Weathering Time and For the Love of Trees: Lens-based Artwork by Nancy Floyd - Artist Talk
| When |
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 6pm |
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| Where |
Art and Journalism Building, Ball State University Room 225 1001 N. McKinley Ave. |
| What | Art ball state college of fine arts, school of art, nature, art education, ball state university, portrait photography, nature photography, photography |
Sydney Gastman measuring a Western Hemlock, H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, 2023
Nancy Floyd has been a visual artist for over 40 years. Her interests include the aging female body, the passage of time, barren landscapes, and trees. She uses photography, video, and mixed-media to address the ways in which lens-based media can connect deeply with experience and memory. Floyd has received numerous grants and awards including a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2019 International Center of Photography / GOST Books First Photo Book Award, a 2018 Aaron Siskind Photography Fellowship and a 2014 John Gutmann Photography Fellowship.
Floyd holds a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, an MA from Columbia College Chicago, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. She is Emerita Professor in the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University in Atlanta and lives in Bend, Oregon.