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Linda Benedict-Jones has served as Silver Eye Center for Photography’s
Executive Director since 1999. Prior to this position she worked as the Frick Art and Historical Center’s Curator of Education and Coordinator of Photography Projects. She also worked as the Curator of the Polaroid
Collection in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1989 to 1993.

In addition to her work as a Curator and Director, Linda Benedict-Jones has
taught photographic history classes at Carnegie Mellon University, the
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Harvard Extension School,
Massachusetts College of Art and Northeastern University.

A graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Master’s Degree
Program in Visual Studies, Linda has worked as a practicing photographer and photographic historian. In 1997 she served as Co-Curator of Pittsburgh Revealed: Photographs Since 1850 at the Carnegie Museum of Art. In 2004 she joined Henry Simonds as Co-Curator of the Pittsburgh NOW exhibition at Silver Eye Center for Photography.

She is interested in reviewing professional portfolios.

Sylvia Ehler attended Ohio University in Athens Ohio from 1970-1973 where she majored in communications and journalism. She was the National Advertising Account Manager for the Durango Herald in Durango, Colorado from 1979-1981. She was a Museum Educator for the Frick Art & Historical Center in Pittsburgh from 1997-2004 and a Museum Educator and Program Presenter at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh from 1997-2003. She has been the Education Coordinator at the Silver Eye Center for Photography from 2003 to the present.

Ehler has a strong art and communications background that prepared her to work as an educator for students and adults. At Silver Eye Center for Photography, she works with photographers and others to develop relevant programs that communicate a language of photography to students and patrons of the arts.

She is interested in reviewing student portfolios.

As art critic for Philadelphia Weekly for the last five years I’ve reviewed art exhibits in the Philadelphia region focusing on everything from young, non-mainstream and experimental art to more traditional genres. Since 2000, I’ve been the Philadelphia correspondent for the online magazine artnet, writing the “Philadelphia Story” column. I’ve written reviews for Art on Paper magazine and Azure magazine, and an arts feature for Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday magazine.

I am co-founder, with long-time art collaborator Libby Rosof, of the online art review, roberta fallon and libby rosof’s artblog. Since artblog’s start in April, 2003, Libby and I and our team of contributing writers have produced more than 600 reviews, essays and articles covering work by 800 artists. artblog now averages 4,000 readers a month. Libby and I have been collaborating artists for 15 years making sculpture, paintings and, recently, artist’s books. We have been awarded a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts SOS grant and we are on the Council’s SOS grant eligibility list for arts commentary.

She is interested in reviewing both professional and student work.

Harris Fogel—Sol Mednick Gallery

Harris Fogel is an Associate Professor of Photography and the Chairman of the Media Arts Department at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. The Media Arts Department offers programs in Photography, Film, Animation, and Digital Video, and houses two gallery spaces. The Sol Mednick Gallery and Gallery 1401 offer a year-round schedule of contemporary exhibitions of photography. He is reviewing work for possible exhibition at the Sol Mednick Gallery and Gallery 1401. He would prefer to view work that is fully realized and ready for exhibition.

The Sol Mednick Gallery was founded in 1978 by then-Department Chair Ray Metzker, and is named after the founder of The University of the Arts Photography Program, Sol Mednick. It is the only endowed gallery for the exhibition of contemporary photography in Philadelphia. Current Department Chair Harris Fogel has directed the Sol Mednick Gallery since 1997 and he founded Gallery 1401 in 1999. The Media Arts Department, home to the photography, film, digital video, and animation programs at the university, operates the galleries. In 2001, the Sol Mednick Gallery received the prestigious Photo Review Award for service to photography.

He is interested in reviewing full-developed professional portfolios.

Carol Johnson is a curator of photography in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. The Prints & Photographs collections number over 13.6 million images. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in or documenting the history of the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people. Johnson recently coordinated the organization of Milton Rogovin's photographic archive, which was acquired by the Library in 1999 as a gift of the photographer. Ms. Johnson has a BFA in photography from Massachusetts College of Art and an MLS from the University of Maryland.

She is interested in reviewing work by both students and professionals, working in documentary photography and/or photojournalism.

