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Joe
Champagne is a Professor of Photography & Digital Imaging at Virginia
Intermont College, having joined the faculty in 1987 and started the institution’s
Digital Imaging curriculum in 1989. In addition to teaching full-time, he
currently serves as director of the college's Photography Gallery, and as
S.E. Regional Vice-Chair of the Society for Photographic Education. He was
appointed a Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar in 2004.
His exhibitions include:
2004 The Photo
Show: Erich Allen, Joseph Champagne, Nina Rizzo and Vernon
William
King Regional Arts Center
2003 From These
Hills: Contemporary Appalachian Art Biennial,
William
King Regional Arts Center
The
Portsmouth Museums, Courthouse Gallerie
Center
for the Arts–Canton Merchant Family Gallery
2002 Contemporary
Photography in Virginia: 30 acclaimed artists
Art
Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA
2000-01 Community
Artists 2000 (Appraisal Concepts Award of Merit)
Bristol
Art Gallery & The Bristol Herald Courier
2000 The Painted
Song, group invitational, Bristol Art Gallery
Good Goddess,
Green Man Press Gallery, Abingdon, VA
1999-2000 Imaging
Appalachia:
a collaboration with John Craig Freeman & April Street
William
King Regional Arts Center, Abingdon, VA
1999 Three person show, Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, Clemson University
1997 From These Hills:
Contemporary Appalachian Art Biennial, William King
Regional Arts Center
1995 From These Hills: Contemporary Appalachian Art Biennial, William
King Regional Arts Center
1992 Lines of Logic, Dickson Foundation Gallery,
Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC
1991 2nd Annual New Images Exhibition, New Image
Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
1990 The Iron Bridge Show, traveling group exhibition:
Bascom-Louise Gallery, Highlands, NC
North Carolina Center for Creative Photography, Durham, NC
Sawtooth Center, Winston-Salem, NC
1987 Shot in North Carolina,
juried exhibition, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem,
NC
His lectures and workshops include:
- Juror, Virginia Highlands
Festival Photography Exhibition, 2007. Gallery Talk, “Stop Taking
Pictures”
- Bringing It All Back
Home, East Carolina University Alumni Symposium: open forum panel discussion,
lecture, Q&A with photography majors,
East Carolina University, 2006
- THE PHOTO SHOW Roundtable:
A Conversation with Erich Allen, Joseph Champagne, Nina Rizzo & Vernon,
2004
- Designing
the Interdisciplinary Course: Snags, Delusions, and Rewards (with Mark
Roberts), Appalachian College Association Technology Summit, The Adelphia
Center at Millennium Park, Johnson City, TN, 2001
- Panelist: Pedagogical
Concerns in Teaching Digital Imaging, Society for Photographic Education
SE Regional Conference, 1999
- Panelist: Digital
Imaging: On the Frontier in Contemporary Art, C. Calhoun Lemon Colloqium
on Creativity and Values,
- Web Publishing for
Educators, Society for Photographic Education SE Regional Conference, 1998
- Panelist, The State
of Photographic Education, Society for Photographic Education SE Regional
Conference, 1997
- Digital Imaging Workshop
for Photography Educators, Virginia Intermont College, 1996
Lecture, The Analog vs. Digital Image: Technical & Esthetic Considerations
in Electronic Output, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 1995
- Digital Imaging Workshop
for Graphics Professionals, Carteret Community College, 1994
- Digital Imaging Workshop,
The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC, Fall 1991
- Digital Imaging Workshops/Lecture,
James Madison University, Fall 1990
- Speaker & Panelist, Art & Technology, Virginia Fine Arts Leadership Conference, Virginia Department of Education, 1990
He has 15 years experience in professional web design, including sites for eduational, arts, and corporate institutions, and municipal governmentss. His personal gallery may be viewed at www.gallery421.com
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