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MEET OUR INSTRUCTORS »
JENNIFER SMITH-MAYO // Approaches & Issues Instructor - [jsmithmayo@salt.edu]
B.A. Communications, Goucher College; M.A. Liberal Studies, University of Maine Orono (Expected graduation date: May 2010). Jennifer specializes in photography of farming and rural living. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, Wine Spectator, Down East Magazine, Western Art & Architecture, Big Sky Journal, in various guidebooks, and in addition to other multimedia pieces, she is producing a documentary project about local foods throughout the world. Jennifer is also collaborating with her husband, writer Matthew Mayo, on a book about Maine, tentatively titled Maine Icons (Globe Pequot Press, 2011). She is a digital photography instructor and has curated two shows of her students' qwork. She loves to travel, eat local cheeses, and row her skiff around Belfast Bay (but not necessarily in that order). See her work at www.jennifersmithmayo.com
SCOTT PETERMAN // Photography Instructor - [speterman@salt.edu]
BA Philosophy University of New Hampshire, MFA Photography Yale University. Scott's work has been shown widely both nationally and internationally including the Tate Modern London, The 10th annual Architecture Exhibit Venice, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Portland Museum of Art and The Decordova Museum, as well as many commercial Galleries. His commercial clients include IBM and Nextel, editorial clients include New York Times Magazine, GQ, Men's Journal, Newsweek, CN Portfolio, Forbes, Fortune, Nest, Harpers and Fastcompany among others. Scott's first monograph was published in 2006 by Channel Photographics, and was featured by PDN as one of the best Photo Books of 2006. Scott lives in Hollis, Maine with his wife Greta and two daughters Bianca and Ruby. See his work at www.scottpeterman.com
KATE PHILBRICK // Photography Instructor - [kphilbrick@salt.edu]
B.F.A., University of Southern Maine; M.F.A., Art Institute of Boston. Kate grew up in northern Maine and has been a professional photographer since 1992. She has studied with Mary Ellen Mark through the Maine Photographic Workshops and was named one of the top 100 photographers at the 1997 Golden Light Awards. Kate has exhibited her work at the 3rd Ward Gallery in Brooklyn, NY; at Snapper Bear Studios in NoHo, New York City; and at the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine, as well as various other local Maine galleries. Her photographs have been published in Yankee, Readymade, and Story magazines and in the television program Real Simple. See her work at www.katephoto.com
MELISSA FALCON // Writing Instructor - [mfalcon@salt.edu]
Melissa received her MFA in Creative Writing at Texas State University, after which she was awarded the Katherine Anne Porter Writer-in-Residence two years consecutively. During that time she completed a novel and is currently at work on her second book length project, In the Bottom of the Hour. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in various literary journals and magazines in the U.S. and Canada, including The Maine Scholar, Kalliope, Fiddlehead, Across Curriculums, The Hartford Currant and the Ballentine Book Readers Circle. She is thrilled to be returning to Salt as an instructor, the place that jump started her own writing life, after she attended the program as part for her undergraduate studies, some years ago. She resides in Portland, Maine along the Presumpscot River with her six chickens and a little bearded dog named Theo.
PATTY WIGHT // Radio Instructor - [pwight@salt.edu]
B.S. in Wildlife Biology at the University of Vermont. While thoroughly enjoying her major at the University of Vermont, Patty realized by graduation that she was not a scientist at heart. Post-college, radio piqued her interest and she enrolled in the Salt Radio program in Fall 2000. Immediately hooked, she subsequently interned and worked at Maine Public Radio. She has since worked as a freelancer for private projects as well as local and national radio programs.
ROB ROSENTHAL // Radio Instructor - [rrosenthal@salt.edu]
M.A. in communication, University of Hartford; B.A., University of Hartford. Rob managed campus-based, community radio stations for 14 years. He also is an independent radio producer and adjunct instructor at the University of Southern Maine. Rob was honored in 2002 with a Golden Reel Award (first place) from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters for a documentary series on immigrant musicians in southern Maine, and a First Place Public Service Award from the Maine Association of Broadcasters for a public service announcement campaign on children's health. He is currently working with Salt photo instructor Kate Philbrick on an hour-long radio documentary, gallery show, and website. The subject of the documentary is the state-sponsored eviction of the forty-five poor, black, white, and mixed-race residents of Malaga Island off the coast of Maine in 1912. He is also producing an hour long documentary on Maine poetry with Maine's Poet Laureate Betsy Sholl.
