JP Begley
art/art services
Welcome to JPBegley-art/art services - artist/curator and arts consultant.
the intersection between drawing, painting, printmaking
and digital technology!
After forty years being a printmaker and painter, as well as a gallery director and teacher, inspired by David Hockney, I began drawing on my iPhone in the summer of 2014. Since December 2014, I have completed and posted at least one digital drawing each day.
Most begin with an appropriated image encountered in my daily existence. I find the ubiquity and constant presence of the phone both inspiring and challenging. It provides a most serious playground for dada abstraction and absurdist commentary.
The ability of the digital format to assume, usurp, re-contextualize and manipulate images allows me to engage with both historic and contemporary issues of post-modern, interdisciplinary art.
ABOUT JP Begley:
JOHN PHILLIP BEGLEY
1506 Hepburn Ave.
Louisville, Kentucky 40204
(502) 581-1849 jpbegley@bellsouth.net
(502) 533-1009 (cell) john.begley@louisville.edu
employment history
current Freelance art worker (artist, curator, art services provider)
prior Gallery Director and Assistant Professor of Art (Emeritus)
Critical and Curatorial Studies graduate program coordinator
Allen R. Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville 2001 – 2014 (Retired)
Director, Louisville Visual Art Association
3005 Upper River Rd., Louisville, KY 40207, 1983 - 2001
Director, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, (founding director)
Historic New Harmony Inc., New Harmony, IN 47631, 1975-1983
Adjunct Instructor, Art Department, University of Evansville,
Publisher/Printer, New Harmony Print Workshop, New Harmony, IN
Apprentice Printer, Landfall Press, Chicago IL, 1975
Graduate Research Assistant (for Rudy Pozzatti), Indiana University, 1973- 1975
1st LT, Training Officer, U.S. Army, Ft. Knox, KY, 1971-1972
individual grants/awards
Arts Leadership Award, Louisville Visual Art, 2012
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, 1978
Apprenticeship Fellowship, Landfall Press 1975
Doctoral Research grant-in-aid, Indiana University 1974
Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Scholarship, University
of New Mexico 1968
education
Master of Fine Arts, Indiana University, l975
Bachelor of Fine Arts, with distinction, University of New Mexico, 1969
continuing
Fund for the Arts Leadership Workshop, Disney Institute, 1999
Kentucky Peer Advisor’s Network (KPAN) Leadership training workshop,
Arts Kentucky/Arts Extension Service, 1998, 2003
Strategic Leadership in a Changing Environment, National Arts
Stabilization Seminar, 1997
Museum Management Institute, American Federation for the Arts/
J. Paul Getty Trust, Berkeley, CA 1989
leadership profile
community service
Member – Standiford Art Foundation, Louisville International Airport,
1997 – present; Chair 2002 to present
Member - New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art Advisory Board
1985 - present
Member- Board of Directors, Arts & Cultural Attractions Council, Louisville,KY
1999 – 2013
Consultant – Kentucky Peer Advisory Network (KPAN), 1998 - 2015
Mayor's Advisory Committee on Public Amenities, Louisville, kY
1990 – 2011; (Chair 1997-2004)
Member - MetroLouisville Downtown Design Review Overlay (DDRO)
Committee, 1993 – 2005
Member (founding)- Zephyr Gallery Artists Cooperative, Louisville
1987- 2014
Member (organizing committee), American Craft Council –
South East Region, 2006 Annual Conference
Member (founding) – Board of Directors, Open Ground, Inc.
2003-2008
Member - Advisory Board, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN, 1985-2003
Visual Arts Network, (now LOOK - Louisville Art Dealers and Presenteres Network)
President 1988-90; Treasurer 1991-present: Secretary/Treasurer, 1985/86,
Louisville Film & Video Festival Advisory Committee
1989 - 2003
professional activities (management/professional advisory) –
Kentucky Peer Advisors Network (KPAN)
KPAN Consultant to Grayson County Arts Council, 2003
KPAN Consultant to Open Ground, Willisburg, KY 2003
KPAN Consultant to Sarabande Books, Louisville, KY 2002/3
KPAN Consultant to Berea Arts Council, Berea, KY 2002
KPAN Consultant to the Kentucky Guild of Artists & Craftsmen, 2001
KPAN Consultant, to Little Loomhouse, Louisville, KY 2000
IMLS/IMS GOS Grants program Field Reviewer, 1993, 1995, 1998 and 2002
Panelist, Museums Program, Florida State Division of Cultural Arts, 1999, 2002
Panelist, Kentucky Arts Council, Individual Artists Project grants,1999
Panelist, Kentucky Arts Council, Arts Development Grants, 1997
Panel Member, CultureWorks Grants Program, Miami Valley Arts Alliance, Dayton, OH 1997
Panelist, Kentucky Arts Council, Arts Projects Development Grant, 1978
Panelist, Indiana Arts Comission, GOS and Project Support Panels, 1977-1982
References - available upon request.
