CURRICULUM VITAE
KATE KRAMER
Deputy Director, Center for 21st Century Studies
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Updated February 2010
WORK ADDRESS
Center for 21st Century Studies
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
POB 413 / 3243 North Downer Avenue
Milwaukee WI 53211
t. 414.229.5044
e. kkramer@uwm.edu
CITIZENSHIP
USA (born October 3, 1964)
EDUCATION
1995
PhD, Modern Studies Program, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1989
MA, Modern Studies Program, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1987
BA, American Literature, Department of English, University of North Dakota-Grand Forks
ACADEMIC & PROGRAM APPOINTMENTS
2004 – current
Deputy Director: Center for 21st Century Studies, College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Milwaukee WI)
-Manage staff, organizational communications, calendar, budget, recruitment, and all public events (average thirteen lectures / symposia and one conference per academic year)
-Indefinite status conferred 2009
2003-04
Assistant Professor: Art History, Florida Gulf Coast University (Fort Myers FL)
-History of Visual Arts I, History of Visual Arts II, Nineteenth-Century Art, Harlem Renaissance: Art, Literature and Politics
2002-03
Visiting Assistant Professor: Art History, Florida Gulf Coast University (Fort Myers FL)
-History of Visual Arts I and History of Visual Arts II
2001-02
Visiting Assistant Professor: Art History and Literature, Florida Gulf Coast University (Fort Myers FL)
-History of Visual Arts I, History of Visual Arts II, Composition I
1993-1994
Associate Lecturer: English and Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Milwaukee WI)
-First Year Composition (computer sections), College Research and Writing
1990-1993
Graduate Teaching Assistant: English and Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Milwaukee WI)
-First Year Composition (computer sections), College Research and Writing, Writing and Critical Thinking, Strategies for Academic Writing, Literary Imagination, Great American Short Story
1988-1990
Graduate Project Assistant: Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Milwaukee WI)
1989-1991
Business Manager: Cream City Review, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Milwaukee WI)
GRANTS & AWARDS
2007-2009
Co-Principal Investigator: Advancement & Planning, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Research Growth Initiative (RGI), $200,000
2006
Project Director: “In/Dependence: Disability, Welfare and Age. A Symposium,” Wisconsin Humanities Council Grant, $1,996
1994-1995
Humanities English Predoctorate Fellow: Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago IL)
RESEARCH & TEACHING AREAS
Nineteenth – twenty-first-century American art history and literature; contemporary art and literature; African American and Native American literature and narratives; art history and literature survey courses; museum practices; modern American and European art and design; composition; cultural studies; women’s studies, public humanities
GALLERY & MUSEUM APPOINTMENTS
2003-04
Director: Art Gallery, Florida Gulf Coast University (Fort Myers FL)
-Curated, produced, coordinated and maintained contemporary visual arts exhibition and related programming (approximately eight exhibitions and five lectures)
-Programming budget: $25,000
-Initiated partnerships with FGCU student services, regional arts, healthcare, and general non-profit organizations in planning art exhibitions and events
-Planned, designed, and supervised fundraising and marketing efforts for Art Gallery underwriting and endowment-building as well as the Arts Program
2003
Interim Director: Art Gallery, Florida Gulf Coast University (Fort Myers FL
-Project manager for new construction 2,500 square foot gallery
1999-2001
Associate Curator and Docent Coordinator: Philharmonic Center for the Arts Galleries and Naples Museum of Art (Naples FL)
-Permanent collection: more than 1,500 works of art
-Programming budget: $500,000
-Project manager for new construction 30,000 square foot museum and inaugural installations
-Coordinated / curated 95 % of art exhibitions, lectures, and other art-related events as well as the build-out and installation of off-site vault
-Created docent program symposia, gallery talks, and docent training program, supervising fifty museum and volunteer staff members
-Acted as liaison for Friends of Art, 300+ volunteer fundraising organization affiliated with the Museum and Galleries
-Secured underwriting for exhibitions and lectures
1997-99
Director: Metcalfe Klofper Gallery (Naples FL)
