About

Jo Ann Walters
https://www.joannwalters.com
Vitae: 2020


Collections:
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris France
The St Louis Art Museum, St Louis MO
Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Ruttenberg Foundation, Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA
Light Works, Syracuse University, NY
Francie Bishop-Good + David Horowitz Foundation, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Peabody Essex Museum of Art, MA
The Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
The Maine Photographic Workshops, ME
DeCordova Museum of Art, Lincoln, MA
The Portland Museum of Art, ME
The Center for Fine Photography, Bombay, India

FellowshipGrants + Awards:
First Book Award [Short-List], Aperture Foundation/Paris Photo 2018
TIME’S, Best Photo Books of the Year 2019
Photoeye Books, "Best Photo Books of the Year", [Selected by: Billie S. Mandel, Kris Graves, and Adam Bell 2019]
Dead Beat Club Press, Favorite Photobooks of 2018 [selected by Kris Graves]
Featured Book of the Month, by Charcoal Photobook Club, October 2018
Semifinalist, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 2016
Light Work Artist Residency + Grant 2013
Carl Kempner Distinguished Professor Senior Faculty Research + Title Award 2012-2014
Critical Mass Top 50: Photo Lucida, CA 2010, 2012
Nomination: ANONYMOUS WAS A WOMAN  2011
International One Life Photography Project, Top 100   2011
17 Photographers from Around the World_selected by Leslie Martin, The Photo Review International 2009
Women in Photography International, WIPI: Finalist 2009
Critical Mass Top 100, Camera Lucida 2008
Finalist, San Francisco Foundation Award,[nominated by Sandra Phillips, SR Curator Emeritus SFMoMA 2007
The Kittredge Educational Fund Award, Harvard University 2004
Shortlisted, Smithsonian Photographers at Work [book series] 2003
The Peter S Reed Foundation Grant for distinguished 2002
Connecticut Commission of the Arts,, Individual Artist Fellowship 1995 + 2002
Weir Farm & The National Park Association, Artist Fellowship 1998
Ruttenberg Award for Portraiture, Friends of Photography,San Francisco, CA 1992 [awarded by Sandra Philips, Senior
Curator Emeritus, Photography, SFMoMA]
Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation NY 1986

Artist Presentations:
Eastern Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 2017 + 2020
Ohio University, The Clarence White Jr. Fund for Photography Series, Athens, Ohio 2019
Neuberger Museum, The Photobook, moderator, Eric Gottesman 2019
WOOD RIVER BLUE POOL, ART BOOK @ MOMA/PS1, NY 2018
National Portrait Gallery, In Conversation: William Eggleston, An Insider’s View, London, England 2016
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 2018
The Van Dolsen Lecture Series, Eyes On Main Street, Wilson, NC 2017
Fairfield University, Fairlfield, CT 2012
Maine Photographic Workshop, Rockport 2009 + 2011
The Art Institute of Chicago  2008
Amherst College, MA  2008
Columbia College, Chicago  2007
Maine Media Workshops 2007 + 2011
MEDIA ON THE VERGE, Maine Media Workshops + B+ H, NYC 2011
Brown University  2006
Temple School of Art, Philadelphia, PA 2002
Artists Weir Farm, Stamford Art Museum, CT 1999
Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA 1992
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence 1991
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA 1988
The University of Akron, OH 1986

Solo + Selected Group Exhibitions:
Where Was It, The World, Eastern Tennessee University, Johnson City, TN, 2020 [solo exhibition]
First Book Award Exhibition, Aperture Foundation/Paris Photo 2018 -2019
- Traveling to: Aperture Gallery, New York, Dec 2018-2019
- Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, in May 2019
Women of Influence, École supérieure d'art et design, Ameins, France, 2019
Vanity + Consolation, The St Louis Art Museum, MO [solo exhibition] forthcoming TBD
Intimate Immensity and Other Daydreams, (Rebecca Norris Webb, Alec Soth, Jo Ann Walters + others), AC Institute, NYC 2018
