I like Columbia College for a number of reasons, the first of which is that it is in Chicago. I have family that lives there and I've really enjoyed the time I've spent in the city. I think I would like living there and getting to know it better.
It sounds like they have tremendous facilities:
Including 6000 sq ft of extensive, fully staffed darkrooms:
- 4 Large communal darkrooms: 2 color, 2 black/white (111 enlargers total)Separate undergraduate and graduate darkrooms for black/white printing
- Separate color and black/white darkrooms for advanced students
- Advanced darkrooms all have enlargers with 3 lens turrets capable of printing 35mm, medium formats, and 4x5
- All advanced enlarger bays are capable of up to 20x24 inch printing
- 8 Film developing stations
- 3 4x5 Film developing rooms
- Archival Washers
- Separate teaching darkrooms for black/white and color printing. (36 enlargers total in classrooms)
- Lockers are available on a first come first serve basis
Equipment highlights include
- 13 high end Imacon film scanners
- 2 large format Epson 9800/9880 inkjet printers
- 10 Epson 4800 and 10 Epson 4880 printers
- 24 Epson 3800/3880 printers
- 2 Separate studios with 3000 sq ft shooting area each
- Professional lighting/location electronic & quartz strobe equipment
- View cameras and high-end digital cameras
- 5 Phase One Digital Backs and a Mini-Digital Lab
- Darkroom
- Digital inputs and outputs
- Food prep kitchen
Graduate Student of Interest: Jason Reblando
Grants, Awards, and Fellowships
2010 Philadelphia Museum of Art Photography Portfolio Competition, juried by Tina Barney, Melissa Harris, and Peter Barberie
- Nominee, New Insight, Art Chicago
- Honorable Mention, Silver Eye Center for Photography Fellowship, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, juried by Andy Adams
Diversifying Higher Education in Illinois Fellowship, Illinois Board of Higher Education
Billboard Art Project, Center for Civil and Human Rights
Travel Scholarship Award, Midwest Society for Photographic Education
John Mulvany Scholarship, Columbia College Chicago
Graduate Opportunity Award, Columbia College Chicago 2008 Albert P. Weisman Award, Columbia College Chicago - Social Justice Scholarship, Columbia College Chicago
Diversity Scholarship Award, Columbia College Chicago
Nominee, Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism for Magazine Photography
Nominee, New York Photo Awards, Student Fine Art Series 2007 Dwight D. Follett Fellowship First-Year Full Tuition Award, Columbia College Chicago - Participating Spaces Finalist, FotoFest2008, Houston, Texas
Honorable Mention, Hey, Hot Shot website, Winter 07 edition 2006 Juror's Award, Eye Candy, AVA Gallery, Chattanooga, Tennessee
2005 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award in Photography, juried by Susan Carr, Terry Boddie, and Celeste Nelms
2010 2010 Photography Portfolio Competition Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Considering the City, Work • Detroit, University of Michigan School of Art and Design, Detroit, Michigan
Human: Nature, Singapore International Photography Festival
Daydream Nation, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, juried by Jock Reynolds and Joshua Chuang
84th Annual International Competition, The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, juried by Ingrid Schaffner
New Deal Utopias, Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, Illinois (solo)
Gapers Block Chicago Artists Month Kick-Off, Chicago, Illinois
33rd Harper College National Juried Art Exhibition, Palatine, Illinois, juried by Douglas Stapleton
Hard Times: Yesterday and Today, Harold Washington College, Chicago
PhotoSpiva 2010, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, juried by Deborah Klochko
New Romantics, East Bank Records, Chicago, Illinois, curated by Mike Reinders 2009 Lathrop Homes: Public Housing's Garden City, Rotunda Gallery, Roosevelt University (solo show) - TPS 18: The International Competition, Texas Photographic Society, juried by Cig Harvey
27th Annual Juried Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, juried by Katherine Ware
National Public Housing Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Onward '09, Project Basho, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, juried by Peter Barberie (finalist)
A Portrait of Public Housing, AVA Gallery, Chattanooga, Tennessee (solo show) 2008 Learn Promote Defend, Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, Georgia - Art at the X 2008, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, juried by Dr. Eric Lee
Emerging Photographer, The Darkroom, New Orleans, Louisiana
Albert P. Weisman Award Exhibition, Columbia College Chicago
ArtXposium 2008, West Chicago, Illinois, curated by Anni Holm
Juried Exhibition in honor of James Van Der Zee, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, California, juried by Steven Wirtz
First Juried Annuale, The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina, juried by Julian Cox
