Jay Wolke

Jay Wolke is an artist and educator living in Chicago Illinois. He is the author of: All Around the House: Photographs of American-Jewish Communal Life, 1998; Along the Divide: Photographs of the Dan Ryan Expressway, 2004 and Architecture of Resignation: Photographs from the Mezzogiorno, 2011. His fourth monograph: Same Dream Another Time: Photographs from Las Vegas, Reno and Atlantic City will be released in July 2017. His works have been exhibited internationally and are in the permanent print collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York MOMA, the Art Institute of Chicago and the San Francisco MOMA, among others. From 1992-1999 he was Coordinator of Graduate Documentary Photography at the Institute of Design, IIT. In 1999-2000 he served as Head of Art and Graduate Studies at Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy. He is currently a Professor of Photography at Columbia College where he was Chair of the Art and Design Department from 2000-2005 and again from 2008-2013.

Portrait by Devina Yoestong

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Jay Wolke
& Dolittle Elementary School
Jay Wolke & Dolittle Elementary School

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“I’m committed to creating community through shared, visual language and the impact it has on our common interests,” – Jay Wolke, Artist.

Jay Wolke, Doolittle Elementary school, Elementary schools, Southside schools, 2019,
Jay Wolke, Doolittle Elementary school, Elementary schools, Southside schools, 2019,
Jay Wolke, Doolittle Elementary school, Elementary schools, Southside schools, 2019,
Jay Wolke, Doolittle Elementary school, Elementary schools, Southside schools, 2019,
Jay Wolke, Doolittle Elementary school, Elementary schools, Southside schools, 2019,

Jay Wolke
& Gary Comer College Preparatory Middle School
Jay Wolke & Gary Comer College Preparatory Middle School

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Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,
Jay Wolke, Comer Middle School, Middle Schools, Southside Schools, 2018,

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