DeptNews

	Goodbye Joe… After 31 years of teaching, Joe Walsh announces that he will retire as of the summer of 2006. Literally thousands of Amarillo College students have absorbed some of Joe’s enthusiasm and passion for photography over these years. Joe’s hard work, humor and dedication to his job will be missed.
Joe is not, however, abandoning his photography. He will continue his figure study work and his recent appreciation for horse photography. Joe will also continue to teach an on-line American Cinema course for Amarillo College. He and Sally will soon relocate to Blanco, Texas.
Brent Cavanaugh	The Amarillo College Photography program is pleased to announce the hiring of Brent Cavanaugh as full-time faculty. He will be teaching Portrait I & II, Illustrative I & II and Color I & II and Fundamentals of Photography this upcoming school year. Mr. Cavanaugh will also serve as the Director of the Southern Lights Photographic Gallery at Amarillo College. Mr. Cavanaugh comes to AC with an excellent academic background in photography. He graduated with an AAS Degree Photography from Odessa College. He also holds a Bachelors and Master of Arts Degree, Photography, from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas.
Mr. Cavanaugh, most recently served as manager of the Large Format Digital Imaging Lab at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He has also taught photography as Adjunct Faculty for Bowling Green State University, Owens Community College and the Toledo Museum School of Art and Design. Mr. Cavanaugh is an experienced professional having worked as a professional photographer and as a production supervisor for Pounds Photographic Labs in Dallas, Texas.

In the third week of May, 2005, AC photo faculty Joe Walsh and Ken Pirtle accompanied nine brave and adventuresome landscape student photographers to a variety of scenic locations in the four-corners area. Students returned with amazing photographs from places such as Taos, NM, Chama, NM, Durango, CO, Telluride, CO, the Canyonlands and Arches National Park, Moab, UT, Page AZ to name only a few. This was the fourth Amarillo College sponsored landscape trip in the past 15 years. The next excursion is tentatively scheduled for May, 2007. Joe Walsh takes his color class to New Mexico for a yearly shooting trip. Joe's field trip is typically over a weekend and is usually in the Fall semester.

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