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Email: fbehrens@columbiastate.edu |
| Phone: 931.540.2865/Fax: 931.540.2889 |
| Information about Me |
| Education: Wright Junior College in Chicago, IL for two years -- Major: Architectural Design B.A. -- Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL -- Major: Painting and Drawing, Minor: Art History M.F.A. -- Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL -- Major: Painting, Minor: Art History (Teaching Assistant -- Painting) Northeastern Illinois State -- Chicago, IL (Certification -- Grades K-12 Art) in the State of Illinois |
| Areas of Interest |
| Experience: Thirty-eight years full-time faculty member at Columbia State Community College, Columbia, TN: |
| Awards & Achievements: NEH Summer Seminar Grant, 1981 -- "The Assyrian and Babylonian Expires" University of Chicago NEH Summer Seminar Grant, 1981 "American Classical Architecture" University of Illinois Columbia State Humanities Tutorial Summer NEH Grant, 1981 -- "A Study of Historic Revival Architecture in Nashville, Tennessee" Co-Authored with Dr. Douglas O. Eason, A grant for Columbia State Community College. "Art in Public Places." Tennessee Art Commission Grant for Public Sculpture on the Columbia State Campus,1981-1982. Mellon Regional Faculty Development, Program, 1982. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Organized A New York Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit of Greek Plaster Casts at Columbia State, late 1980s. Conducted a survey (with photographs) of outdoor public sculpture in Columbia, TN, 1991-1992. A program called SOS (Save Outdoor Sculpture); Federal program for preserving outdoor sculpture. Distinguished Faculty Award 1994-1995 |
| Exhibition Record: Selected Group Shows TN Watercolor Society-Traveling Group show, 1980 TN All-State Exhibitions, Nashville, TN 1971, 72, 77, 78, 79, 81 and 1983 Central South Art Exhibitions, Nashville, TN 1971, 73, 75, 9, 81, 83, 84, and 1989 Action Auction Show of 100, Nashville, TN 1978, 1981, 1991, & 1998 Exhibition South, TN Valley Art Center, Tuscumbia, AL 1981 Blue Grass Regional Library Art Exhibition, Columbia, TN -- Purchase Awards 1981, 83 -- 1985 Maury County Artists Guild Group Shows 1990-1994, and 1997 |