Teresa Jordan
PUBLICATIONS, PROJECTS, AND EXHIBITIONS
Books:
Field Notes from Yosemite: Apprentice to Place, An Illustrated Journal, illustrations and text by Teresa Jordan (Boulder, CO: Johnson Books, 2002).
Great Ghost Towns of the West, with photographs by Tom Till and text by Teresa Jordan, (Portland, OR: Graphic Arts Center Publishing, 2001).
Field Notes from the Grand Canyon: Raging River, Quiet Mind, An Illustrated Journal, (Boulder, CO: Johnson Books, 2000.)
The Stories that Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write About the American West, edited by Teresa Jordan and James R. Hepworth (NY, NY: W.W. Norton, hardback 1995; paper 1996, W. W. Norton)
Graining the Mare: The Poetry of Ranch Women, edited and with photographs by Teresa Jordan (Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith Publishers, 1994, paper and hardback).
Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album, by Teresa Jordan (NY, NY: Pantheon, 1993, hardback; Vintage, 1994, paper; included in Today's Best Nonfiction, Pleasantville, NY: Readers Digest Books 1993)).
Cowgirls: Women of the American West, by Teresa Jordan (2nd Edition, University of Nebraska Press, 1992; 1st Edition, New York: Doubleday & Co., 1982).
Fiction and Poetry:
Published in: Poetry Flash, New York Woman, Boulevard, Northern Lights, Hobo Jungle, Dry Crik Review, Yellow Silk,Witness, and others.
Essays and Articles:
Published in: Lears, MS Magazine, Redbook, The Washington Post, Outside Magazine, American West, The Oregonian, Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Post, The Pacific Historian, forwards for books on the work of Donna Howell-Sickles, Paul Zarzyski, LL Griffin, and others; and other magazines and anthologies.
Films, Recordings, and Radio:
The Open Road, Public Radio International series on The Savvy Traveler, 1998-2000
Buckaroo, CD and book anthology, ed. and produced by Cannon and West (N. Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1993).
Cowgirls: Portraits of American Ranch Women, 30-minute documentary produced and directed by Nancy Kelly, written by Teresa Jordan, 1985.
Oral History Projects:
"Butte, America: The Triumph of Community," major interview and research project on the end of 100 years of copper mining for Montana Humanities Council, Butte-Silver Bow Archives, and Montana Historical Society, 1985-1987.
"Cowgirls," interviews with approximately 100 women in ranching and rodeo, as background for book of same title, 1979-1981.
Exhibitions:
Sketchbook Expeditions II, one-woman show, Lewis-Clark Center for Arts and History, Lewiston, ID, October 2001.
Sketchbook Expeditions, one-woman show, Phillips Gallery, 2000.
Photographs of Ranch Women, one-woman show, Old West Museum, Cheyenne, Wyoming, February, 1985.
Photographs of the West, one-woman show, University of Denver, April, 1982.
Photographs of the West, one-woman show, American National Bank, Cheyenne, Wyoming, August, 1981.
Performances:
Readings (150+) given in most Western cities and many small towns, 1988-2000
"The Ranch Woman's Radio Hour," writer, director, and host, Cowboy Poetry Gathering, 1996.
"O Give Me a Home," Songs, Poems and Stories of the American West, with Hal Cannon, performed at Lewis & Clark Coll., Snake River Inst., Fishtrap Gathering, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, others, 1992-3.
Storytelling:
Egyptian Theater 1990; Voices of the West, 1993; Lewis & Clark 1993; Conference of Environmental Funders, 1995; others
Speaker or Panelist, 1982 to present: Writers @ Work, 2002, 1996; Stegner Lecture, Lewis Clark College, 2001; Multnomah Public Lib, OR 2000; Western Wyoming College Women's Fair Keynote 2000; WY Millennial Humanities Lectures, 2000; Center of the American West Honor Lecture 1999; Fife Folklore Conf. Honor Lecture 1998; NW Hist. Conf. Keynote 1998; Rocky Mt. Book Publishers Keynote 1997; Shooting the West Photog. Conf. Keynote 1997; Women Writing the West Keynote, 1996; U. of UT Stegner Conf. 1996; U. of NE 1996; U. of NV at Reno 1995; Lib. of Congress 1994; Sitka Island Inst. 1994, CO Hist. Soc. 1994, U. of CO 1994; Centrum Center for the Arts 1993; Bisbee Poetry Fest. 1993, U. of Redlands 1993; Lewis & Clark Coll. 1993; Fishtrap Gathering 1993, 1991; Reed Coll. 1993; others.
