Biography & C.V.

Norman Locks

Professor, Art Department

University of California, Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz, CA  95064

831-600-5122, norman@ucsc.edu

 

EMPLOYMENT

2009-current Chair, Art Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

2002-09 Professor, Art Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

 

EDUCATION

1973 Master of Fine Arts, Photography, California State University, San Francisco, CA

1970 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography, San Francisco Art Institute, CA

 

RECENT EXHIBITIONS / RESIDENCIES

 

2010 “Epiphany,” with paintings by Lisa Kairos, twelve digital panoramic landscape constructions from digital video and digital cameras (approx. 20 X 48), Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA (February)

 

2009 “Instant Gratification,” a tribute to the pursuit of Polaroid, five 22 X 30 inch digital prints from Polaroid I-Zone photographs, curated by Susannah Magers, Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA (March)

 

2008 “Response,” collaborative exhibit/installation, curated by Tamara Zibners, four digital panoramic constructions, (approx. 17 X 40), Strasbourg, France (April)

 

2007 “Chronotopographies: remembering in digital,” with photographs by Lewis Watts, six digital prints from Polaroid I-Zone, five digital panoramic constructions from digital video, six digital composites, curated by Jake Thomas, Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA (September-October)

 

2005 Artist in Residence, public lecture, lecture for intermediate/advanced students in photography, field work with students, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA (February)

 

2002 “New Work,” (solo exhibition) thirteen digital prints from Polaroid I-Zone photographs, 24”x16”, Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, CA (September)

 

Norman Locks: Photographs; Trails and Paths Between Wilderness and Urban Environments,” (solo exhibition) ten composite photographic works, each with two to four color photographs, 32 images total.  Eight digital prints from Polaroid I-Zone photographs 13”x18”, two digital prints from manipulated Polaroid SX-70 images, Julie Baker Fine Art Gallery, Grass Valley, CA (February-March)

 

 

 

ADDITIONAL SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

1996 “Big Creek Reserve,” twenty-two 14”x18” color photographs from Landels Creek, Big Creek Reserve, Big Sur, CA, Faculty Gallery, Benjamin F. Porter College, UCSC (November)

 

“Desolation Wilderness,” twenty photographic images from Desolation Wilderness, http://www.united-states.com, Warren Sly, site director, Seattle, WA (January-September)

 

1995 “Color on Color—Desolation Wilderness,” one 40”x32”, three 24”x30” and seven 14”x18” oil painted color photographs, Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, CA (April)

 

1994 “Desolation Wilderness,” four 32”x40”, eight 24”x30”, and forty-seven 14”x18” color photographs, Nevada Historical Society, Changing Gallery, Reno, NV (September-December)

 

1993 “Random Order and Chaos in Wilderness,” eighteen 16”x20” and two 32”x40” color photographs, with support from The Wilderness Society, Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, CA (December)

 

“Brambles and Bracken: Recent Color Photographs,” eighteen 16”x20” and four 32”x40” color photographs, Porter Faculty Gallery, UCSC (January-February 14)

 

1992 “Finding Form Within Disorder, Images of Wilderness,” thirty-eight 16”x20” and four 32”x40” color photographs, Spectrum Gallery, Fresno, CA (April)

 

  1. “Foliage,” a one-person exhibit of landscape imagery, fifteen 16”x20” and six 40”x32” color photographs, Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA (October)

 

1988 “Recent Photographs: Still Lives, Gardens, Landscapes,” twenty-two color photographs, Porter College House, UCSC (October)

 

1986 “Figurative,” eighteen color Cibachrome prints made from Polachrome slides made during 1985-1986, Porter College House, UCSC (February)

 

1983 “Landscape Photographs,” forty 16”x20” color Cibachrome prints, Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, CA

 

“Photographs 1976-82,” twenty-four manipulated SX-70 Polaroid images, twenty-four color Westside Santa Cruz photographic project images, and twenty-four 16”x20” color landscape photographs, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, UCSC (January 7-February 9)

 

  1. “Westside Santa Cruz Project,” a portfolio of sixty-four 11”x14” color Cibachrome landscape photographs/architecture photographs, Modesto Junior College, Modesto, CA (May)

 

1981 “Westside Santa Cruz Project,” a portfolio of sixty-four 11”X14” color Cibachrome landscape/architecture photographs, Cedar Street Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA (October 1-November 11)

 

1980 “Familiar Subjects,” one hundred manipulated Polaroid SX-70 images in a museum-designed installation, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

 

1979 “Familiar Subjects,” forty manipulated Polaroid SX-70 images, Shadaii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (June 11-July 10)

 

“Familiar Subjects,” fifty hand-worked Polaroid SX-70 images, Silver Image Gallery, Seattle WA (May)

