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faculty
Victoria Crayhon
Professor
Art & Design
Contact
508-910-6448
508-910-6977
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College of Visual & Performing Arts 311
Education
| 1997 | Rhode Island School of Design | MFA Photography |
| 1994 | Tisch School of the Arts New York University | BFA Photography |
Teaching
Programs
Programs
Teaching
Courses
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.
Development of thesis project in photo or video, culminating in a thesis exhibition.
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.
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