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 Fellowship, Grants + 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