Faculty Alma Davenport
Alma Davenport received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design where she majored in Photography and minored in Printmaking and Ceramics. She studied with Harry Callahan during her undergraduate years. She earned her MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design under the tutelage of Aaron Siskind and Minor White. She is in the Fine Arts Department teaching History of Photography and Nature Drawing.
Davenport has also held teaching jobs at the Community College of Rhode Island, Brown University, RISD, and the Men's Maximum Security Prison in Rhode Island.
Her photographic work is displayed in museums here and abroad, and she is represented by galleries across the country. She wrote the college text The History of Photography--an Overview published by Butterworths/Focal Press.
Exhibitions:
- 1999 - New Bedford Art Museum - Curator and exhibitor
- 19th Century Photographers in a 21st Century World
- Oglvie Mather, NYC
- Kathleen Ewing Gallery, DC
- 2000 - Spring Bull Gallery - Newport RI
- Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo
- American Perspectives
- Hampshire Gallery, Northampton, MA
- 2001 - South County Art Association, RI
- TF Green Airport, RI
- 2002 - Solo - Soho Photo, NYC
- 2003 - Newport Art Museum
- Grant 2003-2004 - Polaroid Foundation
Lectures:
- McDowell College, NC
- RI School of Design Museum
Collections:
- National Gallery of Canada
- High Museum of Art, Atlanta
- RISD Museum
- Smithsonian
