Northwest Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Deborah Tharp

Saturday, September 14, 2019 @ 9:20am, ELIF 301

Magic, Visual Time & Image Making

Deborah Tharp is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Photography Program in the Department of Art at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She received a BFA degree in Photography and Visual Communications from the John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana. She received a M.A. degree in Photography at California State University at Fullerton and a M.F.A. degree in Photography from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Tharp taught for five years in the Department of Art at Louisiana Tech University before moving to Alaska in 1994. She has received several University Development Grants and Alaska State Arts Council Grants. Her work is published in the textbook, Exploring Color Photography by Robert Hirsch and she has exhibited her photographic artwork in numerous solo, groups and juried exhibitions regionally and nationally.