Linda Connor
San Francisco Art Institute: Department of Photography
Linda Connor is an internationally renowned photographer and has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute for several decades. Her photographs are in notable collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, International Center for Photography, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Her work is published in monographs including; Visits; Solos; Luminance; and Spiral Journey. In 2008, Chronicle Books published Odyssey: the Photographs of Linda Connor. This monograph includes over thirty years of photographs and is accompanied by a major exhibition in several locations across the United States. She is the recipient of numerous awards including National Endowment for the Arts grants and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Her photographs depict the relationship between the culturally sacred and natural world while illuminating her connection to and deep respect for her subjects. With her large format camera, Connor travels extensively, exploring sites that evoke mystery and spirit. These explorations of ancient and sacred locales reflect her interest in how diverse cultures manifest the holy.
Linda Connor’s formal photographic education came under the instruction of Harry Callahan at the Rhode Island School of Design and Aaron Siskind at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT).
Lonnie Graham
A Pew Fellow, Lonnie Graham's extensive teaching experience includes his position as Professor of Visual and Integrative Arts at Pennsylvania State University and instructor of special programs at the Barnes Foundation in Marion Pennsylvania. He acts as a visiting instructor of Graduate Studies at San Francisco Art Institute and was Visiting Professor at Haverford College. Graham was Curator in Residence for Three Rivers Arts Festival, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and serves as active site visitor for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Graham attended Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and took advanced degrees at San Francisco Art Institute.
Graham's artistic practice ranges from engaging portrait photography, to room-sized installations that recall familiar domestic spaces, to public art projects that integrate direct community impact into their artistic gestures. Through these various methods, Graham approaches representations of "essential experience" on three levels: the individual, family, and community. His art is ultimately inclusive. As a teacher and artist his work encourages recognition of shared experience, and the vital relationship between individual and community.
Graham's work has been exhibited at the Andy Warhol Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pa., Brooklyn Museum of Art, N.Y., Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. He has been honored with fellowships from both the National Endowment for the Arts and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and commissions from Spoleto Festival, Charleston, S.C., Fairmount Park Art Association, Philadelphia. His work is included in the collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., the Schomberg Center, New York, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Adam L. Weintraub is a photographer based in Seattle. His Photoexperience.net workshops combine inspiring artists which offer insight and collaboration in an intimate setting. Removed from Cusco's tourist section, his B&B plays host to the class, overlooking the Cusco valley and offering respite from the masses. He is currently coordinating efforts to create a permanent archive and catalogue of the famed Peruvian photographer, Martin Chambi. He has been President of Blue Earth Alliance since 2004 and is widely published, collected, hired and admired for his personal work.
