Outreach and Service
2015 – 2016
Oversee scanning and complete final postproduction on approximately 200
19th-century glass negatives donated to the Maritime Museum of Ohio; Sandusky, Ohio
Member, Board of Directors, Thumb Land Conservancy; Marlette, Michigan
2012
Co-investigator with Associate Professor Vaughn DeCoster on the Therapeutic Use of Photography to Express Post-Combat Readjustment of Veterans & Families; the project utilized advanced photo students
Department of Social Work; University of Southern Indiana
Co-Author with Instructor Carrie Wright for a successful Endeavor Award to utilize student talent to generate a photographic field guide for locally known fossils; Department of Geology; University of Southern Indiana
Donated matted, framed print to Cullowhee Mountain Arts Association’s summer fundraiser
Donated matted, framed print to William H. Aitkin Memorial Library in memory of two board members, and in honor of the library’s 100th anniversary
2011
Designed a comprehensive overhaul of University of Southern Indiana’s photographic labs and facilities
College of Liberal Arts; University of Southern Indiana
Faculty Advisor, Art Club, 2011 – 2012
Department of Art; University of Southern Indiana
Presenter, “Strategies and Complications of Long-term Documentary Photography.” Ivy Technical College; Evansville, IN
2010
Coordinated efforts to restore six 5×8-foot original Margaret Bourke-White prints in the possession of the Johnson Textile Company, Phenix City, AL
Invited to present “Strategies and Complications of Long-term Documentary Photography”, VisCom 24 National Conference, Portland, OR (declined due to conflicts)
Graduate Selection Committee, 2009 – 2011
Department of Communication and Journalism; Auburn University
Society for Professional Journalists and Auburn Anthropology Club fundraiser to benefit Haitian earthquake victims; $3,000 raised and donated to Partner’s in Health; SPJ faculty advisor
Guest lecturer, Ethnographic Methods, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Assisted students in the Department Communication and Journalism’s Community Journalism class in fieldwork and post-production of the City of Valley’s 30th-Anniversary commemorative broadsheet publication
2009
Presented “Strategies and Complications of Long-term Documentary Photography”, Photographic Imaging and Education Association’s (PIEA/PMA) international conference, Las Vegas, NV
Antique Processes Consultant, Southern Illinois University, for the University Museum’s “Great Photographers” exhibition
Shuler KA presented Osteological Correlates of the Life Stresses of Slavery from Plantations in South Carolina and Barbados. 66th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Charlotte, NC; photographic contributions by Chris Walker
Riverside Worship Project, “So Sing” album art, photographed live in large format during a final play-through before recording, for the band’s second long-play CD
Participated in an hour-long teleconference with students at St. Clair County Community College, during which students interviewed me regarding an exhibition of my work that was currently showing at their institution
Donated matted, framed fine-art print to the Shiloh Restoration Project for auction at its annual fundraiser at Tuskegee University
Public Relations Committee, 2009 – 2010
Department of Communication and Journalism; Auburn University
Faculty Advisor, Society for Professional Journalists, 2009 – 2010
Department of Communication and Journalism; Auburn University
2008
Digital Media Track Committee, 2008 – 2011
Department of Communication and Journalism; Auburn University
Panelist, “Life after Grad School”, Photographic Imaging and Education Association/Photo Marketers Association (PIEA/PMA) international conference, Las Vegas, NV
Juror, 5th Annual Paducah National Photo Competition (400 entries), Paducah, KY
Presented “Civil Twilight: A Comparative Evaluation of Agrarian Architecture through Contemporary Landscape Photography; Current Work”, at the Multidisciplinary Approaches to Cultural and Historic Preservation colloquium, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
2007
Juror, “Sense of Place”, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, MI
Guest Speaker, Alabama Scholastic Press Association, Auburn University (2007, 2008)
Judge, The (Guntersville, AL) Advertiser-Gleam’s Marshal County at Work photography contest
Guest lecturer, artXtra, Department of Art, College of Liberal Arts,
Auburn University
Curriculum Committee, 2007 – 2009
Department of Communication and Journalism; Auburn University
2006
Guest Presenter, Small Town Documentary, Department of Cinema & Photography, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
2004
Guest Speaker, Blue Water Audubon Society, “Art in Environmental Activism”, in conjunction with the exhibition, Port Huron, MI
Co-juror, “Art in Environmental Activism”, Fine and Performing Arts Department, St. Clair County Community College, Port Huron, MI
2003
Guest Lecturer, Art Appreciation, Humanities Department,
Kaskaskia Community College, Kaskaskia, IL
2002
Guest Lecturer, Global Economics, Geography Department,
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
2000
Presenter, Midwest SPE, “Civil Twilight: A Metaphor of Parallels Bridging Evolution within the Rural Grain Industry and American Landscape Photography,” Detroit MI
2000, 1998
Guest Lecturer, Media and Society, Department of Cinema & Photography, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
1997
Guest Speaker, Toledo Friends of Photography, “Six Nights a Year”, a discussion and showing of new work from my social documentary on coming of age at the Midwest’s rural county fairs, Toledo, OH
1997, 1995, 1993, 1991
Co-juror, Sandusky County Park District Calendar Contest, Fremont, OH
1996
Guest Lecturer, “The News Image as Art”, Department of Art,
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992
Co-juror, Ottawa County Calendar Contest, Port Clinton, OH
1994, 1989
Co-juror, Toledo Camera Club Semi-Annual Contests, Toledo, OH
1993
Presenter, Ohio Department of Natural Resources Non-game Wildlife Symposium, “Utilization of Avian Vocalization Habits as a means of Evaluating the U.S. Wetland Breeding Bird Survey,” Columbus, OH
1992
Guest Speaker, Maumee Valley Bird Study, “Fine Art as a Tool in Environmental Activism”, Perrysburg, OH
Guest Lecturer, Stone Laboratory, “Content and Context; Surpassing the Boundaries of Wildlife Photography”, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
1991
Guest Speaker, Findlay Art League, “Eight Years, Eight Portfolios”, an early retrospect for members and guests from five area universities, Findlay, OH
Guest Lecturer, Stone Laboratory, “Techniques in Nature Photography”,
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Juror, Clyde Art Association’s Summer Art Show, Clyde, OH