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faculty

Victoria Crayhon

Professor

Art & Design

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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

Programs

Teaching

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.

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.

Offered as needed to present material in the design field. The specific topic is stated when the course is scheduled. May be repeated with change of content

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.

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.

Creation of self-published Photo Book.  Students gain skill sets within the fields of Photography and Design using industry standard software.

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 is based in Providence, RI, USA.

Ms. 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 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.

It is included in museum, corporate and private collections, among them The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Harvard/Fogg Art Museums, and Citigroup in NYC. Her projects have been exhibited in solo and group shows in New York, Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Providence, Landskrona, (Sweden) and Vladivostok in the Russian Federation. Using photography and video, her work addresses issues of personal identity and desire existing within the framework and ideology of social, commercial and/or technological realms.

Grants include two Fulbright Scholarships (2011, 2018) and the 2010 Aaron Siskind Fellowship in Photography from Rhode Island State Council of the Arts. Ms. Crayhon is Professor of Photography at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.

Untitled Lansdowne PA 2021, Archival Pigment Print, 30 x 44 inches, Edition of 5
Untitled Lowell MI 2014, Archival Pigment Print, 24 x 36 inches, Edition of 12
Atomic Energy Pavilion, Moscow RF 2018, Archival Pigment Print, 30 X 44 inches, Edition of 3
Cosmonaut I, Moscow RF 2018, Archival Pigment Print, 30 X 44 inches, Edition of 3

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