DEBORAH WILLIS
Born: 1948, Philadelphia, PA
EDUCATION
2001 Ph.D. George Mason University, Cultural Studies Program, Fairfax, VA
Dissertation Topic: Constructing and Visualizing the New Negro Image in
Photography, 1900-1940
1986 M.A. Art History, Museum Studies, City University of New York
Graduate Art Department, New York, NY
1979 M.F.A. Photography, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1975 B.F.A. Photography, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1972 Undergraduate Liberal Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2001 “The Bodybuilder Series”, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami,
FL
2000 “Deborah Willis: Tied to Memory,” Kemper Museum of Contemporary
Art, Kansas City, MO, travel to Sarah Moody Gallery, University of Alabama
“Deborah Willis,” FOTOFEST 2000, Project Row Houses, Houston,
TX
1999 “The Comforts of Home,” Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond,
VA
“Re/Righting History, Counternarratives By Contemporary African-American
Artists”, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
1998 “Memorable Histories and Historic Memories,” Bowdoin College
Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
“Summer Group Exhibition,” Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York,
NY
“Selections from Soho - Steinbaum Krauss Gallery Artists,” Fort
Lewis College, Durango, CO
1997 "Family Stories," Anderson Center for the Arts, Hartwick
College, Oneonta, NY
1996 "Tragic Wake: The Legacy of Slavery and the African Diaspora in
Contemporary American Art," Middleton McMillan
Gallery, Spirit Square Center for the Arts and Education, Charlotte, NC.,
Nov 8, 1996-Feb 8, 1997
"Mirror My Presence," Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut,
Storrs, CT, 1996
"Love's Labor Lost," City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta Georgia,
1996
"Artists at Work," Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1996
"Visual Griots," University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1996
"Aspects of African American Art," Walsh Library Gallery, Seton
Hall University, South Orange, NJ,; The Atrium Gallery,
Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, Warren, NJ, Feb 1-April 11
"Deborah Willis: Photo/Quilt Stories," Texas Woman's University,
Denton, TX, 1996
1995 "Deborah Willis and Lori Green: Family Matters," Steinbaum
Krauss Gallery, New York, NY, December 1995/ January 1996
"Conceptual Textiles," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan,
WI, 1995-6
"Cultural Baggage," Rice University, Houston, TX
"Searching for Memories: Black Women and the 1895 Exposition,"
Atlanta Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA
"Photo Stories," Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
"Hand Me Down: Innovation Within a Tradition," The Afro-American
Cultural Center, Charlotte, NC, touring,
January 6-March 26, 1995 (catalog)
"in-FORMING the Visual: re-PRESENTING Women of African Descent,"
Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Pomona, CA, Jan. 22 - March 26, 1995
(catalog)
"Story Quilts: Photography and Beyond", Black Gallery, Los Angeles,
California
1994 "Encounters 6-Deborah Willis: African American Extended Family",
Center for Creative Photography,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. Sept. 18 - Nov. 6, 1994
"Thru the Eyes of Sisters", CRT Craftery Gallery, Hartford, CT
1993 "Personal Narrative: Women Photographers of Color", Southeastern
Center for Contemporary Art,
Winston-Salem, NC (traveling through 1995 through USA)
"The African American Women Quilt Show", traveling exhibition
through 1994 curated by Edjohnetta Miller
"A Common Thread: Innovations & Improvisations in Contemporary
Textiles", Bomani Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
1992 "Prisoners of War: In My Native Land and On Foreign Soil",
The New School Gallery, New York, NY
"Words and Pictures", The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
"Deborah Willis/ Christian Walker", Jane Jackson Gallery, Atlanta,
GA
"Four African American Artists", Young Hughley Gallery, Atlanta,
GA
1991 "Faculty Show", New York University, Photo Center Gallery,
NY, NY
"Coast to Coast: Women of Color Book Project" (traveling exhibition)
1990 "Occupation and Resistance", Alternative Museum, New York,
