2006 Portfolio Reviewer Bios

Information on Reviewers at the Chicago conference

An asterisk (*) before the reviewer’s name indicates they will be looking at student work only; a double-asterisk (**) indicates that they will be looking at professional artists’ work only. No mark indicates that they will look at both student and non-student work. Please honor reviewers’ preferences.

Ruth Adams is an assistant professor of Photography and Digital Art at the University of Kentucky. She is interested in meeting with students interested in graduate work at the University of Kentucky and professionals working with the flatbed scanner as a camera for possible inclusion in a traveling exhibition.

Barry Andersen is professor of art at Northern Kentucky University. His primary interest is landscape using digital technologies. He would like to review landscape and portrait work, but no photo collage.

Barry S. Anderson is an assistant professor in video, animation, and interactive media at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is interested in reviewing digital and time-based works.

George Blakely is an award winning teacher and Professor of Art at Florida State University since 1978. He is interested in reviewing students portfolios who are looking for grad schools and also is reviewing work for an exhibition surrounding the topic of food.

* Leslee Broersma teaches photography and digital media at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is interested in reviewing photography, video and digital work.

Lynne Brown is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Photography Department at the School of the Art Institute. She has curated numerous exhibitions at Randolph Street Gallery and the Chicago Cultural Center among others and has exhibited her work nationally. She is interested in seeing serious, challenging work from students and professionals whose work functions in a vital dialogue with the arts and culture.

Javier Carmona is an associate professor of photography and gallery director at Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois. He is interested in reviewing gestural, narrative and location-based imagery.

* Susan Carr is a fine art and professional architectural photographer. She is currently serving as President of the American Society of Media Photographers. Founded in 1944, ASMP is the premier trade association representing over 5000 photographers. She would like to review work that is documentary in nature.

Ann Chwatsky is a photographer and educator teaching at New York University and has exhibited widely. She prefers viewing dynamic documentary projects and students interested in graduate school. Both analog and digital work are fine.

* Gary Cialdella is a fine art photographer, working in the social landscape tradition, and a professional architectural photographer serving clients throughout the Midwest. He has taught photography at numerous institutions, including the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Western Michigan University and the University of Notre Dame.

Vincent Cianni is a Photographer/videographer/educator in Brooklyn, NY. He published We Skate Hardcore, teaches at Parsons School of Design in NYC, is exhibited and collected nationally and internationally, and is widely published in journals and anthologies.

Gary S. Colby is a Professor of Photography at the University of La Verne, and serves as Gallery Director for the Irene Carlson Gallery of Photography. The Carlson Gallery exhibits flat art, photographically inspired, traditionally or digitally derived. On behalf of the Carlson Gallery, the Harris Gallery and the Tall Wall Space, Gary is reviewing work for exhibitions in the 2006-2007 academic year.

** James D. Colby is director of the Weeks Gallery at JCC, Jamestown, New York, is a curator, educator, artist, and a former SPE northeast region chair. The Weeks Gallery is accepting applications for solo exhibitions by established artists working within the broad spectrum of photography. We are interested in reviewing developed portfolios that are interdisciplinary, global, and relevant to diverse audiences. We are also looking for traditional framed photographs for the Weeks Gallery's Global Collection of Photography.

** Colette Copeland is a multi-media artist who teaches visual studies, art writing and photography at University of Pennsylvania and critical theory at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She is interested in reviewing professional photography, video and installation work for an exhibit entitled, "Death Bizarre", which examines people, places, and objects associated with death from a conceptual perspective. No documentary work, please.

* Jeff Curto is Coordinator and Professor of Photography at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, where he has taught since 1984. He is particularly interested in seeing travel/location work and interesting applications of large-format cameras and digitally-based processes, especially in B&W.

Sarah Detweiler is Professor of Photography at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Detweiler is a multi-media artist whose work ranges from photography, video, and performance to cartoon drawing. She is interested in seeing any work that involves critiques of popular culture, has political or performative aspects.

