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Raymond Yeager

Foundation studies professor

Education

  • M.F.A., art, University of Florida
  • B.F.A., art, Valdosta State University

Credentials

  • Professor of foundation studies, September 2019–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Program director and associate professor of art, 2011–19, University of Charleston, Charleston, WV
    Managed art program, developed curriculum, managed budget, scheduled courses, evaluated faculty, supervised assessment reports, and recruited prospective majors.
  • Associate professor of art, 2000–11
    Chair, division of humanities and fine arts, 2008–11
    Chair of art department, 2000–08, MacMurray College, Jacksonville, IL
    Managed art, English, history, modern language, music, and philosophy programs, developed curriculum, managed division budget, scheduled division courses, evaluated division faculty, supervised assessment reports, recruited prospective majors, directed Applebee Gallery from 2000–10, and helped with design of a new Putnam Center for the Arts building, which required facility design, and equipment ordering/installation.
  • Coordinator of art, 1998–2000, Darton College, Albany, GA
    Managed art department program, redesigned curriculum, recruited art majors (went from 18 to 45), designed sets for theater productions, coordinated an annual exhibition of student work, and edited the college’s annual literary and art magazine.
  • Visiting assistant professor of art, 1997–98, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buchannon, WV

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Online course development grant, Title III Grant, 2015 and 2016
  • UC Builders Grant, 2013
  • Green Foundation Grant, 2008
  • Finalist Award, Illinois Arts Council, 2007

Organizations

  • Vice president of education, Integrative Teaching International (ITI)
  • College Art Association (CAA)
  • Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE)
  • Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC)

Publications and presentations

Exhibitions

  • Photography 6, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO, 2018
  • Abstract Mind 2018, 3rd International Exhibition on Abstract Art, CICA, Seoul, South Korea, 2018
  • 7th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Marshall University, Huntington, WV, 2018
  • 32nd Annual POSITIVE/NEGATIVE National Juried Art Exhibition, Slocumb Galleries, ETSU, Johnson City, TN, 2017
  • When the Bell Tolls …, solo exhibition, West Virginia State Bar, Charleston, WV, 2017
  • Detroit Biennale, Museum of New Art, Troy, MI, 2016
  • Quotidian: Art of the Everyday, Moon Gallery, Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA, 2016
  • Peace Among Savages a.k.a. The Gun Show, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2016
  • Noticing Nature, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO, 2016
  • Raymond Yeager – Recent Works, solo exhibition, West Virginia State Bar, Charleston, WV, 2014
  • In Rerum Natura, solo exhibition, Bluefield College, Bluefield, VA, 2013
  • Shady: Our Neighbors in the Trees, Arts Monongahela, Morgantown, WV, 2013
  • Solo exhibition, Ingham Chapman Gallery, University of New Mexico at Gallup, NM, 2012
  • Solo exhibition, Frankenberger Art Gallery, Charleston, WV, 2011
  • Solo exhibition, The William and Florence Schmidt Art Center, Belleville, IL, 2011
  • Sioux City Art Center 62nd Juried Exhibition, Sioux City, IA, 2011
  • Fuzzy Logic, Thompson Gallery, The Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA, 2010
  • Raymond Yeager: The Janus Series, solo exhibition, Edwardsville Art Center, Edwardsville, IL, 2010

Podcasts

  • CAA Conversations Podcast, Ray Yeager and Katherine Barnes, December 18, 2017.
  • Positive Space: Conversations in Art Foundations, FATE Podcast Series, Ep. 5, January 2017.

Conference papers/publications

  • "The Complicated Life of a Frustrated Sculptor Trapped in the Body of a Painter," presented at Southeaster Conference of Art Colleges, Birmingham, AL, Oct. 17–20, 2018.
  • "The Technology Divide: Tensions Between the Hand and New Media – Silence of the Muse," presented at Mid-America College of Art Association, Lincoln, NE, Oct. 4–5, 2018.
  • "ThinkTank 10 Biennial Conference: Compass Points: Navigating the Landscapes of Art, Design, Mind and Body." Juried participant, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, June 13–16, 2018.
  • "Who Is That in the Mirror?" Presented at Southeaster Conference of Art Colleges, Columbus, OH, Oct. 26–28, 2017.
  • "Readymade Killed the Art Star: Creativity vs. Skills Debate," presented at Foundations in Art: Theory and Education Conference, "Beyond the Core," Kansas City, MO, April 6–8, 2017.
  • "Mentors/Teachers: Practice and Advocacy." Lead author at Future Forward: Citizen/Artist: Education and Agency, vol 5 issue 1, Official Journal of Integrative Teaching International, 2017.
  • "Pain in the Assessment." Panel chair at Southeastern Conference of Art Colleges, Roanoke, VA, Oct. 19–22, 2016.
  • "I Feel a Draft in Here?" Presented at Southeastern Conference of Art Colleges, Roanoke, VA, Oct. 19–22, 2016.
  • "Mentors/Teachers: Practice and Advocacy." Facilitator at ThinkTank 9 Biennial Conference: Compass Points: Navigating the Landscapes of Art, Design, Mind and Body, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, June 8–11, 2016.
  • "WALK A LINE OUTSIDE THE STUDIO: How Drawing Can Foster Cognitive Thinking in Art and Other Disciplines," presented at Southeastern Conference of Art Colleges, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 21–24, 2015.
  • "Measuring Success: Critique, Rubrics and Assessment." Co-author in Future Forward: Grounded Strategy, vol. 4 issue 1, Official Journal of Integrative Teaching International, 2015.
  • "Buy The Ticket, Take the Ride: How to Take the Fear and Loathing Out of the Required Art Class," presented at Foundations in Art: Theory and Education Conference – Tectonic Shifts, Indianapolis, IN, March 26–28, 2015.

Guest artist exhibitions and lectures

  • Jacksonville University’s low-residency M.F.A. in Visual Arts program, 2013 and 2016
  • Visiting artist residency/exhibition, Lyon College, Batesville, AR, 2008
  • Visiting artist residency/exhibition/installation, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL, 2007
  • "Creativity and Innovation in Business: An Artist’s Perspective," University of Pittsburgh at Titusville, PA, 2016.
  • "Dissolution of Realism," University of Illinois at Springfield, IL, 2008.
  • "Abstraction of the Real," Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL, 2007.
  • "State of the Arts in Florida," 1993.