NY
1989 "Group Show", Borough President's Gallery, New York, NY
"Deborah Willis: Visual Tales", John Jay College Wall Gallery,
NY, NY
1988 "Women Photographers", Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta,
GA
"Faculty Show", New York University, Photo Center Gallery, NY,
NY
1986 "Reflections of Self: Women Photographers", Fordham University,
NY, NY
"Autobiography: Herstory", Castillo Gallery, New York, NY
1981 "Women on the Scene", Brockman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Six Photographers", Western Electric, New York, NY
1979 "M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition", Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
"Alumni Show", Philadelphia College of Art, PA
1977 "FESTAC", University Museum, University of Pennsylvania,
PA
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2000 MacArthur Fellow
1999 The Trellis Fund for the exhibition and colloquium “Locating
the Spirit: Religion and Spirituality in African American Art
1999 The Nathan Cummings Foundation for colloquium “Locating the Spirit:
Religion and Spirituality in African American Art
1996 Anonymous Was A Woman Foundation, to support art project
1995 Sister Scholars: Black Women and Work Project, University of Maryland,
funded by Ford Foundation, 1995-97
1995 University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Alumni of the Year
The International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Writing in Photography
1993 The 1993 Golden Light Photographic Book of the Year Competition for
J.P. Ball: Daguerrean and
Studio Photographer
1993 Pratt Institute Alumni Achievement Award in Education
1990 National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel to Collections
1990 Skeel Fund, New York, New York
1990 Maryland Art Place, Critic in Residence, Baltimore, MD
1990 Light Works, Artist in Residence, Baltimore, MD
1986 Manhattan Borough President's Award for Excellence in the Arts
1986 Excellence in Photography, Greater Hartford Community College, Hartford,
CT
SELECTED REVIEWS AND ARTICLES, BOOKS AND CATALOGS
1999 Ferris, Alison. “Deborah Willis: Fabricated Histories,”
Fiberarts, Mar/Apr 1999, pp.52-56
1998 Sims, Pat. “Review,” Casco Bay Weekly, October 29, vol.
X, no.44
Wright, Virginia. “History From A Women’s Point of View,”
The Times Record, October 8
Reynolds, Judith. “A Banquet on the Mesa” and “Mary Tso
- persuasive FLC Gallery director,” The Durango Herald, section B,
Thursday, August 27
1997 Brockington, Horace. "Techno-Seduction," Review, February
1, pp 25-27
Dusseault, Ruth. "Love's Labor Lost," Art Papers, Mar-Apr, Vol
21, Issue 1
Jackson, Phyllis J. "(In)Forming the Visual: (Re)Presenting Women of
African American Descent,"
The International Review of African American Art, Vol. 14, #3 (P. 30-33)
Katz, William Loren. "Deborah Willis: Someone to Celebrate," Daily
Challenge, Monday, March 31, p.5
Nahas, Dominique. "Are you Techno-Seduced?" Review, February 1,
pp 1-2
Patterson, Tom. "'Wake' a potent look at slavery's legacy," Charlotte
Observer, Dec 29, p. 4F
Roland, Marya. "Tragic Wake: The Legacy of Slavery and African Diaspora
in Contemporary American
Art," Art Papers, Mar-Apr, Vol 21, Issue 2
1996 Bass, Holly. "A Tale of Two Cities." Washington City Paper.
August 30
Byrd, Cathy. "'Love's Labor Lost' at City Gallery of Chastain,"
Creative Loafing, November
Cullum, Jerry. "Woman's Work: The Daily Labors of Love," Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, Friday,
October 25
Fisher, Sherry. "Photo exhibit showcases personal histories,"
University of Connecticut Advance,
November 1, p.4.
Garvey, Erin. "Exhibit explores African-American history, culture,"
The Daily Campus, Tuesday,
October 29, p. 1.
Miville, Susan. "'Tragic Wake' Exhibit Links Slavery's History To The
Present," Charlotte Observer,
Nov 13, p.9
Spaulding, John. "Picturing the Communities and Culture of Black America."
The Chronicle of Higher
Education. September 6
Toppman, Lawrence. "Slavery echoes through contemporary works,"
Charlotte Observer, Dec 3, 1996
Whitney, Kay. "Love and Scarcity: The Anonymous Was A Woman Awards,"
New Art Examiner,
December/January, pp. 52-53
Whitney, Kay. "Unnamed group benefits female artists with $25,000 grants."
The Albuquerque Tribune.
