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With Mark Wittig creative practice, he is engaged in a social practice that examines the lived experience of formal education. Wittig uses his abilities as an architect, artist, and educator to encourage a free and open conversation about education. In 2024, Wittig was part of the Civil Rights Conference that explore the legacy of the 70th Anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. In 2023, Wittig's creative practice was awarded a Catalyze grant. A program of Mid-America Art Alliance and was generously funded by the Windgate Foundation. In 2022, Wittig's project Structures that Transformed Education – 1724 to 1974 was awarded an Artistic Innovations Grant, a program of Mid-America Arts Alliance. This project is generously funded by Mid-America Arts Alliance, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Arkansas Arts Council. In 2021, his photographic work and writing are part of a collective image/text peer reviewed article Simple, Dark, and Deep: Photographic Theorizations of As-Yet Schools published by the academic journal Postdigital Science and Education. In 2021, a national group exhibition included his photographic work, 30 Over 50: In Context curated by Arnika Dawkins was shown at The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado. In 2021, Wittig video work was part of the exhibition Language at LoosenArt at Millepiani Exhibition Space in Rome, Italy. In 2020, the exhibition, Art as Message, included his photographic work at the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Gimpo, Korea. In 2019, Wittig had an installation in the national exhibition Communities, Collaborations & Collectives at the Milwaukee Institute Art & Design in Wisconsin juried by Jennifer Murray, Executive Director of Filter Photo. In 2018, this work was also shown in Material + Meaning a exhibition curated by Russell Lord a curator at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
