Master of Fine Arts – Photography and Digital Imaging
Maryland Institute College of Art, 2003
Bachelor of Fine Arts – Creative Photography
University of Florida, 2001
Professor – Digital Media
Florida State College at Jacksonville, 2012 – presentInstructor – Department of Art
Lincoln Memorial University, 2011 - 2012Assistant Professor – Digital Media
University of Illinois Springfield, 2006 – 2010Adjunct Instructor – Photography
Pensacola State College, Spring 2006Visiting Instructor – Digital Imaging
University of West Florida, 2003 – 2005Teaching Intern
Maryland Institute College of Art, 2001 – 2003
Faculty Advisor
Campus Voice student newspaper: Florida State College at Jacksonville, 2014 - presentMedia Mogul (photography)
One Spark Inc., 2014Visual Arts Editor
drafthorse journal, 2012 – 2013Web Developer – Department of Web and Publications
Lincoln Memorial University, 2011 – 2012Social Networking Specialist – Department of Web and Publications
Lincoln Memorial University, 2010 – 2011Visual Arts Gallery Director
University of Illinois Springfield, 2007 – 2010
2011
The Land of Sunshine – The Studios at Key West; Key West, FL2009
Breaking Through the Glass Floor – Access Gallery; University of Illinois Springfield, IL
Let Us Praise Famous Men: Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum; Harrogate, TN2008
Breaking Through the Glass Floor – Applebee Gallery, MacMurray College; Jacksonville, IL
Uniformity – Tyler School of Art, Temple University; Philadelphia, PA
Memories Discarded – Lincoln Land Community College Visual Arts Gallery; Springfield, IL
Memories Discarded – Blackburn College Visual Arts Gallery; Carlinville, IL
Identity – Robert Morris Gallery; Springfield, IL
Uniformity – Visual Arts Gallery, University of Illinois Springfield; Springfield, IL2005
Facing Shadows – A Portrait of Alzheimer’s – Gallery 88; Pensacola, FL2004
Faceless Portraits – MFA Thesis Exhibit, Maryland Institute College of Art at the University of West Florida; Pensacola, FL
2016
Faculty exhibition; Florida State College at Jacksonville South Campus Library and Learning Commons; Jacksonville, FL
Florida State College at Jacksonville Visual Arts and Digital Media Faculty Show; Nathan H. Wilson Art Gallery; Jacksonville, FL2015
Florida State College at Jacksonville Visual Arts and Digital Media Faculty Show; Nathan H. Wilson Art Gallery; Jacksonville, FL2014
Southeast Center for Photographic Studies alumni slideshow; The Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
Florida State College at Jacksonville Visual Arts and Digital Media Faculty Show; Nathan H. Wilson Art Gallery; Jacksonville, FL
6x6x2014 – Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
PHOTOJAX 2014; CoRK Arts District, Jacksonville, FL2013
GAAM Winter Juried Art Exhibition; The Museum, Jacksonville, FL
Florida State College at Jacksonville Visual Arts and Digital Media Faculty Show; Nathan H. Wilson Art Gallery; Jacksonville, FL
A Million Little Pictures|Analog; Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY
FATE Biennial Members Exhibition; Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
PHOTOJAX 2013; CoRK Arts District, Jacksonville, FL
Things Found… By Accident, Art House online gallery2012
P_STOP permanent public installation; Museum of Contemporary Art; Perm, Russia
Florida State College at Jacksonville Visual Arts and Digital Media Faculty Show; Nathan H. Wilson Art Gallery; Jacksonville, FL2011
WinterTide, The Fine Arts Center of Hot Springs; Hot Springs, AR
From These Hills: Contemporary Art in the Southern Appalachian Highlands, William King Museum; Abingdon, VA
SPE South Central Members Exhibit, University of Texas at San Antonio; San Antonio, TX
Not for Sale – FICTILIS; Seattle, WA
Voices of the World – UIF Cultural Exhibit, Durham University; Durham, UK
Opening Benefit and Silent Auction – Five Ten Gallery; Mason City, IL2010
Smoke & Mirrors – Lightwell Gallery, University of Oklahoma; Norman, OK
IN-STRUCT: A Showcase of Work by 2010-11 TSKW Instructors – The Studios of Key West; Key West, FL
KY7 Biennial – Lexington Art League; Lexington, KY
SELF – Croft Art Gallery; Waco, TX
Water S(our)ce – Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center; Buford, GA2009
Indirect Objects: Captured Identities – Parkland Art Gallery; Champaign, IL
Between History and Myth, Triennale Bovisa Gallery; Milan, Italy
