EMPLOYMENT

8/95-Present: SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, CARBONDALE, IL.
Associate Professor, tenure tract. I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in Digital Imaging, Desktop Design, Non-Silver Photo and Visual Communication.

9/92-8/95: ELMHURST COLLEGE, ELMHURST, IL.
Assistant Professor, tenure tract. I taught Design Studio, Visual Communication, Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Photography, and Desk-top publishing.

9/91-12/91: SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, IL.
Taught Desk Top Publishing in the non-degree program during the fall semester.

9/89-6/92: MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, HOUGHTON, MI.
At MTU, Photography and Graphic Design are my specialties. I taught courses in Basic Photography, Commercial Photography, and Creative Photography. I also teach a basic Graphic Design course that is computer intensive, which gives the students a hands-on approach to the fundamentals of print design in conjunction with an understanding of the Macintosh computer and its graphic programs.

2/83-9/89: LOGAN PHOTOGRAPHY AND DESIGN STUDIOS, NYC.
As sole proprietor of Logan Photography and Design, my clients included McGraw-Hill, John Wiley & Sons, Edward Durrell Stone Architects, Robert T. Coles Architects, The National Urban League, Channels Magazine, Earl Graves Enterprises. Here in Chicago my clients include Harper Collins, and The Ashton-Drake Galleries. I continue to do freelance work and computer consultation for these firms using Quark Express, Aldus Freehand, and Adobe Photoshop software on the Macintosh.

10/78-2/83:EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, NY, NY.
As Senior Graphic Designer at Equitable, I met with clients to appraise projects, evaluate budgets, schedules, markets, and customer needs. I also designed annual reports, house organs, and promotional materials: brochures, mailing pieces, and posters. My responsibilities included managing an in-house freelance staff and coordinating printers, typographers, and other vendors. At Equitable I handled all phases of design.

9/77-10/79: JOHN WILEY & SONS, NY, NY.
At John Wiley & Sons, college textbooks were my major concern. As Designer, I maintained production schedules to produce texts on time. My design duties entailed creating cover and interior designs, checking pages and galleys, and tracking schedules.

7/76-9/77: BLACK ENTERPRISE MAGAZINE, NY, NY.
I was assistant Art Director at Black Enterprise. My major duties were to design layouts, monthly presentations, and supervise freelance staff.

EDUCATION

SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: Master of Fine Arts, 5/93

UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK: Bachelor of Science, 1/91

PRATT INSTITUTE: Photography and Graphic Arts,

MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN: Business Administration

PRINTING INDUSTRIES OF METROPOLITAN NY: Print Production

APEIRON WORKSHOPS: Photography-Paul Caponigro

NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH: Photography-George Tice

AWARDS/GRANTS

2001 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship

1998 Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation Grant

1998 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship

1996 Illinois Arts Council Finalist Award

1993 Honorable mention - School of the Art Institute of Chicago MFA Thesis Show

1992 Michigan Technological Univ.: Parks, Chavez, King Teaching Fellowship

1991 Michigan Technological Univ.: Parks, Chavez, King Teaching Fellowship

1989 Michigan Technological Univ.: Parks, Chavez, King Teaching Fellowship

1986 New York State Council on the Arts: Panelist

1987 SUNY-Buffalo: Artist in Residence

1988 New York State Foundation for the Arts: Panelist

1985 Yaddo Fellowship

1985 New York State Council on the Arts: Grant

COLLECTIONS

Recipient:Sponsored Project A.C. Buehler Library,

Elmhurst College Collection

Harlem State Office Building, NYC

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYC

Bellvue Hospital Center, NYC

Ilinois Educational Association, Springfield, IL

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2002 International Institute for Social History, "The Artist Portrait Series", Amsterdam, Holland

2001 Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, "The Artist Portrait Series", Jamaica, NY

2000 Northern Michigan University Art Museum, "Fern Logan Photographs", Marquette, MI

1999 The Shepard Center Gallery, St. Paul, MN. "The Artist Portrait Series"

1994 Frick Center, Elmhurst College, "The Artist Portrait Series",Elmhurst, IL

1992 Van Pelt Library, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, "Memories in Non-Silver"

1992 Oasis Gallery, Marquette, MI: "Memories in Non-Silver"

1991 Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI: "The Artist Portrait Series

1990 Van Pelt Library, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI: "The Artist Portrait Series"

1989 New York Public Library - Fordham Branch, New York, New York

1988 Sawtooth Building, Winston-Salem, NC: "The Artist Portrait Series" (Updated)

1988 Delta Arts Center, Winston-Salem, NC: "Memories in Non-Silver"

1985 Pennsylvania State University, Paul Robeson Center: "The Artist Portrait Series

1985 National Urban League, Gallery 62: "The Artist Portrait Series

1985 Cinque Gallery, NYC: "Recent Photographs-Color & Black and White"

1984 4th Street Photo Gallery, NYC: "Faces and Quiet Places"

