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SPE News and AnnouncementsThis listing summarizes photography-related news that has come to SPE's
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Mark Klett, Regents’ Professor of Photography in the ASU Herberger College School of Art receives 2008 Governor’s Arts Award Tempe, Ariz. – Mark Klett, Regents’ Professor of Photography in the ASU Herberger College School of Art, received the 2008 Governor’s Arts Award as a living artist who has made a significant contribution to the arts in Arizona through his photographs of the American West. The award was presented by Gov. Janet Napolitano at the 27th Annual Governor’s Arts Awards Dinner held at the Arizona Biltmore Resort on April 23, 2008. Klett was selected for the award by the Arizona Commission on the Arts and Arizona Citizens for the Arts upon nomination of Marilu Knode, associate director of Future Arts Research (F.A.R.). Klett was among five individuals and arts organizations to receive the prestigious awards. “I'm extremely honored to be recognized by the arts community in Arizona,” Klett says. “Artists depend on their communities for support and Arizona has been a great place to live, create and teach. I hope that my work can contribute to our understanding and appreciation of the state's incredible mix of landscapes and cultures.” Trained as a geologist, Klett photographs the intersection of culture, landscapes and time. He established his artistic perspective on the American West landscape as the chief photographer for the Rephotographic Survey Project (1977-79), which re-photographed Western sites first captured by surveyors in late 1800s. Since then, Klett has authored 13 books, including his most recent works, Saguaros, After the Ruins, Yosemite in Time and Third Views, Second Sights. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Buhl Foundation and the Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission. Klett’s work is exhibited, published and collected both nationally and internationally. ###
The School of Art is a division of Herberger College of the Arts at Arizona State University. It is renowned for its printmaking, photography and art education programs. The school includes four student galleries for solo and group exhibitions by graduate and undergraduate art and photography students: Gallery 100, Harry Wood, Northlight, and Step. To learn more about the ASU Herberger College School of Art, visit http://art.asu.edu.
 SPE board member Tom Fischer has just
published the first edition of his new book Paradise/Paradox, limited to 1000 signed copies. The
hard-bound 106 page book has 65 quad tone images printed on 115 pound Ikono Silk paper. The book was designed by Leslie Geer and Brilliant Graphics in Exton,
PA, did a wonderful job on the printing.
If you are interested in seeing a preview of Paradis/Paradox or ordering a copy, please visit the book's website, paradise-paradox.com or Fischer's personal site, tomfischerphoto.com.
Also, he has had another book published: Signs in the Environment, a limited edition released by Indentia Press of Dewittville, NY and Boston, MA.
Stang is Professor of Electronic and Photographic Media at Webster University in St. Louis where she heads the program in photography.
SANTA FE - Citing faith in and admiration for the new creative arts focus at the College of Santa Fe, award-winning photographer and professor emeritus David Scheinbaum has agreed to come out of retirement to return to the Marion Chair of Photographic Arts and directorship of the Marion Center, both roles he held for many years while at CSF. In addition, Scheinbaum will chair the newly formed Photography Department, which will become a separate academic entity from the CSF Art Department beginning in fall 2008. "Many of the recent changes implemented by President Stuart Kirk and Vice President John Allen are ones I had been advocating for most of my years at the College of Santa Fe," says Scheinbaum, who began teaching at CSF in 1980 and retired in 2006. "It is primarily because of their leadership and vision that I accepted the invitation to come out of retirement." He calls the chance to head the new Photography Department an opportunity to fulfill his original dreams for the program as well as a personal honor. During the recent revisioning process at CSF, the new administration came to see that the Marion Center for Photographic Arts, part of the Visual Arts Center designed by famed architect Ricardo Legorreta, needed more opportunity to thrive. When it opened in 1998, the Marion Center was hailed as one of the country's leading collegiate photography programs and facilities, and now that CSF is restructuring its academic programs, the photography curriculum can be redesigned to take full advantage of the facility and the expertise of the faculty. CSF's innovative and successful Documentary Studies Program, headed by Tony O'Brien, will become a part of the new Photography Department. "I requested a meeting with David to get his input on our idea to create a separate department and revitalize the photography program," says John Allen, Vice President of Academic Affairs. "His years at CSF and in higher education coupled with his expertise as a professional photographer grounds him in both the academic requirements for a leading photography program as well as knowing the art form inside and out. By the end of our discussion, I invited him to return to lead this endeavor - we're thrilled to have him back at the college." With the creation of the new Photography Department, Scheinbaum and his colleagues will have the opportunity to reexamine the photography major and offer a comprehensive curriculum that will be committed to traditional processes as well as new media and digital imagery. With a holistic approach to photographic education, the Photography Department will educate students with a realistic and practical approach to the medium as well as how to live the day-to-day life of an artist. The program will emphasize using the medium as a means of personal expression and will be firmly grounded in the history of photography, utilizing the Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Library, considered one of the finest resources in the country. Scheinbaum plans to continue to involve in the Marion Center artists and professionals who are not only experts in their fields but who exemplify their subjects and can serve as mentors to their students. "I've been involved with higher education since 1973; twenty-five of those years have been spent at the College of Santa Fe," says Scheinbaum. "I am anxious to share my years as an educator, photographer and gallerist with the students in the most creative ways I can. My recommitment to the CSF community and the new Photography Department is an extremely exciting prospect to me, and something I am very much looking forward to." David Scheinbaum worked with the preeminent photographic historian Beaumont Newhall from 1978 until Newhall's death in 1993 and continues as the co-executor of his estate. Scheinbaum served as black and white printer for both Beaumont Newhall and Eliot Porter. Since 1980, he has operated, with his wife Janet Russek, Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd., private fine art photography dealers and consultants in Santa Fe, NM. Scheinbaum has published numerous photography books, including Bisti (University of New Mexico Press, 1987) and Miami Beach: Photographs of An American Dream (Florida International University Press, 1990), and has collaborated with Janet Russek on two projects, Ghost Ranch: Land of Light (Balcony Press, 1997) and Images in the Heavens, Patterns on the Earth -The I Ching (The Museum of New Mexico Press, 2005). Recent projects include the publication Stone: A Substantial Witness (The Museum of New Mexico Press, 2006); Scheinbaum's current photographic work documenting Hip Hop music and culture is on exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery at The Smithsonian Institution through October 2008, and an exhibition from this series will be on display at Verve Fine Art in Santa Fe in March. College of Santa Fe is a private college for the liberal and creative arts chartered in 1874. CSF is guided by its Lasallian heritage in its mission to provide and promote student centeredness, creativity, character, culture, civic capacity and shared governance. For more information visit www.csf.edu.
Opening on July 11 (5:00 to 8:00 pm), "All Hot and Bothered" is a group show at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, in New Paltz, New York, where Whitehead's piece "brazilian for rent" will be featured. If you are in St. Petersburg, Russia this summer, Whitehead will be featured at the IV International Festival of Contemporary Art The Body Navigation. This event will take place from July 6th-12th. The work he is presenting is titled "world music 2 + dance party," which is a new, modified/expanded immersive video installation of the single-channel video. During the same period he will participate in their Media Lab as well. This is a very exciting opportunity and exposure to me/us, as he will be the only artist there from the Americas. Links to these events can be found at Whitehead's website, www.vagnerwhitehead.com.
Kelli Connell's work
has been included in PHOTOart: Photography in the 21st Century published by Aperture.
Below is a blurb about the book. You can also see images of some of the artists' work included in the book on the Aperture website.