Kenneth Jones is an Associate Professor of Art at Harford Community
College in Bel Air, Maryland where he teaches digital arts and photography. Jones' fine art work centers around conceptual projects
related to imaging and organizing found objects into installations as
well as printmaking projects that examine the structure of the picture.
Recently, Jones was awarded a 2004 Cultural Exchange Printmaking
Residency to Mexico and a 2003 Creative Fellowship in Printmaking
through the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.  His recent exhibition, "The
Disconnected Dislocation Dilemma", at the Print Center in Philadelphia,
visually examined the fractured social landscape of family relationships to the screen-based methods of imaging them.  Jones lives with his wife and two children in Newark, Delaware.

The Chesapeake Gallery is Harford County's premier contemporary art
gallery situated on the campus of Harford Community College in Bel Air,
Maryland.  The Chesapeake Gallery exhibits 4-6 shows yearly in addition
to faculty and student exhibitions and is building their schedule for
the 2007 and beyond.  The gallery offers solo and group shows in
traditional fine art media including photography, as well as new and
experimental media including digital, interactive and time- based work.

Artists and Curators are suggested to submit a proposal and portfolio
of work in order to be considered for solo or group exhibition. The
Chesapeake Gallery committee meets monthly to discuss recent proposals.

Send proposals and work to:

Chesapeake Gallery Committee-401 Thomas Run
Road, Bel Air, Maryland 21015.
Gallery Coordinator: Ellen Menefee  410-836-4436

Stephen Perloff is the founder and editor of The Photo Review, a critical journal of international scope publishing since 1976, and editor of The Photograph Collector, the leading source of information on the photography art market. He has taught photography and the history of photography at numerous Philadelphia-area colleges and universities and has been the recipient of two grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for arts criticism. He was the recipient of the Sol Mednick Award for 2000 from the Mid-Atlantic region of the Society for Photographic Education.

His photographs have appeared in numerous exhibitions and reside in many museum and private collections.

He has curated more than a score of exhibitions, including "Philadelphia Past and Present" at the Philadelphia Art Alliance for the city's tricentennial in 1982. He was the curator of the acclaimed series "Photography: Contemporary Prospect" at Historic Yellow Springs (1994-2001). And he curated the exhibition "Camera Work: A Centennial Celebration," which opened at the James A. Michener Art Museum in September 2003 and travels through January 2005. Most recently he curated the exhibition "The Secret Life of Plants" for the Abington Art Center (February - April 2004) and he will be curating an exhibition of environmentally-concerned photographs, "Paradise Paved," for the Painted Bride Art Center to open in April 2005 and a exhibition of post-war American photography to open at the James A. Michener Art Museum in February 2006.

He is interested in reviewing developed portfolios from both students and professionals.

Libby Rosof is a co-founder with Roberta Fallon, of the online art review, roberta fallon and libby rosof’s artblog. artblog grew out of Fallon and Rosof’s collaboration as artists and their ongoing discussions--with one another and with anyone else who would listen to them--about what makes art good. With only the dollars in their pockets and the desire to give Philadelphia the art magazine it deserved, the two began artblog in April 2003. Since that time, Fallon and Rosof and a team of contributing writers have produced more than 600 reviews, essays and articles covering work by 800 artists. artblog now averages 4,000 readers a month.

Rosof has worked with Fallon for 15 years, making sculpture, paintings and, most recently, artist’s books. The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts awarded them an SOS grant in 2003 for their book “OK Artists” and they are on the Council’s SOS grant eligibility list for arts commentary. Rosof was also the founding editor of the Penn Current, an innovative, award-winning campus newspaper at the University of Pennsylvania that became a model for faculty/staff newspapers at universities and colleges across the country.

She is interested in reviewing both student and professional work.

Ann Shumard is curator of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery – the Smithsonian museum dedicated to collecting, researching, and exhibiting portraits of those who have made significant contributions to the history, development, and culture of the United States. The Gallery’s extensive portrait collection includes more 10,000 photographs and historic negatives.