-Oversaw all operations of an exclusive European modern art gallery, including exhibitions, sales, management, marketing, promotion, research, trade shows, catalogue production, writing
1995-97
Curator / Director: Eckert Fine Art Galleries (Naples FL)
-Oversaw all operations of a fine art gallery, including exhibitions, sales, management, marketing, research, trade shows, catalogue production, writing
EXHIBITIONS
2009
“Since 1968 Art Exhibition, Selections from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Crossman Gallery at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Permanent Collections,” Curator. Art History Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Milwaukee WI)
2004
“Memorials of Identity: New Media from the Rubell Family Collection,” Coordinator. Art Gallery at Florida Gulf Coast University (Fort Myers FL)
“Student Biannual Art Exhibition,” Organizer. Art Gallery at Florida Gulf Coast University (Fort Myers FL)
“Little Creatures: Jason Rohlf, Janis Mars Wunderlich, Fred Stonehouse, Peter Hansen, and Peter DiAntoni,” Curator. Art Gallery at Florida Gulf Coast University (Fort Myers FL)
“Porter Goss Congressional Art Exhibition: Artistic Discovery,” Coordinator. Art Gallery at Florida Gulf Coast University (Fort Myers FL)
2003
“Student Biannual Art Exhibition,” Organizer. Art Gallery at Florida Gulf Coast University (Fort Myers FL)
“Florida Visual Arts Fellowships, 25th Anniversary Exhibition, 1977-2002,” Coordinator. Art Gallery at Florida Gulf Coast University (Fort Myers FL) in collaboration with the von Liebig Art Center (Naples FL)
“ART HOUSE: The Retrospective, 1996-2002,” Curator. Art Gallery at Florida Gulf Coast University (Fort Myers FL)
“i2artContemporary 2003: FRONTIERS,” Organizer. Art Gallery at Florida Gulf Coast University (Fort Myers FL)
“Porter Goss Congressional Art Exhibition: Artistic Discovery,” Coordinator. Art Gallery at Florida Gulf Coast University (Fort Myers FL)
2001
“Cultural Reflections: The Weedman/Green Collection,” Curator. Naples Museum of Art (Naples FL)
“Modern Forces: Selections from the Naples Museum of Art Permanent Collection of American Art,” Curator. Naples Museum of Art (Naples FL)
“Breaking Barriers: Selections from the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale,” Coordinator. Naples Museum of Art (Naples FL)
“Travels in the Labyrinth: Selections from the Harry Pollak Collection,” Coordinator. Naples Museum of Art (Naples FL)
“Myth, Memory, and Imagination: Selections from the David Driskell Collection,” Coordinator. Philharmonic Center for the Arts Galleries (Naples FL)
“Post-Hypnotic (University Galleries of Illinois State University),” Coordinator. Naples Museum of Art (Naples FL)
“New York School and Beyond: Paintings from the Art Enterprises, Limited Collection,” Coordinator. Naples Museum of Art (Naples FL)
“Kyoto Prints,” Coordinator. Philharmonic Center for the Arts Galleries (Naples FL)
“Golden Age of Jazz,” Coordinator. Philharmonic Center for the Arts Galleries (Naples FL)
“Whistler & Hayden,” Coordinator. Philharmonic Center for the Arts Galleries (Naples FL)
“German Expressionist Prints,” Coordinator. Philharmonic Center for the Arts Galleries (Naples FL)
“Hard-Pressed, 600 Years of Prints & Process (International Print Center of NY),” Coordinator. Philharmonic Center for the Arts Galleries (Naples FL)
2000
“American Modern Masters: Selections from the Naples Museum of Art Permanent Collection,” Curator. Naples Museum of Art (Naples FL)
“The Philharmonic Collection,” Curator. Naples Museum of Art (Naples FL)
“Paul Signac: A Collection of Watercolors and Drawings (Arkansas Arts Center),” Coordinator. Naples Museum of Art (Naples FL)
“Arts of China: Robert and Kay Gow Collection of Chinese Art,” Coordinator. Naples Museum of Art (Naples FL)
“Reflections of Chihuly: A Naples Museum of Art Inaugural Exhibition,” Coordinator. Naples Museum of Art (Naples FL)
“Confrontational Clay: The Artist as Social Critic (Exhibits USA),” Coordinator. Philharmonic Center for the Arts Galleries (Naples FL)
“Proof Positive: 40 Years of Contemporary Printmaking at ULAE, 1957-1999 (Corcoran Gallery of Art),” Coordinator. Philharmonic Center for the Arts Galleries (Naples FL)
1999
“Theodoros Stamos: Selections, 1959-1986,” Curator and Exhibition Catalogue. Metcalfe Klopfer Gallery (Naples FL).
1998
“European Modern Masters,” Curator. Metcalfe Klopfer Gallery (Naples FL)
1997
“The Flowering of Florida Art: Tropical Landscapes from the 19th and 20th Centuries,” Curator. Eckert Fine Art (Naples FL). Catalogue essay by Dr. William H. Gerdts.
