View Mary Daniel Hobson’s web page of her book Offerings.
View Datz Press web page of Mary Daniel Hobson’s special edition book, Offerings.
Going Away from Here part two
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.
CV
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
Going Away from Here part one
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 two in our Cloud Gallery.
CV
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
A House with No Walls
Statement
“I come from here. Here, meaning the grass and stones beneath a person’s feet, the ground upon which they are raised. Because that will never change, regardless of who happens to be ruling at any particular moment. Here pins each person to something solid against which they can always reference themselves, no matter how weird or confusing things get, the way a drunk puts his toes on the floor beside the bed to try to stop the swirls.”
Inara Verzemnieks: Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe
The historian Eagle Glassheim describes the region where I grew up as an area with “crossroads, a liminal space filled with ends, beginnings, and crossings.” Once called the Sudetenland when inhabited by German-speaking population, later the Borderlands although the borders remained shut, the narrow stretch of land along the Czech-German frontier has changed names, forms, and identities throughout history. Left depopulated after the 1945 expulsion of people with German roots; the traditionally agricultural area was left open to the communist vision of modernization through heavy industry. Newcomers from other parts of the country and the Eastern Bloc were encouraged, or forced, to move in. Among them was my maternal grandfather who settled his family in a house left empty by the fleeing Germans – the house where I grew up. Several decades after the destruction of Czech-German settlements and records, more towns and villages were demolished to make way for lignite coal mining. Today, the land still carries the scars of environmental exploitation, depopulation, displacement, and erasure of memory.
Driven by a need to re-familiarize myself with the landscape of my childhood after years of absence, I explore locations connected to familial past and discover that many of them have transformed beyond recognition. Guided by contemporary and historical maps, personal narratives, and above all, by the landscape and architecture itself, I search for clues that reveal what is no longer there. In an overgrown forest, I seek wrinkled and twisted fruit trees that point to a long-lost human presence. I scan the landscape for vast meadows that cover past fields or trace the bed of a stream that used to meander through the town where my father grew up. In towns and cities, I examine the walls of old buildings that carry layers of forgotten history.
Intended to be a book that combines text and images, A House with No Walls explores the Czech Borderlands as a real and an imaginary place, a repository of memories, a place that speaks of its changing identities and histories otherwise lost.
Bio
Anna Mikušková grew up in the Czech Republic and is currently based in Maine and upstate New York. Before turning to visual arts, she received an MFA in English literature from Masaryk University in Brno. Mikušková studied photography at Maine College of Arts and Maine Media Workshops. For six years, she apprenticed silver gelatin printing with Paul Caponigro – a cooperation that culminated with several group and two-person exhibitions. Currently, she is an MFA candidate in the Photography and Related Media program at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Her work is held in private collections in the United States and the Czech Republic and has been exhibited in galleries across Maine and New York. In 2020, she was awarded the RIT William A. Reedy Memorial Scholarship and the Pfahl/Richard Stanley Scholarship. Her essays were published in Maine Arts Journal and in the British journal On Landscape.
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Education
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Photography and Related Media, 2021 MFA candidate
Independent study with master printer Paul Caponigro, Cushing, ME, 2013 – 2019
Maine Media Workshops & College, Rockport, ME
Professional Certificate Class with Elizabeth Greenberg, 2014- 2015
Workshops with Lydia Goetze and Neil Parent, 2010-2013
Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
Traditional Black and White Photography, 2013
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Rep.