Pink Noise: Flexing the Frequency: Work from the Collection of Frankie Bishop-Good + David Horowitz Foundation, FL 2017
Face It, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Bowling Green State University, OH 2016
- Traveling to: Reese Museum, Tennessee State University, 2017
Mentor: 40 Photographers/40 Years, Center for the Maine Contemporary Arts 2013
Post Cards from the Edge, Sikema Jenkins Gallery, NYC 2013
Post Cards from the Edge, Metro Pictures, NYC 2016
Camera Club of New York Benefit Auction Invitational Exhibition, NY 2013
Reframing the Feminine 1950 - present: works by women artists from collection of Francie Bishop-Good + David Horowitz
Foundation, FL 2012
Influential: School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 2011
Fresh Works: The Flash Forward Festival.: Curator: George Slade, The Photographic Resource Center, Boston 2011
Singapore International Photography Festival, Curator: Chow Chee Yong, Esplanade Xchange, China 2010
Vanity + Consolation. Kris Graves Projects, NY, NY 2010 [solo exhibition]
Of Land [Lois Connor, Jan Groover, Laura McPhee, Victor Schrager, Steve Smith,Jo Ann Walters], KG Projects, NYC 2009
Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids, Metro Pictures Gallery, NYC 2009
Postcards from Edge, Visual AIDS, Metro Pictures, 2013
Photo Review International: 17 Photographers from Around the World, curated by Leslie Martin, U.of the Arts, Philadelphia,
PA 2009
About Face, (William Eggleston, Garret Engel, Judith Joy Ross, Andrea Modica, Jo Ann Walters) Rene Bibro Gallery, NYC 2004
Along the Mississippi, Sheldon Art Galleries + Museum, ST Louis, Missouri 2004 [solo exhibition]
Fellowship Exhibition, Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Hartford 2003
Ophelia Rising: Jo Ann Walters, Judith Joy Ross, Debra Mesa-Pelly… Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA 2002
Images of Isolation: from the Permanent Collection, DeCordova Museum of Art, MA 2002
Snapshot, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, 2000-2002
- Traveling to: The Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, CT 2002
Photographs, Maine Media Workshops, Rockport, ME, 2002
Landscapes & Portraits, Pietra de Luan Gallery, Miami, FL 2002 [Solo Exhibition]
Photographs, The Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, ME 2002 [solo exhibition]
Photographs, Florida International University, Miami 2001 [Solo Exhibition]
Recent Landscape, The Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport ME 2001 [solo exhibition]
Photographs, Florida International University, Miami FL 2001 [solo exhibition]
Camerawork, Biennial Exhibition, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA 2001
Photographs, Florida International University, Miami 2001 [solo exhibition]
Portraits, The Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport ME 2000 [solo exhibition]
5 Photographers, The Bezalel Academy of Art, Tel Aviv, 2000
Snapshot, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore MD 2000
- Traveling to: The Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, CT 2002
Strengthening Generations, Hartford Legislative BLDG/Capital Concourse, CT 2000
Landscapes, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA 1999
Misc., James Fuentes Gallery, New York City, 1999
Illuminating Darkness [Diane Arbus, Nicholas Nixon, Joel Sternfield, Jo Ann Walters…], St Louis Art Museum, 1998
Artists at Weir Farm, The Stamford Museum of Art 1998
Dreams & Vanities, The Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia PA 1998 [solo exhibition]
Illuminating Darkness (Diane Arbus, Nicholas Nixon, Joel Sternfield, Jo Ann Walters…) St Louis Art Museum, MO 1998
Artists at Weir Farm, The Stamford Museum of Art, CT 1998
Friends of Photography Biennial Exhibition, San Francisco, CA 1993-96
Human/Nature(Laura McPhee, Ann Fessler, Jo Ann Walters], Steinmetz Gallery, St Louis, MO 1996
Steinmetz Gallery, St Louis, MO 1996
San Francisco Camerawork Biennial Exhibition, CA 1990-96
