Catalogues and Articles
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Articles
K. Johnson Bowles has written more than thirty articles written for Trusteeship (AGB), Times Higher Education (London), The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Inside Higher Ed, Business Officer (NACUBO), The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, MS), Folk Art Messenger (Richmond, VA), Fiberarts (Asheville, NC), Afterimage (UCPress), Surface Design Journal (Oakland, CA), South Bend Tribune (South Bend, IN), SPOT (Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX), and The Exhibitionist (New York, NY). She has written more than a dozen articles for university alumni magazines at Saint Mary’s College (Notre Dame, IN) and Longwood University.
Selected articles:
"What You Don't Know Can Hurt Your Institution," Trusteeship, Association of Governing Boards, November/December 2021
"Hawkins Bolden: The Mind's Eye and Searching Hands," Folk Art Messenger, Richmond, VA https://folkart.org/mag/hawkins-bolden-mind-s-eye-and-searching-hands-see
"The Color of Trauma," Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, 46.2, University of California Press, 2021
"A Man and a Vision," Folk Art Messenger, Richmond, VA, April 2021
"My Love/Hate Relationship With Lace," Bimbo Magazine, April 2021
“I Carve a Message, A Sermon: Elijah Pierce at the Barnes Foundation,” Folk Art Messenger, Richmond, VA. January 2021
“Look Through His Eyes: Works on Paper by Thornton Dial,” Folk Art Messenger, Richmond, VA. January 2021
"Servant Leaders Shouldn't Be Slaves to Their Institutions," Times Higher Education, London, January 14, 2021
“Having Trouble Diversifying your Board? The Culprit May be Your Discriminatory Database and Application Forms,” The Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 2021 (forthcoming).
“Your Discriminatory Database May Be Turning Off Donors. Here’s What You Can do About It,” The Chronicle of Philanthropy, October 2020.
"A Monumental Passion: The Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park," Folk Art Messenger, Richmond, VA, June 2020
“Review: Designs for Different Futures at the Philadelphia Museum of Art,” Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, University of California Press, Vol 47, Issue 2 https://online.ucpress.edu/afterimage/article/47/2/64/110732/Review-Designs-for-Different-Futures?searchresult=1
"I Thought My Head Would Explode," Surface Design Association, May 2020 https://www.surfacedesign.org/i-thought-my-head-would-explode-by-k-johnson-bowles/
“Review: José Maçãs de Carvalho: Archive and Democracy,” Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Vol. 44 No. 6, May/June 2017 https://online.ucpress.edu/afterimage/article/44/6/25/20555/Review-Jose-Macas-de-Carvalho-Archive-and
“‘Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.’ Advice for new administrators,” Inside Higher Ed, September 4, 2015 https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2015/09/04/advice-administrators-godfather-and-few-good-men-essay
“Curating the Campus: Strategic Planning in Higher Education Today,” Business Officer, NACUBO, Washington, DC, December 2013 (print and online)
“The Artful Strategic Plan,” Business Officer, NACUBO, Washington, DC, December 2013 (online)
“The President’s Many Roles,” Inside Higher Ed, July 1, 2013 https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2013/07/01/many-roles-and-expectations-college-presidents-essay
“Marion Line,” The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 15, University of Mississippi, Jackson, MS, 2013
“Constructions and Sculptural Fiber,” Fiberarts, Asheville, NC, September/October 2000
“A Long Hard Look: Robert Heinecken at the Museum of Contemporary Art,” Afterimage, Rochester, NY, March 2000
“The Practiced Hand,” Surface Design Journal, Oakland, CA, Spring 2000
“Straw Into Gold—Artists Using Industrial Materials,” Fiberarts, Asheville, NC, January/February 2000
“An Enchanted Garden—Installation by Margery Amdur,” Fiberarts, Asheville, NC, September/October 1999
“A Polestar for Photography—Photography’s Multiple Roles at Columbia College Museum of Photography,” Afterimage, Rochester, NY, Summer 1999
“Desert Solitaire,” Afterimage, Rochester, NY, September/October 1997
“Ivan Albright Retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago,” The Exhibitionist, New York, NY, September 1997
“Theater of the Absurd—Photo Works by Anna and Bernhard Blume,” Afterimage, Rochester, NY, September/October 1996
“Imagined Nostalgia in Gothic Arcadia—The Photography of Martina Lopez,” SPOT, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, Spring 1996 https://hcponline.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/1996_Spring_WEB.pdf
“Infiltrated—The Work of Betty Hahn,” Afterimage, Rochester, NY, January/February 1996
“Hidden Messages,” SPOT, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, Spring 1995 https://hcponline.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/1995_Spring_WEB.pdf
“The Adventurer—An Interview with Anne Noggle,” SPOT, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, Fall 1994 https://hcponline.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/1994_Fall_WEB.pdf
“An Engaging, Ethereal, Evocative Journey: Collected Visions by Lorie Novak,” SPOT, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, Fall 1993
“Recognitions: The Human and Animal Within—Atavistic Beasts by Aida Lelain,” SPOT, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, Summer 1993
Catalogues
K. Johnson Bowles has written twelve exhibition catalogs about African art, American art, and Chinese art. Most notable of these catalogs were Three-Ring Circus: Highlights from the William and Ann Oppenhimer Collection of Folk Art (2011), a 180-page, full-color catalog of 270 works created since 1950, and Reflecting Centuries of Beauty: The Rowe Collection of Chinese Art (2006), a 160-page, full-color catalog of 160 works spanning the Neolithic period to the 20th century.
Selected catalogs:
Scent of the Pine, You Know How I Feel: North Carolina Art from the Jonathan P. Alcott Collection (2014)
Three-Ring Circus: Highlights from the William and Ann Oppenhimer Collection (2011), in the collection of the Smithsonian
Institute Libraries.
Seeds of the Past: The Keith Kissee Collection of American Art from the 1930s and 1940s (2010)
Reflecting Centuries of Beauty: The Rowe Collection of Chinese Art (2006)
Improvisation: African American Quilts from the Collection of Michael David Whaley (2005)
Birds of Prey: Five Centuries of Illustration (2003)
Telling Objects: African Art from the LCVA Permanent Collection (2002)
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: A Journey Through Tribal Lands (2001) https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/9f9377b9-2cd8-4cab-a81c-184de9f65fb1/downloads/Juane%20Quick-to-See%20Smith%20A%20Journey%20Through%20Tri.pdf?ver=1600620440660