The 2003 SPE Mid-Atlantic Conference Portfolio Reviewers:

(All Portfolio Reviews will take place in Forcina Hall)

Reviewer Bios:

Tulu Bayar—Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University
Tulu Bayar, installation and photography artist, received her BA from the University of Ankara and her MFA from the University of Cincinnati. She has exhibited in various venues both throughout the United States and Turkey, notably at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; Ankara Photographic Arts Center, Turkey; Artemisia Gallery, Chicago; 825 Gallery, Los Angeles. Her computer sculptures were presented at the 18th International Sculpture Conference in Houston, Texas. In 2000, she became one of the distinguished few to exhibit in “Image Ohio,” a statewide exhibition curated by the Curator of Photography at Columbus Museum of Art. In 2002, she received an artist in residency grant from the Center for Photography at Woodstock funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. She currently teaches photography and multimedia courses at Bucknell University as an assistant professor. She is interested in viewing interdisciplinary work that incorporates photography and deals with contemporary issues to be considered for an exhibition at Samek Art Gallery of Bucknell University.

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Vincent Cianni – Parsons School of Design
Cianni was born in Scranton, PA in 1952, and was initially self-taught as a photographer. He graduated from Penn State University (BS Community Development) in 1974 and SUNY New Paltz (MFA Photography) in 1986. He presently teaches photography at Parsons School of Design and also teaches workshops to youth both in the Southside and internationally. He has worked as a curator, photo dealer and editor and has been photographing the Southside, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where he currently lives, since 1994. Anthropologically based, his documentary work has explored community and memory, the human condition, as well as the use of image and text stemming from personal experience and discovery. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of the City of New York; the Photographers Gallery, Howard Greenberg Gallery, The Fullerton Museum at the University of California Santa Barbara, and San Francisco Camerawork. He is currently represented by the Sarah Morthland Gallery in NYC. His photographs have been published in Double Take magazine. His photographs have also appeared in Double Take Magazine, Aperture, Creative Camera, The Photo Review, among others. The seven year Southside project will be published as a book of photographs, titled We Skate Hardcore, by New York University Press and the Center for Documentary Studies in September 2004, for which he received a Jerome Foundation grant, with an accompanying exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York. He was recently awarded a Jerome Foundation grant for His work is represented in numerous public and private collections including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Worcester Museum of Art, the Biblioteque National de France, and the International Polaroid Collection. Mr. Cianni received a residency at Light Work in Syracuse, New York, was awarded the Ruttenberg Arts Foundation Award for excellence in portraiture from the Friends of Photography, and was selected as one of ten finalists for the 2001 European Photography Book Award
He is interested in reviewing documentary, directorial, conceptual, and work that
incorporates other media for potential grad programs. The work should be
developed enough to represent the student's project/concept/style
fully.

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Lisa Dorin—Williams College Museum of Art
Lisa Dorin received her BA in studio art and art history from the University of California at Santa Cruz and her MA from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, specializing in contemporary and video art. As Assistant Curator at the Williams College Museum of Art she initiated the creation of and organizes the exhibitions for Media Field, the museum's gallery space dedicated to video and new media, as well as related programming including artist talks, panel discussions and video festivals. In addition she facilitated the commission and installation of a permanent outdoor sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, has organized solo exhibitions for artists Michael Oatman, Tracey Moffatt, and Nicole Cohen and has assisted with the traveling exhibitions Chain Reaction, and Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress.

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Christine Filippone—Independent Curator
Christine Filippone is the former Executive Director of The Print Center in Philadelphia.
Founded in 1915 as The Print Club, The Print Center currently presents eleven exhibitions of contemporary printmaking and photography annually, including the oldest, most prestigious international juried competition in the country. The Print Center Gallery Store offers the largest selection of contemporary prints in Philadelphia, representing more than ninety artists from around the world.
Christine was formerly Artistic Director of Mayfair Festival of the Arts where she was responsible for all aspects of performing and visual arts programming for a five-day, multi-disciplinary arts festival featuring more than 150 free performances and events, and drawing more than 350,000 patrons annually. Christine was Instructor of Art History at both the Pennsylvania State University and Lehigh Carbon Community College. She has worked in several museums including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Allentown Art Museum, the Barnes Foundation, and the Palmer Museum of Art at University Park.