Bonds of Awareness, The Connecticut Commission of the Arts, Hartford, 1996
Portraits & Landscapes, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1996
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1995
Alexy Von Schlepp Museum of Art, Photography from Connecticut, Avery Point, CT 1994
4 American Photographers, Artist’s Space (Linda Connor, Jo Ann Walters, Hally Pancer, Andy Roth) Jerusalem, Israel 1993
Women Photograph Mythology, Book Gallery, Oak Park, MI 1993
New England Photography, The Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA 1993
Yale / Norfolk Summer School of Music and Art, Faculty Exhibition Norfolk, CT 1985-91
Women, Girls & Families, The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA, 1992 [solo exhibition]
Portraits of Women & Girls, The University of Nevada, Reno 1992 [solo exhibition]
Recent Work, Ithaca College, NY, 1992 [solo exhibition]
Women, Girls & Families, The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA, 1992 [solo exhibition]
Portraits of Women & Girls, The University of Nevada, Reno 1992 [solo exhibition]
Recent Work, Ithaca College, NY, 1992 [solo exhibition]
Portraits + Landscapes, RISD, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence 1991 [solo exhibition]
The Pleasure & Terror of Domestic Comfort: The Museum of Modern Art, NY 1991
Traveling to: - The Baltimore Museum of Art, MD 1992
              - The Los Angeles County Museum of Art CA 1992
              - The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1993
Women + Girls, Florida International University, North Miami FL 1990 [solo exhibition]
Manual + Jo Ann Walters, Aetna Gallery, Hartford, CT 1990
The Landscape in Question, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY 1990
Points of View, Creative Arts Workshops, New Haven, CT 1989
The New Color: Ten American Photographers, ( William Eggleston, Joel Sternfield, Mitch Epstein,  Adam Bartos… Walters…)
Traveling to:  - The Kunstandel, Oslo, Norway, 1987
               - The Museet, Odense, Denmark, 1988
               - Fotographisk Gallery, Copenhagen, 1988
Thresholds, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe 1987 [solo exhibition]
Landscapes, The Portland School of Art, Portland, ME 1987
Landscapes, The University of Akron, OH 1986 [solo exhibition]
50-Year Retrospective: (Jenny Holtzer, Jo Ann Walters + others) Ohio University, 1986Color Landscape, Florida International University, Miami 1985 [solo exhibition]
Yale Univeristy School of Art, Photo Faculty (Richard Benson, Joel Sternfeild, Jo Ann Walters), CT 1985
Recent Landscapes, The Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, 1985 [solo exhibition]
New Color/New Work: The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago IL 1985
Color Landscape, Florida International University, Miami 1985 [solo exhibition]
Landscapes, The Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport 1985 [solo exhibition]
3 Photographers, EJ Bellocq Gallery, Louisiana State University, Ruston, LA 1984
New Acquisitions, MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, NY 1984
The New Color, The Jones Troyer Gallery, Washington D.C 1984
Photographs, Camera Vision, Los Angeles, CA 1983 [solo exhibition]
A Response to Nature (Mitch Espstein, Len Jenshel, Joel Sternfield, JoAnn Walters…) Center Gallery, New York University 1983
Photographs in Color, The Art Institute of Boston, MA 1983
Photographs, Foto Gallery, NYC 1982
The Color Landscape, The Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, ME 1982
American Vision, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NYC 1981
Photography in Louisiana, The Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA 1976

Books, Periodicals + Catalogues:
WOOD RIVER BLUE POOL, by Jo Ann Walters,  essay by LAURA WEXLER, PHD.,  novella by Emma Kemp, Image/Text/Ithaca, NY 2018
[monograph]
Aperture: The Terror and Pleasure of Staying at Home: How did an early 1990s exhibition anticipate the transformation of
family life in the U.S.? by Sara  Knellman [magazine]
