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EDUCATION

1978 MFA: Photography, Utah State University
1973 BA:   Photography, Utah State University



CURRENT POSITION

Professor of Photography


SELECTED ONE MAN EXHIBITS

1999   "From the Land—From the Body" , Eccles Community Art Center, Ogden, UT
1998   "Evidence of Man (In the American West)" Plains Art Museum, Fargo N.D.
1996–1999   "Rock Art: Barrier Canyon Style" (Utah Arts Council Traveling Exhibits)
1996   "Western Landscapes", Tennessee William's Fine Arts Center, Florida Keys Community College,
            Key West, FL
1993   "Utah's First Expressionist Painters," Utah Museum of Art, University of Utah, SLC
1992   "Intermountain West, Developed Water Sites", Robert Hull Fleming Museum, The University of
            Vermont
1992   "Barrier Canyon Style Pictographs and Petroglyphs", Finch Lane Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah
1992   "Photographs, Petroglyphs, Pictographs", Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah
1990   "Snake River Series", Sunspot Photography Gallery, College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls,
            Idaho
1990  "Intermountain Waterways", Art Gallery, Western Wyoming Community College, Rock Springs,
           Wyoming
1987  Lansing Community College, Lansing, Michigan
1987  LDS Museum of Church History and Art, Image of Contemporary Mormon Life, Salt Lake City,
          Utah
1986  Gallery 1107, Department of Cinema and Photography, University of Southern Illinois,
          Carbondale,  
Illinois
1983  Photography at Oregon Gallery, Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
1981  Brigham City Art Museum, Brigham City, Utah
1980  Workspace Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
1979  Santa Fe Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1978  Photography at Oregon Gallery, University of Oregon, Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon
1975  Edison Street Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah



SELECTED INVITATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1998  "Sacred Images", Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan Utah
1997  "Photographs & Pottery", Craig Law & Ron Taylor, Brigham City Art Museum
1996  "Sacred Images", Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
1993  "Salt Lake Temple" Museum of Church History and Art, Salt Lake City, Utah (7 pieces
           commissioned by the museum)
1988  "A Celebration: 150 Years of Photography", David Adler Cultural Center, Libertyville, Illinois
1988  "Interpreting the Southwest," Anderson Ranch, Snowmoss Village, Colorado
1987   Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, Photographs by Susan
           Makov, Craig Law and John Telford
1985  "Utah Landscapes" National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan
1985    Invitational Exhibit, Southwest Regional Conference, Society for Photographic Education,
            Workspace Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
1985   "Women" Alliance for the Varied Arts, Logan, Utah
1984    10 American Photographers, Vivianne Esders Gallery, Paris France (two year traveling exhibit
             throughout France)
1984     National Photography Invitational, Lightfall Photographic Gallery, Evanston Art Center,
             Evanston,  Illinois
1983–1984  "Photography Infra-Red Survey", The Art Collectors Gallery, Gainsville, Florida, National
             Traveling Exhibit
1979     Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Oregon



SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITS

1996  Utah Wilderness Photographs, sponsored by ASMP Mountain Chapter, U.S. House of
          Representatives Office Rotunda, Washington D.C.
1996  "Utah 90" Photography Exhibit, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah [Purchase Award]
1989  "National Aperture 89", Sawtooth Building Galleries, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1988  "Utah 88" Photography Exhibit, Museum of Art, University of Utah Purchase Award (Exhibit
          sponsored by the State Arts Council)
1987  "National Landscape Exhibition", Museum of the Rockies, Boseman, Montana
1985  "American Landscape Photography", College of the Redwoods, Fort Bragg, California
1984  "Northlight/Southwest Exhibition", Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
1983  "59th Annual International Competition", The Print Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1982  "The U.S. Biennial", A Juried Photography Exhibition, Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma,
          Norman, Oklahoma
1980  "Imagism", Light Factory National, Charlotte, N. Carolina
1980  National Juried Exhibit, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
1980  Four-Corners Juried Exhibition of Photography, North Light Gallery, Arizona State University,
          Tempe, Arizona
1979  Annual Allied Arts Association National Juried Exhibition of Photographic Art, Richmond,
          Washington
1979  Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, Juried Photography Exhibition
1979  "Photo as Document", California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1979  National Juried Photography Exhibition, University of South Carolina, Coastal Carolina College
          [Juror's Cash Award]
1979  Second Annual "Pictures" National Photography Competition and Exhibition,
          Diablo Valley College Art Gallery
1979  National Juried Photography Competition and Exhibition, The Center for Contemporary Art,
          Beverly Hills, California [Honorable Mention Award]
1979  7th National Exhibition, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virgin [Purchase Award]
1979  5th Annual Juried Photographic Exhibition, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Oregon [Juror's Cash
          
