Statement
I have spent the last three years photographing Tangier Island off the coast of Virginia in the Chesapeake Bay which is progressively being claimed by the waters surrounding it an average of nine acres every year. Tangier is projected to be uninhabitable in 50 years if nothing is done about it. When the residents are forced to evacuate, they will spread out over Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina. We will lose an entire culture of people as unique as their dialect, and although they will still exist–the land they have called home for hundreds of years will not. This once untouched and proud crabbing community is predicted to be one of America’s first “climate change refugees.”

The very water that the residents of Tangier depend upon to survive, is swallowing them up an average of nine acres every year. Today, the island sits only 3 feet above sea level, and 1 ¼ miles wide by 3 miles long. Upon arrival by boat, it is hard to see the island off in the distance because of how low it sits to the water. Having few trees left, the only marker from the bay is the water tower of Tangier that has a crab on one side and a cross on the other. This deeply religious island has already been split by the Bay’s waters, which now seeps up through the ground below. Simple tasks like docking your boat are becoming more and more impossible. Fishermen have to tie up their boats to poles in order to prevent their boats from floating away at high tide. With erosion, the plants, trees, and protective grasses for wildlife are washing away as well. Cemeteries are overcrowded due to a lack of space to bury their dead. Tombstones and bodies are now being placed on the front lawns of loved ones’ homes more inland.

The people of Tangier and their situation have received attention from Al Gore, Donald Trump, and several media outlets including National Geographic, The New Yorker, and NPR affiliates, but the conversation of future implications still needs to be had.

I believe these photographs are an excellent route to shed light upon this concern of ongoing land loss and impending climate refugees as there is more at stake than just land when losing a place. It also means the destruction of a community, and all the things that make a community unique.

Tangier is not alone and sadly tells the tale many different low-lying cities in the US and around the world are facing in the next 80 years. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Miami, Florida; Atlantic City, New Jersey; New Orleans, Louisiana; Galveston, Texas; Charleston, South Carolina; and Virginia Beach, Virginia will all be under water by 2100. By photographing Tangier Island, I hope to inform viewers of the need to take notice now, and to think about the difficult decisions that stand before us—how will we decide who and what is worth saving? How will we choose who receives the funds necessary to survive, and who are we willing to let wash away into the water?  – HJS

Bio
H. Jennings Sheffield was born in Richmond, Virginia. She is a contemporary artist working in lens-based media, video, and sound. Sheffield received her BFA in photography and digital media from the Atlanta College of Art and her MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio in photography and new media. Her core research is highly concept-driven inspired by memory, moment and time and often utilizes familial imagery to convey both the intimacy and the diverse roles and relationships individuals play within a family unit. The methodologies utilized to create her work can take up to two years to complete. As a result, Sheffield periodically takes on landscape-driven projects that begin with just her responding to the landscape. She is interested in landscapes that tend to be fleeting. Similar to her core research, Sheffield approaches the landscapes looking for and observing changes over time.

Sheffield is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Baylor University. Her photographs and work are in several collections throughout the United States and have been exhibited internationally with her latest work exhibiting at The Print Center in Philadelphia; Houston Fine Art Fair; Colorado Photographic Arts Center; Lens Culture; Living Arts of Tulsa; Cambridge University (UK), and Medien Kultur Haus Wels, Austria.

In addition to her research, Sheffield provides workshops and lectures all around the United States on topics including her artistic practices and methodologies, digital techniques in photography and considering the image in a new context, outside of the traditional roles.

View H. Jennings Sheffield’s website.  

The website for Going Away from Here.  

Link to Going Away from Here part one in our Virtual Gallery.

 

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EDUCATION

2011 MFA, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas (Photography and New Media)

1996 BFA, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Georgia (Photography and Digital Media)

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

2018 – Present Associate Professor of Art, Photography, Baylor University, Waco, Texas

2012 – 2018 Assistant Professor of Art, Photography, Baylor University, Waco, Texas

2011 – 2012 Temporary Full-Time Lecturer, Baylor University, Waco, Texas

2009 – 2010 Adjunct Faculty, Northeast Lakeview College, San Antonio, Texas

2006 – 2009 Instructor, The Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia

2006 – 2009 Adjunct Faculty, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Richmond, Virginia

1999 – 2006 Adjunct Faculty, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS and HONORS

