Ruth Dusseault CV [email protected] / www.ruthdusseault.com / 00 - 1- 404 - 422 - 5347 / skype: ruth.a.dusseault 386 Sinclair Ave., Atlanta, GA 30307 / [email protected]

Education 2013 Graduate Residency in Sculpture & New Media, School of Visual Arts, New York 1992 Masters in Fine Art (MFA), Florida State University, Tallahassee, University Fellowship 1986 Masters program, Journalism, The University of Florida, Gainesville 1985 Bachelor of Arts (BA), Psychology, Florida State University, Magna Cum Laude

Faculty Positions Georgia State University, School of Art & Design, Visiting Faculty, AY 2016/17 Georgia State University, College of Communication, Lecturer, Film Production AY 2015/16 Kennesaw State University, Visiting Faculty AY 2014/17 Emory University, Visiting Faculty, AY 2009/2010 & AY 2013/2014 Stanford University, Continuing Studies Program in Photography, summer 2012 Georgia Institute of Technology, Artist in Residence, College of Architecture 2001 – 2012 University of Maryland Baltimore County, Visiting Assistant Professor, AY 1995/96 Atlanta College of Art, Adjunct Professor, Photography and Digital Photography, 1993 –2000

Teaching Experience Critical issues/writing, film production, all levels of digital and analog photography, video art, exhibition design, site-specific installation, environmental tourism, studio lighting, visual thinking, documentary studies, pre-cinema techniques, digital stop- action animation, directed individual study and digital storytelling

Professional Memberships College Art Association; Society of Film & Media Studies; Women in Film & Television; Society of Photographic Educators; Society for Utopian Studies; New York Foundation for the Arts.

Selected Curating & Publishing Print and Web Commission, We Ride the Marta Bus, Art Papers, June 2016 Digital Humanities online archive, Unpacking Manuels Tavern, 2015 Print and Web Commission, Ecotopia, Art Papers, Nov. 2014 Play War: Homemade Recreational Battlefields, Places Journal, College Environmental Design, UC Berkeley 2014 Curator, Presentism, Short Films, Whitespace, Atlanta, Aug. 15, 2014 & Parse Center, New Orleans, Mar 14, 2015 The Incomplete Illusion: Photographing the Training Ground, Journal of Society of Architectural Historians, Sep 2013 Curator, Terrain Vague: Photography, Architecture and the Post-Industrial Landscape Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 2004 & Atlanta Contemp. Art Center, 2003 Critic & Feature Writer, Art Papers Magazine, Atlanta, 1992 - 2001 Program Committee Member, Art Papers Magazine, Atlanta, 2009 - 2011 Curator, Sprawl: The City as the Largest Man-Made Object, District of Columbia Art Center & City of Atlanta Gallery, 1995

Selected Solo Exhibitions & Screenings 2018 The Creatives, Whitespace Gallery, August 2017 Play War Respawn, Atlanta Independent Film Festival, December 2016 Ecotopia (short) UCSB, Power Dynamics: 2016 Media & the Environment 2015 Play War: Respawn, Eyedrum, Sept. 12, Atlanta 2015 Play War (short) Ethnografilm International Film Festival, April 8-12, Paris 2014 Play War (short), March 28, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK 2012 Modern Nature, Oct. 18 – Dec 2, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery 2012 The Innermost Room, April 20 – June 18, Robert C. Williams Museum of Paper Science & Technology 2012 Witness to Wind and War, film screening, 489 Edgewood, Contraband Films, Atlanta 2011 Hudgens Prize Exhibition, Nov. 30 - Jan. 15, 2011, Hudgens Center for the Arts, Atlanta, 2010 Play War: Homemade Recreational Battlefields, March 18 - April 23, Emory University, Atlanta 2009 Play War: Homemade Recreational Battlefields, Jun 11- Jul 12, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta 2006 Atlantic Steel Redevelopment Project, July 15 – October 1, High Museum of Art, Atlanta 2005 Constructions / Reconstructions, September 1 - 26, SE Contemporary Art Gallery, Louisiana 2003 Starting Vertical: Atlantic Steel Project, June 19 - August 9, Swan Coach House, Atlanta 2002 Out There: The Atlantic Steel Project, April 5 - Jun 1, The Contemporary Atlanta 2001 The Atlantic Steel Redevelopment, Two Midtown Plaza & Georgia Institute of Technology

