contact info: hdominick25@yahoo.com
EDUCATION
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
MFA, Photography
Thesis board: Angela Kelly, Tina Lent, Elaine O’Neil
May 2001, GPA: 4.0
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
BA, Communication Studies/Film Studies
Minor: Women Studies
May 1998, GPA: 3.5
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Academic Advisor, June 2005 – August 2006
University of Arizona, College of Fine Arts, School of Art, Tucson,
Arizona
A full-time position with the following responsibilities:
Advise all students in and interested in the School of Art, which comprises
Studio Art, Art Education and Art History. Four degrees are offered; BA in Art
History, BA in Studio Art, BFA in Studio Art and BFA in Art Education. Two minors
are currently offered: Art History and Art Education. Advising undergraduate
students on degrees and classes offered by taking walk-in quick advising and
half hour appointments and answering student and non-student e-mails, processing
senior degree checks for graduation, presenting and leading Art Seminars, leading
freshmen and transfer orientations, revising and updating grid-sheets, using
computer programs (such as SIS and DARS), organizing Art Days, attending University
and College Advising meetings.
Adjunct Instructor, June 2004 - May 2005
University of Arizona, College of Fine Arts, School of Art, Tucson, Arizona
Responsibilities include teaching and creating curriculum for the following
courses:
* Digital Photography - ART 344 (Summer
Session I and Fall Semester 2004, Spring 2005)
*Self-Portrait - ART 341E (Spring 2005)
Photographer and Coordinator of Photographic Services, April
2004 - January 2005
Arizona Historical Society (AHS), Southern Arizona Division, Library /Archives,
Tucson, Arizona
* Managing Photographic Services includes:
* Creating digital and wet darkroom reproductions of photographs in our archives
for patrons (commercial and personal uses).
* Supervising assistants, interns and work-study students.
* Overseeing workflow of orders: researching photographs, recording or requesting
payment, reproducing images, permission to use image forms, packaging and mailing
orders.
* Photographing includes:
* Statewide AHS public and non-public events and meetings
* Documenting historic materials
* Creating advertisements for Special Sales
* Portraiture of Board Members and Fellowship Recipients
Visiting Assistant Professor, August 2001 - May 2003
Syracuse University, College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), Department
of Art Media Studies (AMS), Art Photography (APH), Syracuse, New York
Responsibilities included teaching and creating curriculum for the following
courses:
* Introduction to Art Photography - APH 241 (fall 2001, fall 2002, spring 2003)
* Intermediate Digital - APH 340.4 (fall 2001/ spring 2002)
* Beginning Digital - APH 243
(spring 2003)
* Contemporary Histories and Criticisms of Photography - APH 541 (fall 2001)
* Intermediate Art Photography - APH 342.1, 342.2 (spring 2002, fall 2002)
Responsibilities also included Advising Graduate students and supervising Independent
Studies with Graduates and Undergraduates.
