2002 Faculty
Darsie
Alexander is a curator specializing in photography and is currently
organizing an exhibition on the subject of projected slide works
for the Baltimore Museum of Art (scheduled for February 2004). Before
her arrival in Baltimore in 2000, she was assistant curator in the
Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art. There, she
organized numerous exhibitions on contemporary photography and received
the Lee-Tenenbaum Award for her exhibition Posed to Unposed: Encounters
with the Camera (1999).
Jon Alpert, Co-Director/Founder of DCTV,
has traveled the world as a one-man production team for over 27 years.
His work has helped build DCTV into one of the most prestigious institutions
in Chinatown. When he is not lugging a betacam on his shoulders, Jon
plays on his ice hockey team winning championships year after year .
Jon studies Karate, plays soccer, weightlifts, does aerobics, rides horses,
roller-skates, and occasionally rides his motorcycle, has also won countless
Emmys and awards and currently is working on a documentary about the
Latin Kings!
Nadema Agard is an artist, curator, educator, author, museum
professional and consultant in Repatriation and Multicultural/Native
American arts and cultures. Ms. Agard’s artwork is a metaphor
for the cosmic relationships between the sacred feminine and the
sacred masculine. These works are inspired by the images and cosmologies
from the Native American traditions of the Southeastern and Great
Lakes Woodlands, the Southwest, the Plains, and Meso-America. These
devotional pieces are made in reverence to the earth mother, father
sky, grandmother moon, corn mother, and all creative and regenerative
forces of the universe. Some of her most recent exhibits include:
Who is the Virgin of Guadalupe: Women Artists Crossing Borders
(New York City); Mother Love; Native Women and the Land (New York
City); Metaphors; Arts Inspired by Everyday Objects and Folklore
(New York City); Starblanket Heaven (New York City); Sacred Door
(Minneapolis); and Native Survival-Response to HIV/AIDS (New York
City and Minneapolis). She is the author of Southeastern Native
Arts Directory, published by Benidji State University (Minnesota,
1993). Agard, a recipient of the Smithsonian Institution Fellowship
Award and The National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She is
currently the Director of Red Earth Studio Consulting/Productions
in New York City.
John Bennett (M. Arch Columbia University, 1993) and Gustavo
Bonevardi (M. Arch Princeton University, 1986) co-founded PROUN space
studio I997 as an interdisciplinary firm specializing in architecture
and digital filmmaking. Individually and as PROUN, Bonevardi and Bennett
have received several awards including Honorable Mention for their entry
in the international architectural competition for the Museo Mies in
Berlin (including the documentary Mies and Exhibition Design 1926-1945) – both
at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Their video MOMA Builds is currently
on view at MoMA.
Julian LaVerdiere grew up in New York City, received his
B.F.A. in 1993 from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science
and Art and his M.F.A. from the Graduate School of Art at Yale
University in 1995. The artist lives and works in Chelsea, Manhattan
and is represented by Lehmann Maupin Gallery NYC, Deitch Projects
NYC, No Limits Gallery in Milan, and Green Gallery in Geneva.
Paul
Myoda was born in Wilmingon, Delaware. For his B.F.A., Myoda
attended the Rhode Island School of Design after which the artist
received his M.F.A. from the Graduate School of Art at Yale University
in 1994. He is based in Manhattan and represented by Friedrich Petzel
Gallery NY. Myoda has exhibited sculptures, paintings, photographs
and short films nationally and internationally, and has written for
various art and cultural publications, including Art in America,
Flash Art, Frieze, and Freedmag.com.
Julian LaVerdiere and Paul Myoda are two of the founders of BIG ROOM, a Production
Design Collective that specializes in commercial television advertising, music
video design, fashion, and photography.
Christian Boltanski’s work has been widely exhibited internationally
and his work is the subject of the monograph titled Christian Boltanski (London,
1997, published by Phaidon Press, London), as well as another, Christian
Boltanski, by Lynn Gumpert (Paris, 1994, published by Flammarion, Paris).
Mark Crispin Miller is a Professor of Media Ecology at New York University,
where he also directs the Project on Media Ownership (PROMO). His writings
on all aspects of the media have appeared in journals and newspapers the
world over. His books include BOXED IN: THE CULTURE OF TV, SEEING THROUGH
MOVIES and THE BUSH DYSLEXICON: OBSERVATIONS ON A NATIONAL DISORDER.
