PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts; double majors; Photography and Graphic Design;
Minneapolis College of Art and Design; Minneapolis, Minnesota; 1974
WORKSHOPS
Debbie Flemming Caffery Rural Louisiana; Breux Bridge, Louisiana; 1998
Debbie Flemming Caffery Mardi Gras; Breux Bridge, Louisiana; 1999
Santa Fe Center, Digital editing, color and file management; 2000
Santa Fe Center, The Editorial Portrait; Michael Grecco; 2001
PROFESSIONAL
CAREER
After graduating the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, I began my
career as an art director and photo editor for a monthly magazine. With
two years of print art direction and photo editing experience, I then
helped form a small advertising-design firm with three fellow creatives.
In 1998 after 24 years as a photographer, designer and art director in
both advertising and publication design, I left my position as a creative
director for a major retail design and advertising firm to devote myself
to my life long passion for photography. I have been shooting editorial
assignment and personal work ever since.
EMPLOYMENT
Self-employed Artist-Photographer Minneapolis, Minnesota; 1998-Present
Contributing Photographer; IBID Photo Chicago, Illinois; 2000-present
Metropolitan YMCA Pilot Documentary
Photographic Program Push Button Memories: Documenting Your Life and
the Lives of Those Around You. 2006 Best Buy Technology Grant and the
Metropolitan YMCA Beacon Site Program; Minneapolis, Minnesota; 2006
FELLOWSHIPS
AND PRIZES
Minnesota Organization for the Arts & Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Competition
First Place; Fine Arts Photography Minnesota State Fair; St. Paul, Minnesota;
2001
2006 Bernice Abbott Portfolio Competition Honorable Mention Julia Dean
Photo Workshops; Marina del Ray, California; 2006
2006
McKnight Photographic Fellowship; 2006
EXHIBITIONS
Push Button Memories The Hong
Portfolio; Minneapolis, March 2005
Push Button Memories; Testing
The Theory; Minneapolis, June 2005
Jerusalem: The Western Wall
Portfolio; 10 World Landmarks including 20 print portfolio from Jerusalem's
Western Wall; Sabes JCC; Minneapolis, Minnesota; September 2006
Push
Button Memories: Landmarks Worldwide; Icebox Gallery; Minneapolis, Minnesota;
November 11, 2006 to January 6, 2007
COLLECTIONS
George Eastman House Gallery; Artist Selected 50 Print Portfolio; Push
Button Memories: Landmarks Worldwide ; 2006
PUBLISHED
WORK
Heart In Hands; 82 pages; ISBN 0970109202 No Limits Publishing; June 2000
REVIEWS
AND OTHER WRITINGS
MPLS St. Paul Magazine; Orin Rutchick, Push Button Memories, an Arresting
Body of Work; Claire Joubert http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-4381140/Moments-in-time-a-new.html
Minneapolis, Minnesota; 2005
Julia Dean Photo Workshops; 2006 Bernice Abbott Honorable Mention http://www.juliadean.com/competitions/orinrutchick.html
Marina del Ray, California; 2006
MEMBERSHIPS
Minneapolis Photographic Studio & Gallery Cooperative; MPLS PHOTO COOP;Founder and Artistic Director; Minneapolis Minnesota March 2007-present
MNARTIST.ORG Minneapolis, Minnesota; November 2000 - present
Minnesota Center for Photography Minneapolis, Minnesota; November 2004 -present
Intermedia Arts Minneapolis, Minnesota; March 2006 - present