Occupation: Painter, Museum Director, Art Historian Media: Acrylic, Watercolor, Collage, Pen, Ink, Art Consultant. Born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 2, 1932.
Honorary Degrees Tbilisi Fine Arts Acad, Tbilisi, GA, Hon Prof Art, 2002. Mongolia Univ Art & Culture, Hon Prof Art, 2004.
Teaching Positions Assoc professor art & chairman dept, Keuka Coll, Keuka Park, New York, 64-68; associate professor & artist-in-residence, Washington State Univ, 65-66; associate professor art, World Campus Afloat, 68-69; professor art & chairman dept, Univ Guam, 70-76, McLennan Community Coll, Waco, Texas, 90-2005, Tbilisi State Acad Art, 2001-2002; staff, institute of Art and Culture, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia, 2004, Kingwood Coll, Texas, 2006.
Business and Professional Positions Exec director, Southeast Arkansas Arts & Sci Center, 78-84, Brockton Art Museum, 84-87, Art Center Waco, 87-; Freelance, Waco Herald-Tribune, 88-.
Commissioned Works Concrete mural, Hafa Adai Theatre, Agana, Guam, 72-73; mosaic mural, State Arts Coun, Univ Guam, 74; concrete mural, Nat Endowment for Arts, Agana, Guam, 75; acrylic painting, Bank of Guam, Agana, 75; sculptures, comn by lawyer in Guam, 75.
Public Works Southeast Arkansas Arts & Sci Center, Pine Bluff; Alcoa Collection, Pittsburgh; Nat Mus Taiwan, Taipei; Kimon Friar Collection, Athens, Greece; Sanford Besser Collection, Little Rock, Arkansas; America Embassy, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Exhibitions Solo exhibs, United States Info Serv Lincoln Center, Taipei, Taiwan, 75, Tyler Mus & Art Center, Waco, 98; Image of the South Pacific, Nat Mus Taiwan, Taipei, 76; New York State Ann, Arnot Mus, 77; Lakeview Series, Southeast Arkansas Arts & Sci Center, Pine Bluff, 79; retrospective, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth Coll, Hanover, New Hampshire, 80; Prague Texas Exhib, Czechoslovakia Repub, 94; Arts Center of Waco, Texas, 99-2000; Chicago Int Art Exhib, Lincoln Park, 2001; Nat Gal, Tbilisi, GA, 2002 & 03; Red Car Gal, Ulaan-Baatar, Mongolia, 2004; Retrospective: Collecting and Creating, Kingwood Galleries, 2008.
Bibliography State Council on the Arts Artists of Guam, Nat Endowment for Arts, 74; Getting better all the time, PB Commerce (Paul Greenberg), 78; Work by J Kagle, Dartmouth Coll, 80.
Publications Author, The Twenty-Four Hour Day, China Press, 75; Osiik is Dead, Glimpses, Guam, 76; contributor, The Future is Now, Commerce Press, 80; author, Long walks at twilight and dawn, Islands Mag, 80; The good old boy of art, Art Consortium, 80; An American Supra, 2003.
Honors and Awards First Award in Painting, Cheney Cowles Mus, 66; Pacific Artist of Yr, America Inst Architects, Pacific Chap, 77; Grant, Found Proj Scholar, 83 & 84; Fulbright Scholar, 2001, Fuibright Specialist, 2003-; Hon Rubait, Georgian Artist Union, Tbilisi; Hon Faculty, State Acad Art, Tbilisi.
Memberships Coll Art Association; America Mus Association; Southeast Mus Association; Mid-Southern Watercolorists; Texas Association Mus; Rotary Club Southwest, 2006-; Rotary Global History Fellowship, Peace Historian, 2006-, president, currently.
Research Area Oceanic Art, Georgian Artists and American Architecture and Painting.
Gallery Speciality Contemporary Art.
Arranged Collections Oriental and Modern American Art.
Areas of Interest Painting, Writing, Museum Consulting, Architecture.
