SPE News and Announcements

This listing summarizes photography-related news that has come to SPE's attention. The red dot ( ) indicates that the news includes a current SPE member. To be included in this listing, please email your news and announcements to spenews@spenational.org.

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In 2009...

James M. Sahlstrand, photographer, Emeritus Professor of Art at Central Washington University, and SPE member died of cancer at his home in Ellensburg, Washington on Easter Sunday, 2009.

He was 72 years old. He is survived by his wife Margaret Sahlstrand, a sister Carole Sahlstrand, and brothers Donald and Robert Sahlstrand. His eldest brother ,William, preceeded him in death. Sahlstrand was nationally recognized as a photographer, publisher, teacher, gallery director and originator of the pioneering national photography exhibition “New Photographics”. He received BA and MFA degrees from the University of Minnesota where he worked with Jerry Liebling. James Sahlstrand will be fondly remembered for his generosity, kindness, and indomitable sense of humor.

He was a gifted storyteller whose lyrical voice and vivid presence illuminated the room. He will be greatly missed by his family, and legions of his former art and photography students, friends and colleagues.

Photographer, digital montage artist, and SPE member Stephen Marc of Tempe, Arizona, has won the 2009 Elizabeth and Mallory Factor Prize for Southern Art and the cash prize that accompanies the award. The Factor Prize acknowledges an artist whose work demonstrates the highest level of artistic achievement in any media while contributing to a new understanding of art in the South.

Cleveland Partnership for Arts & Culture named Nancy McEntee to CPAC's first Creative Workforce Fellows on Friday, June 5, 2009. The 20 fellows and 2 alternates recommended by the Creative Workforce Fellowship (CWF) panel were ratified by Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC's) Board of Trustees.

Dianora Niccolini recently published Naked Splendor, an 8”x10” coffee table book which celebrates the human body with b&w photos of male and female nudes coupled with poetry from around the world. It is the culmination of 47 years of Dianora Niccolini's nudes. She decided to self publish this book through Blurb because it was affordable, and she wanted total control over the design and editing.

Susana Raab’s series "Rank Strangers" was a finalist for the Grand Prix at the Lodz, Poland Fotofestiwal, where it was exhibited for the month of May 2009 at the Lodz Center for the Arts.

In 2007...

Rachel Hawthorn, "Radiator"

 Rachel Hawthorn was one of the artists selected for the International Student Photographic Exhibition at the Center For Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado, by Hannah Frieser, Director of Light Work, a non-profit organization in Syracuse, NY, and SPE Board member.

You can view the images in the Center's online gallery at http://www.c4fap.org/index.asp

The 2007 Student Exhibition will be on display at The Center for Fine Art Photography from June 1st- June 9th, 2007, located at the
Museum of Contemporary Art
201 South College Avenue
Fort Collins, CO 80524
970. 224.1010

 Pieces from Christina Seely's latest body of work, Lux, will be a part of Exposure: The 12th Annual Juried Show at the Photographic Resource Center in Boston from May 25th - July 1st. Jen Bekman, founder and director of jen bekman, a pioneering fine art gallery in New York's burgeoning Bowery arts district and champion of emerging photographers, was the 2007 guest juror. For their 30th anniversary year and the PRC’s 12th annual juried competition, newly-dubbed EXPOSURE, Bekman selected 16 photographers out of a record-breaking 317 submissions—the largest number of entries ever received in the exhibition’s history.

Seely is also a member of the collective Civil Twilight, which recently won Metropolis Magazine's Next Generation Design Competition with a proposal for Lunar-Resonant Streetlights. Lux is discussed and represented as part of a 6-page feature on the the collective and the winning project in the May Issue of Metropolis Magazine: http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=2683.

 Muriel Hasbun, Associate Professor of Photography at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C., received the Corcoran's 2007 Outstanding Creative Research Faculty Award.

 Jonathan Gitelson will participate in the Innmotion Festival in Barcelona, Spain in July 2007, http://www.conservas.tk/pages_en/PAGES/2005.htm.

 Kim Ellen Kauffman’s exhibition Collaborations can be seen at Mackerel Sky Gallery in East Lansing, MI through Nov. 27. Her exhibition Florilegium: Cameraless, Filmless Images will be on view at the Little Gallery at Firelands College BGSU in Huron, OH, Feb. 26 - April 4, 2007.

In 2006...

The James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA, is featuring Constructions: Photographs by Michael Becotte through March 18. www.michenerartmuseum.org

Barbara Thomas will be shown in the exhibition Focus Five at the Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery through Feb. 15.

Altana Gallery featured work by Richard Gray in their group exhibition Wahr-Zeichen-Fotographie und Wissenschaft. The exhibition is a collaborative project by the Technical Collections at the Dresden Museum and the Technische Universität Dresden. It will remain on view through Feb. 17, 2007, www.altana-galerie-dresden.de/. Richard Gray’s work could recently be seen in Human Nature, an exhibition at Indiana University Bloomington. http://www.indiana.edu/~sofa/human_nature

Muriel Hasbun

Muriel Hasbun’s video barquitos de papel / paper boats is on view at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and Zoellner Arts Center in Bethlehem, PA through this fall. She is also preparing to show work at the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, DC from Nov. 15 through Jan. 14. Her exhibitions Terruño: detrás del telón and Migraciones y archivos: Conversatorio were on view at Museo Nacional de Antropología in El Salvador.

Dennis DeHart’s exhibition Ambit Verdure (In the Realm of the Green) can currently be viewed at Insite Gallery in Buffalo, NY through Nov. 27. 716/884-9410

The Silver Eye Center for Photography  in Pittsburgh, PA chose Howard Henry Chen’s Multiple Entry Visa series as the winner of the Fellowship 2006 competition. The work is featured in an exhibition through Feb. 10. www.silvereye.org

 The exhibition Why Look at Animals? includes SPE members Forest McMullin and Frank Noelker, and was co-curated by Alison Nordström. It is on view at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY through Jan. 7. www.eastmanhouse.org

Deborah Jack is participating in the group exhibition Tropicalisms, on view at the Jersey City Museum through Jan. 14.

Sant Khalsa’s photographs will be shown with works by artists, Simon Norfolk, Anne Fishbein, Nic Nicosia, Vincent Cianni, and Andrew Freeman in the exhibition, Long Exposures: Contemporary Photo Essays from the Permanent Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, on view through Jan. 7.

The exhibition Binary Articulation, on view at Russell/Holt Gallery, Baker University in Baldwin City, KS showcased landscapes, collage, “Scanner Obscura”  and other images by artists Christa Kreeger Bowden, John Paul Caponigro, Gary S. Colby, Maggie Taylor, Ambler Hutchinson, Eric Kunsman, Nate Larson, Stephen Marc, Susana Reisman, Trish Simonite, and Rhona Shand (artist and curator) through Nov. 18.

Rhona Shand was also included in the three-artist exhibition Figuratively Speaking at Visual Arts Center in Portsmouth, VA.

Arlene Gottfried was featured in Salon, an exhibition of art work created by women, Bellevue Hospital Center, Atrium in New York City. Her exhibition Midnight can be seen at BCA Gallery in Bedford, Great Britain through Nov. 18. The exhibition is produced in collaboration with Autograph ABP. www.autograph-abp.co.uk, www.bedfordcreativearts.org

Janet L. Pritchard’s exhibition Dwelling. Expressions of Time is on view at the Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI through Dec. 10. www.uri.edu/artgalleries

Annette Fournet’s haunting photographs of Eastern and Central Europe’s countryside can be seen in the exhibition Sticks, Stones & Bones. Images from Transient Landscapes at Charleston Heights Arts Center in Las Vegas through Nov. 19. The work was recently shown at the Art Museum, University of Memphis. It was also featured at Photomedia Center’s online gallery. www.amum.org, www.photomediacenter.org

Neal Rantoul  published his first monograph, American Series. Photographs by Neal Rantoul, with introduction by Jeffrey Hoone. A selection of photographs from the series is currently on view at the Panopticon Gallery in Waltham, MA through Nov. 18. www.panopt.com, www.nealrantoul.com

Joy Christiansen’s exhibition Family Gathering: A Look into the World of Eating Disorders is on view at Trinity University Art Gallery, One Trinity Place in San Antonio, TX through Nov. 17, 210/999-7682.

Judy Natal’s exhibition Neon Boneyard: Las Vegas A-Z is on view at the Reed Whipple Cultural Center in Las Vegas through
Nov. 12. The Center for American Places recently published the artist’s 88-page monograph by the same title, which includes an introduction by Johanna Drucker.

Howard Henry Chen, Binh Danh and Annu Palakunnathu Matthew were among the 28 artists featured at the 13th Noorderlicht International Photofestival in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. www.noorderlicht.com/eng/newfest/index.html

Keith Carter’s photographs were featured in the inaugural group exhibition at Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery in Dallas. www.photographsdonotbend.com

Liz Wells curated the exhibition Crossing the Atlantic...Uneasy Spaces, which recently was on view at Washington Square East Galleries in New York City.

Meg Ojala participated in New Photography: McKnight Fellows 2005/2006 at Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN.

Nathan Lyons’s exhibition Trilogy could be viewed at Silverstein Photography in New York City. www.silversteinphotography.com

Libby Rowe’s work can be seen at Nashville International Airport through Dec. 3.

SPE members Amanda Keller-Konya and  Rebecca Ross received 2006 Teaching Award Honorable Mentions from the Santa Fe Center for Photography.

Kelli Connell, Justin Newhall and Brian Ulrich teamed up for the exhibition MP3: Midwest Photographers Publication Project at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. www.mocp.org

Ida Green Gallery at Austin College in Sherman, TX featured The Land: Photographs by Luther Smith.

 Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago featured Michael Kenna’s exhibition Hokkaido/New Work. www.edelmangallery.com

Jeff Brouws’ exhibition Approaching Nowhere was featured by the Robert Mann Gallery in New York. www.robertmann.com

The Faculty & Staff Exhibition at  Tisch School of the Arts at NYU in New York City included SPE members Lorie Novak, Clarissa Sligh, Deborah Willis and Sylvia Wolf. www.photo.tisch.nyu.edu

Dennis Carpenter’s Terra Firma, Terra Incognito was featured at the Sol Mednick Gallery in Philadelphia. www.uarts.edu

Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, FL showed Ken Light’s exhibition Coal Hollow. www.smponline.org

Hanover College Art Gallery in Hanover, IN featured  Stories by Nate Larson. www.hanover.edu/art/artgallery.html

Charmaine Caire’s work was on view at the Philadelphia International Airport.

Sant Khalsa and Robin Lasser were included in Earthy Concerns: Activist EcoArt on view at Thacher Gallery of the University of San Francisco.

Deborah Bright and Ivana George showed Unrealizable Dreams: A Photographic Exploration at The Contemporary Arts Collective in Las Vegas.

