Jack Carnell "Distinguished Artist Lecture" at Ursinus September 15, 2010

Photographer and educator Jack Carnell will present a Distinguished Artist Lecture at Ursinus College on Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. in Olin Hall, Room 107. The program is free and open to the public.

The owner and principal photographer of Jack Carnell Photography, Glenside, Pa., his work is included in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Coca-Cola Corporation in Atlanta, and the Musee d’art et d’histoire, Fribourg, Switzerland. He is an associate professor in the School of Architecture, at Philadelphia University and has served on the faculty at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts and the Tyler School of Art.

Carnell has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and National Endowment for the Arts and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts photographer’s fellowships. His solo exhibitions include Jack Carnell: Road Trip, at Philadelphia International Airport, and Social Landscapes at Philadelphia’s Open Lens Gallery. Philadelphia Professors of Photography, at the ADM Gallery in Philadelphia, Work from the Collection by Philadelphia-Area Photographers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and One Moment in Time, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, are among the numerous exhibitions to include Carnell’s photographs.

His work has appeared on the cover of Aperture and The Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine, and in Interview Magazine, This Sporting Life, 1878-1991, published by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and Artists Choose Artists, for the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.

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