Professional Profile
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Credo: “May the beauty we love be what we do”, from 13th century Islamic, mystic poet, Jalalladain Rumi Expertise in Teaching: Contemporary art history: worked with artists worldwide, taught on World Campus Afloat (selected as “Outstanding Professor” in 1968), selected by Texas Commission on the Arts as Resident Artist for Texas, 1997-present, as curator took Texas artist’s exhibitions to the Czech Republic, Russia, South America, Africa, Georgia and Israel, created an innovative children’s museum in the elementary schools in Waco, Texas (selected by ABC Television as one of three featured programs nationally). American Art and Culture: taught at five universities nationally (American painting and architecture, Chinese Influences on American Painting, American contemporary architecture) and abroad (USIS in Taiwan and national universities in Georgia); Art appreciation: taught this course for over 30 years in universities, colleges and community colleges. Art management: taught courses in management to American museum professionals and in the country of Georgia, as a Fulbright Scholar in 2001-2002 and a Fulbright Specialist in 2003. Studio: have taught painting and drawing on undergraduate and graduate levels all over the world. Also taught grant writing to Texas museum professionals and students in American plus workshops abroad in Taiwan and Georgia. Museum and Arts Management: headed and directed six museums (two university and four private) and five university fine arts departments, 1961-2000. Selected as a Fulbright/Hays Scholar to China in 1965, Fulbright Scholar to Georgia in 2001-2002 and Fulbright Senior Specialist in 2003 for multiple countries. Grants to Georgia 2003 and Mongolia 2004 as Fulbright Senior Specialist. Inducted into Who’s Who in American Finance and Business in 2003 and Who’s Who in the World in 2004. Fund-Raising and Grants: wrote fifty to seventy grants a year from 1987-2000. Headed two major capital campaigns to build a new museum and an addition at a cost of $15 million. Raised $300,000 to buy land for new museum in downtown Waco, 1999-2000. Worked in 2002-2003 on two grants for Georgia: $21,600 and $1 million (one funded and one not). Taught fund raising and grant writing in USA, Georgia and Mongolia. Public Relations and Media Work: have written articles for six national and regional newspapers (approx. 250 articles since 1975), magazines (most recent Waco Today, sending back monthly articles on Fulbright work in Georgia), television (over 60 shows), and radio (as director, commentator on art and disc jockey on radio). Lecturer for United State Embassy in Taiwan, Micronesia and all over Georgia 2001-2002 on American education, freedom, democracy and art. Studies in Non-Western Art: studied Indian and Chinese art at NYU and Harvard through New York State Scholar’s grants (4) and Fulbright Scholar (2). Sponsored Chinese artist to Waco and arranged 11 exchange exhibitions with foreign schools (such as, Nanjing, Czech Republic, Russia, Israel, Congo, and Honduras). Received South Pacific grant (from NEA) to study tribal arts, became expert in Oceanic Art, made a Distinguished Honorary Tribal Chief in Palau, chaired fine arts departments and did research on Micronesian island art at University of Guam as full professor and chairman of the fine arts division. Discipline-based Art Education: have 44 years of experience, created the first American International Children’s Art Museum in five Waco elementary schools (honored by ABC Television as one of three award winning, innovative programs), and was advisor to Baylor University Museum Studies graduate program. Lectured nationally and internationally on gifted and talented art education programs. Artist, Writer and Speaker: has written articles for Waco Tribune-Herald (reaching 130,000 readers on each issue) as one of 32 Board of Contributors, asked to give lecture at 1996 Texas and American Association of Museums, and asked to write articles for the Texas Association of Museum’s Musline Magazine in 1997-99. Shown original contemporary works of art in over 400 national and international exhibitions. Gave lectures and symposiums at international universities, AAM conferences, and other venues (most recently, the only American academic to be asked to deliver a paper on “Leadership in the Caucasus” at the 1st International Silk Road Symposium in Tbiblisi and paper on International Education in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, October 2005. Art and Management Consultant: served 1992 and 1993 Houston Council for the Arts (panelist for grants and arts education), 1997 Dallas Cultural Affairs Committee (major organizational grants). Consulted with museums in 1999-2000 from Pasadena, Cal., Sioux City, S.D., Pine Bluff, Ark., and Lubbock, Georgetown, Dallas, Waco and others in Texas, 1987-2002. Lectured for USIS from 1969-1975 in Taiwan. Consultant on grants, management, exhibitions, education and fund raising through Texas Commission on the Arts, Texas Association of Museums and Museum Association of Waco. Reader and visiting team consultant for National Endowment for the Arts and Institute of Museum Studies, 1990-1999. Created art education program for museum which was honored by President’s Commission on the Arts and Humanties in 1997. Presently, working with Art Villa (a new concept for advanced ideas in the arts in Georgia) and the State Conservatory for Music in Tbilisi, Georgia, 2002-present. Taught arts management to students, governmental museum professionals and art dealers at Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts and Georgian Arts and Culture Center, 2001-2002. Given the honorary title of Distinguished Honorary Professor for conducting courses and lectures on American Art and Architecture (created a research room called the Kagle Room for American Art and Architecture), 2002. Selected into Who’s Who in the World in 2005. Professional Objectives: “To utilize extensive national and international experience with knowledge-based and innovative