Selected Publications (as author)

Selected articles, catalogues, and books (as author):

2018 Exhibition curator and catalogue author: Folk, Self-taught and Outsider Art: Selected works from a "teaching collection." Grand Forks: Colonel Eugene E. Myers Art Gallery, University of North Dakota.

2015 Author—exhibition catalogue essay: "Visions and Memories, the Art of T. A. Hay (1892-1988), T. A. Hay. Chattanooga, TN: Tanner-Hill Gallery (Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the 2015 Outsider Art Fair in NYC).

2012 Author—exhibition catalogue essay: "The Abstract Expressionism of Marjorie Schlossman," Marjorie Schlossman: Symphony of Color. Fargo, ND: Plains Art Museum.

2010 Co-Editor and co-author—book:  Storytelling Time: Native North American Art from Collections at the University of North Dakota. Manchester, VT and New York: Hudson Hills Press (2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards recipient: Gold Medal/Outstanding Books of the Year).

2007 Author—catalogue essay:  “Ibram Lassaw, Monoceros, 1952,” Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press.

2003 Author—catalogue essay:  “Adolf Dehn, 1895-1968," in Adolf Dehn, Works on Paper from the Radford University Art Museum Collection. Radford University Foundation Press.

2002 Exhibition curator and catalogue co-author:  Ibram Lassaw: Deep Space and Beyond. Radford University Foundation Press

1998  Exhibition co-curator and catalogue co-author:  Selections from the Permanent Collection. Radford, VA: Radford University Art Museum.

1996  Exhibition curator and catalogue author:  Audrey Flack: Love Conquers All. Roanoke: Art Museum of Western Virginia.

1992  Exhibition curator and catalogue author:  Dreaming Over Woods And Hills: Kentucky Artists in the Humphreys Collection. Lexington: University of Kentucky Art Museum.

1992  Author—textbook:  Introduction to Art. New York: HarperCollins.

1992  Author—catalogue essay:  "Decoding Evan Decker's Art: Duality of the Sacred and Profane,” When, The, Skies, Not, Cloudy, All, Day:  The Art of Evan Decker, Berea: Berea College Appalachian Museum. 

1990  Author—catalogue essays:  "Denzil Goodpaster" and "Carl McKenzie." Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts:  1987 and 1989 Sculpture Grant Recipients  (catalog--released nationally as an inset of Sculpture magazine, November 1990 issue).

1987  Author—catalogue essay:  "Florida's Art on the Other Side of the Street," A Separate Reality: Florida Eccentrics. Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art.

1983 Exhibition curator and catalogue author:  The Naive Approach: Folk Art from Kentucky Collections. Owensboro, KY: Owensboro Museum of Fine Art.

1981 Co-curator and co-author—exhibition catalogue:  The Kentucky Painter: From the Frontier Era to the Great War. Lexington: University of Kentucky Art Museum.

1979 Exhibition curator and catalogue author:  Unschooled Talent: Art of the Home-Taught and the Self-Taught From Private Collections in Kentucky. Owensboro, KY: Owensboro Museum of Fine Art.

1976 Author—book: The Art of Paul Sawyier. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.