| PRESENT EMPLOYMENT | |
| MARLBORO COLLEGE, Marlboro, VT Tenured full time member of faculty teaching all photography courses IN-SIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT, Brattleboro, VT. Co-Founder, Executive Director, a volunteer program offering free classes to area youth EXPOSURES PROJECT, Co-Founder & Co-Director, A Cross Cultural Based Photography Program for youth from Vermont, New York City, The Navajo Tribe, Arizona and The Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribe in Pine Ridge South Dakota VERMONT COLLEGE MFA in Visual Arts, Artist Teacher and Visiting Critic, Montpelier, Vermont |
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| EDUCATION | |
| 1986 | The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Master of Fine Arts Degree, Photography sole student in department to graduate with honors |
| 1979 | The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA Bachelor of Arts Degree in Photography and Psychology |
| 1977 | Franconia College, Franconia, NH Associate of Arts Degree |
| PERMANENT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS | |
| National Gallery of Art, WA, D.C. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Contemporary Photography, Tokyo, Japan Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY George Eastman House Museum, Rochester, NY The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Yale University Gallery of Art, New Haven, CT The Catskill Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY The Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, CT The Photography Collection, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA The Rhode Island School of Design Art Museum, Providence, RI Arizona State University, Northlight Gallery Collection, Tempe, AZ Florida State University, Pensacola, FL DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA Meade Museum of Art, Amherst, MA The Smith College Art Museum, Amherst, Ma The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytonna Beach, FL The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT Oglala Lakota College Archives, Kyle, SD Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago , IL Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography, Turners Falls, MA The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Boston Public Library, Boston, MA Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME |
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| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS *(signifies two person exhibitions) |
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| 2009 | The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA* |
| 2008 | The Williston School, East Hampton, MA University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA Putney School, Putney ,Vermont |
| 2007 | Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography, Turners Falls, MA* Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT |
| 2006 | Nancy Price Gallery, Manchester, Vermont |
| 2005 | Oglala Lakota College, Kyle, SD Nancy Price Gallery, Manchester, Vermont School for International Training, Brattleboro, Vermont |
| 2004 | Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, San Bernardino, CA University of Vermont, Burlington, VT |
| 2003 | Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, San Bernardino, CA University of Vermont, Burlington, VT |
| 2002 | Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY Paletti Photography Gallery, Louisville, KY Light Factory. Charlotte, NC |
| 2001 | Hampshire College, Amherst, MA Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX Palm Beach Community Photographic Center, Delray Beach, FL Flat Street Photography Gallery, Brattleboro, VT |
| 2000 | Stark Gallery, Chelsea, NYC Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia. PA Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA |
| 1999 | Community College of Rhode Island, Warwick, RI |
| 1997 | Princeton University, Princeton, NJ |
| 1996 | Drury Art Gallery, Marlboro, VT |
| 1994 | Governor’s Gallery, Vermont State House, Montpelier, VT Robert Hull Flemming Museum, Burlington, VT Vermont State Craft Center, Windsor, VT |
| 1993 | Tulsa Photo Collective, Tulsa, OK |
| 1992 | Zone VI Workshop, Putney, VT |
| 1991 | Catskill Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY Vermont State Craft Center, Middlebury, VT |
| 1990 | Camp D’Osservazione, Gubbio, Italy University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA |
| 1989 | Midtown Y Gallery, New York, NY State University of Idaho, Pocatello, ID |
| 1988 | Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA Massachusetts College of Art, A Floor Gallery, Boston, MA Griffith Gallery, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX |
| 1987 | Cornerstone/Clearlight Gallery, Waltham, MA The Putney School, Putney, VT |