Rise & Fall, New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Miami, FL; Richmond, VA; Baltimore, MD; Washington D.C.; Boston, MA; Providence, RI; Las Vegas, NV; Los Angeles, CA
Esprit de corps – Applebee Gallery, MacMurray College; Jacksonville, IL
Marking Places, Retracing Spaces – Multimedia Gallery, The University of the Arts; Philadelphia, PA
Sea of Seas – The Slade Research Center, University College London; London, UK
The Relentless Eye – Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
Anthology – Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona State College; Daytona Beach, FL
Faculty Exhibition – Access Gallery, University of Illinois Springfield; Springfield, IL
Lottery for the Arts – Roseville Arts!, Roseville, CA
Nature – Caladan Gallery, Cambridge, MA
The Way We Are – NXNW Arts Festival; Wigan, Lancashire, UK
Cellutations – The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, New Haven, CT
15 x 15: Alumni Invitational – Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
6x6x2009 – Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
Dead Video / Live Video Festival, the Boston Cyberarts Festival 2009; Pozen Center, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Lost and Found – Springfield Art Association, Springfield, IL
LLCC Lincoln Bicentennial Invitational Show, James S. Murray Gallery, Springfield, IL2008
Faculty Exhibition – Access Gallery; University of Illinois Springfield, Springfield, IL
Let Us Praise Famous Men: Lincoln in The Many Faces of Abe - Springfield Art Association; Springfield, IL2007
A River Runs Through Us: Engaged Documentary Practice – SPE Midwest Regional Members Exhibit; Flint, MI
On My Own Time – UIS Public Affairs Center; Springfield, IL
Art Walk Downtown – Springfield, IL2006
Faculty Exhibition – Access Gallery; University of Illinois2005
Snap to Grid 2nd annual competition – Los Angeles Center for Digital Art; Los Angeles, CA
15 x 15: Alumni Invitational – Meyerhoff Gallery - Maryland Institute College of Art; Baltimore, MD2004
Faculty Exhibit – Art Gallery, University of West Florida; Pensacola, FL2002
No Consensus – Fox Gallery; Baltimore, MD2001
Visitors Please Buzz – Fox Gallery; Baltimore, MD
Reflections: Identity, Time and Place – Maryland Institute College of Art; Baltimore, MD
One Night Stand - Senoir thesis exhibit; Gainesville Comfort Inn Gainesville, FL2000
2000ADD – Lush Gallery; Gainesville, FL
The Living Machine - The Ark Gallery; Gainesville, FL1999
Scaramouche - Blank Space Gallery; Gainesville, FL
2015
"Failure is an option: designing a curriculum that allows students to overcome their preoccupation with grades" at the International Conference on College Teaching and Learning; Ponte Vedra Beach, FL2014
Speaker – WordCamp Orlando; UCF Rosen School of Hospitality, Orlando, FL
"I Was There: Photography and the Iconography of Tourism" at the Popular / American Culture Association in the South Conference; New Orleans, LA
Panel Chair: Visual Impressions Popular / American Culture Association in the South Conference; New Orleans, LA
"I Remember: tourism, iconography and photography in Florida" Florida Historians Conference; St. Augustine, FL2013
"The Land of Sunshine: Documenting the Disappearing Tourist Culture Along Florida’s US1" at SECAC 2013; University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
"Social Media practice and pitfalls" Fleming Island High School; Jacksonville, FL
"Yarn Bombing" Florida State College at Jacksonville, Kent Campus; Jacksonville, FL
"Don’t Turn Them Off: cellphones and student engagement" at the 24th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning; Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
"Don’t Turn Them Off: cellphones as the key to student engagement" at PostHaus - 2013 FATE Biennial Conference; Savannah, GA2012
"The Land of Sunshine: the End of an Era" at the Society for Photographic Education Southeast Regional Conference; Daytona State College, Daytona Beach, FL
"Florida and Tourism" at the Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting and Symposium; Tampa, FL
"Breaking Through the Glass Floor" at the 14th Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group; The University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
"Marching in Seven-League Boots: Nicéphore Niépce to digital workflow" at NEXUS: Voice and Voicing in a Technological Era; The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