Donna De Cesare is an award-winning freelance photographer
and writer. Her photographs have appeared in many news and arts publications
including The New York Times Magazine, Life, Double Take and Aperture.
Her photographs have been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions
in the United States, Europe and Latin America. Among her awards
and grants for photographic projects are the Dorothea Lange Prize,
the Alicia Patterson Photographic Journalism Fellowship, the Mother
Jones International Photo Fund Award and an Independent Project Fellowship
from the Soros Foundation. In 2002 her work won four awards in the
National Press Photographers Pictures of the Year contest including
a first-prize for a magazine feature story published on an Independent
Internet site. Her award-winning project from Colombia can be seen
at http://crimesofwar.orgAbstract and Presentation: Cultural Projections:
Violence and Sexuality in depictions of Children
Rebecca DeRoo is an Assistant Professor of Art History at
Washington University in St. Louis, specializing in contemporary
art. Her research and publications have focused on issues of gender,
vision, artists’ installations, and photographic representation.
She has received grants including a Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship,
a Fulbright Fellowship, an award from the National Endowment for
the Humanities, and a Rhoades Foundation Fellowship through which
she curated the Beyond the Photographic Frame exhibition at the
Art Institute of Chicago. She has an article forthcoming in Imagining
Race and Place in Colonialist Photography (Routledge 2002). Her
current book project examines the early exhibitions of artists
Christian Boltanski and Annette Messager.
Philip Gefter is the Page One Picture Editor of The New York
Times. Before coming to the paper ten years ago, he was a picture editor,
respectively, at Fortune, Geo, Aperture,and The San Francisco Examiner’s
Sunday magazine. He has taught photography at New York University’s
Tisch School of the Arts and at the San Francisco Art Institute. He
has a BFA from Pratt Institute and did graduate work at NYU.
Amy Goodman, a 45-year-old Long Island native, is the host of Democracy
Now! Featuring the voices of activists, muckrakers, risk-takers,
and "just folks," the program provides grassroots coverage of political
and cultural affairs. This journalist and radio host survived a massacre
in East Timor in which Indonesian soldiers gunned down more that 250 Timorese. She
won prestigious journalism awards for her expose of Chevron and its complicity
in Nigeria's oil fields. She has also reported from Israel and the Occupied
Territories, Cuba, Mexico and Haiti.
Susan kae Grant received an M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
She has exhibited her work and lectured at museums and galleries nationwide.
She is represented in numerous collections, including the George Eastman
House, The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, The J. Paul Getty
Museum, The New York Public Library, and the Victoria and Albert Museum
of National Art Library. She teaches at the International Center of
Photography and is head of the Photography area at the Texas Woman’s
University. Her recent exhibition, Night Journey, is the culmination
of research conducted at the Southwestern Medical Center Sleep Laboratory
and is currently traveling the United States.
Sarah Hart, Director of the International Certificate Program of
New Media at Rhode Island School of Design, has been working with electronic
imaging technologies since the mid 1980’s. After completing her M.F.A.
degree in photography at CalArts (1991), she taught at Hampshire College
and Rhode Island School of Design. She received a Lila Wallace Grant to
complete photographic and electric imaging projects in Russia where she
was an Artist in Residence at the Moscow Center of Contemporary Art. During
the past several years, her work has focused on an exploration of the interface
between the real and the virtual using electronic imaging technologies
as tools in art production. She is currently working on web-based projects
and in the field of robotics. Hart’s work has been exhibited internationally
and is included in several collections.
Heidi Kumao is an artist and educator who works with animation in
its broadest sense to create works that address the psychology of everyday
situations. She creates electronic sculptures, Cinema Machines that use
19th century cinematograhic technology, and digital, stop-action shorts. “Hidden
Mechanisms” is a series of cinema machines (zoetrope-like devices)
that project a sequential narrative of photographic gestures from sabotaged
household objects. She toured this work to South America and Europe. She
has taught photography, history of photography, and intermedia studio courses
at Syracuse University, City College of NY, University of Michigan, and
RISD. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University
of Michigan School of Art and Design where she teaches digital video and
animation, and electronic art.