August 16
1995 Hand Me Downs: Innovation Within a Tradition, African American Cultural
Center, Charlotte NC,
(exhibition catalog)
Dent, Lisa. "Artfully Documenting History", Ms. Magazine, March/April
1995, Vol. V, No. 5
González, Leadimiro. "Deborah Willis: Lafotographia como Historia
Visual", El Siglo, Galeria, Friday,
February 24
1994 Gumbo Ya Ya: Anthology of Contemporary Women Artists, Introduction
by Leslie King-Hammond,
Midmarch Arts Press, NY
Glasston, Hannah. "Quilt Show", Tuscon Weekly, September 15-21
1993 Patterson, Tom., "Photographic exhibit at SECCA focuses on African-American
Life" Winston-Salem
Journal, Sunday, December 19
1992 Fox, Catherine., "Lives in Words and Pictures", The Atlanta
Journal and Constitution, Friday, August 28
1989 Hieronymus, Clara. "Renaissance Speaker Laments the Lack of Black
Photo Exhibits", The Tennessean,
Saturday, June 24
Hieronymus, Clara. "Renaissance Speaker has Twofold Purpose",
The Tennessean, Saturday, June 22
Grundberg, Andy. "A Century of Black History Brought Into Focus",
The New York Times
1988 Wesley, Janet K., "Author's Work Highlights Black Photographers",
The Pittsburgh Press, February 11
1986 Collins, Gail. "Some Varied Views of Lady Liberty", Daily
News, Monday, June 16
AUTHORED BY DEBORAH WILLIS
Reflections in Black: A History of African American Photographers –
1840 – Present, New York: W.W. Norton, 2000
The Black Female Body in Photography, co-author, Carla Williams, Temple
University Press, 2000
The Family of Black America, co-author, Michael Cottman, Crown Publishers,
New York, NY (pub. date
October 1996)
Visual Journal: Photography in Harlem and DC in the 30's & 40's, Smithsonian
Institution Press, Washington
DC, June 1996
Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photography, The New Press, New
York, NY, 1994.
VanDerZee: The Portraits of James VanDerZee, Harry Abrams Publishing, New
York, NY, 1993.
J. P. Ball, Daguerrean and Studio Photographer, Garland Publishing, Inc.,
New York, New York, 1992.
Lorna Simpson, Friends of Photography, San Francisco, 1992.
Early Black Photographers, postcard book, The New Press, New York, 1992.
Black Photographers 1940-1988: An Illustrated Bio-Bibliography, Garland
Publishing, Inc., New York, NY,
1988.
Black Photographers 1840-1940: An Illustrated Bio-Bibliography, Garland,
Publishing, Inc., New York, NY,
1985.
CONTRIBUTOR/ ESSAYIST
Essayist, “Locating the Spirit”, in Locating the Spirit: Religion
and Spirituality in African American Art, Anacostia Museum and Center for
African American History and Culture, February 14 - June 15, 1999
Essayist, "Talking Black: Black Women's Visual Liberation Through Photography",
in Transforming the Crown:
African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966-96, Dia Foundation,
1996
Photo Editor, The Million Man March, Crown Publishing, 1995
Essayist, "On Location II With Clarissa Sligh", Aperture, 1995.
Contributor, Woods, Paula L. and Felix H. Liddel, Eds. I Hear a Symphony:
African Americans Celebrate Love, Anchor Books, Doubleday, NY (reproductions
p. 42 and 58), 1994
Contributor, Neumaier, Diane, ed., Reframings: New American Feminist Photographs,
Temple University Press,
1995.
Essayist, Contemplative Moments: Photographic Works By Clarissa Sligh and
Hilton Braithwaite, Philadelphia
Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, 1993.
Contributor,"Jacob Lawrence and the Schomburg Center", Jacob Lawrence
and the Migration Series, The
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 1993 (exhibition publication).
Essayist, Moneta Sleet, Jr.: Pulitzer Prize Photojournalist, St. Louis Art
Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1993
(exhibition catalog).
Contributor,Salzman, Jack , Encyclopedia of Afro-American Culture, "Photography
Section", Mac Millan
Publishing, Inc., NYC, 1995.
Essayist, "Jack T. Franklin: Highlighting the Philadelphia Presence
In the Civil Rights Movement", The Afro-
American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 1992, (exhibition
brochure)
Essayist,"Photobiographers", ARTPAPERS, Atlanta, May, 1992.
Contributor, Bogle, Donald, ed., A Yearbook on Blacks in the Arts, Garland
Publishing, Inc., NYC, 1989, 1990,
1991.
Essayist, Meg Andrews, Photographer, CRT's Craftery Gallery, Hartford, CT,
1989 (exhibition brochure).
Reviewer, "Ron Lee: Women With Wet Hair", ARTPAPERS, Atlanta,
GA. November/ December, 1988.