Ruth Dusseault is currently Artist-in-Residence and at Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture. Her photography explores the relationship between architecture and utopianism. Dusseault contributes to Art Papers magazine and curates touring exhibitions that intersect art and architecture.

Dennie Eagleson is an Associate Professor of Photography at Antioch College. She has been a frequent curator of photographic exhibitions in the Herndon Gallery at Antioch, and is interested in seeing pinhole and plastic lens work and also documentary work in both color and black and white.

Natasha Egan is associate director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago and serves a curatorial role and teaches in Columbia’s Photography Department. She prefers to see work that is idea based rather than decorative.

** Lynn Estomin is a videographer, photographer and computer artist who has been creating art on social issues for thirty years. She is looking for new, innovative photo-based work for possible solo exhibition in the Lycoming College Art Gallery in Williamsport, PA. She is particularly interested in work with social content.

* Ryan Davis Flathau is Assistant Professor in the Department of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maine at Augusta. A landscape photographer, his pictures deal with the passage of time and the perception of nighttime light and shadow. www.flathau.com.

Carol Flax makes work using various media, technologies and forms to investigate our relationship to history and memory. She is interested in looking at personal narrative and computer-assisted works.

** Harris Fogel is an Associate Professor of Photography and the Chairman of the Media Arts Department at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He is the director of the Sol Mednick Gallery and Gallery 1401. He is reviewing work for possible exhibition and would prefer to view work that is fully realized.

* Robin Germany is an Associate Professor of Photography and Digital Technology at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. She is interested in reviewing work of potential graduate students and those interested in exhibiting in the SRO gallery.

Paula Gillen is a photo editor/researcher at the New Yorker Magazine. She is responsible for finding fine art narrative photos to illustrate the weekly fiction section. She is interested in all styles of photography, except imagery without some reflection of human activity, such as landscape and abstract imagery.

Carol Golemboski is the Area Head of Photography at the University of Colorado at Denver. She is interested in reviewing all kinds of work.

Marita Gootee is a Professor of Art at Mississippi State University. Interested in all levels and types of photography. Mostly interested in alternative processes and regional artists who would be willing to conduct mini-workshop at Mississippi State.

* Elizabeth Greenberg is the Director of Photography programs at The Maine Photographic Workshops and Rockport College. She is interested in reviewing all kinds of work.

* Siegfried Halus has taught photography for thirty years at Tufts University, University of Connecticut at Storrs, the Boston Museum School and currently is director of Fine Arts at Santa Fe Community College. His work is widely published and in major international and national museums and private collections; presently editing work for upcoming publication on Vodou Rituals of Haiti.

Peter HappelChristian is an artist and educator who lives in Tucson, AZ. He teaches at Pima Community College and the University of Arizona.

Jessica Todd Harper loves to see all kinds of work. One of PDN's 30 for 2005, Jessica is represented by Cohen Amador Gallery in New York and is a visiting assistant professor at Swarthmore College.

Susannah Hays is Adjunct Lecturer in Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute and currently serves as a Faculty Counselor for Admissions. An experimental photographer and book artist, her teaching emphasizes materials & methodologies using all camera and cameraless approaches to "light drawing".

* Victoria Heilweil teaches at City College of San Francisco, Solano Community College, and Center College of Design. She is co-chair of the West regional SPE. She is interested in conceptual themes, especially related to gender, identity, sexuality, and intimacy.

* Chuck Hemard is currently Assistant Professor at Columbus State University in Georgia. He is interested in viewing work showing unique ways of seeing the ordinary.

* Dr. Jerry Holsopple is a Professor of Communication at Eastern Mennonite University. He works with panoramic portraiture and digitography. He teaches photography, documentary video and 2-D animation. He is interested in alternate forms of portraiture, work that incorporates multiple time frames and works that push the edges of digital photography.