Margot Lovejoy is Professor of Visual Arts at the State University
of New York at Purchase and author of “Postmodern Currents: Art and
Artists in the Age of Electronic Media” (1997). She is a recipient
of a 1988 Guggenheim Fellowship for multimedia installation and a 1994
Arts International Grant in India. Exhibited internationally, she has had
many solo exhibitions in and around New York including those at the Alternative
Museum; P.S. #1 Contemporary Art Center; Newhouse Center for Contemporary
Art; Queens Museum of Art; Neuberger Museum of Art; Stamford Museum and
the Islip Museum. Her work is in the collection of among others, the Museum
of Modern Art; the Getty Institute; the Newberger Museum and the Whitney
Museum of American Art. Her website Parthenia has been archived by the
Walker Art Center as part of the pioneering adaweb.com site. Apart form
authoring numerous essays in various journals, and catalogues, she has
also been an invited speaker at conferences on art and technology internationally.
She has published several visual books: Labyrinth in 1991 and in 1995 The
Book of Plagues, paradox mutations and manifestations. Her new website
TURNS is featured in the Whitney Museum’s 2002 Biennial Exhibition.
Stephen Marc was raised in Chicago and claims Champaign, IL as his
second home. Presently he teaches at Arizona State university where he
is a full-professor in the School of Art. For twenty years (1978-1998),
he taught at Columbia College in Chicago. Marc received his M.F.A. from
Tyler School of Art, Temple University (‘78) and his B.A. from Ponoma
College (‘76).
Marc has published two photography books, The Black Trans-Atlantic Experience:
Street Life and Culture in Ghana, Jamaica, England, and the United States (‘92)
and urban Notions (‘83). Recent exhibition of note are Committed to the
Image: Contemporary Black Photographers at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (‘01)
and Reflections in Black: A history of Black Photographers at the Smithsonian
Institution’s Center for African History and Culture in Washington D.C.
(‘00). He was an Artist in Residence at the Center for Photography at
Woodstock (‘01) and his work was featured in Camera Arts (00) and fotophile
magazines (01). Marc was awarded several grants including, the Arts Midwest
Fellowship (regional NEA) in’91, Illinois Arts Council Fellowships in ‘98, ‘91, ‘88,
and an Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship in ‘96.
In a radio interview with New York & Co., Judith Jamison was asked to list
the cultural items that she would take with her to a solitary retreat. Among
the items listed was a mixed-media box by Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier.
Born and raised in North Carolina, Marshall-Linnemeier has received numerous
awards for her photo-based mixed media works that explore mythology, interpersonal
relationships, racism, culture and gender. In addition, she is known for her
innovative work in inner city communities, and has developed and headed numerous
projects that include the young and elderly. Her current work involves working
with a group of women to utilize the arts to develop a micro-enterprise that
will hopefully generate income for participants. Her many achievements include
residencies in South Australia, where she lived with and photographed the Aboriginal
people of that area, South Africa, England and Kenya. She has awards from Northern
Telecom, the Lydhurst Foundation, Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest/Arts International
and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her exhibitions include: The Smithsonian
Institution, Houston Center for Photography, the High Museum of Art (Atlanta),
and Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Center (Adelaide, South Australia.
Marshall-Linnemeier lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia.
Lorie Novak’s photographs, installations, and web projects have
been in numerous exhibitions including solo exhibitions at The International
Center for Photography, New York; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson,
Arizona; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Breda Fotografica,
the Netherlands. Novak is Chair of the Photography and Imaging Department
at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She is also co-director
of Urban Ensemble through which Tisch School Of the Arts students engage
in community-based arts projects, and she has also initiated a community
collaboration program in the Photography and Imaging Department. Born in
Los Angeles, Lorie Novak received a B.A. in Art from Stanford University
and a MFA from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. She resides in
Brooklyn, NY. Her work can be found on-line at www.cvisions.cat.nyu.edu/novak.
Since the early 1980s, Lorie Novak has worked with projected images to create
photographs and installations meant to be experienced in their projected form.
Superimposed “projections” form the visual analogue for psychological
and emotional states. In all her work, she is interested in the relationship
between personal and collective memory. In her photographs, darkened studios
and the night landscape function as the stage with projections of her family
photographs acting as the players. Her “Collected Visions” installations
and net art project (www.cvisions.cat.nyu.edu) use family photographs collected
from hundreds of people to explore how photographs shape our memory. In this
talk, Novak will give an overview of her photographic and installation works.
Christopher Phillips is curator at the International Center of Photography,
New York. He is a contributing editor for Art in America and an adjunct faculty
member of the MFA program at the School of Visual Arts.
Hamid Rahmanian earned an M.F.A. in Computer Animation in 1997
from Pratt Institute, was nominated for a Student Academy Award, and
won the College Award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
for his animation, The Seventh Day. In 1998, Mr. Rahmanian established
his own production company, Prometheus
Cinema. His first short film, An I Within, received Kodak’s “Best
Cinematography Award” in 1999. Mr. Rahmanian has made three documentarieson
video. Breaking Bread, Sir Alfred of Charles de Gaulle Airport and
Shahrbanoo. All have been well received by the media and audiences.
Melissa Hibbard earned her B.A. in Moving Image Arts in 1996
where she studied documentary filmmaking. She worked in the film industry
as an art director for feature films for five years. She produced Breaking
Bread, Sir Alfred of Charles de Gaulle Airport and Shahrbanoo with
Hamid Rahmanian. She is also currently working as a photographer and
showing her photographs in the London Photographic Awards World Exhibition.
Brian Palmer is a New York-based general news correspondent for
CNN/U.S. He joined CNN in 2000 from Fortune magazine, where he covered
a wide range of topics, including the Fortune Global Forum in Shanghai,
small business and the defense and photography industries.
Prior to his tenure at Fortune, Palmer was the Beijing bureau chief for U.S.
News & World Report. Before switching to the editorial side at US News
in 1996, he was a staff photographer at the magazine. He was a member of the
White House traveling pool and deployed with the Department of Defense media
pool, in addition to being a general assignment photographer. From 1990-1993,
he served as an assistant editor of The Village Voice, where he wrote book
reviews and pieces on race and politics. Palmer also worked as a freelance
photojournalist and writer.
Palmer earned a bachelor’s degree in East Asian studies from Brown University
and a Masters in Photography from the School of Visual Arts. He also studied
Chinese language and history in the mid 1980s at Nanjing University in the
People’s Republic of China.
MediaChannel director and
executive director Danny Schechter is also a founder and Vice
President/Executive Producer of Globalvision, Inc., an award-winning
media company formed in 1987. Mr. Schechter has been a broadcast and
print journalist and is an internationally recognized speaker and writer
on media issues. Mr. Schechter was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at
Harvard University and his work has been honored with, among other
recognitions, Emmy awards, the IRIS award, the George Polk Award, the
Major Armstrong Award, and honors from the National Association of
Black Journalists. Mr. Schechter was the new director and principal
newscaster for WBCN-FM, an on-air reporter for WBGH, and news program
producer and investigative reporter for at CNN and ABC. Mr. Schechter’s
print journalism has included serving as the London editor for Ramparts
Magazine; his articles have appeared in Newsday, Boston Globe, Columbia
Journalism Review, Detroit Free Press, Village Voice, Media Studies
Journal, and Zing Magazine, among others. Mr. Schechter is the author
of The More You Watch, the Less You Know (Seven Stories Press) and
News Dissector: Passions, Pieces, and Polemics (Electron Press).
Margaret Stratton works in both photography and video. She received
MA and MFA degrees from the University of New Mexico (1983, 1985). She has
received numerous awards including five National Endowment for the Arts awards
in Photography, Installation, and New Genres. Other awards include a Seattle
Arts Commission “Public Works” Award (1990), the Canadian Film
Board’s Best New Film or Video (1995), and Los Angeles’s The
Black Maria Film Festival’s Directors Award for Kiss the Boys and Make
them Die (1994), and University of Iowa’s Faculty Scholar Award (1996).
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at such venues as:
The Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York City; Camerawork, San Francisco; The
Henry Gallery, Seattle; The Smithsonian Institution, Washington and The Harvard
Archive, Boston.
Stratton’s work has been published in Reframings: New Feminist Photographies,
Temple University Press (1996), Art, Document, Market, Science: Photography’s
Multiple Roles, Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago (1998); and Lesbian
Art in America (2000). Her photographs of abandoned prisons: Detained in Purgatory
is in the publication Contact Sheet #110, Light Work, Syracuse. She is represented
by Ricco-Maresca Gallery in New York and is a professor of Art at the University
of Iowa in Iowa City.
Mary Virginia Swanson is a leader in the fields of licensing and marketing
fine art photography. After receiving an MFA in photography from Arizona
State University in 1979 she served as workshop coordinator for The Friends
of Photography, headed Special Projects for Magnum Photos and was the founding
director of the American Photography Institute at NYU’s Tisch School
of the Arts. In 1991 she founded SWANSTOCK, an alternative agency managing
licensing rights for fine art photographers. Now consulting, lecturing and
conducting workshops, Swanson is committed to bringing photography and photographers
to new markets. She serves on the Boards of Fellows of the Center for Creative
Photography, the Board of Advisors of the Aperture Foundation and Photo Americas,
and the Board of Directors of the Santa Fe Center for Visual Arts.Abstract:
OPPORTUNITIES FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS IN TODAY’S MARKETPLACE
Indian Braves, Redman, Chiefs. For years, the practice of using Native American
caricatures as tema mascots has been both widespread and non-controversial;
now, however, people such as Charlene Teters are trying to help others
rethink the larger issues of cultures and identity. Charlene Teters, a Spokane
indigenous to the Plateau region of what is now Washington state, is an activist,
artist and mother. Since 1989 she has actively campaigned to eliminated racist
symbols that degrade and dehumanize American Indians and Alaska Natives. Charlene
is featured in a 1997 documentary, In Whose Honor? that focuses on her campaign
against chief Illilniwek, the mascot at the University of Illinois. October
10, 1997, Ms. Teters was honored by ABC World News with Peter Jennings for
her commitment to her work and was named “ Person of the Week.”
She currently serves as Senior Editor of Indian Artist Magazine and is a current
board member of the National Coalition on Racism in Sports and Media. As an
accomplished artist, she expresses her personal and political views about America’s
dehumanization of Indian people. She frequently lectures on issues of art and
human rights.
Jennifer Pearson Yamashiro is an art historian with a specialization
in the history of photography. She was the curator of photographs, art, and
artifacts at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender & Reproduction
from 1995 to 2000 and is currently the executive director of the Society
for Photographic Education (SPE). Yamashiro has curated exhibitions on contemporary
art and the institute’s collections, taught courses on the photographic
history and gender studies, and presented her research at professional conferences,
including SPE, the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, the Society for
the Scientific Study of Sexuality, and the World Pornography Conference.
Yamashiro is the author of Peek: Photographs from the Kinsey Institute (2000).
Thomas Zummer is a scholar, writer, curator and artist. Among
his publications are CRASH: Nostalgia for the Absence of Cyberspace (with
Robert Reynolds, 1994), Rouen: Touring Machines/Intermittant Futures
(with Judit Barry and Brad Miskell, 1992); “What the Hell is That?” Induced
Aberration in Cinematic Taxa (a semi-fictional digital e-book for Beehive
Microtitles, 2000); Projection and Dis/embodiment: Genealogies of the
Virtual,in Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977
(with Chrissie Iles, Whitney/Abrams, 2001) and Portraits of Robots (a
catalogue of recent works, 2002). He is currently completing a book,
Intercessionary Technologies: Archive/Database/Interface, on the early
history of reference systems. Mr. Zummer has curated exhibitions at the
Wexner Center for the Arts, CinéClub/Anthology Film Archives,
Thread Waxing Space, and the Katonah Museum of Art. In 1995, he won 5th
Prize in the ACA/CODA Architectural Design Competition for the City of
Atlanta for the 1996 Olympics. Mr. Zummer is also a practicing artist,
represented by Frederieke Taylor Gallery, and exhibits his drawings,
sculptural and media works worldwide. Thomas Zummer is a frequent lecturer
on philosophy and the history of technology, and currently teaches in
the Critical Studies Department at New York University.
Deborah Willis is Professor of Photography and Imaging at New
York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is the 2000 MacArthur
Fellow and author of Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers.
She co-authored: The Black Female Body: A Photographic History with Carla
Williams. She is a photographer working with images regarding beauty.
Lisa Yuskavage, born in Philadelphia, received her MFA from Yale
School of Art, 1986 and currently lives in New York City. Solo exhibitions
include Studio Guenzani, Milan, Centre d’Art Contemporian, Geneva,
Marianne Boesky Gallery, NYC and Christopher Grimes Gallery, NYC. Group
shows include Greater New York, P.S.1/The Museum of Modern Art and the
2000 Whitney Biennial.
Carey Lovelace is a critic who publishes regularly in Art in America
and also has written for Performing Arts Journal, Millenium Film Journal,
ARTnews, Arts, The New York Times, Newsday and many other publications.