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Elyse Gonzales—Institute of Contemporary Art
She is interested in reviewing student work.

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Toby Jurovics—Princeton University Art Museum
Toby Jurovics is associate curator of photography at the Princeton University Art Museum, where he has worked since 1991. He received his masters degree from the University of Delaware, writing his thesis on Karl Struss’ photographs of New York City. Jurovics is recognized as an expert on contemporary landscape photography and the American West, and has built one of the East coast’s leading collections on this theme at Princeton. Exhibitions he has organized include Emmet Gowin: Aerial Photographs [1998], Barbara Bosworth [2000], The Peter C. Bunnell Collection [2002] and Lewis Baltz: Nevada and Other Photographs [2002], as well as shows including Robert Adams, Paul Berger, Mario Giacomelli, Ray K. Metzker, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer, and numerous exhibitions of nineteenth century European photography. He is currently preparing an exhibition and catalog of photographs of Shoshone Falls by Timothy H. O’Sullivan and Thomas Joshua Cooper.

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Kay Kenny—Fotophile Magazine
Received a BFA from Syracuse University, MA from Rutgers University, and MFA from Syracuse University. She writes art criticism and articles on the visual arts for arts magazines including Fotophile. Adjunct photography teacher at New York University and International Center of Photography in New York City.
Three-time recipient of NJSCA fellowship award. Numerous one-person shows, most recently in Medellin, Columbia, and Taipei,Taiwan. Curated several exhibits, most recently ''Memory & Loss", a five-person photo-based exhibit at the Mary Anthony Gallery in New York City. Her work is included in several notable corporate,museum and private collections. Her work is included in the recently published Photography_s Antiquarian Avant-Garde, by Lyle Rexer, Abrams Publishing, as well as several other photography books. Photo Insider Magazine featured an interview with her about her work in their June issue 2001.

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Scott Laird—Visual Studies Workshop
Scott Laird received his MA from NYU in September 2000 for Art History/Literature, where he wrote his thesis on Cy Twombly. He specializes in narrative theory, postmodernism, and contemporary art. He teaches a class on contemporary art and issues of exhibiting. As gallery director, has been awarded best contemporary art venue, and subject of several articles of local publications. And published several book reviews in Afterimage. The gallery has benefited from his innovative curatorial style that emphasizes contemporary art and encourages work from local and national emerging artists. He has also organized several events that feature experimental musicians and artists from all over the northeast.

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John Massier—Hallwall’s Center for Contemporary Art
Prior to joining the staff of Hallwalls in early 2001, John Massier had been an independent curator and writer in Toronto for 13 years. From 1988 to 1998, he worked at the Koffler Gallery, where he curated
more than forty exhibitions of emerging and established Canadian artists. He has written feature articles, profiles, and reviews for various galleries and visual art publications, including Canadian Art, MIX magazine,
Coagula Art Journal, THIS magazine, and Art In America. In 1997, he co-founded the local Toronto art journal LOLA. He has also administered two years of Hallwalls_ program of residencies for Western and Central New York State artists at the International Studio Program (ISP) in Manhattan. His Upcoming exhibitions, include the collection-based series Invisible Archives; a three-artist exhibition of Shary Boyle, Gayle Gorman and Suzanne
Proulx; PO-BRO, a survey exhibition of current Brooklyn-based artists; The Story of M, a multi-media installation by Lynn Cazabon; Ester Partegas; 2003 residency exhibitions by David Brody and Jennifer McMackon; and PARALLAX VIEWS, an exhibition of works related to the JFK assassination.
Over the past 27 years, Hallwalls has evolved into the region_s largest multi-disciplinary arts center, one of the most active and programmatically diverse members of the national network of artists_ organizations. Hallwalls
visual arts, video, film, performance, music, and literature programs have presented the work of over 7,000 artists from around the world. From the beginning, Hallwalls has presented the work of emerging and under-represented artists in Western New York and throughout the United States and Canada, with an emphasis on supporting experimentation and new projects. Hallwalls is equally committed to presenting the work of nationally recognized artists who have not had the opportunity to present their work to Buffalo-area audiences.