2019 Awarded two (2) Allbritton Art Institute Grants for Faculty Scholarship

2019 Awarded College of Art & Sciences Research Leave (Fall 2019), Baylor University

2019 Awarded University Teaching Development Grant, Baylor University

2018 Awarded College of Art & Sciences Summer Sabbatical, Baylor University

2017 Awarded the Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Achievement (URSA) Mentor of the Year Award, Baylor University

2016 Awarded two (2) Allbritton Art Institute Grants for Faculty Scholarship

2016 Awarded College of Art & Sciences Summer Sabbatical, Baylor University

2015 Selected as 1 of 55 international emerging photographers, alongside masters like Rineke Dijkstra, Lorna Simpson, Candida Hofer, and Tina Barney by New York’s Mus.e Magazine. Mus.e Magazine is a quarterly digital periodical that publishes the works of both up-and-coming and established photographers. Andrea Blanch, Editor-In-Chief, is a New York-based award-winning fashion, fine art and conceptual photographer.

2014 Awarded Allbritton Art Institute Grant for Faculty Scholarship (Round II), Baylor University

2014 Awarded Allbritton Art Institute Grant for Faculty Scholarship (Round I), Baylor University

2014 Awarded College of Art & Sciences Summer Sabbatical, Baylor University

2013 Awarded Mortar Board Circle of Achievement Award (teaching award), Baylor University

2013 Awarded Allbritton Art Institute Grant for Faculty Scholarship Baylor University

2012 Awarded Allbritton Art Institute Grant for Faculty Scholarship

2011 IEF Scholarship

2010 Wigodsky Endowed Scholarship

2009 Peggy and Richard Calvert Endowed Scholarship

2009 Art and Art History Graduate Scholarship

2009 College of Liberal & Fine Arts GIT Scholarship/Fellowship

2009 Sue Jockusch Endowed Scholarship

2007 Honorable Mention, Simply Photography, ArtWorks, Juried by Gordon Stettinius, Richmond, Virginia

2007 Viewerʼs Choice, Visual Arts Center of Richmondʼs Faculty Show, Richmond, Virginia

2005 The Community Foundation (Granted $10,000), Richmond, VA for the 2006 Richmond Outdoor Sculpture exhibition

2005 The Virginia Commission for the Arts Technical Grant (Granted $750) for the 2006 Richmond Outdoor Sculpture exhibition

2004 2nd Place, Simply Photography, ArtWorks, Juried by Mary Holland, Richmond, Virginia

1997 Jurorʼs Choice Award, June All Media Show, Shockoe Bottom Arts Center, juried by Danny Drotos, Richmond, Virginia

1996 One of three national winners in the Nissan Pathfinder Digital Imaging Contest, TBWA Ä Chiat Ä Day and Nissan Corporation, Los Angeles. Awarded a Casio digital camera, Sony printer, and a trip out to Los Angeles to meet with Jay Chiat and work with TBWA Ä Chiat Ä Day and Nissan North America photographing the new Nissan Pathfinder

1996 Jurorʼs Choice Award, ACA Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 Going Away From Here, November 2020, Shircliff Gallery of Art, Vincennes University, Vincennes, IN

2020 Going Away From Here, September 14–October 9th, 2020, Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center, The Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas

2019 Inherited Time (collaboration with Chris Ireland), September–October 2019, College of the Mainland Art Gallery, College of the Mainland, Texas City, Texas

2019 Inherited Time (collaboration with Chris Ireland), August 30–September 21, 2019, Terminal 136 at the University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas

2019 Inherited Time (collaboration with Chris Ireland), January–February, 2019, Carillon Gallery, Tarrant County College, Fort Worth, Texas

2018 The Collective Glitch, August 20–December 31, 2018, University of Maine at Farmington, Farmington, Maine.

2018 Constructing the Psychographic, invitational exhibition, April 14–May 2, 2018, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas.

2016 Tethered, May 6, 2016–June 26, 2016, The Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, Colorado.

2013 A Momentary Glitch and Transitory Spaces (collaboration with Gissette Padilla), August 10–31, 2013, Red Arrow Contemporary, Dallas, Texas.

2013 A Momentary Glitch and Transitory Spaces, February 1–22, 2013, Living Arts of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

2013 Tethered and Transitory Spaces (collaboration with Gissette Padilla), January 10–March 28, 2013, Visual Arts Center, San Antonio College, San Antonio, Texas (as part of Contemporary Art Month).