1995
“Winter Works: Rauschenberg and Pottorf,” Coordinator. Eckert Fine Art and Philharmonic Center for the Arts Galleries (Naples FL)
PUBLICATIONS
2006
Catalogue Essay: “First Impressions, The Question, and Memorials of Identity,” Memorials of Identity: New Media from the Rubell Family Collection
Encyclopedia Entries: “American Plan” and “Progressive Era Reform.” *Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work,* ed. Melissa Hope Ditmore. New Hampshire: Greenwood
1999
Feature Article: “A Storybook Wedding in Provence,” *Naples Illustrated* (Winter)
1998
Feature Article: “Shades of Gray,” *Echoes Magazine*
1994
Book Review: Reading, Writing and Rewriting the Prostitute Body by Shannon Bell, *Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture* 17.1 (Fall)
1993
Book Review: *The Female Body: Figures, Styles, Speculations,* ed. Laurence Goldstein; and *His Other Half: Men Looking at Women through Art* by Wendy Lesser, *The Drama Review* 37.3 (Fall)
1992
Book Review: “Tracing the Vanishing Woman: A Review of Tania Modeleski’s Feminism without Women,” *The Drama Review* 36.4 (Winter)
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
2002
“In Plain View: Sex Work in the Art and Life of John Sloan,” Loyola University, Chicago IL
1993
“The Vanishing Woman: Street Women in Stephen Crane’s Late Nineteenth-Century Fiction and Journalism,” University of Oregon, Eugene OR
“Pedagogy: Question of the Personal,” University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee WI
1992
“Dismantling Respectability: Domesticity, Sexuality and Women’s Fiction,” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, St. Louis MO
EXHIBITION JUROR
2003
Charlotte County Art Guild (Punta Gorda FL)
Lee County Alliance for the Arts (Fort Myers FL)
COMMUNITY PRESENTATIONS / SYMPOSIA
2003
“Harlem Renaissance,” von Leibig Art Center (Naples FL)
2002
“Signs of the Times: Contemporary Art, Communities and the Role of the Curator,” von Leibig Art Center (Naples FL)
“American Modernism” (five-part series), von Leibig Art Center (Naples FL)
2001
“Introduction to Ancient Art History: China, Greece and Egypt” (five-part series), Renaissance Academy (Fort Myers FL)
1999
“The New York School and Its Influence on Contemporary Art,” Lee County Alliance for the Arts (Fort Myers FL)
“A Brief History of European and American Impressionism,” Lee County Alliance for the Arts (Fort Myers FL)
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
since February 2008
Family Leave Task Force Member, appointed by Provost Rita Cheng, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2009
Search Committee Member and Coordinator: Director, Center for 21st Century Studies Search Committee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Search Committee Member and Coordinator: Editor, Center for 21st Century Studies Search Committee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2008
Search Committee Member and Coordinator: Editor, Center for 21st Century Studies Search Committee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2007
Search Committees Member and Coordinator: Associate Director for Advancement and Planning, Center for 21st Century Studies’ Research Growth Initiative (RGI) Award Search Committee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2004-06
Board Member: Edison Initiative Advisory Board, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2004 – 2006
2004
Tenure Review Committee Member, FGCU
2003-04
Designated Program Coordinator: Florida’s Art in State Buildings Percent for Art Program, Florida Gulf Coast University (Fort Myers FL)
-Encumbered $300,000 for six projects by coordinating committee designations, artist reviews, artist nominations, public notifications, and / or purchase of art works
COMMUNITY SERVICE
2010
Founder: IMPLEO, an occasional arts and culture publication (a program of SchoolFactory, Inc. 501[c]3, Milwaukee WI)
1991
Founding Member: Pediatric Arts Foundation (Naples FL)
-Raised $30,000 for art supplies for hospitalized children
-Developed training program for hospital / art volunteers
AFFILIATIONS, Professional
Member: American Association of Museums
AFFILIATIONS, Community
Member: Milwaukee County Zoo, Milwaukee Art Museum, NARAL, Planned Parenthood, Walkers Point Center for the Arts, WUWM, YMCA
Volunteer: Stormonth Elementary School (Fox Point WI), Obama for Change (Milwaukee WI)
LANGUAGES
French (reading)
COMPUTER SKILLS
Microsoft Office, WordPerfect, InDesignCS3, Quark, PowerPoint, Project Manager
