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. It is the coming together of my theater background, high school and university teaching, and working and innovating in the journalism and corporate communications fields, that sharpened my research and writing skills and directed it to the arts and humanities as well as interest in photography and video with a resulting objective to create and publish this website’s content. I hold a B.A. in History and a B.A. in Theology from Quincy University, a private, Catholic liberal arts college in Quincy, Illinois. I also hold an M.A. in Modern Art History, Theory, and Criticism from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).

My focus in History was American business and government during the Progressive Era (1890s-1920s) with my thesis on Richard F. (R.F.) Newcomb (1837-1904), a resident of Quincy and the owner of 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 Religions and Society about the Franciscan Order in Ireland in the 13th to 16th centuries, my thesis in Theology was on the history, ethical analysis, and contextual understanding of the spirituality of Thomas Merton (1915-1968), an influential mid-20th century Trappist monk and priest, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist and scholar of comparative religion. My focus at SAIC was 19th century French art and my M.A. thesis was entitled “Hommage à Cézanne: Odilon Redon, the Nabis and the French avant-garde, 1890-1900,” a research paper that explored avant-garde artists and their influences as represented by a large-format painting in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. The painting, called Hommage à Cézanne, was done by Maurice Denis (1870-1943) in 1900-01. The artwork presents the older artist and mentor, Odilon Redon (1840-1916), among his younger art-world peers which includes 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 and that continued into the twentieth century.

As an Instructor, I taught Modern Art History (Nineteenth Century French Art) at Northwestern University in Chicago teaching and creating courses on Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Modernism. In addition to teaching, classroom training, and academic writing, I served as a journalist, editor, public relations and marketing communications specialist in the corporate world (newsgroups and insurance business and trade associations) and in secondary and higher education located in Chicago, Wilmette, and DeKalb, Illinois, and in Cleveland, Ohio.

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, 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’ appearance—its educational purpose and communication mission—was formulated at the founding and has developed since. For each post I look to provide an original, valuable and interesting topic explicated by authoritative text and a variety of images that can be uniquely found on this website. It is reported with the sole purpose to share it with an audience who is seeking knowledge and information in the Fine & Popular Arts, Performing Arts such as music, film and theater, World History and, by way of my photography and video, Art, Architecture & Design and more. The whole of this enterprise is to collect accurate information from a range of relevant sources on unique yet related special topics and present this in 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 research and writing in ART HISTORY explores 19th and early 20th century modern art, particularly in France including its international movements (i.e., Impressionism; Expressionism; Symbolism) and artists’ biographies; in MUSIC I write extensively on rock, folk, classical, and film music as well as artist biographies and industry trends; for STAGE & SCREEN I write often about mainly American film and theater from the late 19th century to the present, including biographies and cultural impacts; in WORLD HISTORY I produce work on subjects related to business. civil and human rights, U.S. and European politics and culture, and biographies. Go directly to the pages here:

Art History.

Music.

Stage & Screen.

Global/World History.

Favorite subjects for my photography.

The “My Photography” areas of CORRIDORS contribute directly to its overall endeavor presenting topical subject matter of the material and visual culture of ART, be it fashion, painting, sculpture, performance, and installations; the display of frequently soaring and monumental human creativity, intelligence and history manifest in ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN, public and private, commercial and residential; the expanses of today’s STREET & public square with its people, places and things in an environment of sometime trepidation, wit, whimsy, beauty, love, and surprise; and, finally, the colors and delicacy of NATURE whether flowers in a garden or the drama of the changing seasons. MY PHOTOGRAPHY/ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN, MY PHOTOGRAPHY/ART, MY PHOTOGRAPHY/NATURE, MY PHOTOGRAPHY/STREET are four areas where photographic posts are found. Go directly to the pages here:

Architecture & Design/My Photography.

Art/My Photography.

Street/My Photography.

Nature/My Photography.

Thank You!

Thank you  for visiting CORRIDORS│An Educational Website in the Arts and History. Featuring My Photography and Videos. Have a great day and I look forward to hearing from you. 

Please also Visit CORRIDORS: THE BLOG. Mostly short entries on a variety of subjects of human interest that caught my eye. Thanks. https://jpwalsh2013.wordpress.com/