Memory Theatres: Books & Photographs by Bea Nettles
Bea Nettles
Book Artist and Photographer
Professor Emerita, University of Illinois
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
12 Noon
MFA Carpentry Shop
Book artist and photographer Bea Nettles will be a visiting artist at Duke November 6-7, 2012. She will give a lecture to the public on November 7 and will also be visiting with visual arts courses and attending a MFA critique session.
Bea Nettles has been exhibiting and publishing her autobiographical works since 1970. Since that time, she has had over fifty one-person exhibitions including the International Museum of Photography at the Eastman House, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Light Gallery and Witkin Gallery in NYC. Her works have also been shown internationally in major group exhibitions. Her images are in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Canada, the Polaroid International Collection, the Phillips Collection in Washington DC, the International Museum of Photography at the Eastman House, and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona. Her artists’ books can be found in special collections libraries at universities including Yale (Beinecke), Washington, and Virginia.
She taught photography and artists’ books from 1970-2007 at Rochester Institute of Technology, Tyler School of Art, and the University of Illinois where she is currently Professor Emerita. Nettles continues to lecture and teach workshops internationally.
Her visit is sponsored by the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies Visiting Artist Fund.
