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NARRATIVE VITA
Use the numbered links below to read the seven sections sequentially, or download the complete narrative as a PDF.
    1. Making Meaning
    2. the Poetics of Process
    3. Becoming a Scholar
    4. the place and Its Legacy
    5. Recognition and New Roles
    6. Teaching as Making
    7. Looking Ahead

LIGHT SENSITIVE (external link)
A separate project, hosted on Medium.com, a soapbox where I write about artists whose work I admire, autobiography, the creative process, the image world, and other rants.

ARTIST STATEMENT

SHORT BIO

TEACHING STATEMENT
 I always considered myself, proudly, a teaching artist and I spent that career, again very proudly, teaching at public land-grant universities (the land-grant system was instituted during the presidency of Abraham Lincoln to make university study accessible and affordable for children of working class families). I am an alum of a public land-grant university, the same one I taught at for 30 years. Without this system I could never have been a university student, and I certainly would never have become an artist.

WRITING WITH VIDEO
This course, developed at the University of Illinois, was predicated on the view that today’s media landscape is increasingly populated by rhetorical forms that push beyond the technologies of ink and paper, that video is a powerful contemporary rhetorical form, and that university students would be well served by an advanced composition General Education course that successfully combined traditional writing with video production literacy. The course was wildly popular and the university was never able to completely satisfy student demand.

WEB PROJECT STATEMENTS
These statements provide context, history, and analysis of my earlier web-based projects. They attempt to unpack ideas and themes from this period. Much of the work is now unavailable in it’s original form due to evolution of the technology. I have included these statements here because interest in the work lingers, and I have also tried to include visuals and examples when possible. Here is a link to the place as it existed in 1999.
   the place | personal memory | critical analysis
   Life with Father
   Urban Diary
   Flagrant World
   From the place to Flagrant World