Barbara Houghton is a Professor of Art at Northern Kentucky University teaching web design and photography. She would like to see digitally produced images preferably shot with digital camera that has some narrative quality and could have montage or collaged elements, and also digitally-produced artists books.

Nancy Howell-Koehler is author of photo art education books and an independent curator. Most recent photo exhibitions include: “Women in Documentary Photography, 2000” and “Out of the Darkroom”, 2005. She is interested in seeing new directions in digital photography.

Mark E. Jensen is a photographer and Visual Assets Manager at University of St. Thomas, MN; artist, independent curator, educator, and the director of the Knife River Photography Workshops. He would like to see traditional photography, in film or digital.

Tom Jimison is curator of the Baldwin Photographic Gallery at Middle Tennessee State University. He annually brings in five exhibits and lectures of national stature. The Gallery is two hundred running feet, which would require an exhibit in the fifty+ prints or larger range to fill. His main interest is viewing completed or near completed bodies of work for possible future exhibits.

Scott Jost is an Associate Professor of Art at Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Virginia is especially interested in photography related to land use and ecology but enjoys reviewing all types of work.

Mark Klett is Regents’ Professor of Art at Arizona State University. He has authored eleven books and received Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships among other awards. He’ll look at colleagues work in any genre, though his specialty is landscape or time-related imagery. He is also available for students interested in the graduate program at Arizona State University.

** Alan Klotz is the owner and director of Alan Klotz Gallery in New York, now in its 30th year. He has taught history and criticism of photography for 27 years mostly at the graduate level, and holds an MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY.

* Allyson Klutenkamper is an artist and head of photography at Shawnee State University. Her work is rooted in psychoanalysis and semiotics as an aid to reveal narrative events in a single frame. She would like to see any serious student work.

Jim Krantz is a both an advertising and fine art photographer who has won numerous awards for his work. He is interested in reviewing creative photography in any context. His website is www.fotoj.com

Eleftheria Lialios teaches multi-media courses at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is interested in seeing all genres of photographic work, including documentary, installation, alternative techniques, and studio work.

Andrew John Liccardo is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Northern Illinois University. His photographic work looks at the intersection of the cultural and geographic in our landscapes. He will review any type of work.

Susan Lipper is an artist based in New York. She earned an MFA in photography from Yale University in 1983 and is interested in viewing extended personal projects particularly those that involve narrative and sequence or work both within and against documentary formats. She is not interested in Holga work.

* Tracy Longley-Cook is a third year MFA candidate in photography at Arizona State University. She would like to review undergraduate portfolios, and meet with those who are interested in applying to graduate school.

* Neha Luhar is currently employed as a Membership/Development Assistant at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama. She holds Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and continues to make and show work. She is most interested in reviewing documentary, mixed-media, and work that explores cultural heritage.

Karen Marshall is a New York documentary photographer. She is on the faculty at the International Center of Photography. She is interested in looking at all styles of photography but is especially interested in documentary and those that are incorporating audio with their work.

Richard Newman has been a photographer and printer for more than 25 years. With 55 exhibitions to his credit, Richard's portfolio is dynamic in its diversity of subjects. For the past 14 years he has worked for Calumet Photographic as the National Education Coordinator.

* Rebecca Nolan is currently a Professor of Photography and the Photography Graduate Student Advisor at Savannah College of Art and Design. She received her MFA in Visual Design/Photography from the University of Oregon, Eugene and a BA from the University of Wisconsin Green Bay. Rebecca is primarily interested in looking at student working, especially students looking into graduate school.

* Janet Pritchard, Assistant Professor of Photography and Digital Imaging, teaches at the University of Connecticut. For more than twenty-five years, her work has centered on notions of place, exploring the intersection of personal and social issues. Her current work, Dwelling: Expressions of Time, views the Connecticut landscape through the veil of history.

Mary Anne Redding is director and curator at the New Mexico State University
Art Gallery. She is currently the southwest regional vice president for the Society for Photographic Education. She is interested in looking at emerging and established artists working in any genre.

