Full Time Faculty
Bob Thall, chair
MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Widely exhibited photographer of the urban landscape. His photographs of Chicago metropolitan area have been published in four monographs: "The Perfect City", "The New American Village", "City Spaces", and "At the City's Edge: Photographs of the Chicago Lakefront". Recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998.
Dawoud Bey
MFA, Yale University.
Began his career as a photographer in 1975 photographing in the streets of Harlem, New York. This five year project was later exhibited in his first one-person exhibition, "Harlem, USA" at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1979. His photographs have been widely published and exhibited extensively, both in this country and in Europe, at such institutions as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Fogg Art Museum, The Addison Gallery of American Art, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. A major twenty-year survey of his photographs was organized by the Walker Art Center, where it opened in 1995, and then toured museums throughout the United States and Great Britain through 1998. He has completed a number of collaborative projects with various communities and museums since 1992. Most recently he completed a project with the National Portrait Gallery in London, where he worked with high school and college students from three schools in London. He is currently represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, David Beitzel Gallery in New York and Galerie Nordenhake in Stockholm, Sweden.
www.DawoudBey.net
Kelli Connell
MFA, Texas Women's College
Her body of work entitled "Double Life" has been widely received and included in numerous national solo and group exhibitions. Her work is in the collections of Microsoft; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Columbus Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Contemporary; and The Dallas Museum of Art. Recent publications include "MP3: Midwest Photographers' Publication Project" co-published by Aperture and The Museum of Contemporary Photography; "Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography" by Phaidon; and "PHOTOart; Photography in the 21st Century" by Aperture.
www.KelliConnell.com
Paul D'Amato
MFA, Yale University.
His work is in the permenant collections of several museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York., the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, and the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Fitchburg Museum of Art in Fitchburg Massachusetts, the Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon, and the Photographic Resource Center. He has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a New England Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a Maine Arts Commission Grant, an Illinois Art Council Grant, and he was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow in Beliagio, Italy.
www.PaulDAmato.com
Elizabeth Ernst
M.S., Illinois Institute of Technology, Institute of Design.
Internationally exhibited and collected artist. Has completed numerous public and private commissions. Recipient of NEA and other fellowships and awards.
http://www.EdelmanGallery.com/Ernst.htm
Greg Foster-Rice
PhD, Northwestern University.
Art historian specializing in the history of photography. Recipient of numerous grants, including Henry Luce/ACLS Fellowship. Has published, curated and lectured widely on photography and visual culture.
William Frederking
M.F.A., University of Illinois at Chicago.
Professional photographer with emphasis on the photography of dance. Recipient of the Ruth Page Award, Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, and numerous grants. Work included in the Chicago Dance Archive at the Museum of Contemporary Photography.
www.WilliamFrederking.com
Myra Greene
MFA, University of New Mexico.
Myra Greene earned her BFA in photography from Washington State University in 1997 and an MFA in studio art from the University of New Mexico in 2002. Exhibits and lectures nationally. Greene has been an Artist in residence at Light Work in Syracuse and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY.
www.MyraGreene.com
Barbara Kasten
M.F.A., California College of Arts and Crafts.
Internationally recognized artist. Recipient of Guggenheim, Fulbright-Hays, NEA Fellowships, Polaroid Artist Program, Apple Photo Grant. Residencies in France, Japan, Spain, Turkey, United States and USIA project in the Baltics. Award winning filmmaker.
www.BarbaraKasten.net
Peter LeGrand
MA, Governors State University.
His fine art work has been exhibited in museums and photography galleries, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography and Peter Jones Gallery, and has been published in numerous magazines, including View Camera Magazine, as well as in a soon to be published book of photography.
www.PeterLegrand.com
Judy Natal
MFA, Rochester Institute of Technology.
Internationally exhibited and collected artist. Lectures internationally. Numerous grants and fellowships including Fulbright Travel, New York Foundation for the Arts - Photography, Illinois Arts Council and residency at Joshua Tree National Park in California.
www.JudyNatal.com
Ross Sawyers
MFA, University of Washington.
BFA, Photography and New Media, Kansas City Art Institute
His work has been exhibited widely nationally and internationally and is part of numerous public and private collections. He has had numerous solo a group exhibitions in places such as New York City, Seattle WA, Richmond VA, Pingyao China and others. His work was included in the 2007 Fall Showcase at Jen Bekman Gallery in New York City as well as the "9th Northwest Biennial" at the Tacoma Art Museum in 2009. His work has been reviewed in multiple publications including Artweek magazine and Art Papers magazine.
www.RossSawyers.com
Thomas Shirley
MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Commercial photographer with emphasis in digital imagery and digital technologies.
www.TomShirley.com
Peter Thompson
MA, University of California at Irvine.
Specialist in digital imaging, and in the history and methodologies of documentary. Education: studied classical guitar with Andres Segovia, Alirio Diaz, Emilio Pujol and Celedonio Romero; holds graduate degrees in comparative literature and in computer graphics; served as photojournalist in US Navy. Gallery director, Friends of Photography, 1971-75. Selected fellowships/awards: Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in intercultural documentary film, Rockefeller Foundation Stage II Award in documentary film, NEA Bicentennial Film Award (with Thom Tyson), eight Illinois Arts Council Fellowships. Selected one-person screenings: Dachau Museum (Germany), Museum of Modern Art (NY), Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), Gene Siskel Film Center of the Art Institute of Chicago. Thompson’s films toured Europe in a traveling exhibition under the auspices of the Film Society of Lincoln Center (NY), and have been broadcast on public televison in the U.S., Australia and Europe (INA, France; ZDF, Germany; Channel 4, England). Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop.
www.ChicagoMediaWorks.com/
MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Widely exhibited photographer of the urban landscape. His photographs of Chicago metropolitan area have been published in four monographs: "The Perfect City", "The New American Village", "City Spaces", and "At the City's Edge: Photographs of the Chicago Lakefront". Recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998.
