Exhibitions
2018
“Abstract
Mind
2018”
3rd
International
Exhibition
on
Abstract
Art
Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA)
Seoul,
South Korea
7th
Annual
National
Juried
Exhibition
Marshall University School of Art & Design,
Charles W. and Norma C. Carroll Gallery
Huntington, WV
2017
32nd
Annual
POSITIVE/NEGATIVE
National
Juried
Art
Exhibition
ETSU Department of Art & Design,
Slocumb Galleries
Johnson City, TN
When
the
Bell
Tolls...
Solo
Exhibition
West Virginia State Bar, Charleston, WV
An Art outreach program to bring art to alternative spaces.
2016
Detroit
Biennale
Museum of New Art
Troy, MI
Quotidian:
Art
of
the
Everyday
Group
Exhibition
Moon Gallery - Berry College
Mt. Berry, GA
Peace
Among
Savages
a.k.a.
The
Gun
Show
Amos Eno Gallery
Brooklyn, NY
Noticing
Nature
Foundry Art Centre
St. Charles, MO
2014
Solo
Exhibition:
Raymond
Yeager
-
Recent
Works
West Virginia State Bar, Charleston, West Virginia
An Art outreach program to bring art to alternative spaces.
2013
Solo
Exhibition:
In
Rerum
Natura
Bluefield College, Bluefield, VA
Shady:
Our
Neighbors
the
Trees
Arts Monongahela, Morgantown, WV
2012
Solo
Exhibition
Ingham Chapman Gallery, University of New Mexico at Gallup
Gallup, NM
2011
Solo
Exhibition
Frankenberger Art Gallery
Charleston, WV
Solo
Exhibition
The William and Florence Schmidt Art Center
Belleville, IL
Sioux
City
Art
Center
62nd
Juried
Exhibition
Sioux City Art Center
Sioux City, IA
2010
Fuzzy
Logic
Thompson Gallery
The Cambridge School of Weston
Weston, MA
Solo
Exhibition
-
Raymond
Yeager:
The
Janus
Series
Edwardsville Art Center
Edwardsville, IL
2009
Contemporary
Painting
Ford Gallery at Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI
Solo
Exhibition
Three Legged Dog
Jacksonville, IL
23rd
Biennial
Southern
Illinois
Artists
Exhibition
Cedarhurst Center for the Arts
Mt. Vernon, IL
Contemporary
Artists
Exhibit
Andrews Art Museum
Andrews, NC
From
Nature
The Illinois Institute of Art Chicago - 180 Gallery
Chicago, IL
Encaustic
Works
Biennial
Exhibition
Castle Gallery at the College of New Rochelle
New Rochelle, NY
Group
Exhibition
Three Legged Dog, Jacksonville, IL
2008
Solo
Exhibition
-
Abstract
Realism
Kresge Gallery
Lyon College
Batesville, AR
KY7
Biennial
Lexington Art League
Lexington, KY
Painting
Foundry Art Centre
St. Charles, MO
Rockford
Midwestern
Biennial
Rockford Art Museum
Rockford, IL
Group
Exhibition
-
Corporeal
Ardor
Springer Cultural Center
Champaign, IL
Solo
Exhibition-Dissolution
Quad City Arts Center Gallery
Rock Island, IL
2007
Solo
Exhibition
-
Abstraction
of
the
Real
Alexander Brest Museum and Gallery
Jacksonville University,
Jacksonville, FL
2006
Art
St.
Louis
XXII
Art St. Louis Gallery
St. Louis, MO
LaGrange
National
Biennial
XXIV
Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum
LaGrange, GA
2005
New
American
Paintings
Midwest
Competition
No.
59
Juried Exhibition-in-Print
Juror: Dominic Molon,
Pamela Alper Associate Curator,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2004
Inaugural
Biennial
Juried
Underground
Railroad
Exhibition
Northern Kentucky University
Institute for Freedom Studies
Highland Heights, KY
Juror: Michael Ray Charles
2003
Solo
Exhibition
Applebee Gallery, Jacksonville, IL
20th
Biennial
Southern
Illinois
Artists
Exhibition
Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL
2002 16th
Annual
Greater
Midwest
International
Exhibition
Art Center Gallery, Central Missouri State University, Warrensberg, MO
2001
Solo
Exhibition
Mobil Art Gallery, Jacksonville, IL
51st
Annual
Quad-State
Juried
Exhibition
Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL
1998
Solo
Exhibition
Sleeth Gallery, West Virginia Wesleyan College,
Buckhannon, WV
Artists
of
West
Virginia
Daywood Gallery, Alderson-Broaddus College,
Phillipi, WV
1996
VSU
Faculty
Emeritus
&
Alumni
Invitational
Valdosta State University Fine Arts Gallery,
Valdosta, GA
1995
Art
of
the
Southeast
Firehouse Center, Bainbridge, GA
1994
Florida
Biennial
Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Belleair, FL
Juror: Michael Auping, Chief Curator,
Modern Museum of Fort Worth
1993
Solo
Exhibition
Valdosta State University Fine Arts Gallery,
Valdosta, GA
Valdosta
Works
On
Paper
Valdosta State University Fine Arts Gallery,
Valdosta, GA
Juror: Larry Walker
Podcasts
“CAA
Conversations
Podcast”
Ray Yeager and Katherine Barnes December 18, 2017
“Positive
Space:
Conversations
in
Art
Foundations”
FATE Podcast Series, Ep. 5 January 2017
Conference Papers/Publications
2017 Who
Is
That
in
the
Mirror?
Southeastern Conference of Art Colleges (SECAC)
October 26-28
Columbus, OH
Facilitator
-
Society
for
Photographic
Education
(SPE)
Regional Conference
September 29, 30, & October 1, 2017, Penland, NC
Readymade
Killed
the
Art
Star
Creativity
vs.
