SELELCTED PERMANENT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS The Meade Museum of Art................................................................ Amherst, MA The Southern Vermont Art Center................................................... Manchester, VT The Whitney Museum of American Art............................................ New York, NY The Boston Museum of Fine Arts.................................................... Boston, MA The Catskill Center for Photography............................................... Woodstock, NY The Houston Museum of Fine Arts.................................................. Houston, TX The Harvard Photographic Archive.................................................. Cambridge, MA The DeCordova Museum.................................................................. Lincoln, MA The Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art.................... Providence, RI SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2002  Paul Paletti Photography Gallery..................................................... Visual Studies Workshop................................................................. Loiusville, KY Rochester, NY 2001  Palm Beach Community Photographic Center............................ Houston Center for Photography.................................................... Harvard University Carpenter Center............................................. Delray Beach, FL Houston, TX Cambridge, MA 2000  Philadelphia Art Alliance.................................................................. Photographic Resource Center...................................................... Greenfield Community Collage...................................................... Philadelphia, PA Boston, MA Greenfield, MA 1999  Community College of Phode Island............................................ Warwick, RI 1997  Princeton University.......................................................................... Princeton, NJ 1994  Governor's Gallery............................................................................. Robert Hull Flemming Museum..................................................... Vermont State Craft Center.............................................................. Montpelier, VT Burlington, VT Windsor, VT 1993  Tulsa Photo Collective...................................................................... Tulsa, OK 1991  Catskill Center for Photography...................................................... Vermont State Craft Center.............................................................. Woodstock, NY Middlebury, VT 1990  Camp D'Osservazione...................................................................... University of Rhode Island............................................................... Lycoming College.............................................................................. Gubbio, Italy Kingston, RI Williamsport, PA 1989  Midtown Y Gallery............................................................................... New York, NY 1988  Pittsburgh Filmmakers...................................................................... Massachusetts College of Art, A Floor Gallery.............................. Pittsburgh, PA Boston, MA 1986  Historic Windsor House................................................................... Red Eye Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design....................... Artspace, Franklin County Arts Council.......................................... Windsor, VT Providence, RI Greenfield, MA 1985  Granite Hills Photo Gallery............................................................... Hardwick, VT 1984  Brattleboro Museum and Arts Center............................................. Brattleboro, VT 1980  Blue Sky Gallery, Outerspace.......................................................... Portland, OR SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1999 - 2000 "R.I.S.D. On The Road", juried exhibit, traveling to eight venues nationally Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College................................................................................................. Dartmouth, NH 1997  Brattleboro Museum and Arts Center............................................. Brattleboro, VT 1996  "Nature & History - Five Artists Photography in the Land", Linfield College.................................................................................. McMinnvile, OR 1995  Gutstufson Gallery of Photography................................................. London, England 1994  "Flesh and Blood, Photographers Photograph Their Families" Friends of Photography................................................... Stichting Foto Manifestate Eindhoven Festival............................. San Francisco, CA Eindhoven, Netherlands 1993  "Flesh and Blood, Photographers Photograph Their Families" traveling exhibit, Kirkcaldy Museum, Kirkcaldy, Scotland, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 1992  "Ways & Means" Springfield Art Museum...................................... Three Photographers, Woodstock Gallery.................................... "The American Dream" Catskill Center of Photography............. Springfield, MI Woodstock, VT Woodstock, NY 1990  "New Acquisitions" Houston Museum of Fine Arts...................... "Figuring The Body" Boston Museum of Fine Arts........................ Houston, TX Boston, MA 1989  Nina Lui and Friends Gallery............................................................ Charleston, NC 1987  Family Photographs, The Light Factory.......................................... Light Exposure Juried Exhibit........................................................... Tallahassee Invitational..................................................................... Charlotte, NC Williamsport, PA Tallahassee, FL 1986  1986 Benton Museum, University of Connecticut Faculty Exhibit................................................................................................... Viridian Gallery Juried Exhibit........................................................... New Developments, Louis K. Mensal Gallery............................... Storrs, CT New York, NY New York, NY TEACHING EXPERIENCE Schools where John Willis has taught photography; School of the Museum of Fine Arts.................................................. Boston, MA Princeton University............................................................................ Princeton, NJ Lycoming College............................................................................... Williamsport, PA Southeastern Massachusetts University........................................ Darthmouth, MA Zone VI Workshops............................................................................ Putney, VT Rhode Island School of Design....................................................... Providence, RI Massachusetts College of Art.......................................................... Boston, MA Salve Regina College........................................................................ Newport, RI University of Connecticut................................................................... Storrs, CT Linden Lodge Nursing Home.......................................................... Brattleboro, VT Greenfield Community College....................................................... Greenfield, MA Marlboro College................................................................................ Marlboro, VT Community College of Vermont....................................................... Brattleboro, VT Harvard University - Carpenter Center............................................ Cambridge, MA Vermont College MFA Program....................................................... Montpelier, VT In-Sight Photography Project............................................................ Brattleboro, VT SELECTED AWARDS & SPONSORS 2000 Recipient Vermont Arts Foundation Fellowship Recipient Vermont Council on the Arts, Incentive Project Grant 1998 Recipient Vermont Council on the Arts, Individual Artist's Project Grant 1995 Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University 1993 Recipient Vermont Council on the Arts, Individual Fellowship Grant 1992 Sponsored by Kodak Professional Services, to teach photography in grades 1 through 6 at Dover Elementary School, Dover, VT 1985 Polaroid International Collection, Equipment Grant Polaroid Foundation, Equipment Grant, for teaching photography in Linden Lodge Nursing Home SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 2002 Speck, A Curious Collection of Uncommon Things, Published by Princeton University Architectural Press 2000 Orion Magazine, featured artist portfolio 1997 GEO Magazine, Russia "Master Breasts Objectified Aestheticized, Fantasized, Eroticized, Ferminized by Photography's Most Titillating Masters..." an Aperture Publication 1993 1993 "Flesh and Blood, Photographers Photograph Their Families"

John Willis 41 Brown's Way Dummerston, Vermont, 05301 john@jwillis.net PRESENT EMPLOYMENT MARLBORO COLLEGE, Marlboro, VT Tenured full time member of faculty teaching all photography courses. IN-SIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT, all volunteer program, Brattleboro, Vt. Co-Founder, President of the Board, offering free classes to area youth. Insight Photography VERMONT COLLEGE MFA in Visual Arts Program: Artist Teacher and Visiting Critic, Montpelier, Vermont. EDUCATION 1986 The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

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