MA, English Language and Literature, 1999 – 2005
Experience
RIT Wallace Library, Rochester, NY
Library assistant, 2020-present
Promoting library resources, services, workshops and events focusing on the School of Photography Arts and Sciences
RIT William Harris Gallery, August 2019-January 2020
Gallery Assistant
Installation and deinstallation, gallery preparation, reception and tear down
Immigrant Resource Center of Maine, Lewiston, ME, 2018 – 2019
Coordinator
Program was an anti-bias program aimed at increasing trust and understanding between long time Americans and immigrants
Steve Wessler, Human Rights, Education and Advocacy, MDI, ME
Assistant
Responsible for research, editing and proofreading, 2012-2019
The Little Dog Coffee Shop, Brunswick, ME
Food Program Director, Baker, Barista 2010 – 2019
Douglas Payne J Attorney at Law, Brunswick, ME
Office assistant 2011
111 Maine, Café & Catering, Brunswick, ME
Breakfast Chef, Server, Caterer, 2006 – 2010
Language School “Slune”, Brno, Czech Republic
Teaching ESL 2005
Volunteering Positions
Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project, Portland, ME
Assisting clients with completing immigration forms. 2014-2015
Harbor Works Gallery, Harpswell, ME
Greeting and guiding visitors, exhibition installation and tear down, 2011
UBECI, Quito Ecuador
Helping an NGO run childcare center provide care, 2010
attention and basic education to street children
Languages
Czech, English, Spanish
Selected Exhibitions
The Light We Share: Paul Caponigro, Ni Rong, Eleanor Owen Kerr, Dirk McDonnel and Anna Mikušková, Cove Street Arts, Portland, Maine, November 2019 – February 2020
RIT Art Out, Bevier Gallery, juried by Margot Muto Rochester Institute of Technology, Henrietta, NY, November 2019
Collective Work II: Paul Caponigro, Ni Rong, Eleanor Owen Kerr, Dirk McDonnel and Anna Mikušková, Gallery at 162 Russell Avenue, Rockport, Maine, July 2019
Kennebunk River Club 63st. Annual Art show, Kennebunk, Maine, August 2018
Reflections on Silver: Paul Caponigro and Anna Mikuskova, Frank Brockman Gallery, Brunswick, Maine, April 2018,
Migration Experience: April 2018, UMVA Gallery, Portland, Maine
Arrival: Work by and about New Mainers: September-November 2017, Waterfall Arts, Belfast, Maine
Kennebunk River Club 62st. Annual Art show, Kennebunk, Maine, August 2017, Honorary mention
Kennebunk River Club 61st. Annual Art show, Kennebunk, Maine, August 2016, Honorary mention
3artists, 3visions at 3fish: Heath Paley, Kim Stone, Anna Mikuskova, curated by Susan Porter, 3Fish Gallery, Portland Maine, 2016
A House With No Walls: Kerry Michaels, Anna Mikuskova, and Mary Woodman, Elizabeth Moss Galleries, Falmouth, Maine, 2016
Open Regional Photography Show: juried by Bruce Brown, Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, Maine, 2015
Connections: Solo Exhibition, Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, Maine, 2015
Structures: Group Exhibition with Maine Traditional Film Photographers, Ballard Center, Augusta, Maine, 2015
Art 2015: juried by Britta Konau, April 2015, Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, Maine
Black & Whites and Tones of Gray: juried by Tina Ingraham, February, 2015, River Arts Gallery, Damariscotta, Maine
Selected Scholarships, Awards and Publications
RIT William A Reedy Memorial Scholarship, 2020
RIT Pfahl/Richard Stanley Scholarship, 2020
Kany, Daniel. “Former CMCA space fills need for photo shows,” Maine Sunday Telegram, August 4, 2019.
Anna Mikuskova; “Origin Stories,” April 2018, Maine Arts Journal: The UMVA Quarterly,
“New Mainers Speak,” March 2018, WMPG 90.9 and 104.1 FM,
Anna Mikuskova: “The Northern Exposure,” November 2017, On Landscape
“Kennebunk River Club 62st. Annual Art show,” Kennebunk, Maine, August 2017, Honorary Mention
“Kennebunk River Club 61st. Annual Art show,” Kennebunk, Maine, August 2016, Honorary Mention
“Art 2015” juried by Britta Konau, April 2015, Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, Maine, Best Traditional Photograph
The Day After Yesterday: Portraits of Dementia
Statement
In 2020, 50 million people are living with dementia globally. In the United States, one in three seniors suffer with Alzheimer’s or dementia at the time of their death. The US government, through Medicare and Medicaid, will spend approximately $305 billion annually to care for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia. There is an additional $250 billion shouldered by family members and unpaid caregivers. Six million people in the US have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or another dementia. It’s estimated that only 1 in 4 people with the disease are diagnosed which means it’s possible that 24 million people in the US are living with dementia.
And yet despite the millions of individuals and families affected, dementia is often a taboo subject with limited public awareness or discourse. A diagnosis can become a mechanism for segregating those affected from society, making it easy to see only the label instead of the individual.
The typical narrative about dementia tends to focus on the clinical diagnosis or medical status of an individual, and is all too often depicted using fear, despair and vulnerability. This narrow and incomplete view of dementia quickly becomes a powerful means to distance oneself from their humanity. By focusing only on the narrowest of views, that narrative does little to change the stigma of those living with the disease. In many ways, showing the stereotypical perspectives only makes it easier to continue ignoring the burgeoning health crisis and the individuals themselves.
