This document summarizes Joe Wrinn's career in visual communications across education. It discusses his experience as a photojournalist and administrator developing visual strategies. It provides an example of how his camera helped avoid arrest in China by showing airport guards their first Polaroid picture. It emphasizes that visual concepts are especially useful for promoting teaching because some things are better shown than explained, like the sense of wonder in learning.

1. I have been using visuals since my
communications career began -- first as a
photojournalist,
L-R from top: Visual Studies presentations judge;
attack on guest speaker; cleaning Museum
dinosaur; Ram Dass and Timothy Leary exit
anniversary; caring for research monkey; Phi
Beta Kappa at Memorial Hall; Bishop Desmond
Tutu speaking against apartheid; Kermit the Frog
delivering Class Day address Life in the Big Pond.

2. then as an administrator, developing visual strategies best
suited for a specific time, situation, and audience.
I was about to be arrested in China for carrying a “suspicious package” until it
produced the first Polaroid picture these airport guards had ever seen.

3. I continue to conceive
and implement
visual concepts,
especially to promote
teaching,
because some things
take too long to
explain...
From Learning, following a fourth grade class.

4. ...or are more
powerful
left unsaid.
10th anniversary of school
desegregation and forced
busing in Boston.

5. What inspires me to work in education communications is
sharing the sense of wonder at the core of learning:
Pondering the cosmos at a rooftop observatory.

6. the curiosity
that inspires
students
to explore depths
never before
imagined
Underwater view of the NCAA Diving Championships

7. on a journey to find out who they might ultimately become.
Harvard Law School student Barack Obama elected editor of the Harvard Law Review.

8. Joe Wrinn
Communications Counselor to Higher Education
contact: joe.wrinn77@gmail.com