TONI GARDNER

 

Education

 

Smith College, Northampton, MA; B.A. Art History, 1976.

Garrison Forest School, Garrison, MD, 1972.

 

 

Selected Writing

 

Walking Where the Dog Walks: An Interspecies Odyssey in Vietnam, 1968-69. Minou Press. 2006. An analysis of the human-dog relationship through the story of one platoon of dog handlers.

 

My Fathers: A Novel. Minou Press. 2008. A woman in the throes of a spiritual crisis attempts to unravel the mysteries of life by seeking an understanding of God, her father, and her beguiling parish priest.

 

“You and Your Pet,” monthly column, Country Living magazine. 1999-2004.

 

The Complete Dog Book for Kids. American Kennel Club. 1996. Adapted the Complete Dog Book  for an eight- to twelve-year-old readership.

 

Staff Writer, House & Garden magazine, Conde Nast Publications.1979-80.

 

 

Editing

 

Editor, Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art, Washington, DC. 2003-present. Edit oral histories of major American craft artists.

 

Managing Editor, Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.1992-2007. Oversaw editorial production of annual series of internationally distributed scholarly art books. A list of publications follows.

 

Line Editor, The Proteus Effect: Stem Cells and Their Promise for Medicine, by Ann B. Parson, Joseph Henry Press (National Academies Press). 2004.

 

Editor, Visual Anatomies, National Academy of Sciences. 2004.

 

Managing Editor, Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal.1998. With new editor, oversaw complete revision of the journal, including design and style.

 

Editor, Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto Ten, Volume Four. Summer 1996. Edited translation of ancient Indian philosophy.

 

Managing Editor, Archives of American Art Journal, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.1986-89.

 

Copy Editor, American Association of Museums, Washington, DC. 1985-1986.

 

 

Related Activities

 

Board Member and Tutor, Project CALL (Center for Adult Literacy and Learning), Baltimore, MD. 1997-2000.

 

Guest Professor/Editor, Writing for Artists, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. March 1995.

 

Board Member and Volunteer, Maryland Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Baltimore, MD. 1995 and 1993-95.

 

Art Teacher, Brown Memorial Weekday School, Baltimore, MD. 1993-95.

 

Substitute teacher: Brown Memorial Weekday School, kindergarten, 1990s; Dumbarton Middle School (ESOL program), 2004.

 

Director, Art Day Camp. 1991-92; 1973-76.

 

Volunteer, Head Start (and Houses, Inc.), Children’s Hospital, Rosewood State Mental Hospital, Bent Home for the Aged, all in Baltimore, MD, 1969-72; Keswick Home, 1987-88.

 

 

Publications edited for the Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

 

Blur of the Otherworldly. 2006

Museums of Tomorrow: A Virtual Discussion. 2004

White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art. 2003

Paul Rand: American Modernist. 2003

Postmodernism: A Virtual Discussion. 2003

Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1979-2000. 2001

Adrian Piper. 1999

Bruno Monguzzi: A Designer’s Perspective. 1998

Minimal Politics. 1997

Kate Millett, Sculptor: The First 38 Years. 1997

Notes in Time: Leon Golub and Nancy Spero. 1995

Ciphers of Identity. 1993

Nancy Graves: Recent Works. 1993

Environmental Terror. 1992

 

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