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[letterhead & logo: THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48202 - Phone 313-833-7900 - Cable DETINARTS THE CITY OF DETROIT: Coleman A. Young, Mayor THE ARTS COMMISSION: Joseph I. Hudson, Jr., President - Ralph McElvenny, Vice-President - Mrs. Elvin L. Davenport - Mrs. Walter B. Ford II - Judge Damon J. Keith - Max J. Pincus- A. Alfred Taubman COMMISSIONER EMERITUS: Mrs. Lydia Winston Malbin
SAMUEL SACHS II, Director MICHAEL KAN, Deputy Director
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Assistant Art Curator II
Department of Education, The Detroit Institute of Arts
Responsibilities include: coordinating educational programs and publications for the collections and special exhibitions, teaching and supervising volunteers, lecturing, touring, and writing interpretive materials.
Requirements: M.A. in Art History; minimum three years' experience in museum education; good speaking, research and writing skills.
Background in either African or Asian art is desirable but not required.
Salary range: $17,406 to $24,700
This is a civil service position with the City of Detroit. Non-Detroit residents are eligible and encouraged to apply, with the understanding that they must establish residence in the City of Detroit at the time of hire.
Send resume no later than October 30, 1987 to:
Mr. Leon Johnson Personnel Department City of Detroit 314 City-County Building Detroit, Michigan 48226
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[letterhead & logo: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY Nashville, Tennessee 37232 Telephone (615) 322-5000 Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences - School of Medicine - Direct phone 322-0999]
October 7, 1987
Professor David Driscoll [redacted]
Dear David:
I enjoyed both the opportunity to meet you and to see your art. I had already known about you because of the exhibition that you had arranged and was reminded of those by Janet Birch who is one of my good friends in Nashville.
As I said, I am pretty conventional collecting 19th century and early 20th century American art. However, I have a mother who is an artist and a daughter who would be a fine studio artist except she is a second year law student living in Georgetown. I am sending you a couple of things that I hope will be of interest.
As I told you, we are from North Carolina and Jeannette is from Marion. I still do some art work in Washington and occasionally find a painting there. Additionally, I am on the art committee of the Cosmos Club and when I can combine that with a legitimate speaking function, I do.
I hope that we can get together sometime and I would love to see the work I am sure you must have at home.
Yours sincerely, /S/ A. Everette James, Jr., Sc.M., J.D., M.D. Professor and Chairman
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Michael D. Harris (blacked out area) October 8, 1987 David Driskell (blacked out area) Dear David, I hope this letter finds you in good health and spirits, and I know you are as productive as ever evidence by the exhibition on the Harlem Renaissance you curated at the Studio Museum recently. It seemed a good idea to drop you a line to update you about my comings and goings. I am in the same program at Yale that Rick Powell began several years ago. This, of course, has the effect of slowing art production tremendously, but the new information and ideas are expanding the parameters of future possibilities. I also hope to do some work in onnecting ancient black Egyptian culture to the cosmology and expression of later West African peoples confirming a continuity. Piece of cake! The current plan is for my daughters to spend the summer with me and I wondered if you will be painting in Maine this coming summer? I would like to take them up there, and thought maybe we could pass by your studio if you aren't TOO far north. Regardless, have a pleasant year. Thanks, Michael Harris
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Michael D. Harris [redacted] Born: July 14, 1948 Cleveland, Ohio
EDUCATION M.A Program, Afro-American Studies & Art History Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Completion 1989
M.F.A., Painting, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 1979
B.S. in Education, Art Major, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, 1971 Varsity Baseball; Co-founder, Delta Epsilon chapter Omega Psy Phi Frat; Recruiter, Student Development Program
EMPLOYMENT & ACTIVITIES
Assistant Professor, Morehouse College, Atlanta, 1981 to date. Currently on leave for further study. Artist-in-Residence, Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel
Director, UNCF Summer Humanities Faculty Institute "Africa in Black Americans; Another View of the Humanities". Wrote proposal funded for $66,000 held at Morehouse four weeks in July 1985.
Instructor (part-time), Georgia State University Atlanta, 1984-85
Curriculum Consultant, Portland, Oregon Public Schools 1982 to present. Wrote curriculum content essay about Black art to be used in teacher training.
Panelist, Piedmont Arts Festival Artist Market Panel Atlanta, 1984-1986
Panelist, Georgia Council for the Arts & Humanities Visual Arts Advisory Panel, 1983-1985
Member, Contemporary Art Gallery Advisement Committee Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 1985
Georgia Representative, Southern Arts Federation Visual Arts Review Panel, 1985
Designer/Faculty Advisor, Contract to design an archaeological resources flyer for the National Parks Service through Morehouse College, 1983-1984
Instructor, Crossroads School for Youthful Offenders Special Audiences, Inc., Atlanta, Spring 1983
Instructor, Southwest De Kalb County, Georgia Senior Citizens Center, Strange Apples, Inc., Fall 1982
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Instructor (part-time), Atlanta Junior College, 19801982. Includes artist-in-residency 6 months of 1981
Instructor, Atlanta University Summer School, 1982
Artist-in-Residence/Gallery Director, Neighborhood Arts Center, Atlanta, 1980-81 (Gallery Dir. - 1982)
Art Teacher (long-term sub.) Norfolk, Virginia Public Schools. Also Adult Evening School Teacher, 1979
Artist-in-Residence, Georgia Council for the Arts & Humanities, Atlantic Public Schools, 1978; Dougherty County Public Schools, 1977
Photographer/Salesman, National School Studios Cleveland, Ohio, 1974-1976
Art Teacher, Cleveland Public Schools, 1971-1973 Acting Department Chairman, 1972-73
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
"Africobra/Farafindugu", Sermac Cultural Center Fort De France, Martinique
"Exposition in Black II", Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans
Group Show with Jacob Lawrence, Ed Dwight & 5 black artists, McIntosh Gallery, Atlanta
Atlanta Life Insurance Cop., National, Atlanta, 1987; 1986; 1985 Third Price, Mixed media; 1984; 1982, First Prize, Textiles; 1980
1986
"Images in Cloth and Fiber", Fashion Moda Gallery Bronx, New York
"Africobra/Farafindugu", Norfolk State University
"Choosing: Changing Perspectives in Modern Art and Art Criticism by Black Americans 1925-1985", Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago. Traveled until 1987
Two Man Show with Wadsworth Jarrell, Georgia Southern College, Statesboro, Georgia
1985
"Black Atlanta Printmakers", American Center, Helsinki, Finland. Traveled to Sweden in 1986
"Atlanta in France", 3 part exhibition in Paris,. Toulouse, and Angoleme. Co-ordinated by the City of Atlanta and the French Ministry of Culture
"Contemporary Textiles", AC-BAW Gallery, Mt. Vernon, New York