 Benjamin Stern’s work Topologies could be seen at Xen Gallery in St. Louis, MO.

Gallery BMG in Woodstock, NY featured Susan kae Grant in a solo exhibition, Night Journey. www.galeriebmg.com

Art Whipped at UNT artspace FW included the University of North Texas MFA graduates Beau Comeaux and Jessica Cook.

Carl Chiarenza was included in the 2nd Rochester Biennial at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY. His work was featured in a solo exhibition at Image Arts Gallery, Ryerson University School of Image Arts in Toronto, Canada.

 Gail Rebhan, Judy Gelles and others are participating in the exhibition Maternal Metaphors at Ohio University in Athens, OH through Nov. 4. Gail Rebhan’s work could recently be seen at Manassas Art Center in Manassas, VA. Her work was also included in the exhibition Time’s Body of Evidence: Artists on Health and Aging at Wright State University in Dayton, OH.

Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco showed Brian Ulrich’s work.

Liz Cazabon

Carola Dreidemie curated a video arts show entitled Looped: engages in time at the CAS Gallery at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL, featuring work by Lynn Cazabon, Ximena Cuevas, Lamia Endara, Anthony Goicolea, Patrick Craig Manning and Christine Shank.

Carola Dreidemie’s work was selected for Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires. She will also be participating in a three-month fellowship in New Delhi, India and a residency at the Experimental Television Center. www.caroladreidemie.com

Deluxe Arts Gallery in Miami, FL featured work by Lamia Endara in the exhibition entitled Seduction.

Suzette Bulley was featured in Family Pack at the Society for Contemporary Photography in Kansas City, MO. www.scponline.org

Jennifer Greenburg’s photographs on the Rockabilly community was on view at Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, IL.

Daniel Rabinovich was featured in a solo exhibition at the Centre Culturel Calixa-Lavallée in Montreal.

Linda Troeller recently had a show of Healing Waters/Spa Journeys at the Gallerie BI-Z in Norway. www.lindatroeller.com

Rebecca Cummins showed her Skylight Aperture Sundial... at the Montlake Public Library Branch in Seattle. Her collaborative work Light Rain, created with artist Paul DeMarinis, was exhibited at the Shanghai Biennale. www.rebeccacummins.com

Ransome Center Galleries at UT Austin  showed Jesseca Ferguson’s exhibition, The Image Wrought: Historical Photographic Approaches in the Digital Age.

Debbie Fleming Caffery was awarded a Katrina Media Fellowships by the Open Society Institute for her project Portrait of Neglect: Injustice of Hurricane Katrina, a documentation through portraits and landscapes of the effects of both the initial natural disaster and the man-made devastation that came in the wake of the storm.

Melissa Fleming, Sarah Sudhoff, Yvette Yeh and others held their MFA thesis exhibition at Peer Gallery in New York City. Melissa Fleming and Sandi Haber Fifield also participated in the group exhibition (t)here at Peer Gallery. www.peergallery.com

Colette Copeland was included in SNAP TO GRID: the Un-Juried Show at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. http://lacda.com/exhibits/snaptogrid.html. Her work could be seen in various venues, including in Temporary Cities at the Cultural Communication Centre of Klaipeda, Lithuania, and the National Center for Contemporary Arts in Moscow; in a video exhibition in Hamburg, Germany; in Do Not Fold, Bend, Spindle or Mutilate: Computer Punch Card Art at the Visual Arts Center–Washingon Pavilon of Arts & Science in Sioux Falls, SD; in MIAD Venado Tuerto 2006 in Venado Tuerto, Argentina; in Works on Paper: University of Pennsylvania Faculty Exhibit in Philadelphia, PA; and at Ars Latina 2006 in Macerata, Italy, www.arslatina.org. Copeland recently received the 2005/6 Teaching Award for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania.

Jon Yamashiro received his fourth nomination for the Effective Educator Award at Miami University in Oxford, OH.

Walt Bistline’s exhibitions Earthbound:  Photos of the Midwest and Jean Pool: An Installation could be seen at the Leeds Gallery in Runyan Center at Earlham College. He taught in the Explore-A-College program at Earlham College. The New York Times recently named the program one of the country’s undiscovered jewels of higher education. www.earlham.edu

Patti Hallock’s work can be seen in the group show, Extended Remix, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, scheduled through January 2007. She was also selected to participate in the show Best of Colorado Artists at Denver International Airport, also on view through January.

Keith Johnson

Keith Johnson’s series Road Work will be on view at Middle Tennesee State University in Murfreesboro, TN through Dec. 16. Keith’s photographs were included in the group exhibition Enchanted Landscape: an Exploration of Place at the Cushing-Martin Gallery, Stonehill College in Easton, MA. The Panopticon Gallery in Waltham, MA showcased Keith Johnson in the exhibition New Work 2000-2005: Water/Garden & Ground/Cover. www.panopt.com, www.keithjohnsonphotographs.com

Martha Madigan’s work Earth is Like a Garden in Bloom Only for a Few Days could be seen at Villa Poniatowski in Rome, Italy. www.casadelleletterature.it

Jonathan Gitelson's work The Car Project will featured in the British art magazine Intersection with an interview with Photo-Eye’s Avis Cardella. And he was chosen to create a permanent public art piece for the new Armitage Brown Line Subway Station in Chicago. Upcoming exhibitions include solo exhibitions at MIAD Photography Gallery at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, at Art Gallery at Dominican University in Illinois and at Community College of Southern Nevada. www.intersectionmagazine.com, www.thegit.net

Sheri Lynn Behr’s photographs were included in Artists Responding to Violence Against the Earth at The Museum of Cultural Arts, Houston and in Thomas Kellner’s photographers:network selection 2006 at Studio Thomas Kellner in Siegen, Germany. www.tkellner.com, www.slbehr.com

The Callanwolde Fine Arts Center in Atlanta, GA hosted Perry Dilbeck’s solo exhibition  The Last Harvest–Truck Farmers in the Deep South. Dilbeck’s documentary by the same title was published by the University of Georgia Press in association with the Center for American Places. His work was also featured in the Texas Photographic Society Juried  Exhibition at Calumet Photographic in San Francisco, CA.

Michelle Bates published the book Plastic Cameras:  Toying with Creativity with Focal Press in October 2006. Contributors include SPE members Mary Ann Lynch, Sandy Sorlien, Annette Fournet, Perry Dilbeck, Harvey Stein, Mark Sink and Michael Sherwin, among others. www.focalpress.com, www.michellebates.net

Karina Aguilera Skvirsky was included in the exhibition Prevailing Climate at the Sara Melzer Gallery in New York City.

SPE members Jerry Burchfield, Jacques Garnier, Rob Johnson, Douglas McCulloh, Mark Chamberlain and Clayton Spada created the world’s largest photograph inside the world’s largest camera. Over 100 volunteers participated in the Legacy Project, located inside an old air hanger at the former El Toro marine base in Orange county, California. www.legacyphotoproject.com

Wendel A. White’s exhibition Pictures from a New World: An African American Village in Israel was on view at Richard Stockton College Art Gallery in Pomona, NJ from Sept. 17 - Oct. 15. 609/652-4214

DeRicci Gallery at Edgewood College featured Christine Holtz’s exhibition Meeting Places from Aug. 20 through Sept. 8. Monroe Street Campus, DeRicci Hall, Madison, WI. www.christineholtz.com

Soho Photo’s 11th Annual National Photographic Competition included SPE member Garie Waltzer, who received second place. The exhibition was on view through Aug. 5. Soho Photo, 15 White St, New York City, www.sohophoto.com.

Ariel Shanberg and Kate Menconeri curated the exhibition Family Album, on view through Aug. 20. Participating SPE members include Susan E. Evans, Ben Gest and Carla Williams. Also on view at CPW was Preston Wadley’s work Pentimento. Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW), 59 Tinker St, Woodstock, NY 12498, 845/679-9957, www.cpw.org

The Discovery Museum in Bridgeport, CT featured Herbert Hoover: does time stand still?

Jonathan Gitelson’s work would be seen in the group exhibition Chicago Car Culture. Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Rooms, 2nd floor, 78 E. Washington, Chicago, IL.

Muriel Hasbun’s interactive exhibition and workshop project Terruño: Detrás del telón... Backdrop: The Search for Home was on view in El Salvador.

Vincent Cianni’s exhibition We Skate Hardcore. Photographs from Brooklyn's Southside traveled to the Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave, New York, NY.

Suzanne Mejean’s exhibition Original Fiction was on view at GFL Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Nate Larson’s work could be seen in the Epping Gallery at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, IL. His exhibition New Video Work by Nate Larson was recently on view at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art in Anchorage, AK.

Sonya A. Lawyer’s newest exhibition Searching for Beulah (Limit of Disturbance) could be seen at School 33 in Baltimore, MD. www.sonyalawyer.com

Sara Rytteke’s work You’re Such a Doll was part of the exhibition Only Skin Deep with Ron Gershman. Photomedia Center in Erie, PA 16505, www.photomediacenter.org.

Gendai Heights Gallery Den in Tokyo showcased Jun Itoi’s work Here You Are. www.gendailheights.fc2.com

Denise Bibro Fine Art in New York, NY showed Carol Jacobson’s Conviction.

Angilee Wilkerson

Angilee Wilkerson’s work could be seen in her exhibition Naturalis at the Bath House Cultural Center in Dallas, TX. Her work was also included in the group exhibition Instant Gratification: Exploration of the Polaroid at the Arlington Museum of Art in Arlington, TX. www.arlingtonmuseum.org

Jan W. Faul’s exhibition From the Fields of the Gun was on view in Washington, DC. www.spectrumgallery.org

Jerome Liebling’s exhibition jerome liebling + selected photographs could be seen at the Minnesota Center for Photography in Minneapolis, MN. www.mncp.org

The group exhibition The Drop included Sant Khalsa’s work. Exit Art in New York City. www.exitart.org

The Center for Photography at Woodstock showed Ruth Adams’ exhibition unremarkable at the same time they showcased Photography Now 2006 with Caitlin Atkinson, B.A. Bosaiya, Arantxa Cedillo, Michal Chelbin, Siri Kaur, Honey Lazar, Mike McGregor, Lydia Panas and Torrance York. www.cpw.org

Lonnie Graham’s exhibition A Conversation at the Table could be seen at the Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia, PA. www.fabricworkshop.org

Bodywerx, three new serial artworks by Cole Robertson could be seen at different vantage points in Chicago, IL, including the Glass Curtain Gallery, the Schopf Gallery on Lake and at the Nova Art Fair 2006. Touching, part of Bonus Tracks, could be seen at the Hothouse Gallery.

Angela Watters’ MFA work was also on view at Glass Curtain Gallery in Chicago, IL. Her work was also included in Versionfest>06 :: Parallel Cities at Version Kunsthalle in Chicago.

Rita Bernstein’s show Past Perfect was exhibited at The Center for Emerging Visual Artists in Philadelphia, PA, www.cfeva.org.

