Gips Museum Curatorial Work

home / artworks dolly project exhibition record lectures & writings teaching museum & gallery work cold meadow website design tgips@coldmeadow.com	MUSEUM AND EXHIBITION WORK Selected Exhibitions and Administrative Initiatives Terry Gips has been involved with galleries and museums for more than 25 years. Her experience ranges from being a member of nonprofit cooperative galleries, starting and directing a fine art gallery in Vermont, serving as guest curator for a range of galleries, art spaces, and museums, and serving as the director of the campus museum at the University of Maryland. Below is a sampling of this work. Most of these exhibitions were accompanied by catalogues. Follow the links to see the detailed information about the exhibition projects.
	2003	Catalogue Design and Production, The Ballou Project With a Passion for Brush and Palette: Giddings H. Ballou and his Cape Cod Portraits
	2003 2002	Exhibition Review, Sculpture Magazine July-August 2003 West Rutland, VT: Meg Walker Exhibition Review, Art Papers November/December 2002 Providence, RI: Possession Obsession: Objects from Andy Warhol's Personal Collection Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
	1992-99	Director, The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland College Park SELECTED EXHIBITIONS CURATED Close Enough: Photography by David Seymour (Chim), 1999 Terra Firma, (art about the body by Susan Brenner, Nancy Fried, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, Faith Wilding, and Barbara Zucker), 1997 Willem de Looper: A Retrospective Exhibition 1966-96,1996 The Digital Village, 1995 Significant Losses: Artists Who Died from AIDS, 1994
	1998	ADMINISTRATIVE INITIATIVES AT THE ART GALLERY Oversaw production of major traveling exhibition and catalogue, "Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection"
	1996	Established Friends of The Art Gallery organization
	1995	Oversaw creation and launching of the Gallery's website and first online educational outreach program, "e-me."
	1992	Joint Curator with Ruth Schilling, "Cracks in House: New Washington Photography" at the District of Columbia Art Center
	1983	Curator, "Books and Poets," exhibition for the State Art Exposition, Mount Snow, VT
	1982	Juror, Vermont Women's Caucus for Art Traveling Exhibition, "Pocketbooks"
	1978	Curator, "Granite Artists and Their Work," two-part exhibition shown jointly at the First Branch Gallery and the Barre Granite Association Office Building, Barre, VT
	1977-80	Founder, Director and Curator, First Branch Gallery, Chelsea, VT (Curated and installed about 40 exhibitions. A very small sampling of the artists exhibited includes: Sonya Bullaty, Laura Gilpin, Dan Higgins, Jim Richmond, Ralph Steiner, Meg Walker)