GLADYS M. DE BARCZA, Ph.D.                         Curriculum Vitae  

84-1021 Lahilahi Street, Suite 806                              E-mail: [email protected]

Waianae, HI 96792                                                                

Phone: (808) 695-5146

EDUCATION

 

Doctor of Philosophy 1988.

Cultural anthropology, art criticism and art education. University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

Master of Science Art education. Queens College of the City University of New York.

Bachelor of Science Art education. Hunter College of the City University of New York.

 

 

ART TEACHING EXPERIENCE – UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES

Central Michigan University - online ART 126: Introduction to the Visual Arts

Description: Develops aesthetic awareness, appreciation and understanding of the visual arts. Students are introduced to art media, practices, and contexts.

10/24-12/16/2016 (offered),    3/7 - 4/29/2016,           10/26-12/18/2015,       5/19 -7/11 2014

 

University of Phoenix, Kapolei, HI.  Online and face-to-face.  ART 110: An Introduction to the Humanities/Perceiving the Arts. 2013.

 

Leeward Community College, Waianae Campus HI. ART 101: Introduction  to the Visual Arts.  Hands on activities, fieldtrips to Honolulu art museums and galleries, virtual Time Machine Travel Agency.  ART 123: Introduction to Painting. The theory and practice of painting, painting materials and techniques. 2005-2013.

 

Other college and university teaching experience: Los Angeles City College, Westwood College of Technology (LA CA), Learning Tree University (Costa Mesa CA), Pasadena City College (CA), Coastline College (Ft. Valley CA), University of Georgia, American School of Kuwait, ARAMCO Schools, Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia.

 

ART TEACHING EXPERIENCE - CRUISE SHIPS

Watercolor Painting Specialist.  Celebrity Cruise Lines’  Constellation. Start: Ft. Lauderdale, FL to Madeira Island, Gibraltar, Alicante, Spain, Cevitavecchia, Italy. April 9 – April 21, 2015.

 

Destination Lecturer. Celebrity Cruise Lines’ Celebrity Equinox. Cevitavecchia,  Italy to Messina, Athens, Kusadasi, Mykonos, Rhodes, Santorini, Naples, Rome. June 25 - July 5, 2010.

 

Special Interest Speaker. Regent Seven Seas Cruise Line’s Paul Gauguin. Subject specialty: Artist Paul Gauguin and tracing his life and artwork in French Polynesia. Namely, Papeete, Rangiroa, Atuona, Hiva Oa, Nuku Hiva, Bora Boara, Taha’a, Moorea. May 26-June 6, 2009.

 

 

 

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Director, Expedition Oceania.  Post-doctoral research on Melanesian and Polynesian Art.  Voyaged to Hawaii, Cook Islands, American and Western Samoa and returned to Fiji on S.V. Bravura.  Lectured at American Samoa Community College as an Artist-in-Residence.

Sponsors: Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Litton Industries, Plastimo Life Raft Corporation.

 

PUBLIC ART

Wall mural for new Waianae Police Station.  Illustrates history of beach city where the writer lives.

 

ART COMMISSIONS

• Cancer Prevention Color Poster design for Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital of Tropical Medicine, American Samoa. 18” x 22” color reproduced, printed in Samoan and English.
• MacDonald’s of Fiji by Wonder Gardens of Fiji. Commercial truck design.
• Emperor Seafoods by First Landing Restaurant, Vuda Point, Fiji.
• “Susan Chester” commissioned by Capt. J. Chester.
• “Carl Davis” commissioned by Mrs. Carl Davis.

 

 ART in SELECT PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

by Gladys de Barcza

• Chevron Shipping Corporation – Capt. John Colnett, Jan Van Harwegan den Breems. 
• Arabian American Oil Company - Portrait of King Fahad Abdul Azziz Saud

 

SOME  PUBLICATIONS by Gladys de Barcza

Art Heritage Perpetuation in Contemporary Fijian Culture.  Doctoral Dissertation in hard cover.  Weavers, wood carvers, potters and firewalkers were only some of the Fijians interviewed for my research. Published 1988: University of Georgia Press. 

 

HUNTINGTON BEACH  Now and Then.  A comprehensive past and present history; generously illustrated.  Book-signing even at H.B.’s International Surfing Museum. 1998.  See article in the Los Angeles Times: http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/charles-knief

 

OLD TOWN SAN DIEGO STATE HISTORIC PARK  Coloring Book.  A comprehensive past a history; generously illustrated.  Drawings & Text by Dr. Gladys de Barcza, Ph.D. Under the supervision of Dr. Ron Quinn, California Dept.. of Parks & Recreation Frontera District. Published by The Boosters of Old Town, San Diego, California  copyright 1991.

 

COLOR ME FIJI: An Educational Art Gallery.   Giant, illustrated version of dissertation for children of all ages.  Zenon Publishing Company, Suva, Fiji Islands, 1989.

 

SOME ARTICLES by Gladys de Barcza

“South Seas Examples of Cultural Identity and Cultures in Change: Issues for further research,” The Journal of Multi-Cultural and Cross-Cultural Research in Art Education (USSEA) United States Society for Education through Art. Eugene: University of Oregon.1990, Vol. 9, #1.

“Living Treasure.” Suva: The Fiji Times: P.6, May 29, 1997.

“Craft Workshop.” Suva: The Fiji Times: P.7, November 19, 1988.

“Untapped Talent: Village Craftspeople.”   Suva: The Fiji Times: P.6,