Work Experience/Employment:

Retired Public School Teacher

Instructor: Presently, (Part-time) De Anza College, Cupertino, CA

(Adjunct) San Jose City College, San Jose, CA

Consultant: Ongoing since 1968, Nbari African Arts, P.O. Box 834, Los Altos, CA 94022

Education:

San Jose State University San Jose, CA

Masters of Arts: Social Sciences/History with emphasis on African History & African Art

Diploma: African Studies

Additional Graduate Study:

UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, Univ. of The Pacific, Univ. of Laverne; College of Notre Dame, and Stanford Univ.

Philander Smith College Little Rock, AR

B.A, Major - Art ; Minor - Education

Emphasis: Painting, Arts and Crafts and Art History

Teaching Experience:

African History, 2000-2007

History of Art: Africa, Oceania, and the Americas Art 020, 1998

Arts 2E, 1998-2005

Introduction to African American Studies ICS 10 De Anza College, 2000

History of Multicultural Art in the United States - De Anza College Cupertino, CA, 1997-2006

Cross Cultural Art Survey of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas; China De Anza College, Cupertino, CA, 1989-1996

African Art - De Anza College Cupertino, CA, 1972-1977

Art and World History - Cupertino Union School District, 1980-1991

African Art History - San Jose State University

Art and Crafts Teacher, Parks & Recreation - Wichita, Kansas

Junior High School Art Teacher - Wichita, Kansas

Elementary Public School Teacher/Principal - Alma and Van Buren, Arkansas

Special Events:

Yaaba Soore: The Path of The Ancestors: The Nettye Goddard African American Cultural Center - 50 Years of Civic Engagement, 2007

Yaaba Soore: The Path of The Ancestors: New Orleans, 2006

Yaaba Soore: The Path of The Ancestors: A Cross Cultural Experience of the African Diaspora, 2005

The Day of the African child 1997-2006

Curated an Exhibit Celebrating 35 Years: Women of De Anza College, 2003

California Keeping Culturally Connected, a California History Center Exhibit, 2002

Co-sponsored De Anza Student Athletic Awards Luncheon, 2002

Arranged Display items for exhibit California History Center vintage wine Tasting Fund Raiser Fall 2000 and 2001

California History Center Vintage Wine Tasting with Auction Item - Cantor Museum, African Exhibit at Stanford University Fall 2001

Arranged and led 3 to 4 quarterly, guided tours annually for college and high school students of Silicon Valley to see The Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas Galleries at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum San Francisco 1992-2000 and Art of Asia with emphasis on China from Asian Art Museum San Francisco,1992-1998

Museum and Gallery Experience:

Volunteer: M.H. de Young Museum San Francisco, CA “Wednesday A.M.” group; also The "Wednesday P.M." Curators of the Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, January 1992-June 1995

Federal Government Of Nigeria Department of Antiquities Museum, Lagos, Nigeria, 1976-1977: Prepared catalog "Highlights of 2,000 Years of Nigerian Art"

Lecturer: West Valley College "African American Art" 2006

M.H. de Young Museum Africa Oceania and the Americas (AOA) 1999

_________ Entergy Company (Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi) Community Program (African American Art and Culture) February 2001

_________ M.H. de Young Docent Community Speakers’ Program 1997 - 2000

Public Schools and Community Based Programs regarding African Art;

_________ Independent Lecturer on topics of African Art. African American Art and the Art and Culture of Africa Oceania, and Americas 1975 to present

Docent: Graduate of the 1995-1997 Docent Training Program for Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the M.H. de Young Museum San Francisco

________ Docent Tour Guide for art of Africa, Native America; Pre-Columbian Mexico; Central America and South America; Art of Oceania: Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia June 1997 to present

________ Docent storyteller at The De Young Art Center 2001 to 2004 M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco

Docent: June 1997-2005

Slide Librarian for Africa, Oceania, and the Americas Galleries, 1997-1999

Docent: Mexican Museum, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA 1992-93

Consultant: California History Center - De Anza College Exhibit California Awakening November-December 2000

Consultant/Instructor: Introduction to Multicultural Art Special Program Foothill High School, Jan Jose, CA October 1999-March 28, 2000

_________ Researched and wrote a comparative analysis of West African Market Places and the Plaza Mexican Heritage Plaza, San Jose, CA 1999

_________ AOA Trainer for Gallery Representatives for Hidden Treasures From Tervuren: Masterpieces from the Royal Museum For Central Africa, Belgium Exhibit at the Palace of The Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco, 1998

Art and Science Museum of Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AR Yoruba Art, April 20, 1997 - June 26, 1997

One of three AOA Trainers for New Docents February – April 2005

Curatorial Experience:

Foothill College: The Legacy Continues: Artists Remembers Dr. Jean Thomas 2006

De Anza College: Californians Keeping Culturally Connected: A window for viewing The African and African-American Diaspora 2002

The Entergy Company St. Francisville, Louisiana- the Art of Cozetta Gray Guinn 2001

De Anza College - California History Centers: African American Artists in Northern California since 1858. January 1999

Foothill College: Hartzell School Children’s Art, Zimbabwe 1997

____________ Claude Clark, WPA Art, 1998

____________ African American Heritage Exhibitions Terry Phillips; Carol Mitchell; 1988

Collection of Art Work:

_____________ Personal includes paintings, drawings

_____________ Original paintings of contemporary artists, mostly by African American ones

_____________ Harlem Renaissance Prints

Art Exhibits of Cozetta Guinn:

Sacramento, CA State Capitol /Governor Jerry Brown, sponsor Black Artists of California

Palo Alto YWCA Reflection of Memories and Experiences Cozetta Gray Guinn Palo Alto YWCA Truth Survives Time Carol Mitchell

De Anza College, Foothill College, and East Palo Alto Library 1994–1998, and 2006

Cupertino School District Annual Students Exhibitions 1969-1991

Hewlett Packard Cupertino and Palo Alto Building-3

Nbari African Arts:1968-2001

Foothill College, 2006

Committees and Boards:

California History Center Foundation, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA 1999-

Euphrat Museum, De Anza College Cupertino, CA 1992 to present

Co-chair States Rally Committee, St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church E. Palo Alto

AOA Docent council, M.H. de Young Museum San Francisco, 1997-1998

African American Heritage Committee, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA 1996-

Toadsuck/Rosenwald Historical Development, Bigelow, AR 1994-1996

Chairperson, Fine Arts, Peninsula Chapter of Links Inc. of America 1992-1998

Peninsula Foundation Arts Committee 1988-1989

Study Group Experience:

M.H. de Young Docent Council Study Group 1997-2000

Stanford Committee for the Arts - Stanford, CA 1994-96

St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Zion Bible Study E. Palo Alto, CA 1993-2000

Peninsula Book Club Los Altos, Palo Alto, Stanford, Member 1983-2001; Coordinator 1993-97

Organizations:

Links Inc. of America: Fine Arts Co-Chairperson

Peninsula Book Club: Coordinator

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

Delta Tau Kappa Social Science Honor Society

Delta Kappa Gamma (Teachers’ Society)

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

Additional Information:

Cozetta Gray Guinn is an instructor of Multicultural Art History in the United States; African History; and African American Studies in the Division of Intercultural International Studies at De Anza College, Cupertino, California. She has taught public school art and staff development classes in the Cupertino Union School District, and has lectured on topics of African Art, History; Cosmology of The Yoruba of Southwest Nigeria; 2000 Years of Nigerian Art; African American Art 1700 to Present; Art of the Harlem Renaissance; and History of the Blues in the United States 1920 s to the 1980s. In 1976 Guinn completed her Master’s Thesis The Art of the Yoruba: The Relationship between Art and Society and participated in a long term project in Nigeria where she cataloged the 1977 exhibit "2,000 Years of Nigerian Art" at the Federal Museum, Lagos, Nigeria. She attended seminars at several colleges and universities in West Africa including Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone; University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana; and the University of Ile-Ife, Nigeria. In 1992 Guinn became a volunteer at the M.H. de Young Museum and in 1995 joined the two-year docent training program where she studied and graduated in the Africa Oceania and The Americas (AOA) division 1997 class. In addition her participation in the Arts facet and the International Trends and Services facet of the Links Incorporated from 1978 to present. In 1997 and 1999 she represented these facets at United Nations Symposiums in New York and The Links, Inc. 32nd National Assembly, San Francisco 2000. A 1998 article: African American Artists in Northern California since 1858 written by Guinn was published in the "Californian."

During 2000-2001 Guinn wrote introductions for the following books:

Scars from a Lynching Edith McClinton (Non-Fiction) ISBN 0-9679146-3-9

Someone’s Sleeping In My Head Richard A. Parks, Jr. (Poetry) ISBN 0-9679146-4-7

Philosophical Rendezvous...Up From the Ashes by Terrence Bolden (Poetry) ISBN 0-9679146-5-5

Fire from Thoughts and Words Edith McClinton (Poetry) ISBN

A catalog California Keeping Culturally Connected written by Guinn for the California History Center Exhibit 2002 is being prepared for publication 2007.

Lost in a Mellow Rain Richard A. Parks, Jr. (Poetry and prose) ISBN __? ___