The goal of this [body of work] is to de-stigmatize those living with dementia. To use empathy as a means for connection and understanding. To tell a more complex and complete story of those living with the disease and its affect on their families and loved ones.
To give the audience courage to act in ways large and small, you must show the whole story – the fear, loss and despair, but also the love, connection, dignity, and powerful humanity that always remain – in the subjects, in the care-partners, and in the families and communities. That is the only path to evolve the narrative and have a positive social change.
Bio
Trained as a journalist, Joe Wallace has been a portrait photographer and storyteller for twenty years. Like many, Joe has a deeply personal connection with dementia. His maternal grandfather and hero, Joe Jenkins, had Alzheimer’s. His maternal grandmother Elizabeth Ponder (Bebe) had vascular dementia. And in recent years, his mother Barbara has begun her journey with the disease.
Joe was frustrated by the common, one-dimensional narrative of dementia – futility, despair, and loss. These are real and important elements of the dementia journey, but by focusing only on the narrowest of views, do very little to change the stigma of those living with the disease. In many ways, showing the stereotypical perspectives only makes it easier to continue ignoring the burgeoning health crisis and the individuals themselves.
Joe feels strongly that to give the audience courage to act in ways large and small, you must to show the whole story. The artist must not be afraid to show not only the fear, loss and despair, but also the love, connection, dignity, and powerful humanity that always remain – in the subjects, in the care-partners, and in the families and communities. That is the only path to evolve the narrative and have a positive social change.
Photography Atelier 32
Photography Atelier is a 12-session portfolio and project building course for emerging to
advanced photographers offered through the Griffin Museum of Photography. Now in its 23rd year, the Atelier class 32 was led by photographer Meg Birnbaum with assistance from photographer Susan Green.
Exhibiting photographers Photography Atelier 32 are Kevin Belanger, Adrien Bisson, Simone Brogini, Lawrence Bruns, Julia Cluett, Edie Clifford, Miren Etcheverry, Michael Fager, Sarah Forbes, Claudia Ruiz-Gustafson, Conrad Gees, Matthew R. Kaufman, Michael King, Shelby Meyerhoff, Maria Verrier and Jeanne Widmer.
The work created during this 5 month class is listed below.
Kevin Belanger – A Long Desire
“I retired from the Postal Service into a world of anxiety and longing. This project is my attempt to cope with the circumstances that define this new reality”.
Adrien Bisson – Alone Together
“In this project I am telling the story of three months in which my wife and I sheltered in-place during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic.”
Simone Brogini – Within a Bubble
“Inspired by the events of the current COVID-19 pandemic, I began to photograph the emptiness of our neighborhood and how this condition has impacted our family’s life.”
Lawrence Bruns – Line, Form and Texture
“In this gallery presentation I focus on high contrast black and white images as opposed to my usual style of using realistic color photography.”
Julia Cluett – Inviting Calm
“This project emerged as an emotional response to the unsettling changes introduced by the coronavirus pandemic. These images suggest a refuge of calm found in the natural world while inviting viewers into more intimate spaces and personal rituals of centering.’
Edie Clifford – The Walter Baker Chocolate Mills
“I grew up in Milton in the 1940s-1960s and these imposing brick buildings that were built by my great great uncle in the late 19th century along the Lower Falls of the Neponset River were part of my childhood adventures.”
Miren Etcheverry – Oh My Goddess
“Oh My Goddess is a celebration of the women in my extended family….All my family is in southern France, including my ninety-something mother and her ninety-something bffs, my aunt, my cousins and their loved ones.”
Michael Fager – The Song of the Mystic
“My photography is an exploration of the natural world, both its beauty and the impacts humans have on it. This work is a view of the natural world in an urban landscape.”
Sarah Forbes – Illuminating the Invisible
“This work explores the transitions in nature that are invisible to the naked eye: the long silky hairs that cover an emerging leaf to deter hungry insects or the veins on a wing-like pod that help cut through the air as it spins in the breeze to create a new sapling.”
Claudia Ruiz-Gustafson – Suspended World
“These images were created intuitively and spontaneously in my home during the statewide lockdown as my days were blending with one another while I was feeling a growing sense of sadness and depression.”
Conrad Gees – Los Habaneros
“The images in this body of work grew out of, and helped me to develop, a deeper understanding of Havana and its people. Havana is truly a city of resilience.”
