Midwest Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Terri Warpinski

Saturday, October 11, 2025 @ 1:00pm, Wayne State University

Creative Lineage: The Significance of Artistic Mentor Relationships

Terri Warpinski explores the complex relationship between personal, cultural and natural histories through her lens-based, mixed media creative practice. Her current work, Restless Earth, draws attention to her home ground in the Great Lakes Watershed and the urgent necessity for ecological recovery, restoration and re-wilding in response to our global environmental crisis. For over four decades her various projects have taken her throughout the American West, Mexico, Australia, Western and Central Europe, the Middle East and Iceland. She was distinguished as a Fulbright Senior Fellow to Israel in 2000-2001, as Professor Emerita of Art in 2016 after a 32-year career at the University of Oregon, and was the Honored Educator of Society for Photographic Education in 2018. In 2024 she was awarded the Carol Crow Fellowship for Environmental Photography by the Houston Center for Photography, was a Top 50 finalist of Critical Mass awarded a feature interview in Analog Forever, and in 2025 was selected for the international BBA Photography Prize exhibition in Berlin, Germany.