Southeast Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Bridget Conn

Friday, October 10, 2014 @ 9:00am, Jenkins Fine Art Center Rm 1108 and 1109

WORKSHOP: Mixed Media Photography with Your Morning Cup

Bridget Conn earned her BFA in Photography from Tulane University in 2000, and her MFA from the University of Georgia in 2003, focusing in Photography, Mixed Media, and Installation. Throughout the 2000s she taught at numerous colleges in Georgia, and was a member of the Stillmoreroots artist collective based in Swainsboro.

She has participated in over 100 shows, over 20 of which have been solo. These venues include the Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah, the Art Museum of the University of Memphis, as well as venues in Italy, Hungary and South Korea. She has been a resident at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative in Greensboro, NC, and the Hungarian Multicultural Center in Budapest.

In the fall of 2009, Bridget moved to Asheville, North Carolina, where she currently spreads her time among teaching, arts writing, design, and creating art. She is the Photography instructor at Blue Ridge Community College in Flat Rock, NC. She is also the director and main instructor at The Asheville Darkroom, a non-profit photographic center which she founded in 2012.