Matthew R. Kaufman – Shimmering
“In the midst of my continuous struggle with grief and reorienting myself for an uncertain future, bereft of anchors, I found myself on Martha’s Vineyard sequestering from the Covid-19 virus. Marl Pond became my refuge.”
Michael King – Fish Market
“In these photographs of the Catania Fish Market (La Pescheria) in Sicily I portray the opening beat [of the market].”
Shelby Meyerhoff – Paper Playroom
“I was inspired to create sculptures out of ordinary paper products when the coronavirus arrived in the Boston are.”
Maria Verrier – Liminal
‘Inspired by the mythical quality of Hiromi Kakimoto’s images, this series explores the complicated layers of subconscious emotion.’
Jeanne Widmer – Grace Notes
“Up to three months ago my photography usually focused on creating a story in a Todd Hido-type atmospheric scene or a Suzanne Revy-inspired childhood moment. …..The virus has brought much sadness but also renewed moments of gratitude. Bringing my camera on daily walks, I began noticing new details…”
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In addition to guidance and support in the creation of a body of work, the class helps prepare artists to market, exhibit and present their work to industry professionals. Participants engage in supportive critical discussions of each other’s work and leave with a better understanding of how to edit and sequence their own work as well as help others do the same. Instruction in the Atelier includes visual presentations based around 4-5 assignments which are designed to encourage experimentation in both subject matter and approach. Students learn how to prepare for a national or regional portfolio review. Students learn the critical importance of writing an effective artist statement and bio. Any method or medium of image making is welcome although digital photography is recommended for the first half of the class when work is assigned each week. For information about the exhibiting artists of Atelier 32 and to see more of their images visit www.photographyatelier.org.
For information about upcoming classes: www.griffinmuseum.org, under Programs then Education or email crista at griffinmuseum dot org. The Photography Atelier has its own website. You may see all of the ateliers here including Atelier 32.
The Atelier was conceived by Holly Smith Pedlosky around 1996 and later taught by Karen Davis and then Meg Birnbaum. The workshop was previously offered at Radcliffe Seminars, Harvard University and Lesley Seminars and in the Seminar Series in the Arts, The Art Institute of Boston (AIB), both at Lesley University.
Gallery hours by appointment: Tuesday – Sunday: Noon – 4PM
Zoomorphics
Artist Statement
I start by painting on my own body, to transform myself into a new creature: a blue-ringed octopus, an owl, or a monarch butterfly. Then, alone in my studio, I set my camera on the tripod and pose. Although it’s make-believe, it doesn’t feel like I’m pretending. The emotions of this new creature well up inside me. I let my body move in unexpected ways. I am expansive, and I do not constrain myself.
In my life outside the art studio, it is harder to be playful with my appearance. As a woman, I am acutely aware of which facial expressions are acceptable. I am aware of the meanings of different hairstyles. I know what a woman’s clothes say about her. (And I can never quite make mine say something true about me. Getting dressed always feels like pretending.)
I live near the woods and treasure my morning walks there. Among the plants and animals, I am not self-conscious. I am at ease just as I am, part of an interconnected web of life that transcends any social construct. Perhaps that is why I turn to the natural world for inspiration in my work. The creatures that I become are hybrids, both human and non-human. They are beyond gender, and when I inhabit them, I am free. -SM
Bio
Shelby Meyerhoff is a multidisciplinary artist based in Winchester, Massachusetts. She works with a variety of media, including photography, painting, sculpture, and body art, often combining multiple techniques to create her images. Meyerhoff lives near the Middlesex Fells, a 3,400-acre nature preserve north of Boston, and draws much of her inspiration from the plants, animals, and fungi found in her local area. Before becoming a fine artist, Meyerhoff worked in nonprofit communications, promoting environmental initiatives.
She has studied visual arts at the Griffin Museum of Photography, the New England School of Photography, and MassArt.
Meyerhoff’s work has been exhibited at venues across the country, including the Griffin Museum of Photography (MA), the Mosesian Center for the Arts (MA), the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (GA), and the LH Horton Jr. Gallery at San Joaquin Delta College (CA). Her Zoomorphics series has also been featured in UU World, the national magazine of the Unitarian Universalist Association.
