Resume / Communications

Paul H. Jimerson

215 Grove Acre Avenue #1  Pacific Grove, California 93950

paulhjimerson@yahoo.com / pauljimerson.blogspot.com

 

COMMUNICATIONS EXPERIENCE

Radio Producer and Host: WGBH, Boston; WGUC, Cincinnati, OH; WNOP, Newport, KY; Connecticut Public Radio, Hartford, CT; WREB, Holyoke, MA; WFCC, Chatham, MA; WOMR, Provincetown, MA; New Hampshire Public Radio, Concord, NH; CJUS, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Produced and hosted classical, jazz, and other live programs; interviewed musicians including Dizzy Gillespie and Sam Rivers; produced radio show Klavier for WFCC; wrote and produced arts feature piece on painter Jules Olitski (interviewed the artist at his island home in NH); wrote and broadcast news and features at various stations; produced commercials, promos, and conducted live on-air fundraising.

Arts and Classical Music Reporter: Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, MA; Valley Advocate, Hatfield, MA; Hartford Advocate, Hartford, CT.

Wrote reviews of classical music concerts and festivals in the Berkshires.

Interviewed and wrote articles on violinist Chee-Yun, and jazz great Don Pullen. Reviewed concert of composer Sir Michael Tippett’s final work, “The Rose Lake.”

Adjunct Professor of Art History: Springfield College, Springfield, MA; Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA.

      Taught survey course (pre-history to contemporary art), as well as modern art, showing relationships of “primitive” art to early modern art; counseled students; attended planning meetings.

Web Development and Electronic Communications:

      Developed and maintain a blog of writing and photography. Experience with social networking sites such as facebook, LinkedIn and Blogger.

NON-PROFIT EXPERIENCE

Assistant Curator: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.

Served as assistant curator for major retrospective (the first show in the new I. M. Pei wing) of paintings by Larry Poons: helped select paintings from private collections in New York, Toronto, and Boston; interviewed the artist and compiled the chronology for the catalog, Larry Poons  Paintings, 1970-1980; assembled the publications list for the catalog.

Intern: Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH.

      Accessioned works of art; contributed to planning meetings; kept computer database records; trained in handling works of art; assisted in maintaining Frank Lloyd Wright’s Zimmerman House; traveled with a group to see Wright’s Falling Water.

Psychotherapist: Mount Tom Center for Mental Health & Recovery, Holyoke, MA.

Conducted outpatient psychotherapy with adults and youth; marriage therapy; case management; treatment teams and crisis work; played an active role in treatment planning and professional team meetings.

Team Therapist: Windhorse Associates, Inc., Northampton, MA.

Served as team therapist and individual therapist at world-renowned innovative and client-centered mental health community; founded and facilitated Friendship Group to help clients connect with each other and ease re-entry into the community; contributed to team and staff meetings and staff retreats.

Intern and Group Leader: Men’s Resource Center for Change, Amherst, MA.

Led and co-led groups for male batterers (the Moving Forward program), and conducted individual therapy, at one of the original, and most innovative, men’s leadership and violence prevention programs in the country.

 

EDUCATION

Antioch New England Graduate School, Keene, NH.

M. A. Counseling Psychology, May, 2005.

Goddard College, Plainfield, VT.

M. A. Art History and Cultural Studies, May, 1998.

Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA.

B. A. Art History, May, 1980.

University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Journalism studies, 1976.