- Degrees
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B.S. art education, Nazareth College
M.A. art history, University of Cincinnati
Ph.D art history, Indiana University - Additional Information
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As the art historian of the department Professor Bilbo provides the historical and theoretical component to the art program as well as providing a variety of courses for the University’s core curriculum. Bilbo began her art studies in art education and earned a teaching certification for art k-12 in New York State. She completed an Master of Arts in art history at the University of Cincinnati and her doctorate in art history at Indiana University. Her major area of study has been in American and 20th-century Art especially the Gilded Age, Early Modernism, and the History of Photography. American Studies and African, Caribbean and Oceanic Art have been a minor focus. She completed additional studies at Syracuse University, Montana State University, and the Institute of Western Studies in Cody, Wyoming. Bilbo has given various gallery talks at the Cincinnati Art Museum and delivered conference papers on Winslow Homer in the Bahamas; The Academic Teaching Tradition in a Post-Modern World; Evangelicalism and the Museum,;The Art Patronage of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; and Portraiture in American Art. She is the art editor of the Northern Kentucky Encyclopedia.
To enrich the art history courses at Thomas More Professor Bilbo has organized yearly student trips to New York, Boston, or Chicago and has worked with the Foreign Language Department in leading course related summer studies in Paris and various cities throughout Spain.
Bilbo has served as chair of the art department and worked with the team of faculty who brought the FYS program to campus. She was named Outstanding Part-Time Faculty of the Year in 1996.
Courses
History of Art I and II, 20th Century Art, History of Photography, American Architecture, American Art in the Gilded Age, Modern Art, Cincinnati Art at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Critical Examination of the Work of Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins.Important Links:
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- Employee Roles
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Departments Positions Titles Creative Media: Art, Communication, Music, and Theatre Department Chair Department Chair Creative Media: Art, Communication, Music, and Theatre Faculty Professor