A Campus Tour With Cora Lee Gibbs (Part 1)

Interview by Joel Upton, May 2009

A campus tour with Cora Lee Gibbs, arts educator and wife of former Amherst College president Julian Gibbs, and Joel Upton, former professor of art and the history of art.

Biographies

Cora Lee Gibbs came to Amherst in 1979 when her husband Julian H. Gibbs (AC 1956) became president of Amherst College. She was a lecturer and public program developer at the Mead Art Museum and created the "Art for Lunch" program. Before this, she served as head of educational programs at the Rhode Island School of Design. After leaving Amherst, she was appointed director of the Newport Arrt Museum where she now serves as director emeritus. She holds a BA and MA in art history.

Joel Upton is emeritus professor of art and the history of art and has been at Amherst since 1972. He taught courses on the history of medieval and Renaissance art and architecture and complements and interweaves these with courses in Japanese pre-modern architecture.


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