Full Time Faculty
Bob Thall, chair
MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Widely exhibited photographer of the Chicago landscape. Books include "The Perfect City" (1994) and "The New American Village" (1999). Recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship (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 there in London. He is currently represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, David Beitzel Gallery in New York and Galerie Nordenhake in Stockholm, Sweden
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 Rockfeller 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
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.
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
Thomas Shirley
MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Commercial photographer with emphasis in digital imagery and digital technologies. Exhibited and collected.
work.colum.edu/~tshirley
Peter Thompson
MA, University of California at Irvine.
A photographer and filmmaker, he has been awarded numerous grants, such as seven Illinois Art Council Grants, a NEA grant, and a Rockefeller Fellowship. He has had one-person screenings at the Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art.
www.ChicagoMediaWorks.com/
Artist In Residence
John White
Photojournalist at the Chicago Sun Times. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Photojournalism in 1982. Published book about Cardinal Bernardin.
MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Widely exhibited photographer of the Chicago landscape. Books include "The Perfect City" (1994) and "The New American Village" (1999). Recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship (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 there in London. He is currently represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, David Beitzel Gallery in New York and Galerie Nordenhake in Stockholm, Sweden
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 Rockfeller 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
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.
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
Thomas Shirley
MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Commercial photographer with emphasis in digital imagery and digital technologies. Exhibited and collected.
work.colum.edu/~tshirley
Peter Thompson
MA, University of California at Irvine.
A photographer and filmmaker, he has been awarded numerous grants, such as seven Illinois Art Council Grants, a NEA grant, and a Rockefeller Fellowship. He has had one-person screenings at the Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art.
www.ChicagoMediaWorks.com/
Artist In Residence
John White
Photojournalist at the Chicago Sun Times. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Photojournalism in 1982. Published book about Cardinal Bernardin.