 

“Familiar Subjects,” forty manipulated Polaroid SX-70 images, A Fine Hand Gallery, San Francisco, CA (May 6-June 5)

 

  1. “Recent Polaroid SX-70 Images,” sixty hand-worked Polaroid SX-70 images, Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, CA (November 3-December 3)

 

“Norman Locks,” a group of sixty recent Polaroid SX-70 photographs, Center for

Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (July 18-August 31)

 

“Norman Locks,” an exhibition of sixty SX-70 Polaroid prints, with support from the

National Endowment for the Arts and Polaroid Corporation, Friends of Photography,

Carmel, CA (April 23-June 12)

 

ADDITIONAL TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

 

1999 “Cycles and Change: Trails and Journeys,” with paintings by Jennie McDade, eleven composite photographic works, each with two-to-four color photographs, 36 images total, Cabrillo Gallery, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA (March-April)

 

ADDITIONAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2009 “Full Disclosure,” faculty researchers in art and science, four digital panoramic landscape constructions, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

 

2008 “Curious,” Members Collective Exhibit, Pajaro Valley Arts Council, digital composite 17 X 46 inches (May/June)

 

2007 “We Are Felix,” one digital construction 17 X 38 inches, Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA (November/December)

 

“Fuse/Fereru,” collaborative exhibit by the Art Faculties of UCSC, The Tokyo Zokei University and the Kyoto University of Art and Design, two panoramic digital prints, 17 X 96 and 17 X 46 inches, exhibited at the Sesnon Gallery, Santa Cruz, The Zokei Gallery and University Museum, Tokyo, Gallery AUBE, Kyoto, Japan

 

“Wanderings,” members collective exhibit, Pajaro Valley Arts Council, one digital print from digital video 17 X 32 inches (June/July)

 

“Faculty Works 2007: Fuse,” two digital panoramic prints from digital video, 17 X 75 and 17 X 46 inches, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, UCSC (April/May)

 

2006 “A Sense of Place, members collective exhibit, Pajaro Valley Arts Council, two digital panoramas 17 X 75 inches (August/September)

 

“Photographs From the Heart,” a benefit exhibition supporting Jacob’s Heart Children’s Cancer Association, The Ugly Mug Café, Soquel, CA (February-March)

 

“Picture Progress,” auction/exhibit, A League of Young Voters, Red Ink Studios, San Francisco, CA (March)

 

2004 “Rumme: Living River, The Pajaro River Watershed Experience,” four digital prints from Polaroid I-Zone photographs, Pajaro Valley Gallery, Watsonville, CA (September/October)

 

“The Natural Gaze: Landscapes of the Central Coast,” three digital prints from Polaroid I-Zone photographs, 18” x 13”, UCSC Arboretum (May 2004)

 

“Natural Seduction,” two digital prints from Polaroid I-Zone photographs, Pajaro Valley Gallery, Watsonville, CA (May 2004)

 

“Faculty Works 2004,” three-person exhibit, twelve digital prints from Polaroid I-Zone photographs, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, UCSC (March-May)

 

2003 “Transitions to Digital,” three digital prints 13” x 18” from Polaroid I-Zone photographs, one color negative print 30” x 24,” Pajaro Valley Gallery, Watsonville, CA (July-September)

 

2001 “Painting With Light: The World of the Photographic Image,” three digital prints from Polaroid I-Zone photographs, 18”x13”, Pajaro Valley Gallery, Watsonville, CA (March –May)

 

“A Watershed Experience: Discovering the Watsonville Sloughs,” two digital prints on rice paper from Polaroid I-Zone photographs, Pajaro Valley Gallery, Watsonville, CA (January-March)

 

“Faculty Works: UCSC Studio Art Faculty Exhibition,” five digital prints on rice paper, Mary Sesnon Porter Gallery, UCSC (January-February)

 

1999 Faculty Works: UCSC Studio Art Faculty Exhibition,” two composite works, one including four-color photograph, one including three-color photographs, from the series, “Trails from Wilderness to Inner City,” Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, UCSC (January-February)

 

1997-1999 “A Common Thread,” traveling exhibition, two 24”x30” color photographs, three 14”x18” color photographs from the Great Basin National Park project (Nevada), traveling exhibition to Carson City, Elko, Eureka, Las Vegas, and Reno, NV

 

1998 “Elkhorn Observed: Paintings, Photographs, Drawings and Prints of Elkhorn Slough,” one composite color work including six color photographs from “A Trail from Wilderness to Inner City: Wilderness and Urban Order,” Pajaro Valley Gallery, Watsonville, CA (March—April)

 