Selected Group Exhibitions 2018 Molten Light: Photography, Steel & The Modern World, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, PA 2016 Another Better World, March 19 - June 5, Bascom Center for the Arts, Highlands, NC 2015 The Theory of Killing, 2-channel video/sound installation, Feb. 6 - April 2, Dashboard Coop, Atlanta 2014 Seven-Minute Walden, single channel film version, WIFTA Short films, June 25, Midtown Art Cinema

2014 Seven-Minute Walden, 3-channel video/sound installation, Jan. 30 - Feb. 6, Emory University Gallery 2013 Seven-Minute Walden, 3-channel video/sound installation, August 5 - 8, School of Visual Arts, New York 2013 Scope Art Fair, Dec 4 - 9, Miami 2011 Magical Realism (Modern Nature) November 17, Houston Center for Photography 2011 Gardens, Bemis Center for the Arts, April 29 - July 30, Omaha, NE 2011 Vision: I See, Traffic Reports, May 3-13, Hinman Research Building, Georgia Tech 2010 Southern Exposures: Artadia Awardee Exhibition, Nov. 19 – Jan. 2, Boston Center for the Arts 2010 Hyperreal World: Landscape and Commodity, Oct. 8 – Nov. 21, Florida St. Museum Fine Arts 2007 Homegrown, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, May 2005 Convergence: Beijing Off-Biennial, Curator Feng Boyi, Sept. 21 – October 7, Beijing, China 2005 Abstraction and Empathy, Feb 18 – Mar 26, Fay Gold Gallery, Curator, Christian Rattenmeyer 2005 Gas, Food, Lodging, Feb 17 – Mar 20, College Art Association National Conf., Georgia State Univ. 2002 Monique Goldstrom Gallery, Nov. 16 – Dec. 7 & Sept. 28 - Oct. 12, New York, NY 2000 Exchanges & Experiences, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, February 4 – 26, Atlanta 1998 The Body Politic, University of Sellenbosch, Oct., South Africa &Tulane University 1995 New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, Curator Dan Cameron

Selected Awards 2016 Visiting Artist Scholar in Residence, Columbus State University 2016 Sponsorship, New York Foundation for the Arts 2015 Recipient, Artist Award - Film, Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs, June 2014-June 2015 2014 Recipient, Artist Award, Artadia Foundation New York 2013 Finalist, Curators Choice Award, Center Photography, Santa Fe 2011 Grand Jury Prize, ACP Film/Video Festival 2010 Finalist, Hudgens Prize, Hudgens Center for the Arts, Georgia 2010 Recipient, Wendover Artist Residency, Center for Land Use Interpretation 2009 Recipient, Artadia Award, New York 2009 Nominee, Factor Prize, Gibbs Museum of Art 2009 Recipient, Individual Artist Grant, Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs 2007 Nominee, Gutmann Photography Fellowship, San Francisco 2007 Recipient, Outstanding Education and Practice Award, College of Architecture, Georgia Tech 2006 Recipient, National Endowment for the Arts Award 2006 Nominee, Louis Comfort Tiffany Award 2003 Recipient, Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award 2003 Finalist, Baum Emerging Photog. Award, Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive 2003 Recipient, Individual Artist Grant, Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs 2003 Recipient, Community Cultural Development, Georgia Humanities Council

