art/art services

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

                      Legacy Honoree, Louisville Visual Art Honors, 2021

                      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 - New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art Advisory Board

                            1985 - present                 

                       Consultant – Kentucky Peer Advisory Network (KPAN), 1998 - present

                       Member – Standiford Art Foundation, Louisville International Airport,

                             1997 – present, Chair 2002 

                       Member- Board of Directors, Arts & Cultural Attractions Council, Louisville,KY

                            1999 – 2013

                       Mayor's Advisory Committee on Public Amenities, (MACOPA), Louisville, kY

                           1990 – 2007; (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 1991-1993, Secretary/Treasurer, 1985/86,

                        Louisville Film & Video Festival Advisory Committee

                            1989 - 2003

 

professional activities  (management/professional advisory) –

                        Member, IKT (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art)

                               2022 - present

                        Member, Kentucky Peer Advisors Network (KPAN) 2000 - present

                               KPAN Consultancies

                                  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

                                  KPAN Consultant to 

                           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 , Ohio, 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.