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Education

M.F.A. 2008 Studio Art/Photography Texas A&M University-Commerce

B.A. 2003 Photography Texas A&M University-Commerce

A.S. 2000 Photography Kilgore College

Professional Experience

2018 - 2024 Adjunct Professor, Lander University

Art Appreciation, Communications Photography

2018 - 2020 Adjunct Professor, Spartanburg Community College

Art Appreciation

2016 Adjunct Professor, Texas A&M University – Commerce

Art Appreciation (Dual Credit for Melissa ISD)

2011 - 2017 Adjunct Professor, Northeast Texas Community College

Digital Photography I, Introduction to Art Appreciation, Digital Photography II, Appreciation of the Humanities

2008 - 2010 Adjunct Professor, Texas A&M University-Commerce

History of Contemporary Photography, Survey of Photographic History, Critical Thinking, Visual Perception, Basic Photography I

Individual/Group Exhibition Record

2026 Home - Land, Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, South Carolina (future exhibition)

2024 Home - Land, Lander University Art Gallery, Greenwood, South Carolina

2022 Some Kind of Blue, Slow Exposures 2022, Zebulon, Georgia

2022 Some Kind of Blue, Under The Magnolia Gallery, Lindale, Texas

2018 To Do, To Undergo, To Look, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, South Carolina (co-curator)

2018 XI, Lander University Gallery, Greenwood, South Carolina

2017 Not My Home, Cabin Floor Records, Greenville, South Carolina

2016 Not My Home, Whatley Center for Performing Arts, Mount Pleasant, Texas

2013 Photography Alumni Exhibition, Anne Dean Turk Fine Arts Gallery, Kilgore, Texas

2012 SPE Members’ Exhibition and Antiquarian Avant-Garde Photography: Works by the North Texas Alternative Process Group, Visual Arts Center Gallery, Starkville, Mississippi

2010 Observations of American Roadside Culture, TCC PHOTO Gallery, Longview, Texas

2010 Old Stomping Grounds and New Frontiers: A touching tale of how Pancho Villa taught me to swim. Brick and Bombs, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Selected Juried Exhibition Record

2023 Main Exhibition for Slow Exposures Photography Festival, Strickland Building, Concord, Georgia. Jurors: Aline Smithson and Alexa Dilworth, Curators.

2023 Nice; 01, Northern State University, JFAC Gallery, Aberdeen, South Dakota. Jurors: Epiphany Knedler and Tim Rickett, Co-Founders of Midwest Nice Art Collective.

2023 Artisphere Artists of the Upstate, Peace Center, Greenville, South Carolina. Juror: Kate Ledbetter, Executive Director at Redux Contemporary Art Center.

2022 The Montgomery Photo Festival, Stonehenge Gallery, Montgomery, Alabama. Juror: Anna Skillman, Gallery Owner.

2022 Artisphere Artists of the Upstate, City Hall, Greenville, South Carolina. Juror: Elizabeth Goddard, Museum Director.

2019 Main Exhibition for Slow Exposures Photography Festival, Strickland Building, Concord, Georgia. Jurors: Alyssa Coppelman and Gordon Stettinius.

2019 Home, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, South Carolina. Jurors: Lisa Woodward and Mia Dalglish.

2018 Focus on Photography, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas. Juror: O. Rufus Lovett, Photographer.

2017 Landscape, Grand or Personal, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, South Carolina. Juror: Eliot Dudik, Photographer.

2017 Open Juried Exhibition, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, Vermont. Juror: Karen Haas, Curator.

2016 Perspectives, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas. Juror: Scott Canterbury Campbell, Photographer.

2013 Musings: 18th Annual Photo Competition, Photo Center Northwest, Seattle, Washington. Juror: John A. Bennette, Collector and Curator.

Awards and Grants

2024 Artist Project Grant, Metropolitan Arts Council

Bibliography

Lenscratch

https://lenscratch.com/2023/10/ashley-jones-and-danea-males-home-land/

October 3, 2023

Carolina Muse, Volume II, No. III

https://www.carolina-muse.com/

July 2022

The Recollective Blog: Treece, Kansas 66778

http://therecollectiveblog.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/treece-kansas-66778/

April 15, 2013

Escape Into Life Art Blog: Artists to Watch.

http://www.escapeintolife.com/artist-watch/derek-rankins-danea-males/

September 9, 2011

Katherine Martinez, “Kilgore girl wins Juror’s Choice Award,” Kilgore News Herald, May 6, 2007

Professional or Academic Conferences

2012 Imagemaker, Treece, Kansas 66778. SPESC Regional Conference – Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: The Creative Risk, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi

Lecturer, Treece, Kansas 66778. Annual Winter Conference for Association of Texas Photography Instructors, University of Texas, Arlington, Texas

2007 – 2008 Lecturer, The World Through a Plastic Lens, The Visual Aesthetics of Holga Imagery, Annual Winter Conference for Association of Texas Photography Instructors, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, and University of Texas, Arlington, Texas

2003 – 2008 Volunteer, Summer Workshop Annual Summer Conference for Association of Texas Photography Instructors, Texas A&M University-Commerce, Commerce, Texas

Former Positions

2017 - 2019 Exhibitions and Social Media Assistant, SE Center for Photography

2002 – 2005 Lab Assistant, Part-time, Photography Department, Texas A&M University-Commerce

2004 – 2005 Gallery Coordinator, The Third Floor Photo Society, The Third Floor Gallery, Texas A&M University-Commerce

1999 – 2000 President, The Photographic Society, Kilgore College