Joe Lewis (Joseph S. Lewis III) (born 1953 in New York City) is an American artist and educator.[1] He was formerly a dean of Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine prior to his demotion to an arts professor following a finding of violation of sexual harassment policy in 2014.[2]
Joe Lewis | |
|---|---|
| Born | Joseph S. Lewis III 1953 |
| Known for | Digital art, Photography Performance Art Art Education Fashion Moda community-based artmaking. |
| Awards | Thomas J. Watson Fellow |
Life and work
Lewis received his M.F.A. in 1989 from Maryland Institute in 1975 from Hamilton College.[3]
Lewis served as chair of the Department of Art at California State University, Northridge from 1995 to 2001, and as a faculty member at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) from 1991 to 1995. He became the dean of Claire Trevor School of the Arts at University of California Irvine in March, 2010[4][3] until resigning from his post after being found responsible for sexually harassing female coworkers in 2014 and subsequently being found responsible for violating sexual harassment policy.[5][2] Lewis also has been dean of the School of Art & Design in the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in New York and as dean of the School of Art and Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.[6]
Lewis was co-founding director of Fashion Moda in New York, where he curated and mounted numerous exhibitions and performance events.[7] He also early on has been associated with Colab and ABC No Rio[8][9]
Collections
- Museum of Modern Art, New York[10]
References
- ^ "UCI arts school names new dean". Daily Pilot. 2009-10-16. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "At least 20 sexual misconduct cases against Univ. of Calif. faculty over a 3-year span". www.cbsnews.com. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ^ a b Press Release (October 15, 2009). "Joseph S. Lewis III named dean of Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UCI Today, University of California, Irvine". University of California, Irvine. Archived from the original on October 26, 2009.
- ^ "New UCI arts dean 'inspired' by O.C." Orange County Register. 2010-10-29. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ^ "Sexual harassment: records show how University of California faculty target students". the Guardian. 2017-03-08. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
- ^ Joseph S. Lewis III named dean of Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UCI Today, University of California, Irvine.
- ^ Alan W. Moore, Artists' Collectives: Focus on New York, 1975-2000 in Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945, Blake Stimson & Gregory Sholette, (eds) University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2007, pp. 193-221
- ^ Max Schumann (ed.) A Book about Colab (and Related Activities) Printed Matter, Inc, 2016: pp.9-11
- ^ Morgan, Tiernan (10 May 2016). "Thirty Years On, Colab Members Assess Their Successes and Failures". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
- ^ "Joe Lewis | MoMA".
Further reading
- Carlo McCormick, The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984, Princeton University Press, 2006.
- Alan W. Moore and Marc Miller, eds. ABC No Rio Dinero: The Story of a Lower East Side Art Gallery New York: ABC No Rio with Collaborative Projects, 1985.
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