JENNIFER SMITH-MAYO // Approaches & Issues Instructor - [jsmithmayo@salt.edu]
B.A. Communications, Goucher College; M.A. Liberal Studies, University of Maine Orono (Expected graduation date: May 2010). Jennifer specializes in photography of farming and rural living. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, Wine Spectator, Down East Magazine, Western Art & Architecture, Big Sky Journal, in various guidebooks, and in addition to other multimedia pieces, she is producing a documentary project about local foods throughout the world. Jennifer is also collaborating with her husband, writer Matthew Mayo, on a book about Maine, tentatively titled Maine Icons (Globe Pequot Press, 2011). She is a digital photography instructor and has curated two shows of her students' qwork. She loves to travel, eat local cheeses, and row her skiff around Belfast Bay (but not necessarily in that order). See her work at www.jennifersmithmayo.com
SCOTT PETERMAN // Photography Instructor - [speterman@salt.edu]
BA Philosophy University of New Hampshire, MFA Photography Yale University. Scott's work has been shown widely both nationally and internationally including the Tate Modern London, The 10th annual Architecture Exhibit Venice, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Portland Museum of Art and The Decordova Museum, as well as many commercial Galleries. His commercial clients include IBM and Nextel, editorial clients include New York Times Magazine, GQ, Men's Journal, Newsweek, CN Portfolio, Forbes, Fortune, Nest, Harpers and Fastcompany among others. Scott's first monograph was published in 2006 by Channel Photographics, and was featured by PDN as one of the best Photo Books of 2006. Scott lives in Hollis, Maine with his wife Greta and two daughters Bianca and Ruby. See his work at www.scottpeterman.com
KATE PHILBRICK // Photography Instructor - [kphilbrick@salt.edu]
B.F.A., University of Southern Maine; M.F.A., Art Institute of Boston. Kate grew up in northern Maine and has been a professional photographer since 1992. She has studied with Mary Ellen Mark through the Maine Photographic Workshops and was named one of the top 100 photographers at the 1997 Golden Light Awards. Kate has exhibited her work at the 3rd Ward Gallery in Brooklyn, NY; at Snapper Bear Studios in NoHo, New York City; and at the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine, as well as various other local Maine galleries. Her photographs have been published in Yankee, Readymade, and Story magazines and in the television program Real Simple. See her work at www.katephoto.com
MELISSA FALCON // Writing Instructor - [mfalcon@salt.edu]
Melissa received her MFA in Creative Writing at Texas State University, after which she was awarded the Katherine Anne Porter Writer-in-Residence two years consecutively. During that time she completed a novel and is currently at work on her second book length project, In the Bottom of the Hour. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in various literary journals and magazines in the U.S. and Canada, including The Maine Scholar, Kalliope, Fiddlehead, Across Curriculums, The Hartford Currant and the Ballentine Book Readers Circle. She is thrilled to be returning to Salt as an instructor, the place that jump started her own writing life, after she attended the program as part for her undergraduate studies, some years ago. She resides in Portland, Maine along the Presumpscot River with her six chickens and a little bearded dog named Theo.
PATTY WIGHT // Radio Instructor - [pwight@salt.edu]
B.S. in Wildlife Biology at the University of Vermont. While thoroughly enjoying her major at the University of Vermont, Patty realized by graduation that she was not a scientist at heart. Post-college, radio piqued her interest and she enrolled in the Salt Radio program in Fall 2000. Immediately hooked, she subsequently interned and worked at Maine Public Radio. She has since worked as a freelancer for private projects as well as local and national radio programs.
ROB ROSENTHAL // Radio Instructor - [rrosenthal@salt.edu]
M.A. in communication, University of Hartford; B.A., University of Hartford. Rob managed campus-based, community radio stations for 14 years. He also is an independent radio producer and adjunct instructor at the University of Southern Maine. Rob was honored in 2002 with a Golden Reel Award (first place) from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters for a documentary series on immigrant musicians in southern Maine, and a First Place Public Service Award from the Maine Association of Broadcasters for a public service announcement campaign on children's health. He is currently working with Salt photo instructor Kate Philbrick on an hour-long radio documentary, gallery show, and website. The subject of the documentary is the state-sponsored eviction of the forty-five poor, black, white, and mixed-race residents of Malaga Island off the coast of Maine in 1912. He is also producing an hour long documentary on Maine poetry with Maine's Poet Laureate Betsy Sholl.
