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Victoria Crayhon

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Professor, Chair of Media Arts Department

College of Visual & Performing Arts

Contact

508-910-6448

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College of Visual & Performing Arts 311

Education

1997Rhode Island School of DesignMFA Photography
1994Tisch School of the Arts New York UniversityBFA Photography

Teaching

  • PHO 384 Video
  • PHO 308 History of Photography
  • PHO 288 Photo Processes

Courses

Introduction to photo process printmaking. Explore pinhole photography and the graphic means of reproducing photographs in printmaking. Print alternative 19th century photographic processes such as cyanotype and Van Dyke Brown, and 20th century photopolymer intaglio and digital letterpress using transparencies, both analog and digital. Students will examine the relationship of photography, the artist¿s book, and the portfolio, as a work of art and as an alternative means of exhibition and dissemination.

Survey, through lecture and audio-visual presentation of the development of technical and aesthetic concerns in photography, film, and video from their origins to the present. Special attention will be paid to the impact of historic events on the aesthetic considerations of the day. This course is open to any student of the university.

Digital video for art and design. Digital video production methods and techniques for creative, communicative and aesthetic purposes. This class examines preproduction, production and post-production processes for narrative art/design and experimental time-based storytelling. Students learn and reinforce skills for planning, shooting, and editing video with contemporary digital video cameras, lighting, sound equipment and computer software. Conceptual development, display methods and exhibition opportunities will be emphasized.

Study under the supervision of a faculty member in an area covered in a regular course not currently being offered. Conditions and hours to be arranged.

Victoria Crayhon’s work has been exhibited, published, and collected both internationally and throughout the United States. Her work has been prominently featured in publications such as the British Journal of Photography, the Christian Science Monitor, Slate Magazine, Huffington Post, Fraction Magazine, Zero_Cento Editions, La Journal de la Photographie, Fade to Black, Art/Photo Magazine, and The Photo Review top ten of 2019 and 2014.

It is also included in museum, corporate and private collections, among them the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Harvard/Fogg Art Museums in Boston, and Citigroup in NYC. Her projects have been exhibited in solo and group shows in New York City, Boston MA, Baltimore MD, Chicago IL, Los Angeles CA, Houston TX, Louisville KY, Philadelphia PA, Pittsburgh PA, and Providence RI, amongst other locations. Internationally, Crayhon's work has appeared in exhibitions in Belfast NI, Helsinki FI, Athens GR, Braga PT, Budapest HU, Landskrona SE, Rome IT and Vladivostok RF. Using photography, video and artist books, her work addresses issues of personal identity and desire existing within the shifting frameworks and ideologies created by human society, whether political, social, commercial, technological, or physical realms.

Grants include two Fulbright Scholarships (2018-2011) and the 2010 Aaron Siskind Fellowship in Photography from Rhode Island State Council of the Arts.

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