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    Victoria Cooke

    Victoria Cooke

    Director of Art Galleries

    Phone678-717-3438

    Office locationArt & Technology Building, 1703, Gainesville

    Area(s) of Expertise: 18th and 19th century European art and architecture, Northern and Southern Baroque Art and Architecture, Contemporary Art, Art of the American South

    Overview

    Victoria Cooke is a professional curator. She joined the Department of Visual Arts in 2016 as the Director of Art Galleries bringing contemporary artists to students on the Dahlonega, Gainesville, and Oconee campuses. She has created upper-level art history and exhibition practices classes to provide students with practical knowledge to inform their careers.

    Her research expertise is wide ranging. She has curated major exhibitions on early 19th century American and European art and culture, Impressionism, American Modernism and contemporary African-American Art. She has focused more recently on contemporary art and craft in the Southeastern United States.

    Cooke received B.A. degrees in Behavioral Psychology, French Literature and Interior Design with a minor in Art history from the University of Mississippi in Oxford. She went on to receive a M.A. in Art History at Tulane University in New Orleans. She completed all requirements, save the dissertation, in the PhD program at the University of Delaware before taking the position of Curator of Painting at New Orleans Museum of Art. She has also served in curatorial positions at the Louisiana State University Museum of Art in Baton Rouge and Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, S.C.

    Courses Taught

    • Exhibition Practices
    • Contemporary Art Exhibitions
    • Introduction to Art History II
    • Art Appreciation

    Education

    • ABD, Art History, University of Deleware, 1997
    • M.A., Art History, Tulane University, 1994  
    • B.A., Interior Design, University of Mississippi, 1990   
    • B.A., Behavioral Science, University of Mississippi, 1986   

    Noteworthy

    Selected Publications

    • “Curator’s Eye: Mary Ann “Toots” Zensky”, Modern Magazine, 2014 (Spring): 100.
    • Contributor, Treasures of LSU, ed. Laura Lindsey. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2010: entries on Marie Adrien Persac, Caroline Durieux, and John T. Scott
    • Catalog editor and essay contributor, Jefferson’s America & Napoleon’s France: An Exhibition for the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial. New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, in association with University of Washington Press, 2003.
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