Joe Lewis (artist)

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Joe Lewis
Born
Joseph S. Lewis III

1953 (1953)
Known for Digital art, Photography Performance Art Art Education Fashion Moda community-based artmaking.
AwardsThomas J. Watson Fellow

Joe Lewis (Joseph S. Lewis III; born 1953 in New York City) is a post-conceptual non-media specific American artist and educator. [1] Lewis was co-founding director of Fashion Moda in New York, where he curated and mounted numerous exhibitions and performance events. [2] He also early on has been associated with Colab and ABC No Rio [3] [4]

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Life and work

Lewis received his bachelor’s in 1975 from Hamilton College, and then his M.F.A. in 1989 from Maryland Institute. [5] He served as a faculty member at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) from 1991 to 1995, and then as chair of the Department of Art at California State University, Northridge from 1995 to 2001.In 2001, he became the dean of the School of Art & Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. In 2004, he was appointed the dean of the School of Art & Design in the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in New York. [6] He became the dean of Claire Trevor School of the Arts at University of California Irvine in March, 2010 [7] [5] until resigning from his post after being accused of violating sexual harassment policy in October 2014. [8] [9] He remains on the faculty of UCI. Currently, he is president of the Noah Purifoy Foundation located in Joshua Tree, California.

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References

  1. "UCI arts school names new dean". Daily Pilot. 2009-10-16. Retrieved 2021-03-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. Alan W. Moore, Artists' Collectives: Focus on New York, 1975-2000 in Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945, Blake Stimson & Gregory Sholette, (eds) University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2007, pp. 193-221
  3. Max Schumann (ed.) A Book about Colab (and Related Activities) Printed Matter, Inc, 2016: pp.9-11
  4. Morgan, Tiernan (10 May 2016). "Thirty Years On, Colab Members Assess Their Successes and Failures". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
  5. 1 2 Press Release (October 15, 2009). "Joseph S. Lewis III named dean of Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UCI Today, University of California, Irvine". University of California, Irvine . Archived from the original on October 26, 2009.
  6. Joseph S. Lewis III named dean of Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UCI Today, University of California, Irvine.
  7. "New UCI arts dean 'inspired' by O.C." Orange County Register. 2010-10-29. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  8. "Sexual harassment: records show how University of California faculty target students". the Guardian. 2017-03-08. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  9. "At least 20 sexual misconduct cases against Univ. of Calif. faculty over a 3-year span". www.cbsnews.com. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  10. "Joe Lewis | MoMA".

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