Contributor, "A Likeness Preserved", Afro-American Philadelphians:
Color, Class, and Style, Balch Institute,
Philadelphia, PA, 1988 (catalog).
Essayist, "The Harmon Foundation and Photography", The Harmon
Foundation, Newark Museum, NJ, 1988 (for
publication on The Harmon Foundation, Luce Foundation grant).
Contributor, "Remaking the Past to Make the Future: The Photographic
collection of the Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture", Ten:8 Quarterly, London, England, 1987.
Contributor, "James VanDerZee", Harlem Renaissance: The Art of
Black America, Harry N. Abrams, 1987.
Essayist, "Black Women Photographers", Afro-American Historical
and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, PA,
February 1989 (newsletter).
Essayist, "Benny Andrews Master Artist", CRT's Craftery Gallery,
Hartford, CT., 1987 (exhibition brochure).
Essayist, "On Freedom: The Art of Photojournalism", Studio Museum
in Harlem, NYC, 1986 (catalog).
Contributor, with Van Haaften, Julia. "Moneta Sleet, Jr., Pulitzer
Prize Winning Photojournalist", New York
Public Library, NYC, 1987.
Essayist, "Carl Van Vechten Photographs", The New York Public
Library, NYC, 1986.
Essayist, "Reflections of Self: Women Photographers", Fordham
University, NYC, 1986.
Essayist, "New World Images", New World Africans, 19th Century
of Images of Blacks in South America and the Caribbean, Schomburg Center,
NYC, 1985.
Essayist, "John Pinderhughes, Photographer", Gallery 62, National
Urban League, NYC, 1984.
Contributor, "Mothers and Daughters", Sage: A Scholarly Journal
on Black Women, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1984
(historical photographic essay).
Contributor, "Collecting African American Resources", SCRIPT,
African American Museums Association
Newsletter, 1983.
Contributor, Logan, Rayford and Michael Winston, eds., "James Conway
Farley, Studio Photographer, 1868-
1910", Dictionary of American Negro Biographies, WW Norton, New York,
NY, 1981.
Essayist, "Fourteen Photographers, A Contemporary Exhibition",
Schomburg Center, NYC, 1983.
Essayist, "Black Images in Film, A Photographic Exhibition", Schomburg
Center, NYC, 1983.
Essayist, "Bert Andrews, Photography of Black Theater", Schomburg
Center, NYC, 1982.
Essayist, "Introspect: Photography by Anthony Barboza", Studio
Museum in Harlem, NYC, 1982.
Essayist, "Harlem Hey Dey, Photographs by James VanDerZee", Studio
Museum in Harlem, NYC, 1982.
Essayist, "Doris Ullman, Photographs of the Gullah People", Schomburg
Center, NYC, 1981.
PANELIST/REVIEWER
1994 John D. and Catherine T. Mac Arthur Foundation
Cleveland Public Art Program, Ohio
The Jewish Museum, NYC
McKnight Fellowship in Photography
National Endowment for the Arts
1993 National Endowment for the Arts: Miami-Dade
1992 Opsis Foundation, NYC
1991 W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund
National Endowment for the Arts, WESTAF
National Endowment for the Arts/Mid America Arts Alliance
1990 Ohio Arts Council
Fleishacker Foundation, Eureka Photography Fellowship
1989 New York State Council on the Arts, Museum Aid Panel
1988 New York Foundation for the Arts, NYC
Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC
National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC
MTA, Art In Transit, NYC
Artists Foundation, Boston, MA
Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA
1987 Borough of Manhattan Award for Excellence in the Arts, NYC
1986 New York Council for the Humanities
Kentucky State Council for the Arts
WORK EXPERIENCE: CURATOR
Position: Exhibitions Curator, Smithsonian Institution,
Center for African American History/Culture
Washington, DC
February, 1992 - Present
Position: Curator, Photographs and Prints/Exhibition Coordinator
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The New York Public Library, New York, NY
January, 1980 - February, 1992
EXHIBITION CURATOR
1998 "Resonant Forms: Contemporary African American Women Sculptors",
Smithsonian Institution, Anacostia Museum and Center for African American
History and Culture, Washington, D.C..
