Kathy
Sloane began her professional life as a self taught photographer in San
Francisco’s Keystone Korner Jazz Club in 1976, drawn to the music of
improvisation, beauty and resistance that was a metaphor for her of the civil
rights struggles of the 1960's. While continuing to document the music, she
committed herself to photographing the life of the San Francisco Bay Area with
an emphasis on the multicultural and multiethnic richness of the area. Her
self-assigned task has been to understand and depict the myriad ways various
communities, often voiceless in mainstream media, give meaning and value to all
of our lives. Workers, children immigrants, activists and artists have
all collaborated with her to make a photographic mosaic of Bay Area life.
Kathy Sloane has exhibited in New York, Oakland, Berkeley, and San Francisco California, and France and has won numerous awards for her still photographs, five of which were part of the Ken Burns' television mini-series “Jazz.” Her work is in the permanent collections of the DeSaisset Museum in Santa Clara, CA, the Smithsonian Institution, Jazz Oral History Program, The East Bay Community Foundation, Alameda County Hospital and the Evelyn and Walter Haas jr. Fund. She has also produced photo essays for UNICEF in Grenada, West Indies; Global Deaf Connection in Jamaica, West Indies; and Head Start in New York City.
In October of 2011 The University of Indiana Press published Sloane’s book: Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club, which consists of one hundred and nine photographs and oral histories from Keystone Korner. An excerpt of photos and text from her book appeared in the Spring 2009 edition of Brilliant Corners, A Journal of Jazz and Literature
2009: Completed first film, Witness to Hiroshima, The film premiered at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA. in February 2009 and has since screened in 15 film festivals, winnng best short film at the Gray’s Reef Ocean Film Festival, and an award of appreciation from Images and Voices of Hope, an international journalists organization.
2006: Received a grant from the City of Oakland Cultural Arts Fund to exhibit a series of her photos called Dressup at Laurel Elementary School and Oakland Public Library, Oakland, CA.
2003: Completed a book entitled Healing Journeys: Teaching Medicine, Nurturing Hope with Stanford University’s Stanford Medical Youth Sciences Program.
2001: Exhibition: Jazz Images, Chartwell Booksellers Gallery, New York, New York.
2000: Won competition to make A Portrait of Alameda County for the Alameda County (California) Arts Commission. Twenty-two of those images are now part of a permanent installation at Alameda County’s Highland Hospital.
1999: Head Start invited Sloane to photograph best practices in 12 Head Start Centers across the 5 boroughs of New York.
1998: Residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Catalogued and printed Grenada photographs, made in 1982 and 1983: Selections from the work were exhibited at the Caribbean Women Writer’s Conference in Grenada, West Indies that same year and remain in the country as a permanent exhibit. Portfolios of this work were also published in the journals Calyx and Frontiers. The Grenada photographs constitute the only major archive of photographs of Grenada during its revolution.
1997: Exhibition: Jazz, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1997: One of five photographers selected by The City of Oakland, Cultural Arts Fund to make portraits of Oakland Artists. This work resulted in a group exhibit at Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland, entitled Artists Among Us.
1996: Exhibition: Caribbean Women: Big and Little, Chambers St. Gallery at BMCC, New York, NY.
1995: Exhibition: Jazz (with Milt Hinton), Shirley Fiterman Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1995: Exhibition: Jazz, Vision North Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
A complete vita and extended portfolios are available on request.
(510) 434 1893 studio * (510) 823-7233 (cell)
[email protected]
www.kathysloanephotographer.com
Kathy Sloane has exhibited in New York, Oakland, Berkeley, and San Francisco California, and France and has won numerous awards for her still photographs, five of which were part of the Ken Burns' television mini-series “Jazz.” Her work is in the permanent collections of the DeSaisset Museum in Santa Clara, CA, the Smithsonian Institution, Jazz Oral History Program, The East Bay Community Foundation, Alameda County Hospital and the Evelyn and Walter Haas jr. Fund. She has also produced photo essays for UNICEF in Grenada, West Indies; Global Deaf Connection in Jamaica, West Indies; and Head Start in New York City.
In October of 2011 The University of Indiana Press published Sloane’s book: Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club, which consists of one hundred and nine photographs and oral histories from Keystone Korner. An excerpt of photos and text from her book appeared in the Spring 2009 edition of Brilliant Corners, A Journal of Jazz and Literature
2009: Completed first film, Witness to Hiroshima, The film premiered at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA. in February 2009 and has since screened in 15 film festivals, winnng best short film at the Gray’s Reef Ocean Film Festival, and an award of appreciation from Images and Voices of Hope, an international journalists organization.
2006: Received a grant from the City of Oakland Cultural Arts Fund to exhibit a series of her photos called Dressup at Laurel Elementary School and Oakland Public Library, Oakland, CA.
2003: Completed a book entitled Healing Journeys: Teaching Medicine, Nurturing Hope with Stanford University’s Stanford Medical Youth Sciences Program.
2001: Exhibition: Jazz Images, Chartwell Booksellers Gallery, New York, New York.
2000: Won competition to make A Portrait of Alameda County for the Alameda County (California) Arts Commission. Twenty-two of those images are now part of a permanent installation at Alameda County’s Highland Hospital.
1999: Head Start invited Sloane to photograph best practices in 12 Head Start Centers across the 5 boroughs of New York.
1998: Residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Catalogued and printed Grenada photographs, made in 1982 and 1983: Selections from the work were exhibited at the Caribbean Women Writer’s Conference in Grenada, West Indies that same year and remain in the country as a permanent exhibit. Portfolios of this work were also published in the journals Calyx and Frontiers. The Grenada photographs constitute the only major archive of photographs of Grenada during its revolution.
1997: Exhibition: Jazz, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1997: One of five photographers selected by The City of Oakland, Cultural Arts Fund to make portraits of Oakland Artists. This work resulted in a group exhibit at Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland, entitled Artists Among Us.
1996: Exhibition: Caribbean Women: Big and Little, Chambers St. Gallery at BMCC, New York, NY.
1995: Exhibition: Jazz (with Milt Hinton), Shirley Fiterman Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1995: Exhibition: Jazz, Vision North Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
A complete vita and extended portfolios are available on request.
(510) 434 1893 studio * (510) 823-7233 (cell)
[email protected]
www.kathysloanephotographer.com