1976 Just Above Midtown Gallery, NYC

NATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITIONS

2001: Feb.-April, Committed to the Image: Contemporary Black Photographers, Brooklyn Museum,, NY

Barbara Head Millstein, Curator; with Anthony Barboza, Beuford Smith, and Orville Robertson

- 94 photographers
- 2 images exhibited for each
- Catalog published

1999: Oct.-Nov., Spectra '99: National Photography Biennial, New Canaan, CT
-Tom Gitterman, Curator, Director of Gallery 292, NYC

1999: Feb.-March, "Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition", Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL

1998: May-July, "Digital Sorcery", Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY

-Five images selected
-Sixartists exhibiting

1997: Oct.-Nov., "Spectra '97: National Photography Biennial", New Canaan, CT
- Robert Sobieszek, Curator-Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Juror

1997: Apr.-June, "Reflections On Culture", Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA

-3 images exhibited
- Exhibition in conjunction with Women In Photography conference

1997: June-July, "Latent Image" National Contest, Level 3 Gallery, Dan Rather Comm. Bldg.,Sam Houston State University, Huntsville,TX

-1 image published

1997: Sept.-Oct., "Myth America", The Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI

-1 image exhibited (Award Winner)

INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

2000 Smithsonian Institution, "Reflections In Black: A HIstory of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present", Washington,DC

1998 Project Row Houses, "New Tools to Task", Houston, TX

1997 City College of New York, "Icon to Narrative: Harlem",New York, NY

1994 Smithsonian Institution, Imagining Families: Images and Voices, Washington,DC

1994 Barney's New York - Chicago branch, "Red Windows"

1993 Montage '93, Rochester, New York

1993 Gallery 2, Group Show, Chicago, Il

1993 Rockland Center for the Arts & Blue Hill Cultural Cntr"There Is A World Through Our Eyes",NY

1991 New Initiativesfor the Arts, "Shuttered Speeds", Michigan Traveling Exhibition

1990 Jamaica Arts Center, NYC, "Coast to Coast: A Women of Color National Artist's Book Project"

1990 Group Show, Michigan Gallery-Detroit, MI

1988 Firehouse Gallery, Houston, TX: FOTOFEST '88 "Herstory: Black Women Photographers"

1988 Diverseworks, Houston, TX: FOTOFEST '88 "Coast to Coast" (Granny Book)

1987 Bethune Gallery, SUNY Buffalo, NY: "Portrait of Buffalo II"

1987 Skylight Gallery, Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Brooklyn, NY: "The Family"

1986 Harlem State Office Building, NYC: "Visions and Revisions"

1986 Unicorn Gallery/Museum, Newark, NJ: Women of Color-Defined and Redefined"

1986 The Clocktower, NYC: "Progressions-A Cultural Legacy"

1984 Kenkelaba House, NYC: "Affirmations of Life"

1983 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYC: "14 Photographers

1980 Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC: "Self Portrait", Traveled to the Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MA

1976 Just Above Midtown Gallery, NYC

1976 Black Enterprise Magazine, NYC: "Photo Exhibition"

BIBLIOGRAPHY

THE ARTIST PORTRAIT SERIES: Images of Contemporary African American Artists, Fern Logan, SIU Press, Carbondale, IL,

2001COMMITTED TO THE IMAGE: Contemporary Black Photographers, Brooklyn Museum, NY, 2001 [exhibition catalog]

REFLECTIONS IN BLACK: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present, Deborah Willis, W.W. Norton & Co., NY, NY, 2000

WHO'S WHO IN AMERICAN ART, 1999-2000, Marquis, Oldsmar, FL

AMERICAN ICONS FROM MADISON TO MANHATTAN: The Art of Benny Andrews, The Morris Museum of Art, 1997, Augusta, GA

LATENT IMAGE - Summer 1997, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX

GUMBO YA YA, African American Women Artists, Lara Farb, Midmarch Press, New York, 1995

IMAGINING FAMILIES: Images and Voices, Deborah Willis, (exhibition catalogue.) The Smithsonian Institution, Wash., DC

I HEAR A SYMPHONY,Paula Woods and Felix Liddell,Anchor Books (Doubleday), New York, 1994

ITOO SING AMERICA,: BOOK OF DAYS, Paula Woods and Felix Liddell, Workman Publishing,New York, 1992

M/E/A/N/I/N/G #7-Contemporary Art Issues, "Contemporary Views on Racism in the Arts", Spring 1990

FOTO Magazine, "Vijf Vrouwelijke Afro-Americaanse Fotografen", 12/89, Netherlands

BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS FROM 1940-1988, Debra Willis-Thomas, Garland, 1988

VIEWFINDERS-Black Woman Photographers, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Dodd, Meade, 1986

SIX DECADES AT YADDO, Yaddo Publication, 1986

POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINE, 2/85

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