Steve Dowlan, currently working with the U.S. Forest Service in Pennsylvania, will present a program with his excellent photos on the "Birds of Oregon" at the next meeting of the Roger Tory Peterson Institute Ornithological Club. The meeting will be held at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute, 311 Curtis Street in Jamestown, New York on Wednesday, November 19, at 7:00 p.m.

The Roger Tory Peterson Institute Ornithological Club has regular monthly meetings from September through November and January through May. Check rtpi.org frequently for updates. Refreshments and conversation after the meeting.

10 AM - 4 PM

Special Guest in the Gallery: Meet photographer Steve Cagan as you view his black and white photographs of birds in the style of portraits. Steve will be on hand to talk to guests about his photography and to hand sign his beautiful photography prints that will be for sale.

*Free Admission

*Refreshments

*Roger Tory Peterson artwork and memorabilia *Photographer Steve Cagan - print signing 

*Artist Jim Michielson - artist demonstration

*Part of Swedish Christmas Market Day in Jamestown - "Julmarknad"

*See the life size Julbock 

This event coincides with the Jamestown Scandinavian Studies Program's "Julmarknad" or Swedish Christmas Market Day held at the Hamiltion Collegiate Center at Jamestown Community College, and the Svenska Spelman band just might drop in for a bit of music during the afternoon! See artwork and memorabilia of America's great naturalist of the 20th century, meet photographer Steve Cagan, and enjoy a Special Guest Artist Demonstration with Jim Michielson. Also see the life size Julbock - a Scandinavian symbol of Christmas!

More About Steve Cagan 

Steve has over thirty-five years' experience photographing and exhibiting. His major work is in what is called documentary or socially-engaged photography; his avian photography is a by-product of his love of nature and birding.

Major projects have included: "Industrial Hostages," on factory closings in Ohio; Indochina; Nicaragua; El Salvador (especially about a community that formed in a refugee camp and returned to found a new town); and Cuba (especially about the struggles of working-class people in the harsh economy after the fall of the USSR), and "Working Ohio," an extended portrait of working people. Current major project, since 2003: "El Choc�, Colombia: Struggle for Cultural and Environmental Survival," documenting threatened rain forest area and the special cultures there.

He has exhibited and published on four continents. He has published reviews and critical writings in a variety of professional journals and books. Major awards include two Fulbright Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and several Ohio Arts Council Fellowships and New Jersey Arts Council Fellowships. He taught in the Visual Arts Department of Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, 1985-1993.

He is co-author (with his wife Beth) of the book, This Promised Land, El Salvador, which won the 1991 Book of the Year Award of Association for Humanist Sociology. In 1991, he was named "Teacher of the Year" at Rutgers University.

More of his work can be seen at www.stevecagan.com, www.pbase.com/stevecagan, andhttp://socialdocumentary.net/photographer/stevecagan, among other places.