University Project
Resume:
Resume Steve Cagan
Cleveland Hts, OH 44118, USA
e-mail: abqcfm@r.postjobfree.com
www.stevecagan.com www.pbase.com/stevecagan (a catalog of many images)
www.stevecagan.blogspot.com
Recent Employment:
currently, self-employed documentary photographer
1997-2004, Organizer for Jobs with Justice Cleveland Coalition
1985-1993, Asst. Professor of Photography, Mason Gross School of the Arts,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Education:
BA (Honors), English language and literature. City College of New York, June, 1965
MA, United States history, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, October, 1967
Grants, awards, honors, etc:
2007 Fulbright fellowship: to pursue El Choc Colombia photo project and teach advanced photo
seminars and workshops in Colombia
2007 Bridge Foundation: grant to develop El Choc Colombia photography project
2006 Ida B. Wells Fund: grant to purchase easels for displays
1998-1999 Ohio Arts Council Artist s Project Grant
1995-1996 Arts MidWest Fellowship
1994-1995 Fulbright Fellowship to lecture at the University of El Salvador, San Salvador
1992 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship
1996, 1992, 1988, 1984, 1983 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowship
1991 Teacher of the Year award, Rutgers University
1990-91 Book Award of the Association for Humanistic Sociology (for This Promised Land, El
Salvador: see "books" below)
1989 Finalist, Ruttenberg Grant Competition, Friends of Photography
1988 Special Mention in Photography Cleveland Museum of Art May Show
1989-90 Faculty Fellow, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University
1988-89, 1986-87 Research Council Grant Rutgers University
1988, 1986 Summer Fellowship for Asst. Profs Rutgers University
1983 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship grant in Photography
1987 Purchase Prize, Jewish Community Center of Cleveland Annual Juried Photography Show
1980 and 1981 Federation for Community Planning, Cleveland, OH First Prize in
category "Issues and Problems," "Concerned Photography" Competition
1.
Visiting Artist/Professor/Residency invitations:
2011 (October) Invited to exhibit and speak at Fotodocumental, Quit, Ecuador
2011 (September) Invited to curate an exhibit, and to exhibit and speak at: Festival de
Fotoperiodismo, San Salvador, El Salvador
2010 (October-November) Invited to exhibit, speak and review portfolios at 4ta Bienal
Argentina de Fotograf a Documental, Tucum n, Argentina
2008 (August), Invited participant in Encuentro de Fotograf a-Medell n 2008 Medell n,
Colombia. My exhibits at the Centro Colombo-Americano were part of this gathering. In
addition, I was one of the presenters at a day-long Conference, August 9.
2008 (July-August), Director of the 15th Laboratory of the Galer a de Arte Contemporaneo
Paul Bardwell del Centro Colombo-Americano de Medell n, Colombia. The title of this
laboratory was the same as my ongoing project on El Choc : Struggle for Cultural and
Environmental Survival; Everyday Resistance. My activities included:
- Exhibit of the current state of a projected interactive traveling exhibit of mine on this
topic, as well as other materials
- Conducting a 10-day photo workshop with graduate and undergraduate photo and art
students of the Universidad de Antioquia. We created an exhibit about a barrio of
displaced people in Medell n
- A four-day session with students in a branch of the U of Antioquia in a smaller town
- Speaking at schools and public meetings
- A half-day public session with the rest of the artists in the lab on social roles of art
- Participation in coordination and leadership of the entire lab, for which I was listed as
Director in addition to my students and myself, there were seven participating artists.
2007 Fulbright involved lecturing at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogot ; the
Universidad Tecnol gica del Choc ; Centro Colombo-Americano, and other institutions.
Presidential Fellow and part-time lecturer, SAGES Program, Case Western Reserve
University Fall, 2006, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011
Artist in Residence, Light Work, Syracuse, New York month of February, 1997
Visiting Professor, Department of Communications and Journalism, University of El Salvador, San
Salvador, l994-l995 (Fulbright)
Visiting Artist, Arts in Education Institute, 1991-92 Central NY Community Arts Council, Utica, NY
Visiting Professor, Department of Communications and Journalism, University of El Salvador, San
Salvador, June, 1991
Visiting Artist/Scholar, Findlay College, Findlay, Ohio, December, 1990
Visiting Artist, Graduate photography program, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, Feb., 1990
Visiting Artist/Professor, a one-week residency at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld,
Fachbereich Design, Bielefeld, West Germany. November, 1989
Nave Visiting Scholar/Artist," University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, April, 1985.
Visiting Artist, Fochhochschule Bielefeld, Fachbereich Design, Bielefeld, West Germany. A one-
week residency. November, 1981
Work included in collections of:
Light Work, Rochester, NY
International Center of Photography, New York
Biblioth que National, Paris, France
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2.
