Roberta A. Mayer
	Visual Arts Area Head Art Historian, Department of the Arts Bucks County Community College 275 Swamp Road Newtown, PA 18940 215-504-8676 mayerr@bucks.edu

Education

Ph.D. Art History, University of Delaware, 2000
M.A. Art History, University of Delaware, 1996
Summer Institute, Winterthur Museum,1994
B.A. Art History, Rutgers University, 1993
M.S. Toxicology, Rutgers University, 1986
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Rutgers College of Engineering, 1979
Cours d'Eté, Rutgers University, Tours, France, 1979

Honors and Awards

Professional Achievement-Faculty Award, 2005, Bucks County Community College Alumni Association
Robert C. Smith Award, 2001, Decorative Arts Society
Lois F. Mc Neil Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1998, Winterthur Museum
Henry Luce Foundation American Art Dissertation Research Award, 1998, Travel Grant
Teaching Assistantship, 1993-97, University of Delaware
Graduate Assistantship, 1983-86, Rutgers University

Publications: Art History

Books and Catalogues:

Mayer, Roberta A. Lockwood de Forest: Furnishing the Gilded Age with a Passion for India (manuscript in preparation).

Mayer, Roberta A. Stella Elkins Tyler: A Legacy Born of Bronze. Newtown, Pennsylvania: Bucks County Community College, 2004.

Mayer, Roberta A. “‘Against the Grain?’: Perspectives on Women and Wood Carving in Cincinnati, 1873-1926.” Chapter in Jennifer L. Howe, ed. Cincinnati Art-Carved Furniture and Interiors. Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum and Ohio University Press, 2003.

Eidelberg, Martin, and Roberta A. Mayer, eds. Opulence in an Age of Industry: Turn-of-the-Century Decorative Arts from the Collection of Sigmund Freedman . New Brunswick, New Jersey: Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1993.

Articles:

Mayer, Roberta A. “Family Ties: Thomas Eakins and the Sartains.” Nineteenth Century 25 no. 2 (Fall 2005): 12-22.

Mayer, Roberta A. “The Interior of Johnson Hall: A Rich Display of Neoclassical Ornament.” The Salem County Preservationist 14 no. 1 (Summer 2004): 3, 7.

Mayer, Roberta A. “Robert Gibbon Johnson and His Federal Era Home: A Most Unusual Façade.” The Salem County Preservationist 13 no. 4 (Fall 2003): 3-5.

Mayer, Roberta A. “Gilded Aspirations, Tarnished Dreams: The Hartford Home of Sam and Livy Clemens.” Nineteenth Century 21 no. 2 (Fall 2001): 10-20.

Mayer, Roberta A. and Carolyn K. Lane. “Disassociating the ‘Associated Artists’: The Early Business Ventures of Louis C. Tiffany, Candace T. Wheeler, and Lockwood de Forest.” Studies in the Decorative Arts 8 no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2001): 2-36.

Mayer, Roberta A. “The Aesthetics of Lockwood de Forest: India, Craft and Preservation.” Winterthur Portfolio 31 no. 1 (Spring 1996): 1-22.

Book Reviews:

Mayer, Roberta A. “D. Roger Howlett, Gertrude Beals Bourne: Artist in Brahmin Boston,” book review, Nineteenth Century 25 no. 1 (Spring 2005): 38-40.

Mayer, Roberta A. “Margaret Moore Booker, Nantucket Spirit: The Art and Life of Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin,” book review, Nineteenth Century 22 no. 1 (Spring 2002): 42-43.

Presentations: Art History

Invited Lecture, “Stella Elkins Tyler: One Woman’s Contribution to the Arts,” Women Change America Forum, Women’s History Month Forum, Bucks County Community College, March 22, 2005.

Invited Lecture, “ Restoring the Historic Gardens of ‘Indian Council Rock,’” Bucks Beautiful, March 19, 2005 (with Lyle Rosenberger).

Invited Lecture, “Stella Elkins Tyler: A Legacy Born of Bronze,” for Docents of Drumthwacket Foundation and Michener Museum, November 5, 2004.

Conference, “New Life at Mid-Life: The Sculpture of Stella Elkins Tyler,” Day for All Women, Bucks County Community College, October 16, 2004 (with Fran Orlando).

Invited Lecture, “The Process of Creating an Exhibition of Stella Elkins Tyler’s Sculpture,” Foundation Seminar I, ARTF198, September 22, 2004 (with Fran Orlando).

Gallery Talk, Stella Elkins Tyler: A Legacy Born of Bronze, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, Pennsylvania, September 14, 2004.

