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Carl N. Sidle

Education:

Howard University, Washington, DC, 1962 – 1965

Major: Mathematics and Physics

Employment:

  • The Color Place, Dallas, Texas, 1975 – 1977

Responsibilities included black and white development / printing, graphic layouts, and photographic image duplication.

  • BWC Photography Labs, Dallas, Texas 1977 – 1979

Responsibilities included black and white / color development and printing, graphic layouts.

  • University of Texas Health Science Center, Dallas, TX 1979 – Present

Responsible for producing all visual and graphic works for publication, management of all darkroom work, and produce photographic work for medical school physicians. Other responsibilities include management of the graphic art equipment and the creation of all digital manipulated images.

Art Exhibits:

  • Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters (City Pioneers and Leaders Series 1985-1990)
  • Dallas Museum of Art – July 2000
  • Irving Museum – August 2000 – September 2000
  • Bath House – 2000 / 2001, Dallas TX
  • Dallas Public Library System, Lakewood Branch, 2001
  • Corporate Exhibits: IBM in 1997 and 2000 / Verizon in 2002
  • Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 2002
  • Longview Art Museum, 2003
  • Wichita African American Museum Of Photography, Wichita, KS, 2004
  • Plano Art Center, Plano, TX, 2004
  • Tilford Art Group, Los Angeles, CA, 20005
  • Goodrich Gallery, First United Methodist Church, Dallas, TX, 2006
  • The Upstairs Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2006
  • Fort Worth Main Library, Fort Worth, TX, 2008
  • Mesquite Art Center, Mesquite, TX, 2011
  • South Dallas Cultural Center, Dallas, TX, 2002, 2007, 2009, and 2013
  • George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, Dallas, TX, 2015

Community Educational Programs:

  • Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters Photographer 1980-1985
  • R.C. Hickman Young People Photography Workshop 2001-2015

Personal Collectors whom Acquired Images:

  • Oscar McNary, private collector
  • Uriah Elion, Jr., private collector
  • Richard Kitchen, Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Shelley P. Roaten, M.D.,
  • Chairman of Family Practice & Community Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
  • Permanent Installation at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
  • Stella Jones of Stella Gallery, New Orleans, LA
  • Vickie Meeks, curator and director of South Dallas Cultural Center
  • Arthello Beck, Jr. Family Collection Xerox Corp.
  • Lakewood Library, Dallas Public Library
  • Robert Sims Munford, III, M.D., Professor of Diseases Interim Chief, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
  • Curtis King, President of Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters
  • Permanent Collections of Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters (City Pioneers and Leaders Series)
  • Paul Batiste, private collector
  • James Kemp, private collector
  • Wichita African American Museum of Photography, Wichita, Kansas, permanent collection
  • Calvin Person, private collector
  • Tilford Art Group, Los Angeles, CA

Book Publications:

  • Portraits of Community: African American Photography in Texas, by Alan Governor.
  • Reflection in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 – Present, by Deborah Willis
  • TCU Book:
    METRO MUSIC: CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF THE TRINITY RIVER GROOVE
     Authors: Gene Fowler & William Williams

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