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. |
| 2014 |
Co-Curator with Brett Warren, (owner of the Cape Cod Chat House) Animalia, at Galatea Fine Art, Boston |
| 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 |
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2002
1999, 2000-01
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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 |
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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 |
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Established
Friends of The Art Gallery, 1996 |
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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
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| 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) |
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