CAROLYN J. RUSSO Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum Division of Aeronautics, MRC 312, P.O. Box 37012 Independence Avenue at 6 th St. SW, Washington DC 20013 7012 Office: 202-633-2389 Fax: 202-357-4579 E-mail: russoc@nasm.si.edu EDUCATION B. F. A. Photography, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA 1985-1988 American Institute for Foreign Study, Florence, Italy 1985 Richmond College, London, England 1984 Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, NH 1983-1984 Supplemental Education The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 1986-1988 Scuola Di Lingua e Cultura Italiana Per Stranieri, Siena, Italy 1985 Studio Arts Center International (S.A.C.I.), Florence, Italy 1985 Heatherly School of Fine Arts, London, England 1984 EMPLOYMENT Museum Specialist/Photographer for the Aeronautics Division, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, April 2006 to present Photographer for Collections and Research Division, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, November 1988 April 2006 PUBLICATIONS Authored Books Art of the Airport Tower, Washington, DC.: Smithsonian Books, 2014 In Plane View: Abstractions of Flight, New York: powerhouse Books, 2007 Artifacts of Flight, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003 Women and Flight: Portraits of Contemporary Pilots, Boston, New York, Toronto, London: Bulfinch Press, Little, Brown and Company, 1997 1
EXHIBITIONS The Jet as Art: Photographs by Jeffrey Milstein (Curator) November 2011 November 2012 Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C. Alan Bean: Painting Apollo (Curator) July 2009 January 2010 Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C. In Plane View: Abstractions of Flight (Photographer/Curator) March 2008 - January 2009 Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C. Women and Flight (Photographer/Curator) June 1997 June 1998 Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC Traveling Exhibitions In Plane View: Abstractions of Flight 2013 Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum, McMinnville, Oregon ShiJiaZhuang Art Museum, ShiJiaZhuang, China 2012 Ellen Noel Art Museum, Odessa, TX Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art, Midland, MI 2011 International Photography Festival, Lishui, China Dulles International Airport, Gateway Art Gallery, Chantilly, VA John Wayne Airport, Santa Monica, CA Midland Center for the Art, Midland, MI Challenger Space Center, Peoria, AZ National Soaring Museum, Elmira, NY Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL National Museum of the Marine Corp, Triangle, VA 2010 Helsinki Vantaa Airport, Helsinki, Finland Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS College Park Aviation Museum, College Park, MD 2
2009 Frontiers of Flight Museum, Dallas, TX Air Zoo, Kalamazoo, MI Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, Hutchinson, KS Women and Flight 2004 Clark County Museum, Henderson, NV 2003 Fernbank Science Center, Atlanta, GA Spartanburg County Public Library, Spartanburg, SC Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hill, NC Rogers Historical Museum, Rogers AR Tunica Museum, Tunica MS Challenger Learning Center of Arizona, Peoria AZ Los Angeles County Fair Association, Pomona, CA Warhawk Air Museum, Nampa, ID Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, Rantoul, IL William Howard Taft National Historic Site, Cincinnati, OH Three Rivers Gallery, Poplar Bluff, MO 2001 Virginia Air and Space Center Hampton, VA Miami-Dade Public Library System, Miami, FL Strategic Air Museum, Ashland, NE 2000 Kirkpatrick Center Museum Complex, Oklahoma City, OK Museum of Aviation, Robins AFB, GA Palm Beach Photographic Center, Del Ray Beach, FL National Atomic Museum, Albuquerque, NM Minnetrista Cultural Center, Muncie, IN 1999 Elmhurst Historical Museum, Elmhurst, IL Owls Head Transportation Museum, Owls Head, ME Virginia Museum of Transportation, Roanoke, VA Wedell Williams Aviation Museum, Patterson, LA Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS 3
1998 Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, IN U.S. Air Force Museum, Wright Patterson, OH Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA Tullahoma Fine Arts Center, Tullahoma, TN Stauth Memorial Museum, Montezuma, KS 1997 New England Air Museum, Windsor Locks, CT The Wings Club, Inc., NewYork, NY LECTURES (Selected) 2012 Ellen Noel Art Museum, Odessa, TX Artefacts Conference 2012, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland 2011 Buchanan Partners Art Gallery, Manassas, VA 2010 International Society of Aviation Photographers, Las Vegas, NV College Park Aviation Museum, College Park, MD 2009 Helsinki City Library, Helsinki Finland Oulu University, Oulu Finland University of Tampere, Tempere, Finland Arts Academy at Turku University, Turku, Finland University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland 2008 Smithsonian Affiliates Conference, Washington, DC 2007 WAI (Women in Aviation) Conference, Orlando, FL 2006 Mutual Concerns of Aviation and Space Conference, Washington, DC 2003 Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hill, NC 4
2001 Virginia Air and Space Center Hampton, VA 2000 Museum of Aviation, Robins AFB, GA Museum of Transportation, Boston, MA 1998 Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA Stauth Memorial Museum, Montezuma, KS 1997 New England Air Museum, Windsor Locks, CT 1996 AAM Mutual Concerns Conference, Washington, DC AWARDS 2011 Selected to participate in the International Photography Festival, Lishui, China 2009 United States Embassy of Helsinki, Helsinki Finland Invited Speaker's Program 2008 Second Place American Association of Museums (AAM) Publications Design Competition for In Plane View 2004 American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) 50 Books/50 Covers Honorable Mention American Association of Museums (AAM) Publications Design Competition for Artifacts of Flight 1995-1998 Representative for the National Press Photographers Association Women s Committee Region 3 5
PUBLICATIONS (Selected) Air & Space Always Style/Japan Amtrak Aviation for Women Boston Globe Hartford Courant Kamera/Finland Miami Herald National Geographic Traveler New York Times Newspaper Oulu City Newspaper/Finland Overhaul and Maintenance Professional Pilot Retired Officer Science Smithsonian Schneider Aviation/Japan USA Today US News and World Report Where Wall Street Journal Washington Post 6