2012 Transitory Spaces (collaboration with Gissette Padilla), November 13–December 15, 2012, BOX 13 ArtSpace, Houston, Texas.

2011 Tethered, Satellite Space Gallery, San Antonio, Texas

2005 Rainy Night on the Seine 07.04.04:3D, Helena Davis Gallery, artspace gallery, Richmond, Virginia

1996 riˈflek•sh•ən: (n), Gallery 100, Atlanta, Georgia

TWO AND THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2019 The Collective Glitch, February 12–March 15, 2019, Shircliff Gallery of Art, Vincennes University, Vincennes, IN

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | INTERNATIONAL

2020 6th Annual Group Show, August 1–August 30, 2020, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY. Juror: Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director & Curator: Griffin Museum of Photography

2017 Contemporary Collage, November 10–January 9, 2018, Lincoln Center Art Gallery, Fort Collins, Colorado

2017 Art Through the Lens, October 14–November 25, 2017, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, Kentucky, Juror: Eliot Dudik, College of William & Mary and director of the Andrews.

2016 Re-Context, July 1, 2016–July 30, 2016, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, Colorado. Juror: Ariel Shanberg, curator, educator, and writer, who was the executive director of Center for Photography at Woodstock (New York) from 2003-2015.

2016 tXtMe, May 7, 2016–June 11, 2016, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California. Juror: Leisa Austin, owner of Imago Galleries.

2015 >iral: Photography in the Age of Social Media, February 7-March 14, 2015, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge University (United Kingdom), Jurors: Jon Feinstein, Co-Founder, Humble Arts Foundation; Gabriel H. Sanchez, Photo Essay Editor of Buzzfeed; Dr. Ann Kelly, Medical Anthropologist/Ebola Response Anthropology Platform, University of Exeter; Dr. Lukas Engelmann, Medical Historian, University of Cambridge; and Sam Barzilay, Co-founder and Creative Director of Photoville; and convened by Dr. Christos Lynteris, Mellon/Newton Research Fellow, CRASSH (The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at Cambridge University).

2014 The Print Center’s 88th Annual International Competition, Jurors: Julia Dolan, Minor White Curator of Photography, and Bruce Guenther, Chief Curator, Mercedes Eichholz Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, both of the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon.

2013 Newspace Center for Photography 2013 Juried Exhibition, July 5, 2013–July 28, 2013, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, Oregon. Juror: Sarah Stolfa, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center.

2013 Tethered featured in an issue of Lens Culture, international refereed exhibition, Paris, France. www.lensculture.com.

2012 Houston Fine Art Fair, September 14–16, 2012, Reliant Center, Houston, Texas.

2012 Luminaria (in collaboration with Gissette Padilla), May 10, 2012, Women’s Pavilion at Hemisphere Park, San Antonio, Texas. Adjudicator for Visual Arts was Dean Daderko, curator for the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in Houston, Texas.

2010 Luminaria, Convention Center, San Antonio, Texas

2009 Breaking Boundaries II, 2009 Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China

2009 What Do You Really Need?, Medien Kultur Haus Wels, Austria

2009 Luminaria, Convention Center, San Antonio, Texas

2006 FotoFest 2006, Museum of Cultural Arts website, Houston, Texas

2006 2006 Exclusive Furniture Collection (2 images selected), Crate & Barrel

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | NATIONAL

2020 3rd Coast Biennial, September 4 – October 2, 2020, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX. Juror: Rigoberto Luna, Cofounder and Exhibitions Curator of the Presa House Gallery in San Antonio, TX

2017 23rd Texas National Competition & Exhibition, April 8, 2017–June 10, 2017, The Cole Art Center Stephen F. Austin University’s Ledbetter Gallery, Nacogdoches, Texas. Juror: Benito Huerta, co-founder, Executive Director and Emeritus Board Director of Art Lies, a Texas Art Journal.

2017 PHOTO ALTERNATIVES: Where I Come From, January 17, 2017–February 17, 2017, Ohio University’s Seigfred Gallery, Athens, Ohio. Juror: Hans Gindlesberger, photographer, video, and installation artist.

2016 PAPERWORKS 2016, August 2, 2016–August 28, 2016, B J Spoke Gallery, Huntington, New York Juror: Heidi Hirschl, Assistant Curator at the Museum of Modern Art.

