Jeffrey Weidman, M.A., Ph.D., M.L.S.
Dr. Weidman has published extensively on American artist William Rimmer (1816-1879), a contemporary of George Caleb Bingham, but his reputation far exceeds his work on Rimmer. “Web Resources for American Art Founded by Jeffrey Weidman,” the research tool of the Association of Historians of American Art ( < http://www.ahaaonline.org >), which debuted nationally in 2009, confirmed Dr. Weidman to be the American art historians’ art historian. He serves on the advisory board of the Oxford University Press for Grove Art Online and The Dictionary of Art. He has contributed to publications of numerous institutions including the National Gallery of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Milwaukee Art Center, the Detroit Institute of the Arts, and the Brockton Art Center/Fuller Memorial in Brockton, Massachusetts. It was for the latter that he organized the 1985/1986 exhibition and wrote most of the catalog, William Rimmer: A Yankee Michelangelo, which traveled to the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum. He has directed the Clarence Ward Art Library of Oberlin College and headed Reference and Collection Development for the Spencer Art Reference Library of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. For decades, Dr. Weidman has been active in the Art Libraries Society of North America and a book reviewer for Choice, Art Libraries Journal, and Art Documentation. (A detailed résumé is available on request.)
Maryellen McVicker, M.A., Ph.D.
As an art historian, Maryellen McVicker specializes in George Caleb Bingham and the artists of central Missouri, the Boonslick. She discovered and documented a previously unknown Bingham painting, which appears in George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné, #217. She has been published in American Art Review: “George Caleb Bingham in the Boonslick” (April 2011) and “A Brush with History, 175 Years of Art in the Boonslick” (November 1996); and in the Athenaeum Society Review, “Bingham, The Boonslick and His Students” (1985). She has written the catalogues for two Bingham exhibits. In addition to her work with Bingham, McVicker is an award-winning professor, the former executive director of Friends of Historic Boonville, and a board member of the Missouri Humanities Council (1988-1997). (A detailed résumé is available on request.)
Kathleen Sayce, M.S.
Sayce is a botanist and scientific illustrator with broad knowledge of geology. Through years of study of historic physical and maritime maps, she can identify and describe terrain and shorelines of centuries past. Her extensive knowledge allows her to identify the exact location of scenes painted or photographed decades, even centuries, before. Sayce has taught botany and stewardship classes, done ecological and wetland surveys, botanical site listing and endangered species monitoring. She worked as a Science Program Director for the Willapa Alliance, and as Assistant Vice President Science Officer for ShoreBank Pacific, the first bank in the United States to focus on sustainability. She has written numerous articles and given many presentations about botany, local geology, and sustainability. In addition Sayce helped start and was on the boards of the Water Music Festival (http://watermusicfestival.com/ ), Confluence Project (http://www.confluenceproject.org/ ), a multi-site bi-state public art project featuring artworks designed by Maya Lin, and Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership (http://www.lcrep.org/ ) , a research and education organization to promote the health of the Columbia River from the Gorge west to the Pacific Ocean. Sayce posts wildflower lists for local parks and other botanical explorations at http://users.reachone.com/columbiacoastplants/ . She is also on the board of the Society for Pacific Coast Native Iris, http://www.pacificcoastiris.org/
Jan Bono, M.Ed.
Who could be a better editor than the person given the nickname “Ms. Thesaurus” — in junior high school. Bono honed her skills as a grammarian in 30 years of teaching and as an editor in even more years of writing. www.janbonobooks.com