Curriculum Vitae for John-Michael H. Warner
Mailing Address: Kent State University School of Art. P.O. Box 5190. Kent, OH 44242.
Email: jwarne26@kent.edu
Web: https://sites.google.com/a/email.arizona.edu/johnmichaelwarner/
Phone: 330.672.4058
Education
PhD
2015, Art History, University of Arizona.
Dissertation: Wilderness, Incorporation, and Earthquakes: Christo, JeanneClaude, Niki de St. Phalle, and the Embodied California Landscape
Advisor: Sarah J. Moore
MA
2009, Art History, Arizona State University.
Thesis: Encountering Feminisms: Art by Niki de St. Phalle and Melanie
Yazzie
Co-Advisors: Claudia Mesch and Amelia Malagamba-Ansótegui
BA
2002, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Areas of Specialization: History and Art History
Professional Experience
2015-Present Visiting Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art, Kent State University
2011-2015
Instructor of Record, University of Arizona
2011-2012
Curatorial Research Assistant, Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art
and University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography
2009-2011
Slowik Family Graduate Fellow, University of Arizona Museum of Art
Fellowships and Grants
2014
Graduate and Professional Student Council Travel Grant
Medici Scholarship
2013
College of Fine Arts and School Art Director’s Fund Small Grant
Graduate College Dissertation Fellowship (2013-2014)
School of Art Endowed Scholarship (2013-2014)
Medici Scholarship
2012
Women’s Studies Advisory Council Grant
College of Fine Arts Small Grant
Medici Scholarship
2011
Slowik Family Curatorial Fellowship (2010-2011)
Sponsorship for The Border Project (Arizona State Credit Union)
Sponsorship for Border Research Group (Confluence Director’s Fund for
Excellence)
Medici Scholarship
2010
Museum Studies Fellowship (2009-2010)
Women’s Studies Advisory Council Grant
Graduate and Professional Student Council Travel Grant
2009
Medici Scholarship
2008
Exhibition Grant for Between Two Worlds (Institute for Humanities
Research)
Thesis Research Grant (Institute for Humanities Research)
Publications
In Progress
U.S.-Mexico Border Spaces: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Visual and Cultural
Environmental Histories, co-edited with Katherine G. Morrissey (Tucson: University of
Arizona Press, proposed and under consideration).
“Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Running Fence: The Little Engine That Could,” in a
forthcoming anthology edited by Ewelina Banka and published by the John Paul II and
Maria Sklodowska Curie University Presses in Lublin, Poland.
“Introduction,” in U.S.-Mexico Border Spaces: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century
Environmental Visual and Cultural Histories, co-edited by Katherine G. Morrissey and
John-Michael H. Warner (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, under review).
"A Border Art History of the Vanishing Present: Land Use and Representation," in U.S.Mexico Border Spaces: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Environmental Visual and
Cultural Histories, co-edited by Katherine G. Morrissey and John-Michael H. Warner
(Tucson: University of Arizona Press, under review).
Articles (Peer-Reviewed)
2012
"Traces: Land Use and Representation in Arizona, USA and Sonora, MEX
Border Arts," in Interventions Journal 2:1.
2007
“Melanie Yazzie: Native Identity and Place,” in Contemporary
Impressions: Journal of the American Print Alliance 15:1, 18-22.
Scholarly Publications
2015
Gallery Guide, Changing Views: Queering American Landscapes. Tucson,
AZ: University of Arizona Museum of Art
2011
Gallery Guide, The Border Project: Soundscapes, Landscapes, and
Lifescapes. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Museum of Art
2007
“Art through the Lens of Sustainability,” in Sustainability and the Visual
Arts: An Institute for Humanities Research Initiative, edited by Sally Kitch
(Tempe: Arizona State University, 2007), 7-8
Curatorial
2015
Changing Views: Queering American Landscapes, University of Arizona
Museum of Art, April-August 2015
2012
The Border Project: Soundscapes, Landscapes, and Lifescapes, co-curator
with Lauren Rabb, University of Arizona Museum of Art, November
2011-March 2012
2011
La Tapiz Fronteriza, Lionel Rombach Gallery, January-February 2011.
2009
Art and Activism, co-curator with Sally Kitch, Arizona State University,
November 2008-May 2009.
2008
Between Two Worlds: Art by Melanie Yazzie, Institute for Humanities
Research, Tempe, AZ, February-May 2008.
Sustainability and the Visual Arts, co-curator with Sally Kitch, Institute
for Humanities Research, Arizona State University, November 2007January 2008.