2016 22nd Texas National Competition & Exhibition, April 9, 2016–June 11, 2016, The Cole Art Center Stephen F. Austin University’s Ledbetter Gallery, Nacogdoches, Texas. Juror: Photographer and artist Abelardo Morell.

2015 The Altered Landscape (as part of FotoSeptiembre USA 2015), September 7-September 30, 2015, Clamp Light Artist Studios and Gallery, San Antonio, Texas. Juror: Photographer Tom Turner.

2012 Billboard Art Project, September 29–October 26, 2012, Digital Billboard located at 2064 Peachtree Road NE, Atlanta, Georgia.

2012 Intimacy & Voyeurism: 2012 SPE Women’s Caucus, March 18–31, 2012, ARTS at CIIS, San Francisco, California. Jurors, photographers and educators Joyce Neimanas and Patrick Nagatani from the University of New Mexico.

2011 In-Time Online Gallery, December 6, 2011-January 7, 2012, The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, Virginia. Juror: Blake Fitch, photographer, curator and past Executive Director of the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA (2002-2007).

2009 Rust Fest (Digital Arts and New Media Festival), June 13-July 24, 2009, McDonough Museum of Art,Youngstown, Ohio, Jurors: Panel of jurors comprised by the McDonough Museum

2005 Over the Edge, APG Gallery @ TULA Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | REGIONAL

2017 Society for Photographic Education’s 2017 South Central Chapter Juried Exhibition: THIS, THAT, or the OTHER,

October 12-October 28, 2017, Arts Center of Waco, Waco, Texas. Juror: Honored Educator and head of the photography program in the department of art at Nicholls State University, Deborah (Deb) Lillie.

2016 Artspace111: 3rd Annual Regional Juried Exhibition, June 24, 2016–August 6, 2016, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas. Juror: Eric M. Lee is the director of the Kimbell Art Museum.

2015 Ticka Arts, September-October 2015, O2 Gallery at Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas. Juror: Sonseree Gibson, Austin photographer and Founder of Ticka Arts.

2013 Society of Photographic Education South Central Members’ Exhibition, September 20–October 24, 2013, College of the Mainland Gallery, Texas City, Texas.

2011 Society for Photographic Education: Selected Works from the Region, Society for Photographic Education Regional Conference, UTSA Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas

2011 Public Art of San Antonio Temporary Exhibitions (PASA), Mayor’s Office, City Hall, San Antonio, Texas.

2011 Red Dot 2011, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, Texas

2011 Collegiate Exhibition, San Antonio Art League Museum, San Antonio, Texas

2010 .ber Progressive (as part of Political Art Month), 1906 Gallery, San Antonio, Texas

2010 Red Dot 2010, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, Texas

2010 The One, Two, Three Show, UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas

2010 UTSA Fine Arts Association Art Exhibition, LoneStar Studios, San Antonio, Texas

2009 Best Pound for Pound, Gallery 118, San Antonio, Texas

2007 Art After Hours Silent Auction, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia

2007 Simply Photography, November 23, 2007-January 20, 2008, Art Works, Richmond, Virginia. Juror: Gordon Stettinius, photographer and owner of Candela Books, Richmond, Virginia.

2006 Art After Hours Silent Auction, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia

2004 VSPA Viewerʼs Choice Group Show, 49A Gallery, Newport News, Virginia

2004 Art Works All Media Show, Art Works, Richmond, Virginia

2004 The VSPA (Virginia Society for the Photographic Arts) Exhibition, Plant Zero, Richmond, Virginia

2004 Simply Photography Juried Show, Art Works, Richmond, Virginia

1997 May All Media Show, Shockoe Bottom Arts Center, Richmond, Virginia

1996 Atlanta College of Art Juried Exhibition, Gallery 100, Atlanta, Georgia

1995 June All Media Show, Shockoe Bottom Arts Center, Richmond, Virginia

INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

2018 Telling Our Stories: Creating Maternal Identity Through Photography, national invitational group exhibition, June 5–August 4, 2018, Cedar Valley College, Lancaster, Texas.

2018 In This Day and Age, national invitational group exhibition, June–July 2018, Cedar Valley College Lancaster, Texas.

2017 In This Day and Age, national invitational exhibition, March 11-April 22, 2017, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas.

