View a little piece on a local news channel, WFMJ (an NBC affiliate), titled “A Visual Document of the Environmental, Social and Economic Impact of the Shale Boom” from 5 March:
http://www.wfmj.com/category/179433/video-landing-page?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=9906457

There was also some other press, including:

• Photographers show off shale industry images in Youngstown. WKBN (CBS affiliate). 27 March.
• Exhibitions will get people talking. Vindicator Newspaper (Youngstown). 27 March.
• Marcellus Shale Documentary Project Comes to YSU. WYSU (NPR affiliate). 8 March. Photo.
• Marcellus Shale Documentary Project at YSU this month. YSU News. 7 March.
• Marcellus Shale Documentary Project Travels To Youngstown State University, Ohio. Frack-Free America National Coalition. 2 March. Installation photos.

I spent Saturday evening installing the MSDP in YSU’s Bliss Gallery. Tight fit (a lot of work for our space), but I really like the way it turned out!

Some install photos!

I will be exhibiting work from Unmarked (March 1 ‐  May 31, 2014) and part of a Panel Discussion (March 20, 2-5 PM) at San Diego State University as part of their “Shadow Spaces from The Art | Crime Archive” series of lectures, exhibits and events.

More information here.

I used this biennial show as a sort of rough draft to work out some exhibition issues for a new body of work. Still working out the kinks, but I’m pretty excited!

McDonough Art Museum Faculty Biennial Exhibition. Youngstown, OH. January – February 2014. Click on image for a larger view (with my exceptional colleague in ceramics, Prof. Missy McCormick, starring).

Lensculture featured me (or rather one of my projects) as a spotlight artist!

Click on the image above to view larger, or visit the lensculture page here.

Just found out that I was given some time off in the fall to work on research. Thank you Dean Depoy of the College of Creative Arts & Communication and the Professional Development and Scholarship Reallocation Award Committee!

I will be speaking tonight at Professor April Friges’ Senior Thesis Class at Point Park University (Pittsburgh) TONIGHT about research, project ideation and development before meeting with her students for individual critiques.

I expect it will look something like the following (just to a larger group and in a room filled with more computers) — so in other words, NOT a lot like the following after-all! The following image is from a talk at Robert Morris University in October 2012.

I just received a letter from the YSU University Research Council at Youngstown State University stating that I have been awarded significant funding to help offset costs associated with an exhibition. Thanks, URC!

Reporter Nicole Doll, on Portland Oregons FOX ( ! ) affiliate did a story on my Unmarked project — I was honored to have my work serve as the conclusion of her impressive (and incredibly well researched) multi-part series.

View the video.
Read the transcript.

My solo exhibition was reviewed by Robert Raczka for the Pittsburgh City Paper in an article titled “Photographer Stephen Chalmers captures the snowbirds and desert rats of the Southwest.”

Read the review at: http://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/photographer-stephen-chalmers-captures-the-snowbirds-and-desert-rats-of-the-southwest/Content?oid=1627825