Bonnie Holt

Attended Oxford-Berkeley Summer Program and did independent research at the Victoria and Albert Museum, summer 1978.

M.A., Home Economics Education, Loma Linda University, La Sierra, California, 1971.

B.A., Home Economics, Chapman College, Orange, California, 1963.

Teaching Experience

Instructor, Contra Costa College, San Pablo, California, beginning Fall, 1994.

Courses: Art History survey courses covering Ancient Art to Contemporary Art in a two semester sequence; Multicultural Survey of American Art (on-line), Art Appreciation, as traditional lecture class and also an on-line class.

2007 - 2008, and Spring 2010 -Fall 2011 Co-Chair of the Art Department.

Since 1994 searved as Webmaster for the Art Department.

Served on California State C-ID Committee to draft course outlines and major for Art History for transfer from the community college to CSU system beginning Spring 2011.

Served on College Instruction Committee, beginning Fall 2009; Academic Senate Council, betinning Spring 2011, and Distance Learning Committee beginning Fall 2010.

Visiting Lecturer, Art History, University of the Pacific, 2001-2003.

Upper and Lower Division Courses: ARTH 9, Survey of World Art After 1400, ARTH 108 History of Renaissance Art and Architecture, ARTH 112, Nineteenth Century European Art, ARTH 110 Art in the Age of Rembrandt

Lecturer, University of California, Davis, 1994-1996.
Introduction to Art (Art Appreciation for non-majors)

Instructor, Hartnell Community College, Salinas, California, 1973-82.

Courses: Interior Design, Fiber Arts, Pattern Design, Textile Science, Clothing Construction, and Tailoring.

Served on Master Planning Committee, President's Advisory Committee, Instruction Committee, Affirmative Action Committee, Academic Senate, and served as President of the Academic Senate, representing faculty opinion before the college governing board. Served as Evening Coordinator for the Science Department; responsibilities included budget and scheduling, as well as adjuct faculty evaluations.

Related Experience

Art Department Librarian, University of California, Davis, 1985-2001

Served as department network administrator, created and maintained websites for Art Practice and Art History.

Publications

Consultant for Debra J. DeWitte, et. al., Gateways to Art, Thames & Hudson, forthcoming 2012

Bonnie Holt, "'Quick, who painted fish?': The QBIC project at UC Davis," in Information Services & Use, vol. 14, No. 2 1994.

Bonnie Holt, "Retrieving art images by image content: the UC Davis QBIC project", in The Proceedings of ELVIRA , The First International Conference on Electronic Library and Visual Information Research, De Montfort University, Milton Keynes, England, 3-5 May, 1994, and in Aslib Proceedings, vol. 46, no. 10, October, 1994

Bonnie Holt, Laura Hartwick, and Stacey Vetter, "Query by Image Content, the QBIC Project's Applications at Davis's Art and Art History Departments," Visual Resources Association Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, Summer, 1995.

Bonnie Holt, Ken Weiss, Wayne Niblack, Myron Flickner, and Dragutin Petkovic "The QBIC Project in the Department of Art and Art History at UC Davis," ASIS 97 Digital Collections: Implications for Users, Funders, Developers and Maintainers. Volume 34, Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, November 1-6, 1997, Washington, D.C.

Dragutin Petkovic, Bonnie Holt, and Dakin Hart, "QBIC (TM) in Art and Museums," interVisions: idea exploration from technology applications to implications, Issue #10, Digital Art, December, 1997.

Travel

Visited galleries, museum collections, and sites of architectural interest in central and eastern United States every summer, beginning in 1985; summer 2006, included: Washington, DC, the recently opened Museum of the Native American, National Galley of Art, the newly reopened Smithsonian Museum of American Art, and the Philips Collection; viisted museums in New York, the new Under Ground Railroad Museum in Cincinatti. Every summer since 1982, spent a month in Europe visiting, and often revisiting Great Britain, Italy, Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Spain, and Portugal, extensively photographing works of art for the Slide Library, University of California, Davis (1982-2001), and for use in teaching. Traveled to Greece during spring break, 2006, and summer of 2006, France, the Netherlands (for Rembrandt's Birthday), Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Austria. Summer 2007, France, including Paris, Atlantic Coast, Dordogne, Brittany, and Normandy; visited major museum collections in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and St. Louis. Summer 2009 traveled to France visiting Paris museums. Visited east coast museums including: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Chicago Art Institute, National Gallery of Art and Smithosnian Museum of Art, Washington, DC, the Cloisters, NY. Traves to France each summer, and various parts of Europe as well as major museums in the US.

Memberships

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oakland Museum of California, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, and the College Art Association.

August 3, 2011