The Way Out West, her book of photographs which chart her "response to the Southwest landscapes in which humans have insinuated themselves," will be published by the Center for American Places in 2008. www.michellevanparys.com
Stephanie Syjuco (exposure 40:2) will be included in the next episode of KQED's Spark* art documentary series! For those of you unfamiliar with this series, it's an excellent snapshot of Bay Area artists and digs deep into their concepts and inner workings. Sit in front of your televisions this Wednesday and get a behind the scenes look at her recent studio practice: KQED SPARK* art documentary episode And for those who can't access that channel, the video will be available for streaming after the air date at: http://www.kqed.org/arts/spark/episode.jsp?eid=196865http://www.kqed.org/arts/people/spark/profile.jsp?id=22692 ------------------------------------ CURRENT EXHIBITIONS: ------------------------------------The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art, Politics
Denver Art Museum Names Eric Paddock Curator of Photography Paddock moving from the Colorado Historical Society after 25 years of building the state’s collection of historic film and images (Denver, Colo.) April 17, 2008— The Denver Art Museum (DAM) announced today the appointment of Eric Paddock as its new Curator of Photography and Media Arts. Paddock will develop and shape the direction of the DAM’s new Department of Photography and New Media. A commitment has been made to establish long-term funding for this position and for the photography department endowment by longtime photography supporters Evan Anderman, John Grant, Robert G. Lewis and Anthony Mayer. Paddock will begin work at the DAM in mid-summer 2008 after spending 25 years as the Colorado Historical Society’s (CHS) Curator of Photography and Film. Paddock was the first photography curator of CHS. During his tenure, Paddock more than doubled the size of the photography collection, from 300,000 photographs to more than 800,000 and 32,000 motion picture films relating to Colorado and the West. He also created several highly regarded exhibitions and established interpretive programs. Originally from Boulder, Paddock holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colorado College and a Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from Yale University. In addition to his role at the Colorado Historical Society, Paddock also has taught as a visiting professor of art history and photography for several leading Colorado institutions, including the University of Denver, the University of Colorado at Denver, Colorado College and Arapahoe Community College’s study abroad arts program in Aix-en-Provence, France. Paddock will evaluate the DAM’s current photography collection of more than 7,000 works, which previously was housed in the Modern and Contemporary Art department, shaping a new program for the future. “Major changes over the last 18 months have allowed the Denver Art Museum to look at the collections differently and bring focus to new areas. We are thrilled to have Eric on board and look forward to his vision and insight,” said Denver Art Museum Director Lewis Sharp. “We are fortunate to have in Eric an amazing resource with a deep understanding of Colorado and its cultural organizations and look to this position as a bridge between the city’s great photographic holdings.” Colorado Historical Society President & CEO Edward C. Nichols noted that Paddock has been instrumental in building the Colorado Historical Society’s renowned photography collection, providing for its long term care and preservation, while using it to encourage public access through cataloging and the Stephen H. Hart research library. This collection has helped to raise public awareness of Colorado history and the medium of photography through exhibits, publications and public programs. “We are fortunate to have had 25 years of Eric’s expertise, dedication and attention to the Colorado Historical Society’s photography collections—he will no doubt prove to be just as valuable a resource to the DAM,” said Nichols. “Eric and the photography department built a very strong foundation from which we will be able to launch exciting endeavors in the new Colorado History Museum.” While at the Colorado Historical Society, Paddock became an expert on the history of photography in the American West, and especially Colorado. “I love the Colorado Historical Society and look forward to finding ways to collaborate within this new position,” said Paddock. “With the Denver Art Museum, I have an opportunity to fit what I already know into the wider picture and to learn about whole new worlds of photography that I haven’t studied yet.” The Museum’s photographic holdings currently encompass more than 7,000 works, including the renowned Wolf Collection of 19th century American landscape photography, and extensive holdings of work by Edward Curtis, David Francis Barry and John Hillers. The 20th century collection includes works by Bauhaus artist Herbert Bayer, Man Ray, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Clarence White, Laura Gilpin, Robert Adams, Diane Arbus and a distinguished group of Czech avant-garde photographers. Contemporary artists include Lucas Samaras, Bernd and Hilla Becher, John Baldessari, Yasumasa Morimura and a host of artists who push the boundaries of electronic media arts.
The Delaware Division of the Arts has awarded SPE member Alida Fish the
2008 Master Fellowship in the Visual Arts. the Masters Fellowship represents
the highest honor given by the State to an artist. In its ten year history,
the Fellowship has been awarded to three artists, this is the first award
given to a photographer. Alida's Tintypes entitled "From The Cabinet of Curiosities" are currently included in an exhibition, "Light and Image: The Object in View" at Connecticut College, Cummings Galleries.
The picture is titled "Trafalger Square, London," and may be viewed from the following link: http://px3.fr/winners/hc/zoom.php?eid=333-07&uid=2225076
PACA Honors Photographers' Rights Pioneer Jane Kinne died on November 3, 2007, but she is far from being forgotten. A force in the stock photography industry she influenced countless professional photographers and agents working in the field today. Kinne was widely known as the leading advocate of photographers' rights. In a fitting honor, The Picture Archive Council of America is renaming its Copyright Education Program in her memory. "If it was not for Jane Kinne there would not be a copyright education programs," Cathy Aron, Executive Director of PACA, stated. "She was head of legal committee since its inception, a driving force behind the program to educate buyers and students." For more than half a century she was a guiding force in the stock photography industry. As one of the nation's leading experts in copyright issues, image-reproduction rights and media law, Kinne helped develop the professional standards for image usage that govern the industry today. "Everyone thinks of her as the matriarch of the stock photo industry," intellectual property attorney Nancy Wolff said. "It seems the history of the whole industry is part of her." Wolff points to a meeting with Kinne more than 20 years ago as the spark to her own career. It seems only fitting then that the program now bearing Kinne's name proudly offers a key presentation by Wolff on image copyright law. In fact, one of the key components of PACA's educational program is to distribute Wolff's presentation to colleges, universities and art schools. For those looking to learn these critical lessons outside of a classroom setting a downloadable Power Point presentation and DVD are available by visiting www.pacaoffice.org. In the latter stages of her career the always positive Kinne never slowed down. She served not only as a mentor to thousands, but also as consultant image collections appraisals, marketing strategies, successful acquisitions and legal issues spanning the photo community. Kinne was the legal chairperson for both ASPP and PACA and the Director of Development for NANPA's Infinity Foundation at the time of her passing. Some of Kinne's accomplishments include: For further information contact: In 2007...In Memory of Jack Welpott 1923-2007 His Memorial is being held on Sat., Jan. 12 from 1-4 pm in the Art Gallery at San Francisco State University. Download a PDF with the memorial information here. Internationally known photographer and educator, Jack Welpott died in Marin General Hospital, Greenbrae, California on November, 24, 2007. He was eighty-four. A memorial will be held on January 12, 2008 in the Fine Arts Gallery at San Francisco State University. Born in Kansas City, Kansas on April 27, 1923, Welpott grew up in Bloomington, Indiana. After high school he enrolled in Indiana University, but was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Force in 1943. He served in the South Pacific as a radio intercept operator until 1946. After WW II, he returned to Indiana University on the G.I. Bill where he earned an M.F.A degree studying with Henry Holmes Smith. Welpott and Jerry Uelsmann were the first M.F.A. graduates while Van Deren Coke was also a graduate student. During these years, he became acquainted with Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Minor White all of whom were established photographers and pioneers in American photographic education. Welpott was hired in 1959 by John Gutmann, whose own photographic work was then unknown, to teach photography within the Art Department at San Francisco State College, now San Francisco State University. He taught there for the next thirty-three years. When he arrived in San Francisco the Beat Generation was winding down in North Beach, however, he took advantage of the local poetry, jazz, art and culture. Welpott also played jazz piano which became a lifelong avocation. Years later he said, "When I'm working behind a camera , I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does." He also soon became associated with the local photographic community which included Ansel Adams, Ruth Bernard, Oliver Gagliani and Dorothea Lange. At that time there were almost no photography courses or graduate programs offered at the university level anywhere in the United States. Welpott pioneered in creating both photography courses and a graduate program. He also taught one of the first history of photography courses at the college/university level. While providing a solid basis in photographic technique, Welpott always encouraged an appreciation of the master photographers. Also, he integrated the ideas of Carl G. Jung, the Swiss psychoanalyst, into the reading of photographs, especially dreams, symbolism and the unconscious mind. Don Worth also joined the faculty in 1962 and added color photography to the program when color photography was not considered relevant in fine art photography. Welpott's educational goal was to determine the needs of the student, provide constructive criticism and help them develope their own vision. A number of his students have become major contributors to photography: Judy Dater, Leland Rice, John Spence Weir, Michael Bishop, Harvey Himelfarb, and Catherine Wagner among numerous others. In 1968, with Welpott's support, a number of his students formed the Visual Dialogue Foundation to promote their photographs by producing a portfolio, creating exhibitions, a and, in general, publicizing their photographs as fine art. The museum and fine arts galleries in American had not yet accepted photography as a fine art. Although mindful of Group f64, a number of the members continued to work in the tradition of Group f64, while others began to experiment with photography. VDF became the vortex of San Francisco's photographic community and established a bridge with Robert Heinecken, another pioneer at the University of California at Los Angeles, who was pushing the parameters of traditional American photography. In a time of increasing specialization in photography, Welpott was unique in that his work was both diverse and unexpected. Formal problems were always of major concern to him. His nudes were erotic and sensual interpretations of the female figure and his best known work. They can also easily mislead the viewer, because he was also interested in integrating subject and technique. Sensitivity to light and composition, especially spatial relations, were always major concerns. His interest in 19th century French painting, especially Henri Matisse, affected his vision. He was also an outstanding portrait photographer and his fragmented landscapes are visual poems which parallel some of the best in landscape photography. Welpott also liked to create new challenges for himself. During 1980 and 1981, he began exploring San Francisco's cityscape when he photographed the financial district resulting in some unique, and, at times, critical views of the world of business. Known for his black and white photographs, during the 1980's he photographed in fragments and in color, but always with restraint. And in the 1990's, Welpott combined a photogram of a projected seed pod with pen and ink drawing and hand coloring. In graduate school he studied painting and photography and also taught drawing. With an interest in Abstract Expressionism, he wanted to create a photograph in that genre. Regarding the creation of a photograph, Welpott revealed a mystical side when he stated, "There is the physical sensation of light penetrating everything. The world becomes luminous. Sometimes, one can see a wider, more brilliant, more significant, more detailed world than is apparent to others." Welpott was a member of the Friends of Photography, Carmel, California and served on the Board of Trustees from 1973-1976. He was also a member of the Society for Photographic Education. In 1973 Welpott was a recipient of the Medal of Arles, France, and in 1979 received a National Endowment for the Arts Grant. His photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum, New York; International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris and the Australian National Gallery among others. Jack Welpott is survived by his daughter, Jan Marie Danielle, her husband, Rob Daniele, their sons, Nicholas and Kevin, his son, Matthew. Darwin Marable Darwin Marable was graduated from the University of New Mexico with a Ph.D. in the history of photography. He lectures at the University of California Berkeley Extension and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. His writings have been published in Afterimage, Artweek, Black & White Magazine, History of Photography, Lenswork, Photo Metro, and The World & I (Washington, D.C. Times).