  1. University of California Art Faculty Exhibition, one 30”x24” color photograph from Great Basin National Park project (Nevada), Blake House, Sacramento, CA

 

  1. Saving Wetlands Celebration and Art Auction Benefit, two 14”x18” color photographs of Harkin Slough (Watsonville, CA), Open Space Alliance of Santa Cruz County, CA (October)

 

Print Donor Exhibition, invitational, six photographs with two composite works including multiple color photographs from “A Trail from Wilderness to Inner City: Wilderness and Urban Order,” Spectrum Gallery, Fresno, CA (September)

 

“Big Creek Reserve,” seven 14”x18” color photographs from the Big Creek Reserve project (Big Sur, CA), fundraising exhibit, Big Creek Reserve, Big Sur, CA

 

1996 “San Francisco Art Institute: Fifty Years of Photography,” one 24”x30” color photograph from Great Basin National Park project (Nevada), Artsource, Transamerica Pyramid Lobby Gallery, San Francisco, CA (October-November)

 

Arts Division Ladder Faculty Exhibition, ten photographs with three composite works including multiple-color photographs from “A Trail from Wilderness to Inner City: Wilderness and Urban Order,” work in progress, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, UCSC (September-October)

 

A San Francisco Art Institute Group Alumni Exhibit, two 14”x18” color photographs from Big Creek Reserve project (Big Sur, CA), Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, CA (March)

 

“Desert Hearts,” four 24”x30” and twelve 14”x18” color photographs taken in Great Basin National Park (Nevada), Art City, Los Angeles, CA (February)

 

1995 Invitational Auction Exhibition, one color photograph, Spectrum Gallery, Fresno, CA (September)

 

“Birds in Paradise,” one wooden birdhouse, fundraising exhibition featuring artist and architect designed birdhouses, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, UCSC (April)

 

1994 Faculty Exhibit, one 24”x30” oil-painted photograph and one 24”x30” color photograph, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, UCSC (November)

 

“Neighborhoods United: Photographers for Peace,” one 20”x16” color landscape, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA (December)

 

1993 “The Courthouse Annex: A Photographic Essay,” twelve 16”x20” Cibachrome Prints, Solari Gallery, McPherson Center for Art and History, The Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA (December)

 

Invitational Auction Exhibition, one color photograph, Spectrum Gallery, Fresno, CA (December)

 

“7 of VII, A Typographic Response to Performance,” one 32”x40” color photograph, from “Desolation Wilderness,” Moving Parts Press, McHenry Library, UCSC (March)

 

1992 “At Mono Lake,” a traveling photographic exhibit, one color photograph, Fullerton Museum, Fullerton, CA (January 13-February 24)

 

“At Mono Lake,” a traveling photographic exhibit, one color photograph, United States Forest Service, Lee Vining, CA

 

  1. Group Exhibit, two color landscape photographs from the “California Coast Series,” Joseph Choning Gallery, San Francisco, CA (December)

 

“In Praise Of The North Coast—A Sense of Place,” two color landscape photographs from the “California Coast Series,” Louden Nelson Center, Santa Cruz, CA

 

Rare and Endangered Landscapes, one color landscape photograph from the “California Coast Series,” Juniper Gallery, Napa Art Center, Napa, CA (June 29-July 31)

 

1989 “Photography 150 Years: Its Light and Shadow,” “Untitled 1976,” a manipulated Polaroid SX-70 print, exhibition by the College of Art, Nihon University, Tokyo, in collaboration with the Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics at Printemps Ginza, Tokyo, Japan, subsequently reproduced in the commemorative album of the same name

 

  1. “The Courthouse Annex—A Photographic Essay,” a six-person photographic essay, ten 16”x20” color Cibachrome prints from Polaroid, Polachrome film, Santa Cruz County Museum of Art, Santa Cruz, CA

 

  1. Group Exhibit, Polachrome figurative image, Santa Cruz County Museum of Art, Santa Cruz, CA (purchase award)

 

  1. “At Mono Lake,” traveling exhibit, Friends of the Earth, CA

 

1977 “Attitudes,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

 

“Introductions,” Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA

 

  1. “Instant Photography,” Madison Art Center, Madison, WI

 

“Color Invitational,” Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

 

1977 Group Show, Polaroid SX-70 work, Wheelock College Gallery, Boston, MA

 

“Moments Extended,” Neikrug Gallery, New York, NY

 

Group Show, Polaroid SX-70 work, Columbia Gallery of Photography, Columbia, MO

 

Photographs in the Collections Of

  1. Kiyosoto Museum of Photographic Art, Robert Heinecken Collection, “Vagina with Bow,” Polaroid SX-70 color photograph, Kiyosoto, Japan