Presentations
2016
Something in the Dirt: Discourses of Hygiene, Health, and Progress in the
North American Landscape, Co-Moderator with Sarah J. Moore, College
Art Association, Washington, DC, February
2015
Feminist and Queer Arts and Activism at the Dawn of the Neoliberal Era,
National Women’s Studies Association, November
Bodies and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, with Katherine G. Morrissey,
Open Embodiments: Locating Somatechnics, Somatechnics Research
Network Annual Conference, Tucson, AZ, April
Queering U.S. Landscape Art, Institute for LGBT Studies, University of
Arizona, February
2014
Fences, Ranchers, and Activists, Institute for the Environment, University
of Arizona, November
Niki de Saint Phalle and California’s Namesake, 5th Annual Feminist Art
History Conference, American University, Washington, DC, October
Do Christo and Jeanne-Claude Find the 'Real' American West?, Under
Western Skies, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada, September
Traces of America and the U.S. Landscape: Art by Christo and JeanneClaude and Niki de St. Phalle, Maria Curie-Skoldowska, Lublin, Poland,
March
A U.S.-Mexico Border Art History of the Vanishing Present: Art by Mark
Klett, David Taylor, and Mary Jenea Sanchez, Global Borders, John Paul
II University, Lublin, Poland, March
Traces of Bodies in California Land Use and Representation, [Em]body,
24th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium, University of
Arizona, February
2013
On the Surface: Bodies, Landscapes, and a Critical American Aesthetic,
Bodies and Machines: America Builds a National Body (University of
Arizona American Art Symposium), May
Picturing Traces of the U.S.-Mexico Border, Heller Center for Arts and
Humanities, University of Colorado, March
2012
Multiple Boundaries in Arizona and Sonora Border Art, LGBTQ Institute
Lecture Series, University of Arizona, October
Arizona and Sonora Border Arts, Rocky Mountain Modern Languages
Association, Boulder, CO, October 2012.
2011
Emphasizing Specificity: Abstract Material Coordinates in
Arizona/Sonora Border Arts, Looking at Arts, History, and Place in the
U.S./Mexico Borderlands, University of Arizona Border Research Group
symposium, December
Introducing the UA Border Research Group, Arts and Culture Committee,
Arizona-Mexico Commission Annual Meeting, June
A conversation with contemporary U.S.-Mexico border artists Gabriela
Munoz and M. Jenea Sanchez, University of Arizona School of Art,
January
Audible Sounds of the Border, 3rd International Symposium on Latin
American Music, University of Arizona School of Music, Spring
2010
Contemporary Art and Controversy, Docent Continuing Education Lecture
Series, Phoenix Art Museum, March
Modernist Primitivism and Niki de Saint Phalle’s Recycling of Native
North American Subjectivity, Reused, Recycled, Re-Viewed, University
of California at Santa Barbara History of Art and Architecture Graduate
Symposium, February
2008
Assemblage, Contemporary ArtBreak Series, Phoenix Art Museum,
December
2006
Melanie Yazzie: Animals and Gender, Heard Museum, October
Teaching
Spring 2016, Late Modern Art, and Something in the Dirt; Fall 2015, Late Modern Art,
and Nations and Borders; Spring 2015, Queer Cinema; Fall 2014, Survey of Ancient Art
through Gothic Art; Spring 2014, Introduction to Contemporary Art and Theory; Fall
2013, Survey of Ancient Art through Gothic Art; Spring 2013, Survey of Renaissance
Art through Contemporary Art; Fall 2012, Art and Western Society; Spring 2012,
Survey of Renaissance Art through Contemporary Art; Fall 2011, Survey of Ancient Art
through Gothic Art; Spring 2011, Contemporary Art and Theory; Fall 2010,
Contemporary Art and Theory; Spring 2010, Contemporary Art and Theory.
Academic and Community Service
Acquisitions Committee, University of Arizona Museum of Art (2014-2015); Strategic
Planning Task Force, University of Arizona Museum of Art (2014); Web Administrator,
UA Art History Graduate Student Association (AY 2011-2015); Co-Facilitator with Prof.
Sarah J. Moore, UA Border Research Group (2010-2011); Member, UA Art History
Graduate Student Association (Fall 2009-); Secretary, ASU Council of Graduate Art
Memberships and Affiliations
Casady Alumni Association, University of Colorado Alumni Association, College Art
Association, American Studies Association, National Women’s Studies Association
Languages
French: reading, writing, and conversation proficient
Spanish: reading, writing, and conversation proficient
Thesis Director
Samantha Sullivan, MA, Louise Bougeois’ Death of the Father (in progress); Shawn
Diamond, MA, Felix Gonzales Torres and AIDS Photography (in progress); Christopher
Richards, MA, Ed Mieczkowski, Anonima, and Op Art (in progress); Amy Mitchell,
MA, Tinkybell and Animal Abuse and Contemporary Performance Art (in progress);
Katelyn Gainer, MA, Contemporary Portraits Drwn from Historical Portraiture (in
progress); and, Amanda Paniagua, MA, Mary Cassatt and the Female Gaze: Gender,
Race, and Class (in progress).
Thesis Reader
Sarah Batram, MA, August Rodin
MFA Committee
Joe Karlovec; and Miwa Neishi