Museo de Arte Moderna, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
New York Public Library
Gallery of Photographic Arts, Cleveland
Di cesis de Quibd, Colombia
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Kaiser Community Health Foundation, Cleveland
City of Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Diamond Shamrock Company
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, attys, Cleveland
Capitol American Corporation, Cleveland
Schwarzwald & McNair, LLP, Cleveland
Faulkner, Muskovitz and Phillips, LLP, Cleveland
University Hospitals, Cleveland
Etc.
Solo exhibits:
Bird Portraits, Gallery of the Cleveland Botanical Gardens, Jan-Feb, 2012
El Choc, Colombia: Struggle for Cultural and Environmental Survival, a Daily Resistance, slide
show art 7th Angkor Photo Festival, Siem Reap, Cambodia, November, 2011
El Choc, Colombia: Lucha para la Supervivencia Cultural y Ambiental; una resistencia cotidiana,
Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Oct-Nov-2010. This will later travel
El Choc, Colombia: Lucha para la Supervivencia Cultural y Ambiental; una resistencia cotidiana,
in the 4to Bienal Argentino de Fotograf a Documental, Tucum n, Argentina, Oct-Nov-2010. This
exhibit will later travel
Industrial Landscapes, in IngenuityFest, Cleveland, September, 2010
Working Ohio, Galerie Arbeiterfotografie, Cologne, Germany, June, 2010 (Part of the celebration
of the Gallery s 20th anniversary)
Voices Worth Hearing. Three photographers in Cleveland commissioned to document the lives of
three refugee families here (my family is from Nepal), Wall Eye Gallery, Cleveland, June, 2010
will also travel
Steve Cagan, photographer, Geode gallery, Cleveland, OH May-June, 2010
El Choc, Colombia: Struggle for Cultural and Environmental Survival, a Daily Resistance, Casita
Maria, Bronx, NY March, 2010
Borrador de la muestra intinerante e interactiva sobre El Choc, part of the biennial Encuentro of
the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, Universidad Nacional, Bogot . Aug, 2009
Plan Kolombien: erdegr n, wasserrot, Galerie Arbeiterfotografie, Cologne, Germany (with Jes s
Abad C.) April-May, 2009
El Choc, Colombia: Lucha para la Supervivencia Cultural y Ambiental; una resistencia cotidiana,
part of the cultural aspect of the centennial observations of the Catholic Diocese of Quibd
September, 2008
El Choc, Colombia, Campbell Gallery, Cleveland State University, Cleveland Feb-May, 2009
El Choc, Colombia, Art Gallery, Lone Star College, Montgomery, Texas, February-March 2009
Cleveland: Industrial Landscapes and Industrial Workers, CanalWay Visitor Center, Cleveland
MetroParks, November-December, 2008
El Choc, Colombia, Latin American Studies Center, Stanford University, Nov-Dec 2008
3.
Faces/Rostros, an exhibit of a quarter-century of my portraits of people in four Latin American
countries. Cleveland State University, September-October, 2008
El Choc, Colombia CanalWay Visitor Center, Cleveland MetroParks, March-April, 2008
El Choc, Colombia, Cleveland State University Art Gallery, October, 2007
Working Ohio/Working Youngstown, Museum of Industry and Labor, Youngstown Ohio, March-
April, 2007
Bird Portraits, Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, Shaker Hts, OH, March-April 2007
The Homeless Look Like People to Me, Cleveland OH, John Carroll University, Nov, 2006
El Choc, Colombia: Struggle for Cultural and Environmental Survival, The Regina A. Quick
Center for the Arts, St Bonaventure University, St Bonaventure, NY Aug-Nov, 2006
El Choc, Colombia, Ingenuity, Cleveland Festival of Arts and Technology July, 2006
Ironworkers, Cleveland (From the project, Working Ohio ) Campbell Gallery, Cleveland State
University, Cleveland Feb-May, 2006
El Choc, Colombia John Carroll University Library, Cleveland Feb-Mar, 2006
Mujeres y Ni s/as Chocoanos/as Catedral de Quibd, El Choc, Colombia Nov., 2005
El Choc, Colombia: Struggle for Cultural and Environmental Survival, Mandel School of
Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Sept-Dec, 2005
Latin American Portraits, University Hospitals Gallery, Cleveland Oct-Nov, 2005
Cleveland Ironworkers, Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH Aug, 2005
Fighting Against Being Nickel and Dimed in Cleveland, Low-wage workers defend themselves
through their unions. Cleveland Public Theater, Cleveland April-May, 2004
The Homeless Look Like People to Me, Here Here Gallery, Cleveland, OH Nov, 99-Feb, 00
No Es F cil - Looking at Cuba Today. Menschel Photography Gallery, Light Work, Syracuse,
NY Nov-Dec 1999
Mandel School of Applied Social Science, CWRU, Cleveland, OH Feb-March, 1999
Escuela Popular, Cleveland, OH October-November, 1997
Ashtabula Art Center, Ashtabula, OH January, 1996
Cuyahoga Community College Gallery, Cleveland October, 1995
Dobama Theater Gallery, Cleveland November, 1995
Karamu Theater Gallery, Cleveland October, 1995
Galer a del Centro Cultural La Mazorca-ASTAC, San Salvador, El Salvador. October, 1994
Casa de Cultura de Plaza, Havana, Cuba. May, 1994.
Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley, January-March, 1994
Ibero-Amerikanische-Institut, Berlin, May-July, 1993
Latein-Amerikanisch Kunde, Hamburg, Spring, 1994
"Ciudad Segundo Montes: A New Community in El Salvador," a photo-text exhibit on 26 22x28"
laminated panels. To date, it has been shown in community and art world venues in Philadelphia;
Pittsburgh; Hamilton, Ont.; Colorado Springs; New Brunswick, NJ (Rutgers Univ.); Princeton
Univ.; Jersey City; Roanoke; and numerous others
Rutgers University Art Galleries October, 1992 (see above)
Photographs of El Salvador, Cleveland State University Art Gallery January-February 1993
"Industrial Hostages," Greater Cleveland Labor History Museum, Cleveland May-Aug, 1992
Villa Borzino, Busalla, Italy May-July, 1991
Mus e Fran ais de Photografie, Bi vres, France July-Aug, 1990
Opsis Foundation for Contemporary Photography, NYC May-July,'90
Fachh chsch le Bielefeld, Bielefeld, F.R.G. March, 1990
Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland March-April, 1990
Stewart Mott House, Washington, D.C. Dec., 1989-Jan., 1990
4.
"Urbanology," one of a series of exhibits of various artists in different sites in Detroit June,1989
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia April, 1989
Gallery 1199, New York October-November, 1988
Agor Gallery, Torino, Italy May-June, 1988
Henry Street Settlement, New York March-April, 1988
Mid-town Y Photography Gallery April-May, 1988
Galer a Casa de Teatro, Sto. Domingo, Dominican Republic Nov., 1987
Galeries Carrefour, Vanier College, Montr al, Qu Aug-Sept, 1987
Library, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH April-May, 1987.
"Industrial Hostages," An integrated exhibit of 26 laminated panels of photographs and text, it has
subsequently hung in the offices of the United Labor Agency and UFCW Local 880, both in
Cleveland, the Cleveland Labor History Center and numerous conferences, seminars, churches,
theatres, etc., in whole or part. Exhibited at:
- Labor Education Center, Rutgers University Nov., 1986- Jan., l987
- Cleveland Play House Sept.-Oct., 1986
- Chagrin Valley Little Theatre, Chagrin Falls, OH Summer, 1986
- Dobama Theatre, Cleveland Heights, OH Spring, 1986
- Cleveland Playhouse, Cleveland, OH Jan., 1986
- Cleveland State University Gallery Oct., 1985
"Industrial Hostages: Factory Closings in Ohio," SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, Nov., 1984.
"How Sad My People Seems: Salvadoran Refugees in Honduras." A photo-text exhibit, dealing with
Salvadoran refugees in the camp at Mesa Grande, in Honduras. Exhibited at:
- The Peace Museum, Chicago, IL 1983. A major exhibit by four photographers on the theme of
Central American refugees. This exhibit later traveled.
- Cleveland State University Library, Cleveland, OH April, l984.
- University Gallery, SUNY-Binghamton, Binghamton, NY Oct., l984. Included as part of a four-
artist exhibit, called "Visions & Conscience," which dealt with the relationship between
art and politics, and which also featured a day-long symposium in which the four artists
and invited scholars participated.
- Universidad Popular, Chicago, IL Jan.-Mar., 1985.
- State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI April l985.
"These Workers Said, 'Thanks, But No Thanks San Francisco Socialist School Gallery, San
Francisco l982.Also showed in L.A.P.A.D. Gallery, Los Angeles l98l
"Clark Equipment Company Workers Face Factory Closing," Guild Shop Gallery, Cleveland 1981
"Industrial Cleveland," Cleveland Institute of Music September, '80
Group shows, invitationals, etc:
What is a Hero? The Coburn Gallery, Ashland University, Ashland, OH Sept-Oct, 2009
Women Watch-Student Watch, Florence O Donnell Wasmer Gallery, Ursuline College, Cleveland,
March-April, 2008
Memento Mori, Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Cleveland, OH May-June 2005
The NEO Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland June-Sept, 2005
Latin America Exposures, GOPA Gallery of Photographic Arts, Cleveland, OH Mar-Apr, 2005
Stedman Gallery, Fine Arts Center, Rutgers University Camden Campus Nov-Dec., 1993
"Seeing Red White or Blue," Visual Arts Center, Anchorage, Alaska, May, 1992
"Victims of War," National Press Club, Washington, DC May, 1991
"Contemporary Photojournalists," International Center of Photography, New York Mar-Jun, 1991
5.
