Budd Harris Bishop

Budd Harris Bishop is the director emeritus and founding director of the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla., where he served from 1987 to 1999. Currently, he is a visual artist, independent museum curator and consultant based in Livingston, Tenn. Bishop is a member of the Tennessee Arts Commission and board member for the Upper Cumberland Arts Alliance.  He is also a former director of the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio and former director of the Hunter Museum of Art in Chattanooga, Tenn. He has served as university instructor in art history at Vanderbilt and as an art teacher at the Ensworth School in Nashville.  Bishop holds a M.F.A. from the University of Georgia and an A.B. from Shorter College in Rome, Ga.  Since 2000, Bishop has participated in more than 15 exhibitions of personal art work in Alabama, Tennessee, Florida and Georgia and Ohio.