Leadership
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Angie Jennings — President, Founding Board Member
ANGIE JENNINGS has been a photographer for over 30 years. Her specialty is traditional and digital black and white street photography, in which she searches out and captures serendipitous humorous moments. She has worked in different photographic mediums, such as: Film, photogravure, digital, VanDyke, and cyanotype. She has exhibited extensively in the Kansas City region, Nebraska, Oregon, Oklahoma, Vermont, Colorado, and Beijing, China. She was awarded two Artist Inc. fellowships, a Charlotte Street Start Up Residency, honorable mention in 13th Annual Pollux Award and 16th annual Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, as well as 2 public art grants through Kansas City Art in the Loop to display images on Streetcar Shelters.
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Lea Murphy - Vice President
LEA MURPHY has been photographing for over 40 years. She owns and operates Lea Murphy Photography where she creates portraits of infants, children and families. She also mentors those wishing to learn the intricacies of photography and has helped spread her love of the medium by teaching everything from camera basics to fine art printing. She is passionate about recording the wonder and mystery of childhood and uses that as the basis of her fine art work. An active and prolific photographer, Lea believes strongly in the value of the printed photograph and spends time each week creating archival prints of her work. Lea’s work has won awards, been featured in national magazines, and been shown in galleries across the United States.
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John Hans — Treasurer, Founding Board Member
A longtime veteran of the KC arts community, John is currently the Director of Production at Dolphin Archival Printing. His services include digital retouching for advertisers and fine art photographers. He also works with many locally based artists to print and reproduce works for portfolios, personal use, and gallery exhibitions. John’s portfolio consists primarily of landscape photography and represents a diverse array of subject matter and environments. His works are printed on acid-free archival papers in all formats and his images are created from a mix of traditional wet side photography and digital capture. His work is represented in the H&R Block permanent collection and was included in the 2014 Flatfile show. He’s also been published by leading local and national periodicals and awarded in competitions and exhibitions across the United States.
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Laura Lloyd — Secretary
Laura K Lloyd is a fine art photographer based in Kansas City, MO. Much of her work is in the idiom of botanicals, focusing on the ephemeral beauty of plants native to this part of the Midwest. She also explores the past in her region, using landscape and architectural photography to explore the mood of particular places that have historical significance.
Laura’s work has been shown in a variety of venues, including local businesses, juried exhibitions and commercial galleries, as well as being included in several national online exhibitions. She has a Certificate in Studio Art from the Kansas City Art Institute.
Laura’s professional career was as a journalist, working for both local and national publications in New York and Kansas City. She has a B.A. in English literature from Princeton University and a Masters of Secondary Education from Rockhurst University. She grew up in Kansas City and has called it home since the late 1980s. ription goes here
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Shirley Harryman
I have been making photographs for as long as I can remember. I don’t often plan or construct images, I prefer discoveries and observations with minimal manipulation. My husband and I like to travel whenever possible, from trips around the country in our Airstream trailer to world travels. My work attempts to capture moments from my daily life and travels that evoke a sense of timelessness, reflection, and a hint of mystery.
I am a native of Kansas City, Missouri and a lifelong artist, designer and photographer. My areas of interest include photography, painting, photo-encaustic collage, and design. I have been working as an experiential graphic designer for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art since 2007.