1994 Nevada Historical Society, Reno, NV, 14”x18” color photographs from Desolation Wilderness exhibit

1991 Yosemite Association, Yosemite, California, 100 images of the Yosemite High Sierra Camps, produced for the Yosemite Photographic Survey

1990 Polaroid Corporation Collection, Cambridge, MA

1970-80 Ansel Adams Collection, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Graham Nash Collection

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

Santa Cruz Museum of Art, Santa Cruz, CA

Tokyo University Collection, Tokyo, Japan

 

PUBLISHED WRITINGS AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES

Books, Catalogues, and Monographs 

2008 Monograph introduction, for a book of photographs, “Urban Constructs,” Richard Stultz, Zena Press, Palo Alto, CA

2004 Monograph introduction, “Lines of Thought,” for a book of photographs, “Half Frame,” Marcy Robinson, Steidl Dangin

2002 Reproduction, “Tulips in vase,” Polaroid Manipulations, Kathleen T. Carr, Amphoto

National exhibition review, reproduction, “Highway five Intersection,” Art News, Hearne Pardee, Pg. 129, June 2002

Color announcement, three reproductions from “Trails and Paths Between Wilderness and Urban Environments,” Julie Baker Fine Art Gallery

Second printing, photo illustration, “Clara in Front of Hydrangea and Mirror,” for “I’m Nobody? Who Are You?” by Emily Dickinson, Thinking Through Literature, McDougall Littell

  1. Photography portfolio, essay, Chapter 4, “Big Creek: An Artist’s Research,” Views of a Coastal Wilderness: 20 Years of Research at Big Creek Reserve, Fred Farr Research Symposium, ed. John Smiley, Rohana Mayer and Eric Engler, McNaughton and Gunn
  2. Essay, “Equilibrium Off Balance,” Catalogue for an exhibition, The Moment of Form: The Paintings and Monoprints of Don Weygandt, Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA

Photo illustration, “Clara in Front of Hydrangea and Mirror,” (SX-70, 1978) for poem “I’m Nobody! Who Are You?” by Emily Dickinson, Thinking Through Literature McDougal Littell

  1. On-site Art Assumes a Documentary Edge,” (review of Big Creek reserve photographic exhibition, Faculty Gallery, Benjamin F. Porter College, UCSC, Transect, University of California Natural Reserve System, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 1997
  2. Color reproductions, three photographs from Great Basin National Park, A Common Thread exhibition catalog, traveling exhibit, Carson City, Elko, Eureka, Las Vegas, and Reno, NV
  1. Reproduction, “Birds in Paradise,” Artist and Architect Designed Birdhouses catalog, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, UCSC
  1. Color announcement, two-color images with statement, in fold-out announcement for solo exhibition, Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Color photograph centerfold and acknowledgment, “Don Weygandt Studio,” Monotypes and Other Prints catalog, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, UCSC

1990 Reproduction, “Untitled 1976,” color SX-70 manipulated print, in the commemorative

album, Photography 150 years: Its Light and Shadow, published by the College of Art, Nihon University, Tokyo, in collaboration with the Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics, Tokyo, Japan.  Cited in Currents (December)

  1. Reproductions, three black and white photographs, with biography and personal statement, The Courthouse Annex—A Photographic Essay exhibition catalog, The Art Museum of Santa Cruz, County, Santa Cruz, CA

1986 Reproduction, one black and white reproduction from the Figurative series, 1986-1987, The Art Museum Annual—Photography and Contemporary Fiber exhibition catalog, The Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA

1983 Color poster, 19”x24”, “Mono Crater, Eastern Sierra 1982,” a color landscape, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, UCSC

1981 Reproduction, “Suzy Pouring Tea, 1977,” a color SX-70 print with description of process,

Color, Life Library of Photography (1981): 224, Time Life Books, Inc.

1979 Reproduction, two SX-70 manipulated prints, in Polaroid Land Photography, Ansel Adams (1979): 94-95, New York Graphic Society

Reproductions, five SX-70 manipulated prints from Familiar Subjects by Norman Locks, The Art Annual, Communication Arts

Review of Familiar Subjects, two black and white reproductions of SX-70 manipulated prints, Photographers Forum 1 (30): 24-25

  1. Familiar Subjects, a book of 90 photographic images, 15,000 copies printed (NY: Harper and Row)

1977  Reproductions, ten color SX-70 manipulated prints, with statement by Director James

Enyeart, Friends of Photography exhibition catalog, Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Honors, Awards, Grants

2009-2010 ARI Major Project Grant, Constructing Photographic Narratives, UCSC ($3200)

2008-2009 Arts Division COR Faculty Research Grant, UCSC ($1500)