2016 Ticka Arts, regional invitational exhibition, February 6-March 19, 2016, Gray Matters Gallery, Dallas, Texas.

2015 Family as the Vernacular, regional invitational exhibition, May 31-July 24, 2015, Lillian Bradshaw Gallery at the Dallas Public Library, Dallas, Texas (in collaboration with Libby Rowe and Margaret Hiden).

2014 Family Matters (revisited), national invitational exhibition, September 9–October 18, 2014, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. FAMILY MATTERS, revisited featured the works of other photographers—Daniel Coburn, Karen Miranda, Sean Black, Jess Fugan, Annie Lopez, Marivi Ortiz, and Hillerbrand + Magsamen. Elizabeth Allen, Director and Curator of ASU School of Art Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, curated the exhibition.

2014 Family as the Vernacular, national invitational exhibition, September 26-November 8, 2014, Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia (and part of Atlanta Celebrates Photography) in collaboration with Libby Rowe and Margaret Hiden.

2014 Women in Art & Academia, regional invitational exhibition, May 4–July 13, 2014, Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, Waco, Texas.

2014 Family as the Vernacular, national invitational exhibition, Bloch Hall Gallery, University of Montevallo, Montevallo, Alabama (in collaboration with Libby Rowe and Margaret Hiden).

2013 Family as the Vernacular, regional invitational exhibition, August 23–September 30, 2013, Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center Gallery, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas.

2012 Pride, Protest and the Plains, regional invitational exhibition, October 13, 2012–November 10, 2012, Red Arrow Contemporary, Dallas, Texas.

2011 2:00pm-4:00pm and 4:00pm-6:00pm from the series Tethered, Mayorʼs Office, City Hall, San Antonio, Texas

2007 Think Small Invitational, Art6, Richmond, Virginia

2007 Visual Arts Center of Richmondʼs Faculty Show, Suitable for Framing Gallery, Richmond, Virginia

2006 Think Small Invitational, Art6, Richmond, Virginia

2006 Attack of the 50 Ft. Reel, Flicker, Richmond, Virginia

2005 Think Small Invitational, Art6, Richmond, Virginia

2005 New Membersʼ Show, Artspace Gallery @ Plant Zero, Richmond, Virginia

2004 Attack of the 50 Ft. Reel, Flicker, Richmond, Virginia

2003 Attack of the 50 Ft. Reel, Flicker, Richmond, Virginia

2004 Artspace Memberʼs Exhibit, Artspace Gallery @ Plant Zero, Richmond, Virginia

2003 From LA to VA, Crossroads, Richmond, Virginia

PRIVATE AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Mark Watson III, Argo Group, San Antonio, Texas

R. J. Loderick, Richmond, Virginia

Blaine McCormick, Woodway, Texas

Carolyn Hulett, Richmond, Virginia

Capital One, Plano, Texas

Capital One, Houston, Texas

The Belew Collection, Baylor University, Waco, Texas

SELECT REFEREED, INVITED LECTURES, and PANEL TALKS

2020 Presented an artist talk on Going Away From Here, Shircliff Gallery, Vincennes University, Vincennes, Indiana (upcoming).

2020 Presented an artist talk on Going Away From Here, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA (upcoming).

2020 Presented an artist talk on Going Away From Here, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, LA (invited).

2019 Selected to Co-Chair a session with artist, Chris Ireland, titled United We Fall at the FATE’s (Foundations in Art: Theory & Education) 17th Biennial Conference, Foundations in Flux at Columbus College of Art & Design Columbus, Ohio (refereed).

2019 Presented an artist talk on The Collective Glitch, Process and Methodology, at Shircliff Gallery, Vincennes University, Vincennes, Indiana (invited).

2018 Selected to present panel talk with artist, Chris Ireland, titled Collaboration is Easy…and other fake news at the 2018 Society for Photographic Education (SPESC) South Central Chapter Conference at the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (refereed).

2018 Presented an artist talk on The Collective Glitch, Process and Methodology, at Black Box Theatre, The University of Maine–Farmington, Farmington, Maine (invited).

2016 Presented an artist talk on Tethered, at The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, Colorado (invited).

2015 Presented lecture The Collective Glitch, Process and Methodology to Apparel Aesthetics, Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, Baylor University, Waco, Texas (invited).