Dawoud Bey
MFA, Yale University.
Began his career as a photographer in 1975 photographing in the streets of Harlem, New York. This five year project was later exhibited in his first one-person exhibition, "Harlem, USA" at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1979. His photographs have been widely published and exhibited extensively, both in this country and in Europe, at such institutions as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Fogg Art Museum, The Addison Gallery of American Art, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. A major twenty-year survey of his photographs was organized by the Walker Art Center, where it opened in 1995, and then toured museums throughout the United States and Great Britain through 1998. He has completed a number of collaborative projects with various communities and museums since 1992. Most recently he completed a project with the National Portrait Gallery in London, where he worked with high school and college students from three schools in London. He is currently represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, David Beitzel Gallery in New York and Galerie Nordenhake in Stockholm, Sweden.
www.DawoudBey.net
Kelli Connell
MFA, Texas Women's College
Her body of work entitled "Double Life" has been widely received and included in numerous national solo and group exhibitions. Her work is in the collections of Microsoft; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Columbus Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Contemporary; and The Dallas Museum of Art. Recent publications include "MP3: Midwest Photographers' Publication Project" co-published by Aperture and The Museum of Contemporary Photography; "Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography" by Phaidon; and "PHOTOart; Photography in the 21st Century" by Aperture.
www.KelliConnell.com
Paul D'Amato
MFA, Yale University.
His work is in the permenant collections of several museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York., the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, and the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Fitchburg Museum of Art in Fitchburg Massachusetts, the Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon, and the Photographic Resource Center. He has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a New England Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a Maine Arts Commission Grant, an Illinois Art Council Grant, and he was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow in Beliagio, Italy.
www.PaulDAmato.com
Elizabeth Ernst
M.S., Illinois Institute of Technology, Institute of Design.
Internationally exhibited and collected artist. Has completed numerous public and private commissions. Recipient of NEA and other fellowships and awards.
http://www.EdelmanGallery.com/Ernst.htm
Greg Foster-Rice
PhD, Northwestern University.
Art historian specializing in the history of photography. Recipient of numerous grants, including Henry Luce/ACLS Fellowship. Has published, curated and lectured widely on photography and visual culture.
William Frederking
M.F.A., University of Illinois at Chicago.
Professional photographer with emphasis on the photography of dance. Recipient of the Ruth Page Award, Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, and numerous grants. Work included in the Chicago Dance Archive at the Museum of Contemporary Photography.
www.WilliamFrederking.com
Myra Greene
MFA, University of New Mexico.
Myra Greene earned her BFA in photography from Washington State University in 1997 and an MFA in studio art from the University of New Mexico in 2002. Exhibits and lectures nationally. Greene has been an Artist in residence at Light Work in Syracuse and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY.
www.MyraGreene.com
Barbara Kasten
M.F.A., California College of Arts and Crafts.
Internationally recognized artist. Recipient of Guggenheim, Fulbright-Hays, NEA Fellowships, Polaroid Artist Program, Apple Photo Grant. Residencies in France, Japan, Spain, Turkey, United States and USIA project in the Baltics. Award winning filmmaker.
www.BarbaraKasten.net
Peter LeGrand
MA, Governors State University.
His fine art work has been exhibited in museums and photography galleries, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography and Peter Jones Gallery, and has been published in numerous magazines, including View Camera Magazine, as well as in a soon to be published book of photography.
www.PeterLegrand.com
Judy Natal
MFA, Rochester Institute of Technology.
Internationally exhibited and collected artist. Lectures internationally. Numerous grants and fellowships including Fulbright Travel, New York Foundation for the Arts - Photography, Illinois Arts Council and residency at Joshua Tree National Park in California.
www.JudyNatal.com
Ross Sawyers
MFA, University of Washington.
BFA, Photography and New Media, Kansas City Art Institute
His work has been exhibited widely nationally and internationally and is part of numerous public and private collections. He has had numerous solo a group exhibitions in places such as New York City, Seattle WA, Richmond VA, Pingyao China and others. His work was included in the 2007 Fall Showcase at Jen Bekman Gallery in New York City as well as the "9th Northwest Biennial" at the Tacoma Art Museum in 2009. His work has been reviewed in multiple publications including Artweek magazine and Art Papers magazine.
www.RossSawyers.com
Thomas Shirley
MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Commercial photographer with emphasis in digital imagery and digital technologies.
www.TomShirley.com
Peter Thompson
MA, University of California at Irvine.
Specialist in digital imaging, and in the history and methodologies of documentary. Education: studied classical guitar with Andres Segovia, Alirio Diaz, Emilio Pujol and Celedonio Romero; holds graduate degrees in comparative literature and in computer graphics; served as photojournalist in US Navy. Gallery director, Friends of Photography, 1971-75. Selected fellowships/awards: Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in intercultural documentary film, Rockefeller Foundation Stage II Award in documentary film, NEA Bicentennial Film Award (with Thom Tyson), eight Illinois Arts Council Fellowships. Selected one-person screenings: Dachau Museum (Germany), Museum of Modern Art (NY), Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), Gene Siskel Film Center of the Art Institute of Chicago. Thompson’s films toured Europe in a traveling exhibition under the auspices of the Film Society of Lincoln Center (NY), and have been broadcast on public televison in the U.S., Australia and Europe (INA, France; ZDF, Germany; Channel 4, England). Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop.
www.ChicagoMediaWorks.com/