"Documents of Censorship," A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago, IL-- part of a series of exhibits and events in
galleries and other venues in Chicago organized under the collective title of "Inalienable
Rights/Alienable Wrongs" Sept.-Nov., 1989
"Visions of Revolution," Castillo Cultural Center, New York, NY Oct-Nov, 1989
"Retrospective/Introspection," Gund Gallery of the Ohio Arts Council, Columbus Feb-Apr 1989
"A Political Art Show," Atlanta, GA July, 1988
"The Medium Is Not the Message," Valley Art Center, Chagrin Falls, OH Oct-Nov, 1987
"UNcensored," exhibit of previously censored art works, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH Oct-
Nov, 1987
"Portraits...Through the Lens," Sharon Art Center, Sharon, NH June, 1987
"Home is Where the Art Is," invitational, Cleveland Hts, OH Sept., 1986
"Political? Art Work: Small Works/Politics" Gallery G, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers
University Feb., 1986
"Las Am ricas: towards a new perspective,"
Bread and Roses Gallery, New York Nov., l985.
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston 1986,
Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, NY Feb-Mar, 1987
"Wisconsin's Sister State, Nicaragua," Grossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater,
WI Oct., 1985
six-artist invitational, "The American City: Unbending Walls and Shadows," Cuyahoga Community
College, Cleveland, OH l984
"Artists' Spaces Collaborate," an invitational exhibit intended to encourage exchangesamong "artist-
space" galleries in the Midwest. My work has been shown in this program at:
SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH Nov., 1984
Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI April-May, 1985
New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN June-July, 1985
"The Nicaragua Media Project," The New Museum, New York Sept.-Oct., l984
"Union Made: Artists Working with Unions," Bread and Roses Cultural Center, Local 1199, New
York l983
"Through the North American Eye," an exhibit of work done by U.S. photographers in Nicaragua.
Los Angeles, CA l983
"Das Andere Amerika (Art and Culture of the American Labor Movement)," organized by Neue
Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, West Berlin. Showed in West Berlin and has travelled to other
major cities in Western Europe l983 to present.
Published photo-essays:
Working Ohio, Arbeiterfotografie, vo. 27, No. 93/94, (Cologne, Germany, 2010)
Industrial Landscapes, Revista Universidad de Antioquia, No. 294 (Oct-Dec, 2008)
Traveling the Atrato: A River Pilgrimage for Peace in Colombia, What If?, vol III (San Francisco,
Mar, 2004)
No Es F cil: Portraits of Cuban Workers, What If? vol I (San Francisco, Mar. 2001)
No Es F cil/It s not Easy: Looking at Cuba Today, Light Work s Contact Sheet No. 104
(Syracuse, NY, Nov., 1999)
"Salvadoran Refugees Look Homeward," with Beth Cagan, Plain Dealer Magazine (Cleveland,
12/17/89)
"Industrial Hostages," Society (New Brunswick, NJ, July-Aug, 1988)
"A Song for Peace," Venceremos (New York, April-June, 1988)
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"Misappropriation: A Manual for Urban Rehabilitation," with Don Harvey, Dialogue, an Art Journal
(Columbus, OH, July-Aug,'86)
"Diary of an Endless War-- Nicaragua," Plain Dealer Magazine (Cleveland, OH, Jan. 12, 1986)
"Die Clark Equipment Comp.," Arbeiterfotografie (Hamburg, Aug.,'84)
"Workaday Revolution: A Clevelander's Nicaragua Journal," Plain Dealer Magazine (Cleveland,
7/8/84)
"Fabrikstellengungen in Ohio-- Ein Photo-Essay," Dollars & Tra me, (Hamburg, April, 1984)
Books of my work or featuring my photography:
Las Voces del Pueblo Negro, Ind gena y Mestizo, No 6 (Quibd, 2010)
Gente de Guaduas: Una lucha por el honor y el terru o (Quibd, Colombia, 2009)
Las Voces del Pueblo Negro, Ind gena y Mestizo, No 5 (Quibd, 2009)
Anuario 2007-2008, Fundaci n Universitaria Claretiana (FUCLA) (Quibd, 2009)
Las Voces del Pueblo Negro, Ind gena y Mestizo, No 4 (Quibd, 2008)
Conferencia Nacional de Organizaciones Afrocolombianas, Asociaci n de Afrocolombianos
Desplazados, Organizaciones de Comunidades Negras, P litica p blica con enfoque diferencial
para la poblaci n afrocolombiana es situaciones de desplazamiento forzado o confinamiento:
Propuestas para la construcci n (Bogot, 2008)
