Roberta K. Tarbell

Most Recent Affiliation(s):

• Rutgers University

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Bio:

• SIGGRAPH 2003

  Roberta K. Tarbell, Assoc. Prof. of Art History and Director, Museum Studies Program, Fine Arts Department, has taught at Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, since 1984. She studied at Cornell University (B.S., 1965) and the University of Delaware (M.A., 1968; Ph.D., 1976) focusing on the History of American Art and Modern Sculpture, subjects she taught there (1980-84) as an Assoc. Prof. of Art History. She has been a consulting professor for the University of Delaware/Winterthur Museum programs in Art Conservation since 1986. Her fifty publications include book-length exhibition catalogs for the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the University of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, other museums and most recently, the Portland {Maine} Museum of Art. Tarbell has developed interdisciplinary curriculum and publications on art and literature. She contributed chapters or essays to Walt Whitman and the Visual Arts, which she edited (Rutgers University, 1992), An Historical Whitman (Oxford University Press, 2000) and the new Encyclopedia of American Studies. She has also spearheaded joint electronic art projects for studio artists and art historians.