2001-2002 New Technology Teaching Award, Co-Recipient with Ken Alley, UCSC ($14,500)

Digital Arts/New Media Research Grant, “Photographic/Digital Collaboration, Documentation, Fiction, and Information Enhancement,” UCSC ($2,900)

2000-2001 Academic Senate COR Faculty Research Grant, UCSC ($1,200)

Arts Division COR Faculty Research Grant, UCSC ($1,000)

Thumbs Up Award, Art Department, UCSC

  1. Academic Senate COR Faculty Research Grant, UCSC ($1,200)

Arts Division COR Faculty Research Grant, UCSC ($1,000)

  1. Porter College Advisor of the Year

Academic Senate COR Faculty Research Grant, UCSC ($1,200)

Arts Division COR Faculty Research Grant, UCSC ($1,500)

1998 Instructional Improvement Grant, with Jyl Kelly, SRA Photography, UCSC ($6,006)

Private Contribution, Alan Morton, donor, travel support for a seven-day trip to photograph Durango, CO and Santa Fe, NM and surrounding landscapes ($1,000)

  1. Academic Senate COR Faculty Research Grant, UCSC ($2,000)

Private Contribution, Alan Morton, donor, travel support for a ten-day trip to photograph Durango, CO and surrounding landscape ($800)

1997 Academic Senate COR Faculty Research Grant, UCSC ($2,000)

Private Contribution, Alan Morton, donor, travel support for a ten-day trip to photograph Durango, CO and surrounding landscape ($800)

  1. Arts Division COR Faculty Research Grant, UCSC ($1,500)

Academic Senate COR Faculty Research Grant, UCSC ($2,000)

  1. Private Contribution, Alan Morton, donor, travel support for a seven-day trip to photograph Durango, CO and surrounding landscape ($1,500)

Private Contribution, Alan Morton, donor, for darkroom equipment ($5,000)

  1. Junior Faculty Development Award, one-course relief, UCSC (fall)

Arts Division COR Faculty Research Grant, UCSC ($1,500)

Academic Senate COR Faculty Research Grant, UCSC ($2,000)

  1. Instructional Improvement Grant, co-sponsored with James Bierman / Virginia Jansen, UCSC ($2,000)

Junior Faculty Development Award, UCSC ($1,540)

Academic Senate COR Faculty Research Grant, UCSC ($1,460)

  1. Instructional Improvement Grant, UCSC ($3,000)

Academic Senate COR Faculty Research Grant, UCSC ($1,460)

Arts Division COR Faculty Research Grant, UCSC ($1,200)

  1. Regents Junior Faculty Fellowship, one-course relief, UCSC (fall)

Arts Division COR Faculty Research Grant, UCSC ($1,350)

Academic Senate COR Faculty Research Grant, UCSC ($1,460)

  1. Purchase Award of three Cibachrome figurative images by Polaroid Corporation for their permanent, international collection, to support continued research of Polaroid imagery and materials
  1. Arts Division COR Faculty Research Grant, UCSC ($1,480)
  1. Purchase Award, Santa Cruz County Museum, purchase of Cibachrome print for collection ($300)

1985-1986 Arts Division COR Faculty Research Grant, UCSC ($950)

  1. Faculty Improvement Grant, Provost’s Discretionary Funds, UCSC ($430)

Faculty Research Grant, Porter College, UCSC ($1,000)

Faculty Research Grant, Porter College, UCSC ($200)

1978 Polaroid Corporation, color separations for “Familiar Subjects,” Harper and Row

($8,000)

Media

1994 To The Point, “High Profile, Photographer Norman Locks,” a television interview, KNPB Channel 5, Reno, NV (September 23)

 

 

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Art Residencies, Public Lectures, Forum Participation

 

2003 Panel Discussion, “Transitions to Digital,” with Ken Alley, Katie Perry and Gordon Leighton, in conjunction with the exhibit, “Transitions to Digital,” Pajaro Valley Gallery, Watsonville, CA (July)

 

2002 Public Lecture, “Trails and Paths Between Wilderness and Urban Environments,” Julie Baker Fine Arts Gallery, Grass Valley, CA (March)

 

1999 Presenter, “A Visual Arts Faculty Seminar,” Cabrillo College and the UCSC Educational Partnership Center/Transfer Partnerships Program, Monterey Bay Educational Consortium, Elena Baskin Visual Arts Complex (April)

 

Lecture, “Cycles and Change, Trails and Journeys,” Jim Vecchi’s color photography course in conjunction with two-person exhibit, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA (April)

 

Public lecture, “Cycles and Change, Trails and Journeys,” Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA (March)

 

