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taught at major institutions throughout the country. My assignments have covered virtually every aspect of teaching one I can think of from giving slide lectures to critiquing, serving on a thesis committee and jurying both student and community art exhibits. I also served on a Fullbright committee for painting. (Which included an ex-teaching assistant who did indeed win an award to India.) Most positions have been primarily the teaching of painting and/or drawing and have included all levels from beginning to graduate. Often these have been replacement positions for professors on sabbatical so I am familiar with most of the activities and responsibilities of university experience.

In some areas there has been exposure to attitudes and practices quite different from what I am generally faced with and I have often chosen jobs for their geographic interest. While my teaching has been confined to the United States I have travelled a fair amount and am quite open to new experiences. I Slide lectures have always in the past been about my own development as an artist but the question and answer period, depending on the audience, has ranged from my experience as a developing artist during the period of greatest influence of Abstract Expressionism to my experiences as a woman artist before and after the Feminist Movement of the 70's. While I have never given formal lectures on either of the latter topics I have certainly dealt with these issues in seminar settings, etc.

Perhaps it should be notes that the reason for the brief trip to India in 1989 was the marriage of my daughter to an Indian man so I now have family connections even though they live in the United States. Unfortunately I was only there for two weeks in June but I managed, with the help of relatives to see a great deal of Delhi, travel to the family country home near Simla, survive a return trip by rail (second class) to Delhi and a tour to Agra on my own. On the trip by rail I managed some conversations with mixed English and French and a lengthy exchange in English with a group of young people returning from a trek in the Himalayas to their village. One could say that this packed experience covered many bases and was wonderful and evocative and left me with a strong desire to experience this wonderful country in a more intense way.