Nantahala | Current Issue | Editorial Staff

Joe Champagne is a Professor of Photography & Digital Imaging at Virginia Intermont College, having joined the faculty in 1987 and started the institution’s Digital Imaging curriculum in 1989. In addition to teaching full-time, he currently serves as director of the college's Photography Gallery, and as S.E. Regional Vice-Chair of the Society for Photographic Education.

His exhibitions include:

2003  From These Hills: Contemporary Appalachian Art Biennial,
                William King Regional Arts Center

2002 Contemporary Photography in Virginia: 30 acclaimed artists
          Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA

2000-01 Community Artists 2000 (Appraisal Concepts Award of Merit)
                   Bristol Art Gallery & The Bristol Herald Courier

2000 The Painted Song, group invitational, Bristol Art Gallery
         Good Goddess, Green Man Press Gallery, Abingdon, VA

1999-00 Imaging Appalachia:
             a collaboration with John Craig Freeman & April Street
              William King Regional Arts Center, Abingdon, VA

1999 Three person show, Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, Clemson University

1997 From These Hills: Contemporary Appalachian Art Biennial, William King Regional Arts Center

1995 From These Hills: Contemporary Appalachian Art Biennial, William King Regional Arts Center

1992 Lines of Logic, Dickson Foundation Gallery, Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC

1991 2nd Annual New Images Exhibition, New Image Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

1990 The Iron Bridge Show, traveling group exhibition:

Bascom-Louise Gallery, Highlands, NC
North Carolina Center for Creative Photography, Durham, NC
Sawtooth Center, Winston-Salem, NC

1987 Shot in North Carolina, juried exhibition, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC

His lectures and workshops include:

• Panelist: Pedagogical Concerns in Teaching Digital Imaging, Society for Photographic Education SE Regional Conference, 1999
  
  
• Panelist: Digital Imaging: On the Frontier in Contemporary Art, C. Calhoun Lemon Colloqium on Creativity and Values,
  
  
• Web Publishing for Educators, Society for Photographic Education SE Regional Conference, 1998
  
  
• Panelist, The State of Photographic Education, Society for Photographic Education SE Regional Conference, 1997
  
  
• Digital Imaging Workshop for Photography Educators, Virginia Intermont College, 1996
  
  
• Lecture, The Analog vs. Digital Image: Technical & Esthetic Considerations in Electronic Output, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 1995
  
  
• Digital Imaging Workshop for Graphics Professionals, Carteret Community College, 1994
  
  
• Digital Imaging Workshop, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC, Fall 1991
  
  
• Digital Imaging Workshops/Lecture, James Madison University, Fall 1990
  
  
• Speaker & Panelist, Art & Technology, Virginia Fine Arts Leadership Conference, Virginia Department of Education, 1990

He has over five years experience in professional web design, included sites for eduational, arts and corporate institutions. His personal gallery may be viewed at www.gallery421.com

 

Nantahala | Current Issue | Editorial Staff