biographie de Charles GILES (1914)

Birth place: Arlington, MA

Addresses: Pensacola, FL

Profession: Educator, painter, lecturer, writer, critic

Studied: Vesper George Sch. A., with Lincoln Vesper George, Harold Lindergren, Fletcher Adams, Dwight Shepler, Nelson Chase, Dean Cornwell, and others; Massachusetts Sch. A., with Frank Rines; New York Univ.; Univ. North Carolina; Rutgers Univ.; Boston Univ.; Florida Southern College, B.S., M.A.; Univ. Florida, D. Educ.

Exhibited: Florida Fed. Art, 1960, 1962-64; Pensacola Jr. College, 1963.

Member: AAPL; Creative Art Group, Tampa Bay; Florida Fed. Art; Florida Indust. AA; Florida Art Teachers Assn.; Int. Hon. Soc. Indust. Art; Educ. Research & Scholastic Fraternity (hon. grad.); AAUP; Florida Fed. Art (pres., 1962-64; regional chmn., 1965)

Comments: Positions: instructor commercial art, Essex County Voc. & Tech. H.S., Newark, NJ, 1940-42; asst. professor art, Florida Southern College, 1946-51; instructor art & vocational educ., Univ. Florida, 1951-53; asst. professor fine art, Univ. Tampa, 1956-57; assoc. professor, fine & indust. art, Univ. Tampa, FL, 1957-62; chmn., Pensacola Interstate Fair, 1964-65; professor, art, humanities and fine art, Pensacola Jr. College, 1962-.