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Ashley Peel—The Print Center
Ashley Peel received her B.F.A. in Photography from The University of the Arts and is currently the Assistant Director at The Print Center in Philadelphia. Since May 2000, she has been working with over 90 printmakers and photographers from around the world at The Print Center. She has volunteered for numerous organizations including The Photo Review, The Philadelphia Print Collaborative, and PhotoSession. She completed a residency with the Girl Scouts of Southeastern Pennsylvania in 2002 in a collaborative project entitled Body Image: A Photo Documentary. Ms. Peel is currently Chair of the Membership Committee for the Center for the Photographic Image in Philadelphia and the On-Site National Conference Coordinator for The Society for Photographic Education. She is interested in reviewing student work.

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Caroline Savage—Independent Grants Consultant
I am an artist, teacher who has 11 years experience assessing grant proposals for non-profits and individuals. I am the former Program Director of Fellowships, Visual Arts, Art Museums and Film/Electronic Media at the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. I conducted workshops for artists on fundraising, creative issues, the nuts and bolts of grantwriting and particularly, preparing work samples for jury review. I received a BA in Art History from Binghamton University, a BFA in Photography and an MFA in Filmmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute. I have taught at the SF Art Institute, San Francisco State and the University of San Francisco and currently teach Photography and Time-based Media at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
My own work explores time-based media, still and moving, digital and chemical. I observe, collect, and record light (analog and digital) and in the processing/printing, I alter and hand-manipulate the decisive moment in film, photography and video. Subjective Documentary is an accurate description my work.
I am interested in assisting artists who may have questions about grantwriting.

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Amy Ingrid Schlegel—Independent Curator
Amy Ingrid Schlegel, Ph.D. is the former Curator at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, where she directed the visual arts exhibitions program and has curated many group, solo, and retrospective exhibitions. Trained as an art historian, specializing in contemporary art, Schlegel served in several curatorial capacities prior to joining the PAA in late 1999. Schlegel has published essays on and interviews with Nancy Spero, Komar & Melamid, Sylvia Sleigh, Ilya Kabakov, Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, Barbara Zucker, Tseng Kwong Chi and has written about many Philadelphia-based artists. In addition, she has taught art history and women_s studies at Columbia University, the University of Vermont, and Moore College of Art & Design. Schlegel holds a Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University and a master_s degree, also in art history, from the
University of Chicago. She is interested in reviewing professional artists’ work, who are seeking non-commercial exhibition opportunities.

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Ariel Shanberg — Center for Photography at Woodstock
ARIEL SHANBERG is the Center's Associate Program Director. A member of the staff since 1999, he works on all CPW creative programs including exhibitions, the Center's publication PHOTOGRAPHY QUARTERLY, WOODSTOCK A-I-R a residency program for artists of color, film screenings, portfolio reviews, and the Center's regional fellowship fund which brings him into daily contact with artists and their goals. He has curated two exhibitions at CPW, "Made In Woodstock", a survey of the first two years of the Center's residency program in 2001 and "Presenting/Receiving: Subjecting Photography", which explored the varying roles of photography through eight contemporary artists in 2002; and he was the co-curator along with Kathleen Kenyon of "Future/Perfect : Modern Fables of Love, Death, and Desire." His upcoming projects include the exhibitions "From Puff to Buff" a survey of artists whose work examines the impact of such contemporary female pop icons such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Powder Puff Girls; and "The Bold and the Beautiful" which will present artists whose depictions of the awkward, the different, and deformed challenge a society obsessed with singular notions of what is beautiful.
Ariel has also served as a juror for Media Alliance's Media Action Grant, the Twighlight Artists Exhibition, Catskill Guide's 2001 photography contest, and Lightwork's Regional Photography Grant in 2002. In 1999 Ariel participated in CoGen, a nation-wide think tank of Arts Administrators under 30 organized by NAAO. Additionally he has been a guest reviewer at the 2001 Northeast Society for Photographic Education Regional conference in Syracuse New York and at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 1998,1999, 2000, and 2001.