Cani di Roma
Statement and Bio
My first formal introduction to photography came after college. That first summer I enrolled in a class at the New England School of Photography, aka NESOP. My instructor, Barry Kiperman, who had spent time with Walker Evans while at Yale, insisted that I take a weekend workshop with a guy named Gary Winogrand. By Monday I was looking to sell my car so that I could buy a Leica. By the time I had (almost) completed the two year program at NESOP I was assisting numerous Boston photographers, starting my own commercial studio, and shooting on the street whenever possible with yes, a Leica. Forty-five years later, after the commercial work, after the teaching, I still prefer the street.
Since 1973, I have been returning to Rome, Italy. There was the summer school and fall semester at Trinity College; the travel passes from my wife, a Delta flight attendant; and the 2004 high school semester with my youngest daughter, after the fire that destroyed my studio. Now, that same daughter has been living in Rome for over a decade. Not that I ever needed an excuse, but it is a delight to visit family (often with family) and spend multiple weeks photographing my favorite city. The ever present dogs in Rome have always found their way into my photographs, but in the last few years the dogs have become principle actors. One year ago, Paula reviewed a book I produced of Roman photographs: “Roman Haikus: I-III”. Knowing of her love of dogs, I also brought along a small box of dog photographs from Rome. After viewing the Haikus, she looked through the box of 5×7 dog prints and said, “I want to show these next year, this size, no frames, and in this room.” And here we are. Thank you Paula! – RA
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HONORS & GRANTS
2016 – The Outwin: American Portraiture Today – The National Portrait Gallery, DC
2014 – Critical Mass 200 2014 – Invitation to host portfolios at ArtPhotoIndex.com 2014 – Juried entrant at Review Santa Fe 2014 – Invitation to host portfolios at LensCulture.com
2013 – New England Photography Biennial
2013 – Photography Fellowship Grant – Massachusetts Cultural Council
2011 – New England Museum Association | Second Place Book Awards Jeremiah Lee Mansion: A Photographic Tour by Rick Ashley 2009 – Juried entrant at Review Santa Fe
1995 – Massachusetts Local Cultural Council Arts Grant 1990 – Massachusetts Local Cultural Council Arts Grant
1986 – New York Art Directors, Gold Pencil Award for “AIDS, It takes all kinds”, TV PSA
EXHIBITIONS
2020 – Marblehead Museum & Historic Society, “From the Ashes”, Surviving photographs from the 2003 School Street Fire: The Marblehead Portrait Project and Marblehead Celebrates, Marblehead’s Annual Parades and Public Events. February 1 – April 30
2018 – Ackland Museum of Art, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, “The Outwin: American Portraiture Today” June 1, 2018 – August 26, 2018
2018 – Artis―Naples, The Baker Museum, Naples,Florida, “The Outwin: American Portraiture Today” January 31, 2018 – May 6, 2018
2017 – Marblehead Museum & Historic Society, “Off Season” – The Jeremiah Lee Mansion October 1 – November 15
2017 – Virginia Carten Gallery, “Bartlett’s Garage”, Marblehead MA, November 1 – 30
2017 – Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO “The Outwin: American Portraiture Today” October 6, 2017 – January 7, 2018
2017 – The Gallery UPSTAIRS, Orleans, MA, Neal Rantoul & Rick Ashley, June 8 – July 10
2017 – Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX “The Outwin: American Portraiture Today” June 8 – September 10
2017 – Griffin Museum of Photography, Lafayette Gallery, “Aviary” group exhibit, March 21 – July 21
2017 – Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington “The Outwin: American Portraiture Today” February 4 – May 14
2016 – National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian, Washington, DC “The Outwin: American Portraiture Today”. March 12, 2016 – January 8, 2017
2016 – Marblehead Arts Association – Ballroom Gallery “Marblehead’s Horrible Parade and the Kids that Love it”, October 1 – November 13
2016 – Laura’s Center for the Arts, “Perspectives on Inclusion”, Hanover, MA, March 29 – April 30
2015 – Virginia Carten Gallery, “Open Spaces”, Marblehead MA
2015 – The Gallery at The School of Design at Mount Ida College “New Visionaries”
2014 – Griffin Museum of Photography Virtual Gallery, 20th Juried Exhibition, Juror: Aline Smithson
2014 – Flash Forward Festival/Boston, Fall Back, Spring Forward at the Photographic Resource Center curated by Francine Weiss, PHD