“The Academic Calling, Changing Commitments and Complexities,” American Association of Higher Education, San Diego. CA (January)

 

1998 Presenter, Fred Farr Natural History Reserve Research Symposium, lecture on recent research at Landels Hill, Big Creek Reserve, Big Sur, CA (July)

 

“Recent Research in Landscape Photography,” lecture, Santa Cruz Museum Association, Louden Nelson Center, Santa Cruz, CA

 

1995 “A Personal Retrospective, 25 Years in Photography,” lecture at The Creative Exposure Workshop, Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA (October)

 

1994 “Desolation Wilderness,” lecture and weekend field trip with graduate students from San Francisco Art Institute, Lake Tahoe and Reno, NV (November)

 

“Desolation Wilderness,” public lecture, Nevada Historical Society, Reno, NV (September)

 

1993 “Work in Progress, Great Basin National Park and Desolation Wilderness,” lecture and presentation of landscape photographs, University of Nevada, Reno (March)

 

1992 “Art of the Wild,” photographic exhibition of 30 color photographs during a lecture by Gretel Erhlich entitled, “A Sense of Place,” Squaw Valley, ID (August)

 

“Looking at Photographs—How to Develop the Most From Your Work,” lecture/workshop in connection with one-person exhibit, Spectrum Gallery, Fresno, CA (May)

 

“The Creative Process—The Relationship Between Photography and Creative Writing—A Lecture and Presentation of Landscape Photographs,” English 102, University of Nevada, Reno

 

“Working In The Landscape, Aesthetic Decisions: Using the 4-by-5 View Camera, A Lecture and Presentation of Color Photographs,” San Francisco Art Institute, CA

 

1991 “Recent Landscape Photography,” lecture, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA

“25 Years in Photography,” lecture, San Francisco City College, CA (April)

 

1990 Presenter, “Recent Work in Landscape Photography,” Society for Photographic Education, Monterey, CA

 

1989 “Recent Landscape Photography,” lecture, San Francisco Art Institute, CA (April)

 

1988 “Landscape,” photographic workshop, Joshua Tree, CA (October)

“Landscape, Nevada City, Gold Country,” photographic workshop, CA (July)

 

1987 “Recent Work in Photography,” lecture at Milton Avery Graduate School of Art, Bard College, NY (August)

 

1986 “The Future of UC Photographic Collections,” Library Science Conference, University of California, Riverside (August)

 

1985 Panel Moderator, “Risk Taking in Education,” Society for Photographic Education Regional Conference, Lake Tahoe, CA

 

Conferences

2001 ArtsBridge Intercampus conference, Temecula, CA (April)

 

2000 “Faculty Roles and Rewards,” American Association of Higher Education, New Orleans, LA (February)

 

1999 “The Academic Calling, Changing Commitments and Complexities,” American Association of Higher Education, San Diego, CA (January)

 

“Innovation and Traditions University of California in the 21st Century,” University of California Management and Leadership Conference, San Jose, CA (June)

 

Membership / Professional Associations

1989-1992 Member, Society for Photographic Education

1983-1985 Member, Society for Photographic Education

 

Consultative / Service to Private Organizations / Professional Services

    1. President, Board of Directors, Pajaro Valley Arts Council, Watsonville, CA
  1. Participant, portfolio review, Our World juried event, Photo Alliance, San Francisco

Art Institute, CA

2001 External Review Committee, Hamilton College, Syracuse, NY

1995-1996 Consultant, restoration and digital storage, Radha Soami Satsang, Beas, India

1994-1995 Consultant, course and facility planning, Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA

Juror, 39th Annual High School Exhibition, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA

1992-1993 Photographic consultant and technician for In the Footsteps of the Masters, Radha Soami

Satsang Press

  1. Textbook Reviewer, The Ansel Adams Guide, Basic Techniques in Photography, by

John Schaffer (New York: Little, Brown and Company)

Consultant, Book Two for Intermediate-Advanced Students, by John Schaffer (New

York: Little, Brown and Company)

Juror, Marin Arts Council, Artists Grants Program, awarded grants to Marin County artist

applicants, Becky Carter, Director, Marin, CA

1991 Photographer, Yosemite Photographic Survey, Yosemite Association, Yosemite, CA

1990 Consultant, Aptos High School photography program, darkroom design, Aptos, CA

1986 Judge, Festival of the Masters, Disney World, Orlando, FL

Juror, Discovering Our Common Ground, photography exhibit, co-sponsored by Santa 

Cruz Sentinel and The Peace Day Steering Committee, Santa Cruz, CA

Judge, Santa Cruz Board of Realtors Photography Competition, Santa Cruz, CA

 