Fogel is the former Chairman of the Media Arts Department at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and an Associate Professor of Photography, and Director of the Sol Mednick Gallery and Gallery 1401. He has an extensive background in digital imaging, criticism, photojournalism, and photo history. His work utilizes various formats, including digital cameras, scanners, 8"x10" view cameras, 35mm, medium format , and digital video, with an emphasis on fine art printing. Some of Fogel’s projects include photographs from the set of the TV series The Wonder Years; portraiture; a series on Howard Finster’s Paradise Gardens; the large-format color project A Few American Cultures; the nuclear-inspired Towards Trinity conceptual project; artists books; and digitally based work. Fogel maintains a substantial exhibition and lecture record, and his work can be found in the collections of numerous museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; The National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.; the International Center of Photography in New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France; and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta; and his artist books are found in the library of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Fogel is well known as a consultant to institutions and industry who seek his expertise with digital imaging software and hardware. Fogel is the host and executive producer of Mac Edition Radio, a technology, photography, and digital imaging based internet radio show and website. From 1996 to 2006, he was cohost and executive producer of the Philadelphia talk radio show PC Talk-Mac Edition. His research on the relationship between photography and the American Presidency has led to interviews with President Jimmy Carter, President Gerald Ford, and First Lady Betty Ford, and many other White House officials from numerous administrations. Fogel has directed the Sol Mednick Gallery since 1997 and he founded Gallery 1401 in 1999. The Sol Mednick Gallery was founded in 1978 by then-Department Chair Ray Metzker, and is named after the founder of The University of the Arts Photography Program, Sol Mednick. It is the only endowed gallery for the exhibition of contemporary photography in Philadelphia. The Media Arts Department, home to the photography, film, digital video, and animation programs at The University of the Arts, operates the galleries. In 2001, the Sol Mednick Gallery received the prestigious Photo Review Award for service to photography. Fogel’s curatorial experience includes directing and organizing more than 200 exhibitions of photography over the past 20 years. Recently, Fogel was chosen as the curator/juror for the Texas Photographic Society "TPS 15" National Competition, which drew almost 2,600 entries.
MOCA Cleveland’s exhibition, "Remembering Injustice," features five of Hayashi’s signature large-scale photo collages from her series on Japanese-American internment camps, along with an audio presentation of her interviews with former Japanese-American internees. In returning to and documenting these places, Hayashi used photography—a medium of recollection—to meditate on notions of collective memory, fear, injustice, and renewal. Additional Masumi Hayashi exhibitions: Akron Art Museum, Two Pilgrimages: October 27, 2007–January 27, 2008 MOCA’s exhibition is made possible by a generous gift from The Donna and Stewart Kohl Fund of The Cleveland Foundation. Visit www.mocacleveland.org for more information about this and other programs happening at MOCA Cleveland this fall.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS OF ART AND DESIGN RE: Voting Draft of Proposed Handbook Changes Dear Colleagues: NASAD has announced that the membership is scheduled to take action on October 19, 2007 regarding changes to accreditation standards. The texts of these proposals may be found on the NASAD Web site under Current Information > Proposed Handbook Changes. For your convenience, a "Standards Only" draft has been prepared that does not include Bylaws or Rules of Practice and Procedure. NASAD would appreciate any comments on these drafts by October 1, 2007. NASAD appreciates your continuing consideration and assistance. Please let us know if you have questions or concerns. Best wishes. Samuel Hope
SAA Represents Artists Groups in Dialog with Getty Images: Getty Images Pledges Revisions to $49 "web res" License to Address Concerns Just two weeks ago, Getty Images announced their $49 "web use" license product. In response, a growing coalition of artists' groups led by Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) has called for Getty Images to remove all Rights Managed (and Rights Ready) imagery from the scheme. The coalition continues to grow, and today represents more than 50,000 artists from 17 trade associations. Read other releases and related information to this issue: http://www.stockartistsalliance.org/info/news/news_Getty.htm
School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York City, has appointed David Levi Strauss as chair of the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department. A writer and critic whose essays and reviews appear regularly in Artforum and Aperture, Strauss has been widely praised for work of intellectual daring, rigor and clarity, particularly on the subject of photography. He comes to SVA from Bard College, where he was on the faculty since 2001. The MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department at SVA prepares students to apply critical thinking to the image in all its manifestations to better understand how we are subject to them. The two-year, 60-credit program includes coursework in art theory, criticism and writing, and a thesis. An underlying principle of the program is that the image should occupy a place in the understanding of life comparable to that of the humanities and sciences. At a time when images have inordinate power over us—to influence public opinion, and to create and direct desire—the need for criticism is greater than ever. Focusing on the essay and shorter forms of review, the curriculum provides a broad foundation in art history and aesthetics, and encourages a wide-ranging knowledge and curiosity about contemporary culture. School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists. From its inception in 1947, the faculty has been comprised of professionals working in the arts and art-related fields. SVA provides an environment that nurtures creativity, inventiveness and experimentation, enabling students to develop a strong sense of identity and a clear direction of purpose.
In January of this year the Executive Committee of SPE's national board of directors formed the Executive Director Search Committee and began a national search for a new Executive Director of the Society for Photographic Education. The Committee recently completed its search and is pleased to report that Virginia Morrison of Cleveland, Ohio, has been hired to fill the position effective July 1, 2007. Ms. Morrison is a very talented and gifted administrator who brings more than 20 years of non-profit administrative experience to the ED position, including a background in art and photography. Morrison graduated from Macalester College, cum laude, in 1980 with a dual major in studio art and art history. She has also completed graduate coursework in psychology at Case Western Reserve University. She has held positions in the Cleveland, Ohio, area that eflect her passion for art and her talent for management. In the 1980's and early 1990's, Virginia served as gallery director of the American Crafts Gallery, worked as an award-winning teacher of photography and art at Hawken School, and as an art sales consultant for the Bonfoey Company. In 1987, she joined the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) as Director of Career Services. Virginia moved to Case Western Reserve University's School of Medicine in 1993 and has worked for Medical Student Affairs, the department of pharmacology and most recently for the Master of Public Health (MPH) program, where for the past seven years she served as the Administrative Director. The board and staff are extremely pleased and very excited to welcome Virginia Morrison to our organization as the new Executive Director. We look forward to her leadership in the years ahead. The Executive Director Search Committee was comprised of current and former board members. Members included Richard Gray, Chair; Tom Fischer, Vice-Chair; Therese Mulligan, Treasurer; Cass Fey, Secretary; Terri Warpinski, former Chair, current board member; Hannah Frieser, board member; Lawrence McFarland, board member, Michelle Van Parys, board member; Will Tolan, board member and Gary Kolb, former Chair of the Society. A sincere thank you to the search committee for their hard work and dedication over the past six months.