SPE members Josh Pfeifer, Robert Hein and Kevin Thayer showed their exhibition Faith, Tribute, and Chaos, Three Matters at University Galleries in Cincinnati, OH.

The exhibition Alter Egos by B. Proud was on view at Gallery 1401, The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA.

The 2006 PRC Members’ Exhibition included SPE members Elizabeth Albert, Ri Anderson, Michael Cirelli, Kerry Stuart Coppin and Bob O’Connor. http://www.bu.edu/prc/

The Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA showed Lisa M. Robinson’s work Snowbound April 1-30. In May the work traveled to the Jack Leigh Gallery in Savannah, GA and in December to Galleri Image in Aarhus, Denmark, just outside of Copenhagen. Robinson’s work was recently exhibited at Silver Eye Center for Photography. It will head to the Center of Photography in Woodstock in January 2007. www.griffinmuseum.org.

Connie Imboden’s work Re-Formation was featured at Heineman Myers Contem-porary Art in Bethesda, MD. www.heinemanmyers.com

Oh mY..., an exhibition of work by Libby & Ken Rowe was on view at 310 Chestnut in Nashville, TN. www.libbyrowe.com

Judy Natal’s exhibition American Alphabet. Photographs and Maps was on view at mn gallery in Chicago, IL. She is currently finalizing the publication of her new book. www.mngallery.net

The work of Kay Kenny, Dreamland Speaks When Shadows Walk, was recently exhibited at Soho Photo in New York City. www.sohophoto.com

Perry Dilbeck participated in the Power of Plants exhibition at the U.S. Botanic Garden in  Washington, DC and the Texas Photographic Society Juried  Exhibition at Calumet Photographic in San Francisco, CA. www.perrydilbeck.com

John Pfahl’s exhibition Luminous River, Photographs of the Susquehanna. Extreme Horticulture was on view at Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, University of Maryland Baltimore Gallery.

The exhibition Bearings: The Female Body at PS122 Gallery  in New York City included SPE members Kelly Adams, Mariette Pathy Allen and Suzanne Mejean. www.ps122gallery.org

Ron Tarver’s exhibition Havana, A Place Out of Time could be seen Silva Gallery of Art in Pennington, NJ.

The Second Woodmere Triennial of Contemporary Photography at the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, PA, included Thomas Brummett, David Graham and Clarissa Sligh.

Martha Strawn

The Light Factory in Charlotte, NC recently showed Martha Strawn’s exhibition Across the Thresholds of India and the work by Prince Thomas, Interstitial Spaces. www.lightfactory.org

Private Property, an exhibition by Anne Rowland, was on view at Hemphill Fine Arts in Washington, DC. www.hemphillfinearts.com

Photographs by Justyna Badach, The Guides, could be viewed at The Print Center in Philadelphia. www.printcenter.org

borders between dreams and reality by Claudia Katz and Jen Sens was featured at the Center for the Photographic Arts in Miami, FL. www.dreamsandreality.com

The Griffin Museum of Photography recognized Anne Wilkes Tucker from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston with a newly created Life Time Achievement Award. Barbara Hitchcock from Polaroid Corporation was honored with the New England Beacon Award. The Rising Star Award went to Brian Paul Clamp of ClampArt Gallery.

Nazraeli Press published Recto/Verso. Photographs by Robert Heinecken.

Sylvia de Swaan received a 2006 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.

Blake Shell, the new galleries curator for the University of Arizona School of Art, has been awarded the university’s Beyond the Call of Duty Award. She has also been awarded an Artist Grant from Tucson Pima Arts Council.

Eight of Frank Hamrick’s photographs were reproduced in The Southeast Review.  http://www.southeastreview.org/onlineissue1/hamrick.php

Neal Rantoul’s article “Digital Update: Raw Files and the Digital Negative” was published at www.TeachingPhoto.com.

Camera Arts  published an article “Picolino Circus Project  Guiding the World’s Youth Through the Lens” on Tone Stockenström in their Feb-March issue.

En Foco’s New Works Awards (#9) included four SPE members, Trinidad Mac-Auliffe, Javier Carmona, Michael Gonzales and Preston Wadley.

Gallery 1401 at The University of the Arts showed John Woodin’s New Orleans Photographs through April 17. The gallery featured Richard Newman’s work A 12 Year Diary in Photographs from June 2 to Aug. 11. Gallery 1401, 211 S Broad St., 14th floor, Philadelphia, PA 19102, 215/717-6300, www.uarts.edu.

The exhibition Trace by Muriel Hasbun was shown at the JP Morgan Chase Tower Heritage Gallery during FotoFest Houston. The exhibition was curated by Wendy Watriss, http://www.fotofest.org/ff2006/. Hasbun’s work was recently on view at the Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran, selected by Philip Brookman, www.wpaconline.org.

Barbara Tyroler’s Beijing Impressions could be seen at the Montpelier Arts Center April 7 through June 2. 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel, MD 20708, 301/953-1993.

The National Museum of American History in Washington, DC presented Honky Tonk: Country Music Photographs by Henry Horenstein, 1972-1981, through Sept. 5. http://americanhistory.si.edu.

Ken Rosenthal’s solo exhibition, A Dream Half Remembered, could be seen at The Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA through March 19. His photographs could also be seen at the Houston Center for Photography 2006 Print Auction Exhibition.

SPE members Michael Ensdorf and Kathy Pilat curated an exhibition with Pamela Bannos, Jennifer Greenburg, Alice Hargrave and Corrie Witt. Gage Gallery at Roosevelt University, 18 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605, www.roosevelt.edu/gagegallery/.

Jacobs Gallery at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts showed double vision | shared site, an exhibition that included work by Garry B Fritz, Terri Warpinski, Gina Rubin Cody, Shelley M Foster, John Holmgren, Lorri Nelson, Kurt Norlin and Michael Sherwin. The work was on view through April 15. One Eugene Center, Eugene, OR 97401, www.jacobsgallery.org.

Sonya A. Lawyer’s exhibition (Eclectic + Funky)/Melancholy = 1995 to 2005 could be seen at the Snowden Gallery at Lycoming College through March 30. 700 College Place, Williamsport, PA 17701, www.lycoming.edu, www.sonyalawyer.com.

The National Museum of American History presented Photographs by John Paul Caponigro and Kendall Messick through May 30. Washington, DC, 202/842-6353, http://americanhistory.si.edu

The current group exhibition MWIII at Center for Photography at Woodstock included Myra Greene, Priya Kambli and others. It was curated by Ariel Shanberg and Liz Glynn, and closed March 26. www.cpw.org.

Benjamin Stern’s was featured in a group exhibition at Mad Art Gallery in St. Louis, MO, April 21-29. Other recent venues included the Jacoby Art Center in Alton, IL, in the collaborative project sLowlife in Washington, DC, and the SIUE Graduate Art Exhibition in Edwardsville, IL.

Photographs by Michael Kenna were on view at Ralls Collection through April 15. Canal Square, 1516 31st St, NW, Washington, DC 20007, 202/342-1754.

Agora Gallery presented the collective exhibition Tripping the Light Fantastic by Anne C. Savedge. The work was on view March 22-April 11. 530 W 25th St, New York, NY, www.agora-gallery.com/exhibitions/photography2006.asp

Kirchman Gallery in Johnson City, TX featured the work of Margie Crisp, Angilee Wilkerson and Natasha E. Downs in the exhibition Natural Elements through March 19, www.kirchmangallery.com.

Walt Bistline showed work at Photography Is Art Gallery in Fredericksburg, TX, through April and at Fleury Gallery in Houston, TX, during FotoFest 2006. His also had an exhibition at Indiana University East in Richmond, IN. He received awards at the 2005 Whitewater Valley Juried Exhibition hosted by Indiana University East, the 2005 Richmond Art Museum Juried Exhibition and the 2005 Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition hosted by the Swope Art Museum in Terre Haute. He was awarded an artist residency at Earlham College in Richmond, IN.

Alnis Stakle’s work Living Space - Daugavpils was on view at the gallery AAS during the International Festival of Photography “Photosynkryria 2006” in Thessaloniki, Greece.

John Freyer’s project All My Life for Sale was on view at his major exhibition Aftermarket at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY. He was recently featured on a Martha Stewart TV special about eBay. http://www.marthastewart.com/martha/

Kerry Stuart Coppin recently showed work in two exhibitions, hidden names complex fate and in a land most strange, at Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge, MA, www.cmacusa.org.

Bill Kouwenhoven’s City Color Night Work could be seen at Gallery 1401 at The University of the Arts, www.uarts.edu.

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s Bollywood Satirized was on view at Jamestown Community College, Weeks Gallery, 525 Falconer St, Jamestown, NY 14702, www.sunyjcc.edu/gallery.

Peng Gallery’s exhibition Artificial Worlds featured Charmaine Caire, John Murphy and Shannon Slattery. 35 S. 3rd St, Philadelphia, PA, 215/629-5889.

Huracán: In Wilma’s Shadow. Photographs by Miriam Romais was recently on view at University College Art Gallery at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, NJ, www.romaisphotos.com.

Linn Underhill’s work could be seen in the faculty show at Clifford Art Gallery, Colgate University in Hamilton, NY, www.merz.colgate.edu.

Mary Haggerty’s American Journal: photographs exposing the off-beat heart of America was on view at Fine Arts Center Galleries at University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI, www.uri.edu/artgalleries.

Deborah Jack’s work lift/left could be seen at the Rochester Contemporary, www.rochestercontemporary.org.

Smoke and Mirrors: Photography and Performance, on view at Ohio University Art Gallery in Athens, OH, included several SPE members, such as Sonya A. Lawyer, Deborah Orloff and Anni Holm, http://www.ohiou.edu/art.

The exhibition "Photographs by Cherie Hiser" was recently shown at Photographic Image Gallery in Portland, OR, www.photographicimage.com.

In 2005...

The Sedgwick Center in Philadelphia is showing Jason Francisco’s work Photograph as Document: Selected works 1990-2005 through Jan. 20. The Sedgewick Center, 7137 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19119, 215/843-7195.

The Photographic Resource Center is featuring Group Portrait through Jan. 22. Among others, the exhibition features SPE members Julie Blackmon and Jessica Todd Harper. Photographic Resource Center, 832 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215, www.prcboston.org.

Stuart Rome’s work Forest is on view at Sepia Gallery through Jan. 28. Sepia, 148 West 24th St, 11th floor, New York, NY 10011, 212/645-9444, www.sepia.org.

SPE member Christine Shank is participating in a group exhibition, Coming Home: Domestic Sites of Love and Loss at the Houston Center for Photography through Dec. 18. 1441 West Alabama, Houston, TX, www.hcponline.org.

Work by Blaise Tobia, Direct Objects, is on view at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art through Dec. 7, 200 S. Madison St, Wilmington, DE 19801, 302/656-6466, www.thedcca.org. Selections from the series were also shown in the exhibition Photography Plus at the Bowman and Magahan Galleries of Allegheny College.