| 1986 | McKillop Gallery, Regina College, Newport, RI Historic Windsor House, Windsor, VT Linden Lodge Nursing Home, Brattleboro, VT Red Eye Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Artspace, Franklin County Arts Council, Greenfield, MA Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT Granite Hills Photo Gallery, Hardwick, VT |
| 1985 | Clinton Arts Council, Plattsburgh, VT |
| 1984 | Brattleboro Museum and Arts Center, Brattleboro, VT* |
| 1981 | Tyler Gallery, Marlboro College, VT Zephyr Designs, Brattleboro, VT The Common Ground, Brattleboro, VT |
| 1980 | Blue Sky Gallery, Outerspace, Portland, OR |
| 1979 | The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA Franconia College, Franconia, NH |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2011 | Moving Walls 19, Open Society Foundation, New York, NY Four Eyes, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT |
| 2009 | In The Absence, Spheris Gallery, Hanover, NH |
| 2008 | Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography Foster Gallery, Dedham, MA |
| 2006 | Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont Relationships/A Ten Year Bond, Center for Photography Woodstock, NY |
| 2005 | Mark Wooley Gallery, Portland Oregon Vermont Arts Council ‚”Exposures‚” Montpelier, VT International Center for Photography, The Point, Bronx, NY |
| 2004 | International Center for Photography, The Point, Bronx, NY Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA Gallery A3 Arts Alliance Association, Amherst, MA |
| 2002 | SilverEye Photography Center, Pittsburgh, PA Flat Street Photography, Brattleboro, VT |
| 2000 | Hampshire College Invitational, Amherst, MA Newton Art Center, Newton MA Karen Lepold Gallery, Metairie, LA Woods Gerry Gallery, R.I.S.D., Providence, RI “The Director’s Choice” Photo Americas , AR, and Portland, OR |
| 1999 | Photographers Photograph Themselves, Flat Street Photography, Brattleboro, VT R.I.S.D. on the Road, Traveling Juried Exhibition Stratton Mountain Arts Festival, Stratton, VT |
| 1998 | Post Pastoral, Photographs of the New England Landscape Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, NH |
| 1997 | Greenfield Community College Faculty Exhibit, Greenfield, MA Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT |
| 1996 | “Nature & History – Five Artists Photography in the Land” Linfield College, McMinnville, OR Gustufson Gallery of Photography, London, England |
| 1995 | “Flesh & Blood, Photographers Photograph Their Families” Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA Stichting Foto Manifestate Eindhoven Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| 1994 | Vermont Council on the Arts Fellowship Recipient Brattleboro Museum & Arts Center, Brattleboro, VT Inside Out, Teacher As Artist T. Woods Gallery, Montpelier, VT |
| 1993 | “Flesh & Blood, Photographers Photograph Their Families” Traveling Exhibit, Kirkcaldy Museum, Kirkcaldy, Scotland University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Greenfield Community College Faculty Exhibit, Greenfield, MA Stratton Mountain Arts Festival, Stratton, VT Thorne Sagendork Gallery, Keene, NH |
| 1992 | “Ways & Means” Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO Three Photographers, Woodstock Gallery, Woodstock, VT “The American Dream” Catskill Center of Photography, Woodstock, NY |
| 1991 | “New Acquisitions” Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX “Shadow Catchers” Windham Art Gallery, Brattleboro, VT |
| 1990 | “Figuring The Body” Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA “Flesh & Blood” The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC |
| AWARDS & SPONSORS | |
| 2011 | John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship recipient Vermont Arts Endowment Fund, Individual Artists Grant |
| 2005 | Recipient Artist’s Fellowship, Vermont Arts Endowment Recipient Faculty Development Grant to work on digital processes |
| 2004 | Recipient Vermont Arts Council on the Arts, Individual Artist‚ Grant Recipient Professional Development Grant to complete work on a book |
| 2003 | Recipient Professional Development Grant to return to Pine Ridge |
| 2001 | Reservation and photograph the Lakota Sioux people |
| 2000 | Recipient Vermont Council on the Arts, Individual Project Grant Vermont Arts Endowment Fund, Individual Artists Grant Recipient Vermont Council on the Arts, Incentive Grant Recipient Vermont Council on the Arts, Individual Artist’s Project Grant |
| 1998 | Recipient Faculty Professional Development Grant, to photograph Lakota people on Pine Ridge Reservation, SD |
| 1995 | Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University |
| 1993 | Recipient Vermont Council on The Arts Individual Fellowship Grant Recipient Vermont Council on The Arts Project Grant for In-sight |
| 1992 | Sponsored by Kodak Professional Services, to teach photography in grades 1st through 6th at the Dover Elementary School, Dover, VT |
| 1987 | 1st Prize, Light Exposure, Williamsport, PA |
| 1986 | Polaroid International Collection, Equipment Grant Polaroid Foundation, Equipment Grant, for teaching photography in Linden Lodge Nursing Home |
