Midwest Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Tracy Longley-Cook

Friday, October 16, 2026 @ 10:30am, Hopkins 250

Exploring Grief and Transformation: Personal Experience, Artistic Practice, and Curatorial Work

Tracy Longley-Cook has her BFA and MFA in photography from the University of Washington (1997), and Arizona State University (2007). Currently, she is an Associate Professor of photography at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Her interests as a visual artist, educator and curator are strongly influenced by themes relating to transformation, memory, and perception. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Curatorial projects include "Metamorphosis" at the Riffe Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, "Emmet Gowin and his Contemporaries" at the Dayton Art Institute, and "The Fixed Shadow: Cameraless Images" at the Wright State University Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries.