Background
Wood, Betty Jean was born on March 2, 1942 in Pittsburgh. Daughter of Ralph Alphas and Mary Cordis Blanton.
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Betty Jean Wood
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Bachelor with honors, Pennsylvania State University, 1984. Master of Fine Arts, University Oklahoma, 1992.
Career
Artist-in-residence Oklahoma Arts Council, 1993—2003. Assistant instructor Oklahoma Arts Institute, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, 1998. Guest lecturer Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, 2001.
Instructor Oklahoma City Museum Art., since 2002. Guest lecturer Goddard Art Center, Ardmore, 2003. Special project assistant ConservArt Associate, Culver City, California, 1991—1993.
Assistant registrar Fred Jones Junior Museum Art, 1990—1992. Assistant preparator Fred Jones, Junior Museum of Art, University Oklahoma, 1992—2005, installation assistant, 1992. Co-coordinator SummerWind Arts Festival, Norman, 1994—1996.
Coordinator SummerWind Arts Festival, Children's Events, since 1995. Art consultant Department Education, San Juan, 1986. Board directors Children's Art Network, Norman, 1996—2001.
Coordinator/curator special exhibition Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, State College, 1973—1987. Adjunct professor University Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 1997—1998, 2004—2006, since 2010, Oklahoma City University, since 2009, since 2010. Artist in residence, Costa Rica, 2006, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, 2007.
Achievements
Membership
Member of Norman Studio Artists, Oklahoma Art Guild, Southern Graphics Council, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, Fred Jones Junior Museum Art, Oklahoma City Museum Art, Museum Women in Art, National Museum for Women in Art, Five to Nine Artists, Jacobson House Foundation, University Oklahoma Art Alumni Association (president 1993), Pennsylvania State University Alumni Association, Beta Sigma Phi Sorority 1983-1984.
Interests
Connections
Married John E. Ayers, August 25, 1963 (divorced May 1987). Children: Mark Ayers, Kristin Ayers Torres. Married Frederick Harrison Wood, Junior, November 28, 1987 (deceased January 2002).
Children: Andrew, Christopher.