Conferencia Nacional de Organizaciones Afrocolombianas, Plan Estrat gico (Bogot, 2008)
Bordando La Vida (Quibd, 2007)
Steve Cagan and Beth Cagan, This Promised Land: El Salvador, about a Salvadoran refugee
community in Honduras and their return to El Salvador. Rutgers Univ. Press. 1991
Steve Cagan and Beth Cagan, El Salvador, La Tierra Prometida, a Salvadoran edition of the same
book, with a new chapter and photographs, San Salvador, Ediciones Arcoiris, 1993
The Red Shadow of Steel Mills, Bottom Dog Press (Huron, Ohio 1991)
Going Home: The Repatriation Movement in El Salvador, (New York and London, 1991)
Photography included in the following books:
Molly Todd, Beyond Displacement, Campesinos, Refugees and Collective Action in the Salvadoran
Civil War (University of Wisconsin, 2010)
Ana Gilma Ayala Santos, Amuletos y Santos en el Atrato (Medell n, 2010)
Paolo Vignolo, Editor, Ciudan as en Escena, Performance y Derechos Culturales en Colombia
(Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogot, 2009
Claudia Mosquera R-Labb, et al, Afro-reparaciones: Memorias de la Esclavitud y Justicia
Reparativa para negros, afrocolombianos y raizales, (Univ. Nacional de Colombia, 2006)
P. Napole n Garc a Anaya, La Etnoeducaci n Afrocolombiana, Un derecho y un compromiso:
Manual para Docentes, Bogot, 2005
El Salvador: Im genes para no olvidar (San Salvador, Equipo Maiz, 1999)
Mar a L pez Vigil, Cuba: Neither Heaven Nor Hell, (Washington, Epica, 1999)
Rom n de la Campa, E. Ann Kaplan and Michael Sprinkler, eds., Late Imperial Culture (London,
Verso, 1995)
Minor Sinclair, ed. The New Politics of Survival (New York, Monthly Review Press, 1995)
Norman Krumholz and Pierre Clavel, Reinventing Cities: Equity Planners Tell their Stories
(Philadelphia, Temple, 1994)
Charles Chatfield, The American Peace Movement: Ideals and Activism (Twane, New York, 1992)
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Anthony Lake, et al, After the Wars, Overseas Development Council (Transaction, New Brunswick &
London, 1991)
The Madre Address Book (New York, 1990)
John A Booth and Thomas Walker, Understanding Central America (Boulder, 1989)
John McCutcheon, Water From Another Time: Music from John McCutcheon (Milwaukee, 1989)
Joel Kovel, In Nicaragua (London, 1988)
John Logue, James B. Quilligan and Barbara J. Weissmann, Buyout: Employee Ownership as an
Alternative to Plant Shutdowns: The Ohio Experience (Kent, OH, l986)
Diane Kendig, And a Pencil to Write Your Name: Poems From the Nicaraguan Poetry Workshops
(Findlay, OH, 1986)
William Vornberger, ed., Fire From the Sky: Salvadoran Children's Drawings (New York, 1986)
Todd Swanstrom, The Crisis of Growth Politics: Cleveland, Kucinich and the Challenge of Urban
Populism (Philadelphia, 1985)
Three-year Report of the Fund for the City of New York, (New York, 1984)
Roland G nter, Fotografie als Waffe, revised edition (Hamburg, l982)
Annual Report of National Community Funds, 1982
Selected articles in journals and reviews, addresses, invited papers, etc:
El Choc, Colombia: Lucha por Supervivencia Cultural y Ambiental, Universidad Metropolitana
de Ciencias de Educaci n, Santiago de Chile, Nov. 5, 2010
La pol tica de la representaci n Fotogr fica Documental, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad
de Santiago de Chile, Nov. 3, 2010
Presentation on Documentary Photography and my work, Instituto Arcos, Santiago de Chile, October
28, 2010
Member of a panel on Documentary Photography in the World at 4ta Bienal Argentina de
Fotograf a Documental, Tucum n, Ocrtober 16, 2010
Las Fiestas de San Pacho, Quibd Paper at the XV Congreso Iberamericano de Antropolog a
Aplicada, Universidad de Nari o, Pasto, Colombia, September, 2009
El Choc Colombia: Struggle for Cultural and Environmental Survival Lone Star College, Texas,
February 16, 2009
El Choc, Colombia: Environmental Riches and Threats. Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge, Oak
Harbor, OH, Spring, 2009 (Date to be arranged)
El Choc Colombia: Struggle for Cultural and Environmental Survival Cultural Crossing program,
Cleveland State University, January 16, 2009
El Choc, Colombia: Environmental Riches and Threats. CanalWay Visitor Center, Cleveland
MetroParks, Jan 13, 2009. This is one of a series of six talks by Cleveland-area people working in
Latin America that I proposed to the park.
