LKB cv

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Leslie K. Brown, Cambridge, MA
(b. Rochester, NY)
lesliekb (at) aol.com

EDUCATION:
PhD student in Art History, specializing in History of Photography/Contemporary
Boston University, Boston, MA, Fall 2009 to present

MA in Art History, specializing in Modern Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 1998
Thesis: Staging the Mystical: The Photographs of Anne Brigman and the Mystical Philosophy of Edward Carpenter

BA in Art History with a minor in philosophy and College Honors Program
State University of New York, College at Geneseo, Geneseo, NY, Magna Cum Laude, 1995

SELECTED EXPERIENCE:
Curator, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston, MA, November 2001 - August 2009
During tenure curated and oversaw over 40 exhibitions for independent non-profit photography organization.
Known for its innovation, the PRC gallery program garnered consistently positive regional and national press under guidance.
Responsibilities included overseeing and coordinating exhibition schedule and mounting of all exhibitions, including initiating
and curating shows of emerging and midcareer artists using photography and related media as well as administrating annual
student and juried exhibitions. Served as primary author for newsletter essays, wall text and labels, and related materials as
well as newsletter editor, press contact, and public relations manager.

Selected exhibitions curated and overseen: Syntax (2009 Boston Cyberarts Festival); Keeping Time: Cycle and
Duration in Contemporary Photography (2008/2009); New England Survey (2008, also traveled to Fruitlands Museum,
Harvard, MA); AD|AGENCY (2007/2008); Picture Show (2007 Boston Cyberarts Festival); PRC/POV: Photography Now and
the Next 30 Years (PRC 30th anniversary exhibition, 2006/2007); DOCUMENT: Contemporary Social Documentary Work
from Greater Boston (2006); Group Portrait (2005/2006); Land/Mark: Locative Media and Photography (2005 Boston
Cyberarts Festival); 2005 Leopold Godowsky, Jr. Color Photography Awards (2005); Contemporary Vernacular:
Contemporary Responses to Family and Found Photographs (2004/2005); Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music,
1972-1981 by Henry Horenstein (2004); Concerning the Spiritual in Photography (2004); American Perspectives:
Photographs from the Polaroid Collection (2003/2002); Robert Arnold: New Media Works (2003 Boston Cyberarts Festival);
"there is no eye": Photographs by John Cohen (PRC traveling exhibition, 2002); 6 Months: A Memorial (2002); Conceived of
and selected Northeast Exposure Online, a monthly series of emerging photographers (2003 - 2009).

Independent Curator, 2009 Leopold Godowsky Jr., Color Photography Awards, PRC, Boston, MA
November 13, 2009 - January 24, 2010
Co-organized the 2009 awards, which honored excellence in color photography. Included international nominations and
artists as well as a brochure, website, and exhibition. 2009 cycle focused on emerging artists and new approaches.

Invited Guest Curator, Out of the Box: Photography Portfolios from the Permanent Collection
DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA, October 24, 2009 - October 2010
Invited to be the first guest curator to participate in a new program at the DeCordova. This effort invites curators and artists
to explore DeCordova's collection and bring to it new viewpoints.

Independent Curator, Daniel Ranalli solo exhibition, 2009 to present
Aiding in organizing exhibition of photographs to debut at the Provincetown Art Museum in fall 2010.

Critic/Adjunct Faculty, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Fall 2008
Taught "Trends in Contemporary Photography," a required sophomore level course for photography majors. Class combined
lectures on themes in photography from 1970 to the present with RISD's visiting lecture series (Deborah Bright, Uta Barth,
Lauren Greenfield, and Emmet Gowin).

Adjunct Faculty, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA, Spring 2005, 2006, and 2007
Taught professional development course to junior and senior photography students for three semesters. Via guest speakers,
field trips, and lectures, class introduced various career paths and demystified galleries, museums, businesses, and
post-school topics. Students worked on resumes, cover letters, and a professional marketing packet/presentation.

Associate Curator of Education, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN, January 1999 - October 2001
Curatorial: Promoted from Assistant to Associate Curator. Aided in all aspects of curatorial department, including arranging
shows and writing wall text. Education: Taught and oversaw museum guide training and wrote educational materials.
Developed and coordinated exhibition public programming.

Co-Curator, Re-Collecting: Photographs from the HRHRC, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, August 4 - October 24, 1997
Along with two other graduate students interested in photohistory, curated exhibition on issues of photographic display,
categorization, and collecting. Wrote and published catalogue for exhibition.

