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After 32 years of teaching and administrative service at the University of Oregon, Terri Warpinski is now a Professor Emerita of Art dedicated to a full-time practice as a studio artist, curator and art activist. Her creative and scholarly career is distinguished by a Fulbright Fellowship (Israel 2000-2001) and most recently as a recipient of a DAAD Research Grant (2016) to Berlin working with the Stiftung Berliner Mauer as her host institution. She is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship (2014), and two Career Opportunity Grants (2015, 2013) from the Ford Family Foundation and the Oregon Art Commission. She has been awarded artist residencies at Ucross (2000), Playa (2011, 2014) and Caldera (2016). Her work reflects her long-term interest in the traces of human activity embedded in the landscape. Recently completed projects include Surface Tension: three landscapes of division; Liminal Matter: Fences a collaboration with Portland poet Laura Winter, and Death|s|trip. She has been a member of SPE since 1980. She served two terms as the regional chair of the Northwest Region (1986-1990), served two terms on the national board of SPE (2000-2008), and served two terms as the Chair of the board of directors (2002-2006). Warpinski received the award of highest distinction conferred by the Society for Photographic Education at their international conference in Philadelphia as their Honored Educator of 2018. She is a member of the Environmental Photography Collective (www.environmentalphotographers.com).

Warpinski received a B.A. in Humanistic Studies with an emphasis in Studio Art from the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay; an M.A. in Drawing and Photography, and M.F.A. in Photography from the University of Iowa. A native of Northeastern Wisconsin, Terri once again resides along the Fox River in the glacially carved landscape that is the ancestral home of the Ho-Chunk (Hoocak) & Menominee (Kaeyas maceqtawak) Nations in De Pere with her husband, David Graham. Together they created newARTSpace (www.newartspace124.com), a non-commercial artist-driven exhibition and event space revitalizing an old storefront and adding excitment and creative energy to downtown De Pere.