Occupation: Painter, Instructor Media: Acrylic, Oil. Born Chadbourn, NC, April 6, 1938.
Education Vanderbilt Univ, BA, 60, PhD, 72.
Teaching Positions Instr, Pollard Studio, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 86-; instructor drawing & painting, Art League Bonita Springs, Florida, 96-99; instructor painting, Cape Coral Arts Studio, Florida, 99-2004; instructor painting & sculpture, Von Leibig Center Arts, Naples, Florida, 99-2003 & Visual Arts Center, Punta Gorda, Florida, 2001-; lectr, Florida Gulf Coast Univ Renaissance Acad, 2007-, Ringling Coll Art & Design, Continuing Education, 2007-.
Business and Professional Positions Proj coordination, Television, Radio & Film Comn, 62-64; board chairman, Von Leibig Center Arts, Naples, Florida, 2003-04; board chairman, Visual Arts Center, Punta Gorda, Florida, 2005-; president, Art Inst Florida Inc, Punta Gorda, 2006-.
Public Works Nat Gallery, London; Ave Maria Univ Mus, Naples, Florida.
Exhibitions Solo exhibs, The Parthenon, Nashville, Tennessee, 72 & Nat Trust Larson Gallery, Naples, Florida, 2000 & Goff Gallery at Visual Arts Center, Punta Gorda, Florida, 2003; Glimpses of the Sea, Mus of Everglades, Naples, Florida, 98; The Easter Exhib, Cape Coral Arts Studio, Florida, 99; People, Places, Things, Impac Univ, Punta Gorda, Florida, 2004; The Entombment, Ave Maria Univ, Naples, Florida, 2004-05; Solo retrospective, Arts & Humanities Gallery, Port Charlotte, Florida, 2005.
Bibliography M Gomez (author), The 2005 H Pollard Retrospective, CESA Press, 2005.
Publications Author, The Art of Frances Morton Pollard, 2000, The Madman of Arles, 2003, Pollard's Brief Handbook for Painters, 2004 & Pollard's Infinite Palette, 2006, CESA Press; editor, A Life Remembered, CESA Press, 2004.
Honors and Awards First Judges Award, Visual Arts Center Fifth Nat Art Exhib, 2004; Bowles Award for Portraiture, Faces & Figures, Bill & Susanne Bowles, 2005; First Place, Nat Aviation Art Exhib, 2006.
Memberships Von Leibig Center Arts (president, 2002-03); Art Coun SW Florida (rep, 2002-03); Visual Arts Center (president, 2005-06); Peace River Nat Arts Festival (plan board chairman, 2006); Nat Aviation Art Exhib (chairman, 2006).
Research Area Italian baroque art; Ancient Greek, Chinese & Roman coin-making techniques.
Dealers L M Gomez 1001 Montlake Road Soddy-Daisy TN 37379.
