Bill Cottman

EDUCATION

Pangea BRIDGES Collaboration - Pangea World Theater - Minneapolis, MN - Feb 2004
Community Cultural Development workshop - Intermedia Arts & the Center for the Study of Art & Community - 2002
The Winogrand Game of Photography Seminars - Center for Creative Photography in Tuscon - Nov 2001
Seminar with Roy DeCarava - Minneapolis Institute of Arts - 1999
Seminar with Dawoud Bey - Minneapolis Institute of Arts – 1995
Photography - Country Photography Workshops - Charles Harbutt - summer 1976
B&W Print - Country Photography Workshops - David Vestal - summer 1975
Seminar with Chester Higgins Jr. - Afro American Cultural Arts Center, Minneapolis - 1975
Portfolio review by Ted Hartwell, Curator of Photography Minneapolis Institute of Arts
College of St Catherine - Ann Tucker – 1974
Photography Front to Back - Minneapolis School of Art - Dick Coffey - 1974
Streetscapes - Country Photography Workshops - Garry Winogrand - summer 1973
Black & White Printing - Hamline University - Frederick Sommer – 1973
Nudes - Minneapolis School of Art - Ron Seichrist - 1970
Landscapes - Apostle Islands Photography Workshops - George Gamsby - summer 1969
Intro to Photography - St Paul Arts & Science Center - Gary Hallman – 1968
BSEE Howard University School of Engineering & Architecture in Washington, DC - 1967
Graduated from Salisbury High School in Salisbury, MD - 1962

EMPLOYMENT

Fine Art Photographer - Oct 1999 to present
Park Avenue Foundation - Executive Director - Jan 1997 to Sep 1999
Honeywell Inc - Sales Engineer, Sales Manager, Market Manager - Sep 1976 to Jan 1997
Freelance Photographer - May 1976 to Sep 1976
PAKO Corporation - Product Development Engineer - Sep 1974 to May 1976
Rosemount Engineering - Marketing Engineer - Sep 1970 to Sep 1974
Univac Federal Systems Division - Application Engineer - Jun 1967 to Sep 1970

MEMBERSHIPS

Board of Directors Juxtaposition Arts - Nov 2005
Institute for Community Cultural Development at Intermedia Arts - Jan 2002
Board of Directors KFAI Community Radio - Jan 2002
Metropolitan Regional Arts Council - grant review team – 2000
Board of Directors Minnesota Center of Photography – 1999
Minneapolis Arts Commission – 1999
Board of Directors J Train Youth Jazz Education - 1999
West of Penn Community Development Group - Jan 1998
Memberships – Minnesota Center of Photography - 1999, En Foco - 2000, Hallie Q. Brown Camera Club -1970, Walker Arts Center - 2000, Center for Creative Photography

TEACHING

VocalEssence - Witness Artist in Residence - 2004
Choice of Weapons – residency at Harvest Prep School - Mar 2004
The 3rd Revolution Is Digital - workshop with J. Otis Powell! - SouthWest State University, Marshall, MN - Feb 2003
Intro to 35mm Photography - Minnesota Center of Photography Mentor Program - Minneapolis - Jan to May 2002
Developing Point of View - Perpich Center for the Arts/Minneapolis Public Schools - 2001
Photographing Your Street - Homewood Community Arts Festival - Minneapolis - 2000
Intro to 35mm Photography - YMCA - Minneapolis, MN – 1977
Travel Photography - Hotel Don Pepe’ - Malaga, Spain – 1976
35mm Camera - Creative Learning Center - Edina, MN – 1976
Darkroom Techniques - Martin Luther King Center in St Paul, MN - summer 1976
Intro to Photography - St Paul YMCA - 1971

PUBLICATIONS

Magazines - Camera 35, Lightworks - 1975, Ebony, American Bicycler, American Lutheran
Books - Black Photographers Annual, vol 3 - 1976, Favorite Places in Minneapolis - 2002
Newspapers - St Paul Dispatch, Minneapolis Star/Tribune, Insight News, Park Ave HARK
Other - Plymouth Avenue project postcards, Northside Arts Collective billboard & poster

GRANTS

Family Housing Fund, Home Sweet Home Again - 2004
Peace Foundation, Living in Jordan - 2004
Pangea World Theater, Bridges Project - 2003
McKnight Photography Fellowship - May 2002
City of Minneapolis City Arts Grant program - Jan 2002