Grader, Art History courses, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 1995 - 1997
Attended classes and graded tests and papers for undergraduate art history classes: Ancient to Modern (three semesters)
and Modern Art History (one semester).

Grant-Funded Intern at Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Curriculum Connections, Pilot Educational Program
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 1996 - 1997
Worked with middle school art teachers to develop tours that integrated classroom lessons with museum visits.

Assistant in Exhibitions Education Department, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX, 1996 - 1997
Coordinated summer tour timetable part-time and scheduled museum guides for tours in two locations. Supervised hands-on
children's gallery for annual family exhibitions. Wrote first visitor guide for museum's outdoor sculpture.

Intern, George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY, Spring 1995
Aided in assembling exhibition, Insight: Women Photographers from the George Eastman House Collection, with two other
interns under the guidance of the Chief Curator. Researched photographs and prepared photographers' biographies. Show
traveled to the Norton Museum of Art, Photokina (Cologne, Germany), Johnson Museum of Art (Cornell University), Utah
Museum of Fine Arts, and Worcester Art Museum.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

Society of Photographic Education (SPE), 2003 to present
- Peer review panel for conference proposals and presentations for National Conference, Dallas, TX, 2008
- Member of Publications Committee (includes Exposure journal and web site), 2007 to 2009
- Organized and moderated panel of photo non-profits, Northeast Regional Conference, Boston, MA, 2006
- Portfolio reviewer for national conferences, 2003 to present

Invited Tenure Reviewer, Art Department, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 2007
Artists Foundation, Advisory Board Member, Boston, MA, 2006 to 2009

SELECTED REVIEWS AND PRESS:

(for links to reviews, please see the press section)

- Mark Feeney, "Award winners offer colorful, alternate realities," Boston Globe, (PRC exhibition, Godowsky Awards),
December 5, 2009
- Mark Feeney, "Photography refocused: With digital technology, works offer new ways of seeing," Boston Globe, April 3,
2009 PRC exhibition, Syntax).
- David Raymond, review of Keeping Time, Art New England, February/March 2009 (PRC exhibition, Keeping Time).
- Mark Feeney, "Tracing the outlines of time," Boston Globe, November 28, 2008 (PRC exhibition, Keeping Time).
- Mark Feeney, "BU exhibition is long on talent, short on time," Boston Globe, September 8, 2008 (The PRC Portfolio
exhibition).
- "46 Reasons to Love Photography Now," Photo District News, Photo Annual issue, May 2008. The PRC was featured as
one of the "innovations, inspiring people, innovations, and idiosyncrasies that make photography as rewarding and exciting
as ever."
- Mark Feeney, "Exploring the Edge of Region: New England Survey looks at who, what, where we are," Boston Globe, April
8, 2008 (PRC exhibition, New England Survey).
- "Globe writer wins Pulitzer Prize for Criticism," Boston Globe, April 8, 2008. Mark Feeney's review of the PRC exhibition
Picture Show (April 2007) was one of the 10 nominated reviews for his Pulitzer Prize.
- Picture Show selected as one of the best exhibitions of 2007 in the Boston Phoenix's Art in Review.
- Greg Cook, "Next Stop Wonderland: Part Mad Hatter, part Wizard of Oz, an artist welcomes visitors into his world of fanciful
contraptions," Boston Globe, August 12, 2007 (PRC exhibition, Picture Show).
- Mark Feeney, "The wonder years: Recalling the visual revolution that brought about motion pictures, new works are an
enchanting mix of imagination and technology," Boston Globe, April 20, 2007 (PRC exhibition, Picture Show).
- Ken Johnson, "Back to the future: New technologies meet old ideals at the Boston Cyberarts Festival," Boston Globe, April
27, 2007 (PRC exhibition, Picture Show).
- Matt Nash, "Picture Show @ PRC," Big, Red, and Shiny, Issue #62, 2007.
- Mark Feeney, "Big Picture, Small Space: Dizzyingly Varied Exhibition Looks to Future," Boston Globe, November 17, 2006
(PRC 30th anniversary exhibition, PRC/POV).
- Shawn Hill, "PRC: Focus on Future," Art New England, February/March 2007. (PRC exhibition, PRC/POV).
- Mark Feeney, "They're connected by community: Exhibit captures local residents who share a bond," Boston Globe,
February 26, 2006 (PRC exhibition, DOCUMENT).
- Cate McQuaid, "All over the map: New technology inspires projects that are redefining the artistic landscape," Boston
Globe, April 15, 2005 (PRC exhibition, Land/Mark).
- Benjamin Tiven, "Land/Mark @ PRC," Big, Red, and Shiny, Issue #21, 2005.
- Ben Sloat, "Group Portrait @ PRC," Big, Red, and Shiny, Issue #32, 2005.
- Matthew Gamber, "Henry Horenstein @ PRC," Big, Red, and Shiny, Issue #5, 2005.
- Ben Sloat, "Concerning the Spiritual in Photography @ PRC," Big, Red, and Shiny, Issue #3, 2004.
- Mark Feeney, "The Haunting: Ghostly sights and otherworldly images inhabit imaginative 'Spiritual' exhibit," Boston Globe,
February 6, 2004 (PRC exhibition, Concerning the Spiritual in Photography).
- Mark Feeney, "Exhibit joins nature and culture, the literal and the abstract," Boston Globe, December 12, 2003 (PRC
exhibition, Vaughn Sills and Pelle Cass).