Petition on Photography in New York (via Rachel Hawthorn) Photographers, students and teachers in New York (and those from outside the city who travel there to make work) are facing serious restrictions, proposed by the Mayor's Office of Theater, Film, and Broadcasting. Excerpt from the New York Times article:
The deadline is August 3, 2007. Related links: Original New York Times article
Recipients of 2007 Minnesota Center for Photography(MCP)/McKnight
Artist
Fellowships for Photographers Announced
From 127 original applications the following four artists were selected as the recipients of the 2007 MCP/McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowships for Photographers: Peter Latner, Minneapolis Each of these artists will receive $25,000 in Fellowship support plus an exhibition at MCP in late summer 2008. The Fellowships are awarded each year by a three-member panel, selected from the community of artists, educators, curators, and critics outside of Minnesota who are familiar with the broad spectrum of photographic practice and receptive to a range of sensibilities. This year's review panel consisted of the following three individuals: + Karen Halverson, photographer, North Chatham, NY + Toby Jurovics, curator of photography, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC + Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, photographer, teacher, Providence, RI The McKnight Fellowships intend to enable the creative lives of Minnesota-resident, mid-career photographers for a twelve-month period. Funds underwrite free exploration of new ideas in an artist's own work. The money may be used during the Fellowship year to secure time, to purchase materials or equipment, and to supplement related travel expenses. Besides the financial assistance, the program also underwrites an exhibition at MCP following the Fellowship year, a publication accompanying the exhibition, a chance to consult with at least one of the review panelists, and other opportunities to present work and interact with people interested in photographic art. ABOUT THE MCKNIGHT FOUNDATIONFounded in 1953 and endowed by William L. McKnight and Maude L. McKnight, The McKnight Foundation (based in Minneapolis) has assets of approximately $2 billion and granted about $90 million in 2005; the Arts received approximately one-tenth of this figure. McKnight is an independent private philanthropic organization; the Foundation has no relationship with the 3M Company, although Mr. McKnight was one of 3M's early leaders. ABOUT THE MCP/MCKNIGHT FOUNDATION ARTIST FELLOWSHIPS FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS PROGRAMSince 1982 the Minneapolis-based McKnight Foundation has awarded Fellowships to artists residing in Minnesota who use photography as a primary means of creative, personal expression and whose work demonstrates excellence. Film in the Cities was the original administrative host for the Photography Fellowship Program, followed by the University of Minnesota Department of Art (1993-2006). ABOUT THE MINNESOTA CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHYSince 1990, the Minnesota Center for Photography has enriched the Twin Cities cultural landscaped and provided a unique focus for photographic artists and photography enthusiasts. As the leading regional photography center, MCP's mission is to support and promote the creation and appreciation of photographic arts.
Festimage cash prizes go to India and Spain Indian Arup Ghosh was the winner of Festimage's Official Prize for 2007. The second prize was awarded to Spaniard Juan Carlos Roman. Third and fourth place were also awarded to Spanish entries. Prizewinners were Jesus Jaime Mota (3rd prize) and Stephanus Meyer (4th prize), a Briton living in Córdoba and the only one of the prizewinners with an entry in color. Kushal Gangopadhyay, of India, placed fifth. The first-prize winner receives 5000 euros; the second prize is worth 2500; third, 1000; fourth, 750; and fifth, 500 euros. Rodrigo Teofilo, of Brazil, was the winner of the People's Choice Prize, a contest taking place in parallel with the Official Prize, with a cash award of 1000,00 euros. A total of 1665 entries from 59 countries took part in Festimage, an event which takes place only over the Internet (www.festimage.org) and which is promoted by the Municipality of Chaves, in northern Portugal. The countries with the highest rate of participants were Spain, with 368 participants, Brazil, 302 participants, Germany, 229, and Portugal, with 165 participants. France, the United Kingdom, Austria, India, Italy, Colombia, Argentina and Venezuela followed suit with a large number of participants. Exhibits in Chaves The finalists' entries will be used for setting up a traditional exhibit in the city of Chaves, which will open on 8 July. On the same day, the works of a few of the finalists will be posted on the walls of a few buildings in the city's historic center, and such works will be enlarged to bigger formats, and they will remain on display until the end of August. During the same period, all entries will be put on display on giant screens at night and in the city's most crowded areas. The exhibit, which will comprise the finalists' works, will then move on to other cities, and will also include "Outono Fotografico", which is held annually in the Spanish city of Ourense.
You can view the images in the Center's online gallery at http://www.c4fap.org/index.asp The 2007 Student Exhibition will be on display at The Center for Fine Art Photography from June 1st- June 9th, 2007, located at the
Seely is also a member of the collective Civil Twilight, which recently won Metropolis Magazine's Next Generation Design Competition with a proposal for Lunar-Resonant Streetlights. Lux is discussed and represented as part of a 6-page feature on the the collective and the winning project in the May Issue of Metropolis Magazine: http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=2683.
In 2006...The James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA, is featuring Constructions: Photographs by Michael Becotte through March 18. www.michenerartmuseum.org Barbara Thomas will be shown in the exhibition Focus Five at the Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery through Feb. 15. Altana Gallery featured work by Richard Gray in their group exhibition Wahr-Zeichen-Fotographie und Wissenschaft. The exhibition is a collaborative project by the Technical Collections at the Dresden Museum and the Technische Universität Dresden. It will remain on view through Feb. 17, 2007, www.altana-galerie-dresden.de/. Richard Gray’s work could recently be seen in Human Nature, an exhibition at Indiana University Bloomington. http://www.indiana.edu/~sofa/human_nature
Muriel Hasbun’s video barquitos de papel / paper boats is on view at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and Zoellner Arts Center in Bethlehem, PA through this fall. She is also preparing to show work at the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, DC from Nov. 15 through Jan. 14. Her exhibitions Terruño: detrás del telón and Migraciones y archivos: Conversatorio were on view at Museo Nacional de Antropología in El Salvador. Dennis DeHart’s exhibition Ambit Verdure (In the Realm of the Green) can currently be viewed at Insite Gallery in Buffalo, NY through Nov. 27. 716/884-9410 The Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, PA chose Howard Henry Chen’s Multiple Entry Visa series as the winner of the Fellowship 2006 competition. The work is featured in an exhibition through Feb. 10. www.silvereye.org The exhibition Why Look at Animals? includes SPE members Forest McMullin and Frank Noelker, and was co-curated by Alison Nordström. It is on view at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY through Jan. 7. www.eastmanhouse.org Deborah Jack is participating in the group exhibition Tropicalisms, on view at the Jersey City Museum through Jan. 14. Sant Khalsa’s photographs will be shown with works by artists, Simon Norfolk, Anne Fishbein, Nic Nicosia, Vincent Cianni, and Andrew Freeman in the exhibition, Long Exposures: Contemporary Photo Essays from the Permanent Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, on view through Jan. 7. The exhibition Binary Articulation, on view at Russell/Holt Gallery, Baker University in Baldwin City, KS showcased landscapes, collage, “Scanner Obscura” and other images by artists Christa Kreeger Bowden, John Paul Caponigro, Gary S. Colby, Maggie Taylor, Ambler Hutchinson, Eric Kunsman, Nate Larson, Stephen Marc, Susana Reisman, Trish Simonite, and Rhona Shand (artist and curator) through Nov. 18. Rhona Shand was also included in the three-artist exhibition Figuratively