Assistant Professor, June 2002 - July 2002
Syracuse University, Division of International Programs Abroad/VPA, APH, Florence,
Italy
Responsibilities Included teaching and creating curriculum for the following
course:
* The Florentine Vision: A Workshop in Creative Photography - APH 340
Adjunct Instructor, August 2000 – May 2001
Syracuse University, VPA, AMS, APH, Syracuse, New York
Responsibilities included teaching and creating curriculum for the following
course:
* Introduction to Art Photography – APH 241
Gallery Operations Manager, September 1998 – March 2000
SPAS Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
Responsibilities Included:
*Installation of work by artists including, Nancy Andrews, Catherine Angel,
Bruce Bennett, Laura Carton, Yara Cluver, Diane Fenster, Judy Gelles, Keith
Johnson, Elaine O’Neil, Harvey Stein, Jim Stone, Stan Strembicki
*Management of gallery staff and volunteers
*Maintenance of gallery space and preparation of space for all exhibitions
*Handling, hanging, packaging and shipping photographic work
*Filing incoming and out-going condition reports
*Organization of exhibition receptions
*Exhibition lighting design
*Curator, MFA Show, March 1999, SPAS Gallery
*Juror, BFA Show, January, 1999, SPAS Gallery
Gallery Intern, Summer , June 1 – August 20, 1999
Alan Klotz/ Photocollect (Now known as Klotz/ Sirmon Gallery), 22 East 72nd
St, New York, NY (Currently located at 511 West 25th St., New York, New York,
10001)
Responsibilities Included:
*Wrote "Tech Bible" for basic daily computer functions of Gallery
*Designed fall show Press Release: Samuel Gottscho – New York: Night and
Day
*Created the fourteen templates of Contemporary and Vintage Photographers for
Janet Sirmon’s (Director of Alan Klotz/ Photocollect Gallery) "Corporate
Project"
*Accessioned newly purchased work into the gallery’s computer management
system, ARTSYS with President of gallery, Alan Klotz
*Researched Photographers and their work
*Entered and managed eBay sales
*Learned how to "read" signatures, stamps, notations, and other print
date identifiers (such as type of print: Albumen or Calotype)
*Smaller daily tasks included: typing letters and e-mails for Alan Klotz; answering
phones; greeting photographers, clients, and customers; packing photographs
for shipment; framing photographs; typing up consignment forms and invoices;
and making delivers
Teaching Assistant, 1998 - 1999
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
Responsibilities Included:
Gallery Management Class, assisting Professor Lynne Bentley-Kemp with the following
duties:
*Management and organization of student group to assist with mounting and un-mounting
of exhibitions at the SPAS Gallery
*Instructing and assisting student group in gallery operations activities
EXHIBITION RECORD
2006
H2O, Dinnerware Contemporary Arts, Tucson, Arizona
On Our Own Time, Student Union Gallery, The University of
Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
A View of the New, Lionel Rombach Gallery, The University
of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
2005
Fourth Annual Art Source Gallery Juried Art Exhibit, Art Source Gallery,
Boise, Idaho, Juror: Heather Ferrell, Curator, Boise Art Museum
Twentieth Annual Greater Midwest International Exhibition,
Art Center Gallery, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, Missouri,
Judge: Randall R. Griffey
*8th National Juried Art Exhibition, Baker Arts Center, Liberal,
Kansas, Juror: Bill North
2004
UA School of Art Faculty Exhibition, 2004, The University of Arizona
Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
7th National Juried Art Exhibition, Baker Arts Center, Liberal,
Kansas
2003
Recent Works 2003, The Salon Studio, Loveland, Colorado, 5th National
Juried Art Show, Jurors: Jeanne Shoaff, Ronda Stone, Veronica Patterson
Realism 2003, The Stage Gallery, Merrick, New York, International
Juried Exhibition
2002
Collectives and Manifestos, 115 Grand Street, New York, New York
School of Art and Design Faculty Exhibition, Joe and Emily Lowe
Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
Photo Op '02: National Juried Exhibition, Millennium Arts Center,
Washington, D.C.
3rd Annual Juried Exhibition, Image Gallery, Riverhead, New York,
Juror: Harvey Stein
Photo Op '02: National Juried Exhibition, Photo Op '02, Salt Lake
City, Utah, Jurors: Bill Wooby, Abraham Lubelski, John Telford
2001
School of Art and Design Faculty Exhibition, Joe and Emily Lowe
Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
Matrilineage, Spark, Syracuse, New York
2000
Intersections, SPAS Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology,
Rochester, New York
Desired Absence, MFA Thesis Show, SPAS Gallery, Rochester Institute
of Technology, Rochester, New York, concurrent with Ming-Ru’ Tsai’s
and Robert Szatmari’s thesis shows
1999
Latent Image, Gallery r, Rochester, New York
Interior Spaces, Gallery r, Rochester, New York, Jurors: Robert
Cole, Susan Ferrari-Rowley, Alan Singer
20 x 24 Polaroid Group Show, Alumni Gallery, Rochester Institute
of Technology, Rochester, New York
Under Pressure, SPAS Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology,
Rochester, New York
COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, study collection, "MFA Portfolio
2000," Rochester Institute of Technology
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
The New Orleans Art Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana
The University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Ekstrom Library Photo Archive, The University of Louisville, Louisville,
Kentucky
TECHNICAL ABILITIES
All black and white photographic darkroom processes, especially zone printing
and mural printing
Digital Photography and Web Design
35mm, medium, digital, and large format cameras
Flatbed scanners and Negative scanners
Studio lighting
Color photographic darkroom printing
Macintosh Platform
PC Platform
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Adobe Photoshop CS
Dreamweaver 4
Quark XPress 4
Flash 5
Power Point
Internet Explorer/Netscape
Outlook Express
Cute FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
eBay (entering items online for auction)
General office equipment: fax and photo-copy machine
Touch type and 10-key
ARTSYS
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
College Art Association
The Society for Photographic
Education
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
VPA Portfolio Review - Fall Friday. 301 Crouse Hall, Friday, October 18, 2002.
