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Lillian enjoying Belgian waffles...in Belgium!
Lillian Nave Goudas is a Senior Lecturer at Appalachian State University. She has a graduate degree in art history from the Clark Art Institute/Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art. She has taught art history since 1997 at several universities including The State University of New York, College at Oneonta, Assumption College in Worcester, MA, and since 2007 at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. She also serves as a Hubbard Fellow in Faculty Development with a particular interest in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and Global Education. She has lectured on art history, Service-Learning (Civic Engagement), and SoTL topics at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, as well as at international conferences in Athens, Greece, Gold Coast, Australia, and Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Her recent move into the University College department at Appalachian State has allowed for her to teach interdisciplinary courses that focus on Art, Religion and Society as well as Art, Politics and Power, specifically focussing on the power of art in culture and the repatriation of Nazi looted art during World War II. She has led student groups to New York City for the past 6 years, taken adults to Greece and Turkey on an art historical tour, and is planning to take students to Belgium and the Netherlands as part of her courses.
A firm believer in the power of art to do good in society, she is a creative catalyst in the International Arts Movement based in New York City, and hosts films festivals of her students’ service-learning documentary film/art projects several times a year. A mother of three energetic children, she enjoys prolonged silence whenever possible and family game nights that do not devolve into tears. An avid traveler, she drags her three children to foreign places like England, Greece, and Australia whenever the opportunity arises. And as a baking enthusiast, she makes brownies and chocolate chip pumpkin bread as a de-stressing mechanism. She and her family make their home in the beautiful foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Lenoir, North Carolina.
Her recent move into the University College department at Appalachian State has allowed for her to teach interdisciplinary courses that focus on Art, Religion and Society as well as Art, Politics and Power, specifically focussing on the power of art in culture and the repatriation of Nazi looted art during World War II. She has led student groups to New York City for the past 6 years, taken adults to Greece and Turkey on an art historical tour, and is planning to take students to Belgium and the Netherlands as part of her courses.
A firm believer in the power of art to do good in society, she is a creative catalyst in the International Arts Movement based in New York City, and hosts films festivals of her students’ service-learning documentary film/art projects several times a year. A mother of three energetic children, she enjoys prolonged silence whenever possible and family game nights that do not devolve into tears. An avid traveler, she drags her three children to foreign places like England, Greece, and Australia whenever the opportunity arises. And as a baking enthusiast, she makes brownies and chocolate chip pumpkin bread as a de-stressing mechanism. She and her family make their home in the beautiful foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Lenoir, North Carolina.
Vicki Clift has taught art history at Appalachian State University for the past 14 years. She received her BA and MA in art history from the University of Memphis. After graduating, she taught art history at the University of Memphis before moving to the gorgeous mountains of North Carolina in 2001.
Vicki’s area of specialization is the art of Flanders and the Dutch Republic, and she has taught special topics classes in Dutch art at Appalachian State University. She has also guest-lectured on Dutch art and more especially on the art of Jan van Eyck.
Over the years, she has helped lead groups of students to New York and to Washington, DC. An enthusiastic wanderer, Vicki has traveled to Mexico, Canada, the Netherlands (twice), Belgium, England, France, Austria, and Germany. In her first life, Vicki was the Head of Circulation for the main library in Memphis, TN, where she supervised up to 30 staff members. She currently lives in Boone, NC.
Vicki’s area of specialization is the art of Flanders and the Dutch Republic, and she has taught special topics classes in Dutch art at Appalachian State University. She has also guest-lectured on Dutch art and more especially on the art of Jan van Eyck.
Over the years, she has helped lead groups of students to New York and to Washington, DC. An enthusiastic wanderer, Vicki has traveled to Mexico, Canada, the Netherlands (twice), Belgium, England, France, Austria, and Germany. In her first life, Vicki was the Head of Circulation for the main library in Memphis, TN, where she supervised up to 30 staff members. She currently lives in Boone, NC.