She is on the board of the International Arts Critics Association and
is also a playwright whose works are frequently produced in New York
City and elsewhere.
Do-Ho Suh, born in Soeul, Korea, currently lives and works in
New York City. He received an MFA, Oriental Painting, from Soeul National
University in 1987 and an MFA, Sculpture, from Yale University in 1997.
Exhibitions include The Venice Biennale 2001, The Whitney Museum of American
Art, NYC and Lehman Maupin Gallery, NYC.
Roshini
Kempadoo is a digital practitioner and lecturer. Her work uses
digital technologies to explore visual anthropology, contemporary
use of photographic archives within network environments and mapping
colonial history, stories and locations. She lectures at the University
of East London in digital media and has degrees in Visual Communication
and Photographic Studies. She is currently undertaking a PhD in Fine
Art at Goldsmiths College, London.
A selection of her recent exhibitions include, Virutual
Exiles, http://www.virtualexiles.org.uk, at the Street Level Gallery, Glasgow,
Lighthouse Media Centre, Wolverhampton and Impressions Gallery, York, 2002/01.
Digital print exhibitions include, Prejudice and Pride, Pitshanger Art Gallery,
ondon and Transforming the Crown at the Studio Museum, New York. She has presented
internationally and her work can be found in Reflections in Black, Deborah
Willis and Roshini Kempadoo, monograph, Norton USA Autograph, 1997.
Ira Rosen is
presently the senior producer for Prime Time Live, and executive producer
for ABC Magazine Webcasts for ABCNEWS.com (part of Walt Disney Internet
Group (NYSE:DIG). He has been a senior producer for ABC News for the
past 11 years.
Earlier in his career, Rosen worked at 60 Minutes for nine years, where he
produced segments primarily for co-editor Mike Wallace. Rosen won an Alfred
DuPont-Columbia Award in 1982 for “Good Cop, Bad Cop”, which focused
on police protection of Chicago drug dealers. In 1983, he won an investigative
Emmy for “The Nazi Connection”, an investigation of how US officials
granted sanctuary to Nazis in return for information about the Soviet Union.
In all he has won 20 National Emmys. In 1987 Rosen received a Neiman Fellowship
at Harvard. Two years later he moved to ABC News with the founding of PrimeTime
Live. The show has since won numerous prizes for distinguished investigative
reporting, including three RFK Awards, two Alfred DuPont-Columbia Awards, four
National Press Club Awards, and three Overseas Press Club Awards. Under Rosen’s
leadership, PrimeTime Live won the top citation from Investigative Reporters
and Editors for an unprecedented six times in eight years.
Tom Rosenstiel will discuss The Project For Excellence in
Journalism and a recent study completed by The Project analyzing
the media covered the War on Terrorism.
Since 1996, Tom Rosenstiel has been the Director for The Project For Excellence
in Journalism - a program initiative financed by the Pew Charitable Trusts
to clarify and improve journalism standards. From 1996-97, Mr. Rosenstiel also
served as Media Critic for MSNBC. As Vice Chairman of Committee of Concerned
Journalist since 1997, Rosenstiel manages a consortium of more than 1,000 journalist
engaged in relection about the values of journalism. As the Chief Congressional
Correspondent for Newsweek, 1995 - 1996, he covered the Republican Congressional
revolution of 1995 and the Dole presidential election campaign of 1996. From
1983-95 Mr. Rosenstiel worked for the Los Angeles Times as a Media Critic,
a Washington correspondent, national correspondent and financial writer. His
publications include, The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Expect,
Crown Publishers, April 2001; Warp Speed: America In The Age Of Mixed Media,
The Century Foundation, May 1991; and Strange Bedfellows: How Televisions And
The Presidential Candidates Changed American Politics, 1992, Hyperison Press,
1993. Born 1956 in California, Mr. Rosenstiel received his MS in Journalism
from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, 1980.
Tanya Turkovich received her BFA was in photography. She began an
MFA program but freaked out on the art world and proceeded on to get those
two other hopeless degrees. In 1999 she earned an MA in Cinema Studies at
NYU, which she imprudently sought after having already received an MA in
Art History, Theory & Criticism from the School of the Art Institute
in Chicago.. She is an assistant communication officer at UNICEF’s
Broadcast Unit in NY and is very happy to have finally put an end to her
three-decade long scholastic “episode”.