Editorial Service to Publications

1988 Art Editor of “Photography: Photographs by Norman Locks and Richard Baker,” Quarry West Publishers, Santa Cruz, CA, Quarry West 25 (1988): 93-107

 

ACADEMIC SERVICE – Department 

2009- Chair, Department of Art

  1. Chair, Department of Art

2007-2008 Chair, Curriculum Committee

2006-2007 Co-Chair, Curriculum Committee, with Professor Jennie McDade

2005-2006 Curriculum Committee

2003-2004 Member Search Committee, Junior Faculty in both Sculpture and Public Art

Member, Portfolio Review Committee

Member, Irwin Project Grant Committee

1998-2004 Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery Committee

2002-2003 Member Search Committee, Junior Faculty in Print Media

Member, Portfolio Review Committee

Member, Irwin Project Grant Committee

1995-2004 Member, Space Committee

1998-2002 Member, Operations Committee

2001-2002 Member, Search Committee, Senior Research Associate in Sculpture

Member, Search Committee, Technical Assistant in Photography

Member, Portfolio Review Committee

Member, Irwin Project Grant Committee

2000-2001 Member, Search Committee, Junior Faculty in Photography

Member, Search Committee, Art Department Student Advisor

Member, Portfolio Review Committee

Member, Irwin Project Grant Committee

1999-2000 Member, Search Committee, Junior Faculty in Printmaking

Member, Portfolio Review Committee

1999 Member, Search Committee for Department Manager

1998 Member, Search Committee for Gallery Assistant, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery

Member, Search Committee for Department Assistant

Member, Search Committee for Lecturer Pool in Photography

1996 Member, Search Committee for Photography Senior Research Associate

Member, Search Committee for Director, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery

1994-1995 Member, Self-Study Committee

Member, Budget Committee

Member, Space Committee

Member, Search Committee, Junior Photography/Computer Arts position

1993-1994 Member, Search Committee, Junior 2-D Mixed Media Position

Chair, Target 2000 Committee (formerly Art Department Symposium Committee)

Member, Self-Study Committee

1992-1993 Member, Search Committee for Photography Senior Research Assistant

Member, Art Department Symposium Committee (later Target 2000 Committee)

1989-1993 Member, Building Committee, Photography Studio, Baskin Arts

1991-1992 Member, Search Committee, Senior Art Theory Position, Division of the Arts

 

Additional Department Service

  1. Affiliated Faculty, Ph.D. Candidate Jake Thomas, Literature Thesis Committee (“Re-Imagining California: Sepia Writing in the Age of Digital Realism”)

Art Department portfolio review

2006-2007 Faculty sponsor, Sean-Michael Rau, Dean’s award for his digital photographic project,

“My Roots”

Faculty sponsor, graduating senior Tamara Zibners, who received a Fulbright Scholarship

to work on a ten-month photographic research project in Latvia

Faculty sponsor, graduating senior Valerie Bischoff, who received a Fulbright

Scholarship to work on a ten-month film research project in Estonia

Art Department portfolio review

2005-2006 Faculty sponsor, Andrew Newcome, Dean’s award for his photographic project,

“Salton Sea”

1979-2004 Area Head in Photography, Art Department

  1. Lecturer, Artist Lecture Series, “Landscape and Metaphor,” in conjunction with “Faculty

Works, Studio Art Faculty Exhibition,” Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, UCSC

1998 Curator, Irwin Scholarship Recipients Exhibition

Directed Art Department Planning Retreat for Ladder Faculty, Lecturers and Staff, Kennolyn Camp, Soquel, CA

1992-1993 Curator, Irwin Scholarship Recipients Exhibition

 

Academic Service – College 

2007-2010 Member, Executive Committee, Porter College

1997-1999 Member, Executive Committee, Porter College

1994-1995 Member, Executive Committee, Porter College

1991-1992 Member, Executive Committee, Porter College

1985-1990 Member, Distinguished Lecturers Committee, Porter College

Member, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery Committee

1986-1989 Member, Porter College Faculty Exhibits Committee

 

 

Additional College Service

2000 Faculty Address, Commencement Ceremony (June)

1999 Curriculum development, two-unit course, Working in Art, Porter College

Photographic illustrations, program photograph and stage projections for Chekhov’s

The Cherry Orchard, directed by Kathy Foley, trans. Jean-Clause van Itallie

  1. Lecture, “Ways of Knowing,” discussion of ideas related to exhibit at Porter Faculty

Gallery, for Porter 80B, Instructor Jude Todd

1990-1991 Curator, Photography—Visiting Faculty exhibit, Faculty Gallery, Porter College

