Resume

Bettye Brookfield, MFA

3062 Howard Avenue, Suite 103

 Myrtle Beach. South Carolina 29577
bbrookfield@sccky.edu
404-805-6865

Employment 

Customer Service, United Airlines, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (2018 to Present)

Providing safe, friendly  and efficient service assisting customers to check in and rebook flights, assuring travel documents and credentials satisfy security and destination requirements

Art Teacher, St. Michaels’s Catholic School, Garden City, South Carolina (2020-2024)

Planning curriculum and budget to provide quality art instruction to students Pre-K through Sixth Grade 

Customer Service and Sales Southern Living Store, Myrtle Beach South Carolina (2021-Present)

Greeting customers, assisting with sales. Providing professional Pet Portraits and other original art to the corporate stores

Teaching Associate in Fine Arts, Coastal Carolina University (2018-2020)

Teaching five courses in Studio Arts, Art Appreciation and Design per semester

Professor, Chair Department Fine Arts (1996 – 2016)

St. Catharine College, St. Catharine, KY

  • Curriculum planning, maintaining budget, Art Instructor to 350 College level students.
  • Teaching load of 15-21 hours per semester in Drawing, Painting, Art History Design and Art Education.
  • President of Faculty Senate, Member of Student Affairs Committee, Cultural Committee and Title III Committee, Faculty Senate, Graduate Council, IRB.

Director, Saturday School Program (1994-1996)

Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN

  • Administrative Director of the 85-year-old youth program at the college of art.
  • Planning curriculum, selecting classes, hiring instructors, designing brochure, advertising, maintaining budget and purchasing supplies.
  • Supervisor of over 20 faculty members and 10 work-study students.
  • Responsible for registration of 300+ students each session, advising and meeting with parents.
  • Selected portfolios and interviewed student candidates to grant scholarships to gifted and talented students.

Gallery Manager and Curator (1981-1996)

Whitehall Gallery, Bardstown, KY

  • Managed a full-service gallery including shows and exhibitions of contemporary works, prints, framing, and a gift shop.
  • Hiring and training of employees, purchasing, advertising, community services, and cooperation with the tourist industry.
  • Teaching full-time.

Education

Master of Fine Arts Degree (Painting and Sculpture Emphasis) – 1994

Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN

B.A. with Honors (Major in Art, Minor in Education) – 1992

Union University, Jackson, TN

Scholarship to Study Art in West Africa – 1993

Drew University

Art History – 1992

Cambridge University, England

Scholarship to Study Art in Southern France – 1991

Cleveland Institute of Art

Competitions and Solo Exhibitions

  • Third Place in First Annual Memphis Botanic Arts Festival, Oil Painting, 1993
  • First and Second Places in the Annual Jackson Art Association Show, Oil Painting, 1992
  • First and Second Places in the Annual Coca-Cola Art Show, Elizabethtown, KY, Oil Painting, 1980
  • Selected to present at the National Conference for Appalachian Women, Zanesville, Ohio, 2006
  • Bourbon Festival, Bardstown, Kentucky, 2006
  • Washington County, Hometown, USA, Springfield, KY, 2005
  • Nelson County Bourbon Festival, Bardstown, KY, 2004-5
  • Elvis, Elvis, Elvis, Springfield Opera House, 2004-5
  • Kentucky Derby Paintings, St. Catharine, KY, 2005
  • Elvis is in the House, Memphis, TN, 2004
  • Paintings from the South of France, Starving Artist Gallery, 2004, 2005
  • Paintings from Provence, Sutherland Gallery, Bardstown, 2003, 2004, 2005
  • Kentucky Derby T-Shirt, Kroger-Crusade for Children, 2001

Public Art Commissions

  • El Jimador, Bardstown, KY, 230 ft. Mural Mexican Culture, 2007
  • Historic St. Thomas Church, Bardstown, KY, 3 large Scripture Signages, 2006
  • Horse Mania Project, Lexington, KY, 2000 Life size Horse
  • Louisville International Airport, 10 ft. Horse Paintings, 2001
  • El Camino Real Mexican Restaurant, Bardstown, KY, Murals, 2008
  • El Tapatio Restaurant, Elizabethtown, KY, Murals, 2009
  • Gallopalooza Horse Project, “Fuel’s Gold”, Sponsored by Thornton’s, Louisville, KY
  • Jeffersontown Illumination Project, Concrete Lamplights, J’town, KY

Exhibitions

Seacoast Gallery, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Waccamaw Artist Guild, MyrtleBeach, South Carolina

Myrtle Beach Museum, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Southern Living Store, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

  • Louisville International Airport, July 2010, 2013 International Equestrian Event
  • Greater Louisville, Inc, Horse Paintings
  • Swanson Gallery, Nulu District, Louisville
  • Mellwood Arts Center, Louisville, KY
  • Delilah’s, Chicago, IL, 2008 Elvis Paintings
  • The Orpheum Theatre, Memphis, TN, Elvis Paintings
  • Fine Light Marketing Firm, Louisville, KY, 2000-2001
  • Artworks Collection, Charleston, SC, 2001
  • Yvonne Rapp Gallery, Louisville, KY, 1999 Garden Sculptures in Limestone
  • Comer Museum, Silacauga, AL, 1994
  • The Parthenon, Nashville, TN, Nail Figure
  • Jewish Community Center, Memphis, TN, 1994 African Figures
  • Union University, Jackson, TN, 1992 Paintings and Sculpture from France
  • City Hall, Jackson, TN, 1992
  • Carnegie Center for the Arts, Jackson, TN, 1991
  • Casa Grisanti, Louisville, KY, 1989 Impressions of Impressionists
  • The Depot, Steamboat Springs, CO, 1980

Benefits

  • Women’s Free Clinic, Bardstown, KY
  • St. Catharine College Scholarship Fund
  • American Heart Association, Bardstown Wine Tasting
  • Professional Women’s Springfield Wine Tasting
  • Gilda’s Club Benefit, Louisville, KY
  • Retired and Disabled Jockey Benefit, Louisville, KY
  • Stephen Foster Story Benefit
  • St. Joseph’s Montessori, Bardstown, KY