Instructor, 1983 to present: Entrada Inst., 2002; Writers at Work, 2002, 1996; Western Folklife Center, 2002, 2001, 1993, 1992; U. of UT writer in residence, 1998; Log Cabin Literary Group, 1998; Great Basin Coll. 1995, 1993, 1992, 1991; Writers for Racing, 1994; Reed Coll., 1993; NV Artists in the Schools, 1992-93; Snake River Inst. 1993, 1992; Cowboy Poetry Gathering, 1993, 1992; NW Writing Inst., Lewis & Clark Cool, 1988-1991, 1993; Fishtrap Gathering, 1995, 1993, 1991; OR School of Arts & Crafts, 1989-90; OR Writers' Workshop, 1990; WY Creative Nonfiction Workshop, 1989; Haystack Program in the Arts, 1989; WY Writers' Conf 1986; Sunlight Basin High School Writers' Camp, 1985; U. of MT Eng. Dept., 1983-84; others.
Radio producer/reporter/commentator, 1998-2000: Creator, with Hal Cannon, of "The Open Road," radio features that explore the culture and folk life of the West on Public Radio International's weekly show, The Savvy Traveler.
Artist, 1988 to present: Creator of Sketchbook Expeditions's Field Notes from Yosemite, 2002; Field Notes from the Grand Canyon, 2000). See Exhibitions.
Public Relations, writer and account executive, 1987 to 1988: S. W. Perry & Co, Portland, OR.
Photographer, 1977-1985 (see Exhibitions).
Various part-time jobs, 1977-1991, including ranch hand, waitress, salesperson, free lance copywriter, writing tutor.
EDUCATION
1998 - 2002: University of Utah, BFA Fine Arts, painting and drawing emphasis, 2002.
1983 - 1984: University of Montana, fall, 1983-1984: Graduate workshops in creative writing, Teaching Assistantship, Bertha Morton Scholarship
1975-1977: Yale University, BA History, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
1974-1975: Colorado State University
1973-1974: Northwestern University
Judge:
Writers@Work Fellowships, 2002.
Idaho Commission on the Arts Literary Fellowships, 2001.
Western States Book Awards, 1996
Silver State Documentary Festival, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, 1995
Utah Original Writing Competition, Utah Arts Council, 1995
Northwest Magazine short story contest, 1989
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Artist Residency, The Mesa Institute, Springdale, Utah, March - April, 2003.
Finalist, Mountains and Plains Booksellers Book Awards, Best Arts Book, for Great Ghost Towns of the West, 2002.
Finalist, Mountains andPlains Booksellers Book Awards, Best Arts Book, for Field Notes from the Grand Canyon, 2001.
Silver Pen Award, Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, 1996
Nevada State Council on the Arts, Fellowship, literature, 1994
National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship, Creative Nonfiction, 1994
Notable Essays of 1991, for "Legends," Best American Essays 1992 (NY: 1992)
Oregon Institute of Literary Arts, Fellowship, fiction, 1989-1990
Grant, Montana Committee for the Humanities, research on Butte, 1985-1986
Western Heritage Award, Cowboy Hall of Fame, Best Documentary of 1985 for Cowgirls: Portraits of American Ranch Women
Grant, University of Montana, graduate research on Butte, 1983-1984
Book Award, Best Nonfiction, Wyoming State Historical Society for Cowgirls: Women of the American West, 1982
Grant, Phase I Media, feature screenplay development, with Bobbie Birleffi, Wyoming Council for the Humanities, 1982
Associateship (stipend and office), Rocky Mountain Women's Institute, 1978-1979
ProRodeo Sports News / Frontier Airlines Best Still Photo, 1978
McClintock Prize for History of the American West, Yale University, 1977
SERVICE - RECENT AND ONGOING
Entrada Institute Advisory Board, 2002 (ongoing).
Dick Burton Foundation, Board Member, 2000 (ongoing).
Fishtrap Regional Advisory Board, 1992 (ongoing).
Co-Artistic Director, Great Basin Book Fair, Reno, 1996-'97.
Nevada Humanities Committee, 1993-'96.
Women of the West Museum National Advisory Comm, 1992-'95.
Fishtrap Regional Advisory Board, 1992 (ongoing).
Oregon School of Arts and Crafts Board, 1990-'91.
Art/AIDS Steering Committee (Portland, Oregon), 1987-'90.