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Teaching Experience

•       School of Visual Arts, Art History Dept., New York, NY -Adj. Prof. - 1993-Present: 19th and 20th Century History of Photography

•       NYU/ICP Master's Program, New York, NY -Adj. Prof. - 2002-2012. Graduate course: 19th/20th Century History of Photography

•       International Center of Photography, New York, NY -Adj. Prof. - 2001: Critical Issues in Photography--1945 to Present.

•       International Center of Photography, New York, NY -Adj. Prof.-1989-2002: Color Photography

•       Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA -Adj. Prof. -1990-1992: Color Printing, Color Theory, Photo critique

•       Russell Sage College, Troy, NY -Adj. Prof. -Spring 1988: Art Criticism

•       SUNY, Albany, NY -Adj. Prof. -Summer semesters -1988-1989; Fall 1982-Spring 1983: Ilfochrome Color Print Workshop

•       MGSA Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ -Adj. Prof. -1984-1985

 

Education

•       MFA Photography — California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

•       BA English — University of Wisconsin, Madison,WI

 

Professional Experience

•       Presenter—2000 Barnard Feminist Art and Art History Conference, Barnard College, NY, Oct 2000

•       Technical Advisor—Photography, 3rd Ed.; Upton and Upton (“Ilfochrome” section), 1985

•       Editor of the SPE/Newsletter (The Society for Photography Education), 1981-1983

 

Publications

•       Come Together: Surviving Sandy Year 1, ed. Jack Flam, The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn, NY, 2014

•       Between Light and Shadow: Aspects of Life and Brazilian Popular Art. The Brazilian Endowment for the Arts,-BEA, New York, NY, Nov.-Dec. 2011

•       Encyclopedia of 20th Century Photography, “Survey of the 19th Century Photography,” Fitzroy-Dearborn/Routledge Publishers, 2005

•       The Encyclopedia of the African and American Experience. (Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah, eds.) Oxford University Press, 2004

•       "The Virgin and the Whore at the Crossroads of Resistance in Afro-Brazilian Religion." Barnard Feminist Art and Art History Conference, Oct. 28,                   2000,  Barnard College, NYC

•       ElpuentoLatino, online cultural website, 1999-2000, Photography/Art reviewer

•       Microsoft African Encarta. 2000 (1998) Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA

•       Microsoft African Encarta, online encyclopedia, 1998Microsoft African Encarta 

•       Umbanda: Religions and Politics in Urban Brazil. Diana Brown, Columbia University Press, 1994 (Cover).

•       Faces of the Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americas. Robert Farris Thompson, The Museum of African Art, 1993

•       “A Historical Williamsburg,” Artscribe, March/April issue 1990, Photo Criticism.

•      Popular Photography, Dec. 1984—Winners of Cibachrome Grant contest

 

Awards, Grants, Acquisitions

•       Afropaedia-Africana, Acquisition, 2004, 1999

•       Microsoft Encarta (online), Acquisition, 1998

•       Brooklyn Museum Archives, NY, Acquisition, 1995

•       Getty Museum, Sam Wagstaff Collection, 1984

 

Exhibitions: One Person

•      Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA, Feb. 2000     

•      The Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Feb. 1996     

•      Institute of the Arts, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Aug.-Oct. 1995     

•      10th Symposium of African Art, NYU, NY, Mar. 1995