Ann Chwatsky is exhibiting The Sky is Falling at the Gallery Space at Wagner at New York University through Jan. 27. Puck Building, 295 Lafayette St, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10012, 212/992-8717.

United States Botanic Garden Conservatory is presenting Roger Hangarter and Dennis DeHart’s exhibition sLowlife through March 26. 100 Maryland Ave, SW, Washington, DC, www.slowlife-exhibit.org The exhibition travels to the Chicago Botanic Garden in 2007, www.chicagobotanic.org.

Proof, an exhibition at George Mason University that coincided with the regional Mid-Atlantic conference, included the work of a number of SPE members such as Terri Bright, Dean Kessman and Christine Shank. The juror was Chan Chao. GMU Dept. of Art and Visual and Performing Arts, 4400 University Dr, Fairfax, VA 22030, www.gmu.edu/gallery or www.spema.org.

Jeffrey A. Wolin’s exhibition Inconvenient Stories is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago through Dec. 17. 600 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605, 312/663-5554, www.mocp.org.

Aftermarket. Art, Objects and Commerce by John D. Freyer is on view at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY through Feb. 19. www.everson.org.

The one-month photo event “7. Internationale Fototage” in Mannheim, Germany, included an international line-up of photographers. Many SPE members were featured in exhibitions, including Mariette Pathy Allen, Stephen Althouse, Darryl Baird, Marion Belanger, Steven Benson, Joann Brennan, Marilyn Bridges, Carlos Diaz, Susan E. Evans, Harris Fogel, John Ganis, Arlene Gottfried, Richard Gray, Jessica Hines, Mark Klett, Pok Chi Lau, James Lerager, Elaine Ling, Tamara Lischka, Stephen Marc, Fredrik Marsh, Elaine Mayes, Deborah O’Grady, Keri Pickett, Chris Rauschenberg, James Radke, Ken Rosenthal, Stan Strembicki, Maggie Taylor, Alejandro Tomás, William Earle Williams. Many of them also gave artist talks, including Vincent Cianni, Mariette Pathy Allen, John Trotter, James Lerager, Steven Benson, Chris Rauschenberg, Rod Slemmons and Alejandro Tomás. The conference themes were “Contemporary American Photography” and “The Art of Being German.” www.monatderfotografie.de

Jonathan Sharlin and Kerry Stuart Coppin exhibited at Wheeler Gallery in Providence, RI, www.wheelergallery.org.

Ken Rosenthal’s exhibition, A Dream Half Remembered, was on view at Watermark in Houston, www.watermarkfineart.com.

Clifford Art Gallery at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY featured Subversion: Post 9/11/01 Photographs by Sylvia de Swaan. http://merz.colgate.edu.

John Pfahl’s photography was on view at the White Wall Gallery in Seoul, Korea. www.whitewall.co.kr.

Sandy Sorlien participated in a charrette in Biloxi, MS, which was part of the Mississippi Renewal Forum. www.mississippirenewal.com. The Daily Pennsylvanian wrote an article about her participation in October, www.dailypensylvanian.com.

The exhibition Owen - Murakami: East West by Ginger Owen and Shuichi Murakami was on view at Synapse Gallery, Center for Photography in Benton Harbor, MI, www.synapsegallery.org.

Allison Petit showed her work South Louisiana Soul at the Artists + Architects Exhibition Space in Lafayette, LA.

The Beacon Artist Union in Beacon, NY featured the exhibition, bau 10: light work lights, with photographs by Hannah Frieser, John Mannion and Lisa Goodlin. The exhibition was curated by Angelika Rinnhofer. www.beaconartistunion.com.

John Mannion’s work Super fun d, a collaboration with Sean Hovendick, could also be seen at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, NY.

Cybèle Clark-Mendes showed her work, Constructed Identities, at John Hartell Gallery at Cornell University. http://cybele.tv.

Janet Pritchard showed Dwelling in Mansfield at Gallery 1401 of The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA 19102.

The exhibition Reading between the Lines at the Houston Center for Photography included Nate Larson. www.hcponline.org.

Work by Allyson Klutenkamper, Nate Larson and Adriane Little was on view in the exhibition Common Threads, curated by Gary Colby. The Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA, www.ulv.edu/art.

Walsh Library Gallery at Seton Hall University exhibited Wendel A. White’s Small Towns, Black Lives: African American Communities in Southern New Jersey, 973/761-9000.

The Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle, WA showed Articulations by Garth Amundson. www.nordicmuseum.org.

Steven Benson: 30 Years in Black and White was on view at the Centre des Bords de Marne in France. His the work Red, White and Blue in Black and White was included in the first Argentine Biennial of Documentary Photography in Tucaman City in Argentina and travelled to Lodz, Poland. The artist was featured in the 7. Internationale Fototage in Mannheim, Germany.

The Northwestern Connecticut Community College Gallery in Winsted, CT featured Projects in Process by Michael Yurgeles. www.yurgeles.net/nccc2005.htm.

Cypress College Photography Galleries showed The Edge of Air: Photographs of the Final Days of MCAS El Toro by the Legacy Project. The six photographers in the non-profit group include Jerry Burchfield, Mark Chamberlain, Jacques Garnier, Robert Johnson, Douglas McCulloh and Clayton Spada. www.cypresscollege.edu.

Work by SPE members Deborah Orloff and Anne Spenny was included in the Faculty Exhibition 2005 at the University of Toledo Department of Art Center for the Visual Arts Gallery. www.utoledo.edu.

Museum of the City of New York featured New York Changing: Douglas Levere Revisits Berenice Abbott’s New York, www.mcny.org.

Gallery 1401 exhibited Colleen Mullins: Pictures of the Floating World, while the Sol Mednick Gallery featured Young Southwest by Karen Bucher. Both are on the campus of The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. www.uarts.edu.

The exhibition A Way of Seeing at the Southeast Museum of Photography at Daytona Beach Community College included Nancy Hellebrand.www.smponline.org
The University of North Texas Art Gallery presented Liminal Britain: Richard Billingham, John Darwell, Dinu Li, Jason Oddy, Ingrid Pollard & Trish Simonite, which was organized by Sara-Jayne Parsons. Denton, TX, www.art.unt.edu.

Maggie Taylor and Jerry Uelsmann were featured in the exhibition Double Vision at the Miami University Heistand Galleries in Oxford, OH, www.fna.mu-
ohio.edu/galleries.

The Critical Mass at Gallery Sink in New York City included SPE members Craig J. Barber, Steven Benson and Maggie Taylor, www.gallerysink.com.
The exhibition New Texas Talent 2005 at Craighead-Green Gallery in Dallas included Angilee Wilkerson. www.craigheadgreen.com.

Walt Bistline received the Gedrick Award of Honor in the 61st annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition at the Swope Art Museum in Terre Haute, IN. The juror was Susan Rosenberg. His work was included in the First Year Anniversary Group Exhibition at Photography Is Art Gallery in Fredricksburg, TX. www.photographyisart.net

Strand On Volta in Washington, DC presented recent work by Ken D. Ashton, Chan T. Chao, and E. Brady Robinson in the exhibition Rate of Exchange. www.strandonvolta.com.

Mary Ann Lynch exhibited Forever Marilyn: The Enduring Legacy of Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) at John Stevenson Gallery in New York City. A book project on the photo series is planned for publication in 2006. www.johnstevenson-gallery.com.

Henry Horenstein published his book Black & White Photography: A Basic Manual in its third edition.

Work by Elizabeth Joy Kimes was included in Mt. Scott’s Art Center exhibit Patterns, Rhythms and Cycles through July 29.

Photographs from Patti Hallock’s series Rotten Oasis were selected for the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art’s 2005 Biennial, Beyond Comfort! Beyond Representation! On view July 8-Sept. 25. http://www.mcartdenver.org

Brent Phelps

The exhibition Works on Water: An Exhibition of Photography, Sculpture, Installation and Projection was on view through May 27 at the University of North Texas in Denton, TX. It includes several SPE members: Carola Dreidemie, Brent Phelps, Luther Smith and Angilee Wilkerson.

SPE members teach at hundreds of universities throughout the year. In the summer months, they frequently also teach in educational non-degree programs across the country. A list of summer courses taught by SPE members can be found online. SPE members who taught this summer included Matthew Albritton, Brian Arnold, Kyle Bajakian, Susan Ruddick Bloom, Marilyn Bridges, Terri Bright, John Paul Caponigro, Thomas Carabasi, Keith Carter, Christine Collins, Michael Conway, Tony Corbell, Tillman Crane, Mary Anne Crowley, Sandra C. Davis, Melissa Dettlinger, Annette Fournet, Elizabeth Greenberg, John Hirsch, R. Mac Holbert, Douglas Holleley, Connie Imboden, Ann Jastrab, Keith Johnson, John Kaplan, Dennis Keeley, Bobbi Lane, Susan Lipper, David Lyman, Pierre Yves Mahe, Fatima NeJame, Willie Osterman, Carrie Peterson, Renee Psiakis, Marcia Reifman, John Reuter, Stephen Shames, Alison Shaw, Edward E. Stapel, Harvey Stein, Craig Stevens, Jim Stone, Mary Virginia Swanson, Raphael Talisman, Maggie Taylor, Joyce Tenneson, Anna Tomczak and David Wells.

Former board member Kerry Stuart Coppin exhibited his work Materia Oscura/Dark Matter at The Photomedia Center in Erie, PA in September. info@photomediacenter.org, www.photomediacenter.org.

The Morris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka, CA, showed Ellie Brown’s work Elastic Identity from June 11 to July 31. http://www.elliebrown.com.

Sol Mednick Gallery at The University of the Arts featured the exhibition Stormy Monday by Gerald Cyrus through Aug. 12. www.uarts.edu.

Alison Devine Nordström, PhD, served as juror of 2005 PRC Members’ Exhibition, on view through June 26 at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University. www.prcboston.org.

Sepia International in New York City presented the work of Phyllis Galembo in a solo exhibition through July 29. 212/645-9444, www.sepia.org.

Suzanne Mejean’s work, A Collaborative Self Portrait, was on view at the GFL Gallery at 327 Grand St. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn through June 5.

The Fort Worth Community Arts Center in Texas exhibitied Family Gathering: Installations and Photographs, themed around negative body image and eating disorders by Joy Christiansen through May 28.

Stephen Marc’s work Walking in the Footsteps was on view at Reed Gallery at the University of Cincinnati through May 27, 513/556-2839, http://www.daap.uc.edu/ gallery/galleryreed.htm.

Marita Gootee was included in the fifth biennial Mississippi Invitational at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, MS. The exhibition will be on display through July 3.

Gallery 210 at the University of Missouri in St. Louis presented Return Trips: Images by Bea Nettles through April 23.