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Marni Shindelman - University of Rochester
Marni Shindelman is an assistant professor of art at the University of Rochester. Her recent exhibitions include “Introducing” at the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY “Lobster Bisque Tales” at the O’Connor Gallery of Art in Chicago, IL and an upcoming show tentatively titled, "Crackers in Bed/ Don't Think of Elephants" at Western Michigan State University. She works with chain emails and urban legends using them as a means to discuss female virtue, sexuality and behavioral norms relayed through folklore. She is interested in seeing student work, which deals with bodies, gender, sex and cyber culture. She is also interested in meeting with students who may be interested in a graduate degree in Visual Studies.

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Priscilla Smith - University of Delaware
Priscilla A. Smith was born in Hartford Connecticut in 1957. She attended Texas Tech University on an athletic scholarship and received a B.F.A., cum laude in 1980. Priscilla attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on an Aubrey Jones Fellowship and Graduate Teaching Assistantship, receiving an M.F.A with honors in 1985. Prior to teaching at the University of Delaware, Priscilla had taught in Illinois, Texas, New York, and Italy, She has been in over fourteen solo exhibitions, thirty group exhibitions including twelve international exhibitions. Her work has been published in two books and featured in the August 2001 WorldWide magazine. She has received a Light Work Artists Grant and a Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artists Fellowship. Her work is in numerous private and corporate collections. Corporate collections include American Express, Corporate Art Collection, I.D.S. Operations Center, W. R. Grace Specialty Businesses, Light Work, University of Illinois, Munson-Proctor-Williams Institute, Eastman Kodak International Gallery. Currently her work can be seen at Massoni Gallery in Chestertown, MD. She is interested in looking at body images, landscapes and studio fabrications/constructions and students interested in the graduate program.

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Ricardo Viera—Zoellner Arts Center
RICARDO VIERA, professor of art, has been Director/Curator of the Lehigh University Art Galleries/Museum Operation since 1974. A noted lecturer, juror and panelist for colleges, government agencies, and organizations, he is also the author of a wide variety of exhibition catalogues.
Prof. Viera has curated numerous national and international exhibitions, and is a consultant curator for institutions such as FotoFest International; Smithsonian Institution Latino Initiative and exhibition of “American Voices – Latino and Latin American Photography,” and the Brandywine Workshop of Philadelphia Cuban Exchange Project II: Collaboration from the 2000 Havana Biennial. Currently Professor Viera is consultant/curator of the Smithsonian project: Our Journey/Our Story: Portraits of Latino Achievement, by the Center for Latino Initiative, a traveling exhibit organized by SITES for 2004-06. He serves on committees and boards of several museums and professional organizations, notably the American Association of Museums (AAM) and College Art Association (CAA). His main area of research and curatorship is Hispanic-American and Caribbean contemporary art and photography. He is interested in reviewing contemporary photography and video installations.

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Rachel Zimmerman—Inliquid.com
Artist and Independent Curator Rachel Zimmerman founded InLiquid.com, a nonprofit artist membership web site, in 1999 as a means for increasing community and visibility for independent artists in the Philadelphia area through the internet; the site now has 135 members, which includes artists from across the country. In her role as director of InLiquid, she has devoted her personal resources toward creating opportunities for independent artists and arts organizations, not only through the web site but
through a series of curated gallery exhibitions in various locations (including the Painted Bride Art Center and the Nexus Community Gallery) and through events such as “Art For the Cash Poor” and the annual Silent Auction, which has raised funds for children’s art education programs (including the Taller
Puertorriqueno, the Department of Recreation’s Summer Arts Camp, and the Village of Arts and Humanities). She currently serves on committees for the Philadelphia Print Collaborative, the Old City Arts Association, the MANNA auction, and the newly created Center for the Photographic Image. She
is on the planning committee for the Northern Liberties Open Studios and on the executive board of the Old City Arts Association.
Zimmerman is also the owner of Studio Z, a graphic and web design firm which she started independently in 1994. She holds a BFA from the New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and her photography work is held in a number of permanent collections, including the George Eastman House Museum
in Rochester NY.

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