David Curl

David Curl

oakwoods@net-link.net

 269-375-5621

   P. O. Box 19127, Kalamazoo, MI, 49019

DAVID H. CURL, professor emeritus at Western Michigan University and former adjunct professor of Art at Kalamazoo College, taught advanced photography at the KIA and numerous workshops. His work has been widely published and displayed in more than 25 one-person shows and more than 50 other exhibitions. Formerly a photojournalist, industrial photographer, and multimedia producer, he is co-author or editor of twelve books, author of three books including a widely adopted college text, and more than 300 articles, scripts and audiovisual productions.

Dr. Curl was 2002 artist-in-residence at Hiawatha National Forest. He is a volunteer docent at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts and a consultant to the National Park Service on identification, restoration, conservation and organization of collections of historical photographs; he was also a seasonal visitor services specialist for the National Park Service and Forest Service, a communications media adviser in Nigeria for USAID, and a photo-intelligence officer in the United States Air Force.

He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Ohio University, master's and doctorate in instructional systems technology from Indiana University and was awarded the degree of Photographic Craftsman by the Professional Photographers of America. A frequent WMU OLLI Lifelong Learning Institute instructor, he was recipient of the 2018 Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo Gayle Hoogstraten award for Arts Leadership.

July 2019