Heavy Vol 111, Jo Ann Walters in Conversation w Sara Knellman + Photographs Sydney Australia 2019  [journal]
NR Vol 9: Jo Ann Walters Interview w Ellie Brown + Photographs from Dog Town, London England 2019 [magazine]
WHERE WAS IT, THE WORLD, Eastern Tennessee University, TN 2019 [exhibition cataloguePapersafe, Photo essay: Jo Ann Walters 2017  [book]
Face It, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Bowling Green State University, OH 2016. [exhibition catalogue]
Mind the Gap Cover + portfolio, forthcoming TBD [book]
The Wild Side: Tell Mum Everything Is OK, editors Maxime Milanesi and Claire Schvartz, Editions FP&CF. Paris, France 2015
[book]
Contact Sheet: Light Work Annual, Resident Artists portfolios, introduction by Shane Lavalette, essay by Laura Wexler, Syracuse, NY 2015 [annual]
New York Times Style Magazine, Portrait of film director Richard Linklater for premier of academy award nominated film,
BOYHOOD. 2014  [magazine]
Reframing the Feminine, Francie Bishop-Good and David Horowitz Foundation, Fort Lauderdale, FL 2012. [exhibition catalog]
Influential, School of Visual Arts, NYC 2011  [exhibition catalogue]
Photo Review International, (Journal) 17 Photographers from Around the World selected by Leslie Martin, Aperture Books, NYC 2009
Village Voice, NYC/ About Face / “Voice Choice” by Vince Alletti, Feb. 2004 [newspaper]
Along the Mississippi (Photo Essay),  DoubleTake , A documentary photography and literary magazine, Senior Editor Robert
Coles, Harvard University, 2003  [magazine]
Ophelia Rising, essay by curator Kevin Melchione, Temple Art Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia 2002 [exhibition
catalogue]
SFCamerawork,  San Francisco CA  2001,1992, 1991, 1990, 2002  [exhibition/auction catalogue]
Artists at Weir Farm: The New York Times, NY 1998 [newspaper]
“Women Artists”: The Hartford Courant, CT 1996. [newspaper]
“Five Women and the Power of Myth”: The Detroit News, MI 1993. [newspaper]
“Mythology Rekindled”: The Detroit Free Press, MI 1993 [newspaper]
New England Photography ,The Danforth Museum of Art, 1993 [exhibition catalogue]
Family Matters: George Washington University Magazine, Washington DC, 1992. [magazine]
Grants + Awards, Washington International Arts Letter, 1992  [newsletter]
The Pleasure & Terror of Domestic Comfort: (Exhibition Catalogue.) The Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1991 [book]
Interview: Jo Ann Walters: (Journal) Q: A Journal of Art, Cornell University, NY 1990 [journal]
Jo Ann Walters & Manual, Aetna Gallery Photography Series, CT 1990. [exhibition catalogue]
Landscape in Question, Hartwick College, NY, 1990. [exhibition catalogue]
American Studies: (Book) An Annotated Bibliography 1984-1988, Jack Salzman, Cambridge University Press 1990
New Color/New Work: (Book) 18 Photographic Essays portfolio + essay by Sally Eauclaire, Abbeyville Press, NY 1984

Selected Internet + Press Publications
Rocket Science Magazine, Mentor: Jason Hanasik on Jo Ann Walters 2019 [print + internet publication]
https://rocketsciencemagazine.com/contents/jason-hanasik-on-jo-ann-walters/Alec Soth, Little Brown Mushroom Newsletter #7, Recently Received: April, 2020
http://www.littlebrownmushroom.com/newsletter-07/
Aperture, The Terror and Pleasure of Staying at Home: How did an early 1990s exhibition anticipate the transformation of family life in the U.S.?by Sara Knellman/  [internet blog]
https://aperture.org/blog/terror-pleasure-staying-home-sara-knelmanThe New Yorker: Photo Booth, Searching for Meaning in
White Blue-Collar America, by Andrea DenHoed, Oct 28, 2018
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/searching-for-the-meaning-of-womanhood-in-white-blue-collar-america
COLLECTOR DAILY: Jo Ann Walters monograph:  WOOD RIVER BLUE POOL by Olga Yatskevitch, Nov 7, 2018https://collectordaily.com/jo-ann-walters-wood-river-blue-pool/
Image/Text/Ithaca Press Honored, by Dan Verderosa, Ithaca College, Nov 14, 2018
https://www.ithaca.edu/news/latest-news?page=1