Susan Ressler is Professor Emerita in Photography, Purdue University. She looks forward to reviewing digital and analog work concerned with social issues, including feminist perspectives.

E. Brady Robinson’s installation, digital and photography work has been exhibited nationally, including the Aspen Art Museum, Florida State Art Museum and Corcoran Gallery of Art. She is currently Assistant Professor of Art in the MFA in Studio Art and Computer Department at University of Central Florida, Orlando. www.gobrady.com

Jan Roddy has been teaching a wide variety of courses to graduate and undergraduate students in the Dept. of Cinema & Photography at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, for over 17 years. Her work has utilized methods such as interpretive documentary, digital montage and include a variety of experiments with image and text. She is interested in reviewing all kinds of work.

Ken Rosenthal is a fine art photographer whose artwork has been extensively exhibited internationally, and is in many public & private collections. Ken is most interested in seeing fine art photography from those seeking advice on exhibiting their work.

* Wendy Roussin is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University. She is interested in reviewing student work at all levels, particularly digital or documentary.

John Scarlata. Professor of Photography at Appalachian State University in Boone NC, Most recent work is large format color in Cuba. Visiting artist in New Zealand for 8 months in 04/05. Interested in all types of work fine art and professional.

Emily Sepik is a Chicago-based multi-media artist & current MFA candidate at Columbia College's Interdisciplinary Arts & Media Program. She is interested in documentary photography and/or personal narrative work.

Rhona Shand is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Pittsburg State University. She is interested in reviewing digital and alternative processes.

Laurie ShoulterKarall is a photo researcher and co-president of the Chicago chapter of the American Society of Picture Professionals. She is available to review commercial work including photojournalism, stock and portraiture.

Trish Simonite is an associate professor in the Department of Art at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas and Vice-President, State, Texas Photographic Society. She is interested in reviewing all kinds of photography, straight, digital and manipulated work.

Jane Alden Stevens is a Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Cincinnati. She is interested in reviewing all kinds of work.

* Stan Strembicki is professor of Art at the College of Art, Washington University in St. Louis. He has directed the photography program there for 23 years. He is reviewing the work of students who need help building portfolios for graduate admission at WU or other institutions.

* Eric Eujea Sung is part-time faculty at the Ramapo College of NJ and SUNY Rockland Community College. In his work, he addresses questions about personal experience such as his multicultural identity and family structure.

* Aimee Tomasek teaches photography at Valparaiso University. Her own work is invested in documentary themes. She is interested in reviewing any undergraduate work.

* Christopher W. Trice is the instructor of photography at Lawson State Community College, Birmingham, Alabama. He is interested in reviewing landscape, documentary, and alternative process imagery.

* Brian Ulrich teaches photography at Columbia College. He has exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago. He is looking to review fine art, social, and documentary photography projects.

* Gwen Walstrand is an Assistant Professor at Missouri State University. She is interested in seeing any student work, but has a particular interest in reviewing work with narrative qualities.

* Terri Warpinski is a professor of art at the University of Oregon. She has been on the board of SPE since 2001 and has served as the Chairperson of the Society since 2003. With more than 2 decades of experience in teaching, running programs and offering workshops both in the states and abroad, Terri has also been an artist in residence at the Ucross Foundation, and was awarded a Senior Fulbright Scholar Fellowship in Israel in 2001 . Along with maintaining her creative work, currenlty she is the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at the University.

*Greg Watts is the Department Chair and coordinator of Photography at The Metropolitan State College of Denver. He is most interested in reviewing work by art students concentrating in any aspect(s) of the photographic medium.

* Bruce West is a professor in the Department of Art and Design at Missouri State University. He is interested in student work that is honest, sincere, and heartfelt.

Vagner M. Whitehead is an Assistant Professor of Photography and New Media at Oakland University. He works with photography, video, performance, installation, hypermedia and digital imaging, and would like to review non-traditional portfolios of both student and practicing artists.