Photography

Nancy McEntee

Title Professor/Chair of Photography & Video
Department Photography
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Courses  History of Photography Survey | Intro Photo I: Mechanics of Digital & Film Photography | Photo: BFA Thesis & Research | Publication Photography | The Contemporary Portrait | The Fine Art Silver Print

Degree MFA Photography, Bard College; BFA Photography, Cleveland Institute of Art

Nancy McEntee is a Professor of Photography and Chair of the Photography & Video department at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from The Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College and her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography from the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Nancy is a recipient of a Creative Workforce Fellowship from the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture. She was awarded a residency at The Burren College of Art in Co. Clare, Ireland for summer 2010. She has also received a Virginia Center For the Creative Arts Fellowship Residency and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship. Her photographs are exhibited nationally and can be found in many public and private collections.

Barry Underwood

Title Assistant Professor/Chair of Sculpture
Department Photography
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Courses  BFA Production and Independent Research: Research and Production. | Fundamentals of Studio Lighting | Pho/VAT: Installation & The Constructed Object | Professional Practices | Visual Thinking in Contemporary Photography

Degree MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art; BA, Theater Arts, Indiana University Northwest; BA, Photography, Indiana University Northwest

Barry Underwood is an Assistant Professor and chair of the Sculpture Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Barry has received two Bachelor of Arts degrees from Indiana University Northwest in 1990 and 1992 for Theatre and Photography. He earned his Masters in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1995. His work has been exhibited internationally: Annual International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition, in Santa Monica, California, Photo Miami 2007 in Miami, Florida, and most recently Altered Landscape, a two person exhibition at Summit Gallery, in Banff, Alberta, Canada. Hi work is included in several corporate and private collections. Barry participated in a thematic residency Imaginary Places, at Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada in 2007. During the summer of 2008, Barry participated in an Artists` Enclave residency at I-Park in East Haddam, Connecticut. During the summer of 2009, he will be participating in a residency at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA. He will work alongside some 30 writers, musicians, dancers, choreographers and visual artists from all over the United States, as well as from Iceland, Italy, Poland, Portugal and the UK who are “working at the cutting edge of their disciplines,” according to the center. www.headlands.org.

Sarah Paul

Title Assistant Professor/Chair of TIME-Digital Arts
Department Photography
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Courses  Experimental Video | Freshmen Environmental Elective | Introduction to Media Production and Integration

Degree MFA, University of New York at Buffalo; BFA, Rochester Institute of Technology

Sarah Paul is chair of the TIME-Digital Arts Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Courses  Freshmen Environmental Elective | Visual Organization & Media

Courses  Large Format: Digital & Film

Courses  Digital Color | Digital Photo Imaging I | Image, Narrative, & Sequence | Image, Narrative, and Sequence | Photo: Alternative Processes | Visual Organization & Media

Degree MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; BFA in Photography and Design, Cranbrook Academy of Art

Professor of Photography and Digital Imaging at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Toles has contributed in her field as an arts educator for over two decades. Recognized for her development of experimental processes related to high-voltage photographic imagery, she is an inventive contributor in her field. Her work can be located in collections nationally, including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, First National Collection in Chicago, State of Illinois, State of Florida. Her work has been published in the US, Japan and Germany. Exhibitions include the Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C, Boston Photographic Resource Center, SPACES Gallery, MOCA-Cleveland, and the Kohler, Akron, Cleveland, Columbus, and Grand Rapids Art Museums. Current work engages digital print technologies with early nineteenth century photography and optics, often combining photographic images with sculptural components. She creates digital negatives from an assortment of optical equipment and inventions, coupling these with unique alternative processes for both chemical and digital output. Inspired by her experiences in Provence, heart of photography’s early inventions, with a love of art, science, and critical thinking, she is an alchemist among photographers, with a desire to engage the multidisciplinary scope and interconnections inherent in this media.

Prof. Toles is a recipient of Ohio, Florida and Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships and National Endowment for the Humanities project grant. She represented the state of Ohio as an Artist in Residence at Cimelice, in the Czech Republic.

Courses  Contemp Color Photograph: Digital & Film | Contemp Color Photograph: Digital & Film | Visual Thinking in Contemporary Photography

Kasumi

Title Associate Professor
Department Photography
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Courses  BMA: 2D/3D Compositing for Animation | BMA: 2D/3D Compositing for Animation | Experimental Video | Intro to Animation | Narrative Production I & II | Sound Design | Video Basic Tools I | Video II | Video/Digital Cinema II

2011 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient Kasumi is internationally celebrated as a leading innovator of a new art form synthesizing film, sound and video. She has won global acclaim for her experimental films, videoart and installations in venues worldwide: from Lincoln Center with The New York Philharmonic to collaborations with Grandmaster Flash and DJ Spooky. She performed and exhibited work at Württembergischen Kunstverein Stuttgart and at the Chroma Festival de Arte Audiovisual in Guadalajara, Mexico, and her work, BREAKDOWN, the Vimeo Remix Award winner, premiered at Carnegie Hall with the American Composers Orchestra. She was awarded an EMPAC Dance Movies Commission 2009-2010 by The Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts and has created videoart for performance with The Cleveland Orchestra. She won a 2011 Creative Workforce Fellowship and was named one of Cleveland Magazine’s “Most Interesting People” of 2011. Kasumi executive-produced AARDVARK, a feature film awarded “Critic’s Pick” in the “L.A. Weekly”, and screened at Reykjavik IFF, Warsaw IFF, the Viennale, Goteborg IFF, Thessaloniki IFF, BAFICI, AFI Fest , Las Palmas, Krakow, Copenhagen, and many others. As a musician, she has twice been soloist at Carnegie Hall and has recorded four LP albums; in Japan, her soundtrack performance for OGINSAMA, starring Toshiro Mifune, was nominated for an Academy Award. She received the Adriano Asti Award for Best Experimental Film at Montecacini, Italy; Director's Citation at the Black Maria Film Festival; Seoul Film Festival's Special Jury Award; IFP Chicago and Sapporo International Film Festival Best Experimental Film, and others. Her film "The Free Speech Zone," cited in The Encyclopedia of Underground Movies, was featured at the Nemo Festival at the Forum des Images in Paris, the Milano Film Festival, Expresión en Corto, Mexico City, and the Sapporo International Short Film Festival where it won First Prize. Her work has been screened at festivals in Iran, the Slovak Republic, Turkey, Japan, Korea, Romania, Italy, Germany, Mexico, Holland, France, England, the US and Canada, and displayed at distinguished institutions including Muzeul Florean, Romania; Itau Cultural Center, Sao Paulo; The Butler Institute of American Art; The Museum of Fine Art, Houston; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro; San Diego Museum of Art; Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires; Anthology Film Archives among others and has received the Adriano Asti Award for Best Experimental Film at Montecacini, Italy; Director's and Program Staff Citation at the Black Maria Film Festival; the Seoul Film Festival's Special Jury Award; IFP Chicago's Best Experimental Film award and many others.