SYMPOSIA AND LECTURES:

- Paper, "A Case Study: Two Exhibitions examine Place and Time, New England Survey and Keeping Time," Framing Time and
Place: Repeats & Returns in Photography conference, University of Plymouth, UK, April 2009.
- Various gallery talks and seminars with the PRC, Boston, MA, 2008 to 2001.
- Visiting lecturer, Graduate Program, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, April 2008.
- Visiting lecturer, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, November 2007.
- Guest speaker at New England School of Photography's Professional Development Day, Boston, MA, 2007 and 2006.
- Panel organizer and moderator of Regional Photography Non-Profits in New England, SPE Northeast Regional Conference,
Boston, MA, November 2006.
- Guest speaker in Associate Professor Kim Sichel's graduate seminar on Landscape Photography, Boston University,
Boston, MA, November 2005.
- Paper, "Exhibiting 9-11: A Historiographic Approach," Art Remembers Conference, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY,
October 2002.
- Panelist and speaker on Weegee at symposium Photojournalism and Ethics hosted by First Amendment Center, Freedom
Forum, Nashville, TN, February 2001.
- Panelist at Session on Museum Education at the Tennessee/ Kentucky Association of Museums Conference, Nashville, TN,
2000.
- Various seminars and museum gallery talks with Cheekwood Institute, Nashville, TN, 1999 - 2000.
- Volunteer for Foto-Fusion, Palm Beach Photographic Workshops, Delray Beach, FL, January 1997.
- Gallery talk, curators' discussion at opening of Re-Collecting photography exhibition, Harry Ransom Humanities Research
Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, September 1997.
- Lecture, "A Yankee Rubens: Kenneth Hayes Miller's Sidewalk Merchant," James A. Michener Collection of the Huntington
Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, April 1997.
- Paper, "On the Claude Glass," Art History Today Symposium, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, April 1997.
- Assisted in the planning and implementation of interdisciplinary symposium, "From Energy to Information: Representation in
Science, Art, and Literature," University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, April 1997.
- Paper, "A Metaphorical and Metaphysical Landscape Mirror: The Claude Glass," 13th Annual Eleanor Greenhill Graduate Art
History Symposium, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, March 1996.

PUBLICATIONS:

- Feature essay and interview, Marni Shindelman and Nate Larson's project "Telepathic Witness," exposure, Journal of the
Society of Photographic Education, Fall 2009.
- Essays in every issue of the Photographic Resource Center's publication, in the loupe, in connection with curated
exhibitions and various topics.
- Encyclopedia entries on x-ray photography and botanical photography for the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century
Photography, Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2008.
- Encyclopedia entries on Francis Brugui�re, Alvin Langdon Coburn, and Louise Dahl-Wolfe for the Encyclopedia of Twentieth
Century Photography, Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2005.
- Exhibition catalogue entries on photographers Anne Brigman and Clarence John Laughlin for the Frist Center for the Visual
Arts' publication, An Enduring Legacy: Art of the Americas from Nashville Collections, 2001.
- Gallery and exhibition brochure on Beck and Al Hansen: Playing with Matches published in local arts weekly, Nashville
Scene, October 2000.
- 3,000 sets of educational teacher materials comprised of 10 Artcards to supplement traveling exhibition on self-taught
Nashville sculptor, The Art of William Edmondson, 1999. Exhibition traveled to Museum of American Folk Art, Memorial Art
Gallery, High Museum of Art, and Mennello Museum of American Folk Art.
- Essays on educational offerings in Antiques and Garden Show of Nashville publication, 2001 and 2000.
- Exhibition catalogue and essay: "A Collection without Walls: The Family Photograph Album" in Re-Collecting: Photographs
from the Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas Press, 1997.