El Choc Colombia: Struggle for Cultural and Environmental Survival Latin American Studies
Center, Stanford University, December 3, 2008
Choc : Lucha por la Superviviencia Cultural y Ambiental, una resistencia cotidiana, (a reflection
on issues confronting photographers working across cultural borders, originally a talk in Encuentro
Fotogr fico Medell n 2008, in Revista Universidad de Antioquia, No. 294 (Oct-Dec, 2008)
El Choc, Colombia: An environmental treasure under threat, Wildlife Conservation Society, New
York, Sept 25, 2008
La Comunicaci n Social Fotogr fica: retos, trampas y posibilidades, part of the series Ojo con El
Arte, Centro Colombo-Americano, Medell n, Sept.16, 2008
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El Choc, Colombia: Lucha por Supervivencia Cultural y Ambiental, Casa de Integraci n
Afrocolombiana, Medell n, Sept 15, 2008
El Choc, Colombia: Lucha por Supervivencia Cultural y Ambiental, for Martin Luther King
grantees of the US Embassy, Centro Colombo-Americano, Bogota, Sep. 4, 2007
Indicaciones para una Fotograf a Social a Trav s de las Culturas, Departmental Youth Conference,
Quibd, El Choc, Colombia, August 24, 2007
El Choc, Colombia, Tesoro Cultural y Ambiental Desconocido,: Centro de Estudios Sociales,
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogot, August 30, 2007
Photography and the Body, John Carroll University, Cleveland, Fall, 2006
Member of panel, "Activism and Imagery," Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, June 14, 1996
"Roadblocks to Constructing Grassroots Democracy: The Example of El Salvador." with Beth
Cagan. Presentation at Annual Meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology. Sept., 1995
"Tough Times for the Salvadoran Left," Crossroads, September, 1995
"Notes on 'Activist Photography,'" in Rom n de la Campa, E. Ann Kaplan and Michael Sprinkler,
eds., Late Imperial Culture (London, Verso, 1995)
Lecture on issues of visual representation. Universidad Centromericana Jos Sime n Ca as, San
Salvador, El Salvador, November 5, 1994
Essay and photographs in Janet Zandy, ed., Liberating Memory (New Brunswick, Rutgers, 1994)
Lecture on issues in my work for II Taller Internacional de la Im gen Fotogr fica, part of the V
Bienal de La Habana, Havana, Cuba, May 21, 1994
"Election Diary: El Salvador Tries to Vote," The Nation, April 18, 1994
Lecture on Colomoncagua/Ciudad Segundo Montes Community and the politics of photography in
the "Third World", Latein-Amerikanisches-Institute, Free University, Berlin, May 26, 1993
Lecture on Colomoncagua/Ciudad Segundo Montes Community, Latein Amerikansiche Kunde,
Hamburg, May 25, 1993
Lecture on the politics of photography, J-F-K-Institute, Free University, Berlin, May 19, 1993
Lecture on Colomoncagua/Ciudad Segundo Montes Community, Alexander-von-Humboldt-
Gesellschaft, Berlin, May 18, 1993
Panel, "Inside/Outside: 3 Photographic Practices," Columbia College, Chicago, October 29, 1992
Excerpt from "Grist For the Mills," (see below) in Joann Prosyniuk, ed., Modern Arts Criticism, vol.
