Biographic Notes
Education
University of Oregon, 1965 - 1967; Master of Fine Arts Degree
in Drawing and Painting, 1967.
University of Oregon, 1960 - 1962; Bachelor's Degree
in Drawing and Painting, 1962.
Oregon State University, 1958 - 60.
Portland OR Public Schools; graduated Benson Polytechnic High School 1958.
Positions Held
1987- present  Independent Artist. Maintains a full-time schedule of studio work.  Organizes exhibitions of own work for showing and tour.  Acts as a consultant on various museum and exhibition-related matters.  Has had 19 solo exhibitions since 1967; work is represented in 8 public collections (primarily museums and universities) as well as in dozens of corporate and private collections.   Performs volunteer work for a variety of museum and exhibition organizations and has acted as a consultant on exhibition and traveling exhibition programs.
1979 - 1987  Director, The Armand Hammer Foundation, Los Angeles CA.  (Also Curator of the Hammer Collections).  Directed all aspects of the worldwide exhibitions and philanthropic interests of Dr. Armand Hammer.  Recruited, trained, and supervised the work of a team of 8 specialists in the mounting of all traveling exhibitions from the collections.  Supervised the proper care, record keeping, and conservation and collection management of the 20,000 objects in the Hammer Collections.  Was responsible for a budget of over $4 million in Foundation and Corporate (Occidental Petroleum) funds.  Set standards for all guest curators, design of publications and public relations efforts - including work with film and television companies.  Specified the design of foundation offices and collection storage facilities.  Was Dr. Hammer's personal representative to negotiate the terms of showing of the Hammer Collections with Cultural Ministry representatives, and museum colleagues throughout the United States and the world.  Traveled (often several visits each) to Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Russia (then the Soviet Union), France, Austria, Spain, Portugal, (then) Czechoslovakia, Poland, (then) Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Israel, China, Mexico, Peru, Canada, and throughout the United States in connection with responsibilities.   Negotiated for special loan exhibitions from other nations on Dr. Hammer's behalf and supervised all aspects of the tour of such exhibitions (examples include the exhibition of artifacts from the Mary Rose Trust in the United Kingdom and the exhibition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works from the former Soviet Union that toured the United States in 1986).
1971 - 1979  Director, S.I.T.E.S. The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington DC.   Responsible for a broad-based program of traveling exhibitions and all ancillary materials including publications, educational programs, audio-visual materials and advertising/public relations tools to represent the Smithsonian's interests, including acting as host touring agency for exhibitions sent to the United States from other nations.  Developed and built a largely self-supporting program from a staff of six into 25 highly skilled and motivated exhibition coordinators, registrars, and specialists.  Raised the annual budget from $155,000 to $3 million plus to support programs.  Raised $7 million in grants and contracts to support new program areas.  Oversaw the creation of approximately 350 exhibitions for tour (total shows on tour reached a peak of 220 during the U.S. Bicentennial).  Started S.I.T.E.S.' first education and public affairs programs.  Obtained S.I.T.E.S.' first Federal appropriation.  Traveled to Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, and Belgium and throughout the U.S. as part of responsibilities.
1970 - 1971  Development Director, The Portland Art Museum. Supervised a staff of five in all aspects of fundraising, membership development, education programs, and liaison with volunteer groups.  Acted as defacto assistant director of the museum and carried out a variety of tasks assigned by the director.
1967 - 1970  Assistant Director for Statewide Services of the Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene.  Full-time faculty position and development of program first undertaken as a graduate student to extend the programs of the museum to a statewide audience.  Continued to create new shows for tour and developed new programs including:  a statewide competition for artists to create work "specifically for travel" (innovative expressive forms resulted such as inflatable sculpture and folding sequence paintings);  an artist workshop program; a gallery furniture lending program (collapsible sculpture stands, panel systems, etc.; a transportable gallery pavilion ("Transpostructure") for outdoor festivals and exhibitions.
1965 - 1967  Manager of Circulating Exhibitions, Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene.  As a graduate student, became the first museum staff member responsible for traveling museum collections throughout the state of Oregon.   Mounted a dozen exhibitions for tour each year and began accepting exhibitions loaned for tour from others.  Responsible from "the ground up" for all aspects of exhibition: fundraising, concept, curatorial, mounting, framing, rating, tour administration, public relations.   Initiated new programs including an art transportation service and a gallery consulting service for non-profit galleries.
Related Activities
1999  Panelist at Clemson University's "Town Hall Meeting on International Activity in South Carolina."
1993 -1999  Member of the Board, The Portland Art Museum and service on its Collections Committee
1996  Consultant on Traveling Exhibitions as part of a team advising the National Geographic Society
1989 - 1990  Chair, Board of Visitors, School of Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon, Eugene.
1988 Workshop on monotype presented at Pyramid/Atlantic and lectured on own artwork and life at the Corcoran in Washington DC, both events sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts.
1988  Commencement speaker, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland OR; and remarks at Commencement of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon, Eugene.
1988-1991  Board member, Friends of the Museum, University of Oregon Museum of Art and a member of its Acquisitions Committee..
1987  Iowa Arts Council awards grant to the University of Northern Iowa to 	partially fund retrospective of Gould work.
1987  commissioned a "Kentucky Colonel" by then Governor Martha Lane Roberts.
1985  Inducted into the "Webfoot Society" of distinguished alumni of the Univ. of Oregon.
1979 - 1987  Several motion picture and television appearances on behalf of showings of the Hammer Art Collections.
1979 - 1987  Dozens of public appearances, talks, education presentations and lectures in the United States and abroad in conjunction with Hammer exhibitions.
1983  Kentucky Arts Council grants funds to the University of Kentucky Art Museum to allow it to host exhibition of Gould works.
1979  Cited by Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley for "Outstanding Service."
1977  Honored by the Smithsonian's Women's Council for service to women's affairs at the "Institution and elsewhere."
1971 - 1979 Many appearances in the United States and abroad on behalf of the Smithsonian and its traveling exhibition program.
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