FEATURED SPEAKERS: AMY STEIN AND MATTHEW COOLIDGE
HONORED EDUCATOR: JOHN SCARLATA (In Memorium)

Amy Stein  is a fine art photographer based in New York City.  Her work explores our evolving isolation from community, culture and the environment. She has been exhibited nationally and internationally and her work is featured in many private and public collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Nevada Museum of Art, SMoCA and the West Collection. Her work is represented by Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco, ClampArt in New York, and Pool Gallery in Berlin.

Amy was raised in Washington, DC, and Karachi, Pakistan.   She holds an MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York.  

Amy Stein's lecture is sponsored in part  by Printfile.  

Matthew Coolidge  is the Founder and Director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) in Los Angeles, a non-profit art/research organization that employs a multimedia and multidisciplinary approach to increase and diffuse knowledge about how the nation’s lands are apportioned, utilized and perceived. He serves as a project director, photographer and curator for CLUI exhibitions, and has written several books published by the CLUI, including Back to the Bay: An Examination of the Shoreline of the San Francisco Bay Region (2001), and The Nevada Test Site: A Guide to America’s Nuclear Proving Ground (1996). 


He lectures widely in the United States and Europe on contemporary landscape matters, and is a faculty member in the Curatorial Practice Program at the California College of the Arts, where he teaches a class about “nowhere”. Coolidge received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 2004.

John Scarlata was a professor and coordinator of the technical photography program in Appalachian State University’s Department of Technology.  Scarlata studied photography at the Brooks Institute of Photography and the California Institute of the Arts, where he earned an MFA in 1976. He held teaching posts at UNC-Charlotte, the Penland School of Crafts and Virginia Intermont College in Bristol, Va. He joined the faculty at Appalachian in 1999.
Scarlata’s photographic work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including shows in Cuba and China. His work made use of large format cameras and a variety of printing methods, from 19th century antiquarian processes to digital output.  


















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