Background
Cook, Judith Ann Polus was born on April 16, 1943 in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, United States. Daughter of Allan Milton and Leona Christina (Gadow) Jenkins.
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Judith Ann Polus Cook
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Bachelor, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1964. Postgraduate, University Iowa, 1966. Postgraduate, University Phoenix.
Career
Elementary art teacher, supervisor, Wauwatosa (Wisconsin) Public School Sys., 1964-1965;
high school art teacher, Oakfield (Wisconsin) Public School System, 1969-1974;
curator of education, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin, 1983-1986;
director, Bemis Art School, Colorado Springs (Colorado) Fin Arts Center, 1987-1989, 91-93;
acting executive director, Bemis Art School, Colorado Springs (Colorado) Fin Arts Center, 1989-1990, 94-. Art juror 5th Congressional District High School Art Competition, Colorado Springs, 1988, Fred Wells 15-12 State Juried Competition, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1990-1991. Juror Colorado Business Committee for the Arts, 1994.
Coordinator Kennedy Ctr.Imagination Celebration, 1988, Robert Bateman Master Classes, Wausau, Wisconsin, 1986, Colorado Springs, 1991. Workshop presenter R.T. Peterson Institute, Jamestown, New York, 1992.
Achievements
Membership
Member steering committee Arts/Business/Education Committee, Colorado Springs, since 1988, Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration, since 1987. Member Colorado Springs Airport Art Commission. Member National Art Education Association, Colorado Art Education Association, Metropolitan Museum Art (associate member), National Museum of Women in the Arts (charter member).
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Connections
Married Gerald Edward Polus, October 26, 1973 (divorced 1987). 1 child, Jessica Lynette. Married Curtis Dillard Cook, July 7, 1994.
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American