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Teaching Experience

Adjunct Professor

1993 – Present

19th and 20th Century History of Photography at School of Visual Arts, 
Art History Dept., New York, NY

Adjunct Professor

2002 – 20012

19th and 20th Century History of Photography at NYU/ICP Master's Program, New York, NY

Adjunct Professor

2001

Critical Issues in Photography—1945 to Present at International Center of Photography, New York, NY

Adjunct Professor

1989 – 2002

Color Photography at International Center of Photography, New York, NY

Adjunct Professor

1990 – 1992

Color Printing, Color Theory, and Photo Critique at Moore college of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA

Adjunct Professor

Spring 1988

Art Criticism at Russell Sage College, Troy, NY

Adjunct Professor

Summer 1988 – 1989;
Fall 1982 – Spring 1983

Ilfochrome Color Print Workshop at SUNY, Albany, NY

Adjunct Professor

1984 – 1985

MGSA Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ

Professional Experience

Presenter

October 2000

2000 Barnard Feminist Art and Art History Conference, Barnard College, NY

Technical Advisor

1985

Photography, 3rd Ed.; Upton and Upton (“Ilfochrome” section)

Editor

1981-1983

SPE/Newsletter (The Society for Photography Education)

Solo Exhibitions

February 2000

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

February 1996

The Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

August-October 1995

Institute of the Arts, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil  

March 1995

10th Symposium of African Art, NYU, NY

February 1991

Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA    

April 1990

M. Villa Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1983

HIA Gallery, Venice, CA

Group Exhibitions

Dec. 2013 – Mar. 2014

Stories in the Social Landscape, International Center of Photography, Faculty Show, New York, NY

Oct. – Dec. 2013

Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY

Nov. 2013

Oral Tradition Symposium. The Brazilian Endowment for the Arts, BEA, New York, NY

Nov. – Dec. 2011

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

Mar. 2008

Influences of African Beliefs on Latin American Contemporary Altars: An Exhibition of Altars and Ritual Offerings. Dr. M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery, St. Johns University, Queens, NY

Jan. 2004

The Gallery/Suarez de Jesus, Little Havana, FL

Sep. 1996 – Jan. 1997

Spiritual Journey: Photography in Latin America, Brooklyn Museum, NY

1993

International Center of Photography, New York, NY

1993

Works on Paper, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

1991

The Diaspora, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

1991

Bielefeld Gallery, Bielefeld, German

Summer 1991

The African Diaspora, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1990

Sanctified Spaces, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

1989

University Gallery, Recife, Brazil

1988

USIS Gallery, Brasilia, Brazil

1985

Flower Show, Detroit Inst. of Arts

1985

Neigrug Gallery, New York, NY

Publications

2014

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

Nov. – Dec. 2011

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

2005

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

2004

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

Oct. 28, 2000

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

1999 – 2000

El Puento Latino, online cultural website, Photography/Art Reviewer

1998

Microsoft African Encarta 2000, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA

1994

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

1993

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

March/April 1990

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

Dec. 1984

Popular Photography—Winners of Cibachrome Grant contest

Awards, Grants, and Acquisitions

2004, 1999

Afropaedia-Africana, Acquisition

1998

Microsoft Encarta (online), Acquisition

1995

Brooklyn Museum Archives, NY, Acquisition

1984

Getty Museum, Sam Wagstaff Collection

Commercial Experience

Exhibition Ilfochrome Printing (Owner/Operator: Color Lab and Camera Studio), New York, NY

Exhibitions: New Traditions, NY State Museum; Living Maya, Payne Webber Gallery, 1987

Education

MFA Photography

California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

BA English

University of Wisconsin, Madison,WI

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