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<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="12"> <tr> <td><font color="#000000"> <p><span id="1257184208391S" style="display: none;"> </span></p> <p><strong><span style="display: none;" id="1257184117080S"> </span></strong></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><strong>Shauna Church is an Artist / Photographer, specializing in Digital Imaging, Darkroom and Digital Fine Printing, and Infrared Photography. Her work is in narrative form, as installation and book projects, using both analog and digital media. Shauna is internationally published and exhibited and has received numerous fellowships, grants and awards.</strong> <strong> </strong> <strong> </strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><strong>Shauna's background as an artist is the reason many professionals rely on her eye, her talent, and her skill. Her list of job titles represents the breadth of her experience in many areas: ILFORD Cibachrome, C-print, and BW Printer 1981-90, Manager of the ICP Darkroom 1990-93, Manager of Schnoodle Studio NYC 1993-94, NYU CAT Grant Recipient for Multimedia 1994-95, Award-winning Multimedia Designer 1995-96, Founding Director of the ICP Digital Media Lab and Digital Media Program Co-ordinator 1996-98, Freelance Retoucher 1998-2002, Director of Pointlight Digital 2002-2005. In each of these postions her emphasis on high artistic standards in a technical field was respected and appreciated. </strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><strong>Shauna attended the Glassel School of Art at the Houston Musuem of Fine Arts as a youth, which formed the basis for her passion in many mediums. She continued her art education with a BFA in Studio Art in Painting, Sculpture, and Photography at the University of Texas at Austin. While in her junior year in undergraduate school, Shauna had her first exhibition of photographs at the Canon Musuem of Photography, Amsterdam. This jettisoned her into the photography field early in her career with encouragement from Wendy Watriss, Fred Baldwin, and Duane Michals at the first Fotofest in Houston, Texas.</strong></span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><strong> </strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><strong>A NYU fellowship grant to investigate the creative possibilities of computer imaging in the early days of digital media changed her direction away from the traditional darkroom, as she was inspired by her desire to print on substrates other than silver gelatin paper. This was a major turning point in both her work and her career, and although Shauna still prefers working in the darkroom, her skills and vision in Digital Imaging keep her in high demand. </strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><strong>As a faculty member at The International Center of Photography, NYU/Tisch, School of Visual Arts, The New School University, and Parsons School of Design, she has taught Darkroom courses since 1990 and Digital Imaging courses since 1994. Shauna has been a summer workshop instructor at Maine Photographic Workshops, Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, Peter's Valley Workshops and Toscano Workshops since 1995. Shauna's pedagogical method is to keep the connection alive between the conceptual, the creative, and the technical aspects of photography, so that students become one with the process and the vision.</strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><strong>Since 1990, Shauna's students and clients have included fashion, editorial, and fine-art photographers in NYC; seeking advice on portfolio editing, fine-art darkroom printing, image visualization, archival inkjet printing, photo retouching, and digital imaging techniques. Shauna's strength lies in her ability to understand the core of an image and teach the potential directions for an end result that fulfills the expression of the photographer. Although this involves understanding of the technical side of photography and digital imaging, it relies heavily on her artist's eye and her teacher's ability to connect with the artist and the artwork to bring it all to fruition.</strong></span><strong> </strong></p></font></td> </tr> </table>
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