Featured Book of the Month, by Charcoal Photobook Club, October 2018Photoeye Books, "Best Photo Books of the Year",
[Selected by: Billie S. Mandel, Kris Graves, and Adam Bell 2019]
Dead Beat Club Press, Favorite Photobooks of 2018 [selected by Kris Graves]
https://deadbeatclubpress.com/blogs/favorite-photobooks-2018/photobooks-of-note-2018-kris-graves
Lens Culture, Face It, Reimagining Contemporary Portraiture 2017https://www.lensculture.com/articles/bowling-green-state-university-fine-arts-center-galleries-face-it-reimagining-contemporary-portraits
National Portrait Gallery, In Conversation: Eggleston, An Insider’s View, London, England 2016
Royal Photographic Society, Fraiser on Eggleston, London England 2016
http://www.rps.org/regions-and-chapters/regions/london/blogs/2016/august/fraser-on-
Redeye, The Photography Network, London, England 2016
https://www.redeye.org.uk/events/conversation-eggleston-insider’s-view
Slate (Internet Magazine) Fake Family Portraits From the Art World, Behold blog editor David Rosenberg 2015
http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/09/25/chandler_holmes_moving_in_a_fictitious_family_album_of_a_group_of_artists.html
Roadside Prisoners by Jo Ann Walters, Prison Photography 2013, https://prisonphotography.org/2013/01/30/jo-ann-walters/2015
Nikonland, Jo Ann Walters, Grandi Fotographi 2013
http://www.nikonland.eu/forum/index.php?/page/indice.html/_/grandi-fotografi/jo-ann-walters-r188
Camera Club of New York blog, Baxter Street_Tim Carpenter 2015
Mutantspace: Arts Blog + Festival, Jo Ann Walters Photographs From ‘Dog Town’ Take Us Into Working Class Towns in IL 2015
http://www.nikonland.eu/forum/index.php?/page/indice.html/_/grandi-fotografi/jo-ann-walters-r188(blog):
New York Times/ TMagazine (Blog) 2018 http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/boyhood-trailer-movie-richard-linklate
ethan-hawke-patricia-arquette-ellar-coltrane/ 2014
Gente di Fotografia:Photographic Culture Magazine, Portraits, Jo Ann Walters, Diversae variae viae, essayby Isa Morand 2014
http://www.gentedifotografia.it/en/magazine/
Elfotografico: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born in the USA’ + Jo Ann Walters DOG Town with essay by Ignacio Garcia, http://www.elfotografico.com/2014/05/fotos-para-escuchar-el-born-in-the-usa-30-anos-despues/ 2014
Landscape Stories: Portraits (internet magazine) Issue 14 published portfolios 2014
http://magazine.landscapestories.net/en/archive/2013/portrait
- LS.14 PHOTOGRAPHERS: Jo Ann Walters | Bertien van Manen | Joachim Schmid | Phillip Toledo |Jocelyn Lee | Tema Stauffer|
Kelly Anderson-Staley - Fazal Sheikh | Laura Pannack | Jen Davis | Phillip Toledano |
- LS.14 WRITERS: Jean Baudrillard |Pomponio Gaurico |John Berger |Roland Barthes| Georges Bataille |Jean Claude Izzo
Fototazo (internet magazine) Guest Reading Shortlists: In this series a photographer, editor, or curator is invited to
select up to 10 links  of articles and posts you have found interesting and want to share with readers.
http://www.fototazo.com/2014/10/guest-reading-shortlist-102114-jo-ann-walters.html 2014
Light Work archive: http://www.lightwork.org/archive/jo-ann-walters 2014
http://www.lightwork.org/portfolio_entries/air/page/4/
About Face, “Voice Choice” by Vince Alletti, Village Voice, NY 2014
NY Pictures, Daily Mail Online, Scenes from the Midwest, picture editor Veronika Cernads 2014
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2546472/Scenes-Midwest-Photographer-spends-10-YEARS-documenting-deep-scars-industrialism-working-class-America.html 2014
GhanaVisions: http://www.ghanavisions.com/mobile/news/world/65165-photographer-jo-ann-walters-spent-almost-10-years-documenting-working-class-america.html (re-posted from Daily Mail 2014), 2014
Online Nigeria: http://news2.onlinenigeria.com/world/331601-photographer-jo-ann-walters-spent-almost-10-years-documenting-working-class-america.html (reposted from Daily Mail 2014)
