About American Wildlife Art
About the Author
David J. Wagner is a leading wildlife art author, curator, and lecturer. He organizes and promotes wildlife art exhibitions and educational programs to museums nationwide. Wagner received his PhD from the University of Minnesota and wrote his dissertation on American wildlife art while he was scholar-in-residence at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Otis, Oregon. With funding from the Robert S. and Grayce B. Kerr Foundation, Wagner expanded his research to develop the book American Wildlife Art.
Wagner previously co-authored Natural Habitat: Contemporary Wildlife Artists of North America (1998). In 1992 he was invited by Roger Tory Peterson to organize a worldwide conference entitled Value in American Wildlife Art at the Chautauqua Institute to commemorate the opening of the Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, New York. He subsequently organized two similar landmark conferences: the first at the Björklunden Campus of Lawrence University in 2000 and the second in Phoenix in 2001. Wagner has served as a juror for the U.S. Department of Interior Migratory Waterfowl Stamp Competition; director of the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin; Museum Assessment Program consultant for the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming; guest curator for The Wildlife Experience in Denver, Colorado; and tour director of the Society of Animal Artists in New York.