1997 "Techno Seduction", Co-curated with Robert Rindler. Cooper
Union School of Art, New York
1996 "Visual Journal: Harlem & DC in the 30's & 40's",
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1995 "Imagining Families:'Images and Voices'", Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC
1993 "VanDerZee", Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery,
Washington, DC
"Contemplative Moments: Photographic Works by Clarissa Sligh and Hilton
Braithwaite", Philadelphia Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum
1992 "Photobiographers", Atlanta Gallery of Photography, GA
1991 "Martin Luther King", University of Arizona, Center for Creative
Photography, Tucson. (lecture in
conjunction with exhibition)
1994 "Convergence: 8 Photographers", Photographic Resource Center,
Boston, MA and Visual Studies
Workshop, Rochester, NY
1989 "New Works by Black Women Photographers", Le Mois de la Photo,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1992 "Constructed Images: New Photography", Studio Museum in Harlem,
NYC;Houston Foto Fest; High
Museum of Art; Baltimore Art Museum; Berkeley Art Museum, CA (traveling
show)
1991 "Black Photographers Bear Witness: 100 Years of Social Protest"
Williams College Museum of
Art, Williamstown, MA; Corcoran Gallery of Art; Philadelphia Afro-American
Museum; Center for
Creative Photographers; St. Louis Art Museum
1989 "Meg Andrews, Emerging Artist", CRT's Craftery Gallery, Hartford,
CT
"Photographs and Diaries", New York University, Photo Center Gallery,
NYC (February- March)
1988 "Curator's Choice: The Photographer's Mind", CEPA Gallery,
Buffalo, NY
"Herstory: Black Women Photographers", Houston Fotofest, Firehouse
Gallery, Houston, TX
1987 "Gordon Parks: A Retrospective", The New York Public Library,
NYC
"HerStory/HerSpace/HerMoments: 7 Women Photographers", The Rotunda
Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"Seven Photographers: 1920-80", Cooper Union, NYC
"Moneta Sleet, Jr.: Pulitzer Prize Photojournalist", The New York
Public Library, NYC
"Autobiography/HerStory", The Castillo Gallery, New York, NY
1986 "On Freedom The Art of Photojournalism: 5 Photographers",
Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
"O, Write My Name: American Portraits: Harlem Heroes", Carl Van
Vechten Photographs, New York
Public Library, NYC
"America: Another Perspective", 13 Photographers, New York University,
Photo Center Gallery, NYC
"Black Photographers: 1840-1940", Fleming Museum, University of
Vermont, Burlington, VT and CRT's
Craftery Gallery, Harford, CT
1985 "New World Africans: 19th Century Images of Blacks in South America
and the Caribbean", Schomburg
Center, NYC
1984 "Art Against Apartheid: A Photographic Exhibition", Schomburg
Center, NYC
"Black Images in Film: A Photographic Exhibition", Schomburg Center,
NYC
1983 "14 Photographers: Contemporary Photographers in the Schomburg
Collection", NYC
"Scenes from the 20th Century Stage: Black Theater in Photographs",
Schomburg Center, NYC
"Introspect: Photographs by Anthony Barboza", Studio Museum in
Harlem, NYC
1982 "8 Contemporary Photographers in the Schomburg Collection",
NYC
"Black Dance in Photographs: Images from the 19th Century to the Present",
Schomburg Center, NYC
"Harlem HeyDey: Photographs by James VanDerZee", Studio Museum
in Harlem, NYC
1981 "Doris Ullman:Photographs of the Gullah People", Schomburg
Center, NYC
PRESENTATIONS
1999 “The New Negro in Art,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
“Gordon Parks: Unveiling and Unmasking,” Southeast Museum of
Photography, FL
“Scurlock Studios,” The National Museum of American History,
Smithsonian Institution
1998 “The Balck Female Body in Photography,” City University
of New York, The Graduate Center
“Constructing the New Negro Image in Photography,” Lose Angeles
County Museum
1997 “VanDerZee”, Syracuse University, NY
1995 Race and Gender in 19th Century Photography, J.P. Getty museum, CA
1994 "Family Photographs and Art", Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, CA
"African American Photography and its Continuum", Southeast Museum
of Photography, Daytona
Beach, FL
"Autobiography in Photography", Mills College, Oakland, CA
1993 "Frames of Reference: Cultural Diversity and the Arts, Virginia
Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
"African American Identity in 20th Century Art", University of
Delaware
1992 "Photobiographers", Women in Photography Conference, Center
for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
1990 "African-American Museums & Photography in the Sixties",
International Museum of Photography,
Rochester, NY
1989 "Contemporary Photographers in the United States: International
Conference on Photography",
Newcastle, England
"James VanDerZee and Richard S. Roberts", Cheekwood Fine Arts
Center, Nashville, TN
1988 "Photography and the Harlem Renaissance", High Museum of
