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Efram Burk Professor
Visual and Performing Arts

Efram Burk

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Efram Burk has taught art history at ÎçÒ¹¿ì²¥ since 2006.  In the fall of 2014 he reassumed chairpersonship role of Curry's Visual and Performing Arts Department (a position he held from 2008-2011).  In terms of research, he has focused on early twentieth-century American modernism, concentrating primarily on the printmaking activities of that period through exhibitions he has curated and scholarship. His articles include: "Printmaking as Autobiography: The Graphic Art of Marguerite Zorach," Woman's Art Journal, May 2004; "Assembling the 'Primitive':  Max Weber's Artist Book Primitives (1926)," SECAC Review, Fall 2003; "The Prints of William Zorach," Print Quarterly, December 2002; "'Sketch[ing] and Paint[ing] in Ecstasy'-William and Marguerite Zorach in Yosemite Valley, Summer 1920," SECAC Review, Fall 2014.  His first book, Clever Fresno Girl: The Travel Writings of Marguerite Thompson Zorach (1908-1915), was published by the University of Delaware Press (2009).  He is also an avid photographer, who in 2012, was accepted as a member of the Ogunquit Art Association, the oldest artists' organization in the state of Maine.  He looks forward to participating in the 2015 Maine Photo Project.