2 (Detroit, New York & London, 1991)
"Activist Photography: the Possibility of Social Intervention," Lecture for Humanities Institute,
SUNY-Stony Brook, Feb. 7, 1991
Review of Alan Trachtenberg, Reading American Photographs, in the Wisconsin Magazine of
History (Vol. 74, no. 1, Autumn, 1990)
"Notes on 'Activist Photography,'" an article on the politics of photography and a political
interpretation of my own work, exposure (Vol. 27, No. 3, Summer, 1990)
"Photography's Contribution to the 'Western' Vision of the Colonized 'Other,'" paper for the Rutgers
Center for Historical Analysis, New Brunswick, NJ, April 10, 1990
"Patriotic Gore," Review of James Nachtwey, Deeds of War, and Exhibition of the same title at the
International Center for Photography, in Afterimage (Vol 17, no. 8, March, 1990)
Review of Robert L. Reid and Larry A. Viskochil, eds, Chicago and Downstate: Illinois as Seen by
the Farm Security Administration Photographers, 1936-1943, in the Wisconsin Magazine of
History (vol. 73, no. 4, Summer, 1990)
Member of panel, "Legislating Art: Is Censorship the Future?" part of the NOVA Artists Dialogue
series, sponsored by New Organization for the Visual Arts, Cleveland, OH Feb. 9, 1990
Member of panel, "Landmines in the Territory," Annual Conference of the Mid-America College Art
Association, Cincinnati, OH, Nov. 2, 1989
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Review of Susan D. Moeller, Shooting War: Photography and the American Experience of Combat,
in the Wisconsin Magazine of History (vol. 73, no.2, Winter, 1989-90)
"Gentle Weapons," Review of Jean-Marie Simon, Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny
Marilyn Anderson and Jonathan Garlock,Granddaughters of Corn; portraits of Guatemalan
Women, in Afterimage (Jan, 1990)
Member of panel and symposium of artists and photographers, "New Options/Working Solutions,"
Boston University, April 29, 1989
"The Politics of Representation and the Representation of Politics," presentation, National
Conference of the Society for Photographic Education, Rochester, NY, March 18, 1989
Member of a panel, "Between Art World and Mass Media," National Conference of the Society for
Photographic Education, Rochester, NY, March 17, 1989
"Speakeasy" (invited column) in New Art Examiner, Chicago, Dec., 1988
Member of a panel, "Between the Cracks: Recent Social Documentary Photography," Midwest
Regional Conference, Society for Photographic Education, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH,
October 29, 1988
Participated in a 3-person panel on the role of art criticism in regional artistic life: WCPN-FM,
Cleveland, August, 1988
Review of "This is Not a Photograph: Twenty Years of Large-Scale Photography, 1966-1986" (Akron
Museum of Art, Oct. 31, 1987-Jan. 10, 1988), Dialogue: An Art Journal (Columbus, OH, Vol. 11
No. 4, July/August, 1988)
Presentation for a panel called: "Getting Work Out: The Politics of Distribution," part of a
colloquium of the Northeast Region of the Society for Photographic Education, entitled "The Other
VOICES; Issues of Representation and Criticism in Photography," The New School, New York,
May 7, 1988
"Observaciones Sobre el Contexto y el Contenido de la Im gen Fotogr fica," a talk at Casa de Teatro,
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Nov. 3, 1987
"Apuntes Sobre el Retrato Fotogr fico," a talk at the Casa Fotogr fica, Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic, Nov. 5, 1987
"Made in Latin America," review of Hecho en Latinoam rica 1 and Hecho en Latinoam rica 2, in
Afterimage (Rochester, NY, Vol.15, No. 1, Summer, 1987)
Member of panel,"Problems of Political Representation: e.g. Nicaragua," School of Visual Arts, New
York., April 23, 1987
"Portraiture Within Documentary Photography," a discussion of my own use of portraiture, National
Conference of Society for Photographic Education, San Diego, CA, April 13, 1987
"An Introduction to Contemporary Nicaraguan Photography," National Conference of Society for
Photographic Education, San Diego, CA., April 13, 1987
Review of "Robert Frank: New York to Nova Scotia" (Cleveland Museum of Art, l986), Dialogue:
An Art Journal (Columbus, OH, Vol. 10, No. 1, Jan/Feb, 1987)
"On Censorship," article on several recent important censorship cases in northeastern Ohio, Dialogue:
An Art Journal (Columbus, OH, Vol. 9, no. 6, Nov/Dec, 1986)
"Essay-Review" of Robert Capa: A Biography, by Richard Whelan and Robert Capa: Photographs,
ed. by Cornell Capa and Richard Whelan, exposure (New York, Vol. 24, no. 2, Summer, 1986)
Review of Dustbowl Descent, by Bill Ganzel, Wisconsin Magazine of History (Madison, WI, Vol. 69,
No. 4, Summer, 1986)
Documentary Photography-- Some Current Issues," presentation for a panel on "Documentary
Photography- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow," part of a symposium on "Examining Society
Photographically" Mather Gallery, Case Western Reserve University, Jan. 18, 1986
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"Social and Political Implications of Art and Photography," invited colloquium and address,
Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, Oct. 17, 1986
Panel member and chair, seminar on "Censorship of Contemporary Art," sponsored by the New
Organization for Visual Art, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH, Sept. 26, 1985
"The Politics of Visual Representation," address at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI, April, l985
"Artistic and Cultural Policies and Practices in the New Nicaragua," address, Allen Memorial Art
Museum, Oberlin, OH, Nov. 12, l984
"What is Political Photography?" presentation for a symposium on "Vision & Conscience,"
University Gallery at SUNY- Binghamton, Oct., l984
Presentation and member of a panel discussing political photography at Society for Photographic
Education Midwest Regional Conference, Purdue University, Oct. 27, 1984
Presentation/panel member responding to Leon Golub, Mid-America Art Association Conference,
Cleveland OH., Oct. 25, 1984
"El Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers," review of book and show by Susan Meiselas, Harry
Mattison et al, Dialogue (Columbus, OH, Sept.-Oct., 1984)
"Gene Epstein Richmond: Human Rights Paintings," review of a show at Mather Gallery, Cleveland,
OH, in Dialogue (Columbus, OH, May-June, l984)
"Contemporary Afro-American Photography," a review of a show at Allen Memorial Art Museum,
Oberlin, OH in Dialogue (Columbus, OH, Jan-Feb., 1984)
"Notes on the Role of Context in Political Photography," article, Dialogue (Columbus, OH, Jan-Feb,
1984)
"Committing Photography," review of Su Braden, Committing Photography, in Afterimage
(Rochester, NY, vol. XI, no. 6, Jan., 1984)
"Line Items," review of Nick Hedges and Huw Beynon, Born to Work, in Afterimage (Rochester, NY,
vol. XI, no. 1-2, Summer, 1983)
"Grist for the Mills," review of Lee Friedlander, Factory Valleys, in Afterimage (Rochester, NY, vol.