Skills
Debate
Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE)
Conference - Beyond
the
Core
April 6-8
Kansas City, MO
Mentors/Teachers:
Practice
and
Advocacy
Lead Author
Future Forward: Citizen/Artist: Education and Agency
Volume 5, Issue 1
Official Journal of Integrative Teaching International (ITI)
2016
Pain
In
The
Assessment
Panel
Chair
Southeastern Conference of Art Colleges (SECAC)
Oct. 19-22 Roanoke, VA
I
Feel
a
Draft
In
Here?
Southeastern Conference of Art Colleges (SECAC)
Oct. 19-22 Roanoke, VA
Facilitator
-
ThinkTank
9
Biennial
Conference
Session: Mentors/Teachers:
Practice
and
Advocacy
ThinkTank is a subsidiary program of Integrative Teaching International that promotes inquiry-based learning in an art and design multi-disciplinary setting through a series of workshops and conferences around the world catered to both emerging and experienced educators in secondary and higher education.
2015 WALK
A
LINE
OUTSIDE
THE
STUDIO:
How
Drawing
Can
Foster
Cognitive
Thinking
In
Art
and
Other
Disciplines
Southeastern Conference of Art Colleges (SECAC)
Oct. 21-24 Pittsburgh, PA
Measuring
Success:
Critique,
Rubrics
and
Assessment
Co-Author
Future Forward: Grounded Strategy - Volume 4, Issue 1
Official Journal of Integrative Teaching International (ITI)
Buy
The
Ticket,
Take
The
Ride:
How
To
Take
The
Fear
And
Loathing
Out
Of
The
Required
Art
Class
Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE)
Conference - Tectonic
Shifts
March 26-28
Indianapolis, IN
2014
ThinkTank 8 Biennial Conference-Juried Participant
ThinkTank is a subsidiary program of Integrative Teaching International that promotes inquiry-based learning in an art and design multi-disciplinary setting through a series of workshops and conferences around the world catered to both emerging and experienced educators in
secondary and higher education.
Grants, Awards and Residencies
2016
Online Course Development Grant - TITLE III Grant
Stipend and hardware to develop online courses.
Guest Artist and Lecturer
Jacksonville University’s low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts program.
2015
Online Course Development Grant
-
TITLE III Grant
Stipend and hardware to develop online courses.
2013
Guest Artist and Lecturer
Jacksonville University’s low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts program.
UC Builders Grant
$4,000 grant for updating lighting in Frankenberger Art Gallery.
2008
Visiting Artist Residency
Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas
Residency and exhibition in the Kresge Gallery.
Green Foundation Grant
$20,000 grant for updates to the art computer lab.
2007
Finalist award from the Illinois Arts Council.
The Finalist Award category recognizes and
encourages additional applicants who
demonstrate considerable talent.
Visiting Artist Residency
Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Florida.
Residency and exhibition in the Alexander Brest Museum. Also included the creation of a glass
installation in cooperation with the glass studio.
Lectures
2016
“Creativity and Innovation in Business: An Artist’s Perspective”
University of Pittsburgh at Titusville
Annual Free Enterprise Luncheon sponsored by the Titusville Rotary Club and the Titusville Chamber of Commerce.
2008
Dissolution of Realism
Artist lecture at University of Illinois at Springfield.
2007
Abstraction of the Real
Artist lecture at Jacksonville University in conjunction with artist residency.
2002
Lecture and week-long seminar on how to incorporate art into MacMurray College’s General Education Curriculum.
1993
Panel of selected artist from the Florida Biennial discussing and examining the state of the arts in Florida and nationally.
1993
Lecture and workshop about Monoprinting given at Georgia Southern University.
Memberships
Vice President of Education
Integrative Teaching International (ITI) identifies innovative approaches to higher education in the arts and creative practices by linking educational theory to practice. ITI is an advocate for progressive educational models and policies that support an environment of integrative teaching experiences across disciplines. ITI works with professionals in the field, to define cross-disciplinary partnerships required in a new millennium between knowledge, creativity, and learning. ITI provides educators with forums for exploration, elaboration, and improvement
of existing skills through new areas of collaboration and research.
FATE
Foundations in Art: Theory and Education
FATE is a national association dedicated to the promotion of excellence in the development and teaching of college-level foundation courses in both studio and art history.
SECAC
Southeastern College Art Conference
SECAC is a non-profit organization that promotes the study and practice of the visual arts in higher education on a national basis. It facilitates cooperation and fosters on-going dialog about pertinent creative, scholarly and educational issues among teachers and administrators in universities, colleges, community colleges, professional art schools, and museums; and among independent artists and scholars.
Juror
2015
Congressman Alex Mooney 2nd District Congressional
Artistic Discovery Contest. A nation-wide high school arts competition sponsored by Members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
2013
Tamarack - Best of West Virginia Juried Exhibition
Beckley Art Group Cynthia Bickey Art Gallery Juried Exhibition
2010
University of Illinois at Springfield Senior Student Exhibition
2009
Lincoln Land Community College Annual Student Exhibition
2009
Lyon College Annual Student Exhibition
2008
University of Illinois at Springfield Annual Student Exhibition
2008
Quad City Art Center 2009-10 Exhibition Committee
Education
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Degree: Master of Fine Arts
Valdosta State University
Valdosta, Georgia
Degree: Bachelor of Fine Arts
Work Experience
2011-Present Associate Professor of Art, Coordinator of Art, University of Charleston
2000-2011 Chair of the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, Associate Professor of Art, MacMurray College
1998-2000 Coordinator of Art at Darton College.
1997-1998 Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at West Virginia Wesleyan College.