PUBLICATIONS: Postcards, Notecards & Calenders

PUBLICATIONS: Postcards, Notecards & Calenders

4 duotone postcards published by Photo Chronicles, Ltd., 1999, 1998,1996

1 duotone note-card, published by Photo Chronicles, Ltd., 2001

8 duotone postcards of Mongolia, published by U.S.-Mongolia Advisory Group, 1993

1 duotone note-card, published by Berea College Appalachian Museum, 1991

2 duotone postcards, (Red Robin Inn and Cows in Snowstorm) published by the Brooklyn Museum, 1990

2 postcards of 1960s protests, Women's Social Protest series, published by Helaine Victoria Press, Martinsville, IN
SouthWings Conservation Through Aviation Calender 2008, 2 photos for month of Dec., Pinnacle Mountain Press, Erwin, TN

Christian Appalachian Project Calender, Lancaster, KY, 1970, 2 photos

Developing Nations: http://www.flomenhaftgallery.com/june-2012-developing-nations.html,

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation: http://www.gf.org/fellows/8730-builder-levy
Amazon.com/shop/ArnikaDawkinsGallery 10 photographs (as of 8/8/13)
Here is New York on line benefit exhibition, www.hereisnewyork.org, lot # 2683 & #5330
Sotheby's Online Photography Auction, also 9/00-11/00
photo.soho, 3rd Biennial Exhibition/Auction for the Homeless, Catalogue, NYC 2001
Urban Landscape, Artnet Online Photography Auction
Videotapes and Films about or including Levy’s photographs
Timescapes, New York at its Core, Museum of the City of New York, 2016, 1 photo, Dancing Girls
The Hustlers Convention a documentary about a Young Lords Poet to be premiered in 2015, includes Harlem Peace March
ATL 26 Atlanta TV vimeo: Builder Levy Photographer at the Arnika Dawkins Gallery: A Look at the work of Social Documentary Photographer Builder Levy, and how he uses his camera as a tool for change
The Boomers List, directed by Timothy Greenfield-Saunders, aired on PBS on 9/21/14 includes Harlem Peace March
BET TV Tribute to Stevie Wonder, February 2012 include Harlem Peace March photo in 4 ½ min. video on you tube.
Melvin and Jean: An American Story, Maia Wechsler, 2012 (includes Harlem Peace March photo) Feature documentary film.
Kathy Mattea, Hello My Name is Coal, DVD with Builder Levy’s Appalachia photographs, Sugar hill Records, 2012
ABC TV interview relating to Levy’s photographs in the Road to Freedom exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. 3/25/10 (5 o’clock news) http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=7350582
Porgy and Bess, The Montalvo-Hervieu Dance Company with the Opera National de Lyon 2008. Includes a projection of Harlem Peace March photo
Mountain Mourning by Patchwork Films--BJ Gudmundsson 2006
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: The Making of A Dream, directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman, produced by Calliope Films for the U.S. Dept. of Education in 2004, included one of Levy’s photographs. Only 7 still images including the one of Levy’s were included. Aired on the History Channel on 1/19/04 and distributed to schools throughout the U.S.
Half hour videotaped interview produced by West Virginia Public TV in Beckley, aired statewide on March 20, 1991: Builder Levy interviewed by John Bauman.
Making Sense of the Sixties, PBS series, produced by Varied Directions Inc. produced by Varied Directions Inc. (Broadcast January 21-23, 1991). Includes photograph: Memphis Woman—Marin Luther King Memorial March, Memphis, TN 1968
Photographs featured in the video documentary, Voices of Appalachia, produced by Family Theater Production,1996
Art Documentation Archive, Port Washington Public Library

INTERVIEWS, SYMPOSIUM, LECTURES

10/18/14 Gallery Talk, Armika Dawkins Gallery (exhibition Builder Levy Photogapher)

5/4/10 Panel: Identities, Cultural Identity in Contemporary Art, Active Liberty Institute, Phillips de Pury & Company, NYC

11/27/09 Panel of 6 artists: The heart of your Life, The Life of your Art, 42 Street Library

11/3/08 Appalachia USA, Gallery Talk, To The Rotary Club Luncheon, Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, West Virginia

11/5/08 Appalachia USA, Gallery talk with Edison Middle School, (Woods County) children, at the Parkersburg Art Center
10/8/08 Gallery Talk, Doris Ulmann Galleries, Berea College, Berea Kentucky

6/3/08 International Center of Photography School, (Harvey Stein’s Class) NYC

3/23/07 Gallery talk with Hudson Guild seniors, NYC

3/21/07 Gallery talk with Hudson Guild children’s groups, NYC

2/27/07 Pictorial Photographers of America, NYC

2/2/07 Gallery Talk, Mongolia exhibit, Rubin Museum of Art, NYC

12/9/06 Guest Photographer artist’s talk, Soho Photo, NYC

11/13/06 Club Artist’s talk, Parkwest Camera Soho Photo, NYC

10/16/06 Mid-Manhattan Library, New York Public Library Artist Lecture Series, NYC

7/13/06 Artist’s talk, Abrons Arts Center, Henry Street Settlement, NYC

4/20/06 PAI, National Arts Club, NYC

4/12/06 NYU Tisch School of the Arts Photography Department ( Editha Mesina’s class)

2/9/06 Labor Arts, Robert Wagner Labor Archives and Tamiment Library, New York University, SEIU Bldg., NYC

12/1/05 International Center of Photography School, (Harvey Stein’s Class) NYC

7/98 Prague School for Photographic Studies-- Social Documentary Workshop

2/88-6/89 Direct/teach Lower East Side Photography Workshop at the Puerto Rican Girls Club (GED Program), Jacob Riis Houses, NYC

2/75-1/88 Director of the Bushwick Youth Photography Workshop, Bushwick, Brooklyn

2/74-1/76 Beginning and Advanced Photography, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY (hired by Larry Fink)

4/69-7/70 Director, Photography Workshop, Oceanhill-Brownsville Experimental School District.

INFORMAL EDUCATION

1973-76 Friendship with Paul Strand: Lived with Strand for 10 days in his East Fifth Street apartment, New York City, 2/73

11/74 Mentored by Minor White in exhibit design at Soho Photo (gallery), where both he and Levy were hanging one person shows.

1974-2009 Friendship with Helen Levitt

1961-2006 Friendship with Walter Rosenblum

1965 present Friendship with Naomi Rosenblum

1/67 Informal printing tutorial with Ralf Steiner

1963-81 Member, Photographer's Forum, NYC (Chairman, 10/70-10/73, 10/76-10/78)

EDUCATION

1966 M.A. in Art Education, New York University, metal welding sculpture with Jason Sealy, Printmaking with Robert Blackburn. As part of research for a paper for an education class (Teaching Difficult Students in the Secondary Schools) Levy sat in on, and befriended members of the Kamoinge Workshop, including its founder/advisor Roy DeCarava; visited Larry Fink’s program at Haryou Act in Harlem; and studied the photography program of the Farm Security Administration and Photo League. The paper became the basis for youth photograph workshops Levy later set up and directed in Oceanhill Brownsville (1968-1970), Bushwick (1975-1987) and on the Lower East Side (1988-1989).

1964 B.A. in Fine Art, Brooklyn College, photography and honors photography with Walter Rosenblum; honors painting with Ad Reinhardt; art history with Milton Brown and David Sawin. Received All Arts Award 1964.

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