Speaking at Visual Arts Center in Portsmouth, VA. Arlene Gottfried was featured in Salon, an exhibition of art work created by women, Bellevue Hospital Center, Atrium in New York City. Her exhibition Midnight can be seen at BCA Gallery in Bedford, Great Britain through Nov. 18. The exhibition is produced in collaboration with Autograph ABP. www.autograph-abp.co.uk, www.bedfordcreativearts.org Janet L. Pritchard’s exhibition Dwelling. Expressions of Time is on view at the Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI through Dec. 10. www.uri.edu/artgalleries Annette Fournet’s haunting photographs of Eastern and Central Europe’s countryside can be seen in the exhibition Sticks, Stones & Bones. Images from Transient Landscapes at Charleston Heights Arts Center in Las Vegas through Nov. 19. The work was recently shown at the Art Museum, University of Memphis. It was also featured at Photomedia Center’s online gallery. www.amum.org, www.photomediacenter.org Neal Rantoul published his first monograph, American Series. Photographs by Neal Rantoul, with introduction by Jeffrey Hoone. A selection of photographs from the series is currently on view at the Panopticon Gallery in Waltham, MA through Nov. 18. www.panopt.com, www.nealrantoul.com Joy Christiansen’s exhibition Family Gathering: A Look into the World of Eating Disorders is on view at Trinity University Art Gallery, One Trinity Place in San Antonio, TX through Nov. 17, 210/999-7682. Judy Natal’s exhibition Neon Boneyard: Las Vegas A-Z is on view at the Reed Whipple Cultural Center in Las Vegas through Howard Henry Chen, Binh Danh and Annu Palakunnathu Matthew were among the 28 artists featured at the 13th Noorderlicht International Photofestival in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. www.noorderlicht.com/eng/newfest/index.html Keith Carter’s photographs were featured in the inaugural group exhibition at Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery in Dallas. www.photographsdonotbend.com Liz Wells curated the exhibition Crossing the Atlantic...Uneasy Spaces, which recently was on view at Washington Square East Galleries in New York City. Meg Ojala participated in New Photography: McKnight Fellows 2005/2006 at Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN. Nathan Lyons’s exhibition Trilogy could be viewed at Silverstein Photography in New York City. www.silversteinphotography.com Libby Rowe’s work can be seen at Nashville International Airport through Dec. 3. SPE members Amanda Keller-Konya and Rebecca Ross received 2006 Teaching Award Honorable Mentions from the Santa Fe Center for Photography. Kelli Connell, Justin Newhall and Brian Ulrich teamed up for the exhibition MP3: Midwest Photographers Publication Project at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. www.mocp.org Ida Green Gallery at Austin College in Sherman, TX featured The Land: Photographs by Luther Smith. Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago featured Michael Kenna’s exhibition Hokkaido/New Work. www.edelmangallery.com Jeff Brouws’ exhibition Approaching Nowhere was featured by the Robert Mann Gallery in New York. www.robertmann.com The Faculty & Staff Exhibition at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU in New York City included SPE members Lorie Novak, Clarissa Sligh, Deborah Willis and Sylvia Wolf. www.photo.tisch.nyu.edu Dennis Carpenter’s Terra Firma, Terra Incognito was featured at the Sol Mednick Gallery in Philadelphia. www.uarts.edu Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, FL showed Ken Light’s exhibition Coal Hollow. www.smponline.org Hanover College Art Gallery in Hanover, IN featured Stories by Nate Larson. www.hanover.edu/art/artgallery.html Charmaine Caire’s work was on view at the Philadelphia International Airport. Sant Khalsa and Robin Lasser were included in Earthy Concerns: Activist EcoArt on view at Thacher Gallery of the University of San Francisco. Deborah Bright and Ivana George showed Unrealizable Dreams: A Photographic Exploration at The Contemporary Arts Collective in Las Vegas. Benjamin Stern’s work Topologies could be seen at Xen Gallery in St. Louis, MO. Gallery BMG in Woodstock, NY featured Susan kae Grant in a solo exhibition, Night Journey. www.galeriebmg.com Art Whipped at UNT artspace FW included the University of North Texas MFA graduates Beau Comeaux and Jessica Cook. Carl Chiarenza was included in the 2nd Rochester Biennial at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY. His work was featured in a solo exhibition at Image Arts Gallery, Ryerson University School of Image Arts in Toronto, Canada. Gail Rebhan, Judy Gelles and others are participating in the exhibition Maternal Metaphors at Ohio University in Athens, OH through Nov. 4. Gail Rebhan’s work could recently be seen at Manassas Art Center in Manassas, VA. Her work was also included in the exhibition Time’s Body of Evidence: Artists on Health and Aging at Wright State University in Dayton, OH. Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco showed Brian Ulrich’s work.
Carola Dreidemie curated a video arts show entitled Looped: engages in time at the CAS Gallery at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL, featuring work by Lynn Cazabon, Ximena Cuevas, Lamia Endara, Anthony Goicolea, Patrick Craig Manning and Christine Shank. Carola Dreidemie’s work was selected for Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires. She will also be participating in a three-month fellowship in New Delhi, India and a residency at the Experimental Television Center. www.caroladreidemie.com Deluxe Arts Gallery in Miami, FL featured work by Lamia Endara in the exhibition entitled Seduction. Suzette Bulley was featured in Family Pack at the Society for Contemporary Photography in Kansas City, MO. www.scponline.org Jennifer Greenburg’s photographs on the Rockabilly community was on view at Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, IL. Daniel Rabinovich was featured in a solo exhibition at the Centre Culturel Calixa-Lavallée in Montreal. Linda Troeller recently had a show of Healing Waters/Spa Journeys at the Gallerie BI-Z in Norway. www.lindatroeller.com Rebecca Cummins showed her Skylight Aperture Sundial... at the Montlake Public Library Branch in Seattle. Her collaborative work Light Rain, created with artist Paul DeMarinis, was exhibited at the Shanghai Biennale. www.rebeccacummins.com Ransome Center Galleries at UT Austin showed Jesseca Ferguson’s exhibition, The Image Wrought: Historical Photographic Approaches in the Digital Age. Debbie Fleming Caffery was awarded a Katrina Media Fellowships by the Open Society Institute for her project Portrait of Neglect: Injustice of Hurricane Katrina, a documentation through portraits and landscapes of the effects of both the initial natural disaster and the man-made devastation that came in the wake of the storm. Melissa Fleming, Sarah Sudhoff, Yvette Yeh and others held their MFA thesis exhibition at Peer Gallery in New York City. Melissa Fleming and Sandi Haber Fifield also participated in the group exhibition (t)here at Peer Gallery. www.peergallery.com Colette Copeland was included in SNAP TO GRID: the Un-Juried Show at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. http://lacda.com/exhibits/snaptogrid.html. Her work could be seen in various venues, including in Temporary Cities at the Cultural Communication Centre of Klaipeda, Lithuania, and the National Center for Contemporary Arts in Moscow; in a video exhibition in Hamburg, Germany; in Do Not Fold, Bend, Spindle or Mutilate: Computer Punch Card Art at the Visual Arts Center–Washingon Pavilon of Arts & Science in Sioux Falls, SD; in MIAD Venado Tuerto 2006 in Venado Tuerto, Argentina; in Works on Paper: University of Pennsylvania Faculty Exhibit in Philadelphia, PA; and at Ars Latina 2006 in Macerata, Italy, www.arslatina.org. Copeland recently received the 2005/6 Teaching Award for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. Jon Yamashiro received his fourth nomination for the Effective Educator Award at Miami University in Oxford, OH. Walt Bistline’s exhibitions Earthbound: Photos of the Midwest and Jean Pool: An Installation could be seen at the Leeds Gallery in Runyan Center at Earlham College. He taught in the Explore-A-College program at Earlham College. The New York Times recently named the program one of the country’s undiscovered jewels of higher education. www.earlham.edu Patti Hallock’s work can be seen in the group show, Extended Remix, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, scheduled through January 2007. She was also selected to participate in the show Best of Colorado Artists at Denver International Airport, also on view through January.
