John Willis
John Willis
155 Pleasant Street
Providence, RI 02906
johnwillis9057@gmail.com
802-380-9057
| PRESENT EMPLOYMENT | |
| EMERITI PROFESSOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT IN-SIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT, Brattleboro, VT. Co-Founding Director, a volunteer program offering free classes to area youth EXPOSURES PROJECT, Co-Founding 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 and many other diverse communities. 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 |
| 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 | |
| Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Archive, Eagle Butte, SD Sitting Bull College, Fort Yates, NDDuke University Center for Documentary Studies & Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Archive, Eagle Butte, SD National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY George Eastman House Museum, Rochester, NY The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ 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 Sculpture Park & Museum, Lincoln, MA Meade Museum of Art, Amherst, MA Center For Creative Photography, Phoenix, AZ Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA 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, TX 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 Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL Palace of the Govenors, NM Museum of History, Santa Fe, NM Akron Museum of Art, Akron, OH Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College Hanover, NH Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Holyoke, MA Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL Anderson Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Fred Jones Museum of Art, Norman, OK Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, MA Turchin Center for the Arts, Boone, NC Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA |
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| AWARDS & SPONSORS | |
| 2018 | Ellen McCulloch-Lovell Award in Arts Education, Vermont Arts Council |
| 2016 | Recipient Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant |
| 2015 | Artist’s Development Grant, Vermont Arts Council |
| 2013 | Photographer’s Audience Engagement Grant, Open Society Institute |
| 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 |
| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2019 | Feick Art Center, Green Mountain College, Poultney, VT Robert Floyd Photography Gallery, Southampton, MA |
| 2018 | Spheris Contemporary Gallery, North Adams, MA Daytona State College, Daytona Beach, FL Tammy Cromer Gallery, Dallas TX |
| 2017 | Vermont Center For Photography, Brattleboro, VT |
| 2016 | Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT |
| 2016 | Northfield Mount Hermon School, Gill, MA |
| 2015 | South Gallery, Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA |
| 2014 | South Mountain High School, Chinle, Estrella Mountain Community College, Avondale,AZ |
| 2013 | Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL New School of Arts & Academics, Tempe, AZ Santa Fe University of Art & Design, Santa Fe, NM |
| 2011 | Amherst College, Amherst, MA Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT |
| 2010 | Union College, Schnechtedy, NY |
| 2009 | Rhode Island College, Providence, RI* 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 | |
| 2019 | Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs in Long Island City Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China Works On Paper, Bennington Art Museum, Bennington, VT Body Politic, Thorne Sagendorph Gallery, Keene State College, Keene,NH Smith College Art Museum, Amherst, MA |
| 2018 | Eye On The West, Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT Landscapes, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
| 2017 | Group Exhibit, Yale Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
| 2014 | So Little Time, Dianich Gallery, Brattleboro, VT |
| 2013 | Yale University Gallery of Art, New Haven, CT High Trash, Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT Moving Walls Exhibition 19, Open Society Institute, Washington, D.C. |
| 2012 | A New Vision: Modernist Photography, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH |
| 2011 | Creative Continuum, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ 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 |
| PUBLICATIONS | |
| 2020 | Requiem for the Innocents, For El Paso & Beyond, Photographs by John Willis, Poetry by Robin Behn & Music By Matan Rubinstein, to be published by George F. Thompson Press |
| 2019 | MNI WICONI, Water Is Life, Honoring the Water Protectors at Standing Rock and Everywhere in the Ongoing Struggle for Indigenous Sovereignty, George F. Thompson Press Views From The Reservation, Revised Edition, George F. Thompson Press Eye On The West, Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
| 2014 | So Little Time, Word’s and Images for a World in Climate Crisis, Green Writer’s Press |
| 2013 | Undermining, by Lucy Lippard, published by the New Press |
| 2012 | Rhode Island School of Design, XYZ, Spring/Summer Issue |
| 2011 | Photo District News, Education Fall 2011 issue Pasatiempo, New Mexico’s Arts & Culture Magazine Esquire Russia On-Line Edition South Dakota Magazine Vermont Public Radio Interview |
| 2010 | Monograph Publication “A View From The Reservation” w/ CD of music, published by The Center for American Places & Columbia College Sacred Fire Magazine |
| 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 |
| 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 Courses taught by John Willis at the above institutions: |
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| LECTURES | |
| 2020 | Bryant University, Smithfield, RI |
| 2019 | Society for Photographic Education Regional Conference, Mentor/Mentee Presentation with Jon Gitelson, R.I.S.D. |
| 2019 | Franklin County Jail & House of Correction, Think Tank, Greenfield, MA Green Mountain College Poultney, VT |
| 2018 | Keene State College, Keene, NH |
| 2017 | Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY Society For Photographic Education, NE Conference, Honored Educator Presentation, Brattleboro, VT |
| 2016 | Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Society For Photographic Education National Conference, Orlando, FL Northfield Mount Hermon, Northfield, MA |
| 2015 | Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT The Putney School, Putney, VT |
| 2015 | Franklin County Jail & House of Correction, Think Tank, Greenfield, MA Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA |
| 2014 | Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA |
| 2013 | Gallery Talk, Northlight Gallery, Tempe, AZ New School of Arts & Academics, Tempe, AZ |
| 2012 | Santa Fe University of Art & Design, Santa Fe, NM Academy at Charlemont, Charlemont, MA |
| 2011 | Landmark College, Putney, VT |
| 2010 | Chester College, Chester, NH |
| 2008 | Amherst College, Amherst, MA |
| 2007 | Union College, Schenechtedy, NY |
| 2005 | The Williston School, East Hampton, MA Putney School, Putney, MA |
| 2004 | Hallmark Institute of Photography, Turners Falls, MA International Partnership for Service Learning National Conference 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 |