Thank you for visiting CORRIDORS│An Educational Website in the Arts and History. Featuring My Photography and Videos.

Educational website in the Arts and History.

Hello. My name is John P. Walsh, and I live and work in the Greater Chicago area. My resulting objective to create and publish this website’s content since 2013 is the coming together of many years of professional work experience that applied and honed my skills in speaking, research and writing and photography and video to achieve published efficacious educational, journalistic, academic, and business communications ends and products. Work experiences in the professional theater, teaching in high school and university, producing, publishing, and innovating in journalism and corporate communications as well as volunteering in the community, joined to extensive business & leisure travels from Hawaii to Moscow to Mexico to British Columbia – and beyond – expanded and sharpened my abiding interest in the arts and humanities. I hold a B.A. in History and a B.A. in Theology summa cum laude from Quincy University, a private, Catholic liberal arts college in Quincy, Illinois and an M.A. in Modern Art History, Theory, and Criticism from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).

My focus in History in college was American government and business during the Civil War period and into the 20^th century where I wrote my senior thesis on Richard F. (R.F.) Newcomb (1837-1904), a Quincy business leader in the Progressive Era, who owned a paper company that became a national strawboard firm in the 1890’s and early 1900’s. In addition to a major History research paper in the area of Religions and Society about the Franciscan Order in Ireland in the 13th to 16th centuries which I researched during a summer residency at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, my senior thesis in Theology explored the historical background, ethical analysis, and contextual understanding of the spirituality of Thomas Merton (1915-1968), an influential mid-20th century American Trappist monk and priest, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist and scholar of comparative religion. My academic major at SAIC was late 18^th century and 19th century French art with a minor focus in Italian Renaissance drawing and painting. My M.A. thesis entitled Hommage à Cézanne: Odilon Redon, the Nabis and the French avant-garde, 1890-1900, explored French avant-garde artists and their influences as represented by a turn-of the-20^th-century large-format painting, Hommage à Cézanne, done by Maurice Denis (1870-1943) in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. That artwork presents a Paris art gallery wherein a coterie of ten art-world peers gathered that included older artist and mentor, Odilon Redon (1840-1916), along with a writer and critic, an art dealer, several Nabi artists, and the artist’s wife, Madame Denis. The grouping manifested, Maurice Denis believed, a unified avant-garde art movement at the end of the 1890s that continued into the twentieth century.

As college instructor, I taught Modern Art History (Nineteenth Century French Art) at Northwestern University where I created and taught courses on Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and the origins of Modernism. In addition to teaching, classroom training, and academic writing, I served as a journalist, editor, and public relations and marketing communications specialist in the corporate world (newsgroups and insurance business and trade associations) and secondary and higher education located in Chicago (Northwestern University), Wilmette, Illinois (Loyola Academy), DeKalb, Illinois (Northern Illinois University), and Cleveland, Ohio (Padua Franciscan High School). I attended for four years and graduated from Benet Academy in Lisle, Illinois.

In addition to these communications experiences, both in education and business, I have had the privilege to travel to every state in the U.S, less Alaska and a couple of others, as well as in Mexico, the Caribbean, and throughout Europe. Most importantly, I have had the satisfaction of getting to meet, work and know many talented and fine people whether writers, teachers, art historians, business and government people, and professional actors and artists, who, individually and as a group, inspired me to directly found and develop this non-profit arts, social science, and humanities educational website in 2013.

CORRIDORS’ educational purpose and communication mission was formulated at founding and has since developed that original vision. Each post looks to provide an original, valuable and interesting topic situated by authoritative text and a variety of pertinent images that can be uniquely found on this website. Information is reported with a sole purpose of sharing it with an audience who seek knowledge in the website’s topic areas. This enterprise looks to gather current information accurately from a range of relevant sources in unique yet related stand-alone posts in an educationally enlightening way. My passion for the integrity of the image joined to original research, reporting, commentary and criticism for this educational purpose extends to all the topic areas’ posts. As an educational website CORRIDORS is intended to work as an expansive platform to present various information to a variety of visitors so they can easily find everything they need in its well-balanced and organized content.

Some ways to access content.

You can begin finding CORRIDORS’ content in a number of diverse ways such as:

●clicking a topic area at the top of the site for its menu of posts
● clicking in the side bar from the category list, monthly archives, tag block, or the site’s top posts & pages.
●typing in the search box.

With my duties as a writer, photographer, and marketing communications specialist, I enthusiastically created this non-profit educational website in 2013. For each post, I look to select, create and post items in this website’s major areas (links below) based on original research, field work, and in-depth reporting that hopefully you will find interesting, informative, useful, and even entertaining.

Thank you for your visit today!

Favorite subjects for research and writing.

My favorite research and writing is in ART HISTORY and its corollaries, which includes ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN. I also enjoy UNITED STATES history and CARS.

France.

Italy.

Architecture & Design.

Cars.

UNITED STATES.

Favorite subjects for photography.

I enjoy using my photography and video in any of my posts where applicable. I also enjoy the pursuit of “photography for photography’s sake” in these and other areas:

My STREET Photography.

Nature.

Collections & Exhibitions.

TOPIC: Travel.

THANK YOU! Have a great day and please come back.