Efram Burk started teaching art history at Curry College in Fall 2006. He looks forward to working with majors in the Department of Fine and Applied Arts. Art History provides a framework for students to examine how art relates to society. Studying the artwork from different cultures gives students a fuller, more comprehensive understanding of its context and meaning. In the spring of 2008 he will offer a new course - Art as Propaganda. He plans to continue adding new art history classes to provide students with greater insight into the world they live in.
In terms of research, he has focused on early twentieth-century American modernism, concentrating primarily on the printmaking activities of that period through exhibitions he has curated and scholarship. His articles include: “Printmaking as Autobiography: The Graphic Art of Marguerite Zorach,” Woman’s Art Journal, May 2004; “Assembling the ‘Primitive’: Max Weber’s Artist Book Primitives (1926),” SECAC Review, Fall 2003; “The Prints of William Zorach,” Print Quarterly, December 2002.
Burk has created nearly a dozen exhibitions, including: "Walt Kuhn Paintings, Drawings, Prints - A Study of Related Works;" "The History and Techniques of Printmaking;" His most recent exhibition was: “Broadening Horizons, Changing Viewpoints, Landscapes from the Burk Collection.”
He is currently completing a book entitled Clever Fresno Girl: The Travel Writings of Marguerite Thompson Zorach (1908-1915). In Summer 2008, he will guest curate an exhibition on the prints of William and Marguerite Zorach at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine.