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Margaret Wilkerson

Art history professor

Education

  • Ph.D., art history, University of Maryland
  • M.A., art history, Vanderbilt University
  • B.A., psychology, Vanderbilt University

Credentials

  • Professor of art history, 2019–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta
  • Department of Education coordinator of education volunteers, 2013–19, High Museum of Art, Atlanta
  • Course instructor, 2016–17, High Museum of Art, HIGH Art Courses Series, Atlanta
  • Consultant lecturer, 2011, Sotheby's Institute of Art, London
  • Course instructor, 2010, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Department of Education, consultant lecturer, 2010, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  • Adjunct professor, 2000–02, 2010, New York University, School of Continuing and Professional Studies, New York
  • Department of Education, Manager of Docent Program and Teaching Fellows, 2009, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  • Adjunct professor, 2007–09, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
  • Department of Education, teaching fellow, 2001–05, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  • Department of Education, museum fellow, 2001–02, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  • Adjunct professor, 2001–03, The New School, Parsons School of Design, New York
  • Conference coordinator, 2000–01, College Art Association, New York
  • Department of Education, lecturer, Teacher Institute, 1999, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  • Department of Education, lecturer, School and Teacher Programs, 1999, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  • Adjunct professor, 1998–99, The University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Distinguished Teaching Assistantship Award, Department of Women's Studies and the Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Maryland at College Park, 1998–99
  • Graduate Teaching Fellowship (Four-Year Tenure), Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland at College Park, 1996; Department of Women's Studies, University of Maryland at College Park, 1998

Publications and presentations

  • "Kiki Smith's Unruly Breasts," presented at College Art Association, 90th Annual Conference, Feb. 23, 2002.
  • "Problems in Imaging and Theorizing the Female Body in Contemporary Art and Theorym," presented at Women Artists Colloquium, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, April 10, 1999.
  • "Movements, Manifestoes, Modernisms: Problems in Surrealism," presented at Graduate Seminar Lecture, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland at College Park, Jan. 1999.
  • "Kiki Smith's 'Volatile Bodies,'" presented at Graduate Symposium, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland at College Park, Oct. 1997.
  • "Nancy Fried," Terra Firma. Exhibition catalogue, College Park, MD: The Art Gallery, University of Maryland at College Park, 1997.