 Dr. Norman Gambill
Head of the Department of Visual Arts, Professor in the History of Art and Design, and Director of the Ritz Gallery in Grove Hall
Dr. Norman Gambill holds the positions of Head of the Department of Visual Arts, Director of The Ritz Gallery, and Professor in the history of art and design at SDSU. He has held these positions since 1985. SDSU courses taught: Art and Design Appreciation, art historical surveys of Italy, Asia, America, and Modernism, and most recently, graphic design history and American motion picture history.
Gambill received his Master’s degree from the University of Iowa with a thesis in Chinese art and examinations in Asian art and Italian Renaissance art. His Ph.D. in Humanities was completed at Syracuse University; doctoral examinations were taken in the histories of 20th century American fine arts, motion pictures, radio and stage drama, and Italian Renaissance art.
Before coming to SDSU, Professor Gambill held the positions of Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor in School of Art and Design of the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 1969 to 1983, he conducted research in Hollywood and New York City in the field of film history. He interviewed dozens of Academy Award-winning artists, designers, and such directors as William Wyler, Robert Wise, and Delbert Mann. Dr. Gambill has published analyses of the Dada and Surrealist films of Man Ray, and the first scholarly articles on motion picture production design and makeup. He served on the Advisory Board for the creation of the design encyclopedia, Contemporary Designers (St. James Press, Macmillan); he and his former graduate students at Illinois authored over a dozen articles for both editions of this publication. Dr. Gambill has received a number of research grants, student recognition for his teaching, and a Ford Foundation support for his doctoral research.
Most recently, he co-founded DVAGI (Design and Visual Arts Group, Inc.) a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing practical, interdisciplinary material culture in the region. In 2005, he accepted an invitation to attend a conference from the Oxford Round Table of Harris Manchester College in Oxford University, United Kingdom; he also was invited to give a presentation at the ORT conference on contemporary university education. The abstract was approved and the paper will be delivered in the Debating Chamber of the Oxford Union in July, 2006.
Before Brookings, Dr. Gambill has lived for a year or longer in Atlanta, Miami, Florida, and Illinois_Champaign-Urbana and Chicago. In addition, he has conducted research in New York City, Los Angeles, France, and Italy for three months or more.
Mailing address:
101 Grove Hall,
Box 2802,
SDSU,
Brookings, SD 57007
Office phone number: 605 688-4103
E-mail address: Norman.Gambill@sdstate.edu
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