Faculty

full-time

Robin Paris (2003) – Assistant Professor and Chair – BA Studio Arts (1988) Evergreen State College; MFA Photography (1993) Savannah College of Art and Design

Robin studied visual anthropology and creative writing before getting her MFA in photography. She spent a year as a resident artist at Anderson Ranch in Aspen, Colorado where she assisted such artists as Keith Smith and Jerry Uelsmann. She has worked in marketing and as a photo editor for small publishing companies in Georgia and Colorado. She currently works in historical processes, digital imaging, and book works and exhibits them nationally.

Joy McKenzie (1999) – Professor – BFA Photography (1988) Kansas City Art Institute; MFA Photography (1998) Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

An active member of the Society of Photographic Education and served as founding Board Member of the Visual Arts Alliance of Nashville. Joy McKenzie is the recipient of an Honorable Mention award from the Ruttenberg Foundation. She has participated in invitational exhibitions and group and solo shows. McKenzie is the author of Basic Black & White Photography, a textbook for beginning photography students.

adjunct

Caroline Allison - BA Fine Arts (1994); MFA Fine Arts (1999) School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Caroline has exhibited her photographs both nationally and internationally in New York, Chicago, Berlin, and Vienna. She is a recipient of a Bronx Museum of Art fellowship and has been Artist-in- Residence for the city of Frankfurt, Germany. Photographs from her “Somewhere and not Anywhere” series can be seen locally at Zeitgeist Gallery.

Tori Purcell - BA Sociology (2004) Vanderbilt University; MFA Photography (2007) Savannah College of Art & Design

A photographic installation artist, Tori has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Her work is in the permanent collection of The Pingyao International Photography Museum in Pingyao, China.

Amanda McAdams - BS Photography (1999) Middle Tennessee State University; MFA Photography (2007) University of Georgia

Amanda has taught photography in study abroad programs in Cuba, Costa Rica and Ecuador. Her work explores the cultural education of our society and how it is manifested in museum exhibits. Amanda’s work has been included in regional and national exhibitions. She works in traditional and historical process and the book form.

Sharon Hart - BFA Photography Maine College of Art; MFA Photography University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

photography advisory board

Mike Borum -Chromatics Photo Imaging

Paul C. Buff - Paul C. Buff Inc. (White Lightning & Alien Bees)

Richard Newman - Calumet Photographic