Glenn A. Long biography

GLENN A. LONG FINE ARTS

NEW YORK • MIAMI

GLENN A. LONG BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY

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Dr. Long was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1939 and became involved in the arts at an early age: with instrumental and vocal music beginning at age 6, a scholarship student at the Cleveland Museum of Art at age 11, and a soloist in light opera and other musical productions at age 16. He received his college education at Ohio University: Bachelor of Fine Arts (1962) and Master of Fine Arts (1964) in painting, printmaking, and photography, and Ph.D. in the History of Painting, Sculpture, and Music (1970). His doctoral dissertation examines the work of music theorist Aristoxenus and sculptor Lysippus in the context of Aristotle’s Aesthetics. In addition to experience in the visual and performing arts, Dr. Long is involved in renovation and re-adaptive use of historic properties, and was a Fellow at the Seminar for Historical Administration at Colonial Williamsburg in 1963. In 1966 he was awarded a scholarship to the Boris Goldofsky Opera Workshop, and sang—beginning in 1945, and semi-professionally as an adult—with various church choirs and ensembles until 2002.

He was appointed Curator of Education at The Baltimore Museum of Art (1970-1973) rising to the position of Chairman of Education (1973-1978) while also serving as Curator-in-Charge of African, Oceanic, Pre-Columbian and American Indian Collections (1970-1978). He then served as Humanist Administrator at the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, DC (1978-1979) before becoming Executive Director of Sunrise Foundation and Sunrise Museums in Charleston, WV (1979-81) and Executive Director of the Metropolitan Museum and Art Center in Coral Gables, FL (1981), after which he founded the eponymous firm Glenn A. Long Fine Arts, now in it’s fourth decade of service.

During the 1980s and 1990s Dr. Long advised capital campaigns that raised more than $100 million for art and science museums across the country. He was adjunct to the faculties of The Maryland Institute, College of Art, The Johns Hopkins University, Morgan State University, Florida International University, and the New World School of the Arts, teaching Art History and Drawing (1975-2001), and was Program Director and Adjunct Professor of Religion and the Arts at the South Florida Center for Theological Studies (1998-2001). He was a pioneer in electronic (multi-media and interdisciplinary) teaching techniques that are now standard practice in universities worldwide.

Dr. Long was a Challenge Grant panelist for the Florida Department of State, a member of the Advisory Council for Graduate Study and Research at his alma mater, served in several capacities on the regional councils of the American Association of Museums, including appointments as MAP Surveyor and Accreditation Reviewer, and, from 1971 to the present, has served as advisor, content specialist, and expert witness for attorneys, insurance companies, state and federal government, and many individuals, corporations, and institutions, including the Estate of Johnny Versace for the Consul General of Italy (1997-2001), Japan Airline Development Corporation (1990-1995), and the US Internal Revenue Service and US Customs Service, Department of the Treasury, and US Marshalls (1975-1981). And, since 2008, Dr. Long has actively participated in archaeology at the 10th century Chateau de Montlaur near the Village of Montaud in the Languedoc Region in the south of France.