Featureshoot, ‘DOG TOWN’ PHOTOS EXAMINE AN INDUSTRIAL WORKING CLASS TOWN IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY by Amanda Gorence:http://www.featureshoot.com/tag/jo-ann-walters-photography/ 2013
Mentor: 40 Photographers /40 Years, by Daniel Kany, Portland Press Herald 2013
Ahorn Magazine, Cover + Interview, Dialogue with Jo Ann Walters by Michael Serra, Daniel Augushall, Berlin Germany 2012
Interview: Jo Ann Walters_Amy Stein Photography Blog 2012
http://amysteinphoto.blogspot.com/2010/12/few-questions-for-jo-ann-walters.html
Fototazo (internet magazine) [50 photography world figures select two photographers each deserving more recognition)  http
/www.fototazo.com/2011/06/f100-steven-ahlgren-jo-ann-walters-hin.html 2011
Top 100_International One Life Photography Project_digital portfolio 2011
50PM: Family Matters, first edition upgrade 2011 (A photography magazine iPad app produced by Daylight + Bite Magazine 2011
Hey Hot Shot (blog) Jo Ann Walters by Stacy Oborne 2010:
http://www.heyhotshot.com/blog/2010/05/21/hhs-contender-jo-ann-walters/ 2010
WIPI, Women in Photography International, jurors: Karen Sinsheimer, Curator of Photography, Santa Barbara Museum of Art,
Stephen Perloff, Founder, The Photo Review, Philadelphia, PA, Steve Zeifman, Owner, Rush Creek Editions, Santa Fe, NM
Jessica Johnston, Curatorial Associate, Department of Photographs, George Eastman House/Int'l Museum of Photography + Film
Rochester, NY: http://womeninphotography.org/Events-Exhibits/2008_competition/walters.html 2008
Vanity + Consolation, Exhibition: Editor’s Pick, New York Magazine 2010
Hey Hot Shot Blog_Stacy Oborn_2010
Hey Hot Shot Blog_2009
Hey Hot Shot Blog_2008
WIPI: Women In Photography International Website, internet portfolio, 2009
Two Way Lens, Interviews w contemporary photographers (blog) Michael Werner + Amy Stein 2009: http://2waylens.blogspot.com/2009/01/amy-stein.html 2009
Evan Sklar (blog): http://evansklar.blogspot.com/2009/04/subterranean-homesick-blues-work-of.html 2009
The Great Leap Sideways, Stanley Wolukua-Wanambwa, An Unformed Thought http://greatleapsideways.tumblr.com/post/71629273366/an-unformed-thought
The Great Leap Sideways, Stanley Wolukua-Wanambwa, (It is a young artist's myth that if …) interview w Jo Ann Walters by Michael   Serra, Ahorn Magazine
http://greatleapsideways.tumblr.com/.../it-is-a-young-artists-myth-that-if-one-c...
Village Voice, NYC/ About Face / “Voice Choice” by Vince Alletti, Feb. 2004
Art Takes on History, Grant Winners CT Commission on the Arts, Hartford Advocate, CT 2002
Ophelia Rising, Karen Williams, Artpicks, Philadelphia PA 2002
Ophelia Rising, essay by Kevin Melchione, Curator, Temple Art Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia PA 2002
Photographers Frame Female Issue, E. J. Soznski, Philadelphia Inquirer, PA 2002
Girls on Film, Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia Weekly, Philadelphia, PA 2002
Ophelia Rising, Karen Williams, Artpicks, Philadelphia, PA 2002 (CD ROM)
Artists at Weir Farm: The New York Times, NY 1998Women Artists: The Hartford Courant, CT 1996
Five Women and the Power of Myth: The Detroit News, Detroit, MI 1993
Mythology Rekindled: The Detroit Free Press, Detroit, MI 1993
Women Artists: The Hartford Courant, CT 1996
Five Women and the Power of Myth: The Detroit News, MI 1993
New England Photography:  The Danforth Museum of Art 1993
Washington International Arts Letter, Grants + Awards 1992
REVIEW: The Friends of Photography, San Francisco CA 1992
Updating Friends, Artweek, San Jose, CA 1992
Four Americans: Jo Ann Walters, Linda Connor, Andrew Roth, Hally Pancer, The Jerusalem Post, Israel 1990
Art in the Shadows: Photographs by Jo Ann Walters, Arizona Republic, AZ 1987
Jo Ann Walters Photographs: Dialogue: An Art Journal, Cornell University 1986
Museum of Contemporary Photograph_New Color_Columbia College, Chicago, 1985
http://www.mocp.org/exhibitions/1980/5/eighteen-photographic-essays.php
Adding Color to the Equation Equal’s Imaginative “New Work”, The Chicago Tribune, 1985
Color Photography Comes of Age: 18 Photographers, Washington Post, DC 1984