"The Land of Sunshine" at the annual South Carolina Historical Association Conference; Columbia, SC2011
Panel Chair "Analogous Yet Asynchronous: Digital Imaging and Photography" 67th Annual SECAC conference; Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
"Uniformity: Concepts of Identity at Work" in Visualising the Changing Landscape of Work and Labour seminar, Department of Sociology; The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
"The Land of Sunshine: Documenting a Never Was" at the Space, Place and Production of Knowledge Conference, Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies; University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
"Creativity and the Internet" at the FATE/MACAA conference On Stream; St. Louis, MO
Artist talk at The Studios of Key West; Key West, FL
"The Land of Sunshine" at the 3rd Auburn University Montgomery Liberal Arts Conference Southern Studies; The Auburn University Montgomery, Montgomery, AL2010
Panel Chair "The Indecisive Moment: Photography in the Age of Banality" Curiouser: the 2010 Joint Meeting of SECAC & MACAA; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
"Uniformity: identity and work" at the Fashion in Fiction – the Dark Side Conference; Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
"Social Networking and Family Communication" at the LMU Tri-State Social Work’s Technology and the Family Roundtable; Harrogate, TN
Panel Chair "The Indecisive Moment: Photography in the Age of Banality" at the International Visual Sociology Association’s annual conference; Bologna, IT
"The Land of Sunshine" at the 6th Annual International Association for the Study of Environment, Space and Place Conference; Towson University, Towson, MD
"Some Rights Reserved: Protecting Creative Works with Creative Commons" The University of Illinois Springfield; Springfield, IL
"The Land of Sunshine: Documenting the Disappearing Tourist Culture Along Florida’s US1" at the Northeast Modern Language Association’s 41st Annual Convention; Montreal, QC
Panel Chair "Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction: How Artwork’s Scale is Affected by Infinite Reproducibility" at the Midwest Art History Society’s 2010 Annual Conference; Omaha, NE
"Let Us Praise Famous Men: Film, Iconography and Truth" at The National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations’ 2010 Annual Conference; St. Louis, MO
"Social Media, Creativity and Promotion" at THATcamp (The Humanities and Technology camp) Columbus; Columbus, OH2009
Artist talk at Parkland Art Gallery; Parkland College; Champaign, IL
"Let Us Praise Famous Men: Lincoln at the Between History and Myth: Politics and Political Use of Abraham Lincoln conference; University of Milan; Milan Italy
Artist talk and roundtable discussion; Triennale Bovisa gallery; Milan, Italy
"Uniformity: a Photographic Examination of Projected/Perceived Identity at the 20th Annual International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education; Seattle, WA
"Social Media and Art" at ASAP/1 Arts of the Present conference; Knoxville, TN
"The Digital Image in Art: New Technology or a New Medium?" at the Aesthetic Dimension of Visual Culture conference, Academy of Fine Arts; Prague, Czech Republic
"Web 2.0 and Creativity" at the Association for Integrative Studies Creativity and Play Across the Disciplines Conference; Tuscaloosa, AL
"Web 2.0 and Creativity" at the Image 2.0 Digital Media Futures Conference, University College Falmouth; Falmouth, Cornwall, UK
"Let Us Praise Famous Men" at the Transcultural Montage conference, Aarhus University and Moesgaard Museum; Aarhus, Denmark
"Uniformity: a Photographic Examination of Projected/Perceived Identity" at the International Visual Sociology Association’s Social and Visual Landscape conference, University of Cumbria; Carlisle, Cumbria, UK
Keynote Speaker - Let Us Praise Famous Men: Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum, Harrogate, TN2008
"Breaking Through the Glass Floor: Gender Roles in the 21st Century" MacMurray College Speaker Series, Jacksonville, IL
"Creating Art in a Participatory Culture" at the Association for Integrative Studies Annual Conference, Springfield, IL
Artist lecture and photography demonstration, New Berlin High School, New Berlin, IL2007
"Facing Shadows: A Portrait of Alzheimer’s" Imagemaker Presentation at A River Runs Through Us: Engaged Documentary Practice SPE Midwest Regional Conference, Flint, MI2005