Award]
1979  lst Annual Juried Photographic Exhibition, Westwood Center of the Arts, Los Angeles, California
          [Honorable Mention Award]
1978  Southwest Fine Art Biennial, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1978  Pictures, National Photography Competition and Exhibition, Concord, California
1975  "Portrait of America", Paine Art Center, A Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit, Oshkosh, Wisconsin



UNIVERSITY FACULTY AWARD

Creative Activities Award in the Arts 1984 & 1996 College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Utah State University



TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Professor and Department Head, 1996–present
Associate Professor, Utah State University, 1986–1996
Acting Department Head, Utah State University, 1991–1992
Assistant Professor, Utah State University, 1980–1985 (tenure granted 1984)
Instructor, Utah State University, 1978–1980
Lecturer, Utah State University, 1977–1978
Instructor, Salt Lake Art Center, 1976–1977
Teaching Assistant, Utah State University, 1973–1975



RECENT WORKSHOPS TAUGHT AND VISITING ARTIST ACTIVTIES

October 1998—Visiting Artist, Moorhead State University, Moorhead Minnisot
Summer 1997 & 1998—Carbon Printing Workshop, George Eastman House, Rochester N.Y.
Summer 1996—Visiting Lecturer, Florida Keys Community College, Key West, Florida
March 1996—Carbon Printing, Bervard Community College, Cocoa Beach, Florida
February 1994—Visiting Artist, Maryland College Institute of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
November 1993—Visiting Artist, Design Dept., Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
October 1993—Lecturer, Utah Rock Art Research Association Annual Conference, Kanab, Utah
June 1992—Platinum Printing, West Nebraska Arts Center, Scottsbluff, Nebraska
November 1990—Visiting Artist, College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, Idaho
June 1990—Photogravure and Carbon Printing, Palomar Community College, San Marcos, California
April 1990—Carbon Printing, Western Wyoming Community College, Rock Springs, Wyoming
March 1990—Photogravure, Al Weber Studio, Carmel Highlands, California



SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Mahonri Young- His Life and Art, Signature Books, 1997 (22 Photographs)
Sacred Images, "A Vision of Native American Rock Art", Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1996(48 Photographs and Cover Image)
Canyon Legacy #16, Journal of the Dan O' Laurie Museum, Moab, Utah, "Seeing Spirit," Winter 1992 (7 Photographs)
Encyclopedia of Mormonism, McMiller, 1992 (12 Photographs)
Dialogue, Winter 1987(Featured Artist and 10 Photographs)
The Logan Temple, 1884-1984, LDS Church 1984 (Photo Essay of Interiors)
Chesterfield, Mormon Outpost in Idaho, The Chesterfield Foundation Inc. 1982 and 1994 (Cover Photograph and Photo Essay on Town)
Sunstone, January - February 1981 and Summer1977 (Photo Essays on Mormon Life)
Photography Annual, 1979 (Popular Photography) Short article on work and 8 Photographs



PERMANMENT COLLECTIONS

Art Department, Florida Keys Community College, Key West, Florida
Museum of the Rockies, Boseman, Montana
University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, Orego
California Institute of Arts, Valencia, California
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Utah Arts Council, Division of Art, Salt Lake City, Utah
Florida Institute of Technology, Jensen Bench, Florida
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
LDS Museum of Church History and Art, Salt Lake City, Utah Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
Ricks College, Rexburg, Idaho
Collett Art Gallery, Weber State College, Ogden, Utah



 
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