X, no. 1-2, Summer, 1982)
"Documenting the New Depression," invited paper, Ohio State University Photography Department,
Columbus, OH, May, 1982
"Developing Local Audiences for Political Photography," invited paper for Society for Photographic
Education National Conference, Colorado Springs, CO, March, 1982
Teaching experiences:
2010 (Spring), 2009 (Spring), 2008 (Spring) and 2006 (Fall) part-time lecturer, SAGES Program, Case
Western Reserve University. A seminar on critical issues in photography called Looking at the
World
1998 (Spring) Adjunct, Lakeland Community College. Photojournalism course
1995 (Fall) Adjunct, Cuyahoga Community College. Photojournalism course.
1994-1995 Visiting professor of photojournalism, Journalism department,
Universidad de El Salvador, San Salvador (Fulbright Fellowship)
1985-1993 - Assistant Professor of Photography, Visual Arts Department, Mason
Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
I taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses.
1982 (Spring) Adjunct, First College, Cleveland State University. I taught a
workshop course, "Art and Society," an upper-level course which examined
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political analyses of art and political art.
l978 (Fall) Adjunct, First College, Cleveland State University. I taught a workshop
called The Social Eye": Documentary Photography." This was a theoretical,
historical and critical course.
l977-78 Photography instructor for Cleveland Heights-University Heights School
Board Community Services Program, Cleveland Hts., OH. I taught three
adult education courses: "Photography as a hobby," "Slide Photography" and
"Black and white photography workshop."
l977 (Summer) Photography instructor, Garden Valley Neighborhood House,
Cleveland. Fuller description under "other relevant experiences," below.
1975-76 Photography instructor, Saturday morning arts program, Supplementary
Education Center, Cleveland Board of Education.
1972-77 "Leader-teacher," Living Room Learning Program, Case Western
Reserve University, Cleveland. I led a variety of courses in this program.
1969-70 Instructor, English, SEEK Program, Hunter College of CUNY, New York
Instructor, English, Wagner College, New York
Instructor, American History, Borough of Manhattan
Community College, CUNY, New York
1968-69 Instructor, English, University Center SEEK Program, CUNY
1965-66 Teaching Assistant, English, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Other relevant experiences:
1977-78 (Oct.-June) Staff photographer for the city of Cleveland Heights, OH
under a CETA grant. Documented city services and aspects of civic life;
produced portraits of city workers, worked on production of slide shows, etc.
l977 (Apr.-Aug.) "Artist Principal" in photography for the Cleveland Area
Arts Council's "CETA and the Arts" program. Responsibilities included:
participating in development of goals and objectives for the visual arts
component, site preparation, recruitment of instructors, general coordination
of the photography program, and photography instruction at the Garden
Valley Neighborhood House site during the Summer.
1976 Worked with the Cleveland group, "Peoples and Cultures," photographing
and making audio tapes on twenty "ethnic tours" in various Cleveland
neighborhoods, and preparing a multi-image slide presentation.
1974 (Oct.-Nov.) Traveled through Indochina as a photographer member of
an Indochina Peace Campaign media group. Later, I developed a slide show
which I showed widely in Ohio, in Chicago, Ann Arbor, New York and
Vermont. Numerous publications and exhibitions also resulted.
1972 Community member of a committee charged with drafting proposals
for reorganization of the Center for Continuing Education, Case Western
Reserve University, Cleveland.
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