1988-1989 Director, Porter College, Faculty Exhibits

1986-1987 Curator, Mixed Media photography exhibit, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery

1984-1985 Curator, “Out of Context,” group show, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery

1978-1979 College Five, Area Head, Photography

 

ACADEMIC SERVICE – DIVISION  

2007-2008 Chair, Division of the Arts, Dean Search Committee

2006-2007 Member, Division of the Arts, Dean Search Committee

1998-2004 Member, Department Chair Committee

Member, Digital Arts/New Media Graduate Program Committee

    1. Member, DA/NM Building Committee

Member, DA/NM Building Architect Selection Committee

2001-2004 Co-Chair with Carolyn Dean, Museum Committee

1999-2002 Arts Bridge Committee/Mentor, Art Department Representative

1995-1996 Member, Committee on Campus Land Management

1993-1994 Member, Arts Instruction and Research Computing Committee

1990-1991 Member, T.O.P. committee, Division of the Arts

Member, Faculty Research Computer Lab Advisory Committee

 

Additional Division Service

2000-2004 Membership DA/NM FRA (focused research activity)

2002 Acting Director, “ArtsBridge,” Spring Quarter

Presenter, “Photographic/Digital Collaboration, Documentation, Fiction and 

Information Enhancement,” Digital Arts/New Media colloquium series

 

Academic Senate Service

2009- Member, Committee on Committees

1997-2000 Member, Committee on Teaching

1994-1995 Member, Committee on Narrative Evaluations

 

Additional University Service

2007 “On Photography,” lecture for Anthropology, Professor Shelly Errington

Lecture/presentation to Art 135, Introduction to Digital Photography, Lecturer Ken Alley

2005-2007 Committee Member, UCSC Faculty Association, Shelly Errington, Chair

  1. Presenter, “Domestic Landscapes,” a public lecture in conjunction with “Faculty Works

2004,” Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery

  1. Presenter,  “Work in Progress,” digital prints from Polaroid I-Zone photographs, DA/NM

focus group in art

2001-2002 Presenter, “Current Research in Art,” Odyssey Conference at UCSC

Outreach, “Faculty to Faculty Dialogue at West Valley College”

  1. Presenter, A Visual Arts Faculty Seminar, Monterey Bay Educational Consortium,

Cabrillo College and the USCS Educational Partnership Center—Transfer Partnerships Program, Elena Baskin Visual Arts Complex, UCSC

“Innovation and Tradition, UC in the 21st Century” University of California Management

and Leadership Conference, San Jose, CA

1987 Panelist, “Opportunities in Photography,” Career Services, UCSC

“Women Artists in Photography,” lecture for Women Artists, Instructor Kay Metz, UCSC

  1. “Why Out of Context?,” lecture for Psychology in Art, Professor Pavel Machotka,

Visual  Fundamentals, Professor Paul Rangell, and Porter Core Course, UCSC

 

Additional Teaching

1988 University of California Extension workshop, “Joshua Tree” with Susan Friedman

University of California Extension, five-day workshop, “Nevada City, Gold Country”

1984-1985 University of California Extension, four-day workshop, “Canyon de Chelly, Arizona,”

with Keith Muscutt

University of California Extension workshop, “Looking at Photographs, Photographic

Criticism,” with David Bayles

  1. University of California Extension, four-day workshop, “Patterns in Nature, Mojave

Desert,” with Roger Lukenbach, naturalist, co-instructor

1982 University of California Extension, four-day workshop, “Looking at Photographs,

Photographic Criticism,” David Bayles, co-instructor

1981 University of California Extension, four-day workshop, “Yosemite High Sierra-Mono

Lake, Owens Valley,” photography workshop, with Ray McSaveney, director

University of California Extension, four-day workshop, “Looking at Photography,

Photographic Criticism,” David Bayles, co-instructor

  1. University of California Extension, five-day workshop, “Yosemite, Summer High

Country,” with David Bayles

Sequoia Workshop, four-day Owens Valley Photography workshop with Ray

McSaveney, director

University of California Extension, five-day workshop, “The Range of Light, Yosemite”

five days backpacking in the Yosemite back country

University of California Extension workshop (four Saturdays), “Photographic Journal,”

Santa Cruz

University of California Extension, four-day workshop, “Yosemite Valley”

  1. University of California Extension, five-day workshop, “The Range of Light,” five days

backpacking in the Yosemite back country

1978 University of California Extension, two-day workshop, “Point Lobos,” Carmel, CA

University of California Extension, two-day workshop on Ansel Adams’ work in

photography, “Ansel,” Carmel, CA

University of California Extension workshop, “Four Seasons in Yosemite” (February,

May, August, and October, two days each month)