Joy Leane Gritton
110 Claypool-Young Building
Morehead State University, Morehead, KY 40351
(606) 783-2762 (office)
j.gritton@moreheadstate.edu
Current and Past Positions:
1997-present Professor of Art History, Department of Art and Design,Morehead State University (undergraduate and graduate courses in Western and non-Western art history, including Appalachian Arts, Native American Art, and Arts of the U. S.)
1997 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History and American Studies, University of New Mexico
1989-1996 Professor (Non-Ranked), Native American Art History, Institute of American Indian Arts
Education:
University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D., Art History, 1995
University of New Mexico M. A., Art History, 1984
University of Kentucky B. A., Art History, 1980
Publications:
"Allen Eaton: American Art and Progressive Reform", University Press of Kentucky, forthcoming.
"William Morris, Walmart, and Appalachian Arts: a Personal Reflection," Journal of Kentucky Studies, 23 (2006), pp. 79-82.
“Made in America with the Exception of Two: Native American and Appalachian Arts Come of Age.” In Thirty Years of Native American Art History: Essays in Native American Art to Honor J. J. Brody, ed. Joyce Szabo (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001, pp. 164-186.
The Institute of American Indian Arts: Modernism and U. S. Indian Policy. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000.
“How Art Heals.” Crosswinds, 9, No. 8 (August 1992), pp. 9-12. Co-authored with Stephen LaBoueff.
“Cross-Cultural Education vs. Modernist Imperialism: The Institute of American Indian Arts.” Art Journal, 51, No. 3 (Fall 1992), pp. 28-35.
“The Institute of American Indian Arts: A Convergence of Ideologies.” In Shared Visions: Native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century, Eds. Margaret Archuleta and Rennard Strickland, 2nd ed. (New York: The New Press, 1991, originally published by the Heard Museum), pp. 22-29.
“Labrets and Tattooing in Native Alaska.” In Marks of Civilization: Artistic Transformations of the Human Body, Ed. Arnold Rubin (Los Angeles: Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, 1988).
Awards and Grants:
2016 “Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: Allen Eaton and the Arts of the WWII Japanese Relocation Camps,” Research and Creative Productions Grant, $2,496
2016 Fulbright Scholar in Residence Grant and Sponsor, $14,070
2016 Kentucky Foundation for Women Art Meets Activism Grant: “The Olmsted Girls Project,” (mentor), $2,912
2011 "Eastern Kentucky Women Artists Working for Social Change" Oral History Project, Kentucky Oral History Commission, $1285
2010 "EKAP Oral History and Artist Cyber Network Project," Kentucky Foundation for Women, $3,000
2010 Digital Image Management System Grant $7,500
2008 "The Life and Work of Allen Eaton in Historical Context," Center for Regional Engagement Grant, $3,600
2008 Sabbatical, Allen Eaton research and writing (fall semester)
2006 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grant, $1,000
2004 “Allen Eaton and the Crafts Revival” Institute for Regional Analysis and Public Policy Grant, $1,405
2000 “Appalachian Art and the Rockefeller Foundation” Institute for Regional Analysis and Public Policy Grant, $1,563
Selected Papers/Presentations:
2017 “James Hopkins: A Primitivist in Appalachia?” Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia
2017 “Can We Paint and Sing Our Way to Empowerment in the Mountains?”Appalachian Studies Association, Blacksburg, Virginia
2016 “Allen Eaton and Olive Dame Campbell: Two Perspectives on Education and te Arts in the Region,” Appalachian Studies Association, Shepherdstown, West Virginia
2016 “Goblins, Gardens, and the Grass Roots: Morehead State University’s Parntership with the Haldeman Community Center, Appalachian Studies Association annual conference, Shepherdstown, West Virginia
2015 “A Med Student in a Bonnet and a Rifle Maker in Heels: Revisiting Doris Ulmann,” Appalachian Studies Association, Johnson City, Tennessee
2014 “Art is all right for the rich or for the idle, but what have we workers to do with it?” Appalachian Studies Association, Morgantown, West Virginia
2013 “The Haldeman Community Center: One Community in Action,” Appalachian Studies Association, Boone, North Carolina
2012 “Prescription Panes: The Art of Bonita Skaggs Parsons,” Southeast College Art Association annual conference, Durham, North Carolina
2012 “Allen Eaton’s “Exhibition of Rural Arts” After 75 Years: A Dream for Country Life and Crafts,” Appalachian Studies Association, Indiana Pennsylvania
2011 "The Social Survey and Eaton's Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands,"Appalachian Studies Association conference, Richmond, Kentucky
2010 "Allen Eaton and Progressive Reform," Appalachian Studies Association conference, Dahlonega, Georgia
2009 "Past to Future: Teaching and Learning Strategies for Native American Arts and Cultures in the Appalachian Region," Southeast Native Education Summit, Bowling Green,, Kentucky
2009 "Legacy and Liability: Reform Movements and Appalachian Art," Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Portsmouth, Ohio
2008 "Service Learning and Participatory Research: The Road Ahead," Chair, Appalachian Studies Association Conference session, Huntington, West Virginia
2006 “Teaching Art History in Appalachia: Lessons in Respect, Relevance, and Resistance,” College Art Association Conference, Boston
2006 “How Sergeant York and Allen Eaton Meet on the Battlefield of Technology," Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Dayton, Ohio,
2005 "Vital Words, Vital Actions: The Arts Philosophy of Allen Eaton"
Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Radford, Virginia
2004 "Lovingly, Clem…Affectionately, AE: The Letters of Clementine Douglas and Allen Eaton," Appalachian Studies Associatio Conference, Cherokee, North Carolina
2002 “The Southern Highland Handicraft Guild and the Rockefeller General Education Board’s Craft Education Program,” Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Helen, Georgia
2001 “The Marian Heard Survey,” Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Snowshoe, West Virginia
1999 “Hillbilly and Noble Savage Artists: What Lessons Might They Share?”
Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Abingdon, Virginia,
1998 "Art and the Healing Process: A New Paradigm." Co-Chair, College Art Association Annual Conference session, Toronto, Canada
1992 “The Rockefeller Foundation and the Institute of American Indian Arts,” Moderator, “Shared Visions” Conference, Heard Museum, Phoenix
1990 “Institution/Revolution: Postmodern Native American Art.” College Art Association Conference, NewYork.
Selected Service:
2015-present Program Chair, Appalachian Studies Association 2018 conference
2016-present Member, Steering Committee, Appalachian Studies Association
2008-present Coordinator, MSU Appalachian Studies Interdisciplinary Program
2006-present Founder and Coordinator, Eastern Kentucky Arts Project (www.ekap.org)
2011-present Kentucky Craft Encyclopedia Advisory Committee
2014-present Member, Appalachian Studies Association Diversity and Inclusion Committee
2011-present Active member, Rowan County Chapter of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
2012-present Co-Coordinator, Haldeman Community Center After School Program
2013-present Caudill College Curriculum Committee
2013, 2015 Member, Grant Review Panel for the Kentucky Foundation for Women
2010-present Chair, Art and Design Tenure and Promotion Committee
2008-2009 Chair, Faculty General Education Advisory Council
1997-present Coordinator, Department of Art and Design Visual Resources Center
1997-present Department of Art and Design Library Liaison
2008-2011 Coordinator, MSU-Rowan County Middle School Drug Awareness Poster Project
2007-2010 Board Member, Rowan County (Kentucky) Habitat for Humanity