A member of the Portrait Gallery staff since 1979, Shumard served as the photography department’s assistant curator before her appointment as senior curator in July 2001. Her past projects include the exhibitions “Lincoln and His Contemporaries: Photographs by Mathew Brady from the Frederick Hill Meserve Collection” and “Through Light and Shadow: Photographs by Clara E. Sipprell,” as well as numerous Recent Acquisitions shows highlighting the Gallery’s latest additions to its photography collection. Most recently, she curated “A Durable Memento: Portraits by Augustus Washington, African American Daguerreotypist.” A frequent lecturer, Shumard has spoken on topics ranging from Civil War-era photography to the work of Annie Leibovitz.

DuBois is the head of photography at Syracuse University. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including Silver Eye Gallery, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Visual Studies Workshop, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, L.A. County Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Baltimore Museum of Art. His photographs have been published in the New York Times Magazine, DoubleTake, Details and The London Telegraph and are included in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. He has received
grants from the NEA, Saltonstall Foundation, MacDowell Colony and Yaddo.

Doug DuBois is interested in looking at student's work and potential applicants for the MFA program.

Dean Kessmann received an M.F.A. from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1996. Since graduating from SIU-C, he has exhibited his work throughout the United States and has taught photography at a number of institutions. Presently, Kessmann is Assistant Professor of Photography and Coordinator of the Photography Program at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. Conner Contemporary Art in Washington, DC, currently represents his work.

Kessmann began exhibiting his photographs in 1992. In February of 2004, he had a solo exhibition of his work, entitled “Cover to Cover” at Conner Contemporary Art in Washington, DC; in 2003 he was selected to create a site-specific installation entitled “The Spaces In Between” at School 33 Art Center in Baltimore, MD; also, in 2003, he had an exhibition of photographs, “Interstate Landscapes” at William Shearburn Fine Art in St. Louis, MO. His images and installations have been selected for one-person and group exhibitions at a variety of other venues, including: The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO; Project Row Houses, Houston, TX; ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL; Mitchell Museum at Cedar Hurst, Mount Vernon, IL; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA; and George A. Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO. At this time, he is preparing work for his second solo exhibition at Conner Contemporary Art, which is currently scheduled for January 2006.

He is interested in reviewing potential graduate student portfolios.

Barbara Tyroler holds an MED and an MFA in Imaging and Digital Arts and serves on the art faculty at the University of Maryland. She is affiliated with Touchstone and Fraser Galleries in DC. and Jane Tyndall Gallery in Chapel Hill, N.C. She is listed in the Washingtonian Magazine as one of the top wedding and event photographers in the metropolitan area. A recipient of 19 visual arts and arts-in-education fellowship grants, Tyroler offers commercial photographic services to therapeutic programs serving children and families. Tyroler’s research examines the process of portrait-making and explores the complex relationship between representation and deception, particularly within the genre of familial photography in the “post-photographic” era of alternative methodology.

She is interested in reviewing both professional and potential grad portfolios.

Sue Wrbican has had her videos screened in various venues such as WNET 13’s “Reel New York,” “The World Wide Video Festival” in Amsterdam, “Artists’ Television Access” in San Francisco, The Midnight Special Bookstore’s “Documental,” in Los Angeles and “The Avignon Film Festival.” She was a video Artist In Residence at Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) working with Billy Klüver and Julie Martin on a series of films entitled “9 evenings: theatre and engineering” documenting the 1966 performances of Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, David Tudor and Yvonne Rainer among others. She worked closely with Robert Whitman to compose historical film footage of his 1960 performance American Moon which has been screened at the Newark Museum's “Off Limits,” The Whitney Museum's “The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000”and Centre George Pompidou's “Les Anées Pop.” Currently she is working with Mary Carothers on a series of public art projects titled “TireFire.” This traveling performance/installation has been shown in Buffalo, NY at CEPA Gallery, The Atlanta College of Art Gallery in Georgia, The DUMBO Festival in Brooklyn, NY, Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Gustavus Adolphus College in St Peter, MN. She received her BA in English at the University of Pittsburgh and MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has taught at Pratt Institute, Maryland Institute College of Art Fordham University and is currently teaching in the photo department at George Mason University.

She is interested in reviewing potential graduate student portfolios.