Selected Public Speaking 2017 Chair, panel session, The Maker Mentality, College Art Association, New York 2016 Workshop on pedagogy, Ecomedia in the Classroom, Society of Cinema & Media Studies Conference, Atlanta 2016 Panelist, Developing Local Digital Humanities Communities, Assn. of Digital Humanities Orgs, Krakow, Poland 2015 Panelist, Fantasy and Society, Society for Utopian Studies, Pittsburgh 2015 Panelist, Ecotopia, Culture and Climate Change Conference, Univ. Prince Edward Island, Canada 2015 Lecture, Digital Humanities & the Documentary Arts, Society for Photographic Education Nat. Conference 2014 Visiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 2014 Visiting Artist, Department of Art, University of Seattle, WA 2013 Play War, Int'l Conference, Society for Utopian Studies, Charleston, SC 2013 Chair, Panel session, Military and the Landscape, CAA National Conference, New York 2012 Featured Imagemaker, Southeast Conference, Society for Photographic Education, Florida 2012 Visiting Artist, Graduate School of Art, Photography, Georgia State University, Oct. 2011 Featured Imagemaker, Southeast Conference, Society for Photographic Education, Atlanta 2011 Visiting Artist Lecture, Graduate School of Architecture, University of Houston, Nov. 16 2010 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Emory University, March 18 2009 Featured Imagemaker, National Conference Society for Photographic Education, Dallas, Mar 27 2008 Visiting Artist, Morris Museum of Art, Lecture Series, Augusta 2007 Panelist with Julian Cox (High Museum) and Jeff Rosenheim (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Picturing Place: Perspectives on Photography South, ARLIS/NA Conference, Atlanta, April 27 2006 Featured Imagemaker, Society for Photographic Education, Chicago, March 23- 26 2004 Curatorial Lecture, Carnegie Museum of Art, April 3 2002 Artist Lecture, Landscape of Change, High Museum of Art 1998 Panelist, Global Metropolis: Re(de)signing the Non-Site, College Art Assn., Toronto

Collections High Museum of Art; Greenville Museum of Art; Southeast Louisiana University Museum of Art; King & Spalding; Alston & Bird LLC; Monique Goldstrom, New York; Carson & Guest, Citicorp; Lucinda Bunnen Collection; Fay Gold

Selected Press Jamie Moss Wise, " Unpacking Utopias: The Work of Ruth Dusseault, " Burnaway, Feb 26, 2016 Charles McNair, "One for the Road," Georgia State University Magazine, March 2016 Richard Faussett, "Digital Dig Unpacks Atlanta Dive Bar Rich in History," New York Times, Nov 9, 2015 Stephanie Stokes, "Digital Archive to Preserve History of Manuels Tavern," WABE Radio, Nov 2, 2015 Sean Keenan, "Atlanta Studies Archives Manuel's Relics Before Renovation," Creative Loafing, Oct 7, 2015 Felicia Feaster, "Conflict the Focus of Ambitious Flawed Show, " Atlanta Journal Constitution, Mar 5, 2015 Jerry Cullum, "Timely Dialogue: Conflict/Resolution, Violence, Martial Politics, Race," ArtsATL, Mar 11, 2015 Stephanie Cash, "Engaging Work by Photographers Ruth Dusseault, Bryan Whitney," Arts ATL, Oct 2012 Beau Torris, "Conversation with Artist Ruth Dusseault," Burnaway's Artspeak, Oct. 23, 2012 Jerry Cullum, “Intimations of Mortality, Utopia in Dusseault’s Show Paper Museum,” Arts ATL May 17, 2012 Cate McQuaid, “The Shape of Obsession,” Boston Globe, December 15, 2010 Cathy Fox, “All Finalists Shine at Hudgens Competition Exhibition,” ArtsATL, Dec. 13, 2010 Lisa Tuttle, "Play War," Art Papers, Oct/Nov 2010 Cathy Fox, “Play War” exhibit puts battlefields in New Light” Atlanta Journal- Constitution, June 26, 2009 Kirsten Tagami, “Photos Document the World of Beltline,” Atlanta Journal-Constn., Jan., 7, 2008 Catherine Fox, “Time-Altered Places: A Passion for Photography,” Atlanta Journal-Constn., Aug 6, 2006 Lisa Kurzner, “On View,” Photograph magazine, March/April, 2006 Lisa Kurzner, “An Atget for Atlanta,” Art Papers, July/August 2003 Cathy Fox, “Atlantan’s Photos Track Conversion of Mill Site,” Atlanta Journal-Constn., July 6, 03 Cathy Ho, “And Rust to Rust,” Architecture Magazine, August 2001 C. Scoates & D. Wilbur, “Outside,” New Art Examiner, October 1997 Marcia E. Vetrocq, “Report from New Orleans,” Art in America, September 1995 Ben Forgey, “Spreading the Word on Urban Sprawl,” Washington Post, June 10, 1995