Work by SPE members could be seen in Out of the Darkroom: Photographic Input / Digital Output, on view through March 27. Based on quality and common threads of experimentation, the juror selected Stephen Althouse, Paul Berger, Kelli Connell, Susan kae Grant, Richard Gray, Liz Lee, Stephen Marc, Osamu James Nakagawa, Sara Rytteke, Rhona Shand and Stan Strembicki. Mathias Geiger and John Rudel were also included in the exhibition. The juror was Rod Slemmons. The exhibition coordinators were Nancy Koehler, Edna Southard, Jon Yamashiro and Jennifer Pearson Yamashiro. Miami University Art Museum, 801 South Patterson Ave, Oxford, OH 45056, 513/529-2232. http://www.fna.
muohio.edu/amu/

The Utah Center for the Arts featured John Hirsch: Patrons of Husbandry through Feb. 20. 2191 South 300, West Salt Lake City, UT 84115, 801/651-3937, www.utaharts.org, www.johnhirsch.com.

SRO Photo Gallery at Texas Tech University in Lubbock showed Angie Buckley’s work, The In-Between, through March 12. The exhibition was followed by John Milisenda’s My Family through April 16. www.landmarkarts.org

Keith Johnson

Keith Johnson exhibited his Water/Garden series at the Print Center. 215/735-6090, www.printcenter.org.

The work of SPE student members from The Rhode Island School of Design, The Maryland Institute College of Art, Western Michigan University and Kellogg Community College was showcased in the group exhibition, Points of Departure, starting March 19. Diedrich’s Coffee People, 737 SW Salmon St., Portland, OR 97205, 410/234-1916.

Work by Steven Benson and Maggie Taylor was included in the juried exhibition Critical Mass, on view through April 2. Benham Gallery, 1216 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101, www.benhamgallery.com.

Tone Stockenström’s Collaborative Projects were on view at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University through March 2005. Lyndhurst House, 1317 W. Pettigrew St., Durham, NC. http://
cds.aas.duke.edu/, www.stockenstrom.com.

David Freese showed his work From Bering to Baja at the University of Alaska in Anchorage through March 6.

The Gallery 210 at the University of Missouri, St. Louis exhibited Return Trips: Images by Bea Nettles. The exhibition was on view Feb. 24 - Apr. 23, 2005. Gallery 210, UMSL, 1 University Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63131.

Michael Kenna’s work, Impossible to Forget: The Nazi Camps Fifty Years After, was on view at the James A. Michener Art Museum, Jan. 15 - Apr. 10. Wachovia Gallery, 138 South Pine St., Doylestown, PA, 215/340-9800. www.michenerartmuseum.org. Kenna also showed work from the Ratcliffe Power Station and New Landscapes series. They were on view at the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago through Dec. 30. 312/266-2350, www.edelmangallery.com. Kenna presented his work at the 2005 national conference in Portland as an invited speaker.

Peter Schreyer presented his work, Small Stories from a Big Country, at the Swiss Camera Museum in Vevey, Switzerland. The work was on view through March 6. A selection from the exhibition could be seen at the Showalter Hughes Community Gallery at Crealdé School of Art in Winter Park, FL. www.crealde.org, www.cameramuseum.ch

Sonya A. Lawyer’s work was included in the Critics’ Picks Exhibition: Just Looking at Maryland Art Place in Baltimore, MD, www.mdartplace.org.

Beth Allison Gallery in Kansas City, MO featured Barry Anderson’s A Menagerie. www.bethallisongallery.com.

William Christenberry’s work was exhibited at Hemphill in Washington, DC, www.hemphillfinearts.com.

Colette Copeland’s Abortion Dialogue exhibition was on view at Carbon 14 Gallery in Philadelphia.

Janet Borden Gallery in New York City featured the exhibition Luminous River by John Pfahl. www.janetbordeninc.com.

Dornith Doherty’s exhibition Temporal Screens: Photographs from Kyoto was on view at Gerald Peters Gallery in Dallas, TX, www.gpgallerydallas.com.

Ken Rosenthal’s series on personal and collective memory, titled Seen and Not Seen, was exhibited at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA. info@photography.org, www.photography.org.

The exhibition Submerged Qualities at Santa Fe Community College included work by Nate Larson. www.sfccnm.edu/gallery.

Recent Work from the Theatre of Memory by Jesseca Ferguson was on view at Trustman Art Gallery in Boston, MA, 617/738-2145.

Peter A. Calvin’s photographs were recently in the Annual Juried Student Art Show, and published in D Magazine, as well as in the Polish fine art photography magazine Pozytyw Foto.

SPE members Kelli Connell, Ken Rosenthal, Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin and Krista Elrick were included in OnLine/OnSite: Photographer’s Showcase at photo-eye Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, http://www.photoeye.com/gallery.

Hoffman Gallery at the Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, OR, featured Unseen Worlds, Four Photographers, curated by Phil Harris. 503/297-5544.

Among other exhibition venues, Walt Bistline participated in Indiana Now!, a biennial juried exhibition at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, IN. His work was also featured in Landscape and Architecture: Photographs by Walt Bistline and George Craft at the Bank of America Center in Houston, TX.

Alison Hahn’s work was shown in the juried exhibition Secret Place, Sacred Space, that included 37 artworks by 32 women. Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, www.womanmade.org

Greenleaf Gallery at Whittier College in Whittier, CA recently exhibited South Louisiana Soul: Deciphering Personal Altars Through Pinhole Photography by Allison Petit. www.silverfish.us

Houston Center for Photography showed Portraits of Jenny by William Tolan. www.williamtolan.com

Garth Amundson’s show Home Ec. was on view at Shift Studio in Seattle, WA.

Work by Mallorie Ostrowitz, titled Exposed to the Elements, was on view at Artworks Gallery in Hartford, CT, www.mallorieostrowitz.com.

Prentice Hall recently published In the realm of the Circuit: Computers, Art and Culture by Charles H. Traub and co-writer Jonathan Lipkin. The comprehensive text addresses “aesthetic and historic precedents of digital media’s multi-faceted human dialog.” www.intherealmofthecircuit.com

Barbara Jaffe’s prints, Dark Sun, were featured in Camera Arts.

Nazaeli Press recently published Carl Chiarenza’s book, The Peace Warriors of Two Thousand and Three.

Work by Carola Dreidemie was on view at two exhibitions in Miami. The exhibition Omniart: The Neighborhood as a Work of Art. A Large Scale Urban Intervention took place during ART BASEL. Also on view was AFFINITAS: Exploration in Art and Architecture from the University of Miami. www.omniart-miami.com

Selections from Nate Larson’s Stories series were featured on Toronto-based Samplesize, an artist-run web magazine and project space, http://www.samplesize.ca/gallery.html.

Jill Waterman’s New Year’s Eve Project was on view at the Soho Photo Gallery. www.sohophoto.com

Grant Hall Gallery at the University of Nevada Las Vegas showed On this Desert Island. Photographs by Samuel Davis. 702/810-0395.

En Foco presented photographs by Kerry Stuart Coppin in Umbra: Contemporary Photographs of Urban Africa. www.enfoco.org

The Print Center in Philadelphia featured Charmed: Photographs by Susan Dunkerley. www.printcenter.org

Spectra ’04 National Photography Triennial on view at the Silvermine Guild Arts Center in New Canaan, CT, included work by Susan Scafati. The juror was SPE member Barbara Hitchcock. www.silvermineart.org

Ida Green Gallery recently presented Mostly Small Things: Mixed Media Works by Dick Lane, 903/813-2188.

College of Mount St. Joseph, Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery showed Two Points of View, with the work by Ruth Adams and Kelli Connell. Cincinnati, OH, 513/244-4314

The May Gallery at Webster University in St. Louis, MO presented work by SPE member Annu P. Matthew. www.webster.edu/maygallery.

Eclectic Visions at the Parkland Art Gallery in Champaign, IL featured Carol Golemboski, Dana Fritz, Ryan Davis Flathau, Davis Husom and Anna Tomczak. Curated by Craig McMonigal. www.parkland.edu/gallery

The Clifford Art Gallery featured work by Deborah Bright, Peter Goin and Harry Littell in the exhibition Land of the Free: Landscape Photography. Collgate University, http://merz.colgate.edu.

Steven Benson showed his work RED, WHITE & BLUE in Black and White at Galerie Lichtblick in Cologne.

In 2004...

William Griffin Jr. participated in the Student Documentary Festival at Duke University during November 2004. The documentary festival, hosted by the campus group Duke Students of the World, showcased works of film, photography, oral history, and writing from both Duke and UNC students. William has been a certificate in documentary studies student at Duke since the fall of 2000.

Numark Gallery in Washington, DC, exhibited Echo, Chan Chao’s newest body of work, through Dec. 18. An artist book by the same title accompanies the exhibition. 202/628-3810, www.numarkgallery.com

Photographs by Phil Harris could be seen at Gallery 1401 in Philadelphia through Dec. 17. Gallery 1401, The University of the Arts, 215/717-6300, www.uarts.edu

The Senior & Shopmaker Gallery in New York featured Permutations on the Picturesque. The group exhibition, on view through Jan. 8, includes photographs by John Pfahl. www.seniorandshopmaker.com

Vincent Cianni’s photo project We Skate Hardcore: Photographs From the Southside could be seen at the Minnesota Center for Photography in Minneapolis through Dec. 22. www.mncp.org

The Colorado College Art Department in Colorado Springs presented the Visiting Art Faculty Exhibit, through Dec. 21. The featured artists include Monica Escalante, Frank Gohlke and Andrea Wallace, et al. www.coloradocollege.edu

Ellen Carey’s work MATRIX 153: Photography Degree Zero was exhibited at the Museum of Art in Hartford, CT through April 24. 860/278-2670, www.wadsworthatheneum.org

Jane Alden Stevens

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY featured Jane Alden Stevens’ work, Tears of Stone: World War I Remembered. The work will be on view through Jan. 2. 607/255-6464, museum@cornell.edu. www.museum.cornell.edu

Melissa Fleming was part of the group exhibition, Traveling the Carolinas, that was on view at the Lenoir Caldwell Arts Council in Lenoir, NC, all December and continued to the Ashe County Arts Council in Jefferson, NC, Jan. 1-29. She recently showed work at the Museo de la Fotografia in Santa Fe, Argentina, at the Soho Photo Gallery and various art centers across the country. www.melissafleming.com

Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati showed photographs by Carl Chiarenza through Dec. 24. This exhibition included work from his new books Peace Warriors of 2003 (Nazraeli Press) and Solitudes (Lodima Press). His work could also be seen at the 2004 Everson Biennial Exhibition, Double Take, at the Everson Museum of Art, in Syracuse, NY, www.everson.org.

