Jim Pomeroy archive
Scope and Contents
Materials related to the work of Jim Pomeroy. Unprocessed collection.
Dates
- 1953, 1964-1967, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1974-1992
Creator
- Pomeroy, Jim, 1945-1992 (Person)
Language of Materials
Material in English
Conditions Governing Access
To access materials from this collection, please contact CCP-RefDesk@email.arizona.edu
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has been retained by the artist’s parents. For further information, contact archives staff.
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission from the copyright owner (which could be the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates or literary executors) prior to any copyright-protected uses of the collection.
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Biographical Note
Chronology
- 1945
- Born on March 21 in Reading, Pennsylvania.
- 1963
- Graduated from Great Falls High School, Great Falls, Montana.
- 1963-1968
- Attended University of Texas at Austin, graduated with B.F.A.
- 1964
- Attended University of Montana at Missoula.
- 1966-1968
- Museum Technician, University of Texas at Austin.
- 1968
- Attended Arizona State University.
- 1968-1969
- U.S. Army, Fort Eustis, Virginia.
- 1969-1972
- Attended University of California at Berkeley, graduated with M.A., M.F.A.
- 1970
- Lab Assistant, U.C. Berkeley.
- 1970
- Senior Museum Preparator., U.C. Berkeley.
- 1970
- Eisner Prize, University of California, Berkeley.
- 1974
- Adjunct Faculty, Art Department, San Jose State University through 1976.
- 1974
- Visual Arts Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts.
- 1975
- Faculty, Art Department, California State University, Sacramento, Spring.
- 1975
- Adjunct Faculty, Creative Arts Interdisciplinary Dept., California State University, San Francisco, Fall.
- 1975
- Board of Trustees, Artist Member, San Francisco Art Institute, through 1978.
- 1975
- Founding Member/Vice President, 80 Langton Street (now New Langton Arts), through Sept. 1976.
- 1975
- NEA Visual Grant
- 1977
- Faculty, Sculpture Department, San Francisco Art Institute, through 1987.
- 1977
- Also taught Printmaking, Photography, and Humanities.
- 1977
- Chair, Sculpture Department, through 1979.
- 1977
- Chairman, “San Francisco Art Annual”, Fort Mason, San Francisco, Jun.-Aug.
- 1979
- Guest Curator, “Altered Photography”, Project Studios One, Long Island City, May.
- 1979
- Visual Arts Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts.
- 1981
- Advisor, New Music America.
- 1982-1983
- Faculty, Photography Department, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia.
- 1983
- Visual Arts Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts.
- 1985
- Coordinator, Masters ‘85, 60+ MFA shows, Pier II/Fort Mason, San Francisco Art Institute, May.
- 1985
- Editorial Board, exposure, quarterly journal published by the Society for Photographic Education.
- 1985
- Guest Curator, Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, through 1991(?).
- 1985
- Artist in Residence, Keystone-Mast Collection, California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside, January.
- 1985
- Artist in Residence, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York, June.
- 1986
- Exhibition and Planning Committees, Board, SF Camerawork, through 1991(?).
- 1987
- Visiting Artist, Visual Arts Faculty (Performance Art), Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Spring.
- 1987
- Advisory Board, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
- 1987
- Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History (Video/Photography), University of Texas at Arlington, through 1992(?).
- 1987
- Project Artist, Artpark, Lewiston, New York, Summer.
- 1988
- Co-Curator with Marnie Gillett, Digital Photography: Captured Images/Volatile Memory, New Montage, SF Camerawork, June; toured CRCA/UTA, Sept.; Houston Center for Photography, Oct.; CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, Dec.
- 1989
- Toured Museum Folkwang, Essen, West Germany, Feb.;Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark, July;Perspektief, Rotterdam, Holland, Oct.
- 1989
- Consultant, Seattle Design Team, Campus Mall Competition, Washington State University, Pullman, on-site charette Sept.-Nov.
- 1990
- Artist Advisory Committee, Dallas Museum of Art, February through 1991(?).
- 1992
- Died, April 6th.
Extent
144 Linear Feet
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Abstract
Papers, artifacts, and photographic materials of Jim Pomeroy (1945-1992), photographer, musician, performance artist, and teacher. The collection is unprocessed; access is restricted.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was a gift of the Pomeroy family in 1996. Barbara McCandless of the Amon Carter Museum facilitated the packing and transfer of the material to CCP.
- Title
- Jim Pomeroy archive 1953, 1964-1967, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1974-1992
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Author
- Finding aid created by CCP Archives Staff
- Date
- © 2021
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Based On Dacs (Describing Archives: A Content Standard)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid encoded in English
Repository Details
Part of the Center for Creative Photography Archives Repository
