Outreach

Outreach and Service

2015 – 2016

Oversee scanning and complete final postproduction on approximately 200
19th-century glass negatives donated to the Maritime Museum of Ohio; Sandusky, Ohio

Member, Board of Directors, Thumb Land Conservancy; Marlette, Michigan

2012

Co-investigator with Associate Professor Vaughn DeCoster on the Therapeutic Use of Photography to Express Post-Combat Readjustment of Veterans & Families; the project utilized advanced photo students
Department of Social Work; University of Southern Indiana

Co-Author with Instructor Carrie Wright for a successful Endeavor Award to utilize student talent to generate a photographic field guide for locally known fossils; Department of Geology; University of Southern Indiana

Donated matted, framed print to Cullowhee Mountain Arts Association’s summer fundraiser

Donated matted, framed print to William H. Aitkin Memorial Library in memory of two board members, and in honor of the library’s 100th anniversary

2011

Designed a comprehensive overhaul of University of Southern Indiana’s photographic labs and facilities
College of Liberal Arts; University of Southern Indiana

Faculty Advisor, Art Club, 2011 – 2012
Department of Art; University of Southern Indiana

Presenter, “Strategies and Complications of Long-term Documentary Photography.” Ivy Technical College; Evansville, IN

2010

Coordinated efforts to restore six 5×8-foot original Margaret Bourke-White prints in the possession of the Johnson Textile Company, Phenix City, AL

Invited to present “Strategies and Complications of Long-term Documentary Photography”, VisCom 24 National Conference, Portland, OR (declined due to conflicts)

Graduate Selection Committee, 2009 – 2011
Department of Communication and Journalism; Auburn University

Society for Professional Journalists and Auburn Anthropology Club fundraiser to benefit Haitian earthquake victims; $3,000 raised and donated to Partner’s in Health; SPJ faculty advisor

Guest lecturer, Ethnographic Methods, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, Auburn University, Auburn, AL

Assisted students in the Department Communication and Journalism’s Community Journalism class in fieldwork and post-production of the City of Valley’s 30th-Anniversary commemorative broadsheet publication

2009

Presented “Strategies and Complications of Long-term Documentary Photography”, Photographic Imaging and Education Association’s (PIEA/PMA) international conference, Las Vegas, NV

Antique Processes Consultant, Southern Illinois University, for the University Museum’s “Great Photographers” exhibition

Shuler KA presented Osteological Correlates of the Life Stresses of Slavery from Plantations in South Carolina and Barbados. 66th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Charlotte, NC; photographic contributions by Chris Walker

Riverside Worship Project, “So Sing” album art, photographed live in large format during a final play-through before recording, for the band’s second long-play CD

Participated in an hour-long teleconference with students at St. Clair County Community College, during which students interviewed me regarding an exhibition of my work that was currently showing at their institution

Donated matted, framed fine-art print to the Shiloh Restoration Project for auction at its annual fundraiser at Tuskegee University

Public Relations Committee, 2009 – 2010
Department of Communication and Journalism; Auburn University

Faculty Advisor, Society for Professional Journalists, 2009 – 2010
Department of Communication and Journalism; Auburn University

2008

Digital Media Track Committee, 2008 – 2011
Department of Communication and Journalism; Auburn University

Panelist, “Life after Grad School”, Photographic Imaging and Education Association/Photo Marketers Association (PIEA/PMA) international conference, Las Vegas, NV

Juror, 5th Annual Paducah National Photo Competition (400 entries), Paducah, KY

Presented “Civil Twilight: A Comparative Evaluation of Agrarian Architecture through Contemporary Landscape Photography; Current Work”, at the Multidisciplinary Approaches to Cultural and Historic Preservation colloquium, Auburn University, Auburn, AL

2007

Juror, “Sense of Place”, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, MI
Guest Speaker, Alabama Scholastic Press Association, Auburn University (2007, 2008)

Judge, The (Guntersville, AL) Advertiser-Gleam’s Marshal County at Work photography contest

Guest lecturer, artXtra, Department of Art, College of Liberal Arts,
Auburn University

Curriculum Committee, 2007 – 2009
Department of Communication and Journalism; Auburn University

2006

Guest Presenter, Small Town Documentary, Department of Cinema & Photography, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

2004

Guest Speaker, Blue Water Audubon Society, “Art in Environmental Activism”, in conjunction with the exhibition, Port Huron, MI

Co-juror, “Art in Environmental Activism”, Fine and Performing Arts Department, St. Clair County Community College, Port Huron, MI

2003

Guest Lecturer, Art Appreciation, Humanities Department,
Kaskaskia Community College, Kaskaskia, IL

2002

Guest Lecturer, Global Economics, Geography Department,
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

2000

Presenter, Midwest SPE, “Civil Twilight: A Metaphor of Parallels Bridging Evolution within the Rural Grain Industry and American Landscape Photography,” Detroit MI

2000, 1998

Guest Lecturer, Media and Society, Department of Cinema & Photography, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

1997

Guest Speaker, Toledo Friends of Photography, “Six Nights a Year”, a discussion and showing of new work from my social documentary on coming of age at the Midwest’s rural county fairs, Toledo, OH

1997, 1995, 1993, 1991

Co-juror, Sandusky County Park District Calendar Contest, Fremont, OH

1996

Guest Lecturer, “The News Image as Art”, Department of Art,
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992

Co-juror, Ottawa County Calendar Contest, Port Clinton, OH

1994, 1989

Co-juror, Toledo Camera Club Semi-Annual Contests, Toledo, OH

1993

Presenter, Ohio Department of Natural Resources Non-game Wildlife Symposium, “Utilization of Avian Vocalization Habits as a means of Evaluating the U.S. Wetland Breeding Bird Survey,” Columbus, OH

1992

Guest Speaker, Maumee Valley Bird Study, “Fine Art as a Tool in Environmental Activism”, Perrysburg, OH

Guest Lecturer, Stone Laboratory, “Content and Context; Surpassing the Boundaries of Wildlife Photography”, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

1991

Guest Speaker, Findlay Art League, “Eight Years, Eight Portfolios”, an early retrospect for members and guests from five area universities, Findlay, OH

Guest Lecturer, Stone Laboratory, “Techniques in Nature Photography”,
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Juror, Clyde Art Association’s Summer Art Show, Clyde, OH