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Dennis Harper
Curator of Exhibitions

Dennis Harper, curator of exhibitions at the Georgia Museum of Art, received his B.A. from the University of Alabama in Birmingham and M.F.A. from the University of Georgia. He contributes regularly to GMOA publications, including essays for Coming Home: American Paintings, 1930-1950, from the Schoen Collection and is the curator of Weaving his art on Golden Looms and author of its catalgoue.

He was a 2003 curatorial advisor for Georgia for the National Museum of Women in the Arts From the States exhibition and a founding board member and past vice president of ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art. He has taught studio classes at UGA, on the Athens campus and in Cortona, Italy, and led workshops on egg tempera painting, fresco, and gilding.

Harper was employed as collections manager at Wildenstein and Co., New York, from 1981 to 1989, and has also worked at the Visual Arts Gallery of the University of Alabama in Birmingham and the Birmingham Museum of Art, in exhibition design and installation. He is a member of the American Association of Museums and the Southeastern Museums Conference. In addition to his career in the museum field, Harper is a practicing visual artist with exhibitions across the U.S. and abroad. His art has been published in American Artist , Art New England , Art Papers , the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the New York Times, among others.

Email him at dharper@uga.edu.