Ellen Tolmie has been the Photography Editor at the United Nations
Children’s Fund (UNICEF) since 1990. She oversees photography operations
for the organization and contracts photographers to document the situation
of children, and UNICEF programs, around the world. These images are distributed
to a global network of UNICEF offices. Her work includes collaborating
with international photojournalists working on child-related themes as
well as developing guidelines for the appropriate use of photographs of
children within UNICEF. Ellen Tolmie began working as an editorial photographer
for major Canadian magazines (1974-1979); worked in documentary film production
in New York for several years (1980-1986); and returned to documentary
photography during a four-year stay in Colombia (1986 - 1990). There she
photographed primarily on assignment for international development agencies
in Latin America. Her photographs documenting social programs for Colombian
children, in collaboration with UNICEF, were published by Villegas Editores
of Bogota in 1990 in a book called For Our Children. These images
were featured in a solo exhibition, “The Country Within, Portraits
of Colombia,” at the Modern Art Museum, Bogota. She has contributed
photographs to several other books in Colombia and Canada, and received
grants and awards for her work. She studied journalism and photography
at Conestoga College of Applied Arts and Technology in Canada.
Torrance York is an artist and educator living in New York. Currently
a Board Member of the Educational Video Center (EVC) in NYC, she was until
his past fall the Director of EVC’s Youth Organizers Television.
In addition to her work with youth, she is a photographer and video artist
who exhibits nationally. She earned an MFA in photography from Rhode Island
School of Design and a BA from Yale University.
Irene Villaseñor is the Youth Views Coordinator at P.O.V.
/ The American Documentary, where she is assisting in the development of
a program designed to give young people skills to use media as a tool for
advocacy and social change. An activist, artist, and producer, she participated
in EVC’s programs from 1998-1999. She is also a Board Member of MIX:
New York Queer Experimental Film Video Festival and a graduate of City-As-School
High School.
Isaiah Miller, who participated in EVC’s programs from 1999-2000,
continues to make documentaries. He recently finished a new video, The
Wayward Ramblings of God’s Frightened Children. While working at
the YAI Institute for People with Disabilities as an Assistant Human Services
Professional, he is taking college courses after having earned his GED.
Cheryl Younger, Director of The Photography Institute, conceived
and initiated the National Graduate Seminar in 1991 at New York University.
She has created many programs for arts and education. As the Director of
Post-Secondary Education at Film In the Cities in Minneapolis /St. Paul
she was responsible for initiating a collaborative Media Arts Program funded
by an NEA Challenge Grant. She was the first executive director of Region
I Arts Council in Minnesota. From 1982 to 1990 she was on the Executive
Board of the Society for Photographic Education, serving as National Chair
and Treasurer, and chairing two national conferences. She holds and MFA
from the University of Iowa and has taught photography to students ranging
from third grade to the graduate school. Presently she teaches at International
Center for Photography and New York University.
Her work has been exhibited and published internationally, including MS. Magazine,
Popular Photography Annual, Insights, New American Nudes and Individ og
Autdritet (Denmark), Pregnant Pictures: the Work of Women in the Age of
Mechanical Reproduction. Currently she is working on a documentary movie
about September 11.
Sandi Fellman’s work has been published and exhibited internationally
over the past two decades and is included in numerous permanent collections,
including the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The
Bibliotheque Nationale, The Center for Creative Photography, Los Angeles
County Museum of Art and The Houston Museum of Fine Arts. She is represented
exclusively by the Edwynn Houk Gallery, in New York City. Her photographs
have been assembled into award winning books including, Sandi Fellman
Open Secret, 1999, Baby, 2000, The Japanese Tattoo, and A to Z Do You
Ever Feel Like Me, 1999, Fellman’s first children’s book.Japanese
Tattoo photographs were prominently featured in The American Museum of
Natural History’s Body Art exhibit. Fellman consistently challenges
the boundaries of her creative work. This spirit of exploration and collaboration
has resulted in projects as diverse as costume and photographic set designs
for the world-renowned choreographer Molissa Fenley, photographic murals
for over 100 rooms in the architecturally distinguished Shoreham II Hotel
in NYC and the creation of a women’s photography collection with
Shelley Rice for Avon Corporation. She taught at Bemidji State University,
University of New Mexico and Rutgers University before her entré into
New York City’s photographic world.