William Faulkner’s Kitchen Curtains, Rowan Oak, Oxford, Mississippi, 2018 I am honored and grateful to be the recipient of a Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship award to support the completion, exhibition, and publication of my current series, Southern Fiction. This series of large-format color photographs explores the history of the American South using its literary […]
Mimosa Branches, Sparta Highway, Georgia, 2019 from Southern Fiction is published in Radar Poetry’s Issue 30 accompanying a poem by Sheila Dong, 7 dreams of life and death.
Bedroom, Dream Catcher’s Sleep Lab, Dripping Springs, TX from AMERICAN STILLS was published along with a piece of fiction by Elizabeth Ellen in the April Issue of Harper’s Magazine available online as of today. The story, Lucky Woman, portrays a couple’s trip to a mattress store during the last days leading up to their divorce.
Four + One to Grow On celebrates the fourth anniversary of Tracey Morgan Gallery. The exhibition includes work by all of the gallery artists and is on view through April 17.
I was recently interviewed by Matthew Dols, an American professor based in Prague, for The Wise Fool, an interview series with artists and arts professionals around the world. We discuss topics such as teaching photography online during the pandemic, writing about art, conceiving and creating a body of work, applying for grants and opportunities for […]
Mount Zion No. 1 Baptist Church, Rodney, Mississippi, 2020 from Southern Fiction is published in Radar Poetry’s Issue 29 accompanying a poem by Ruth Dikey, ALL THE WAYS WE ARE TETHERED TO THE EARTH.
I will be teaching two virtual photography classes on Thursday, February 11 and Thursday, February 18 from 6-8pm in conjunction with the Asheville Art Museum’s current photography exhibition, Vantage Points: Contemporary Photography from the Whitney Museum of American Art. The first class will consist of an artist talk about my own work, and the second […]
A Charged Stillness: Tema Stauffer Interviewed by Kathryn Savage published in BOMB Magazine online on January 13, 2021
Jill’s Room, Rowan Oak, Oxford, Mississippi, 2020 from SOUTHERN FICTION is available through Baxter Street CCNY’s Artist in Focus Fund Anniversary Print Sale, along with work by more than 75 artists. Artists in Focus Fund is a print sale and relief initiative to directly support artists. All prints are $150 between Dec. 2 and Dec. […]
In June, as protests against racial discrimination and violence were exploding across the country in the wake of George Floyd’s death, I made two trips to Eatonton, GA to explore the roots of author Alice Walker for my body of work in-progress, SOUTHERN FICTION. Three images shot on Wards Chapel Road, one portraying the church […]