Invited Lecture, “‘Against the Grain?’: Perspectives on Women and Wood Carving in Cincinnati, 1873-1926,” Victorian Society in America Symposium, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 1, 2004.

Invited Lecture, “New Visual Evidence Discovered During the Research for ‘Stella Elkins Tyler: A Legacy Born of Bronze,’” Tyler Restoration Committee, March 22, 2004 (with Fran Orlando).

Invited Lecture, “Women and Woodcarving in Nineteenth-Century Cincinnati,” Bucks County Community College Women’s Center, February 26, 2004.

Gallery Talk, Enhancements: Handcrafted Functional Objects, Bucks County Community College, Newtown, Pennsylvania, September 24, 2003.

Conference, “Exotic Influences and the Complex Question of Authorship: The Early Furniture of Louis C. Tiffany and Lockwood de Forest,” Authorship & Influence, Furniture Society, Philadelphia, June 14, 2003.

Invited Lecture, “A History of Nineteenth-Century Wallpaper in the United States,” Queenstown Antique Association, Pennington, New Jersey, April 14, 2003.

Invited Lecture, “A History of Nineteenth-Century Wallpaper in the United States,” Kuser Farm Mansion, Ewing, New Jersey, September 24, 2002.

Invited Lecture, “Understanding Louis C. Tiffany’s Early Businesses,” Kuser Farm Mansion, Ewing, New Jersey, May 7, 2002.

Invited Lecture, “Early Business Ventures of Louis C. Tiffany,” Hopewell Valley Historical Society, Pennington , New Jersey , January 24, 2002.

Symposium, “ India in America: Understanding the Mistri of Lockwood de Forest.” From Bombay to Boston : Anglo-Indian Furniture , Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, April 21, 2001.

Invited Lecture, “History of Victorian Wallpaper,” Delaware Valley Chapter of the Victorian Society in America, Trenton, New Jersey, September 17, 2000.

Gallery Talk, “ India in America: Some Thoughts on the Life and Work of Lockwood de Forest,” Lockwood de Forest, Merchant & Ivory Foundation at the Red Mills Gallery, Claverack, New York, August 5, 2000.

Invited Lecture, “East Indian Furniture and Architectural Woodwork: Lockwood de Forest’s Contribution to Olana,” The Western Craze for the Orient, Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, New York, May 20, 1999.

Invited Lecture, “Disassociating the ‘Associated Artists,’” Fall Colloquium of the Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware, September 24, 1998.

Invited Lecture, “Lockwood de Forest and the East Indian Craft Revival,” for Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century American Art, Architecture and Domestic Interiors, ARTH 812, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, Fall 1998.

Invited Lecture, “The Associated Artists,” for History of Modern Crafts and Design, 01:082:300, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Fall 1998.

Invited Lecture, “Decorative Arts of America’s Gilded Age,” for American Art, 1865-present, ARTH 231, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, Spring 1997.

Invited Lecture, “The Hartford Home of Sam and Livy Clemens: Creating the House Beautiful,” for Delaware Valley Chapter of the Victorian Society in America, Trenton, New Jersey, March 16, 1997.

Presentations: Higher Education

Conference, “Cast in Bronze: The Gallery as a Catalyst for Teaching and Learning,” Innovations, League for Innovation in the Community College, March 8, 2005 (with Fran Orlando).

Conference, “Designing an Assessment Tool for Distance Learning Courses,” Conference for Information Technology, League for Innovation in the Community College, November 9, 2004 (with William Ford).

Conference, “Designing an Assessment Tool for Distance Learning Courses,” Faculty of the Future, Bucks County Community College , June 4, 2004 (with William Ford).

Invited Lecture, “The Intersecting Roles of Faculty, Staff, Students, Grant Funding, and Research in Creating an Exhibition and Catalogue of Stella Elkins Tyler’s Sculpture,” Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, April 22, 2004 (with Fran Orlando).

Conference, “Scholarship Inspiring Teaching and Learning,” Faculty of the Future, Bucks County Community College, June 13, 2003 (with Maureen McCreadie and George C. Wagner).

Professional Board Memberships

Drumthwacket Foundation (2003 to present)
Victorian Society in America (2001 to 2006)

Professional Associations (Current)

Archives of American Art
College Art Association
Metropolitan Museum of Art
National Trust for Historic Preservation
National Museum of American Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Preservation New Jersey
Winterthur Guild

Professional Associations (Past)

Bucks County Commissioners’ Advisory Council for Women, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (2002-2003)
Hopewell Borough Historic Preservation Commission (2001-2003)