education
Pangea BRIDGES Collaboration - Pangea World Theater - Minneapolis, MN - 2004
Winogrand Game of Photography - Tuscon Center for Creative Photography - 2001
Seminar: Roy DeCarava - Minneapolis Institute of Arts - 1999
Seminar: Dawoud Bey - Minneapolis Institute of Arts - 1995
Photography - Country Photography Workshops - Charles Harbutt - 1976
B&W Print - Country Photography Workshops - David Vestal -1975
Seminar: Chester Higgins Jr. - Afro American Cultural Arts Center, Minneapolis - 1975
Photography Front to Back - Minneapolis School of Art - Dick Coffey - 1974
Streetscapes - Country Photography Workshops - Garry Winogrand - 1973
Black & White Printing - Hamline University - Frederick Sommer - 1973
Nudes - Minneapolis School of Art - Ron Seichrist - 1970
Apostle Islands Photography Workshops - George Gamsby - 1969
Intro to Photography - St Paul Arts & Science Center - Gary Hallman - 1968
BSEE Howard University School of Engineering & Architecture - 1967
Salisbury High School in Salisbury, MD - 1962
employment
Fine Art Photographer - 1999 to present
Park Avenue Foundation - Executive Director - 1997 to 1999
Honeywell Inc - Sales Engineer, Sales Manager, Market Manager - 1976 to 1997
Freelance Photographer - May to Sep 1976
PAKO Corporation - Photographic Product Development Engineer - 1974 to 1976
Rosemount Engineering - Marketing Engineer - 1970 to 1974
Univac Federal Systems Division - Application Engineer - 1967 to 1970
exhibitions
REBUILD - NorthPoint Gallery - 2011
Pictures from a Trip - Capri Theater Gallery - 2010
Soul On Ice - the Soap Factory - 2008
Coming of Age: Photographing the Journey - MN Museum of American Art - 2008
HOME: Wiesman Art Museum - Minneapolis - 2006
CHOREOGRAPHIC - Minnesota Center for Photography - 2006
International Photography Festival - Pingyao, China - 2006
Africa, Daily Life - Mira Gallery - Minneapolis - 2006
San Francisco Museum of the African Diasporia - 2005
Afrofuturism - Soap Factory - Minneapolis - 2005
Minneapolis Institute of Arts - Art of Democracy - 2004
Living My Mother's Reality - Outsiders & Others Gallery - Minneapolis, MN - 2004
FOUR WOMEN: Freedom, Identity & Responsibility - Katherine E. Nash Gallery - 2003
"Speaking Truths" - Intermedia Arts - Minneapolis, MN - 2002
Minnetonka Center for the Arts - Minnetonka, MN - 2001
Looking Backward, Moving Forward - Homewood Studios Gallery - 2000
Black Photographers Annual - Corcoran Gallery - Washington, DC - 1977
Studio Museum of Harlem - 1976
Twenty Months - Minneapolis Afro-American Cultural Arts Center - 1975
IDS Series - Oxmans Gallery, Minneapolis - 1975
Players in the Band - Darkroom Gallery - Minneapolis, MN -1973
awards
Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant - 2012
Minnesota Center for Book Arts/Jerome Foundation Fellowship - 2011
Family Housing Fund, Home Sweet Home Again grant - 2004
Peace Foundation, Living in Jordan grant - 2004
Pangea World Theater, Bridges Project grant - 2003
McKnight Photography Fellowship - 2002
City of Minneapolis City Arts Grant 2002
St Paul Chamber of Commerce - 1975
Eastman Kodak - 1974
Grain Belt Brewery - 1973
publications
Surface Tensions
Camera 35
Lightworks
Ebony
American Bicycler
American Lutheran
Black Photographers Annual, vol 3 - 1976
Favorite Places in Minneapolis
St Paul Dispatch
Minneapolis Star/Tribune
Insight News
Park Ave HARK
Plymouth Avenue project postcards
Northside Arts Collective billboard & poster
projected image performances
Front Porch Series - Bedlam Theater - 2010
RADIO - Pillsbury House Theater LateNight Series - 2009
Velvet BeBop & Kente Cloth - Center for Independent Artists - 2008
A Disease Called Freedom - Avalon Theater - 2007
MNArtists Live at the Walker Art Center - 2006
Cactus in the Desert - Varsity Theater - 2005
Trajectory - Metro State College & Rendezvous Dance Studio - 2005
2704: Seven Generations into the Future - Capri Theater - 2004
The EDGE Series - Hopkins Center for the Arts - Oct 2004
2704: Seven Generations into the Future - Pillsbury House LateNight Series - 2004
LIVING at the Intersections of our Stories - Rag & Bone Books - 2004
Art & Spirit Matters - Center For Independent Artists - Minneapolis - 2003
Emancipation Stories - Paramount Art Center - St Cloud, MN - 2003
PLYMOUTH AVENUE project - Homewood Studios - Minneapolis, MN - 2003
American Dreams with Afrika's Ensemble - Fringe Festival Minneapolis, MN - 2002
Stigmatism - Intermedia Arts - Minneapolis, MN - 2001