Work by Phyllis Galembo was featured at the Albany Institute of History & Art. Magic, Mystery and Masquerade: The Photography of Phyllis Galembo. www.albanyinstitute.org

The CUE Art Foundation in New York, showed work by Brian Moss through Nov. 27. The show was curated by Lisa Yuskavage. www.cueartfoundation.org

New collaborations by Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison could be seen at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA. The Architect’s Brother Exhausted Globe. The museum also showed Luminous Forms: Abstractions in Color Photography, organized by Rachel Rosenfield Lafo. The exhibition included works by SPE member, Calvin Kowal, among others. Open through Jan. 2. 781/259-8355, www.decordova.org

Work by Karina Aguilera Skvirsky could be seen at the Smack Mellon Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. The group exhibition featured the galleries 2004 studio artists. www.smackmellon.org

Nate Larson

Nate Larson showed his work as part of the Ivyside Juried Exhibition Series at the Community Arts Center at Penn State Altoona. www.aa.psu.edu

Jesseca Ferguson’s work could be seen at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in Bedford, www.umassd.edu

A Thousand Hounds, including a few by Keith Carter, could be seen in the exhibition A Walk With the Dogs Through the History of Photography at the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery in Baltimore. http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/

The exhibition ARTifacts at the Southcentral regional conference in September included a host of SPE members: Robbie Barber, Wiliam Christenberry, Dean Dablow, Robert Ladislas Derr, Dornith Doherty, Susan Dunkerley, Hilary Gayle, Amy Holmes George, Alison Hahn, Mitch Kern, Esther Kibby, Kathy Lovas, David Newman, Pamela Parks, Jana Perez, Betty Press, Libby Rowe, Kent Rush, Veda Seals, Prince V. Thomas, Tim Tracz, Sandy Wassenmiller, Thomas Whitworth and Mark Witting.

Rebecca Cummins had an exhibition at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery in Seattle.

Laura Hoyt collaborated in the project Trespass, recently on view at the Minnesota Center for Photography. She was also included in the juried exhibition at the SPE Northwest regional conference. www.abinadimeza.net

Lisa M. Robinson recently showed her work, Parallel Universe, at the Kehler Liddell Gallery in New Haven, CT, also featuring Matthew Garrett. www.kehlerliddell.com.

Baldwin Photographic Gallery in Murfreesboro, TN showed the photography series Dresden Reliquary. Past Into Present by Fredrik Marsh.

Peter Miller Gallery in Chicago featured a solo exhibition by Brian Ulrich. www.petermillergallery.com. Ulrich’s work was also in a juried group show at the Zolla/Lieberman Gallery in Chicago. www.zollaliebermangallery.com. And he was recently shown at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. www.notifbutwhen.com

Julieve Jubin’s work Drawings from Life was on exhibit at the Gallery at Rush Rhees Library at the University of Rochester.

Walt Bistline

Walt Bistline’s work was included in the Pingyao International Photography exhibit in the People’s Republic of China this fall. His South Padre Island series was recently on view at Earlham College’s in Leeds Gallery in Richmond, IN. Photographs from the series received an honorable mention in the Visual Proof exhibit at Seattle’s Photographic Center Northwest.

The Mackerel Sky Gallery of Contemporary Craft in East Lansing, MI showed Equipoise: Creating a Balance, an exhibit by Kim Kauffman. www.mackerelsky.com

The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago presented work by Meridel Rubenstein in the exhibition ditto: Multiples from the Collection. www.mocp.org

The Minnesota Projects Gallery at Minnesota Center for Photography in Minneapolis showed Trespass: Image and Sound, a collaboration between Laura Hoyt and sound artist Abinadi Meza. www.mncp.org

Roger Sayre found immediate online success in his art project, an ebay auction for his “Wooly Willy” beard. The auction received over 27,000 hits. The final bidder, “Mimi-omalley,” won the right to specify how Sayre would shave his beard, and chose a moustache-free Amish beard. See the results at http://www.rogersayre.com/shave.

The Print Center in Philadelphia exhibited Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music 1972 - 1981 by Henry Horenstein.

Kelly Flynn received the Best of Show award at the 2004 International Fine Art Photography Exhibition at Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art in Fort Collins, CO. Nora Lewis, Janet Pritchard and Ian Van Coller received honorable mentions. Also included in the exhibition were SPE members Philip V. Augustin, Terri Garland, Paul Cary Goldberg, Danielle Goodyear, Kristen Merola, Bridget Milligan, Michael Osborne, Daniel Parrott, Kenneth Rosenthal, Milton Rowley and Christina Seely. The juror was Mary Virginia Swanson. www.c4fap.org

SPE members Bobbi Lane and Jennifer Henderson were finalists in TCB-Cafe Publishing’s photography contest, Incredible Eyes. Finalists will be featured in a fine-art book publication and exhibition. www.cafeandre.com

Jill Waterman showed her work in the Trains Planes and Automobiles exhibition at Benham Gallery in Seattle, WA. www.newyearphotos.com

Linda and Lothar Troeller were married in their exhibition, Body Biography, at New York’s National Arts Club Gallery, after a long distance relationship between Germany and New York City.

The one-year anniversary exhibition at Premier Photo Imaging in Dallas included Dianne Coburn and Ryan Pfluger.

Gallery 1401 of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia featured Discard by Lynn Cazabon.

Michael Yurgeles received the Best in Show Award at Artwell’s Eighth Annual Open Juried Exhibition in Torrington, CT, juried by Andrea Miller-Keller, curator of the Whitney Biennial. www.artwellgallery.org

The Soho Photo Gallery’s member exhibition Double Exposure included Bob Axel, Joan Powers and Robert Toedter.

SPE Member Bea Nettles was included in the exhibition Six from the Seventies at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York. Among the other artists featured are 2003 SPE Keynote Speaker Joel Meyerowitz and 2004 SPE Keynote Speaker Frank Gohlke. www.howardgreenberg.com

Work by SPE members James B. Abbott, Bill Armstrong, Bradley Blackway, Ron Brignac, Cybèle Clark-Mendes, Phyllis Crowley, Susan Dunkerley, Nicholas Fedak II, Yahaira Ferreira, Erika Leppmann, Phil Marquez, Susan Moore, Lisa M. Robinson, Lauren Shaw, Jill Waterman and Torrance York could be seen in the 78th Annual International Competition: Photography at The Print Center in Philadelphia. The show was juried by Darsie Alexander. www.printcenter.org

The group exhibition Fact/Fiction, curated by Dawoud Bey, includes work by SPE member Nate Larson. The exhibition was on view at the Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven, CT this summer. Larson’s photographs could also be seen in an invitational group exhibition in the Campbell House Gallery, Geneva, IL. His work was recently shown in Visions VIII International Juried Exhibit at the Cathedral Basilica, Covington, KY, and The Written Word, at the Greater Lafayette Photo Co-op.

Art Bar in Dallas showed Women’s Work, a group show that includes SPE members Shauna Benoit, Dianne Coburn, Angelita Rodriguez, Kym Skiles and Karey Summers. www.clubclear-view.com

Charleston Heights Arts Center in Las Vegas showed the work by Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin, titled The Color of Hay: Ancient Peasant Ways in Transylvania. www.klmphoto.com, www.ci.las-vegas.nv.us/108_8532.htm

Cal Kowal curated the exhibition titled Arthur Tress for the Photography Gallery of the Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati. www.solwaygallery.com

The Santa Fe Center for Photography awarded Maggie Taylor the first prize of their ninth annual Project Competition. Taylor will receive a $5,000 cash award; scholarships for the 2004 Project Workshop at the Santa Fe Workshops and Review Santa Fe; and publication of the winning work. www.santafecenterforphotography.org

Deborah Orloff was one of three professors to be honored by the University of Toledo with an award for outstanding teaching.

SPE member Caitlin Atkinson received a James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography, given to three California-born artists. The award recipients exhibited their work at the Fifty Crows Gallery in San Francisco.

The New Jersey Press Foundation has awarded Stephen Miller the $2,500 Richard Drukker Memorial Scholarship.

Peter A. Calvin received a string of awards. He was named the Distinguished Master’s Student at the Texas A&M department of art. He was also selected for the 2003-04 June Kidder Memorial Scholarship. www.petercalvin.com

Andrew Hershberger has been awarded a 2004 Ansel Adams Research Fellowship at the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona. At the CCP, he will work on an article and/or exhibition project entitled The Dark Side of Photography: A Short History of the Negative Print. http:// personal.bgsu.edu/~aehersh

SPE member Barry Anderson exhibited his work Enduring Moments: Suspensions and Spheres at the University of Rhode Island.

The Houston Center for Photography showed Gay Block’s Bertha Alyce: A Photographic Biography as part of FotoFest 2004. www.hcponline.org

Dan Schlapbach showed his work A Stereoscopic Journey Through the Land of Uz at Gallery 1401 in Philadelphia. www.uarts.edu

The group exhibition Maternal Metaphors at Rochester Contemporary in Rochester, NY featured a number of SPE members, including Judy Gelles, Gail Rebhan and Sarah Webb. www.rochestercontemporary.org

Karina Aguilera Skvirsky could be seen in an exhibition at the Gigantic Art Space in New York. www.giganticartspace.com. She was also included in a group show at the Painting Center. www.paintingcenter.com

SPE members Angie Buckley, Dennis L. DeHart, Nicole Frocheur, Fleming Lunsford and Rebecca Diane Sittler joined forces in the group exhibition Mutability, on view at Lynn Arts in Lynn, MA. The traveling exhibition is sponsored by SPE’s affiliate organization, The Photography Institute.
Joel Whitaker recently was guest juror for the student competition Visual Narratives 2004: an Exhibition of Photo-graphy, on view at Clement Gallery at the University of Toledo.

Deborah Orloff recently showed her work Reclaiming the Night at the Exit Gallery of the University of Nevada, Reno. She also had digital work from A Loss of Control in the exhibition SNAP ’04 at Eastern New Mexico University’s Runnels Gallery. Orloff further was included in the 14th National Computer Invitational at Eastern Washington University.

The work refresh by Emmet Sandberg was on display at Katherine E. Nash Gallery in Minneapolis, MN.

The Sol Mednick Gallery at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia showed Ken Marchionno’s work entitled The Korea Project. www.uarts.edu.

Kehrer Verlag in Heidelberg, Germany published Mariette Pathy Allen’s book The Gender Frontier. The hardback book represents a decade of work with transgender people and includes an essay by Grady T. Turner. The photographic book is available at www.amazon.com and other book vendors. contact@kehrerverlag.com

In 2003...

The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC exhibited Muriel Hasbun’s work “Memento. Muriel Hasbun Photographs” through June 7. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, New York Avenue and 17th St, NW, Washington, DC, 202/639-1700, www.corcoran.org

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew showed photographs from her portfolio “An Indian from India” in the exhibition “Identity” at Sepia International in New York City. www.sepia.org. Matthews also curated the contemporary photography section for “Masala: Diversity and Democracy in South Asian Art,” on view at the William Benton Museum of Art through April 9. www.benton.unconn.edu

Colette Fu’s work was on view in En Foco’s group exhibition “New Works 2003” with Keba Konte, Don Gregorio Anton and Liliana Rodriguez.The work was shown at the Center for Art and Culture Skylight Gallery from April 3 - June 5. 1368 Fulton St., 3rd floor, Brooklyn, NY 11216.

