About the presenter...

Kathryn E. Klauber

MEd, Art Education, specialization art museum studies, University of Houston  
BFA, Art Education, University of Texas, Austin
art history presentations
Kathryn Klauber
Curriculum vitae available upon request.
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Art historian, presenter, and studio artist, Houstonian Kathryn Klauber combines a global knowledge of art history with the eye of an artist. A
popular instructor and presenter with a growing reputation, she teaches courses in art history, Prismacolor technique, historic portraiture, and
advanced visual arts workshops privately (please click on this link to view private studio courses) and for Rice University's Glasscock School,
the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, and many other art-related institutions and venues.   Ms. Klauber has
also developed art historically-based professional workshops and courses specifically geared towards teachers -- including those teaching AP
and IB -- in multidisciplinary fields of study.

Links to Ms. Klauber's Fall 2011 Rice University course webpages (both co-sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston):

http://gscs.rice.edu/Prismacolor

http://gscs.rice.edu/Tutankhamun and the Great Pharoahs

Link to Ms. Klauber's past Spring 2011 Rice University course series webpage:

http://gscs.rice.edu/ Impressionism and Post-impressionism Masterpieces

Her lectures for the above course included discussions of Manet, Morisot, and van Gogh.  The course evolved into two sessions from the
original and was co-sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

In the summer of 2010 she developed a new intensive course, Prismacolor for Teachers, for Rice's Glasscock School.  In addition to offering
Prismacolor for Teachers again in the summer of 2011, Ms. Klauber taught Portraiture for Teachers for Rice's Glasscock School.  Both of these
studio courses offer professional and gifted and talented (TAGT) credit to studio art and art history teachers and are scheduled through the
Summer 2012.   And both are co-sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Ms. Klauber has also lectured for Rice University's Advanced Placement (AP) Summer Institute in art historic and museum-related themes for
the past four years -- and has spoken to cross-curricular groups of geography, world history, European history, art history, advanced studies,
and social studies teachers.  For Rice's APSI she has presented programs on Picasso, Photography & Japonisme, The Silk Road, Prehistory,
and Modernism, Post-modernism, and the Cult of Personality.  And for Rice's 2011 American Grant Group, she developed and presented on 19-c
Art in America.

In the spring of 2010, in addition to offering the series Examining Post-Impressionism with integrated lectures on van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat, and
Cezanne, she conducted a day-long educator workshop for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on historic portraiture.   Components included
historic lecture, gallery touring, and studio instruction.   She also added St. Thomas University, where she spoke to Houston area teachers on
integrating art history and foreign languages, to her 2010 lecture sites.   Other 2010 speaking engagements include workshops for the Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston in conjunction with TAEA, Houston ISD and Pearland ISD.  She also regularly presents integrative talks and tours to the
business, academic, and private sector.

In 2009 Ms. Klauber presented the course, Great Themes in Art: Isms and Artists, co-sponsored by Rice University and the Museum of Fine Arts
Houston.  She was also a contributing lecturer for the Houston Museum of Natural Science and Rice University on the artistic life of Leonardo for
their co-sponsored course, Leonardo da Vinci:  Man, Inventor, Genius, held during the HMNS' 2008 exhibit of the same name.

In 2003, Kathryn received certification in, introduced, and taught the first Advanced-Placement Art History course for Spring Branch ISD in
Houston.  And in 2004, she received certification in International Baccalaureate (IB) Studio Art.  Twice in her public school career she was
elected teacher-of-the-year and became the fine arts department chair of Westchester Academy for International Studies in SBISD, where she
taught both art history and studio art.

An active studio artist who works in Prismacolor and graphite, she began her training at UCLA with R.B. Kitaj in the 1970s and continued her
studio training with Michael Frary in watercolor and Garry Winogrand in photography at the University of Texas at Austin.  She is an active
member of the Colored Pencil Society of America.

Link to Ms. Klauber's portraiture website:

http://www.klauberportraits.com

From 1999 - 2010, Kathryn regularly volunteered at the Museum of fine Arts Houston, where she was a docent who toured with the public,
assisted in training new docents, was active in the MFAH's Evenings for Educators, and lectured as a senior docent symposium speaker.

Ms. Klauber travels extensively with her camera.  Many of her personal photographs can be
seen in her PowerPoint presentations.

She has two grown children and lives in Houston, Texas.

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You may reach Kathryn at:                                                                           
                                                                                         
kathryn@klauberpresentations.com                                                      

Please click on contact to go to direct email link.

Kathryn Klauber                                                                                                                Above right:  Brunelleschi's Foundling Hospital, Florence, Italy, begun 1421
www.klauberpresentations.com                                                                                 Above left:  Chris Burden's Urban Light sculpture, LACMA, 2008
Houston, Texas                                                                                                                 Copyright 2009 by K.Klauber.  All image rights reserved.
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