Jennifer Baker M.A.

Associate Professor of Arts & Sciences

Surdam Art Building 102
One Brennan Circle
Poultney, VT 05764-1199
Email Address: bakerj@greenmtn.edu
802-287-8251; Fax: 802-287-8099

Green Mountain College's emphasis on both environment and the liberal arts integrates my own academic, professional and personal background. My career has included both instruction and instructional design in the arts and in the sciences. Work in the private sector included supervisory, administrative and budgeting responsibilities. For the past three decades I have been actively involved in environmental living, including close to ten years of homestead farming where I raised organic produce and dairy goats for milk, cheese and meat.

Prior to my arrival at GMC, I conducted courses in Anatomy, Physiology, and Basic Medical Terminology at both the New England Center for Death Education at Mt. Ida College in Newton, Massachusetts and Community College of Rhode Island. I also instructed General Biology with Lab, Human Biology, Dimensions of Learning in Math and Sciences, and Drawing I at Community College of Vermont in Rutland. In the private sector, I served as Art Director and Medical Illustrator at Tufts University School of Medicine from 1983-1987 and at The Wilmer Eye Institute of The Johns Hopkins Hospital and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1979-1981.

Education
M.A. Medical and Biological Illustration, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 1979. Thesis: The First Intermetatarsal and Medial Tarsal Regions; Surgical Implications in Digital Transfer
B.A. Graphic Design: Illustration Concentration, San Jose State University, San Jose California, 1973
A.A. Art, San Jose City College, San Jose, California 1971

Affiliations
Member The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center 2006
Member C.A.A. (College Art Association) 2004
Member F.A.T.E. (Foundations in Art: Theory and Education) 2001
Elected to Association of Medical Illustrators, 1980 (Membership inactive)
Elected to Graphic Artists Guild, 1973 (Membership inactive)

Teaching and Mentoring

Courses Taught
Art:
Drawing from the Landscape
Drawing from the Human Form
Studio Explorations I
Studio Explorations
Introduction to Computer Graphics
Advanced Graphic Design
Illustration
Figure Studio 2-D
Figure Studio 3-D
Art and Culture I
Art and Culture II
Art and Culture III
Issues in Art
Art and Women Artists (Course Designer)
Special Topics in Design: Stage and Costume (Course Designer)
Special Topics in Painting: Watercolor and Airbrush (Course Designer)
Senior Exhibition and Portfolio
Independent studies in: Costume Design, Interior Design, Drawing, Graphic Arts,
Digital Media, The Figure in Environmental Space, and Equines in Art Historical Survey.

Science:
General Biology (Labs)
Human Physiology with Lab
Human Anatomy with Lab
Human Biology
Human Anatomy and Physiology
Group Independent Study: Gender, Development and Human Sexuality

Environmental Liberal Arts:
Core:
Images of Nature (Chair 2000-2003)
Voices of Community
Dimensions of Nature
Distribution:
Art, Science, Theology and Politics (Course Designer)
Natural Science Illustration (Course Designer)

Publications
Principal artist for:
Hancock, Paul, 2006. Guidebook to the Slate Valley Region.
Zanella, Louis J. and Baker, Jennifer L. 2004. A Regional Dissector of the Cat.
Patz, A. and Fine. S. 1980. Diabetic Retinopathy, C.V. Mosby, 1980.
Publications include numerous scientific articles since 1979.

Presentations
Art History as General Education: An Interdisciplinary Success
F.A.T.E. Conference in Boston, March 2001

Research Interests
As a participant in the teaching academic track, I am not currently participating in research-based activity.
My ongoing participation in book illustration and design contributes to publications in several fields.

Activities
Member of the Green Mountain College Community Concert Band - Flute.

Service in my home community of Whitehall, New York has included Whitehall Skene Manor Preservation, where I served on the founding Board of Directors.

Summers find me participating in regional theatre. I have completed six years of acting and costume design in community theater, culminating with assuming the role of Director in 2002. In 2003 I appeared in the Dorset Theatre Festival production of "Little Women."

Awards
2002 Recipient of Exemplary Teacher Award
The General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church
2002 Recipient of the Robert W. Leonard Award to the Outstanding Teacher of the Year
Awarded by the Student Senate