Casey L. Smallwood
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- School: Harry S. Truman College
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- Department: Fine Arts
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1145 W Wilson Ave
Chicago, IL - 60640 - Dates at Harry S. Truman College: December 2014 - December 2014
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Biography
Harry S. Truman College - Fine Arts
Curator of Education at South Bend Museum of Art
Museums & Institutions
Casey
Smallwood
Greater Chicago Area
Experienced department manager with a demonstrated history of achieving data-driven results with a focus on customer retention and satisfaction. Skilled in assessment, project management, professional leadership, and the ability to collaborate across departments to achieve institutional goals.
Casey Smallwood’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), A Ship in the Woods (San Diego), College Art Association’s ARTspace Media Lounge curated by Catherine Sullivan (New York), Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Diego), Rapid Pulse International Performance Festival 2013 (Chicago), El Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, The Institute of Superior Arts (ISA) and The VI National Salon of Contemporary Cuban Art (Havana, Cuba), among others. She was a resident at the Banff Centre’s thematic residency Our Literal Speed in 2013 and the Chicago Artists Coalition HATCH Projects in 2015 and was a contributor to Fotomuseum Winterthur, Still Searching: An Online Discourse on Photography, a conversation with Ekaterina Degot and Our Literal Speed in 2014. She was the recipient of a Banff Centre Residency Scholarship in 2013, Full Tuition Fellowship from the Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago from 2006-2008 and the Excellence in Photography Award from Missouri State University in 2005.
Experience
South Bend Museum of Art
Curator of Education
Casey worked at South Bend Museum of Art as a Curator of Education
City Colleges of Chicago-Harry S Truman College
Part-Time Faculty
Film Studies, Art Appreciation, Photography
R+C Company
VP, Planning & Insights
Casey worked at R+C Company as a VP, Planning & Insights
The Illinois Institute of Art - Chicago
Academic Director
Provided academic leadership to over 300 students by hiring, training, developing, and leading over 30 faculty and staff members. Responsible for conducting and writing annual evaluations of instructors and quarterly classroom observations in order to collaborate on faculty development plans and monitor progress. Fostered student achievement, persistence, and success by assuring that the program exuded a culture of learning and excellence. Thorough analysis of quarterly assessment data and implementing programmatic initiatives, in order to proactively reach students who are at risk of not performing to their potential, increased retention rates, and monitored student success as it related to attendance, classroom performance, and programmatic completion. Opened and curated a Resource Room for all majors, designed and implemented a class schedule booklet for registration, founded and chaired the Inclusion and Diversity Committee, and created Learning Communities for incoming students.
Illinois Institute of Art - Chicago
Faculty
Taught: Introduction to Photography, -Fundamentals of Lighting, Advanced Lighting, Photographic Design, Photographic Theory, Design Fundamentals, Digital Color Theory, Image Manipulation, Introduction to Design Applications, Senior Project. Curriculum Development: Photography and Foundations
Education
University of Chicago
MFA
Visual Art
Missouri State University
BFA
Photography
Excellence in Photography Award
An annual award given to a graduating photography student, selected by faculty.The Illinois Institute of Art - Chicago
Academic Director
Provided academic leadership to over 300 students by hiring, training, developing, and leading over 30 faculty and staff members. Responsible for conducting and writing annual evaluations of instructors and quarterly classroom observations in order to collaborate on faculty development plans and monitor progress. Fostered student achievement, persistence, and success by assuring that the program exuded a culture of learning and excellence. Thorough analysis of quarterly assessment data and implementing programmatic initiatives, in order to proactively reach students who are at risk of not performing to their potential, increased retention rates, and monitored student success as it related to attendance, classroom performance, and programmatic completion. Opened and curated a Resource Room for all majors, designed and implemented a class schedule booklet for registration, founded and chaired the Inclusion and Diversity Committee, and created Learning Communities for incoming students.
Publications
Photography versus Contemporary Art (By Ekaterina Degot)
Foto Museum - Winterthur
In 2014, I was asked to be a co-responder (by my friend and greatest mentor, Matthew Jesse Jackson) to Ekaterina Degot's writings on "Photography v Contemporary Art." The project lasted six short but beautiful thought-provoking and rabbit-hole-diving weeks.
