FRED S. ENDSLEY

BORN: October 13, 1949 Houston, TX

PROFESSOR OF ART
School of the Art Institute of Chicago

RESIDENCE:

P.O. Box 86
Cody, WY 82414
(307) 587-2448
f.endsley@artic.edu
http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~endsley

OFFICE:

Photography Department
SAIC
37 S. Wabash Ave.
Chicago, IL 60603-3103
(312) 443-3783
(312) 263-0141 FAX

EDUCATION:
  • M.F.A., Photography, Florida State University - 1973
  • M.A., Graphic Design/Video, UCLA - 1972
  • B.A., Art, UCLA - 1971
  • Study w/Nathan Lyons, Visual Studies Workshop - 1971

EXPERIENCE:

  • Tenured Full Professor, School of the Art Institute ofChicago,
    1975 to Present (Full-Time)
  • Chairperson, Photography Dept. - 1983/84, 1987-89
  • Classes in all aspects of Photography, specialist in Alternative Processes
  • Classes and Faculty training workshops in Digital Imaging (since1989)
  • Generative Systems classes and Acting Head, 1976
  • Developed/taught first 4-D class component of Foundation Program, 1977-80
  • Departmental and Interdisciplinary Graduate Advising
  • Program/Curriculum Consultant to SAIC Design and Communication
    Department leading to program restructuring
  • Faculty Senate - 1978-85, Chairman 1979/80
  • Extensive committee and consulting work

  • Creative Director of RangeView Multimedia, specializing in museum
    consulting and digital publication of Western imagery - 1994 to present

  • Consultant to US West Telephone Company and Buffalo Bill Historical
    Center (Cody, WY) - Five month survey of multimedia activity throughout
    the intermountain West resulting in recommendations, report, and grant
    proposals specific to the implementation of multimedia databases, and the
    production and delivery of electronic publications - 1994

  • Consultant to the Texas Panhandle-Plains Museum to develop CD-ROM
    publication of museum source material relevant to K-12 curricula of
    Comanche Native Americans - 1995 (pending funding)

  • Visiting Professor, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County - Fall Semester, 1996.
    Classes in Computer Imaging and Interactive Multimedia

  • Visiting Associate Professor, Univ. of South Florida - 1984/85
    Acting Head of Photography Area/Consultant in restructuring curriculum.
    Classes in various aspects inc. Graduate Advising and History of Photography

  • Instructor, Columbia College (Chicago) - 1977/78.
    Senior Seminar in "Analysis of Contemporary Photography"

  • Instructor, Atlanta College of Art, Photography and Video,1973-75 (Full-Time)
  • Photography classes:all aspects and levels
  • Video Department Head/Founder/Builder
  • Gallery Director, Atlanta College of Art Gallery - 1974/75

  • Director/Founder, The Magnetic Image, annual national video exhibition,
    The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1975

  • Coordinator/Founder, Macho Intelligencia, co-op artists' exhibition
    group (seven national group shows), 1974-76

  • Founding Member, Nexus Gallery, co-op artists' gallery and workshop
    Atlanta, Georgia, 1973-75

SKILLS:

  • PHOTOGRAPHY: All aspects inc. straight silver work, large format, extensive
    digital, "non-silver", photo-mechanical, color, mural, mixed-media, and history

  • COMPUTER IMAGING: Extensive multimedia publishing, consulting, and digital
    production inc. Photoshop, Director, Sound Edit, Premier, PageMaker, Quark,
    Illustrator, Debabelizer, etc., plus data base construction, kiosk and CD-ROM
    publication, and complete website design (inc. HTML & JavaScript programming,
    and embedded interactive animation, sound, and forms), configuration, and maintenance.

  • VIDEO: Inc. complete studio and field knowledge, editing, theory and history

  • SOUND: Multi-track recording, editing, synthesis, composing, instrumental abilities

  • OTHER: Design, consulting, generative systems, painting, drawing, printmaking,
    writing, collecting, gallery direction and curating, gardening, and parenting

*** List of exhibitions, publications, lectures, & collections available on request.


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