Art, Atlanta, GA
"Black Women Photographers", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
(FotoFest Programming)
"Richard S.Roberts, Studio Photographer", 25th Annual Meeting,
Society for Photographic Education,
Houston, TX
"Contemporary Black Photographers", National History Museum. NYC
"Richard S. Roberts and Photography of the South", Studio Museum
in Harlem, NYC
"Contemporary Black Women Photographers", Mercy College, Bronx,
NY
1986 "Family Photographic Collections", African-American Historical
& Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, PA
"Women in Photography", Syracuse University, NY
"On Freedom: The Art of Photojournalism", Studio Museum in Harlem,
NY
"Photography:1900-1939", Columbia Museum, Columbia, SC
"Black Photographers, 1840-1940", The Robert Hull Fleming Museum
of the University of Vermont,
Burlington, VT (lecture in conjunction to an exhibition)
1985 "Civil Rights Photography Reviewed", Society for Photographic
Education, Minneapolis, MN
"Harlem Photographers Look At Harlem 1920-1960", Countee Cullen
Library, NYC (moderator)
"Harlem Photographers Look at Contemporary Harlem", Countee Cullen
Library, NYC
1984 "Photography of Midwifery", An Illustrated Talk, Spellman
College, Atlanta, GA
1983 "Collecting African Americana", African American Museums
Associations Workshop, Charleston, SC
1992 "A History of Black Photographers" sites: San Francisco Cameraworks,
CA, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Mercer County College, NJ, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, Newark
Museum, NJ, Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC, CRT's Craftery Gallery, Hartford,
CT, Plainfield Public Library, NJ, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence,
RI, Albright-Knox Art Museum, Buffalo, NY, Temple University, Tyler School
of Art, Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA,
State University of New York, Albany, NY, State University of Buffalo, Buffalo,
NY, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, DeWitt Historical Society, Ithaca,
NY
Empire State College, NYC
WORK EXPERIENCE: TEACHING/VISITING ARTIST
Position: Visiting Lecturer, New York University, Tisch School of The Arts,
“Visualizing Culture” New York, NY 1999
Position: Visiting Artist, Teachers' College, Columbia University, New York, NY, June 1996
Position: Visiting Artist, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, April 1996
Position: Visiting Artist, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA, March 1996
Position: Visiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, April 1996
Position: Critic-in-Residence, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD Fall 1995
Position: Visiting Artist, Columbia College, Chicago, IL Fall 1995
Position: Visiting Artist, Mills College, Oakland, CA Spring 1994
Position: Workshop Instructor, The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA Summer 1992
Position: Historian in Residence, Photography Department
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY Fall/Spring
1988-89
Position: Adjunct Professor, History of Photography
City University of New York, New York, NY Fall/Spring 1989-90
Position: Instructor, Museum Studies (Ethnicity in Museums)
New York Theological Seminary, College of New Rochelle, New York, NY Summer
1984, 1986 (Part-time)
Position: Instructor of Photography, Wallingford Art Center, Wallingford, PA Summer/Fall 1979
Position: Instructor of Photography/Research Consultant, Brooklyn Museum,
Education Department
Brooklyn, NY Summer 1978, 1979
Position: Photography Instructor/Outreach Coordinator, Jamaica Service
Program for Older Adults
Jamaica, NY Summer/Fall 1978
ACADEMIC CONSULTANT: THESIS/INTERN ADVISOR -1988-96
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
University of Maryland
George Washington University, Washington, DC --American Studies
Howard University, Washington, DC --School of Fine Arts
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, Photography Dept.
University of Delaware, Art Department
New York University/International Center of Photography
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY --Graduate Photography Dept.
City College of New York, Museum Studies Program
Ohio State University, Photography Department
Rochester Institute of Technology, Photography Department
University of New York, Photography Department
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Board Member, College Art Association (1994-1997)
Executive Committee College Art Association (1994-1996)
Board Member, Society for Photographic Education (1986-1996)
Chair, Board of Society for Photographic Education (1994-96)
Women Caucus for the Arts
American Association of Museums
ORACLE
College Art Association
American Studies Association
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon, AZ
Sarah Moody Gallery, University of Alabama, AL