JURYING AND REVIEW:

- Invited portfolio reviewer for national portfolio review events, including Photolucida (2007), Fotofest (2008), and SPE (2003
to present).
- Invited reviewer for Critical Mass, annual juried photography competition, 2004 to present.
- Invited juror/curator for summer exhibition, Salt of the Earth, Montserrat Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA 2009
- Invited guest reviewer for junior and senior photography critiques at Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA; senior photography
critiques at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA; and graduate photography critiques at Rhode Island
School of Design, Providence, RI, 2002 to present.
- Reviewer, Artist's Professional Toolbox, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Boston, MA, June 2008.
- Guest reviewer, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA, May 2009 and 2008.
- Nominator for ICA Artist Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 2008 and 2004.
- Reviewer, Connecticut State Art Fellowship Program, photography, Hartford, CT, November 2007.
- Juror, Members' juried show, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, June 2006.
- Juror for Photography, 51st Arts Festival, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, July 2006.
- Juror for Taking In: The Best of AIB Photography, Boston, MA, 2006.
- Juror for School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Yousef Karsh Photography Prize, Boston, MA, 2008, 2005, and 2004.
- Juror for Photography Show Newburyport Art Association, Newburyport, MA, 2005.
- Juror for Photography and Sculpture Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA, April 2005.
- Juror for New England Photography, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, 2005.
- Juror for the Concord Art Association, Concord, MA, Winter 2005.
- Juror for Photo(lab), open photography exhibition held at Artspace@16, Malden, MA, September 2004.
- Reviewer for Jamaica Plain Open Studios, Boston, MA, August 2004.
- Juror for Pembroke Art Association, Pembroke, MA, July 2004.
- Juror for Duxbury Art Association, 27th Annual Winter Show, photography, Duxbury, MA, January 2003.
- Judge for Best Still Image, EVVY awards, Emerson College, Boston, MA, 2002.
- Juror for Watkins College of Art and Design Student Competition, photography, Nashville, TN, July 2001.
- Judge for Young Scholastic Art Competition, all media, Grades 7-9, Nashville, TN, January 2001.
- Judge for Young Scholastic Art Competition, photography, Grades 10-12, Nashville, TN, January 2000.

AWARDS AND HONORS:

- Teaching Fellowship, Boston University.
- AICA (Association Internationale des Critiques d'art, the International Association of Art Critics) Award, New England
chapter, "Best Show in a University or College Gallery," 2nd Place, Picture Show, 2007/2008.
- ADDY design award for educational and promotional materials for Beck and Al Hansen: Playing with Matches exhibition,
2001.
- Award of Excellence, Tennessee Association of Museums, educational programming and materials for The Art of William
Edmondson exhibition, 2001.
- Commendation, Tennessee Association of Museums, flat paper, educational and promotional materials for Beck and Al
Hansen: Playing with Matches exhibition, 2001.
- Outstanding Exhibition and Catalogue of Historical Materials, Southeastern College Art Association, The Art of William
Edmondson, recognized for innovation in display, catalogue, and exhibition programming, 2000.
- Gold Medal for Design from Southeastern Museums Conference, The Defining: Moment: Victorian Narrative Paintings from
the FORBES Magazine Collection Exhibition Promotional Package, 2000.
- Gold Medal for Educational Programs from Southeastern Museums Conference, Curriculum-Based School Tour program,
Experience Cheekwood, 1999 and commendation for 2000.
- Silver Medal for Design, Southeastern Museums Conference, Curriculum-Based School Tour program, Experience
Cheekwood, 1999.
- Design Award from National Society of Fundraising Executives, Nashville Chapter, Curriculum-Based School Tour poster,
Experience Cheekwood, 1999.
- Outstanding Art History Major, State University of New York at Geneseo, Geneseo, NY, 1995.
- Art Department Senior Art Scholarship, State University of New York at Geneseo, Geneseo, NY, 1995.
- Presidential Honors Scholarship, Honors Program, State University of New York at Geneseo, Geneseo, NY, 1992 - 1995.

MEMBERSHIPS:

College Art Association
Society of Photographic Education