Keith Johnson’s series Road Work will be on view at Middle Tennesee State University in Murfreesboro, TN through Dec. 16. Keith’s photographs were included in the group exhibition Enchanted Landscape: an Exploration of Place at the Cushing-Martin Gallery, Stonehill College in Easton, MA. The Panopticon Gallery in Waltham, MA showcased Keith Johnson in the exhibition New Work 2000-2005: Water/Garden & Ground/Cover. www.panopt.com, www.keithjohnsonphotographs.com Martha Madigan’s work Earth is Like a Garden in Bloom Only for a Few Days could be seen at Villa Poniatowski in Rome, Italy. www.casadelleletterature.it Jonathan Gitelson's work The Car Project will featured in the British art magazine Intersection with an interview with Photo-Eye’s Avis Cardella. And he was chosen to create a permanent public art piece for the new Armitage Brown Line Subway Station in Chicago. Upcoming exhibitions include solo exhibitions at MIAD Photography Gallery at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, at Art Gallery at Dominican University in Illinois and at Community College of Southern Nevada. www.intersectionmagazine.com, www.thegit.net Sheri Lynn Behr’s photographs were included in Artists Responding to Violence Against the Earth at The Museum of Cultural Arts, Houston and in Thomas Kellner’s photographers:network selection 2006 at Studio Thomas Kellner in Siegen, Germany. www.tkellner.com, www.slbehr.com The Callanwolde Fine Arts Center in Atlanta, GA hosted Perry Dilbeck’s solo exhibition The Last Harvest–Truck Farmers in the Deep South. Dilbeck’s documentary by the same title was published by the University of Georgia Press in association with the Center for American Places. His work was also featured in the Texas Photographic Society Juried Exhibition at Calumet Photographic in San Francisco, CA. Michelle Bates published the book Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity with Focal Press in October 2006. Contributors include SPE members Mary Ann Lynch, Sandy Sorlien, Annette Fournet, Perry Dilbeck, Harvey Stein, Mark Sink and Michael Sherwin, among others. www.focalpress.com, www.michellebates.net Karina Aguilera Skvirsky was included in the exhibition Prevailing Climate at the Sara Melzer Gallery in New York City. SPE members Jerry Burchfield, Jacques Garnier, Rob Johnson, Douglas McCulloh, Mark Chamberlain and Clayton Spada created the world’s largest photograph inside the world’s largest camera. Over 100 volunteers participated in the Legacy Project, located inside an old air hanger at the former El Toro marine base in Orange county, California. www.legacyphotoproject.com Wendel A. White’s exhibition Pictures from a New World: An African American Village in Israel was on view at Richard Stockton College Art Gallery in Pomona, NJ from Sept. 17 - Oct. 15. 609/652-4214 DeRicci Gallery at Edgewood College featured Christine Holtz’s exhibition Meeting Places from Aug. 20 through Sept. 8. Monroe Street Campus, DeRicci Hall, Madison, WI. www.christineholtz.com Soho Photo’s 11th Annual National Photographic Competition included SPE member Garie Waltzer, who received second place. The exhibition was on view through Aug. 5. Soho Photo, 15 White St, New York City, www.sohophoto.com. Ariel Shanberg and Kate Menconeri curated the exhibition Family Album, on view through Aug. 20. Participating SPE members include Susan E. Evans, Ben Gest and Carla Williams. Also on view at CPW was Preston Wadley’s work Pentimento. Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW), 59 Tinker St, Woodstock, NY 12498, 845/679-9957, www.cpw.org The Discovery Museum in Bridgeport, CT featured Herbert Hoover: does time stand still? Jonathan Gitelson’s work would be seen in the group exhibition Chicago Car Culture. Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Rooms, 2nd floor, 78 E. Washington, Chicago, IL. Muriel Hasbun’s interactive exhibition and workshop project Terruño: Detrás del telón... Backdrop: The Search for Home was on view in El Salvador. Vincent Cianni’s exhibition We Skate Hardcore. Photographs from Brooklyn's Southside traveled to the Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave, New York, NY. Suzanne Mejean’s exhibition Original Fiction was on view at GFL Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Nate Larson’s work could be seen in the Epping Gallery at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, IL. His exhibition New Video Work by Nate Larson was recently on view at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art in Anchorage, AK. Sonya A. Lawyer’s newest exhibition Searching for Beulah (Limit of Disturbance) could be seen at School 33 in Baltimore, MD. www.sonyalawyer.com Sara Rytteke’s work You’re Such a Doll was part of the exhibition Only Skin Deep with Ron Gershman. Photomedia Center in Erie, PA 16505, www.photomediacenter.org. Gendai Heights Gallery Den in Tokyo showcased Jun Itoi’s work Here You Are. www.gendailheights.fc2.com Denise Bibro Fine Art in New York, NY showed Carol Jacobson’s Conviction.
Angilee Wilkerson’s work could be seen in her exhibition Naturalis at the Bath House Cultural Center in Dallas, TX. Her work was also included in the group exhibition Instant Gratification: Exploration of the Polaroid at the Arlington Museum of Art in Arlington, TX. www.arlingtonmuseum.org Jan W. Faul’s exhibition From the Fields of the Gun was on view in Washington, DC. www.spectrumgallery.org Jerome Liebling’s exhibition jerome liebling + selected photographs could be seen at the Minnesota Center for Photography in Minneapolis, MN. www.mncp.org The group exhibition The Drop included Sant Khalsa’s work. Exit Art in New York City. www.exitart.org The Center for Photography at Woodstock showed Ruth Adams’ exhibition unremarkable at the same time they showcased Photography Now 2006 with Caitlin Atkinson, B.A. Bosaiya, Arantxa Cedillo, Michal Chelbin, Siri Kaur, Honey Lazar, Mike McGregor, Lydia Panas and Torrance York. www.cpw.org Lonnie Graham’s exhibition A Conversation at the Table could be seen at the Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia, PA. www.fabricworkshop.org Bodywerx, three new serial artworks by Cole Robertson could be seen at different vantage points in Chicago, IL, including the Glass Curtain Gallery, the Schopf Gallery on Lake and at the Nova Art Fair 2006. Touching, part of Bonus Tracks, could be seen at the Hothouse Gallery. Angela Watters’ MFA work was also on view at Glass Curtain Gallery in Chicago, IL. Her work was also included in Versionfest>06 :: Parallel Cities at Version Kunsthalle in Chicago. Rita Bernstein’s show Past Perfect was exhibited at The Center for Emerging Visual Artists in Philadelphia, PA, www.cfeva.org. SPE members Josh Pfeifer, Robert Hein and Kevin Thayer showed their exhibition Faith, Tribute, and Chaos, Three Matters at University Galleries in Cincinnati, OH. The exhibition Alter Egos by B. Proud was on view at Gallery 1401, The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. The 2006 PRC Members’ Exhibition included SPE members Elizabeth Albert, Ri Anderson, Michael Cirelli, Kerry Stuart Coppin and Bob O’Connor. http://www.bu.edu/prc/ The Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA showed Lisa M. Robinson’s work Snowbound April 1-30. In May the work traveled to the Jack Leigh Gallery in Savannah, GA and in December to Galleri Image in Aarhus, Denmark, just outside of Copenhagen. Robinson’s work was recently exhibited at Silver Eye Center for Photography. It will head to the Center of Photography in Woodstock in January 2007. www.griffinmuseum.org. Connie Imboden’s work Re-Formation was featured at Heineman Myers Contem-porary Art in Bethesda, MD. www.heinemanmyers.com Oh mY..., an exhibition of work by Libby & Ken Rowe was on view at 310 Chestnut in Nashville, TN. www.libbyrowe.com Judy Natal’s exhibition American Alphabet. Photographs and Maps was on view at mn gallery in Chicago, IL. She is currently finalizing the publication of her new book. www.mngallery.net The work of Kay Kenny, Dreamland Speaks When Shadows Walk, was recently exhibited at Soho Photo in New York City. www.sohophoto.com Perry Dilbeck participated in the Power of Plants exhibition at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, DC and the Texas Photographic Society Juried Exhibition at Calumet Photographic in San Francisco, CA. www.perrydilbeck.com John Pfahl’s exhibition Luminous River, Photographs of the Susquehanna. Extreme Horticulture was on view at Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, University of Maryland Baltimore Gallery. The exhibition Bearings: The Female Body at PS122 Gallery in New York City included SPE members Kelly Adams, Mariette Pathy Allen and Suzanne Mejean. www.ps122gallery.org Ron Tarver’s exhibition Havana, A Place Out of Time could be seen Silva Gallery of Art in Pennington, NJ. The Second Woodmere Triennial of Contemporary Photography at the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, PA, included Thomas Brummett, David Graham and Clarissa Sligh.