| 1985 | Photo Spiva Award, Joplin, Missouri Polaroid Foundation, Equipment Grant Sponsored by the Elmwood Health Center Nursing Home, Providence, RI Purchase Award, Pensacola National, Pensacola, FL |
| TEACHING EXPERIENCE Schools and programs where John Willis has taught photography: |
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| Marlboro College – Marlboro, VT Exposures Project ‚ Pine Ridge Reservation, SD School of the Museum of Fine Arts – Boston, MA Princeton University – Princeton, New Jersey Rhode Island School of Design ‚Providence, RI Harvard University – Carpenter Center ‚Cambridge, MA Vermont College MFA Program – Montpelier, VT Lycoming College – Williamsport, PA Southeastern Massachusetts University – Dartmouth, MA Zone VI Workshops – Putney, VT Salve Regina College‚ Newport, RI University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Linden Lodge Nursing Home – Brattleboro, VT Greenfield Community College – Greenfield, MA Community College of Vermont – Brattleboro, VT In-Sight Photography Project – Brattleboro, VT |
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| ACADEMIC COMMITTEE PARTICIPATION | |
| Curriculum Committee Committee on the Faculty Faculty Search Committees Awards and Scholarships Committee Community Service Committee Faculty Representative to the Board of Trustees NEASC Accreditation Self Review Committee Lectures & Exhibitions World Studies Committee Committee on Academic Integrity Faculty Finance Committee |
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| LECTURES | |
| 2008 | The Williston School, East Hampton, MA |
| 2007 | Putney School, Putney, MA |
| 2005 | Hallmark Institute of Photography, Turners Falls, MA International Partnership for Service Learning National Conference |
| 2004 | Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT Putney Library, Putney, VT School for International Training, Brattleboro, VT Monadnock Photography Guild, Keene, NH |
| 2003 | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Oglala Lakota College, Pine Ridge Reservation, Kyle, SD Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT |
| 2002 | Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lightwork, Charlotte, NC (gallery talk) |
| 2001 | Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT Hampshire College, Amherst, MA Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX (gallery talk) |
| 2000 | Massachusetts College of Art, visit critic for Graduate and Senior Reviews |
| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | |
| 2007 | Panelist, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowships, Providence Peer Reviewer Vermont Arts Council Artist Creation Grants, Vermont |
| 2003-Present | Co-Founder & Co- Director, ‚”Exposures‚” Cross Cultural Photographic Journeys for Youth. ‚”Exposures‚” brings participants from Vermont and the Bronx, traveling to the Oglala Lakota Sioux Reservation of Pine Ridge in South Dakota. The participants share photography lessons and life stories with each other expanding their artistic and cultural horizons. Peer-Reviewer for 2002 Society for Photographic Education National Conference |
| 2001 | Peer-Reviewer for 2002 Society for Photographic Education National Conference |
| 1994-1997 | Director, VT, Photography Summer Workshops |
| 1992-Present | Contracted Exhibition Printing for individual artists |
| 1992-Present | Co-Founder, President of the Board of the In-Sight Photography Project, a non-profit organization where we teach free photography courses year round to adolescents ages 11-18 years. The courses are taught to interested youths, by area photographers and advances photo students from schools where John Willis teaches. The facility includes a six- enlarger station, black and white darkroom. Students learn to use manually operated cameras, process and print their own pictures, which are then exhibited locally. The students come from all walks of life including walk-ins, referrals from state agencies, state diversion programs, and residents of an in-house psychiatric program for adolescent substance abuse. |
| PUBLICATIONS | |
| 2010 | Scheduled release of monograph, “A View From The Rez‚” |
| 2006 | Publication of ‚”Recycled Realities‚”collaborative book with Tom Young published by The Center for American Places & Columbia College Watershed Magazine, February/March issue featured photographer |
| 2004 | Place, Art, and Self, By Yi-Fu Tuan |
| 2003 | Adbusters Magazine Hunger Mountain Literary Magazine, Vermont College University of Tampa Literary Magazine, Tama, FL Edgar, Literary Magazine, Texas |
| 2002 | The Spirit of Family, edited by Al & Tipper Gore |
| 2001 | Hasselblad Forum International Artist Portfolio Potash Hill Magazine featured artist “SPECK A Curious Collection of Uncommon Things‚”Princeton Architectural Press |
| 2000 | Lenswork Quarterly #30, Featured Artist Orion Magazine, featured artist portfolio |