"Careers in Digital Media" Woodham High School; Pensacola, FL
Article – “A community thread: the fiber art of Jackie Kuhn” for the exhibition Breaking the Walls of Graffiti international exhibition; Szczecin Academy of Art, Szczecin, Poland
Conference Program and Poster – photograph selected for program and poster of the 2012 international conference “Making It Home: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Recognition and Displacement in America” hosted by the Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Creative Journal – Three photographs selected for inclusion (one as the cover) in the Spring 2011 edition of “The Emancipator” published by Lincoln Memorial University
E-Journal Portfolio – “The Land of Sunshine” InTensions Issue 3 - “Suspended” Fine Arts Cultural Studies at York University, Fall 2009
"The Way Home" Folio Weekly, December 25-31 2013
"Fiber Threat" Folio Weekly, September 4-10 2013
"Figuration and Gestural Abstraction: Prints of Arthur C. Danto" Bogusz-Boltuc, Ewa; American Society for Aesthetics, 2010
"Stop Making Art" Danto, Arthur C.; American Society for Aesthetics, 2010
"Who Are You Really?" Uniforms Magazine; May/June 2008
Southeast Museum of Photography; Daytona Beach, FL
Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum; Harrogate, TN
Brookens Library, The University of Illinois Springfield; Springfield, IL
Faculty Certificate Program – Blended Course Delivery; Florida State College academy for Professional Development, 2013
2011 Tennessee College Public Relations Association Awards:
- Gold (1st) Print Advertising: "I found my career path at LMU" - photography and layout
- Bronze (3rd) Social Media: "Campus Photo Trivia Tuesday" - photography and executionArtist in Residence – The Studios of Key West; March 2011
Illinois Arts Council Program Grant on Behalf of the UIS Visual Arts Gallery; 2009
University of Illinois Springfield faculty Summer Competitive Scholarly Research Grant – The Land of Sunshine photographic documentary series; Summer 2009
Illinois Arts Council Program Grant on Behalf of the UIS Visual Arts Gallery; 2008
2015
Breaking the Walls of Graffiti international exhibition - U.S. coordinator, Szczecin Academy of Art, Szczecin, Poland (forthcoming)2012
Curatorial Internship under the supervision of A.D. Coleman, VASA Project, Fall 2010-2012
-Weep not for the future: the photographs of Sam Davis, spring 2012
-Light Quartet: Themes & Variations (Kate Breakey), January – March 20112011
2011 Our Creative Legacy Homecoming 2011 Alumni Exhibition, Lincoln Memorial University2010
Sustain: Juried exhibition on Sustainability in Art University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
Felicia Olin: Curiouser… University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
2nd Biennial Juried Alumni Show University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery2009
Khara Koffel: At Some Point University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
Sergei Chepik: East Meets West (co-curated with Benedictine University Springfield) University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
Arthur C. Danto: Prints University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
Highlights from the Vogele Print Collection University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
Ted Rall: Search and Destroy University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
Bathsheba Grossman: Life in 3 Dimensions University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery2008
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew: An Indian from India and Bollywood Satirized University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
James Luna: Talking Stones (co-curated with UIS faculty) University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
1st Biennial Juried Alumni Show University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
Michael Jones McKean: The sunshine of our last day (co-curated with UIS faculty) University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery2007
Philip Hartigan: Hecho En Cuba University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
Mary Alice Johnston: Faces of Paris University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
Ioan Florea University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery2005
D(igital)fraged University of West Florida Art Gallery