AWARDS

Grain Belt Brewery, Minneapolis Star & Tribune, St Paul Chamber of Commerce, Eastman Kodak

EXHIBITIONS (juried group)

Soul On Ice - the Soap Factory - February 2008
Rosalux Gallery - Minneapolis - Jul 2006
Home - Wiesman Art Museum - Minneapolis - Jan 2006
photo mosaic mural at the Museum of the African Diasporia - San Francisco - 2005
Afrofuturism - the Soap Factory - Minneapolis - 2005
Home Sweet Home Again - Intermedia Arts - Feb/Mar 2005
Home Is Where the Heart Is - Grain Belt Brewery, Keg House - Feb 2005
Minneapolis Institute of Arts - Art of Democracy - 2004
Living My Mother’s Reality - Outsiders & Others Gallery - Minneapolis, MN - Feb 2004
FOUR WOMEN: Stories of Freedom, Identity & Responsibility - Nash Gallery - Nov 2003
Visible Fringe Festival - Aug 2003
MNARTISTS.org, “5 Minutes of Fame” - Walker Arts Center - Feb 2003
Gallery 96 Art Center, “Expressions in Diversity” - Vadnais Heights, MN - 2002
Intermedia Arts, “Speaking Truths” - Minneapolis, MN - 2002
Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition - 2002
Minnesota Center of Photography - Minneapolis, MN - 2002
Minnetonka Center for the Arts - Minnetonka, MN - 2001
Minneapolis Foundation - Minneapolis, MN - 2001
Minneapolis Institute of Arts - One Foot Show - 2000
1976 Black Photographers Annual - Moscow - 1978
Corcoran Gallery - Washington, DC - 1977
East Central Minnesota Art Exhibition - St Paul - 1976
Studio Museum of Harlem - New York, NY - 1976

EXHIBITIONS (group)

Coming of Age: Photographing the Journey - MN Museum of American Art - March 2008
International Photography Festival - Pingyao, China - Sep 2006
CHOREOGRAPHIC - Minnesota Center for Photography - Jun 2006
Africa, Daily Life - Mira Gallery - Minneapolis - Apr 2006
Babylon Café - Minneapolis, MN - 2002
Homewood Studios - Minneapolis, MN - 2001
Depth of Field - Minneapolis - 1974

EXHIBITIONS (individual)

Living with Light - Homewood Studios - Feb 2005
IDS Series - Art in the Mayor’s at City Hall - Minneapolis, MN - Mar 2004
FOUR WOMEN: Stories of Freedom, Identity & Responsibility - Homewood Studios
“the PLYMOUTH AVENUE project”- Homewood Studios Gallery - Mpls, MN - Jan 2003
Looking Backward, Moving Forward - Homewood Studios Gallery - Nov 2000
SALON1016.org website - Nov 2000 to current
Twenty Twenty - Cultural Center of Minnesota - Minneapolis, MN - 1994
Twenty Months - Afro-American Cultural Arts Center - Minneapolis, MN - 1975
IDS - Oxmans Gallery, Minneapolis - 1975
Waylusing State Park - Century Camera, Minneapolis - 1974
Players in the Band - Darkroom Gallery - Minneapolis, MN - 1973
Uptown Art Fair - Minneapolis, MN - 1973
IDS - Edythe Bush Theatre - St Paul, MN - 1972
IDS - Minneapolis Public Library - Minneapolis, MN - 1971

PROJECTED IMAGE PERFORMANCES

Velvet BeBop & Kente Cloth - Center for Independent Artists - 2008
A Disease Called Freedom at the 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 – Nov 2004
The EDGE Series - Hopkins Center for the Arts – Oct 2004
2704: Seven Generations into the Future - Pillsbury LateNight Stage - Sep 2004
LIVING at the Intersections of our Stories – Rag & Bone Books - 2004
Art & Spirit Matters - Center For Independent Artists - Minneapolis - Mar 2003
Emancipation Stories - SouthWest State University - Marshall, MN - Feb 2003
Emancipation Stories - Paramount Art Center - St Cloud, MN - Jan 2003
The PLYMOUTH AVENUE project - Homewood Studios - Minneapolis, MN - Jan 2003
American Dreams with Afrika’s Ensemble - Fringe Festival Minneapolis, MN - Aug 2002
Stigmatism - Intermedia Arts - Minneapolis, MN - July 2001