The Hue Masters, by Jo Ann Lewis, The Washington Post, 1984
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1984/12/15/hue-masters/72bb122a-f461-4ca1-895a-dcb7db5bdbda/?utm_term=.2ac76473490

Video:
East-West: (single channel video) created + directed by Jawed Mirza + Jo Ann Walters
- Amherst College, MA, 2008
- Maine Media Workshops, Rockport 2007
Acquainted with the Night: (single channel video) Jawed Mirza, co-editors, Jawed Mirza + Jo Ann Walters
David + Godzilla: (single channel video) created + directed by Jawed Mirza + Jo Ann Walters in progress
Blue Pool: (single-channel video) created + directed by Jo Ann Walters + Katy Schimirt Edited by William DePalma,
- Stamford Art Museum 1998
- The Middle Passage: (single channel video) Research assistant to Jawed Mirza
- Olaudah Equiano: the interesting narrative of Olaudah Equiano also known as Gustava Vassa written by Himself, Richard
Wright's 1,000,000 Black - Voices, Tom Feelings’ the Middle Passage, Slave + Prison songs + spirituals

Other:
Podcast: Magic Hour a Podcast Interview Series, Jordon Weitzman interviews Jo Ann Walters, forthcoming 2019
Featured: Photobook of the Month Club, WOOD RIVER BLUE POOL w curated note by Sandra Phillips, Senior Curator Emeritus Photography, Oct 2018
Consultant: William Eggleston Portrait exhibition and book. Curator: Philip Prodger, Director of Photographs, National Portrait   Gallery, - exhibition curator + book editor: Philip Prodger + introduction by Philip Prodger w appreciation by Sophia Coppola] 2016
Invitational Nominator: First Book Award, Michael Mack, London England, 2015-16
Editorial Work: New York Times-T Magazine, The Dreamer, Richard Linklater + Boyhood, (Internet - T Magazine) 2014
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/boyhood-trailer-movie-richard-linklater-ethan-hawke-patricia-arquette-ellar-coltrane/?_r=0

Internet Archives:
Peter Palmquist Western Americana Permanent Collection, (WIPI, Women in Photography International Archive)
Bieneke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Luminous Lint: historical photography archive
Art Photo Index: focused archive of vetted art and documentary photographers

Libraries Collections:
[Monograph] Wood River Blue Pool, photographs by Jo Ann Walters, essay-Laura Wexler, Phd, novella-Emma Kemp 201
Yale University Library, New Haven, CT
Columbia University Libraries, NYC
Museum of Modern Art [MOMA], NYC
Princeton University Library, NJ
Tufts University – Tisch Library, MA
Cornell University Library, NY
New York Public Library System, NYC
New York University, Elmer Homes Bobst Library, NYC
SUNY at Purchase, Purchase, NY
SUNY at New Paltz, Sojourner Truth Library, NY
Maryland Institute of Technology {MICA}, Decker Library, MD
University of Vermont Howe Library, Burlington
George Washington University, Washington, DC
George Mason University, Fenwich Library, VA
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ingals Library
Oberlin College Libraries, OH
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
Michigan State University, Main Library, MI
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Columbia College Chicago, IL
Washington University in St Louis, MO
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Education:
MFA, Photography, Ohio University, Athens, OH 1983
BA, Education, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ 1976
 

Teaching:
Chair of Photography, School of Art, Purchase College, SUNY 2002-2016
Associate Professor, Purchase College, State University of New York 1997-present 
Visiting Critic, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI 1992-1999
Associate Professor Adjunct, State University of New York, Purchase College, 1991-97
Master Class: Maine Media Workshops, ME summer 2000 thru 2007, 2009
Graduate Faculty + Head of Undergraduate Photography, School of Art, Yale University 1984-91
Director Undergraduate Studies, Yale University School of Art 1988-89
Yale Summer School of Music & Art, Norfolk, CT 1985-91