Gips Museum Curatorial Work

home / artworks resume PDF recent exhibitions lectures & writings, teaching museum & curatorial work contact	MUSEUM & CURATORIAL WORK 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 fine art 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.
	2013	Co-Curato with Andrea Pluhar, "250 Years of Wellfleet History," Wellfleet Public Library, Wellfleet, MA
	2009	Curator, The Water Project, a two-part exhibtion held simultaneously at MassAudubon/Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary and the Wellfleet Library. Fifteen artists selected from coastal New England. Catalog available
	2003 2002 1999, 2000-01	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 Curatorial Reviewer for Artist Portfolio Program, College Art Association annual conferences.
	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
		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", 1998
		Established Friends of The Art Gallery, 1996
		Oversaw creation and launching of the Gallery's website and first online educational outreach program, "e-me." 1999
	1997	"New Media in the Museum," speaker at annual symposium Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Docents Program
	1996	Outside Evaluator: 5 Year Review, Trout Gallery at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA. Planning Consultant: Visual Arts Program and Center, Florida Community College at Jacksonville.
	1992	Joint Curator with Ruth Schilling, "Cracks in House: New Washington Photography" at the District of Columbia Art Center
	1991	Special Event Consultant for National Women's Caucus for Art Honor Awards Ceremony at the National Museum of Women in Arts, Washington, DC
	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)