"Women on Wednesdays"

JOHNSON CITY (Nov. 1, 2018) – Award-winning photographer Tema Stauffer will present an artist’s talk in conjunction with her most recent photographic series, “UPSTATE,” in East Tennessee State University’s “Women on Wednesdays” Lecture Series on Nov. 7 at noon at the Reece Museum. 

In the photographs of “UPSTATE,” showcased in her current new faculty solo exhibition at the Reece Museum and her monograph of this body of work published by Daylight Books, Stauffer records the imprint that American industrial and agricultural history left on settings in and around Hudson, New York.  Her combined bodies of work explore the social, economic and cultural landscape of American spaces.

Stauffer is an assistant professor of photography in the ETSU Department of Art and Design.  Her work has been exhibited at the Sasha Wolf, Daniel Cooney and Jen Beckman galleries in New York and around the country at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Center for Fine Art Photography, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as internationally.  Her work has also been featured in the New York Times, Chicago Reader, Lavender Magazine and Village Voice.

Stauffer is the recipient of a 2012 Women in Photography – LTI/Lightside Individual Project Grant and a 2014 City College of New York Darkroom Residency for her documentary portrait series, “Paterson,” which depicts residents of that New Jersey city following the economic crisis of 2008.  One of the portraits from that series was a finalist for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition in 2013 and was included in the competition exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery from 2013-14.  Additionally, she received an AOL 25 for 25 Grant for innovation in the arts in 2010.

Stauffer’s talk is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by ETSU’s Women’s Studies Program, the “Women on Wednesdays” series is designed to raise awareness about the research, scholarship and community engagement conducted by women at ETSU; to provide a venue where women on campus and in the community can discuss and support each other’s work; and to give students an opportunity to meet faculty who could become mentors for their studies.