World Affairs Council of Northern California presented “Mexico Portraits of Complexity/Retratos De La Complejidad” by James Lerager. The exhibition was on view through April 23. www.itsyourworld.org

The Center for Contemporary Arts in Abilene, TX, featured “Pictures of Failure, Incarceration of Youth” by Steve Davis. The exhibition was shown April 3-May 31. http://www.cca-abilene.org/

The national photography exhibition “Home, Sweet Home” at studio2gallery in Austin included four SPE members, Karen Bucher, Mitch Kern, Denis Sivack and Andrea Wallace, among the 23 artists presented, on view through April 24. Studio2gallery, 1700 S. Lamar Blvd. #318, Austin, TX 78704, 512-448-2622, www.studio2gallery.com.

John Scarlata, SPE Southeast regional chair, had a one person exhibit of his black and white landscape photographs in Havana, Cuba in April 2004 at the Fondo Cubano De La Imagen Fotografica. (photo)

The Open Lens Gallery in Philadelphia, PA, featured “Facades: Architectural Landscapes. The works of Sandy Sorlien, Jerry Russo, and David Lightner,” May 2 - August 15, 2004. Opening reception: Sunday May 2, 3-5 PM.

Matt Lit was awarded a First, Fourth and Fifth place in the Best of 2003 Wedding Photojournalism competition hosted by the Wedding PhotoJournalism Association. http://www.WPJA.org/contests/2003_2/14/index.shtml

SPE members Karen Bucher, Judy Gelles and David Husom showed their work in the exhibition Common Places at Arnold Art Gallery in Newport, RI. The gallery was part of the national conference gallery tour. www.commonplacesphoto.com

The DeCordova Museum exhibited “Self-Evidence:Identity in Contemporary Art” through May 30. The exhibition included work by SPE members Ann Fessler, Annu P. Matthew, Linn Underhill and Dan Younger. www.decordova.org

Texas Woman’s University Fine Arts Gallery presented the third Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition. Included in the juried group exhibition were SPE members: Cate Bartholomew, Joy Christiansen (Coupralux Award), Jen Davis (Solo Show Award), Rebecca Fitzsimmons, Frank Hamrick, Susannah Hays, Amy Holmes George, Laura Hoyt, Erika Leppmann, Monika Merva, Owen-Murakami (creative team Ginger Owen and Shuichi Murakami), Rebecca Sittler and William Tolan. A third award went to Christine Reinsch (Film Depot Award). The juror was Anne Wilkes Tucker, curator of photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, who also spoke as the Featured Speaker at SPE’s 2003 National Conference in Austin. Joy Christiansen functioned as the exhibition coordinator. jegexhibition@yahoo.com, www.twu.edu/as/va.

Bill Armstrong showed his work “Spirit: Photographs by Bill Armstrong in February at ClampArt Gallery in New York. www.clampart.com

Joan Harrison exhibited her work Accumulations. Photographs since the Millennium at the Inter-Media Art Center, 370 New York Ave., Huntington, NY. The work will be on view through April 3. www.imactheater.org

In conjunction with Houston's FotoFest, Walt Bistline exhibited his photographs of South Padre Island's Laguna Madre at Michaeline's Upstairs Gallery, 1512 West Alabama. The exhibit continued through April 12. Walt Bistline also participated in the University of Houston's 2004 Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition at the Blaffer Gallery through April 11.

powerHouse Books published “Spa Journeys:For Mind Body And Soul,” an elegant art book and a practical travel guide that juxtaposes unique, original photography by Linda Troeller with descriptions of humor, honesty and depth by Annette Foglino.
www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0401/troeller.html, www.lindatroeller.com

SPE members Joann Brennan, Dornith Doherity and Dana Fritz participated in the group exhibition Managing Eden at the University of North Texas Art Galleries in Denton, TX. Other artists in the exhibition were Tim Butler, Deborah Edmeades, Cynthia Greig, Derek Johnston, David Maisel, and Lori Nix The exhibition was curated by Kate Menconeri and Ariel Shanberg from the Center for Photography at Woodstock (Jan.21-Feb.20, 2004).

The work of multiple SPE members were included in the Second Cleveland Biennial Juried Exhibition featuring photography, video and digital media. The artists included in the group show were Dennie Eagleson, Ryan Davis Flathau, Fredrik Marsh, Melissa Miller, Ardine Nelson, Deborah Orloff and other artists. www.csuohio.edu/art/gallery.

Dennis DeHart and Roger Hangarter collaborated in the exhibition sLowlife at the School of Fine Arts (SoFA) Gallery at Indiana University. The exhibition will continue on to a plant biology conference in Florida in 2004. http://sofa.fa.indiana.edu.

Laura Pickett Calfee and Dornith Doherty participated in the group exhibition Inside/Outside: Texas Women Photographers at the Houston Center for Photography. 713/529-4755, www.hcponline.org.

SPE member John Ganis released his photography book Consuming the American Landscape (Dewi Lewis Publishing). The book is the result of over 15 years of documentation of land use sites across the US.

The Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA featured Thomas McGovern’s exhibition Hard Boys + Bad Girls about kids who are aspiring pro wrestlers. A book featuring this work is in progress. www.griffinmuseum.org/mcgovern.html. Thomas McGovern also exhibited his work Grotesque at Art Resources Transfer in New York.

Coffey Gallery in Kingston, NY exhibited Living History: American Pop Culture & The Performer by Lauren Piperno. The exhibition featured a mix of Piperno’s black-and-white Polaroid prints of sacred Powwow dancers and colonial re-enactors, along with her large color prints showcasing the retro-phenomena of ballroom dancers and nightclub cigarette girls. 845/339-6105, coffeygallery@netstep.net.

Carol Flax participated in the group exhibition, Global Priority, at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The exhibition was themed around the “accelerating hybridization of identities.” http://www2.uta.edu/arvidson/marxismandtheworldstage/globalpriority.htm

Karina Aguilera Skvirsky showed her work From the Woolworth Building at Jessica Murray Projects in Brooklyn, NY. 718/384-9606, www.jessicamurrayprojects.com.

Tamas Revesz received the prestigious 2003 Howard Chapnick Grant for the Advancement of Photojournalism. He plans to use the $5,000 grant to establish masterclasses in journalism for photographers from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovakia.

Walt Bistline exhibited his landscape photographs at Hungry’s Cafe in Houston and will show his work at the Upstairs Gallery at Michaeline’s as part of Houston’s FotoFest 2004.

Amherst Media published Steven H. Begleiter’s The Portrait Book, A Photographer’s Guide. www.begleiter.com

Carol Golemboski showed her work Psychometry at the Clement Gallery, CVA at The University of Toledo, OH. The term “Psychometry” refers to an alleged psychic ability to divine the histories of objects. The pictures address psychological issues of anxiety and loss.

Renée Creager O’Brien participated in the group exhibition Local Color at Lapham Gallery in Glens Falls, NY.

John Freyer and his creative partner Christopher Wilcha could be seen in the PBS series pilot Second Hand Stories, a documentary on the artists’ cross-country adventures in their 1977 Chevy ambulance. The series explores the thriving underground economy of the second hand. A book by the same title is in the works. http://secondhandstories.com.

The Houston Center of Photography featured Maggie Taylor and Jerry N. Uelsmann in the exhibition Points of Intervention. www.hcponline.org.

The Hastings College Art Gallery in Hastings, NE, showed work by Rebecca Sittler in a recent photography exhibition.

Jennifer Drucker exhibited her photographic work at Port Washington Public Library, 516/883-4400.

Sue Abramson showed her work at Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ New Gallery. http://www.pghfilmmakers.org

Brian Moss brought a collaborative web project online. http://what-is-santa-monica.us

Getty Curator Weston Naef and Mary Ellen Mark participated in the Hammer Conversations series at the Hammer Museum. 310/443-7000, www.hammer.ucla.edu.

SPE board member Kerry Stuart Coppin’s work Los Canciones Negras Sin Color [Black Songs Without Color] were shown at the Fine Arts Center Galleries in Rhode Island. www.uri.edu/artgalleries

The Fine Arts Center Galleries at the University of Rhode Island featured an exhibition of Carl Chiarenza’s early work. This selection charted Chiarenza’s historical engagement with photographer Aaron Siskind.

Work by SPE members Joann Brennan, Dana Fritz and Dornith Doherty was included in the group exhibition Managing Eden at The Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY. 845/679-6337, www.cpw.org

Fort Point Art Community Gallery in Boston showed Jessica Ferguson’s new work in the exhibition Hidden Language. 617/423-4299, www.fortpointarts.com. Her pinhole camera work could be seen at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in the exhibition Visions and Revisions: Art on Paper since 1960. 617/267-9300, www.mfa.org

The Santa Fe Center for Photography awarded Susan kae Grant the Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award for 2003. The award included a $2,500 cash prize and Adobe software package. Grant teaches at The International Center of Photography, Anderson Ranch Arts Center and is head of the photography program at Texas Woman’s University. www.susankaegrant.com

The Fine Arts Center Galleries at the University of Rhode Island featured David Freese’s work Air Show.

The Latino Cultural Center in Dallas celebrated their grand opening with an exhibition that included work by Carola Dreidemie. www.dallasculture.org

Sant Khalsa received a 2002-2003 Artists Fellowship Award for the Visual Arts from the California Arts Council.

Annu Palakunnatha Mathew presented new works in An Indian from India, an exhibition at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. 215/ 717-6300, www.uarts.com

Barry Anderson’s video installation Ghosts was on exhibit at Gallery HQ in Kansas City, MO. www.barryanderson.com

Former SPE regional chair Brian Moss exhibited What Helps Dodge Helps You: A Project by Brian C. Moss at the Center for Documentary Studies in Durham, NC. The project featured oversized pinhole images of a defunct factory in Philadelphia that were taken with a camera made from material found on the site.

The Richards Gallery at the Georgia Institute of Technology exhibited work from SPE members Roger Sayre, Michael Marshall and Richard Gray in the group exhibition Essence: Matter/ Science/Photography. The exhibition was curated by Perry Kirk.

The Camera Obscura Gallery in Denver showed Masterworks in Platinum. SPE founding member Jerry Uelsmann was among the star talent featured in this exhibition. www.cameraobscuragallery.com

Woman Made Gallery in Chicago showed work by SPE board member Valerie Mendoza as part of the group exhibition, Digitally Speaking. 773/489-8900. www.womanmade.org

The International Gallery of Contemporary Art in Alaska hosted a solo exhibition for Christine Shank. Scheduled to run concurrently was Rarefied Light, an exhibition juried by Christine that traveled to six other venues.

