Kirstin Ringelberg

2239 Saddle Club Rd. Burlington, NC 27215

Art Department, CB# 2800, Elon University, Elon, NC 27244

336-684-3650 (w)  kringelberg@elon.edu

 

Education         

Ph.D., Art History, August 2000, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

             

Professional Publications

“’You have to develop an eye for it’: Anti-Aesthetic Art as Beauty in Alan Ball’s Vision.”  Forthcoming in the anthology Considering Alan Ball: Essays on Sexuality, Death, and the American Dream, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Spring 2006.

 

“His Girl Friday (and Every Day): Sorkin’s Brilliant Women Put to Poor Use.”  Forthcoming in the anthology Aaron Sorkin, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Spring 2005.

 

"No Room of One's Own: Mary Fairchild MacMonnies Low, Berthe Morisot, and The Awakening."  Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies, Cambridge University Press, Vol. 28, 2004.

 

"Joan Mitchell" and "Betty Parsons" in Notable American Women, Volume Five, ed. Susan Ware, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.  Forthcoming, 2004.

 

"Horace Bristol," "Robert Capa," and "Arthur Rothstein" in The John Steinbeck Encyclopaedia, Ed. Michael Meyer and Brian Railsback, Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group.  Forthcoming, Winter 2004.

 

“Renee Zettle-Sterling: Engaging Memory.”  Exhibition review, Metalsmith Magazine, Summer 2003.

 

Book Review, Man Made: Thomas Eakins and the Construction of Gilded Age Manhood, Martin A. Berger, in Men and Masculinities, ed. Michael Kimmel, Vol. 5, No. 2, October 2002.

 

"Collection Cameo: The Breeze by Mary Fairchild MacMonnies Low."  Gallery pamphlet, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, September 2002.

 

"Deborah Rockman: A Retrospective."  Kendall College of Art & Design Press, 2000.

 

“Ann Tanksley” and “Hughie Lee-Smith” in Celebration and Vision: the Hewitt Collection of African-American Art, Charlotte, North Carolina: Bank of America Corporation, 1999.

 

 

Public Presentations

Invited Panelist, Art and Activism Session for interdisciplinary conference Gender Acts!  Activism: History, Theory, Practice, held March 26-27, 2004 at Furman University, Greenville, SC.

 

“Reframing the Shot: Yasumasa Morimura's Slaughter Cabinet II and Eddie Adams’ General Loan Executing Nguyen Van Lem.”  Delivered February 19, 2004 at the College Art Association Conference, Seattle.

 

“Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in New Media Art.”  Delivered October 20, 2003 at Elon University, Elon, NC.

 

"Collection Cameo: The Breeze by Mary Fairchild MacMonnies Low."  Delivered September 13, 2002 at the Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois.

 

"Rendering Invisible by Display: Obfuscation and Misdirection in Representations of Late Nineteenth-Century American Women."  Delivered March 13-16, 2002 at the American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association annual conference.

 

"The Impact of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition."  Delivered December 2, 2001 at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, as part of a lecture series offered in conjunction with the national exhibition Light Screens: the Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright.

 

 

"Commodifying Frida Kahlo: Appropriative Myths in Popular Culture and Identity Politics."  Delivered October 20, 2001 at the Congress of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico.  Also chaired panel of three other presenters.

 

"Gendered Attributions: Mary Fairchild MacMonnies Low's Dans la Nursery."  Delivered September 25, 2001 at the Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois.

 

"Leisurely Ladies Working Hard for America."  Delivered June 5, 2001 at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, in conjunction with their exhibition of paintings from the Manoogian Collection.

 

"Contextualizing American Impressionism."  Delivered May 1, 2001 at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, in conjunction with their exhibition of paintings from the Manoogian Collection.

 

"The Writer's Table by John Frederick Peto: American Visions of the Real."  Delivered March 11, 2001 at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

 

 “The Artist’s Home Work: Class Constructions in the Late Nineteenth-Century Studio.”  Delivered April 17, 1998 at Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.

 

 “The Artist’s Studio as a Domestic Interior in Late Nineteenth-Century Painting.”  Delivered February 11, 1997 at College Art Association Conference, New York.

 

           

Gallery-Related Activities

Director, "5x6" program, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids Michigan, Fall 2002-Summer 2003.

 

Sole Juror, Lowell Area Arts Council Annual Exhibition, Lowell, Michigan, February 2001.  Selected 75 winning entries from over 400 submissions to competitive Western Michigan art show.