art programs on the university, private and elementary levels. To use art management skills and leadership on behalf of a diverse and pluralistic worldwide community.” Art Management Philosophy: If an audience or individual knows less than I do, tell them; if they know a little, show them; if they know as much as I do, work with them; and if they know more than I do, get out of their way but find them the resources to get the job done. Proven Leadership: Consultant to America Embassy of Georgia on Fulbright, Humphrey, and Muskie Educational Exchange grants to America for American Embassy of Georgia, served as one of two interviewers and evaluators for Junior Faculty Development Program for American Council, and served on evaluation team for incoming students for the Diplomatic State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2001 and 2002. Consultant to United States Information Service in the Orient, 1970-1976; created and directed one fine arts department and chaired four others for major universities (visual arts, theater, music and dance); directed the art education, exhibitions, budget and long-range planning of four museums; selected Professor of the Year on World Campus Afloat in 1979: chosen as one of thirty-five Distinguished Educators in America for Kellogg Institute for Education in Washington, D.C., 1980 and 1983; chosen Volunteer of the Year for Arkansas in 1984, Texas in 1992, and the USA in 1994; chosen by City of Waco to help write Pew Charitable Trusts of Philadelphia grant for Waco (received grant in 1993 for $400,000, only one of sixteen cities chosen); asked to serve on Image Waco Committee for City of Waco after Branch Davidian tragedy in 1993; asked to serve as chairman of Assoc. of Retarded Citizens from 1993-1996 (righted budget, raised $100,000 endowment and $300,000 to purchase new facility); chosen as one of twenty-five national museum leaders for management training at Museum Management Institute in Berkley, Cal. . and Sante Fe Management Institute in 1989; chaired Museum Association of Waco, Art and Culture Committee of Waco, Chamber of Commerce Education Committee, consultant to Greater Waco Council on the Arts; speaker at Texas Assoc. of Museums State Convention and American Assoc. of Museum in 1996; won Spirit of Collaboration Award from McLennan Youth Collaboration for 1996; asked by Czech Republic Minister of Culture to organize and take an American Art exhibition to Europe in 1995-96; and created an art education consulting team by finding the funds and research time to send associates to the Getty Institute in 1992 and 1993, to North Texas State University in 1995-96, and Banks Street Graduate School for Arts Administration in 1996-98. Created the Kagle Resource Room for American Art and Architecture at the Tbilisi State Academy of Art (a $94,000 project where books, videos and equipment were donated and sent by the donors to Georgia from American museums, architects and artists). For more information about leadership see website on resource room in Georgia: Kagle Resource Room and ???. Broad Communication Skills: created programming, directed art education shows, and was announcer (also disc jockey) for radio and television, e.g., WFLR in upstate New York, KDKA in Pittsburgh, Guam-TV for island of Guam, KXTV in Waco, and others; plus all communication for four museums and five university art departments; published over 250 articles on art and humanities for Board of Contributors (32 Central Texans selected by the Editorial Staff of Waco Tribune-Herald) and other publications; wrote monthly articles on Georgia called “Letters from Tbilisi” for Waco Today Magazine. Published two books on contemporary art called “Death Is All The Time” and “The Twenty-Four Hour Day” in 1973 and 1976. Sound Fiscal Management: created and managed budgets for museums, universities and other non-profit organizations, taught museum management to non-governmental agencies in Georgia, 2001-2002 (national museum professionals, house museum workers and art gallery owners); created and managed own business, an art gallery in Upstate New York (see http://www.kaglecollection.com). Helped to build and manage three major endowments (one over $1.3 million in Massachusetts) and started the Art Center Waco endowment from zero to over $300,000 in ten years; created and taught long range planning for many organizations; and was chairman of Board of Trustees for three non-profit organizations in the last seven years. Presently helping Art Villa and the Conservatory of Music in Tbilisi, Georgia on fund raising documents to rise over $15 million for renovation, construction and equipment. Artistic skills: has exhibited in over 400 national and international exhibitions; chosen by the American Embassy of Georgia to represent the United States at an International Plenary of Artists in Kutaisi, Georgia (20 artists from all over Europe and myself attended a month-long workshop), September 2001 (American Embassy of Georgia bought two 60" x 60" paintings for their walls); won awards in painting and sculpture nationally and internationally; selected by the Texas Commission on the Arts as Artist in Education for Texas from 1997 to the present; have given art skills workshops nationally and internationally to university and high school teachers, administrators, artists, parents and students. A recent work of art was chosen as the cover of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board’s Fulbright Annual Report 2000 Presently featured in the Fulbright Scholarship Board’s 2002 Annual Report (for work in Georgia). Three major exhibitions of my contemporary work were exhibited in Georgia at the National Kutaisi Gallery, 5 works, September 2001; at Tbilisi History Museum, called An American Supra, over 50 works, December 2001; and Tbilisi State University Gallery, called Joe and Friends (24 artists who I got to befriend while in Georgia), over 40 works. For more information about creative work: Fulbright Gallery, KagleCollection.com , ??? and WacoArt.com. Honors:
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