No. 29: ROB SOUTHARD - PHOTODOCUMENTARIAN
release date: May 14, 2024
release date: May 14, 2024
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After receiving his BFA from University of Louisville in 2005, James Robert Southard worked for years as a freelance photojournalist and artist. In 2008 he left for Pittsburgh for graduate school in Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University. After graduating in 2011he was invited to international exhibitions such as the Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Hel’Pitts’Sinki’Burgh in Finland, Camaguey Cuba’s 5th International Video Art Fest and he has participated in the Internet Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale in Venice Italy. After receiving his MFA in 2011, James taught as a photography professor at University of Louisville, Kentucky School of Art and Carnegie Mellon University as a professor of fine arts. In the winter and spring of 2012, James continued his series Tooth and Nail with the collaboration of the city of Seoul, Korea at Seoul Art Space Geumcheon. Soon after he took his project to Maine where he was a participant at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, then later at MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, Yaddo Retreat in New York, Jentel in Wyoming, Vermont Studio Center and to the MASS MoCA residency in North Adams, MA.
He has since returned to academia and is teaching photography at the University of Kentucky.
For a shorter version of this interview you can listen to our conversation on NPR/WEKU here www.weku.org/people/kate-savage
He has since returned to academia and is teaching photography at the University of Kentucky.
For a shorter version of this interview you can listen to our conversation on NPR/WEKU here www.weku.org/people/kate-savage
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Showing the development and building of the Jim Gray portrait now hanging in the lounge at 21c Museum Hotel
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From the Kentuckian Project
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From Why Buy the Cow Project
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