Camille Ann Brewer – Owner
CATALOGING AND APPRAISING
CAB Fine Art Ltd., Fine art advising, cataloging, and appraisal service. 1999-Present
* Provide USPAP Certified Fine Art Appraisals for insurance, tax donation, and estate planning.
* Catalog materials in relational databases. Experience with FileMaker, MS Access, Archivist’s Toolkit, ContentDM, EmbARK, TMS, PastPerfect and other online bibliographic databases.
Clients have included:
Research Center for Arts and Culture, Washington, DC
Harlem United, New York, New York
Estate of Max Roach, Bloomfield, New Jersey
Detroit Children’s Museum, Detroit, Michigan
Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint, Michigan
Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Detroit, Michigan
Automobile Association of America, Michigan Branch, Dearborn, Michigan
Comerica Bank, Inc., Detroit, Michigan
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Detroit, Michigan
Detroit Tigers, Inc., Detroit, Michigan
LaGrange Art Museum, La Grange, Georgia
Protex Fabrics, Austell, Georgia
South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, South Carolina
Assistant Cataloger – Department of Cataloging and Database Maintenance, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, New York, 2012
Archive Intern – Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art, Washington, DC, 2009
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
To Be Young Gifted and Black In the Age of Obama, Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, 2012
Looking Ahead: Portraits from the Mott-Warsh Collection, Ten-city U.S. tour, 2010-2013
American Cities: Detroit, Brandywine Printmaking Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2008
Folk Art: Florida, Up South and the Rest of America, Studio @ 620, St. Petersburg, Florida, 2008
Looking Ahead: Portraits from the Mott-Warsh Collection, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan, 2008
Young Visions, an exhibition organized in collaboration with the Detroit Public Schools and Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 2002
Assistant Curator – Dept. of African, Oceania and the Indigenous Americas, Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), Detroit, Michigan, 1996 – 1999
Assistant Coordinator – Dept. of Exhibition Coordination, DIA, Detroit, Michigan, 1995 – 1996
PUBLICATIONS
Brewer, C.A. (2011) Fine Art Collection Management in Urban Public Libraries, Art Documentation, 30(2), 74-78.
Brewer, C. Essay. Pindell, H. ed. (2009). Kara Walker-no, Kara Walker-yes, Kara Walker-maybe. New York: Midmarch Arts Press.
N’Namdi, K., Brewer, C., Clark, E., Harris, B., Mercer, V., N’Namdi, K., & Tysh, G. (2005). Allie McGhee: Rhythms: Micro to Macro. New York: N’Namdi Gallery. LECTURES,
PANELS, & WORKSHOPS
Using Metadata Standards for Cataloging Art Objects, Bronx Council for the Arts, Bronx, New York; 2010
Lecture – “Looking Ahead: Portraits from the Mott-Warsh Collection”, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan; 2008
Preparing Your Collection for…, Hammonds House, Atlanta, Georgia; 2006
The Art of Collecting, The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, Florida; 2004
African American Printmakers in conjunction with the Wes and Missy Cochran Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida; 2004
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Database/Database Development: FileMaker Pro, Past Perfect, Archivist’s Toolkit, EmbARK, TMS
Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access
Content Management Systems: ContentDM, WordPress
Image Editing: Photoshop
Google Products: Drive, Groups, Sites, Picasa
Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn
EDUCATION
Master in Library and Information Science, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia Master of Fine Arts – School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Bachelor of Fine Arts – California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Alliance of Museums
Americans for the Arts
Metropolitan New York Library Council
National Conference of Artists
New York Technical Service Librarians