South Central Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Sharon Stewart is a senior in the photography BFA program at Watkins College of Art, Design & Film. Her current work explores the intersections of photography, memory, perception, and aspects of domestic life and space. In July 2014 she curated "My Life Is Outside: Everyday Photographs from Prison", featuring a collection of vernacular photographs that belong to 14 maximum security and death row prisoners incarcerated in Nashville, Tennessee. The images of these prisoners' lives beyond prison offer a more fully dimensional look at their personal histories, current realities and surrounding communities than is normally visible. After graduation from Watkins, Sharon plans to pursue an MA in art therapy with a focus on photography as a tool in clinical therapy situations.