MUSEUM STUDIES

Chuck Dailey, Chairman, IAIA Museum Studies program

Biography:

I had been in the Marine Corps which offered me the opportunity to enter college under the GI Bill. At the University of Colorado I worked in the CU Museum where my painting talent enforced the efforts demanded by the museum. I received a year and a half position at the Museum of Northern Arizona following graduation. Following this experience my wife and I went to Western Europe and traveled from northern Finland down to Yugoslavia on a Vespa motorcycle camping every night. My intent was to study, photograph and document museums.

When we returned from Europe, I wore long hair tied up in the back as a knot, my wife and I rode motorcycles, and we moved to Santa Fe because “hippie friends” had settled here. As a “hippie”, I worked at the Museum of New Mexico for some 9 years as Curator of Exhibits. Then the IAIA position became available and we knew it was the ultimate goal in our lives to work there! The Institute has meant a great deal for my wife and I. The greatest Honor I have ever received is to have been honored by the Students of IAIA several times as an outstanding faculty!
I have been at the IAIA since l971 and have loved almost every day!

Very humbly, I paint in a trompe l’oeil manner. It is very quiet and meaningful technique I use. I am not a professional painter, but only paint when I need to say something.

My wife was an Olympic Skier and a world rated kayaker—she taught me how to teach first of all—and how to ski, kayak, backpack, bicycle, and think

Education:

University of Colorado

Major Professional Activities:

An Introduction to Museology 2002
Museum Administration 2003
Workbooks: “Manikin Making” and “How to Start a Small Museum”

Director of IAIA Museum for over 20 years

Conceived, designed and installed exhibits in Canada, Italy and fifteen states in the U.S., including “Museum of the South West” in Cavona, Italy.

Teaching Statement:

My teaching style is just “me.” I work with my students. I will do anything that I can to illustrate a point. I have sung, acted out, spoken quietly and expressively, and outlined every aspect of a goal. I loved teaching Art History for I used 2 screens and showed Michelangelo and Allen Houser together—TC Cannon and Picasso side by side. I have loved to do many classes in the Museum, to play with concepts like “security” and show slides of the Smithsonian where the “roof fell” on an exhibit.

It is a great pleasure to work with Students from all Indian America! I am very Honored to work with the Quality of Faculty that the IAIA employs!

Thank you for this period of Time, IAIA!