CURRICULUM VITAE
Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier
EDUCATION
MA, Southern Studies, 2005
The University of Mississippi
Master’s Thesis: Stereo Propaganda, Re-Imagining the South Through Stereographic Photography and the History and Photographs from the African American Community of Mound Bayou, Mississippi
BFA, Photography, 1990, The Atlanta College of Art, (Presidential Scholar)
SELECTED AWARDS
1995 Georgia Council for the Arts Individual Artist Grant
1993 The Southern Arts Foundation/National Endowment for the Arts, Regional Fellowship in Photography
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES
2004, Research Grant, The Graduate School, The University of Mississippi
2003, Artist-in-Residence, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, June/July, Wilmington, Delaware
2001 Artist-in-Residence, The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, Georgia
1999 Artist-in-Residence, Caversham Press, Balgowan, South Africa, W.K. Kellogg Foundation African Program Initiative, Fulton County Arts Council, Artists-in-Residence International
1997 Artist-in-Residence, The University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England, awarded by Artist-In-Residence International
1994 Artist-in-Residence, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Center, Adelaide, South Australia, awarded by Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest/Arts International, New York
EDUCATIONAL INSTRUCTION/ LECTURES
2008-2009 - Visiting Professor, Agnes Scott College, Foundation Mixed Media Sculpture and Painting. Both classes focused on techniques that utilized photographs as a basis for mixed media.
2008-2009 Spelman College, Professor Lecture Track, Department of Visual Art, Survey of Fine Arts; Using the Computer As A Creative Tool.
2006-2008 Emory University, Professor Lecture Track, Department of Visual Art
2007 Brandeis University, Keynote Speaker, Women Crossing Borders, “Unraveling Mammy’s Cloak”, Department of Cultural Anthropology
2006 Women’s Studies Department, The University of Georgia, Performance/Lecture, “The Secret Journal of Anna Murray Douglass”
2005 Women’s Studies Department, The University of Mississippi, Performance/Lecture, “The Secret Journal of Anna Murray Douglass”
Visual Arts Department, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia “The Secret Journal of Anna Murray Douglass”
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
2008 – The City of Atlanta, Quilt Project and permanent installation for The Center for Working Families, Inc.
2002 The County of Fulton, Georgia, Southeast Atlanta Neighborhood Senior Citizens Center, Atlanta, Georgia; 5 mixed media collages for senior citizens center
2000 Hammonds House Galleries, Limited edition lithographic print I was just beside myself but then moved on, Edition of 300 hand pulled lithographs completed at Rolling Stone Press, Atlanta, GA
SELECTED CURATORIAL
2009 The Reclamation of Memory, (Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier selects) Madision Morgan Cultural Center
1991 Mississippi Self-Portrait, Co-curator with Alex Harris, Duke University Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, NC
RESEARCH PROJECTS
2005 – Stereo Propaganda: Re-Imagining the South Through Stereographic Photography and the History and Photographs of the African American Town of Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Master’s Thesis
“The Secret Journal of Anna Murray Douglass”--Installation and Performance that provides a unique interdisciplinary examination of the life of the first wife of Frederick Douglass.
1993 – 1994 “North Carolina Self –Portrait.” The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University continues the “Mississippi Self-Portrait Project” by looking at photographs from the collections of African Americans in North Carolina. A full description follows.
1989 – 1991 Project Director and field worker for “Mississippi Self-Portrait”, a photo-documentary project, which is a collaborative effort of Duke University Center for Documentary Studies, The Center the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, and the Mass Communications Department at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi. Fieldwork involves traveling throughout the State of Mississippi interviewing African American residents and identifying and re-photographing family photographs that they have chosen to collect and save. This record formed a unique archive that is housed at the University of Mississippi.
SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Fox, Catherine, Back Story, The People Behind the Art, View From Home, The Atlanta Journal/Constitution, August 20, 2006
Marshall-Linnemeier, Lynn, Pavich-Lindsay, Melanie and Tuttle, Lisa, Look Back, Nexus Press, Atlanta, Georgia, 2002
Meredith, George, When what to my wondering eyes…, Track 16 Gallery, Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, CA, 1997
Parker, Virginia, “Our Town, Creative Minds, Born on the Bayou: An Award Winning Artist was inspired by her travels in the Delta”, Atlanta Magazine, July 2006
Parker, Virginia, “Spring Fever”, Atlanta Magazine, April 2006
Willis, Deborah and Carla Williams, The Black Female Body: A Photographic History, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA, 2002
Wardlaw, Alvia; Royse, Lisa; Dierks, Chars, Our New Day Begun-African American Artists Entering the New Millennium, Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, Austin, TX 2