The Light Factory in Charlotte, NC recently showed Martha Strawn’s exhibition Across the Thresholds of India and the work by Prince Thomas, Interstitial Spaces. www.lightfactory.org Private Property, an exhibition by Anne Rowland, was on view at Hemphill Fine Arts in Washington, DC. www.hemphillfinearts.com Photographs by Justyna Badach, The Guides, could be viewed at The Print Center in Philadelphia. www.printcenter.org borders between dreams and reality by Claudia Katz and Jen Sens was featured at the Center for the Photographic Arts in Miami, FL. www.dreamsandreality.com The Griffin Museum of Photography recognized Anne Wilkes Tucker from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston with a newly created Life Time Achievement Award. Barbara Hitchcock from Polaroid Corporation was honored with the New England Beacon Award. The Rising Star Award went to Brian Paul Clamp of ClampArt Gallery. Nazraeli Press published Recto/Verso. Photographs by Robert Heinecken. Sylvia de Swaan received a 2006 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Blake Shell, the new galleries curator for the University of Arizona School of Art, has been awarded the university’s Beyond the Call of Duty Award. She has also been awarded an Artist Grant from Tucson Pima Arts Council. Eight of Frank Hamrick’s photographs were reproduced in The Southeast Review. http://www.southeastreview.org/onlineissue1/hamrick.php Neal Rantoul’s article “Digital Update: Raw Files and the Digital Negative” was published at www.TeachingPhoto.com. Camera Arts published an article “Picolino Circus Project Guiding the World’s Youth Through the Lens” on Tone Stockenström in their Feb-March issue. En Foco’s New Works Awards (#9) included four SPE members, Trinidad Mac-Auliffe, Javier Carmona, Michael Gonzales and Preston Wadley. Gallery 1401 at The University of the Arts showed John Woodin’s New Orleans Photographs through April 17. The gallery featured Richard Newman’s work A 12 Year Diary in Photographs from June 2 to Aug. 11. Gallery 1401, 211 S Broad St., 14th floor, Philadelphia, PA 19102, 215/717-6300, www.uarts.edu. The exhibition Trace by Muriel Hasbun was shown at the JP Morgan Chase Tower Heritage Gallery during FotoFest Houston. The exhibition was curated by Wendy Watriss, http://www.fotofest.org/ff2006/. Hasbun’s work was recently on view at the Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran, selected by Philip Brookman, www.wpaconline.org. Barbara Tyroler’s Beijing Impressions could be seen at the Montpelier Arts Center April 7 through June 2. 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel, MD 20708, 301/953-1993. The National Museum of American History in Washington, DC presented Honky Tonk: Country Music Photographs by Henry Horenstein, 1972-1981, through Sept. 5. http://americanhistory.si.edu. Ken Rosenthal’s solo exhibition, A Dream Half Remembered, could be seen at The Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA through March 19. His photographs could also be seen at the Houston Center for Photography 2006 Print Auction Exhibition. SPE members Michael Ensdorf and Kathy Pilat curated an exhibition with Pamela Bannos, Jennifer Greenburg, Alice Hargrave and Corrie Witt. Gage Gallery at Roosevelt University, 18 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605, www.roosevelt.edu/gagegallery/. Jacobs Gallery at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts showed double vision | shared site, an exhibition that included work by Garry B Fritz, Terri Warpinski, Gina Rubin Cody, Shelley M Foster, John Holmgren, Lorri Nelson, Kurt Norlin and Michael Sherwin. The work was on view through April 15. One Eugene Center, Eugene, OR 97401, www.jacobsgallery.org. Sonya A. Lawyer’s exhibition (Eclectic + Funky)/Melancholy = 1995 to 2005 could be seen at the Snowden Gallery at Lycoming College through March 30. 700 College Place, Williamsport, PA 17701, www.lycoming.edu, www.sonyalawyer.com. The National Museum of American History presented Photographs by John Paul Caponigro and Kendall Messick through May 30. Washington, DC, 202/842-6353, http://americanhistory.si.edu The current group exhibition MWIII at Center for Photography at Woodstock included Myra Greene, Priya Kambli and others. It was curated by Ariel Shanberg and Liz Glynn, and closed March 26. www.cpw.org. Benjamin Stern’s was featured in a group exhibition at Mad Art Gallery in St. Louis, MO, April 21-29. Other recent venues included the Jacoby Art Center in Alton, IL, in the collaborative project sLowlife in Washington, DC, and the SIUE Graduate Art Exhibition in Edwardsville, IL. Photographs by Michael Kenna were on view at Ralls Collection through April 15. Canal Square, 1516 31st St, NW, Washington, DC 20007, 202/342-1754. Agora Gallery presented the collective exhibition Tripping the Light Fantastic by Anne C. Savedge. The work was on view March 22-April 11. 530 W 25th St, New York, NY, www.agora-gallery.com/exhibitions/photography2006.asp Kirchman Gallery in Johnson City, TX featured the work of Margie Crisp, Angilee Wilkerson and Natasha E. Downs in the exhibition Natural Elements through March 19, www.kirchmangallery.com. Walt Bistline showed work at Photography Is Art Gallery in Fredericksburg, TX, through April and at Fleury Gallery in Houston, TX, during FotoFest 2006. His also had an exhibition at Indiana University East in Richmond, IN. He received awards at the 2005 Whitewater Valley Juried Exhibition hosted by Indiana University East, the 2005 Richmond Art Museum Juried Exhibition and the 2005 Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition hosted by the Swope Art Museum in Terre Haute. He was awarded an artist residency at Earlham College in Richmond, IN. Alnis Stakle’s work Living Space - Daugavpils was on view at the gallery AAS during the International Festival of Photography “Photosynkryria 2006” in Thessaloniki, Greece. John Freyer’s project All My Life for Sale was on view at his major exhibition Aftermarket at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY. He was recently featured on a Martha Stewart TV special about eBay. http://www.marthastewart.com/martha/ Kerry Stuart Coppin recently showed work in two exhibitions, hidden names complex fate and in a land most strange, at Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge, MA, www.cmacusa.org. Bill Kouwenhoven’s City Color Night Work could be seen at Gallery 1401 at The University of the Arts, www.uarts.edu. Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s Bollywood Satirized was on view at Jamestown Community College, Weeks Gallery, 525 Falconer St, Jamestown, NY 14702, www.sunyjcc.edu/gallery. Peng Gallery’s exhibition Artificial Worlds featured Charmaine Caire, John Murphy and Shannon Slattery. 35 S. 3rd St, Philadelphia, PA, 215/629-5889. Huracán: In Wilma’s Shadow. Photographs by Miriam Romais was recently on view at University College Art Gallery at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, NJ, www.romaisphotos.com. Linn Underhill’s work could be seen in the faculty show at Clifford Art Gallery, Colgate University in Hamilton, NY, www.merz.colgate.edu. Mary Haggerty’s American Journal: photographs exposing the off-beat heart of America was on view at Fine Arts Center Galleries at University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI, www.uri.edu/artgalleries. Deborah Jack’s work lift/left could be seen at the Rochester Contemporary, www.rochestercontemporary.org. Nate Larson's exhibition Everything or Nothing was on view at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, IL. His work Charlatans & Tricksters was shown at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT 06106, www.realartways.org.Smoke and Mirrors: Photography and Performance, on view at Ohio University Art Gallery in Athens, OH, included several SPE members, such as Sonya A. Lawyer, Deborah Orloff and Anni Holm, http://www.ohiou.edu/art. The exhibition "Photographs by Cherie Hiser" was recently shown at Photographic Image Gallery in Portland, OR, www.photographicimage.com. In 2005...The Sedgwick Center in Philadelphia is showing Jason Francisco’s work Photograph as Document: Selected works 1990-2005 through Jan. 20. The Sedgewick Center, 7137 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19119, 215/843-7195. The Photographic Resource Center is featuring Group Portrait through Jan. 22. Among others, the exhibition features SPE members Julie Blackmon and Jessica Todd Harper. Photographic Resource Center, 832 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215, www.prcboston.org. Stuart Rome’s work Forest is on view at Sepia Gallery through Jan. 28. Sepia, 148 West 24th St, 11th floor, New York, NY 10011, 212/645-9444, www.sepia.org. SPE member Christine Shank is participating in a group exhibition, Coming Home: Domestic Sites of Love and Loss at the Houston Center for Photography through Dec. 18. 