2014 – New Art Center, 2013 MCC Fellowship Recipients Exhibition, Newtonville, MA
2013 – Danforth Museum of Art, Photography Biennial, Framingham MA, Juror: Francine Weiss
2013 – Panopticon Gallery, “Michael” in Dress Up, Boston MA
2012 – Virginia Carten Gallery, “94 Pleasant Street”, Marblehead MA
2011 – Panopticon Gallery, Instant Connections curated by Jim Fitts, Boston MA
2011 – Chase Young Gallery, “Studio Diptychs” photographs with Bernd Haussmann, painter, Boston
2010 – Gallery Kayafas, “Prom Couples” Special Edition Books with Original Prints, Boston
2010 – RayKo Gallery, “Prom Couples” (Por)trait Revealed, San Francisco CA
2010 – Griffin Museum of Photography, “94 Pleasant Street” 16th Juried Exhibition Juror: Jorg Colberg ,Winchester MA
2010 – Gallery Kayafas, “Prom Couples”, Boston MA
2009 – Photographic Resource Center, “Prom Couples” Exposure 2009 Juror: Russell Hart, editor of American Photo
ONLINE & PRINT PUBLICATIONS
2020 – Marblehead Magazine, Winter “Rick Ashley captures a town’s history”
2017 – IlPost.it Con chi vai al ballo di fine anno? (Prom Couples)
2016 – What Will You Remember, Elin Spring Photography Blog, O Superman
2014 – FeatureShoot.com Conceptual Portraits of a Man with Down Syndrome Reference Art History and Superman
2014 – VisualNews.com This Super Man With Down Syndrome Is Not Camera Shy
2014 – TheMighty.com Photo Series Challenges Preconceived Notions About People With Down Syndrome
2014 – ufunk.com
Michael – Magnifiques portraits d’un homme atteint du syndrome de Down
2014 – aplus.com Artist Takes Photos Of His Brother-In-Law In The Superman Outfit We can all be superheroes if we want to be.
2014 – Wonderzine – Moscow Arts & Culture Magazine: Prom Couples in America
2014 – Huffington Post: Photographer Rick Ashley: Altering Perceptions Through Portraiture
2013 – Elin Spring Photography Blog: Rick Ashley update: Elizabeth City, NC
2013 – photoweenie.com: Rick Ashley Introduces Superman to Inges, Manet, Sargent, and Hopper
2013 – Wonders of Photography, by Dennis Curtin, gallery of photographs
2013 – Elin Spring Photography Blog: Agent Provocateur?
2012 – WickedLocalMarblehead.com (print & online) Arts & More: The Y gone by, exhibition review
2011 – Photo District News, July; “What Collectors Want” by Holly Hughes
2011 – Jeremiah Lee Mansion: A Photographic Tour by Rick Ashley, published and sold through The Marblehead Museum
2010 – SalemNews.com (print & online) A New View of Lee Mansion, photography book by Rick Ashley
2010 – WickedLocalMarblehead.com (print & online) Arts & More, photography book by Rick Ashley
2009 – The Photo Review, online exhibition, 2009 Everyday People, “Prom Couples”
2009 – Flash Flood: 13 Favorites from 2009 Review Santa Fe , “Prom Couples”
2001 – Digital Desktop Studio Photography, co-author with Dennis Curtin, published by Shortcourses
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2013 – Kelby Worldwide Photowalk leader, Rome, Italy 2012 – Artist in Residence at Boston University’s Center for Digital Imaging Arts
2012 – Kelby Worldwide Photowalk leader, Marblehead, MA 2008 – Adobe Lightroom Expert Certification
2007 – Trained teaching assistants for Adobe Lightroom release at Photoshop World/Boston
2006 – 2010: Program Director, Photography Department, Boston University Center for Digital Imaging Arts
2005 – 2011: Instructor of photography at the Boston University Center for Digital Imaging Arts
2004 – present: Workshops and lectures on digital photography
1983 – 1986 Co-Owner, New Reelism Video Productions Writing, producing, and shooting, specializing in sports marketing and TV spots.
1986 recipient of New York Art Directors One Show Gold Pencil, Hatch and Clio awards, with AIDS PSA commercial airing on the Super Bowl
1979 – present: Commercial photographer
EDUCATION
1977-1979: New England School of Photography 1972-1976: Trinity College, BA Religion
Palm Springs Modern Dogs at Home
Statement
In good times and bad, our best friends are there for support, therapy, and unconditional love. Especially now–where would we be without our dogs? Although the so-called modernists of Palm Springs embrace the serenity of life in post WWII America, the sometimes-harsh realities of contemporary life are impossible to ignore. These mid twentieth century re-enactors are often transplants, enjoying the Palm Springs lifestyle with their dogs and friends as their chosen family. The beautiful climate, wide-open spaces, and clean décor make the perfect home for their desert pets that are as lovingly groomed and cared-for as their surroundings.
