Andrew Patteson Wins 2026 Callanan Excellence in Teaching Award

Key facts

• Andrew Patteson received the 2026 Callanan Excellence in Teaching Award.
• The Callanan Excellence in Teaching Award was established in 1998 and honors a high school, college, or postgraduate teacher's dedication to students and the photographic field.
• The award package includes $5,000 USD, a Review Santa Fe invitation (tuition not included), and Professional Development Seminars access.
• Eric T. Kunsman, a photographer, book artist, and assistant professor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology, was the juror.
• Patteson's project One Thousand Years: A Meditation on Memory and Forgetting at the Midvale Slag Superfund Site is featured with the award.
• The Midvale Slag site is a 446-acre parcel on the eastern bank of the Jordan River in the Salt Lake Valley, used for lead and copper smelting from 1871 to 1958.
• The site was remediated from 2004 to 2006 and redeveloped with commercial properties, corporate parks, and over 1,200 townhouses and apartments.
• A 1997 EPA study found arsenic at 1,300,000 parts per billion in groundwater beneath one area of the site, compared with the 10 ppb drinking water limit.
• Patteson has taught at Waterford School, a Pre-K to 12 independent school, since 2007 and runs its high school photography program.
• His photographs are held by the Center for Creative Photography in Arizona and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.