1441 West Alabama, Houston, TX, www.hcponline.org. Work by Blaise Tobia, Direct Objects, is on view at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art through Dec. 7, 200 S. Madison St, Wilmington, DE 19801, 302/656-6466, www.thedcca.org. Selections from the series were also shown in the exhibition Photography Plus at the Bowman and Magahan Galleries of Allegheny College. Ann Chwatsky is exhibiting The Sky is Falling at the Gallery Space at Wagner at New York University through Jan. 27. Puck Building, 295 Lafayette St, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10012, 212/992-8717. United States Botanic Garden Conservatory is presenting Roger Hangarter and Dennis DeHart’s exhibition sLowlife through March 26. 100 Maryland Ave, SW, Washington, DC, www.slowlife-exhibit.org The exhibition travels to the Chicago Botanic Garden in 2007, www.chicagobotanic.org. Proof, an exhibition at George Mason University that coincided with the regional Mid-Atlantic conference, included the work of a number of SPE members such as Terri Bright, Dean Kessman and Christine Shank. The juror was Chan Chao. GMU Dept. of Art and Visual and Performing Arts, 4400 University Dr, Fairfax, VA 22030, www.gmu.edu/gallery or www.spema.org. Jeffrey A. Wolin’s exhibition Inconvenient Stories is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago through Dec. 17. 600 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605, 312/663-5554, www.mocp.org. Aftermarket. Art, Objects and Commerce by John D. Freyer is on view at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY through Feb. 19. www.everson.org. The one-month photo event “7. Internationale Fototage” in Mannheim, Germany, included an international line-up of photographers. Many SPE members were featured in exhibitions, including Mariette Pathy Allen, Stephen Althouse, Darryl Baird, Marion Belanger, Steven Benson, Joann Brennan, Marilyn Bridges, Carlos Diaz, Susan E. Evans, Harris Fogel, John Ganis, Arlene Gottfried, Richard Gray, Jessica Hines, Mark Klett, Pok Chi Lau, James Lerager, Elaine Ling, Tamara Lischka, Stephen Marc, Fredrik Marsh, Elaine Mayes, Deborah O’Grady, Keri Pickett, Chris Rauschenberg, James Radke, Ken Rosenthal, Stan Strembicki, Maggie Taylor, Alejandro Tomás, William Earle Williams. Many of them also gave artist talks, including Vincent Cianni, Mariette Pathy Allen, John Trotter, James Lerager, Steven Benson, Chris Rauschenberg, Rod Slemmons and Alejandro Tomás. The conference themes were “Contemporary American Photography” and “The Art of Being German.” www.monatderfotografie.de Jonathan Sharlin and Kerry Stuart Coppin exhibited at Wheeler Gallery in Providence, RI, www.wheelergallery.org. Ken Rosenthal’s exhibition, A Dream Half Remembered, was on view at Watermark in Houston, www.watermarkfineart.com. Clifford Art Gallery at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY featured Subversion: Post 9/11/01 Photographs by Sylvia de Swaan. http://merz.colgate.edu. John Pfahl’s photography was on view at the White Wall Gallery in Seoul, Korea. www.whitewall.co.kr. Sandy Sorlien participated in a charrette in Biloxi, MS, which was part of the Mississippi Renewal Forum. www.mississippirenewal.com. The Daily Pennsylvanian wrote an article about her participation in October, www.dailypensylvanian.com. The exhibition Owen - Murakami: East West by Ginger Owen and Shuichi Murakami was on view at Synapse Gallery, Center for Photography in Benton Harbor, MI, www.synapsegallery.org. Allison Petit showed her work South Louisiana Soul at the Artists + Architects Exhibition Space in Lafayette, LA. The Beacon Artist Union in Beacon, NY featured the exhibition, bau 10: light work lights, with photographs by Hannah Frieser, John Mannion and Lisa Goodlin. The exhibition was curated by Angelika Rinnhofer. www.beaconartistunion.com. John Mannion’s work Super fun d, a collaboration with Sean Hovendick, could also be seen at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, NY. Cybèle Clark-Mendes showed her work, Constructed Identities, at John Hartell Gallery at Cornell University. http://cybele.tv. Janet Pritchard showed Dwelling in Mansfield at Gallery 1401 of The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA 19102. The exhibition Reading between the Lines at the Houston Center for Photography included Nate Larson. www.hcponline.org. Work by Allyson Klutenkamper, Nate Larson and Adriane Little was on view in the exhibition Common Threads, curated by Gary Colby. The Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA, www.ulv.edu/art. Walsh Library Gallery at Seton Hall University exhibited Wendel A. White’s Small Towns, Black Lives: African American Communities in Southern New Jersey, 973/761-9000. The Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle, WA showed Articulations by Garth Amundson. www.nordicmuseum.org. Steven Benson: 30 Years in Black and White was on view at the Centre des Bords de Marne in France. His the work Red, White and Blue in Black and White was included in the first Argentine Biennial of Documentary Photography in Tucaman City in Argentina and travelled to Lodz, Poland. The artist was featured in the 7. Internationale Fototage in Mannheim, Germany. The Northwestern Connecticut Community College Gallery in Winsted, CT featured Projects in Process by Michael Yurgeles. www.yurgeles.net/nccc2005.htm. Cypress College Photography Galleries showed The Edge of Air: Photographs of the Final Days of MCAS El Toro by the Legacy Project. The six photographers in the non-profit group include Jerry Burchfield, Mark Chamberlain, Jacques Garnier, Robert Johnson, Douglas McCulloh and Clayton Spada. www.cypresscollege.edu. Work by SPE members Deborah Orloff and Anne Spenny was included in the Faculty Exhibition 2005 at the University of Toledo Department of Art Center for the Visual Arts Gallery. www.utoledo.edu. Museum of the City of New York featured New York Changing: Douglas Levere Revisits Berenice Abbott’s New York, www.mcny.org. Gallery 1401 exhibited Colleen Mullins: Pictures of the Floating World, while the Sol Mednick Gallery featured Young Southwest by Karen Bucher. Both are on the campus of The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. www.uarts.edu. The exhibition A Way of Seeing at the Southeast Museum of
Photography at Daytona Beach Community College included Nancy Hellebrand.www.smponline.org Maggie Taylor and Jerry Uelsmann
were featured in the exhibition Double Vision at the Miami
University Heistand Galleries in Oxford, OH, www.fna.mu- The Critical Mass at Gallery Sink in New York City included SPE members
Craig J. Barber, Steven Benson and Maggie Taylor,
www.gallerysink.com. Walt Bistline received the Gedrick Award of Honor in the 61st annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition at the Swope Art Museum in Terre Haute, IN. The juror was Susan Rosenberg. His work was included in the First Year Anniversary Group Exhibition at Photography Is Art Gallery in Fredricksburg, TX. www.photographyisart.net Strand On Volta in Washington, DC presented recent work by Ken D. Ashton, Chan T. Chao, and E. Brady Robinson in the exhibition Rate of Exchange. www.strandonvolta.com. Mary Ann Lynch exhibited Forever Marilyn: The Enduring Legacy of Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) at John Stevenson Gallery in New York City. A book project on the photo series is planned for publication in 2006. www.johnstevenson-gallery.com. Henry Horenstein published his book Black & White Photography: A Basic Manual in its third edition. Work by Elizabeth Joy Kimes was included in Mt. Scott’s Art Center exhibit Patterns, Rhythms and Cycles through July 29. Photographs from Patti Hallock’s series Rotten Oasis were selected for the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art’s 2005 Biennial, Beyond Comfort! Beyond Representation! On view July 8-Sept. 25. http://www.mcartdenver.org
The exhibition Works on Water: An Exhibition of Photography, Sculpture, Installation and Projection was on view through May 27 at the University of North Texas in Denton, TX. It includes several SPE members: Carola Dreidemie, Brent Phelps, Luther Smith and Angilee Wilkerson. SPE members teach at hundreds of universities throughout the year. In the summer months, they frequently also teach in educational non-degree programs across the country. A |
