Member, Commission on Accreditation
Elected October 2024; term ends October 2025
CHARLES KANWISCHER is the Director of the School of Art and a Professor of Art at Bowling Green State University, where he has taught courses in drawing and painting since 1997. He previously taught at Amherst College and Yale University. He has exhibited widely, and his work is included in a number of private and public collections.
Professor Kanwischer has a substantial record of service to national visual art and design organizations. Since 2016, he has been a member of the College Art Association’s Professional Practices (PPC) Committee and has served as the committee’s co-chair since 2022. Highlights of this service includes work on the guidelines for retention and tenure of art historians, teaching new media, and distance education. Professor Kanwischer recently completed a term on Board of Directors of the National Council of Arts Administrators (NCAA Arts), an organization dedicated to addressing pressing issues in visual arts education. While serving on the NCAA Arts Board, he co-organized four NCAA/CAA affiliate panel sessions at CAA conferences. Professor Kanwischer’s professional service vision has been shaped by two imperatives—the need to develop a new generation of arts leaders and to keeping academic programs in visual art accessible to the widest possible range of students.
Professor Kanwischer holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting/Printmaking from Yale University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa.
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Posted January 2025