Secretary pro tempore, NASAD (Executive Committee and Board of Directors)
Appointed January 2023, term ends October 2023
Judy Bullington is a Professor of Art History and past Chair of the Department of Art at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. As a recipient of the 2016 – 2017 Fulbright Terra Foundation Grant, Professor Bullington taught at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland while researching transatlantic links between art and garden histories in the 18th century. Other awards include a Fulbright to teach American art at Tartu University in Estonia, a Winterthur Research Fellowship, and an NEH Summer Institute grant to study the nineteenth-century material culture of New York at the Bard Graduate Center for Decorative Arts. In 2015, she was honored with the first Faculty Scholarship Award at Belmont University. Her previous experience includes serving as the Acting Dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Prior to entering her career as a fulltime art historian and arts administrator, Professor Bullington was a practicing textile artist.
Professor Bullington has published articles on women artists and the intersections of art and travel literature in the American Art Journal, Woman’s Art Journal, Prospects, Nineteenth Century Studies, and The Gazette Des Beaux Arts among others. Most recently, a book chapter on “Cultivating Meaning—The Chinese Manner in Early American Gardens,” appeared in Global Trade and Visual Arts in Federal New England (2014). Her current research is focused on a book-length project Ordering Nature—Early American Artists & Their Gardening Patrons, 1760 – 1830.
Professor Bullington served on the NASAD Board of Directors 2015-2021. She serves NASAD as a visiting evaluator.
Professor Bullington earned a Ph.D. in American Art History from Indiana University at Bloomington.
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Posted January 2023