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Artist-in-Residence, Saint Mary's College, University of Notre Dame, IN, 1970s
Visiting Artist, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, 1955-56
Visiting Artist, Maria Garetti School, Fort Portal, Uganda, 1971
Teaching in her Manhattan loft on 14th Street, circa 1980s

Teaching Grants/Artist-in-Residence

1950-53    Hull House, Chicago, IL (painting studio and ceramics)
1954-61    Visiting Artist, Ball State College, Muncie, IN
1955-56    Visiting Artist, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon (Duke Foundation Grant)
1960        Oxbow School of Painting, Saugatuck, MI (seminar in painting)
1967-68    Visiting Professor, University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, IL (Illinois Council for the Arts)
1970-71    Artist-in-Residence, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
1971        Visiting Artist, Maria Garetti School, Fort Portal, Uganda (Derance Foundation Grant)
1974        Artist-in-Residence, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
1974        Collegio Santa Maria, Sao Paolo, Brazil (Derance Foundation Grant)
1975        Artist-in-Residence, Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN (Indiana Council on the Arts)
1976        State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY
1978        Visiting Artist, Drew University, Madison, NJ
1979        Artist-in-Residence, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
1979        Visiting Artist, Drew University, Madison, NJ
1980        Visiting Professor, School of Art, University of Denver, Denver, CO
1980        Artist-in-Residence, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1980        Visiting Artist, Drew University, Madison, NJ
1982        Artist-in-Residence, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1984        Lecturer and Evaluator, Cooper Union, New York, NY
1984        Visiting Artist, Drew University, Madison, NJ
1985        Guest Artist, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin, People's Republic of China

Biographical Notes

Born: Carthage, Missouri June 14, 1910

Parents: Clarence W. Hoff (carpenter) and Ada A. Hayes

Second child in family of 8 (6 brothers). Childhood and early education in Tulsa Oklahoma. Summers with grandparents in the Ozarks, Missouri.

Calendar:
    1910 - 33, Tulsa, OK
    1933 - 60, Chicago, IL
    1960 - 2008, New York, NY

Education

Elementary School (Whittier) in Tulsa

High School (Tulsa Central) 1925 - 29

Tulsa University (1 1/2 years) 1930 - 31

National Academy of Art, Chicago, IL, 1934 - 35 (later affiliated with the Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago 1936 - 37

University of Chicago (Audit Class in Art History) 1941 - 44

Hull House: Painting, Drawing, Sculpture

Self-study in Europe, 1939: Holland, France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece
George Buehr directed study of Serbian frescoes 1939

Oxbow School of Painting, Saugatuck, MI, 1942 - 43
Study of Lithography and Woodcut with Frances Chapin and Max Kahn

Pratt Graphics, NYC 1961 - 63

Click on any image to enlarge. From Left to Right:
Art Class, Tulsa Central High School, 1927
Postcard of Serbian fresco (1939)
Postcard reverse, with notes; French notation reads: "Ochrid [Serbia], Sainte Sophie, the angles in upper part of central apse, 11th Century"
Oxbow; Margo Hoff in foreground, Christine Chapin to her immediate left