(Syracuse University)
Portfolio Day at Tyler School of Art of Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
October 19 - 21, 2001(Syracuse University)
I served on several Graduate Student Thesis Committees. (Syracuse University)
I was actively involved with the Photography Department's curriculum meetings.
I provided my colleagues with a new grading system for the Introduction to Art
Photography (APH 241) course work. (Syracuse University)
I setup the computer lab (room 221A) by physically installing and rearranging
new computers, projector, and scanners. I organized computers numerically. I
also installed extra memory chips and new software onto all of the computers.
(Syracuse University)
I created a new curriculum for Intermediate Digital Photography (APH 340) and
Intermediate Art Photography (APH 341, APH 342), which includes adding and organizing
a Junior Photography class show at Spark Gallery, Syracuse, New York. (Syracuse
University)
I created the curriculum for the APH 541 course, providing a new syllabus and
reader for the course, loosely basing it on old syllabi from previous professors.
(Syracuse University)
I organized graduate students in Independent Studies in creating the Society
for Photographic Education Regional Conference posters and mailings, fall 2001,Syracuse,
New York
CONFERENCES
Speed: Space, 2002, ACSA West Central Conference, The University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, Nebraska.
Paper: "Domestic Temporality" by Professor Lori Brown of Syracuse
University presented my "Home Series" photographic work to support
the paper for a project we were collaborating on.
COMMISSIONS
2002
Summer Study Abroad 2003, Syracuse University Division of International Programs
Abroad Catalogue, Syracuse, New York (Several photographs from my project Tourism
2002 were published in catalogue.)
1998
St. Charles Visitors Bureau Catalogue, St. Charles, Illinois
Chord on Blues, Bar and Grill, St. Charles, Illinois
1993
St. Charles High School (East) Wrestling Team Calendar, St. Charles, Illinois
AWARDS & HONORS
*2nd Place Jurors Award, 8th National Juried Art Exhibition, Baker Arts
Center, Liberal, Kansas, Juror: Bill North, Senior Curator, The Marianna
Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University
*Phi Kappa Phi, Honor Society, Rochester Institute of Technology, Chapter 115
*University of Iowa Honors Program
*Phi Eta Sigma, Freshman Honors Society, (University of Iowa)
*Dean’s List University of Iowa
VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
Joseph's Pantry, Grace St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Tucson, AZ, fall/winter
2003/2004
Society for Photographic Education (SPE), Regional Conference, Rochester,
New York, fall 1999, and Syracuse, New York, fall 2001
Junior League of Rochester, Rochester, New York, November 7, 1998, Help
maintain a local woman’s shelter: Painted
Team In Training, Leukemia Society of America, Chicago Chapter, February
- June 24, 1998, Raised $4,600 for cancer research and ran a marathon in Anchorage,
Alaska in honor of designated patient-hero, 4 year old, Jacob Kerwell
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
Sales Associate, Fleet Feet, Tucson, Arizona, January 2005 - May 2005
Coach, Arizona Distance Classic Half-Marathon Training Team, Fleet Feet,
Tucson, Arizona, November 20, 2004 - March 13, 2005
Tutor, Dr. Ralph Copp, Tucson, Arizona, Fall 2004
Confidential letters of recommendation are available upon request. Thank
you.