For the many years that Palm Springs has been my second home, I’ve been documenting the endlessly intriguing lifestyle beyond its resorts. As a Chicago native, my fascination and appreciation for this desert oasis is magnified and unwaning. The community has welcomed my camera and me into their homes, perfect odes to mid century modern American design. The dogs of the house often follow me around and wander into my camera frame, adding warmth and life to the image as they do to their homes. In these pages I have put these precious pups in the spotlight where they belong. NB
Bio
Born in Chicago, Nancy Baron is now based in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, California. In her fine art documentary photography she uses portraits, landscapes, and architectural photographs to record the world nearby with a hopeful bias.
Nancy’s prints have been exhibited in group and solo shows internationally and are held in public and private collections. Her photography has been published in notable magazines and newspapers worldwide, including The New York Times, Madame Figaro, W Magazine, Architectural Digest, The Telegraph Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, Fast Times, Mother Jones, and on the Apple, CNN, and BBC websites.
Baron’s two monographs, The Good Life, Palm Springs and Palm Springs and The Good Life Goes On are published by Kehrer Verlag and are held in various museum libraries, including MOMA, LACMA, the Getty, The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin.
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Monographs
2020 Palm Springs Modern Dogs at Home, Schiffer Publishing
2017 Beautiful Trailertown, Self-published
2016 Palm Springs > The Good Life Goes On, Kehrer Verlag
2014 The Good Life > Palm Springs, Kehrer Verlag
Solo Exhibition
2020 Into the Light, Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Into the Light, Temple Israel of Hollwyood, Hollywood, California
2016 Beautiful Trailertown, Paul Kaplan Designs, Palm Springs, California
2016 Beautiful Trailertown, Spot Photoworks Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2015 The Good Life > Palm Springs, Gallery 446, Palm Springs, California
2014 The Good Life > Palm Springs, dnj Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2012 The Good Life > Palm Springs, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California
Group Exhibitions
2019 Photoville L.A., Los Angeles, CA
2017 American Desert Dreams, Kehrer Galerie, Berlin
2017 The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2016 The Billboard Creative
2015 Old and New, dnj Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2014 Structure, Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara, California
2014 Six shooters, Venice Arts Center, Venice, California
2014 Wet and Dry, Gallery 446, Palm Springs, California
2014 !CLICK! UC Riverside, Palm Desert, California
2014 Photo L.A. for ASMPLA
2013 Picture Society, Denver, Colorado
2013 Photo L.A. for Verge, a Duncan Miller Project, Los Angeles, California
2012 Six Shooters, Seaver Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2012 Dot.Com. GuatePhoto Festival, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2012 Les Rencontres Photographie, Arles France
2012 Photo L.A., for Gallery 825, Santa Monica, California
2011 Multiple Exposures, Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara, California
2011 Summertime, Duncan Miller Projects Gallery, Santa Monica
2011 Gem, LAAA/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California
2011 About Face, Hous Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2010 Summer Mix: Images by LACMA’s Photographic Arts Council, LA, CA
2010 Les Rencontres Photographie, Arles, France
Publications and Press
2019 Telegraph Magazine
2019 Lenscratch
2017 CNN
2016 W Magazine, Holiday gift list
2016 Musee Magazine
2016 Port Magazine, UK
2016 PDN Photo of the Day
2016 LA Weekly
2016 Wall Street International
2015 Inspirato Magazine
2015 Conde Nast Traveler
2015 Palm Springs Life
2015 Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Switzerland
2015 Newfound Journal
2014 New York Times, Sunday Review, Exposures
2014 Denver Post – listed in Favorite Photogaphy Books of 2014
2014 American Photo Magazine – listed as one of the best photo books of 2014
2014 BBC News
2014 Ritz Carlton Fall Magazine
2014 PDN Photo of the Day
2014 Juxtapoz Magazine
2014 Architectural Digest, Italy
2014 Mother Jones
2014 Slate.com
2014 Lenscratch
2014 Eichler Network
2014 Interview Magazine, Germany
2014 Fast Company
2014 It’s Nice That
2013 dwell.com, August 15
2013 Le Journal de la Photographie May 3
2013 Times Quotidian, February 11
2012 Lost in E Minor, August 30
2012 LENSCRATCH, May 15
2012 La Lettre de la Photographie, May 7
