Center in Egypt, North Texas Chapter. Program Committee.
  
• College Art Association of America.
  

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