Muriel Hasbun exhibited her work Watched Over at Conner Contemporary Art in Washington, DC. The photographs are based on the artist’s Postmemory Project. They include an essay by Andy Grundberg. 202/588-8750, www.connercontemporary.com

The New Britain Museum of American Art exhibited Judith Thorpe’s work Femme (Woman). 860/229-0257, www.nbmaa.org.

The Museum of New Mexico showed Krista Elrick’s collaboration, In Exchange: New Mexico’s Family-Owned General Stores. www.palaceofthegovernors.org

Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami featured Kerry Stuart Coppin’s work Materia Oscura / Dark Matter of seventy photographs including work from Dakar, Senegal; Havana, Cuba; Barbados, West Indies and North American Black communities.

Carola Dreidemie had a solo exhibition, Jubilee, at Texas Woman’s University.

En Foco’s Touring Gallery Program recently featured work by former Southwest regional chair, Angie Buckley, the in-between at their Seventh & Second Photo Gallery in New York.

Susan Ressler released her book, Women Artists of the American West. www.sla.purdue.edu/waaw

Sarah G. Vinci curated a group exhibition of emerging San Francisco bay area photographers that was on exhibition at the Reed Whipple Cultural Center in Las Vegas.

Lyman Museum in Hilo, HI featured photographs by Mary Ann Lynch in the Kalapana, a Hawaiian Place exhibition. www.lymanmuseum.org

Andrew Hershberger published an article, “Malraux’s Photography,” in History of Photography (Winter 2002).

Visual Studies Workshop featured Young Photography: Multiple Expressions, a collection of work by 2002 National Graduate Seminar Fellows of The Photography Institute. The artists included SPE members Carla Cioffi, Myra Greene, Jessica Kaufman, Glen Kawabata, Sonya Lawyer, Andrew John Liccardo, Paul Melhado and Mark Slankard. Visual Studies Workshop was the third venue for the exhibition, which started at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and traveled to University at Buffalo’s Anderson Gallery.

The Photographic Journal Nueva Luz (vol. 9 #1) recently included the work of two SPE members, Angie Buckley and Kerry Stuart Coppin, plus a commentary by Kathleen Campbell. www.enfoco.org

Arlene Gottfried published her book Midnight, an intimate (photographic) journey about a man who suffers from mental illness and his struggle to survive this battle. www.powerhousebooks.com

Jack Fulton’s book The Sturdy White-bark Pine, published in 1986, is now for sale again for $23 each including postage. jefulton1@comcast.net

SPE member Willie Williams received a Guggenheim fellowship to complete a body of work on the Civil War battlefields where black solders fought. The artist describes that “More than 180,000 black solders served in segregated units with white officers in command and 19,000 served in the Navy. From 1862-65 these men fought in 39 major battles and 449 engagements. Today these men and the places where they fought are not a part of the general understanding and folklore of the Civil War.”

Wendel White also received a Guggenheim Fellowship. The award was given for his project Small Towns, Black Lives: African American Communities in Southern New Jersey. The various towns and settlements represent a range of black civic experiences including communities that were formed nearly one hundred years before the Civil War; a summer resort established just before World War II; and a settlement of black Jews that began only 40 years ago. All are evidence of a diverse and complex African American culture that represent deeply familiar places and a common culture. www.blacktowns.org

At press time no information was available on Joann Brennan’s Guggenheim Fellowship.

Pok Chi Lau published his book Dreams of the Golden Mountain/ Rêves de la Montagne d'Or through Pace Publishing Ltd. The hard cover book includes 153 duotone photographs on Asian Americans and their ancestry. It is available through the artist’s website at www.goldenmountaindream.com.

Martha Madigan exhibited prints from her new Human Nature series entitled Graciela Growth 1993-2003 at Terminal F in the Philadelphia International Airport. www.martha madigan.com/gracielagrowth.html

The University of the Arts Gallery 1401 in Philadelphia, PA exhibited work by SPE member Rita Bernstein titled Homesick. Also at The University of the Arts, the Sol Mednick Gallery exhibited the work by Robert Hirsch titled The Architecture of Landscape, and by Sandra C. Davis, Rachelle Lee Smith and Charlee Brodsky. 215/717-6300, www.uarts.edu.

Columbus College of Art & Design in Acock Gallery featured Dresden Reliquary: Photographs by Fredrik Marsh, a series of work resulting from his experiences as artist-in-residence in Dresden, Germany last summer. The artist also exhibited selections from his self-published limited edition folio Dresden Reliquary: Past into Present. 614/222-3248, www.ccad.edu.

The Ken Kirschman Artspace at the NOCCA Institute Riverfront Galleries in New Orleans, LA exhibited South Louisiana Soul: Deciphering Personal Altars through Pinhole Photography by Allison Petit. 504/940-2900, www.nocca.com.

Modernbook Gallery 494 in Palo Alto, CA exhibited work by Mary Daniel Hobson, Mapping the Body: Kodalith and Mixed Media Collage. 650/327-6325.

The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago presented work by Paul Berger, Paul Berger: 1973-2003. 312/663-5554, www.mocp.org.

The Center for Photography at Woodstock in Woodstock, NY recently showed two exhibitions by SPE members: My Vietnam by Howard Henry Chen and Photography Now 2003 by SPE board member Therese Mulligan. 845/679-9957, www.cpw.org.

Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY recently included Marni Shindelman and Myra Greene in the group exhibition “introducing… .” gallery@vsw.org.

Soho Photo Gallery exhibited Sandra Carrion’s Small Spaces. 212/226-8571, www.sohophoto.com.

Perry Dilbeck showed his work Truck Farmers –The Last Harvest in a solo exhibition at the Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburg, PA. 412/431-1810. Dilbeck was also selected as a winner for outstanding black and white photographs by the Santa Fe Center for Visual Arts Vision Awards/Assignment Earth. Blue Earth Alliance in Seattle, WA sponsored the artist for a year. www.blueearth.org/bea/farmers.htm, www.photoeye.com/perrydilbeck.

USA Today published an interview feature article on Sandy Sorlien’s new book Fifty Houses.

SPE member John Freyer was invited to a TV interview with NBC’s Conan O'Brien. The interview aired in early May. Freyer’s project Second-Hand Stories just received the go-ahead for a pilot episode on PBS, and will appear as a book in the fall of 2004. www.secondhandstories.com.

The Noyes Museum of Art in Oceanville, NJ exhibited the work of Wendel A. White in an exhibition titled Small Towns, Black Lives: African American Communities in Southern New Jersey. www.noyedmuseum.org, www.blacktowns.org, 609/652-8848.

Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, showed work by Joseph Mill. 202/639-1703. www.corcoran.org.

Ellen Carey exhibited her work, Light Index, with Erika Blumenfeld and Amanda Means. 585/442-8676, www.vsw.org.

Lost & Found: Mixed Media Installation by Cal Kowal and Anita Douthat was on view at the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati. 513/977-4165, www.cincinnatiarts.org/weston.

SPE members Paul Anthony, Krista Elrick, Paola Ferrario, Danielle Goodyear, Joan Harrison, Katherine Kreisher and Thomas McGovern were featured in a group exhibition, Once Upon a Time When the Fairy Tale Ends, at The Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY. 845/679-9957, www.cpw.org.

Dornith Doherty showed her work in a solo exhibition Exploring the Rio Grande at Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art Gallery in Dallas, 214/969-9410, www.pillsburypetersfineart.com. The artist also received a Japan Foundation Fellowship and spent two and one half months in Kyoto making photographs and videos.

SPE board member Sandy Sorlien received a 2003 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, for her new body of work on Main Streets in America. Longtime board member Willie Williams also received a Pennsylvania Fellowship this year, as did David Graham, Martha Madigan and Charmaine Caire.

Former board member Kenda North will exhibited her photographs together with Mauricio Cuartas at the Craighead-Green Gallery in Dallas. 214/855-0779.

SPE member Shauna Church and Jeannie Pearce participated in a group exhibit at the Austin Spirit Gallery, Austin, TX. 512/444-8500. www.austinspiritgallery.com

MOURNING WALL for September 11, 2001: A Document of Loss, a collaborative project between lens-based artist and photographer Ellen Carey and architect David D. Harlan, was on exhibition at the Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr. Gallery at The Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, CT. A section of Carey’s original Mourning Wall could be seen at the University of Connecticut’s Benton Museum of Art at Storrs. www.ellencarey.com, www.daviddharlanarchitects.com.

The Clement Gallery at the University of Toledo’s Center for Visual Arts in Toledo, OH, presented Images and Actions by Jeffery Byrd. 419/530-8300, 419/530-8314.

The Soho Gallery in New York City exhibited works by Bob Axel in a show titled Suburban Landscape. 718/769-4436, 212/663-8950 or www.sohophoto.com.

Jo Whaley exhibited Natura Morta (Oakland, CA) at the Houston Center for Photography. The HCP also showed work by Susan Dunkerley, who exhibited her three-dimensional installation Transmit (Waco, TX), and by Shannon Paul Fagan, who showed the Blackboard & Prescription Series (New York, NY). All three artists received funding from NEA Creativity Grants for their projects.

The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs exhibited Chicago Landmarks Before the Lens at the Landmark Chicago Gallery. The exhibition features 72 black and white photographs of 24 landmarks and historic districts by Richard Nickel, Barbara Crane, Bob Thall and Stephen Beal.

Digital Photographs, Veils of Water, by SPE member Anne C. Savedge were view at the Barbara Bishop Gallery at the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts in Farmville, VA. www.longwood.edu/lcva/ exhibitions/savedge.html.

Peter Bunnell’s work was on exhibit at The Princeton University Art Museum under the title Photographs from the Peter C. Bunnell Collection. www.princetonartmuseum.org.

SPE member Mary Teresa Giancoli exhibited her photographs Pan, Tortilla y la Familia (Bread, Tortillas and the Family from New York to Puebla) at Queens Theatre in the Park in Flushing, NY.

Jill Waterman was interviewed by with Katie Couric for NBC’s The Today Show. www.NewYearPhotos.com.

Gallery 1401 at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia exhibited color photographs by Joann Brennan in an exhibition entitled Managing Eden. For the past fourteen years, Brennan has been researching and documenting the factual and symbolic complexities of wildlife conservation. 215/717-6300.

Former West Regional Chair Brian Moss exhibited at the Greenleaf Gallery at Whittier College in Whittier, CA.

Mary Stieglitz, professor of art and design at Iowa State University, has been named the Distinguished Arts and Humanities Scholar for 2003-04 at the university’s new Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities. The award provides a full semester's leave for an outstanding scholar in the arts and humanities. Her work has been in more than 250 exhibitions nationally and internationally, and published in catalogues, periodicals books and electronic venues. http://www.iastate.edu/Inside/2003/0725/stieglitz.shtml