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American artist and educator
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DM Witman is an American interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work is held in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.[1] Her practice draws on scientific training and frequently addresses ecological change and photographic materiality.[2] Her work has been discussed in publications including The Boston Globe,[3] The Guardian, BBC Culture, and WIRED.
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She is an Associate Professor of Photography at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.[4]
Education and teaching career
Witman earned a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science/Biology from Kutztown University in 1995 and an Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Maine Media College in 2009.[5] Prior to her career in the arts, she worked as a field biologist conducting environmental impact studies.[2]
Witman has taught at Maine Media Workshops + College, Unity College, and the University of New Hampshire. She has also served as a visiting artist at the Farnsworth Art Museum and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art.[6]
Work
Witman works primarily in alternative photographic processes, including camera-less and lensless photography, pinhole imaging, and salted paper.[7] Her projects often incorporate organic materials and may transform over time through exposure to light or environmental conditions.[2]
According to the Danforth Art Museum, her work addresses ecological grief, resilience, and environmental change through process-based methods.[8] Art New England has described her work as examining climate change through photography and audience interaction.[9]
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Danforth Art Museum, the Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Revela-T Festival in Barcelona, and Klompching Gallery in New York.[10]
She has received grants from the Maine Arts Commission[11] and The Kindling Fund and Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Melt
First exhibited at Maine Museum of Photographic Arts as part of the A Lensless Vision: Camera-less Works, Melt uses satellite imagery printed onto unfixed salted paper that gradually fades during exhibition.[12] The project was supported by the John Anson Kittredge Fund and The Kindling Fund via SPACE Gallery and was discussed in Lenscratch.[5]
Ecologies of Mourning, Ecologies of Restoration
Presented at the Danforth Art Museum in 2024, the project addresses eco-distress through photographs incorporating salt as both subject and material.[8]
Index
Index documents plant life in an intertidal marsh along the St. George River and references herbarium records as a baseline for environmental change.[13]
Arctic Elegy
Included in the exhibition Icebergs and Wildfires at Klompching Gallery in 2019, the series reworks historical photographs of Arctic icebergs through the application of red gouache and salt printing.[14]
Supercluster Arion and Other Phenomena
Exhibited at Second Street Gallery in 2013, the series used gelatin silver paper exposed to the movements of slugs to produce abstract images resembling celestial bodies.[15]
Collections
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston[1]
- Portland Museum of Art[16]