The Relationship of Art and Artist: do creators’ lives cancel their work?

May 5, 2022

In this panel discussion, we will feature a curated dialogue drawing on various points of view—ethics, gender, art, history—as we examine the question of artistic legacies. As we learn more and more about the artists and content creators that produce the work we engage with, we also encounter questions about how their personal biographies may impact our perception and reception of their work. Can the art and artists be separated? Is it even desirable to effect such a separation?

Panel members:
Dr. Eric Winsberg, USF Philosophy Department
Dr. Jamie Goldenberg, USF Psychology Department
Dr. Hank Hine, The Dalí Museum
Dr. Kimberly Macuare, The Dalí Museum

Moderator: Vickie Chachere, Florida Trend

Dr. Eric Winsberg

Eric Winsberg is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. He has written and published on topics as wide ranging as the nature of authorship, simulation, the direction of time, and using science to guide policy in times of emergency.


Dr. Jamie Goldenberg

Jamie Goldenberg is Professor of Psychology at The University of South Florida. Her research focuses on the impact of existential concerns associated with mortality on attitudes toward sex and the body, with a specific focus on the treatment of women’s bodies. In addition to being a psychology professor, she is also an artist and depicts women as the subject matter of her paintings in addition to her research.

Vickie Chachere

Vickie Chachere was recently named the Executive Editor of Florida Trend, an award-winning magazine that is one of the nation’s largest regional business publications. Vickie had spent the previous 13 years as a member of the University of South Florida communications team and as a speechwriter in the Office of the President. A veteran Florida journalist, over two decades Vickie worked as a reporter and editorial writer for The Tampa Tribune and served as the supervisory correspondent for the Associated Press in Tampa. She is a graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University and is a native of southern Oregon.


Dr. Hank Hine

As executive director of The Dalí, Dr. Hank Hine has been instrumental in the museum’s initiatives in exhibition, education and visitor experience. Having earned degrees from Stanford University and Brown University, Hine has also been active in research and publication on a variety of topics, including text and image relationships, contemporary art and the opportunities of new media. Previously, Hine was founder and director of Limestone Press and Hine Editions as well as director of the research and publishing institute GraphicStudio at the University of South Florida.


Dr. Kimberly Macuare

Dr. Kimberly Macuare currently serves as director of programming and co-director of Innovation Labs at The Dali, where she works at the intersection of art and science to promote creativity for both the Dali and external clients. With degrees from the University of Cincinnati and The Ohio State University, she has researched and published on a wide array of topics—from the relationship between identity and economics to the role of the arts in creativity. Prior to joining The Dali, Macuare held both professorial and administrative roles in higher education.