2011 Times Quotidian, January 4
2011 The Times Quotidian, July 5
2010 Esquire Russia, December 3, 2010
Honors
2016 Director’s Honorable Mention for Portraits, Center for Fine Art Photography
2015 Palm Springs Photo Festival Slide Show Finalist, I Went to the Dogshow
2014 American Photo Magazine lists The Good Life > Palm Springs as one of best books of year
2014 Denver Post names The Good Life > Palm Springs one of best of year
2014 Palm Springs Photo Festival, Slide Show Finalist, The Good Life > Palm Springs
2013 Palm Springs Photo Festival, Slide Show Finalist, Freeway Phobia
2012 Palm Springs Photo Festival, Slide Show Finalist, Now it’s a Church
2010 TAG California Open Exhibition 2010, Honorable Mention
2010 Palm Springs Photo Festival, Slide Show Finalist, Palm Springs Life
2009 International Photo Awards, First Place, People – Weddings, Vegas, I Do
2007 Palm Springs Photo Festival, Slide Show Finalist, Vegas, I Do
Professional Organizations
American Society of Media Photographers
Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles
Texas Photographic Society
College of the Canyons Photography Department Board Member
Lost: Dianne Yudelson
Lost
Artist Statement
“With each loss of my 11 babies, I kept mementos. They are all kept pristinely stored in a white box in my closet, as are the memories of their short lives kept pristinely stored in my heart.”
My series Lost is based on my personal experience. It had been ten years since my last loss and I had never shared these mementoes with anyone as they were private and personal and go to the core of my emotions both heartwarming and heart wrenching simultaneously. I have read the assertion that meaningful art occurs when you share yourself and create from the depths of your soul. So I shared. Creating this series has both served to honor these precious lives, as well as bring a voice to my personal plight. I am hopeful that in sharing these images I will touch the lives of numerous women who have experienced or are in the midst of experiencing the painful loss of a baby. They are not alone in their journey.
I created my Lost images in a humble and pristine fashion in direct correlation to their short and pure lives.
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Bio
Dianne Yudelson is an award winning photographic artist and founder of New Eclecticism Photography. Her images have been published in over 50 countries on 6 continents. Publications include the Washington Post, International New York Times, The New Yorker, CNN, Musée, Slate Magazine, Self, MilionKobiet, Harper’s Bazar, Ladepeche, Linda, and the Daily Mail. Dianne is the creator and editor of The New Eclecticism Photography online magazine debuting in 2020.
Notable exhibitions which included Dianne’s work were in the Natural History Museum; National Geographic Museum; Griffin Museum of Photography; The FENCE in Photoville NY, Boston, Houston and Atlanta; The Center for Fine Art Photography; MOPLA Smashbox Studios; Espace Dupon, France; Chaing Mai Festival, China; Kolga Tbilisi, Georgia; The Warehouse Gallery, Malaysia; Rooftop Farmani Gallery, Thailand; St. Andrew’s University, Scotland; and the Municipal Heritage Museum, Spain.
Dianne’s top photographic honors include “Photographer of the Year” titles from three acclaimed international competitions; Black and White Spider Awards, International Color Awards, and World Photography Gala Awards. She is a two time Critical Mass Finalist who also received a Julia Margaret Cameron Award; First Place awards in Fine Art at the International Photography Awards; GOLD awards in Fine Art Paris Photography Prize; Grand Prize Winner in the New York Center for Photographic Arts; Gold medalist San Francisco International Exhibition; and honors in the London International Creative Competition for four consecutive years.
Dianne graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of California, Berkeley.
“My fascination with photography began upon the realization that, in addition to being a wonderful means of documentation, photography can also be used as a fine art medium. My style is eclectic. In the fine tradition of eclectic artists, from DaVinci to Uelsmann, I embrace the challenge of exploring varied subjects and forms of expression. By that I mean, neither subject matter nor genre solely defines my images; they are defined by my artistic aesthetic.”
“Throughout my life art has been the one true common thread, the stitches that bind my chapters together. As a photographic artist, I embrace the ability to spotlight my point of view and give a voice to my imagination.”
Images of Lost book photographed by Dianne Yudelson. May be purchased here for $450 plus tax and shipping.
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