2015 Selected to present and participate on a panel talk Searched, Collected, and Tagged at the 2015 Society for Photographic Education (SPESC) South Central Regional Conference at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma (refereed).

2015 Selected to present and participate on a panel discussion titled Untangling the Tenure Track & Promotion Process at the 2015 Society for Photographic Education (SPESC) South Central Regional Conference at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma (invited).

2014 Presented gallery talk on Tethered, at Northlight Gallery invited by Elizabeth Allen, director of Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute School of Art Northlight Gallery (invited).

2014 Presented lecture on my collection of latest works (Tethered, A Momentary Glitch, and The Collective Glitch) to undergraduate photography students at Arizona State University, invited by Elizabeth Allen, faculty associate at Arizona State University School of Art, Tempe, Arizona (invited).

2014 Presented gallery talk on Family as the Vernacular, at Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery, invited by Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta Georgia (invited).

2014 Presented lecture on my collection of latest works (Tethered, A Momentary Glitch, and The Collective Glitch) to graduate photography students at SCAD-Atlanta, invited by Margaret Hiden, Adjunct Faculty at Savannah College of Art and Design (invited).

2013 Presented lecture on Family as the Vernacular, at Tarleton State University, invited by Chris Ireland, Assistant Professor, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas (invited).

2013 Selected to present and participate in the panel talk Don’t Drink the Fixer at the 2013 Society for Photographic Education National Conference, Chicago Hilton, Chicago, Illinois (refereed).

2013 Invited to present a lecture on Tethered at San Antonio College for Women’s History Week and Contemporary Art Month. Invited by the Women’s History Committee, San Antonio College, San Antonio, Texas (invited).

2013 Presented a lecture on Tethered at San Antonio College to the University of Texas San Antonio’s Advanced Photography students, San Antonio, Texas (invited).

2012 Selected to present and participate in the panel talk Family as the Vernacular at the 2012 South Central Regional Society for Photographic Education (SPESC) Conference at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi (refereed).

2012 Presented a lecture and workshop titled The Magic of Pinhole, for Up Close Monday at MMoA, The Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, Waco,Texas (invited).

2011 Selected lecturer and presenter at the 2011 Society for Photographic Education South Central Regional Conference (invited).

2002 Presented a lecture at the 2002 Society for Photographic Education Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference (invited).

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

SERVICE AS PORTFOLIO REVIEWER

2020 Selected Portfolio Reviewer for Professionals and Students at the Society for Photographic Education’s national conference, 2020 Vision, Houston Texas

2019 Selected Portfolio Reviewer at the Portfolio Throwdown, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas

2012 Selected Portfolio Reviewer of Undergraduate and Graduate Work, 2012 South Central Regional Society for Photographic Education Conference, University of Mississippi, Starkeville, Mississippi

PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEES

2014-Present Texas Photographic Society, Board Member, Exhibitions Committee

2011-Present Society for Photographic Education, National Member, Women’s Caucus and Multicultural Caucus

2020 Summer Sabbatical Selection Committee, Baylor University

2020 Selection Committee for proposals for the Society for Photographic Education’s national conference

2020 Vision, Houston Texas

2019-2022 Faculty Senate, Baylor University

2018-2021 Cultural Events Experience, University Committee, Baylor University

2018-2021 Core Curriculum Advisory Committee, Baylor University

2019 Summer Sabbatical Selection Committee, Baylor University

2015-2017 Texas Photographic Society, Executive Board Member, Secretary

2012-2014 Society for Photographic Education South Central Region, Board Member, Vendor Liaison

2004-2007 Artspace Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, Exhibition Committee

OTHER SELECT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2017 Co-Chair, with Chris Ireland (Assistant Professor at Tarleton State University), This, That, or the

Other: Emerging Trends and Vernacular in Photography, Society of Photographic Education–South Central Regional Conference, Waco, TX. Featured Speakers Charlotte Cotton and Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison.

EXHIBITIONS CURATED and JURIED

2015 Society for Photographic Education’s Student Juried Exhibition, Lightwell Gallery in the Fred Jones Art Center, The University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK (in collaboration with Arthur Fields).

2006 Richmond Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Richmond, Virginia (in collaboration with Vaughn Garland)

2005 Richmond Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Richmond, Virginia (in collaboration with Vaughn Garland)

2004-05 Exhibition Committee and Co-Curator of artspace, Richmond, Virginia