RayKo Gallery, San Francisco, California (two-person show with Heidi Schumann) 2007 Bridge Art Fair, Orleans Street Gallery, Miami - ArtXposium 2007, West Chicago, Illinois, curated by Anni Holm
Identity: Contemporary Photographic Portraiture, New Orleans Photo Alliance, juried by Deborah Luster
Coalition of Photographic Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, juried by Brian Ulrich
ChicagoLANDscape, Orleans Street Gallery, St. Charles, Illinois
The Photo Review International Competition Issue, juried by Toby Jurovics
Boys and Girls, City Gallery of Photography at the Historic Water Tower, Chicago, Illinois
Interactions, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado, juried by Alison Nordström
Photocentric 2007, Minnesota Center for Photography, juried by Lisa Hostetler
New Works Gallery Online, Silver Eye Center for Photography website 2006 Youth Boxers of the Chicago Park District, Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (solo show) - Eye Candy, AVA Gallery, Chattanooga, Tennessee, juried by Ron Platt
Foto-Work 2006, Orleans Street Gallery, St. Charles, Illinois, juried by Whitney Bradshaw
The Photo Review International Competition Issue, juried by Phillip Brookman
18th Evanston + Vicinity Biennial 2006, Evanston, Illinois, juried by Michael Workman and Annette Ferrara
New Trends in Chicago Photography for Version Kunsthalle, curated by Brian Ulrich and Greg Stimac
Chicago Community Trust Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2005 Daily Meaning: Life Inside America’s Service Industries, photo and audio exhibit, The Peace Museum in Garfield Park, Chicago, Illinois
2004 Voices in Time: Lives in Limbo (in collaboration with Beyondmedia Education and Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers), Las Manos Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Faculty of Interest: Alison Carey
Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
2007 Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York, NY. Organic Remains of a Former World.
2006 Roswell Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM. Ghost Craters.
2005 New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Albuquerque, NM.
Organic Remains of a Formal World.
2004 New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Albuquerque, NM.
From Science to Fiction: The Creation of a Planet.
2003 Mariani Gallery, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO. Uncharted Territories.
Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM. Uncharted Territories, (An installation).
Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM. Uncharted Territories.
Weitman Gallery of Photography, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. Uncharted Territories.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 Art! Fair, Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York, NY
Hyper-Nature, SPACES Gallery, Cleaveland, OH
2008 Resurrections: A New Look at Old Photographic Processes, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR. catalog
Annual Benefit Auction, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL.
Photo Vision Award Auction, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA.
Topography of Nature, Arcade Gallery, New York, NY.
2007 The Art and Artifice of Science, (companion exhibition) 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM.
The Art and Artifice of Science, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM. catalog.
Locations of Elsewhere, Peer Gallery, New York, NY.
Beyond a Gift of Time, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM. catalog
Artist-In-Residence Exhibition, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR.
New Mexico Pics: The State of Photography II, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM.
2006 Technology of Meaning, Herron Gallery, Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN.
Art and Science / Observation and Imagination, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM.
2005 Artists from the USA, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China.
Observed Fabrications, Bruce Gallery of Art, Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA. catalog
Conduit: Mapping the Connections Between Art and Science, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA.
Looking Back at the Present, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM.
2004 Oculus Photo Folio, ASA Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
SPARK Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
2003 Art Market, Magnifico!, Albuquerque, NM.
Oculus Photo Folio, Temple Gallery of Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
Arrival Upon Departure, Albuquerque Sunport, Albuquerque, NM.
Illuminance 2003, Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, TX.
Texas National 2003, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX. catalog
Third Photography and Digital Biennial, Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University,
Greenville, NC. catalog
Art of the Southwest, Kotinsky Gallery, Pompton Lakes, NJ.
Fellowships,
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