Associate Professor of Art History at the Myers School of Art, The University of Akron, Kevin Concannon, received his PhD in Modern/Contemporary and African art history from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2000.  His scholarship focuses on art of the 1960s, particularly the work of Yoko Ono.  Publications include Agency: Art and Advertising, exh. cat. (general editor and lead contributor) (Youngstown, Ohio: McDonough Museum of Art, 2008); YOKO ONO IMAGINE PEACE Featuring John & Yoko’s Year of Peace, exh. cat. (general editor and lead contributor) (Akron, Ohio: Emily Davis Gallery, 2007); Mass Production: Artists’ Multiples and the Marketplace, exh. cat. (general editor and contributor) (Akron, Ohio: Emily Davis Gallery, 2006); "Nothing Is Real: Yoko Ono's Advertising Art," in YES: YOKO ONO (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. and the Japan Society of New York, 2000); and, with Reiko Tomii, "Chronology" and "Bibliography" in the same volume. 

Concannon is also active in the Scholarship of Teaching, Assessment, and Learning (SoTAL).  A SoTAL Fellow at The University of Akron, he has contributed to and chaired panels on pedagogy issues at professional conferences, including the College Art Association (CAA), for which he served as a member of the CAA’s Education Committee from 2003-2006.  He is a contributor to a roundtable discussion of the Art History Survey in CAA’s Art Journal (vol. 64, no. 2).

At the Myers School of Art, he teaches the Survey of Art History as well as courses in Modern and Contemporary Art.  Concannon’s prior museum career spanned 12 years, managing outreach programs for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) and the Neuberger Museum, and culminating in his appointment as Project Manager for the Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Museum Collections Accessibility Initiative at the VMFA.

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KEVIN CONCANNON